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      THE COMMUNISTS' HYMN . Bt JOHN GOODWIN BABMBY . Sisters ! Brothers ! Fathers ! Mothers ! Cluldren of Community ! In dustry , it is our pleasure , And onr labonr sweetens leisure , Shared by each and all the fteei Let us go then , - - To the mow then , Ringing hymus of joy a-field , let us be the harvest reaping , And in common garners sweeepin « j , | ~ £ ft t he crops our meadows yield . "Work Is pleasure ; And the treasure Of our works is all our own ; ... Sanctified by sacred union , : Shared by all in sweet communion piowerlike , planted , budded , blown . Let us all then , Hallowed call then , Industry , with her sweet smile ; let us at ber beck attractive , Mow and reap with sinews active . Build the barn , and plant the stile . Let us ever , Praise the giver , Industry , of joy and health ; Let each sister , let each brother , Work salvation for the other , By the common love and wealth . Sisters ! Brothers ! Fathers ! Mothers ! Give the ear to Labour ' s call ; V' ^ . ' And like music tones in union , gf Work in glad and sweet communion , ___ - All tor Each , asd Each foe All !

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      The London Prisons j with an Account of the More Distinguished Persons who have been Confined in them . By Hepvokth Drsox . London : Jackson and "Walford . The substance of this volume originally appeared in a series of papers in the DaibjNews , on the chief prisons of the metropolis . In presenting them in a collected shade , the author has materially improved them , and extended the scope of his inquiry so as to include political as veil as common prisons . This new feature possesses , for us , the greatest interest ; and it is evident , also , that the chapter which

      treats " of the employment of the Tower as a political prison , has engaged the largest share of Mr . Dixon ' s attention , as a historical student . In preference , therefore , to following him into the discussion of the vexatcs qjutstiones of our criminal jurisprudence , arising oat of transportation and other secondary punishments , we shall take a few extracts from this part of the work . It will he seen that the author possesses considerable descriptive power , and the ability which imparts interest to painful subjects , without making them unduly exciting .

      In view of the sanguinary treatment of political offenders which , within a recent period , and even now , disgraces continental nations , we are frequently congratulated on the mildness and liberality which distinguishes administration in this country . The fact is so ; hut it should be recollected that we have attained this stage of civilisation , as it were , through a baptism of Wood . The annals of our state prisons abound with incarcerations as abominable and as cruel as those which stain the

      memory of any similar receptacle of human suffering . "Whether they arose frem the inherent ruthlessuess of all political persecutionand especially of political persecution by a weak government' or transitory faction—or from the personal malignity of the reigning prince or minister , the result is the same . We have not ninch left to boast of . The leaders" of hostile parties were cut off by a speedy or a tardy exercise of vengeance , in such numbers as to make the pages of English history sufficiently red in their hue . 2 ? or was

      the slaughter always confined to leaders . Sir George Bowes perpetrated the most dreadful and wholesale slaughter in putting down the rebellion of 1569 , in the counties of York and Durham , called the " Rising of the North . " Bowes seems to hare been a Haynau in his way , with the exception that he did not flog women ; and , though acting under the orders of a sanguinary Privy Council , he confined his retributory and repressive measures to men . Fear was evidently the motive of the cruelties committed in this case . The Government of

      Elizabeth seemed to be in the most imminent jeopardy , and in the rough-and-ready logic of that time her Council concurred , that the surest way of rendering themselves secure was , to hang at least one man out of every village within the circle of the disaffected country . Stowe , the historian , savs , that he learnt from Sir Geo . Bowes himself , that some of the rebels were executed in every market town and in every pnblic place from Newcastle to "Wetherby , a distance of at least sixty miles , fcy forty broad , " which mustneeds , " adds the chronicler , " destroy a great number of these

      wretches ; " a concise but indubitable inference . The persecutions of James the First , his son , and his grandson , had not the mitigat ing quality that they were the result of fear , or of a frail and insecure hold upon power . They were prompted by an aggressive and despotic spirit , "which sought to render the -will of the monarch supreme over a * I institutions j and mate the people hold life and properly , subject to the pleasure and the caprice of the throne . "We need not , therefore , be surprised at the expulsion of a race so hostile to public liberty , and at the failure of every attempt to restore them to the English throne .

