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Parr introduced to King Charles L—( See "Life imrt Times of Thomsis l ' arr , " which may bo had gratis of all Agents . ) The Blood . —To a person who has at all studied the organisation of the human system , the circulation of the blood will necessarily apjicar one of its most interesting and essential principles . When we reflect , for an isistant , on the astonishing manner in which this crimsun current hoots from the main spring of the heart ; when we conni-( ler it coursing rapi ; l y through its various channt-ls , and branching out into a thousanddifferentdirectionsnnd complicated windings , for the nourishment of the frame ; wo cannot avoid being moved by an involuntary thrill » f astonishment : — "And we exclaim , while we survey the plan , — How wonderful this principle ; in man !"
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If Mankind are liable to one disease more than another , or if there ave any particular affections of the human body we require to have a knowledge of over the vest , iti : < c « . tamly that class of disorders treated of in the new and im . proved edition of tho "Silent Friend . " The authors , i « thus sending forth to the world another edition of their medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their gratification at the continual success attending their efforts , which , combined with the assistance of medicines , exclusively of their own preparation , have been the happy caus « ot mitigating and averting the mental and physical miseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact , that sufll-riiiL' humanity must always derive the ertatest
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The Poor Londoxer's Meat axd Drink . —In this groat metropolis , tho food we eat , and tho water we drink , arc grossly sophisticated . Tho shambles teem with unwholesome meat , which , by the craft of the butcher , is sold to the poor as cheap and wholesome food . The grocer finds it to his profit to veml for " genuine young hyson , " sloeleaves and raisin-stalks ; and the milkman aids in the work of destroying the health of the inhabitants of this city by Helling for " genuine milk and cre ? m , " a vile mixture of sheep ' s brains , sugar of lead , and chalk . The artisan , moreover , drinks in his " London stout , " copperas and cocculus indicus ; in his gin , cayenne pepper , and oil of vitriol ; in his brandy , a fievy malt spirit , disguised with burnt sugar and different essential oils , to give it a real cogniac flavour ; in his -water , a clarified infusion of decayed vegetables and human cxcvctiic—Xcdhal Times .
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THERE IS SO PEACE . ( From The Reasoner . ) Preach not to me of vrar ' s decease While jiriest or despot reigns ! Ob , sanctify the sword to . peace But first strike off our chains . Men lack their rights-thought is not free And mind , all-savinff
mind-Kingly caprice and fantasy Its eagle pinions hind . Whave the power of act and word ; Wean do all , or say ; And need not hattle ' s trenchant sword To wnfor truth its way . But , peace ! my friends , while Poland ' s ghost Is nrned m northern snows ! And Hungary , her cause bow lost , Writhes under Cossack hlows !
TPould ye have peace , while Milan feeb The bayonet at her throat , And bleeds beneath the iron heels Of Pandour and of Croat ? "While Venice , glorious Venice ! weeps Amidst her weeping waves ; And Austria ' s felon banner sweeps Above her martyr-graves ? "While Borne sinks down , in fiery rain Tom , mangled , crushed by force ' And faithless France , and bi got Spain Piles arms upon her corse *
While Naples is a den of thieves—Pope , king , and priestly crew ? Tis scarcely mercy which bereaves The axe of its great due ! look , England , o ' er the western sea Behold a haggard land . "Wbuldst thon have peace twixther and thee ? Baise justice on her strand . Peace < is no common weed to bloom O ' er just men ' s blood-stained graves ; Peace will not blossom in the gloom "Which shrouds a land of slaves . * » * The woes which other landa have wrenched My soul no longer hears ; I cease—for passion ' s fire is quenched la Erin ' s bitter tears .
Yes tell me not that war shall end "Where priests or despots be : The sword is sacred to defend , More sacred to set free . October 2 , 1849 . Ecgese
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subteto . Educational Economy : or , State Education vindicatedfrom the objections of the Votaries of Voluntaryism . By Thomas Emery . : Lsndon ; Arthur Hall and Co ., 25 , Paternoster-row . Leicester : J . Burton , Hay-. market Tms pamphlet is by the author of the Prize Essay on " Crime , " noticed in the Star of Saturday last , and may be considered as
supplementary to that work . In the Prize Essay Mr . Emehy set himself to tne task of showing , that "Ignorance is the Parent of Crime ;" and he concluded his arguments by enforcing the necessity of a sound system of secular National Education . In the pamphlet before us the Author reviews and answers the objections to State Education , and , in our opinion , does so most successfully . He thus forcibl y pictures
THE POWER FOIl ETO , OF BVtt CIRCUMSTASCES . Concentrations of numbers in our cities and towns —though affording facilities for co-operation in intellectual pursuits—present fearful illustrations of Ticious education and example . Thousands of human beings are huddled together , commingling in immor ality , and imparting a zest to each other * ' depraved appetites . Here are the prolific conditions for the inordinate exercise of the inferior propensities , to the sacrifices of the moral susceptibilities , and the rendering of the intellect subservient to this animal ascendancy . Children are doomed to receive their earliest impressions from beings , t ? hose lives are
devoted to mere animal gratification . Designs of guilt are made familiar to the rising generation , and the cunning and despatch evinced in their execution by matured delinquents , are proof of a dreadful distortion of mind . The skill imparted and acquired , by vicious example and constant excitement in city Ere , is apparent when contrasted with criminal practices in the agricultural districts . Our modern Blasts and youthful Jingos—the denizens of Saint Giles , and the heroes of Hog-lane—must be allowed to have attained a greater proficiency in villany than country offenders and juvenile apple stealers . He thus powerfully argues
THE UNIVERSAL BIGHT OF EDCCATlOJf . From the natural equality of condition and capacity at birth , I infer that every member of the human family has a right to the best education known at the time , as a necessary qualScation for the enjoyment of existence , an < i the proper performance of the business of life . The human being at infancy is susceptible of impressions which shall tincture and modify the events of his future oreer ; he is capable of being the victim of vicious associations , the effects of which may prove his curse through life , or of being the happy recipient of a direction to his faculties , which shall , in a great measure , lead to the
development of those qualities and characteristics which should distinguish htm as an intellectual and moral being . * * * It is the duty of government to provide the best education for every individual , as a guarantee that the rights of the individual are appreciated—that all available means are employed in cultivating the capacities of human nature—that every one possesses the requisite cq'dpment ic the struggle for happiness —that each shall have a fair start in the world—that the probabilities of success arc , as far as practicable , proportio-aliscd—and that any loss of prize , or deprivation of pleasure , shall not occur through any avoidable personal disqualification .
