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      A VOICE FROM THE OCEAX . JOHN MITCHEL TO HIS COUNTRY . ai land of my fathers!—dear home of iny heart ! 0 when shall day break on the night of thy sorrow ! ¦ - H when from thy shores , shall oppression depart , And my tears cease to flow , when . I think on thy morro w ! rtvj as in van that I IotM thee with frenzied

      devotion , . . _ And strove to disserer thy blood-reeking chains ;—^ ai I swore to avenge thee , —to make thee a nation , ¦ . . . , , Tor time has but quickened , not lessened thy pains . How I loped against fete , —for I inew not despair , And , in fancy , I saw myself oaak in thy smile ; Bat the phantom has fled , with this warning — "Beware !"

      Bnt the caution is scorned by thy captive exile . £ j Ts-hv art thou still in thy councils divided mo * sigh o ' er your long usurped rights ' unrestored ? ¦ tfhen division stands trembling , abashed , and derided ; ^ nd shrinks neath the gleam of th y conqueror ' s sword ! < jan thy freedom be purchased ?—Then , count not cost !

      the Has that fervour been chilled , once so warm on thy lips ; That the nieteor-Dlaze of thy Meagher seems lost In the depths of thine apathy ' s growing eelipse ! Thy brightest , and boldest , —the chief of the brave , "Who had witnessed the cup of thy miseries fill — Jrom their surf circled homestead , a raft on the wave , Shall condemn thee , —and weep , —tho' they clin ^ to thee still ! *

      For the few who had burst from their fetters to guide thee , Are far on tie billow , or laid with the dead ; Then frown not my country , tho' thus do 1 chide thee , And point out the path ia which freedom should tread ! Can I love thee the less , tho' thy faults I deplore ; "Whose griefs I had shared , and remembers the while;—Tho' my . cheeks shall be blanched , on a far distant shore , Unknown , and uncared-for , a homeless exile !

      Ah ! no , my loved country ;— % weeping and sighing , Shall break on my soul in its deepest repose ;—"Which shall echo toe curse of thy hungered , and dying , 3 for be hushed till my dream of existence shall close ! long , long , must the night be , which morn never brightens , And cheerless the heart overburdened with woe . Sut , cease , not for erer , your quarrels , and fightings , And Erin ia . it ore than a match for the foe !

      "Then , arouse thte oace more ! and in hope fix thine anchor , And the prayers snail be thine of the great , and the good . Be , "Union , " thy watchword!—resolve but to conquer I Then , onward , for Erin ! aad God give thee speed ! Edinburgh . James Habkxess .

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      THE WORKS OF FRANCIS RABELAIS . Translated from the French . By Sir Thomas TFeqtjhast , and Mottees . "With explanatory notes , &c , &c . A new and revised edition . Two volumes . London : H . Gr . Bonn , York Street , Covent Garden . A JfEW edition of the works of Rabelais is an event in the history of literature . Hitherto iihese works hare been limited to the libraries of the few i now they may find a place on the toot shelves of the many . That Rabelais will

      be understood and admired by "the million " is , however , not Tery likely . The subjects which occupied his pen have lost their interest for all but the student of history ; and the grossness of his ideas and language will certainly not recommend him to the reading and -thinking men of the people of this age . But let us here do justice to the great satirist . His style , so offensive to us , was by no means so to Ms contemporaries—it was the manner of the age in which he lived ; and we may add , continned to be the manner of authors even until

      ernes nearer to our own than to Ms , —as those can testif y who hare read the writings of Swift , Smollett , and many whose works were written within the last hundred years . It should he added that his fables , and his buffooneries , "were necessary guards in his war upon the priests , "who assuredly would have committed him to the flames , had he dared to have uttered , in plainlanguage , one-half of the severe truths he gave expression to through the medium of his fantastic fictions . Taking into account these

      circumstances , it will he seen how unjust it would he to try Rabelais by the standard of modern literature . Those able to distinguish the spirit from the letter , "will read and admire Iris genius , vnt , penetration , and love of liberty ; and will do homage to the man who , so far hack as the loth century , laid hare the corruptions and crimes of the Papacy , and wielded the scourge of satire to inflict justice on hypocritical , persecuting priests , profligate Statesmen , and tyrannical kings .

      As "we have not space to attempt an examination of the wonderful histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel , ire shall merely extract a short passage or two from the very brief record of the author ' s life .

      A 5 ECD 0 IE 3 OF RABELAIS . A famons author writes , that he was bred up in a convent of Franciscan friars , in the Lower Foictou , and was received into their order . "Which convent can be no other tfaan that of Foutenay-le jComte , where he proved a great proficient in learning ; insomuch that , of the friars some envied him , some through ignorance thought him a conjuror , and , in short , all nated and misused him . A monk relates that he was put in pace , that is between four walls irith bread and water , in the said convent ; for some Unlucky action . By tradition it is said that on a day when the country people used to resort to the convent church to addre . 35 their prayers , and pay their offerings to the image of St . Francis , which stood in a place somewhat dark , near the porch , Habelais , to ridicule their superstition , privately

      removed the saint ' s image , and placed himself in its room , having first disguised himself , but at last too innch pleased with the awkward worship which was paid Mm , he could not forbear laughing , and made fiome motion ; which being observed by his gaping staring worshippers , they cried out ; *—" . *• miracle ! my good lord Saint Francis moves ! " Upon which an old crafty knave of a liiar , who knew stone and the virtue of St . Francis too well to expect this should be true , drawing sear , scared our sham saint out of his hole : and , Saving caused him to be seized , the rest of the fralernity ,-Brith their knotty cordsonhis hare hack , soon made him know he was not made of stone , and wish ne lad been as hard as the image , or senseless as -was the saint ; nay , turned into the very image of Which he lately was the representation .