      In the low and melancholy church of St Peter-ad-Vincula , -which stands at the margin of the fatal green in the Tower , lie the remains of men and women , the victims of i ! l-regulated ambition , or political hatred and courtly intrigue . Among these victims and martyrs there is the last resting place of John Eliot , whose treatment and heroic conduct Mr . Bixon thus decribes : — John Eliot , the wit , the orator , the patriot , the friend of Hampden , and the foe of Charles . Sir John Eliot was one of the first and firmest asserters of pubic liberty against the tyrannous proceedings of Charks Stuart , and his minions : even in a camp

      which held such men as Pym and Granville , Hampden and Dieges , Selden and Holies—all men of great learning and eloquence—E'iot still held the foremost place . * * Eliot , with Selden , Hollis , and many others , was thrown into the Tower , and ordered to be kept in close confinement , relieved only by his examinations before the Council : but neither solitnde nor privation could bend the pride of his lofty soul , "Wbea questioned as to W 8 doings in Par-Lament , be boldly replied , •? Whatever was said or done by me in that place , and at that time , was performed by me as a pubVc man , and as a member of that house ; and I am , and always shall be , ready to §?? i" 'SW , * W . dyings and doings there , whenever

      I shall be called unto by thathonse , where , as I take it , it ig only to be questioned . " Hollis answered with equal intrepidity , as did the others . Snch men were worthy to be the champions of England . s rights . * After a trial , which was a mockery , the patnots were sentenced to be confined until they acknowled ged themaelvfa in the wrong , and gave security for their good behaviour . Some of them , after various periods of imprisonment gave way , paid their nnes , _ found sureties to answer for them , and made submission . Hollis naid 1 nnn marks , Valentine £ 500 ; Selden and Eliot refused to admit the justice of their sentences , and remained in prison . "When the latter was told that be had been sentenced to pay a fine of £ 2 , 000 , he remarked , " I have two cloaks , two raits , two pair of boots and

      galoche ? , and a few books—that U all my present substance , and if they can pick out of that £ 2 . 000 much good may it do them . " When it became evident the captive would never make submission , the court , thinking that it had got him secured for life , relaxed its cruelties so far as to allow him books and ' writing materials , which he employed ia composing his vigorous treatise called " The Monarchy of Man , " and in writing to Hampden and other friends , as also to his children . All this prison-born literature is profoundly interesting . The correspondence with his sons is descr ibed as truly noble and pathetic . He f thorfed them to stand firmly by the principles for which he was gradually fallin ? a sacrifice—a trust lay upon them as npon himself . He says no enemy had ever been able to " wound his mind ; " and so long as « s children remained true to their political faith , he

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      could hold the last gri&f at a distance . For himself , his health was suffering severely from the wretchedness of his cell the monotony of the scene , the want of air and generous diet , he was growing faint and eeole ; but still he sayBhe should not bate a jot of heart or hope . That the nation was tot indifferent to its champion ' s fate is certain . His native county petitioned in his favour , and the whole country beheld his fortitude in so trying a time with enthusiastic admiration . Now , when he was dying beyond all hope , the king put forth his royal arts to induce him to submit and accept a pardon . "With this ^ iew , it seems to have been hinted to him , that he had only to ask Ms life at his master ' s hands to receive it . He accordingly wrote a manly application to the Lord could hold the last grief at a distance . For himself .

      Chief Justice . That functionary replied , "Though brought low in body , Sir John is as high and lofty in mind as ever ! " and that he must write to the king . Eliot thereupon wrote an equally manly letter to his Majesty , to which he returned for answer , " It was not humble enough ! " It was then changed as to its phrase , but nothing was said in it which could be construed into a triumph by the court . No answer was vouchsafed . His fate was then sealed . Charles had promised himself the pleasure of humbling his republican virtue ; and when he found all the arts employed to that end completely baffled , his resentment " knew no bounds . Sir John lingered a few months more , and then died , as he had lived , with the expression of an unconquerable love of freedom on his lips . I am sorry to relate what followed .

      When the patriot was no more , it might have been expected that the hatred of his murderers would have been appeased—but it was not so—the Stuarts never knew what it was to forgive . When his children begged to be allowed to inter the ashes of their father in the same vault with his ancestors , the ruthless king replied , " Let him be buried where he died ; *' and so he was . But the unsated tyrant missed his object . He thought to heap indignities on the name of his great subject ; instead of this he added a new and paramount interest ' to the place of his burial . Few men can stand by that simple grave without feeling their pulses quicken , and a generous glow about the heart ; even in death ,, the tyrant-hater is a conqueror . The sight of his tomb still nerves the mind , and inflames the patriot zeal of every man worthy of the liberties he save his life to vindicate .