In answer to that class of political economists who question the wisdom of State legislation for the furtherance of popular education , and who argue that education is one of a class of questions which , although belonging to society , do not rightly come within the legislative province of Government , Mr . Emery happily observes : — "If civil government is to be limited in its operations to the correcti on of human conduct , it is to a considerable extent shorn of its legislative office . Government in this sense has nothing to do
but to devise and execute schemes of punishment for evil . It has no authority to do good that evil may not come . It is the avenger of the wrong , without the power to promote the right . It is an instrument blindly battling -with effects—the victim of its own helplessness —the hangman of society . " He adds : — " Is it a wise economy that Government should be restricted in its movements to the repression of evil , and the immediate good required by society be left to sectional legislation or total neglect ? " He thus argues for
STATE EDUCATION ' . I would entrust the business of educating the people to the present comparatively irresponsible government , notwithstanding the fears and objections of some as to the powerful machine we should place in the hands of an ambiguous agent . The panderings of government instructors might exert a temporary influence in upholding religious establishments and oppressive political institutions ; but lessons in Church of England Catechisms , and partizan politics , could not be taught the people without placing in their hands the handles with which they might work out other objects . The rudiments of leanum ? acquired bv State pupils might be
associated with political and theological error , but the stimulus given to mind would constitute the possibility that ultimately the wheat might be separated from the chaff . Bigots in religion might be multiplied , and State-politicians manufactured to order ; and better so than the populace remain the dead weight as the espousers of no principles—the advocates of no party;—too ignorant to hold opinions for the exercise of bigotry , or too indolent to fanatically defend them . Let us not be misled by terms . Discrimination will lead to the adoption of the least eviL Let us not" strain" at probable mental bins coupled with incipient intelligence , while we " swallow" actual slavery with no hope
of release from the darkest ignorance . : In answer to the argument that Government has no right to interfere in this question between parent and child , Mr . Euery replies , that "> - ¦ ¦ - ¦¦ - PERSONAL UBERTY , w Has no meaning beyond the exercise of onrindivi' - '"' ¦ dualitv in a manner not interfering with the wel-. » :- ' " fare of others . The parent may claim the liberty r ^ fe to leave his child in ignorance , and to allow it to - | SK £ « row up the Tlctim of undisciplined passions—the ^ £ ' Siitulored subject of incentives to crime ; but the sfifi uiomeni the effects of this exercise of " liberty " are m& ? - rendered palpable in society , government puts its
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Teto upon them . Voluntaryists are tenacious of a * personal hberty of the parent , in prospect Of the child being required by government to eo to JLXi but the youthful delinquent may beSff the domestic hearth and senttcf the hull ? St ?*™ theleastscruple . It is a matter of com-se « £ ?? £ child should be punished by government' wl " it should be educated by the ffiS ^ ^ at to the superseding of puSffSt R « * fc'ASEsijffSSp v Ss saS ?^ SffiSffi TetOttponthem . Tiiiinil I i
chiReK ; t t ° i ? } dual well-being of his the omS nf h ° ^ eifelitto ^ the means of &S 35 ZX&d ? esercise of hU The author observes , that it has been his object to show . th e inseparable connexion of education mth the functions of civil government , rather than to define the kind of education , to be thus nationall y provided . But denning the capacity of civil government to be strictl y of a mundane character , the system of education to be adopted should be in accordance with the limits thus expressed , and the instruction given be of a purely secular nature . We conclude our extracts with the following
APMAL TO THE FRIENDS OF FROOKESS . Is there no common ground upon which all parties may meet with a view to mitigate , if not to annihilate these common evils ? If our speculative niceties , and political idiosyncracies cannot be justly incorporated in a system for general enforcement , is there no general , secular , knowledge , upon the necessity of the national possession of which we are ail agreed ? There are humanising agencies which receive general sanction . Co-operation and system are requisite to make them publicly available . Keadmgand writing , moralinstruction , and scientific attainment are the objects of all who thinkThe
. instruction ofthG people in iheir ri ghts and . dutie 8 as men and citizens is a public work , and , as far as executed , is a public good . Surely the public legislature might extend this business , and endeavour to initiate our youthful population into honest , temperate , industrious habits , without offending the most fastidious , or alarming the most bigoted . Surely the State mi ght institute means which shall tend to keep from the tavern and gambling-house , those who might be the ready recipients of vicious
naoits and arts of deceit , without doing violence to any creed , or compromising any party . The influence of refined and fraternal intercourse—the pleasures and advantages of scientific research—the modulations of the musician — the grace of the sculptor—and the pathos of the poet will ultimately move and elevate the populace . It will be well for society when an advanced political economy shall hasten this work , by incorporating with it ? objects the improvement , as well as the punishment of the people .