      Some scholarshavingoccasioned an extraordinary todermtheeityofMont pelUer , Anthony Duprat , Cardinal , Archbishop of Sens , then Lord Chancellor Of France , caused the university to be deprived of partofitsprivilege 3 . Upon this none was thought fitter to be sent to Paris to solicit then * restitution , than our doctor , who by his wit , learning , and eloquence , as also by the friends which they had purchased him at court , seemed capable to obtain anything . When he arrived at . Paris , he found it was Extremely difficult to gain access to the chancellor , ' who was so incensed that he refused to hear anything in behalf of the university of Montpellier . So Babelais , having vainly tried to be admitted , at last put on bis red gown and doctor ' s cap ( some say a green gown and along grey beard ) and thus

      accoutred came to the chancellor s palace , on St . Austin ' s key , but the porter and some other servants mistook him for a madman : so Rabelais having , in a peremptory tone been asked who he was , let his ^ pertinent querist know , that he was the gentlettaa who usually had the , honour to flay bull-« alTes ; and that if he had a mind to be first flayed , Jte had best make haste and strip immediately . Alien being asked some other qustions , he answered * J latin , which the other understanding not , one of | ne chancellor ' s officers ,: who could speak that WBgue , was brought ^ who addressing himself to our oocfor in Latin was answered by him in Greek , "ffich the other understanding as little as the first g * latin , a third was fetched who could speak j S ~> . be no sooner spoke in that language to *** ais , but wasaaswerea by him . in Hebrew , and

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      one who understood ^ Hebrew being with much difficultv procured , Kabelais spoke , to him in Synac 5 thus having exhausted all the learning of the family ; - . h e ^ haucellor , who . was . told . tbat there was a merry fool at his gate who had outdone everyone , riot ¦ 7 , ^ S § . hut in smartness of repartees , ordered him to be brought in . It-was a little before dinner ;; . Then Kabelais shifting the farcical scene to one more serious , addressed himself to the chancellor with much respect , and having first made his excuse for nu forced buffoonery , in a most eloquene and learned speech , so effectually pleaded the cause of the university , 4 hat the chancellor , at once ravished and persuaded , not only promised the restitution of : the . abolished privileges , but made the doctor sit down at table with him , as a particular mark of his esteem . one who understood Hebrew beine with , mnnh Aitu-

      These volumes are supplementary to Mr . Bohjj ' s well-known " Standard Library : ;" and like that popular series are remarkable for neatness and cheapness . Admirably engraved portraits of Eaeelais and Sir Thomas Uhquhakt , add to the value of this edition .

      Literary Institutions rtJieir relation to Public Opinion . By G . J . Holyoake . London J . "Watson ¦ , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . Twelye months ago , the London Literary and Scientific Institution offered a prize for the best Essay on the Characteristics and Advantages of Literary and Scientific Institutionstheir claims to the support of society , and the best means of extending their Usefulness . " It was expected that each writer would make the Institution which offered the prize the model upon which he would descant . Mr .

      Holtoakb , not considering the model exactly perfect , preferred to take an independent course . Under these circumstances , it is hardly necessary to add that the prize did not fall to Mr . Holyoake . But'the adjudicators , ( Dr . Sotjxhwood Smith , George Gkote , and James W . Gilbart ) , specified this Essay , in their adjudicatory sentence , among " the very creditable performances exhibiting separate passages which they should be glad to single outforrewaid . " Although not a " prize essay / ' this little work contains many prize truths , as . two or three extracts will show : —

      Whether ire will or not , this question of popular education is every man ' s business . It takes a cholera to convince us that we have an interest in the purity ef our neighbour ' s habitation , the course of his life , and the state of his health ; but when some profound folly meets with public applause , or some profound charlatan carries away a nation ' s suffrages , we find that a moral or political cholera prevails , in which we m » y read our interest in the purity of our neighbour ' s information , and the state of his understanding . But we are slow to recognise this truth , which is the first perfect lesson that civilisation teaches a people .

      Tell the untaught that , without knowledge , though they move in the ranks of gentlemen , that they wear the badge of the plebian and the fetters of the clown . That intellectual bondage is worse than physical ; because the physical chain is rivetted by others , the mental by ourselves . That the ignorant man is ever at the mercy of educated opinion . That , to be truly free , we should be in a condition to dare the judgment of the wise . ? That , while it is deemed honourable in man or woman to war against political tyranny—which is but the vulgar , the serf form of freedom—it must be nobler to war against the despotism of ignorance ; for the sceptre of incapacity may wave over a world of slaves , when mitres and thrones have passed away .

      All subjects which promise interest , either in their nature or their treatment , should be admitted into the Institution . Politics are admitted into a few Institutions , and a dignitary of the Church has very properly stepped forward to recommend its more general admission . The time will come when theology also will be recalled . It is impossible that these Institutions should have been popular while excluding the most popular and vital topics which agitate men . Besides , men will not always

      tolerate the discredit it puts upon them , to be told that passion is so strong and reason so weak that they must , like children , be forbidden certain things—that , in fact , they have not the good sense to consider among themselves the most vital questions of life . Moreover , while snch a subject is excluded the functions of these Institutions is not fully performed . These institutions ought not to be content to keep men as children , but to aim at converting children into men .

      We conclude these extracts with the following charming passage : — How deeply , how gratefully , does the present essayist remember the generous attentions of those who gave their time , the long evenings through , year after year , to communicate to him and other poor youths that knowledge which has made him at > eace with himself and the world , and given into his lands , in some measure , his own destiny , and made him a participator in the kingly pleasures of intelligence . These teachers were mostly of the working classes themselves ; but being somewhat informed

      they have since merged into the class of emigrants whom misery annually drafts off into foreign lands as their knowledge made destitution or dependence insupportable . Some have since perished amid Canada ' s snows and under Trinidad ' s burning sun , where no kind voice was near to whisper the soothing word , or kind hand to wipe the death damp from the brow ; but memory , more grateful than fate , follows them over the distance of time and place , and pours over their graves the gratitude which words could not convey for the light which they threw over the chequered paths of his life .

      Considerable good may be effected by the circulation of this essay , particularly amongst the members , officers , and patrons of " Literary and Scientific Institutions , " "Mechanics ' Institutions , " and " Mutual Instruction Societies . "

      Poems . By John Tayloe . London : It . Thompson , Little James-street , Gray ' s-innlane . " The New Poor Law forms the subject of a poem " in four books . " A shorter production , intituled " The Heroine of Rochester , " celebratesthe bravery of a young girl , who risked her own life to save that of an infant who had fallen into a well sixty-three feet deep . The following are favourable specimens of the author ' s poetry : —

      Let riches' minions riot on their spoil , Whilst England ' s nobler sons are doomed to toil , But ' tis not Nature's doom , as Byron says , But man ' s , that will not tread in Nature ' s ways . The reckoning day will come-nor distant farmen they shall mount in great Bellona ' s car Unsheath their swords , and bind their sabres round , And war re-echo back the dreadful sound . " Vengeance is ours J" aloud they'll raise the cry , As each oppressor ' s number'd days draw nigh . From fallen despots this sad warning take , That those have died , who did prepare the stake And seal the warrant for another ' s doom—They ' ve paid the forfeit in their own dark tomb . Behold the giant poise his dreadful lance , In civil war—with grim and motley chance , Divide the spoil a nation has for years

      Amass'd by old men ' s blood and children ' s tears . And see the strong , athletic , idle thrown , Through children's labour , and the mother ' s groan Then fierce rebellion stalks with rapid strides , And revolution on the whirlwind rides—The whirlwind of the people ' s passions rise , And shouts of starving mortals fill the skies—When hungry famine opes its yarning jaws , And fierce starvation , with its thousand claws , Fixes its deadly fangs fast on its prey-Then death with all its horrors rules the day . For empires greater far than England ' s been . nave sunk to nought—no veBtige now is seen Of all their greatness—but , in tracing through Hist ' ry ' s pages , on the fall ' n tyrants brow Is written there , in language chill and deep , Oppressors with the once-oppressed sleep .