      Close npon the grave of Eliot is the restingplace of the last offenders on -whom the ancient punishment of treason -was inflicted in this country : — A stone marked with three circles and a line drawn through them—significant emblem—indicates the grave in which repose the bodies of the last traitors who died for their crimes in the neighbourhood of the Tower , and were buried in thi 3 church—the Earl of Rilmarnock , Lord Balmerino . and Simon Lord Lovat—leaders of the Scotch rebellion of 1745 . Mr . Dixon brings to notice some of the more obscure inscriptions of the prison-rooms of the Tower : —

      It iB a curious subject to seek into the motives which impel men to write their names on their prison wans . Men of all ranks and charactcrsdo it : —the noble in the Beauchamp Tower , the felon in the house of correction , the murderer in Newgate . Perhaps it is the mere instinct of activity , denied every other mode of expending itself . When political offenders were most numerous , the greatest hardships and indignities were heaped upon them In the Tower . Exceptasaspecialgrace . no books , paper , or pens were allowed to the prisoners ; no visitor , no friend , wife , or child , no physician , no minister of religion , could obtain admission without an order in council , and this waB granted very sparingly . The original orders still lie in the Record Office , and they make

      bnt a small handful of papers for two centuries , during which tune many hundreds of wretched beings inhabited the dungeons of the Tower . Then there was what was termed close confinement . Under orders of thU nature prisoners were not suffered to leave their narrow dungeons for air , rest , exercise , or the wants of nature . As a sample of this may be quoted the act of commitment of the Marquis of Argyle , Marquis of Antrim , Sir Henry Vane , and Sir Arthur Haselrig . They are ordered to be kept in close , confinement , no person to have access to any of them , except one servant , to be shut up in the same room wish each of them respectively , and to be debarred from receiving letters , or using pen , ink or-paper The story of the sufferings borne by the great Duke

      of Norfolk , serves still better as an illustration of the condition of prisoners confined in the Tower in the days of the Tudors . Norfolk was the first nobleman in England ; he was uncle to Catherine Howard , and therefore nearly related to the king ; he had served his country by his wisdom in the council chamber and at foreign courts—by his valour at sea—and on the field of Fiodden . He had even been appointed by Henry as one of his executors during the minority of Prioce Edward . His son , Lord Surrey the poet , was one of the most graceful and accomplished men of the a ? e , and one of the writers of whose fame England is Still proud . Father and son were both arrested in one day , and , unknown to each other , sent to separate dr-ngeons in the Tower . The crime laid to

      their charge was , that they had quartered on their shields the arms of Edward * the Coufessor . This they justified , by showing that their ancestors had done the same without challenge , and by producing . a decision from the Herald ' s College . Not being a peer of the realm , Surrey was tried at Guildhall , where , in spite of the clearest evidence , the court obtained , by its foul practices , a verdict of guilty—and the brilliant young noble was conducted at once to the block . A dark day in the annals of England was the day of his execution . The same fate was intended for the father , but being a peer of the realm , it was necessary to get a judgment against him from his peers . This was not difficult with a king like Henry the Eighth , and ministers like the Seymours—but it was a work o :

      time . Parliament was called together , and a bill of attainder hurried through the houses with indecent haste . On the 27 th of that month—eight days after the death of Surrey—it received the royal assent , and orders were sent to the Tower to hate the Duke executed next morning . Bnt during the interval the tyrant died , and in the confusion caused by that event ; Norfolk was forgotten . During the whole reign of Edward the Sixth he languished in prison . A letter written by him during this reign is still extant , in which he humbly craves permission to have some books , which were laid up at Lambeth , sent to him , for he says most pathetically he cmnot keep himself awake—he is always dozing , and yet never able to sleep , nor has he ever done so for a dozen years ! He

      also beseeches his magters to allow him to walk in the daytime , in the outer chamber , for the sake of his health , which has suffered very severely by his close confinement . With a touching simplicity he observes that they can still lock him up , as at present , in his small dungeon at night . He also begs that he may be allowed sheets to lie on I Such was the economy of an English state prison—such the usage to which the first baron of the realm was subjected , at a period when the laws did not even pretend to be impartial towards the great and the obscure ! Look round th « walla of this Beauehamp Tower . Most of these inscriptions were made by men of whom no other trace is left . Like the beings of an older order of creation , they have completely passed away ,

      a few marks in the granite onlv remaining to ( ell the brief story of their lives . Yet , read by the light of such memorials aB Ksher and Howard have left behind , how full of saddest eloquence they seem . How strangely laden with a sense of desolation , of heartweariness , of abandoned hope , are those rudely cut old Italian words in the shield on the right hand of the first recess in the wall : — " Disposi : che vole : la : for tuna : che : la : mea : speranza : va . al : vento : pianga : ho : volio : il : tempo : perdudo : e : semper : stel : mea : tristo : e : disconteto . " Which may be thus rendered into English : — " Since Fortune has scattered all my hopes to the winds , I wish that Time itself were no more , my star being ever sad and nhpropitious . " The signature appended to these words is , " Wiillm . Tyrrel , 1541 . " But history has left us no clue to the person or crime of any so named . Fancy will picture him in various guises . From the genuine agony of his utterance , one could readily