TVe have much pleasure in recommending this pamphlet to those who desire the extinction of popular ignorance , and , thereby , the removal of one of the principal causes of proletarian debasement , and national insecurity .
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SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BI THOMAS UART 1 N WHEELER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XXIX , How merrily the Wedding bells rang on ! The parting guests mov'd homeward to the chime . Two hands were joined whose hearts had Ion * been one ; And life look'd g lad as Spring in rosy prime . And life renew'd , when this should all be done
, Look'd bri ghter still—beyond the reach of time . Is it not sweet to think the bond of love Contracted here , will yet endure above ?—Beste . The Camp may have its fame , the court its glare , The theatre its wit , the board its mirth ; But there ' s a calm , a quiet Heaven , where Bliss flies for shelter—the domestic hearth ! If this be comfortless—if this be drear , It need not hope to find a haunt on earth ; Elsewhere we may be reckless , gay , caressed—But here—and only here—we can be blessed !
Bead . Arthur Morton had been in constant work during the four months that had elapsed since his residence in London , and having the promise from his employer of a , regular situation , he felt justified in making a tender of . his hand to her who already possessed his heart . He mi ght not have been thus hasty in his proposal , but he detested long courtships , and knowing that owing to the slackness of work , experienced by her father , Mary was thinking of going to service , ne preferred , rather than this alternative , taking her to a less comfortable home than he had otherwise wished to provide ; and Mary , without any false delicacy , accepted his offer , and there being no rich relations to
consultno lengthy legal settlements to be drawn up , they speedily became man and wife . Merry rang the marriage bells—merry were the select * few present at the wedding feast ; ewe and dark anticipations were , for that day at least , banished from their thoughts , and joy and cheerful mirth presided . Mary , though adoring her husband , could not but regret leaving the home of her youth ; the children she had been almost a mother to , and the parents who had ever treated her with kindness , and whom she loved and reverenced ; but her husband ' s devoted attention , and a pretty cottage neatly but plainly furnished , in the suburbs of London , soon reconciled her to the separation ; and by her industry and cheerfulness , shesoon rendered Arthur ' s
home what home ever should be—a pleasant retreat from the cares of business—a spot where strife and unkindness can . never enter—a heaven where all is peace and love . ' And Arthur Morton , oh , he was truly happy ; never before had he known the thousand charms comprised in the . word " Home . " Left an orphan to the care of his austere relative—never experiencing the comforts of female management or domestic felicity , proscribed in his own country—thrown a wanderer on the wide world—received at length into the haven of domestic bliss , it was a haven of delight compared with his past bitter experience . Politics were almost forgotten in the honeymoon of Ms bliss—indeed , a complete lethargy had fallen upon the whole country . The Sturge Conference had aroused the . Chartists of the Empire from their former torpidity ; . but its failure , though hailed as a triumph , served only to widen the breach between the
different shades of Reformers—a reaction had taken place , and all had again sunk into inaaimity . In home , therefore , all his joys—all his desires weve concentrated , and happy is the man who can boast of such a home , and resolve to enjoy himself therein ; for though we may experience gaiety and pleasure in the thousand amusements of the world , it is at home—and at home only—that a man can be truly blessed ; and Mary , surrounded by naught but pleasant associations , each day unfolded new attractions to her admiring husband . Possessed of an excellent voice , and having a slight knowledge of music , she sung with a degree of feeling that , in Arthur ' s estimation , made ample amends for any deficiency in scientific execution ; and he could sit for hours listening to her sweet voice now warbling forth the melodies of Moore or of Burns , anon delighting his ear and gratifying his vanity , by trilling his own democratic words to the airs of her
favourite music . Possessed of a good taste and a fondness for reading , she plied the busy needle with increased agility and delight , whilst Arthur read to her the glorious stanzas of the immortal Byronthe inspired readings of the divine Shelly—the splendid utilitarianism of Lytton Bulwer—or the heart-arresting , home-breathing tales of Dickens ; nor were other works of a more scholastic character wanting to complete their studies . Thus employed , the winter evenings glided rapidly away , and under Arthur ' s instructions , Mary rapidly progressed in intellectual , attainments . The company of a few democrats of their mutual acquaintance , and occasional visits from the parents of Mary , made a pleasant variety to their studies , and served
to increase the sum of their enjoyments . The dark shadow that had so long rested over the fate of Arthur Morton seemed to be flitting away , and a gleam of sunshine gilded his existence . Earl y spring was now beginning to displace the chill of winter , and under its genial influence and Mary ' s care the little garden attached to their residence bloomed as bright as its master ' s fortunes ; and here , every evening , might Mary be seen improved in all the graces of womanhood , and looking as lovely as Flora herself in the midst of her flowers ; her bright eye . ever . glancing down the road thatlcd to the river side , watching for her' husband ' s return
from his employment in the city , and receiving him after his day s absence with a fondness that Knew nought of satiety . " Few and simple are the annals of the poor "—so sings one of our sweetest bards , yet if feelings—if emotions are matters of historyif love—love uninfluenced by rank or wealth—be the poet ' s theme , where would he find materials so complete , so pure , as among the sons and daughters of toil ? If penury , want , and the thousand diro associations connected therewith , be matters which bring the passions of humanity into grand , yet fearful action , where could the novelist or the tragedian find fitter subjects for illustration ? Fiction sinks into insignificance when compared with