      Woman , thy virtues who hath yet defined , Or known the depth of thy maternal mind , That is so true to nature ' s impulse giv ' n Earth s . brightest ornament , aBtarin heav ' n : Whose lustre far eclipses all the rest , When virtue shines supremely in the breast . Of purest worth that angels veil to see ¦ The love that moves thy bosom , kind and free . Without a cloud to shade one single ' ray , That perfect shines in clear meridian day , To guide the steps of strong—oft-erring man , When join'd with " Thee" in matrimonial ban .

      That sacred tie , which brings a world of love On virtue ' s wings—that sweet celestial dove , That hovers round the matrimonial pah * , With all a guardian angel ' s heav ' nly care . Beauty hath charms , but virtue yet hath more , The one soon fades , the other still in store v Renews , till death shall close on beauty ' s strife—* Tis virtue ' s charms that do ' adorn the wife , In youthful years , or age ' s graver span'Tis only virtue makes her blest to man . . Beauty may please , but virtue bears the palm , Beauty hath storms , but virtue dwells in calm . 'Tis man's to prize those virtues dear to all- *

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      Inbeaujy s train , a man - may , sudden fall . ' Avictim to a charm that often'leads \ ' '" "' ' Hisj mind astray ; and sinks in darker deeds : His ' soul , which should have ohbse that nobler ^ part Where virtue blendB with beauty—both impjirt ; The charms that sink the deepest in the heart , t ; 'Mr . Taylor ! is evidently a man of feeling heart and ; generous- patriotism ; but we ima- , gine that he would be able to' express his very laudable sentiments with more effect in prose than in poetry . 1 ; ¦ ¦ :. ¦ ' ; inhonntr , ' , tMin «»«„„ ~ : _™ Tjirrr " :

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      COLOSSEUM . ' ! This gigantic exhibition has put forth new attractions . The public interest manifested in the fate of Sir J . Franklin has induced the production of a scene in . the Polar regions ; which , though on a small scale , is highly effective . The iuy monotony of . the landscape is relieved by Esquimaux halting to rest the reindeer which have been drawing them over the slippery tract in a sledge , polar bears , a wolf-dog , and other indigenous animals , skilfully introduced and grouped .. The sky displays the beautiful evening tints peculiar to . those l atitudes while the distant hills are tipped with a scarlet hue , reflected from above . This tableau -will give inany a spectator a more chcerfulnotion of these

      inhospitable regions than they have been accustomed to associate with them . . : ; . In pleasing contrast to this ; is apicturo giving a vivid notion of Chinese river life . It is . a view of Tchin-shan , or the Golden Island , which . rises out ofthe Yang-tseJdangjthe grandest stream of the whole Eastern hemisphere . The bustle of this scene presents a contrast to the comparative solitude of that we have just noticed . . Life , in every form of activity is here seen . In , the foreground is an imperial messenger halting to be ferried across tho water ; boatmen , mandarins , hawkers , crowd the shore , while the river is covered with boats of all sorts , their crews in active ; employment ..:. " The island itself , with a splendid pagoda- capping an eminence , adds materially to the gorgeous variety of the scene . - ¦ ..... . - - . , .

      There is a third view , Netley Abbey , which also has its attractions . All these are the production of Messrs . Danson and Son . Lastly , there is a model of a silver mine . ; the miners in motion , and the different operations going on in a manner that gives a good insight into that sort of underground labour . The other exhibitions are still seen to as great advantage as ever . The view of Pans by moonlight —a marvel of panorama painting and mechanical deception—the stalactite caverns , the grand sculpture saloon , the Arabesque Aviary , the Swiss Cottage , and Alpine Landscape , with the mountain torrent , which is more real than simulated—for the water is genuine West Middlesex—and the Conservatory , form an array of exhibitions which cannot fail to attract every new comer to London ; for surely nearly every inhabitant and habitual visitor to the metropolis must have already had a delightful lounge in the Colosseum again and again .

      NEW STRAND THEATRE

      The performances at this howe have lately gained much interest from the circumstance that Mrs . Glover will take her farewell of the stage on the termination of her present engagement , and that she is therefore going through a series of her favourite characters . One of these is the Widow Green , ; in Mr . Sheridan Knowles ' s Love Chate , which she still enlivens with all that force and freshness which the employed when she first created the part . The senile gallantry and confidence of Sir William Fondlove are admirably represented by Mr . W . Farren , for whom the character was originally written ,

      though it was fii st played by the late Mr . Strickland . The gay Neighbour Constance allows Mra . Stirling to put forth all her point and vivacity ; and Mr . Henry Farren , who does not lack substance ; though he might gain in culture , represents with' much effect the rustic heartiness of Wildrake . The cast ia completed by Mrs . Leigh Murray and Mr . W . Farren , jun ., who ably sustain the more serious characters of Lydiaarid Master Waller . The style in which this lively comedy is dressed and mounted might serve as a lesson to establishments of greater siza and pretensions than the little " band-box" of the Strand .