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! strange yet fearfull y tragic and comic scenes * a are every hour occ « wing in the verv heart of . the great metropolis . Oh , that those who see and awell amongst thorn had but the pen of a Bulwer or a , Dickens to record these strange truths-more of the intricacies of the human heart would be laid bare to the gaze of the philosopher—more of the springs from whence the rapid rivers of vice and crime take their source would bo exposed to the view of the moralist ; a truer picture of humanity in all its phases , now gloriously bright , anon fearfully dark , would be given to the world " , than can ever be gleaned from the thousand fashionable novels which now form the deli ght of the youth , ay , and of the middle aged of both sexes . Summer succeeded to spring , and still found Arthur and his wife the
happy tenants of their peaceful abode ; whilst the increasing beauty of the plants which adorned the little raised platform under their prettily curtained windows , looking out upon as green a bit ot turf as ever adorned a suburban residence ; relieved by the scarlet geraniums , with which the centre and each corner were adorned , and the few additional ornaments which decorated the rooms , showed that fortune was still favourable to their exertions . A change too had taken place in their domestic arrangements ; the young bride no longer looked with a watchful eye towards the smoke that ascending Irom the steamers gently floating in the air , showed the direction m which lay the mighty Thames ; her place was supplied by a younger sister , for the bride iu
u < Decome a mother , and increasing domestic arrangements caused the care of the garden to devolve on the former ; but the love that prompted Mary s to be the first eye to greet her husband ' s arrival had not evaporated , it had only found a fresh variety of display , the little Arthur—for so the infant was called—had to be decorated to receive its evening s kiss from its pleased father ; and thus a new attraction was created for home , a new stimulus § iven for industrious exertion , and a novel , yet end earing tie , formed between the happy pair , in addition to those heretofore existing . And thus iu calm retirement , undisturbed by any of the rougher gales which too often wreck our fairest prospects , passed the two next years of Arthur ' s life ; the only incidents that created any intensity of excitement , was the birth of a daughter named after its aunt , Fanny , and an event as painful as the former was pleasureable—the death of Mary ' s mother . This last was a
heavy blow to both Mary ana Arthur , for sho was endeared to them by a thousand acts of kindness , and was respected by the husband as much as she was loved by the wife . Peace be to her manes ; a better wife , a more devoted mother or a truer democrat never existed ; those that had the pleasure of her acquaintance , or recognise her portraiture , will long sorrow for her loss ; cut off in the prime of her existence , she sleeps in peace , and has been thus spared many a bitter pang which has fallen heavily on those she left behind . This was the first knell that broke with its dismal echoes upon the peaceful s « enity of then ? domestic bliss ; and Arthur ' s heart shuddered uneasil y beneath its influence , andfeared , almost with a superstitious fear , that his career of happiness was ended—it was one of those presentiments that reason in vain endeavours to combatwhich return again and again until they almost create the evil which their agency seems to portend . ( 3 b be continued . )
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . This is indeed a theatre wherein are displayed at once the most interesting and ingenious contrivances which from time to time have arisen as the offspring of the inventive ingenuity of man . How many are the wonders herein contained ! How much is there to interest our minds , and rivet our attention with fulness of wonderment and surprise ! It is hardly just to attempt a description of so much art and skill , unless time be given to examine the beauties of the various inventions for which this place is noted , which we will briefly describe . The popular lectures delivered by the Professors of the
iistablishment comprise the subjects of Electricity and Chemistry by Dr . Bachhoffner and Mi . AshW who deliver their ideas in a most comprehensive and scientific manner . Many of the arts are carried on here , which greatly add to its interest and popularity ; among them we have particularly observed Gem and Seal Engraving by Mr . Gifford , —Diesinking by Mr . Sthodavt ,-Painting by Mr . Rivers , —Glass Blowing by Mr . Hudson , —and Lithographic Printing by Mr . Cox . The Model department is highly worthy of notice . Iin fact , the visitor may pass some hours here more rationally than in anv exhibition in the Metropolis .
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THE ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS . ( From the Athenmum . ) The extreme interest which has been felt by the public in the fate of the long missing Arctic Expedition has been strongly illustrated by the avidity with which the report of its ascertained existence m March last was received . Seizing eagerly on the asserted fulfilment of a long-deferred hope , the Press at once announced the actual safety of Sir John Franklin and his party ; and as news generally travels with the properties of an avalanche , swelling in importance with every stepmany hours had not
, elapsed before the return of the Erebus and Terror in the course of the present month was spoken of as an almost certain event . For ourselves , we had misgivings , which we thought it right to hint at oven in that first moment of excitement : and we have since , with the coolness which a week ' s reflection gives , set ourselves carefully to weigh the arguments for and against the trustworthiness of the evidence offered . We arc bound to say , even for the sake of those whose disappointment will be sorest if disappointment there shall finally be , that this inquiry has yielded a result wholly unsatisfactory to oufselves .