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      KOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Dr . Baehhoffner has just commenced his second lecture on scientific recreation . This gentleman commenced by explaining the laws of nature governing many curious phenomena , and involved in many of our most common and every day amuse ' ments . The boy ' s nicker is made at once a philosophical instrument ; and the experiments Drought forward to explain and exhibit the manner of its action , were of the highest importance and value . Taking advantage of the same law , the doctor performed some singular experiments , at first sight seemingly the very acme of " conjuring dexterity , " which , however , upon explanation , resolved themselves into the most simple contrivances , dependent

      upon their action by the same principle as the " nicker" of our boyhood ; the " atmospheric pressure , " which , in fact , by the bye , tends remarkably to show the misnomer of " nicker , " as applied to this peculiar contrivance . The experiments in elucidition of the laws governing the sensations of heat and cold , were most remarkable ; in some instances , the results were truly startling . The burden of many a wa ^ er was here introduced , ' placing a kettle of boiling water on the hand , " and the causes of such accomplishment fully explained . The most peculiar experiment was one we . will endeavour to describe . A small apparatus having ' two cylinders connected by means et a handle , was placed upon the table , and a small quantity of cold water introduced in each ; the covers being screwed down , the machine was handed for

      Inspection , and to the astonishment of all present , one ol the vessels had become so exceedingly hot as to prevent its being retained in the hand , while the other was so cold as to become in a like manner equally uncomfortable . A result , so peculiar , seemed to be , at first sight , beyond the power even of magic , and curious beyond the boiling point of water , while its neighbour , in connexion , and distant only two of three inches , had become so intensely , cold as to freeze the moisture of the room upon its surface like hoar frost . In these experiments the learned professor explained he had taken advantage of the facilities offered by the patented aparatus of Mr . Masters , Regent-street , that gentleman having applied the principle to a number of useful contrivances exhibited on the entire table .

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      FOBTHCOMINO MlNISTBBIAI . CONCESSIONS . —Rumours as to ministerial activity during the session are multiplied and repeated ; but we do not discern anything very new , or anything of greater mark than the rate-paying suffrage . Ministers are going to supersede every sort of agitation—with an imitation of each : tho Charters , big and little , are to be superseded by a sort of new Whig charter ; the Law Amendment Society is to see its work done—or shelved—by official hands , the Keeper of the Great Seal consenting , perhaps as the only hope of being allowed to keep that great seal ; the Society for . the Reform of Colonial Government is to be outdone by concessions of local independence to colonies that will purchase it by undertaking to pay their own

      way ; the Financial lteiormers are to De DaulKed by a spontaneous reduction of the army—a dozen or so of regiments " clipped at the ends ; the scandal of Rajah Brooke is to be smothered under a measure for discontinuing the desperately inconvenient practice of giving lavish head-money for the capture of p irates . Mr . Yilliersisto move the address in the Commons—a sign , some say , that the Clarendon influence is in the ascendant among ' ministers ; while others interpret it to be a ' sort of rebuff to Mr . Cobden and his new agitations . Ministers " draw the line" at Charles Yilliers . Sir James Duke , the late Lord Mayor , whose popularity will not easily be outshone—the creditable and goodnatured colleague of Lord John Russell in the

      representation of the City—is to . second theaddress . Thus it would seem that ministers are decidedly making ready for a popularity hunt . May it meet what success it deserves ;—Spectator . ; ' ¦ Foreign Provisions . —The severity of the frost and the general inclement weather during the greater part of the last week , and particularly in the earner portion of it , have caused the arrival o cattle and provisions of all kinds from the central and other states of Europe , usually supp lying ; us with cattle and provisions of various kinds , to be of the most limited possible character . The usually

      numerous arrivals on Thursdays were liinited . Jast week on that day to one from . Holland , which was from Maasluys , by the steamer Sir Robert Pee ! , usually trading to and from Harhngen and Rotterdam r and , on the following ; day ,. generally also a busy one , there were no arrivals of the kind . ¦ ifle steamer from Ostend on that day was freig hted unusually heavy with general merchandise , as the port of Antwerp had become closed , in con sequence of which it was subsequently announced that the steamer usually running to and from Antwerp being detained there by the frost , the usual departure from London on Sunday morning could not talse

      place . A * AUCTION OF IHZ I *™ ASD KlDNHS COHB ) BY Houowai ' s Puts , at SiDXBr , Hew Sooth Wales .-Extract of a'fetter ' from J . K . Heydon , of Sydney , dated Sept . 30 th , 1848 . "ToProfessor HoUoway . -Sir ,-- ! haie the pleasure to inform you that Stuart A . w ^ fi" *** an eminent merehant ina agriculturist , also a magis trate of tMstown , purchased of me fourteen pou » ds TfOrthOf your medicines , to forward to hi » » Ueep stations m > ew England , in consequence of un extraordinary cure effected by jour Pills in ten dajs on one ef } us overseers of an atfe Sof Cnrer and kidnojs , after ttu , best nied . cal advice ,, foUowed f « months , had flftiled . —( Signed } J . H . Heiqon . " ' . ... j

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      Ma . COBDEC AT SHEFFIELD . ~' iv v . Mr . . Cobden arrived here on Tuesday on ' a . visit to the conBtiiueht ^ reetioiders of tKe . West Kidirigat Sheffield and its neighbourhood this morning , and wasjreceived every where with the most cordial ^ hd enthusiastic greetings . ' It was Half-past twelve when the train entered the station at Sheffield / and the company' oBBembled to receive him included Edward Smith , Esq ., of'Fir Vale , Richard Solly , Esq ., and Messrs . ; Thomas bates , Thomas' tuckeri Yepmans , and Brdadhead . ' The bells ' of the old parish church ' bfSt- Peter rung forth' a merry p eal at the moment is honour of the event , and some ladies asr well / as gentlemen were at th « station to — , - __ - ¦ -------. . — __ . _ . ^ - —

      get a sight' of the : Hoju gentleman . : Mr . Cobdea spent the remainder of the day at Fir Vale . ; : ; .. The meeting in the evening took place in the saloon of the Music . halJ | a ' 8 paciqu 8 , lofty and ele . gant room , capable of accommodating from 1 , 500 to 2 , 000 persons . "It is the largest room in the town that could be ^ obtained , and as itwas felt that the number of persons who desired to be present would far exceed / the limits of the building , it had been arranged that a price ; should be affixed to " . the tickets ofadmi 88 ion , for ' .-the purpose of giving the . committea some control over the matter . For this purpose

      a charge of sixpence was affixed Tor entrance to the body of the saloon , of a shilling to the platform or orchestra , where Mr . Gobd « n and his friends w ' ere to be seated , aiid of threepence each to the gallery occupying / the < further end of the saloon . This management prevented much of the crush and con-/ usipri of an ordinary , meeting , hut stiji as the tickets had all been disposed of so early as ten o clock this morning , and the committee of management had been induced to make a slight further issue fo ^ meet the pressing ; anxiety and demands of influential friends subsequently'applying for admission , the saloon wa » exceedingly ' crowded ; '

      On entering ; the saloon of the Music-hall about seven o ' cloek , the hon . member for the West Riding of Yorkshire ' was received' with the heartiegt and most enthusiastic burst of cheering . The chair was taken by Edward Smith , Esq ., of Fir Vale , and Mr . Cobdeti occupied a seat at his right hand . ; ' The Chairman reminded the meeting that the object of it was to receive the honl and ' distinguished member for the West ; Riding , and to express sympath y with him in his , patriotic and philantropic objects , especially in regard to financial reform , the extension of the suffrage , the land and building society movement , and the maintenance of peace / He concluded by calling upon— ¦ '

      Thomas Birrs , Esq ., Mayor of Sheffield , who moved the first resolution : — ' That this meeting consider it to be one of the most important duties ol the House of Commons to enforce the strictest economy in the public expenditure , so as to reduce the oppressive burden of taxatfen as far as possible ; and that the efforts of the financial reformers in parliament to obtain . such .. reduction . deserves the energetic support of the nation . ' Thomas Dunn , Esq ., alderman , seconded the motion , which was carried with loud cheering .

      William Fisher , Esq ., merchant , raoved the second resolution : — ' That , in the judgment of this meeting , a laree extension of the elective '' franchise is desirable , ' arid might , with true wisdom , be granted by the legislature ; and that , meanwhile , well construed and prudently managed societies for facilitating the purchase by the industrious classes of forty shilling freeholds in land or buildings , are likely to { be attended with great advantage , both social and political , to the country . ' . Alderman Thos . Rawson Barker , . the late mayor of Sheffield , seconded the resolution , and it was also agreed to with loud cheers .

      Richard Cobden , Esq ., M . P ., was then introduced by theichairraan , and on presenting himself in front of the orchestra , was welcomed with the most enthusiastic plaudits . ' The hon . member spoke for an hour and forty minutes , and his speech was frequently interrupted by bursts of cheering .. Richard Solly , Esq ., then moved a vote of confidence in the hon . member , couched in the following terms : — ' That this meeting would express its strong and grateful sense of the invaluable services of Richardi Cobden , Esq ., in the cause of free trade , of public economy , of peace , and of financial , parliamentary , " and colonial reform : and that it resolves to spare na exertions to maintain him in the representation of the West Riding , a post which he has filled so much to the satisfaction of his constituents / . :

      This resolution having been seconded , was received , as the previous ones had been by the meeting , with the utmost enthusiasm , and carried without a dissentient voice . —The business concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman , and the meeting concluded at twenty minutes past ten o clock .

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      PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL . REFORM . Lynn . —A meeting was held on Monday evening at the Temperance Hall , Lynn , to discuss the principles and objects of the National Reform Association . The chair was taken by Mr . Miles . Mr . M'Enteer explained the principles of the National Reform Association , and on referring to the abuses which their labours contemplated removing from the statute book of England , said , look to our court , supported in profuse and grotesque extra * vagance , not to sustain the true dignity of the sovereign , but to afford places to the aristocracy . Look

      to the cost of our executive , amounting to £ 1 , 686 , 735 , and compare it with the'American executive ^ which is il 6 , 885 ; and say if the superiority of eur system of government is proportionate to the difference of cost . Look to our colonies in a state of universal , and just discontent ; kept in that Btate , at an enormous expense to this country , that Dawn . ing-street may furnish aristocratic governors to people who would gladly pay all expenses of self-government , if permitted to do so . Look at our fighting establishments , that since 1815 cost the country nearly £ 500 , 000 , 000 ; and that since 1688 , have caused Great Britain an expenditure in taxes and leans of two thousand millions , which , according to the income tax . estimate of the value of landed and other property , would pay a twenty-five years' purchase for the whole island of Great Britain . Look

      to our church ' establishment '' costing' ( ten millions annually , riot including the Irish Church , while the cost of all the Christian ! churches of all denominations throughout the world * amounts to only £ 9 , 949 , 000 . In reference to the cry for protection , he said , the protectionists say they and the formers are in the same boat . True ; but the farmers do all the work to keep the craft afloat , while the landlords get all the rations and pocket all the pay . Let the farmers get a free trade in land , to which they are fully entitled , as well as a free trade in corn , and then , and not till then , will they get a fair chance by being put on a fair footing with the other interests in the country . As , lot the cry of reitonng piotection , they might as well invite' last ' Cbriatmas to spend a pleasant week with next aa to aak the legislature of this country ' again to impose a tax on the food of the people . ; ' '

      'Arrangements were entered into for establishing a Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association in Lynn . •¦ : ¦ " -r '> ' > -- , ¦ ¦ - .- ' - ' ¦ ^ '¦' ¦ - ¦

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      The Arctic ExPBDmoif .--Capt . Mariby recently suggested to Sit James Ross such an addition to the steam-boats employed in the Arctic Expedition : as would enable them to be used alternatel y assteam * boats or sledges . This the captain proposes to do by means of broad-rimmed wheels , so constructed as to admit of their being substituted for the paddle boxes when required . Sir James Rosa replied to Capt ; Manby : — . " Capt . Collinaon 'i 8 to command the expedition , and does not intend to taKo with him tne steam-launches . 'f In coHsequence , we learn , Capt . Manby having confidence in , the practicability of his plan j has resolved'to construct a model of Buch a vessel' as he recommended ; and'ho purposes to submit the same , together with gome

      new projects for saying the lives of sailors , < : to - the commissioners appointed for the promotion and exhibition of the works of art of all nations , in 18 ol . Pbotection or Bockinoham Palace pROJi . LioHTnino . —The many awful examples of the effect of lightning in the destruction of ships and buildings , and more especially in the example recently afforded at Osborne , where the portion of the building unprotected sustained ' damage , whilst that ) portion to which Sir "William Snow Harris ' s conductors were applied entirely tsoaped , have induced a royal summons to the celebrated inventor of the lightning

      conductors to consult the architect of the Buckingham Palace improvements on the best mode of insuring the safety of that extensive pile , of buildings from visitations of that destructive . element . ' Fires ik London ddbiks ' 1849 ^—The annual report of the Fire Brigades ; of the outbreak of cpnnagrations in the metropolis and its suburbs , during the past year , was issued on Monday , 'by ita superintendent . The total number appears io have'been 835 , involving ' the destruction of , between " 400 , and 500 houses . Although an increase over the previous years , the loss of property , in the' ' aggregate , has not been bo great . It : states that twenty persona lost their Uyes at the flros , ¦ > . . .