It will be remembered that the Advice whaler accompanied the Truelove in her recent passage to Lancaster Sound in search of the expedition , on the faith of the narration of the Esquimaux . On board the former ship Mr . Robert Goodsir , the brother of Professor Goodsir , of Edinburgh , was embarked , with the touching purpose of assisting personall y to seek after information respecting Sir John Franklin ' s ships , in one of which his brother Henry had gone out as surgeon and naturalist . His letters to his relatives in Scotland , descriptive of his hopes and fears , have been obligingly placed in our hands , to assist us in estimating by private evidence from the spot the reports which were likely to reach us through public channels . We will give Mr . Goullsir ' s version of the same report which has reached the Admiralty through the Traelove , for the truth of some variations which it contains : — Off Cape JfaccullochAug . 11849 .
, , We this morning had what might have been considered as cheering intelligence of the expedition . Mr . Parker the master of the Truelove , of Hull , came on board to breakfast , and informed us that some Esquimaux , who had been on board the Chieftain , of Kirkaldy , had sketched a chart and pointed out to Mr . lierr where both Sir John Franklin ' s and Sir James Boss ' s ships were lying , —the former being at Whaler Point , the latter at Port Jackson at the entrance to 1 ' rincc Regent ' s Inlet . Sir John Franklin had been beset in his present position for three winters . Sir James Boss had travelled in sledges from his own ships to Sir John franklin's . They were all alive and well . The Esquimaux himself had been on board all the four ships three months ago—i . e ., about the end of April or beginning of May . Mr . Parker seemed confident as to the correctness of this information ; and as his ship is nearly full , and he
wm proceed homewards very shortly , Mr . Kerr had given him the chart which he said he intended to forward to the Admiralty , and to inform them of what lie had learnt . All this was very pleasing intelligence ; but when I began to consider , I soon saw much to throw doubt upon its correctness and authenticity . First there was the extreme difficulty of extracting correct information of any Wnd from the Esquimaux , even by those best acquainted with tlicir habits and language . A leading question they are sure to answer in the affirmative . Then , there is the grea t unlikelihood of Sir John Franklin ' s being beset at a spot , so compax-atively near to the constant re 6 ort of the whalers during the months of July and August—Pond ' s Bay and its neighbourhood—for three summers and three winters without sanding down despatches to them by the light boats fitted on sledges .
It will be observed that this letter enters into greater detail than that of Mr . Ward , communicated by the Admiralty to the public . The actual position of the two expeditions is here given ; and it is stated that communication between them had been effected by means of sledges . Mr . Goodsir ' s letter also places the date at which the ships of the two expeditions had been seen by the natives five or six weeks later than the Admiralty account—a fact itself showing looseness and uncertainty . Doubtsvery reasonably founded , we think—of the trustworthiness of the Esquimaux ' s report had already arisen in the minds of Mr . Goodsir and hia companions ; nevertheless , with a spirit of noble enterprise , the Advice joined the Truelove in . an attempt to reach Regent ' s Inlet for the solution of the question . Under the date of the 2 nd of August , when off Cape Walter Bathurst , Mr . Goodsir writes : —
You may conceive how delighted I am to find the Advice now running rapidly into Lancaster Sound with a smart breeze , and one , too . likely to last . If there is only land ice in JJavy Board and Admiralty Inlet we are sure to get whales , which will justify the master in taking this step . Had the other vessels been poorly fished many of them would bave made the attempt to run up the Sound ; as it is , none of them will now do it . . Mr . Goodsir ' s hopes of getting through the Bound —which as we have seen had a private motive to enhance the public one—were not of long duration . On the 10 th of August he writes from Xavy Board Inlet : —
Since I last wrote we have had such a series of gales and storms that I have been unable to put pen to paper . About four o ' clock on . Saturday morning , the 4 th , it came ontoblowfromthc eastward , with tliick weather . We had little or no iee hitherto , and what we had seen was exceedingly light . Everything looked well , and we were very sanguine that we should be able to gain some intelligence of the expedition . Before it came on thick we could make out what we _ took to be Prince Leopold ' s Island at the mouth of Prince Regent ' s Inlet , and the ice JTOparently stretching right across the Sound ; but the thickness came on so rapidly , and the gale increasing to a perfect liurricano , prevented us making out anything accurately .