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      EXTENSIVE-BOBBERIES'IN LEBJ ) S ™™ TW , r ,, ^ ^«^ - ^^ -- --

      : T .: Kay , ^ f 10 , ; Pleasa ) it-pl ?^ , ^ t : stu ^ e ! Lambeth , and , W ., Green ofVHanpver-stfeoti-il ^ worlih - the two prisoners apprehended in . '"' Lbmlon ^ and Sin " ' whoso houses a quantity of plate , doth ; an * oth ' o ' r stolen property were found , underwent an examination before the Leeds justice , 'on Friday " arid ^» tHrday last . They had been given ; up by the m ' agistrntC 3 of Lamboth / Police Office , and brought | to Leeds by Inspector . Child ofv the Leeds police , and Sergeant Goffof the . Lambeth police . In addition to -: these : prisoners , aix others , apprehended ' in Leeds , viz ., Joseph ' Kitchin , Matthew Sellers , John Akeroyd , "VYilliiim IHiodesj Benjamin Tfyollor , and Christopher Petler , wore at the , same ' tima charged

      with being concernod in several rbbberies which have receiitly taken , plaoe in Leeds ., Tho examination was continued ' throughout the whole of Friday and Saturday , the evidence taken against the prisoher 8 being of a very voluminous description . Three separate charges were entered into , with the view of showing that one or other of the prisoners were implicated in ! them , either of the actual thieves , or as receivers of the stolen property , j The first was the robbery from the house of Mr . William Wood , of Chapel Alerton , which took place on the afternoon of Sunday , the 16 th' of January . Mr . and Mrs .: "Wood had attended ohurch / that afternoon , after which they called' at ' the house of Mr . shiers , ia * relative : but at five o ' clock Mr . Wood

      called at his own house , to see if all was right , and whenhe left to return to his relative ' s house , 'he desired Mr . Henderson , ^ neighbour , to look to his house . About lialf-past six o ' clock Mr . Henderson hoard some one breaking up the kitchen fire , and on his shouting '' holloa , " ho heard the heavy footsteps ° M P 9 ns descending the staircase , and on going outside aaw a light suddenly withdrawn from the back bedroom , he then ' rah found to the front door , and found it open . Mr . Wood was sent for , and it was found that from a tin box placed in a drawer in the back bedroom the following articles of silver had been stolen : —five table spoons , six toa spoons , ono pair of sugar tongs , and a butter knife with a peavl handle . ¦•' . j

      Ihe second case gone into was the robbery of the warehousp of Mr . James Jackson , a commission agent for woollen cloths , situate in Bishopsgatestreet . This warehouse was entered by means of skeleton keys between Saturday , the 6 th ; and Monday , the 8 lh of Ocfober last , and three ends of rifle green and three ends of black woollen cloth , wortH about £ 50 , stolen . V The third charge had reference to tho robbery of cloth from the warehouse of Mr . Benjamin Barker , cloth merchant and manufacturer at Quebec . Between Saturday afternoon , Dec . 22 nd , ; arid' Monday morning , Dec . 24 th , the warehouse whs entered by means of Skeleton keys , and on examining the stock it was found that twelve ends of woollen cloth , worth £ 120 , had been stolen . ' :

      Mr . kbad , chief constable , produced , all the articles found upon the prisoner Kay ^ and in . his house ; and also about twenty yards of woollen cloth , cut up into abort lengths of . about two yards , which had been found in the house of the prisoner Green , and then the examination proceeded . As to the robbery of plate , from Mr . Wood ' s house ; no evidence was adduced to implicate the " prisoners William Green and Benjamin Wooller , It seems that Mr . Read ,, haying obtained information of stolen property having been sent to London , requested the superintendent of the Midland station , in Leedsi'to inform him of any parcel which might bo left for transmission to the addresg of Thomas Kay , Thomas Wright , or William Green , in London . This led to the detention of the parcel containing

      plate on the ni ght of Friday last , which < was addressed to Mr . Thomas Wright , Pleasant-place , West-square , Walworth . This parcel , on being opened , was found to contain all the plate stolen from Mr . Wood ' s house , soldered up in a long small tin case . This parcel was forwarded by the early train on Saturday morning , delivered to Kay . and then taken by the police as stated above . . When Kay was taken into custody he said the parcel belonged to a lodger of his , but ho neither produced or gave any other information respecting him . The large sum of money found in Kay ' s house was found in a woman ' s pocket , placed on the top shelf of a cupboard , against the door of which the bedhead was thrust so as to render it inaccessible ' . This was the principal evidence adduced against Kay . A boy named Henry Till , of Chapel Allerton ,

      sworo positively to have seen the prisoners Rhodes and Akevoyd and another man loitering about Mr . Wood ' s house from half-past two till after four o ' clock oh the afternoon on which the . robbery was committed , and one of them watched into the passage leading to Mr . Wood ' s house door . The evidence against the prisoner Sellers was that of Mr : Wobdlock . 'the parcel clerk at ' the Midland Railway station , who identified him as the man who had brought the parcel containing the stolen place to be conveyed to . London , when , he * was very particular in inquiring when ic would arrive in town ,, and when it would be delivered . Then , as to the prisoner Kitchen , it was proved that he and Kay were acquainted with each other , and that the latter had frequently , visited the Rising Sun Inn , kept by Otchen s father . In addition to this'the name of

      Richard Kitchen was written upon the outside cover of the parcel containing the stolen plate ; and a letter carrier , named Stewart Smith , stated that he had frequently delivered letters' addressed for the prisoper Kay , to the care of Mr . Kitchen , Rising Sun Inn , MarshJane , Leeds . He particularly remembered two letters which he delivered about Christmas Bay , both ' having the Walworth postmark on , the one being directed / 'Thomas Kay , " and the other "T . Kay" only . On one of these occasions he saw the prisoner Kay at the Rising Sun Inn . The only further evidence adduced against Kitchen was that given by Mr ; W . James , superintendent of the Leeds police , who stated that on Mr . Read and himself going to apprehend Kitchen on