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further ? h > £ P" * ? were obliged to ^ givo up iR , Tl eshl Ps were driven down the Sound , A , m ; all thafc 1 could be done was to land some ThS ycylinder S ! mi 1 provisions on Capo Hay . A ™ f . . eagerto have this sea swept for informa-WAr ^ i lrkablethatin no part of his letter does Mr Goodsir allude to that given by tho Esquimaux , excepting as being unworthy of confidence , ine arguments on this side of the question are too many to permit us to differ from Mr . Goodsir ' s views , it must surely strike most persons , on reflection , as remarkable that tho Esquimaux should ,- ^ ,, P , Per " or voucher to show in confirmation ot the alleged fact of their having been on board the expedition shi Tho chance of such a
docups . ment coming somewhere to hand could nerer have been overlooked by men in tho position of Sir John i 7 ms crews ; and , indeed , it is inconceivable tnac the officers of the several ships would have auoived such an opportunity to escape as the visits ? nOt , f ( lUim i l Lffordcd withotit employing them as t ITW of communication with , the whalers , fw lot . ' % instructions to Sir James Ross , tiiat omeer is desired to secure the Investigator in ltew ° ^ near Ca P ° Rennell as possible , iv n , ! ? osltion ^ considerable extent of coast , iKVn ? ctions > may be explored on foot ; and Sta Jnf S P ™ g ( 1 S 49 ) detached parties are to lonkX acros ? , th ? ice by Captain Bird " in order to look thoroughly into the creeks alone the
wos-S , i ' q * Boothia > and eTCn a * & " ' « Cape nnmiS \ n , o ° ? - tho snmmer should have bodvof'U fu . between the land an <* the main Lnt into T . est . eamlaunchcs ave ontored to be We bS \ i , ancaste 1 ' Sound to meet tho whalers . uffi&ET thin # tangibl ° t 0 deal with - The WKSS hich wo have quoted wevo prepared by a board of eminent Arctic officers ; and we find IIIS w v £ T uld not wint o W from ffiSSV Now ' Sir James Ross , according to tl C W tho winter of 18 i 8 a * ort Jackson , itegent s Inlet . smA wns imM fnO « , „ v < , » ..:
™ yS ° «) of Franklin ' slafo ty , it dotsT ppear extraordinary that the parties were not despatched b y him across the ice in the proaent spring o *! . W f * ° communicate with the whalerswhich , be it observed , he is ordered to do . The distance between the two points is very much less than that from Capo Rennell to Capo Nicolai . Mr . boodsir on move than one occasion expresses his astonishment that " no word has come down from bir James Ross "—as ho declares that the officers of the expedition were perfectly aware that the whalers would be in Pend ' Bay during tho entire month of Jul y . In fact—to repeat ourselves—supposing Sir James Ross to be where the report maces
mm , the road to the whalers was as open to him as t 0 the Esquimaux who brought that report . That he should have made no communication by his own messengers , nor given any document to authenticate the communication made by the Esquimaux throws , in our opinion , very serious discredit on the report itself . Finally , it is yet more difficult to conceive that if Sir John Franklin has been frozen up for three winters in the spot indicated , he should have spared no volunteers from his expedition to carry the news of his whereabouts to any station through which it mi ght have reached those whom his silence delivered over to doubt , deepening into despair , at home . b
Thi 3 is so melanchol y a view of the case , that we are glad to find , and to report , that an opposite end is entertained by those who may be considered the great Arctic authorities . We have caused inquiries to be made , and such is the result . Sir George mck , who has had great intercourse with the native Esquimaux , declares "that he never knew an Indian or an'fcsquimaux tracing to fail ; and after deliberately weighing all the information , ho is of opinion that four ships , answering to those composing the two expeditions , were seen some time in the spring ot this year by the Esquimaux ; but whether in lnnce Regent ' s Inlet , or to . _ the westward of wioinia
, is uncertai B ^^ Uaptain Parry , Colonel feabine , and Admiral Beaufort are all iu favour of the truth of the Esquimaux report . We are sorry to hear from unquestionable authority that the munificent reward offered by government for the relief of the missing expedition , has had no effect in insti gating any of the whalers to search for the ships , with the exception of the Iruelove and the Advice . Sent out for the one important object of whaling , tho captains doubtless ieel that unless armed with the fullest discretionary powers from their employers—the owners of the ships—they would not be warranted in running any risk by deviating from the course in pursuit of whales .
The dangers of the Arctic seas have been again brought , painfully before us by the loss of two whalers this year , in Melville Bay ; and all accounts agree in stating that Lancaster Sound was barred m the month of August by a solid body of ice , stretching across the straits to Admiralty Inlet , ihus , in consequence of the lateness of sailing , it is doubtful whether tho North Star , the ship sent out this year with provisions for the expeditions , has effected a communication with the ships . Mr . Goodsir says , " There are a hundred chances against the jSorth Star . boing able to communicate with the expeditions this year . Had sho only been sent out in time , she would have got through Melville Bay along with the fleet of whalers with the greatest ease and safety up the Sound , early in Jul y . "
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EXHIBITION OP TIIE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS . \ ___ On Wednesday a very numerous and influential meeting of merchants , bankers and traders , was hold in the Mansion House , at the invitation of the Lord Mayor , to meet a deputation of the Royal Society of arts , on behalf of Prince Albert . His Royal Highness proposes to have an exhibition of arts and manufactures in London , to which tho whole world should be admitted as exhibitors or competitors , has been for soyer . il months before the public . A deputation from the Society of Arts , to tho members of whose council Prince Albert , us President of the Institution , first proposed it , has been recently engaged in visiting the principal towns and cities of the kingdom , explaining tho scheme , and soliciting advice and cooperation throughout the whole kingdom . It appears they have met with a hearty response to tho proposal ; and there can now be no doubt that the scheme of his Royal Highness will bo fully realised . The Lord
Mayor having opened the business , and introduced the deputation , on whoso behalf Mr . Henry Cole explained tho proposed exhibition in detail . It is to consist of the following four divisions : —Raw materials , Machinery and mechanical inventions . Manufactures . Sculptures , and tho plastic arts generally . It is to ue open to all nations . The building for tho first quinquennial exhibition will bo temporary , and is proposed to be erected in Hyde Park at a point easy of access alike to rich and poor . £ 20 , 000 will be distributed in prizes , £ 500 will be given as the first prize . £ 1 , 000 as tho first in eacli of the four divisions , and gold metals will also be given by the Queen ; the whole of the expense to bo defrayed by voluntary contributions . The city meetins unanimously approved of the object , and after eulogising tho public spirit and intelligence of the Prince Consort , appointed a very influential committee to co-operate with others in carrying out the object .
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" Why ? " and " Because !"—The pope is not yet in Rome , nor is he likely soon to boon there . How is this ? The arms of four great powers not only at bis service , but triumphant in his behalf ! The keys of Rome laid at his feet , and bis triumvirate of vicars fulminating their decrees in his name ! His areallthcnrisons , his tho gaolers , his the courts civil and spiritual , his mediately the strength and weapons of thirty thousand picked seldier 3 of France . All the elements of physical force arc his . Why , then , does ho not return to Rome ? Why has
he lingered so long on the shore of Gaeta ; and why , now that he has abandoned it , lias he retreated to a still greater distance irom the eternal city ? The reason is plain : soldiers , inquisition , the gay priests , cardinals , and all , are not enough In order to re-seat himself upon the pontificial throne , he must revive the dead , he must recreate a defunct faith , ho must not only assert his claims , but make them creditable , or tolerable . He must in short , reconquer mind , which has conquered him . He cannot-he can never do this . Therefore is he at JSaples and not at Rome .-, Yo > fo ! ifc News .
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RonEspiE RRE ' s Star Ascending . —It is perhaps the very nature of '' things human" that there shall always be an order of historic men whoso merits or demerits cannot be discussed and settled with calmness and impartiality . They are chiefly men who have identified themselves with ideas and aoctrinos—men who have made themselves the champions of aggressive thoughts and revolutionary principles . * * * To c ' t justice irom exasperated enemies is vain . Centuries must pass away ere justice can be done . < -. „ . n . u ,,, * Socrates represented free thought ; Mahommed unity of the Divine nature ; Luther spiritual independence ; Cromwell anti-royalram ; Robespierre soverei gnty ofthepeor- }} tl ™> » nd wUl continue to be , tho V tune of Ach
men to bevillified on the one hand , and adored on the other . But such men can afford to wait . * * Luther ' sname is not more closel y associated with tho principles of the Reformation , than Robespierre ' s with extreme ideas of the Revolution . His partizans in Franco are more numerous than ever ; even in England and Germany the advocates of his doctrines are more powerful than is generally supposed . It irould make a curious paragraph to collect a list of titles given by those who have written on him from Montjore to Mr . Lewes . From " sanguinary fiend " to " godlike hero , " tho epithets run through the entire vocabulary of abuse and adulation . * . * * Whatever opinion may be entertained of Robespierre ' s revolutionary career , there can be no dispute as to the purity of his life
and character . —Atiienomm , No . 1 , 115— " Review of Lewes ' s Life of Robespierre . " Tbue !—Attorney ' s hate costs out of their own pockets . We find from the Preston Chronicle that Mr . H . Blackhurst , attorney , answered a- complaint by the inspector of nuisances , and promised the mayor , who hoard it , that tho nuisance should be removed . The Mayor : And you will pay tho costs ?—Mr . Blackhurst : No , no , I'll pay no costs- ; I never paid any in my life , and I ' m d d if I pay any now ! " * Works of Necessity and Meiict . —On the 20 th Of March , 1451 , the people of Aberdeen sot a license from Pope Nicholas V ., to fish for salmon on Sundays and festivals , on condition thatthe Church should have the first salmon that was caught on each Sunday and festival .
TnEUE ake twenty German principalities , with territories equal to English counties , containing about 120 inhabitants to a square mile . Parallel of the Sexes . —The North American says— " There is an admirable , partition of qualities between the sexes , which the Author of our being has distributed to each , with a wisdom that challenges our unbounded admiration . Man is strong—woman is beautiful ; man is daring and confident—woman diffident and unassuming ; man shines
abroad—woman at home ; man talks to convince—woman to persuade and please ; man has a rugged heart—woman a tender one ; man prevents misery—woman relieves it ; man has science—woman taste ; man has . judgment—woman sensibility : man is a being of justice—women an angel of mercy . Thorough Draught . —A new patent stove , for tho convenience of travellers has just "been invented . It is placed under the feet , and a mustard plaster upon the head draws the heat throu g h , the whole system . THE OLD WORLD DTING . " Toll ye the Church bell sad and slow . And tread softly and speak low , For the old World is a-dying . Bis face is growing sharp and thin , Alack ! our friend is gone . Close up his eyes , tic up his chin : Step from the corpse , and let him in That standeth there alone , And waiteth at the door . There ' s a new foot on the floor , my friend , And a new face at the door , my friend , A new face at the door . "—Tennyson .