      Sunday morning , at his house in Stoney Rock , they met with him in company with Sellers , the man who took the parcel to the railway station ; The Mayor then charged the prisoners . Seller admitted that he had delivered 7 a parcel on the Friday at the railway station , but he said it had been given him to carry by a gentleman be met near the Griffin Inn , Boar-lane . As to the robbery he could call witnesses to prove he was' elsewhere at the time it was committed . Rhodes and Akeroyd also said they could . prove an alibi ; and : Kitchin said he knew nothing at all about the transaction . The two cloth robberies were next gone into , Mr . Jackson identified four of the pieces of cloth found at Green ' s house , as part of that which had

      been stolen from his warehouse , and bis testimony was confirmed by Mr . Thorans Gamble , of Furnloy , the maker of the cloth . Other pieces were also identified as a part of what had been stolen from Mr . Barker ' s warehouse , being sworn toby Mr . Barker , and Mr . Hawksly his assistant ; Mr . Jas . Wade , a cloth dresser , and Mr . Hargreave , a cloth drawer in the employment of Mr . wm . Avens , by whom the cloth had been finished . ; Sergeant Goff , who found part of the cloth at Green s house , stated that the prisoner said ho had had it in his possession for six months . He also stated that in a drawer in one of the bedrooms of the house he found a letter bearing the Marsh-line , Leeds , post-mark , and written by a person who

      signed "Yours respectfully , Barney . " This Barney Green said was a lodger of'his , and that the portmanteau in which , the cloth was found belonged to him . . ' ¦¦ ' .. 'In the course of the proceedings Mr . Fkuss app lied to the bench to order part of the money found m Kay ' s house to be given up to him for ; the purpose of paying a quarter ' s rent of his house , now due , of supporting his wife and two children while ho was in prison , and of paying the expenses of his defence . Ho thought , as ho would have to remain some months in prison , forty pounds would be necessary . The Mayor conferred with the justices , and then saiA thatthey . should 6 rder _ thirtypounds to be paid to Him out of the gold in Mr . Read's possession . Sergeant Kinnier ,, of the Kennington' police force , stated , that , on the 12 th inst ., he searched the house of Green at Walworth . Green bad then been

      taken into custody ; but his wife was in the house at the time . HofoiHid , in one oi the drawers in the bedroom , four short lengths of woollen ; cloth » three black coats , and nine pairs of trowsers , which Mrs . Green said belonged to a lodger , whom sbe called "Barney . " Witness said he knew Barney well , and had often seen him in London , hi company with Green . He had also seen Kay arid Green , together frequently . , . "' , '¦ "' : : At the close of the examination , on Saturday , the Mayor said tho evidence did oot reach the prisoners Wooller and Petler ; and ; therefore , they njiastibe discharged . As to the prisoner Kitchin , the Evidence was also very slight ; and he would be diecharged out of . custody , an entering intolhisiowri recognizancea in the sum of £ 50 , to appear at any time when called for . AM tho other prisaaers , Kay , Green , Sellers , Akeroy . st , and Rhodes , i » should remand for further exaimnation . : - . ' "¦ ' -.

      Lbj ? ps ,, Mondat . —AttheLeeds Cosit House ; this day , Thomas Kay , William Green , Matthew Sellers , Joha Akeroyd , and William Rhodes were brought up for final' examination . ' No further' witnesses , beyond whatwesa examined on , j ^ iday and Sftto ~ d , ay last were called , The prisoners . said nothing whatever in answer to ' the charges made ngs ^ nst them . Mr . Ferns , solicitor ^ \ ap . phed to the / eeiioh to order the-large suni of ajoaey ; the rings , watoh ' es , and other artiolea of val « , e » foiand in the . possession of the wisoner Kav . to \» siveh u p to him ; vnith the

      excoption of the property identified as aaymg been stolen . The Mayo * said the ; : magistrates- -would take the application into consideration , ^ and he would mention their decision another day . _ , All the flve ' prisdKera ^ were then committed for trial at the next Yorkshire-Assizes , Akeroyd wd'WMWftn the charge of having stolen the plate fromlJto Wflod fl housl at Chapel Allerton , ftnd . ' theAOthers . ' . wjth having feloniously received the said , pjatei an&also a quantity of cloth , stolen ; ifipnv the" warehouses ! Ol Mr : Jackson and Mr ,.: Bwto ^ Leed 8 , 1 ;' , ;•; :

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      ? Government . —The « irt of ruling has beenra craft rathfci ;/ than < a science ; fpr ; the . most part ^ ah eiior * moua ;; . imposture . " " rather than a substantial oi ge « nuine reality . ' Potentates have too often bcenjmon * sters or fools in ermine . and scarlet ; their sceptreB have been the wand of a juggler ; 'their pioneers ol ? viziers hare proved selfish satellites , glorying inoro or less in the sable livery of Satan ; constitutional assemblies have been cunningly contrived ^ machineries for fleecing ; and peeling an ciiHghtened gaping , ipublic ; so-that , through nearly the whole of tins notable process , very little else has

      beeri'necessary than felicity of fortune , dextefityof "hand , some personal courage , and much matchless irapu-¦ e 5 5- ^ i'i - * ' ^ . a 11 wdn and wom the venerable and dignified appellation of government in the page of history . —Eclectic Review . * thb . bitbr bit . —Mr . curmn one day inquiring his master s age from a horse-joekoy ' s servant , found it almost impossible to extract an answer , " s Come , J come , friend , has he not lost his teeth V * " Do you think , " retorted the fellow , " that I know his age as he does his horses by the mark of his mouth ! " Tho laugh was against Curran ; but he instantly recovered— " You were very right not to try , friend , for you know your master ' s a great bite ! " " ' ' : " .. - ¦ ¦ • ... - . ., ¦

      Baros CioNccBRT- and BLANKEia . ^—Ho says the old gentleman was successful in thb banking / and woollen business—read blanketting . Soon after he became Lord be happened to witness some panto * mime of "Don Quixote , '' in the Dublin Theatre , and attracted notice by the stentorian peals of his laughter when' Sancho was tossed in the blanket « Next morning the newspapers produced these rhymes : — .: , . " Cloncurry ! Cloneurry ! Why in such a hurry , To laugh at this comical squire ? -

      : Though he is tosa'd high , ; . ; ... ;] ; ' . .. . You cannot deny ^ : That blankets have tpss'd yourself higher . " —Quarterl Review . .. - ¦ ¦ .. . ; ¦ ' It was the laudable ambition of Cotton Mather to say , "He did not ' knowof any person iri the tTbrld . who had done him any ill office , but he had done him a good one for it . " The true sign of a'great poet , or of any great author , is , not that be is without faults , but that he makes you love his faults in spite of yourself . Tub sPBix ' of royalty has been broken . Nonr can feel themselves equal to the execution of a great design who have not once witnessed with firmness and equanimity its failure ., : One of tho most striking attributes of great genius 13 , that nobody can soo or divine how it

      comes by ita knowledge A man used to books , and reall y well-readj , can find out , the pith of a book without . reading it through page by pago . He knows where thernovelties will be , just as a good fisherman'knows where the trout or salmon lie , and goes tliere , whilst a ! novice is splasbing- and thrashing . jfhere there never was a fish since the Creation . .,. . V . J Thebe is one department in which the female udgment- is far superior to that of themalerand that is in judging of ordinary character . They do this by nn unfailing instinct or intuition ; and that Providence should so privilege them is easily , to be accounted for . They especially need this safeguard . It is . therefore , a maxim with me always to talce the female opinion of character , when given without passion or pique .

      THB PEASANT S EPITAPH . Hard by lieth Timothy Clow Confirmed was'his fontal vow !¦ Alway to his " pastors , " arid eke to his " masters , " Through life he made , " duly , " his bow . At Un , with plough and with Train , lie worked on the shelterless plain , 'Mid rain and sleet , till his hands and feet . Were covered wltii DoiranaTJiam : —¦ At twenty , Love ' s pleasing smart Throbbed keen through his simple heart , So be married-rand , then , went whistling again O ' er the bill , with his humdrum cart .

      At thirty , when sorely rack d With rheum , and his children lack'd Both raiment and food , his " pastor" so good , .. For charity , gave him—a tract ! At forty—lo ! dull decay , Came on , and his locks grew grey ; So his " master , " at length , in whose service Ms , . strenth He had wasted—turned him away ! At fiftyr when sorrow gave To iJeath the poor wovn-out slave , For his worth they allowed him—a Bastile shroud ! For his bones—aparish grave . ' Cqoptr " a Journal . ' . " ' -William Jones ,

      Causk of National Misert . —If men consider the happiness of others , or their own ; in fewer words , if they were wise , no state would bo depopulated , no city pillaged , not a village would be laid in ashes , not a farm deserted . But there always have been , and always will be , men about the despot , who persuade him that terror is better than esteem ; that no one knows whether he is ' reverenced or not , but that he who is dreaded has indubitable proofs of it , and is regarded . by . mortals asa god ,. By pampering this foible in the prince , they are permitted to come closer and closer to him , and from the indulgence of his corrupted humours they derive their wealth and influence—W . T . Landob . ;

      Tithes . —An artful rector said once to a man who ocoupied his own land— " Iu my opinion , farmer , were you to remove the stones from this ground , drain it , dung it well , and thoroughly plough it , you might raise much better crops . " " True , - ¦ sir , " said the farmer , "you are quito right ; and if you will take this ground off me , and doall-yourooommend , I'll ask no rent—I shall be satisfied if you will give me the tithes . "—Trusler ' s ikmoirs . ¦ Hich and Poon . —The rich must be convinced that while they live sumptuously , and while the poor are fed with a few of the scanty crumbs which

      fall from their table , they act quite contrary to the tenor of that gospel which they say they believe . It is not in nature or reason to say that one man should destroy twenty-thousand a year , and another should be left without the common necessaries of life . No ; every creature which nature has formed with a mouth and digestive powers , has an equal right to participate of her blessings . — Candid Philosopher . : What la the best definition of a " mean man ?"A man who values everything higher than ha does bis own honour and character , which he values at nothing , ' _ . .. ' .

      The Marriage Ring is placed on tho left hand because it is much less used than the right , and therefore the ring was less liable to be bruised or broken . Por the same reason , the fourth finger was chosen , which is not only less used than either of the rest , but is more capable of preserving a ring from bruises ; haying this one quality peculiar to itself , that it cannot be extended but in company with some other finger , whereas the rest may be singly stretched out to the fall length and straight-¦

      ness .- ¦•¦ - Causes &b War . —It is apparent , that last ; of power , and the senseless quarrels of priMes ^ are generally the causes of war , and of the devastations and slaughter of their subjects ^ attending them . About a hundred years ago , the King of Pegu made war against the King of Siam , with an army of aboyo one million of foot , two hundred thousand horse , five thousand cleplva . nt 8 , thvee thousand camels , Ac . The cause of this war -vyaa to take two whit © elenhants from the King of Siam j and to do

      the like from the King of Pegu , the Kings ; of Arrican and Tonga waged war with him . , Solomon ' s Seal . —There is . a plant in old-fashioned gardens , of which the vulgar namo is "Solomon ' s Seal , " its virtue is , that a leaf of it applied to a " black eye' * takes away tho discolouration sooner than any othev " recipe . " How it got tho name-of "Solomon ' s Seal , " Heavenkn&ws . But as " Solomon ' s Seal' was potent in curing the outbreaks of " malignant spirits , "" or outrageous genii , it docs hot sout so ill .

      Good fame ; is like fire . When you hnve kindled it , you may easily preserve ib ; . but if you once . extinguish it ,, you will not easily kindle it again ; at least riot make it burn as brightly as it did . — FlMarch . : . ¦ - iJinus , when in contact with man ,, soon understand thofonmlual relations wonderfully well . That they sooa arrive . it a knowledge of a gun and its perilous qualitiea is generally admitted . But . J'am sure they go beyond this . In many situations l ' am cohviftcedAvild birds , know Sunday ^ and ^ eel secure that tboy will not be-shot at nor distai'bed on that day . It was only after long observation I admitted the- possibility of 4 his ; but I could not resist , the constant ovidenca of my owa eyes , This ^ remark X 8 » v be only , pechaps , true of . the north of England , where Sunday is kep t lik © a > fait day ,, and . where ' even anglin » or a game at football — wliich . in the

      south aro tb , 3 a"ht notmng oi ~ . are . accounted an outrage Oft pabiic decorum » \ - '' ' . '' - \ The Qi ! S © oo / Reugios .. —The Hindoo Te \ ig » on probabSj ! - spead over the whole earth . There are signs , © fit m every northern country , and in almost every ? system of worship . In England it is obvious ; Stonehenge is evidently one of the temples ' ot Ifeodb ; and the arithmetic , astronomy , astrology the-holidays , games , names of tho stars and figures of tho constellations ; the ancient monuments , laws , and coins ; the languages of the different nations , boar tho strongest marks of the same original . . The Brahmins" of the soot of Brahma wevo' the true BiitttOV& . Gf ' theiUtolemiuo system i the Buodlust ? , followors of Budha , . the authors . of the Copei-mc an system , W well as of tho dootnno of attraction , arid probably the establishedreligion of ^ tovtoh arid theEleusinianmystbnos , were on ^ rieUS ot thO two different m ^ Fomi' V r ^ lMmnr .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 26, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1558/page/3/