IIe who can implant courage in the human soul is its best physician . When are lady archers in danger of having illtempered husbands ? When they select cross learn . Prize Fighting and Painting . —Mr . James Ward ( writes a correspondent ) , the ex-champion of England , appears to have turned his otiwn cum dignitate at Liverpool to some account . Report speaks highly as to his abilities as an oil-painter ; and , instructed in the rudiments of that delightful art by Mr . Hubert Desvignes , of London , he has produced several pictures , admirable alike as regards colour and effect . One of his painting 3 was recently sold from the exhibition of tho Liverpool Academy for £ 50 . —Jerrold ' sNews . Effects of English Civilisation . —Delhi , a famous city in India , was the capital of tho Mogul Empire . It is now in decay , but iu 1700 it contained a million of inhabitants .
The Poverty of Wealthy England . —England ful 1 * ° f WDaltn » 5 ' 0 t EnStond i 3 dying of inanition . In the midst of plethoric plenty the people perish . * * 1 will venture to believe , that in no time since the beginning of society was the lot of theso same dumb millions of toilers so entirely unbearable as it is in the days now passing over us . It is not to die , or even to die of hunger ) that makes a man wretched ; but it is to live miserable we know not wh y ; to work sore ; ind yet gain nothing ; to be heart-worn , weary , yet isolated , unrelated , girt in with a cold universal laissez faireit is to die slowlv all our life long , imprisoned in a doaf , dead , Infinite Injustice—Thomas Carlylc . Case and Orisios . —A . B . C . submits the following for o ; ir opinion : — " My wife loft some time ago to reside with her parents until I could obtain a
situation . She tools with her a cart-load of furniture , and we parted on friendly terms . I am now in a situation , and have demanded my wife and goods , but my wife , through the instigation of her parents , refuses to join me , and her parents refuse to give up my goods . What is my remedy ?" Hold your tongue . Wo know a man who would give two cart-loads of furniture to have had your luck . —Sunday Times . La Democratic Pacifiyue states that Col . Delannoy , tutor of the sons of King Leopold of Belgium , has been discharged for having said to his pupils at a review of the civic guard in the environs of Brussels— " These arc soldiers for Sundays . " Bodies and Souls . — " Parson , " cried out a fen farmer to a man of God in black garments , " whv dont
'' e put souls into the congregation ?"—the labouring peasantry . " Souls ! " replied the preacher , turning an eye of indignation on the hard mun , — 11 Souls , without bodies ! Find you the bodies with fitting wages , and I will undertake to raise the souls . I cannot create souls in starving bodies !" The First Wedding . —Major Noah thus pleasantly and poetically discourses upon the "first wedding . " He says , — " We like short courtships , and in this Adam acted like a sensible man . Ho fell asleep . a bachelor and awoke a married man . He appears to have popped the question almost- immediately after meeting Madlle . Eve , and she , without any flirtation or shyness , gave him a kiss and herself . Of this first kiss in this world we have had however , our oivn thoughts , and sometimes in a poetical mood have wished wo worn t . lm man < wnf
did it . ' But the deed is done-the chance was Adam ' s , and he improved it . Wo like the notion of getting married in a garden . It is in good taste . We line a private wedding . Adam ' s was private . No envious beaux were " there ; no croaking old maids ; no chattering aunts and grumbling grandmothers . The birds of heaven were the minstrels , and the glad sky flung its light upon tho scene . One thing about the first wedding brings queer thoughts to us in spite of scriptural truth . Adam and his wifo were rather young to be married , — somo two or three days old , according to the sagest speculations of theologians—mero babies—larger , not older—without experience , without a house , without a pot or a kettle , —nothing but love and Eden . "
Female Curiosity . —Two elderly maiden ladies , last summer , waited on a neighbouring magistrate , to complain of a nian who Avas in the haoit of bathing every morning in a large piece of water , overlooked by the windows of their residence . " But , ladies , ( said the magistrate , ) it seems that the water is at least half-a-milc wide , and that yon do not live very close to the edge of it . I do not see how you could tell whether it was a man in the water . " " No more we could , ( replied one of the spinsters , ) we were in doubt more than a week , but at last sister happened to think of sending to borrow Captain ' s spy-gl ; iss . " Scolding is the pepper of matrimony ; the ladies are the pepper boxes .
The Little Horn . —A politician as well as a strategist , Granville Sharpe sought and obtained an interview with Charles Fox , to whom he had advice of great urgency to give for Conducting the affairs of Europe . If the ghost of Burke had appeared to lecture him , Fox could hardly have listened with greater astonishment , as his monitor , by the aid of the little horn in Daniel , explained the future policy of Napoleon and of the Czar . " The little horn ! Mr . Sharpe , " at length exclaimed the most amiable of men , " what , in the name of wonder , do you mean by the little horn ? " " See there , " said the dejected interpreter of prophecy to his companion as they returned from the Foreign Office— " See there tho fallacy of reputation ! Why , that man passes for a statesman ; and yet it is evident to me that ho never before so much as heard of tho little horn !"—Sir James Stephen ' s Essays .
Taste . —The Paris correspondent of the Medical Times writes : — " The Popo gives ' plenary indulgence' to all the French soldiers-who may die in the Holy City ; but this does not diminish the mortality , and seems to be lightly appreciated by the ' infidel Gaul . ' . Indeed , I heard a dragoon assert , that tho army would have been better pleased had his Holiness distributed a ' petit vem' ( small glass ) of brandy to each man instead of a ' plenary indulgenco . ' There is no accounting for tastes . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 20, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1544/page/3/
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