      believe he was lyingat the time undersentence of death . Another unknown , of the name of William Rame , has left his wisdom printed on the wall under date 1559 , in the following pious proverbs : — " Better is it to be hi the house of mourning than in the bouse of banqueting . It is better to have some chastening than over much liberty . There is a time for all things : a time to be born and a . time to die : and the day of death is better than the day of birth . There is an end for all things ; and the end of a thing Is better than the beginning . Be wise and patient in trouble , for wisdom defendeth as well as money . Use well the time of prosperry , and remember the time of misfortune . " These lessons are among the commonplaces of onr great store of verbal wisdom ; but no one can read them on the stones of Beauchamp Tower as commonplace . They seem to come like drops of blood distilled from a lacerated heart In the third recess , part of an inscription runs

      thus : — ' « Unhappy is that man Whose acts doth procure The misery of this house , In prison to endure . 1570 . Thomas CtiBKE . " Who was Thomas Clarice ? No one knows Under it we read : — " Thomas Jfiagn , which lieth here aloue ,

      That faine would from hence fcegoae . " And the verse goes on to say that he has been put to me raek in vain , but is still kept a close prisoner . An ins cription , consisting of a pair of scales and the folding words , catches the eye :- " 1585 . Thomas i Tk ^ V uB As rirtuemaketh live so sin causeth aeatn . These men have sent their names down to E > 03 terity ~ bnt nothing more . In everything else they have pensbed , and the memory of their offences with m *^ !? " ? as if the y nCTer u * and Provoked the jealousy of this world ' s rulers . From these extracts it will be seen that Mr . Dixon s work combines instruction of a

      valuable kind , with the livel y excitement and interest arising out of the stirring events which he records ,, Whether , as throwing considerable light upon some of the moat frequently mooted questions of the present day , or upon the treatment of political prisoners in the past , is equally worthy of perusal . . . aMo Vind . ™ fk + t , ^ i ,- !„ „ . _ : * .. „__ , ... ... ..

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      : ———^^ ^ Encroachments on St . James ' s Park . —Once upon a time , as the ancient chroniclers report , Quoen Elizabeth took it into her head to enclose St . James ' s Park ; and on consulting her great Chancellor as to the cost at which it might be done , the startled philosopher replied— " To enclose the Park , madam!—a crown . " The Londoners have ever retained a proverbial , almost p assionate , love of then parks . Their fathers for many generations back have sported there as children , made love there in their prime , reposed amid their leafy shades in old age . Physically , these green spaces aro called the lungs of London ; morally and historically they are not less intimately connected with a metropolitan organisation . The Hellenes had their sacred groves ; Englishmen have their parks , which in another

      sense they hold- to be every inch sacred ground . They look confidently on these verdant expanses as a property set apart for ever , an inheritance of health , beauty , and Innocent enjoyment to their children ' s children . It is now said that the proposal—made in Parliament last session , and then understood to he abandoned—to cut off and enclose a large portion of St . James ' s-park is in progress . of being carried into effect ! This noble garden Am solemnly made over to the public—it ia maintained at the public expense—no whisper has been uttered against the order , care , and abstinence which have marked the behaviour of those who use . it . Every fine Sunday it is said that 50 , 000 persons , from the close and crowded courts and alleys of the city , spend the greater part of the day among its pleasant haunts—keep up here their alliance with Nature—take moral lessons from the scent and hue

      of flowers and the song of birds , and treasures of health from the free breeze . Of this reservoir of many of the beneficent agencies that the people bare needed so long , and now use so harmlessly , it would seem that they are now about to be to a great extent deprived . We trust the Minister wil not commit the Queen and her people to a quarrel on 6 uch a point . The public cannot afford to Jose a yard of this park . There is no wise government which takes on itself to sequester any part of it m the absence of Parliament . It is well to speak plainly , because authority is just now coquetting offensively with the park at Richmond . There is something especially ungracious in the circumstance that these encroachments are made under the sanction of a statesman who is not only lodged in town at the public charge , but occupies gratuitously a house and grounds belonging to the nation situate in one of our beautiful parks . — Aihtnmum .

      Hatnau . —The following inscription may be seen chalked upon a wall at Bankside , in the neig hbourhood of Barclay and Perkins' brewery : — " Near this spot , in the arms of the police , and covered with dirt , fell General Haynau , 4 th Sept ., 1850 . The very stones do prate of his whereabout . " Paul ' s Evbbt Man ' s Fbiend , ( Corn FlaUter , ) ra * y he relied on as a speedy and certain cure for those painful ana stubborn annoyances Cortu and Bunions , causing the lame and afflicted to walk with comfort . A large and increasing demand having proved its efficacy , has induced seyerni nersons to put up a spurious preparation , so bo sure to asif br "Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend , " and do not be persuaded to purchase any tiling else . A single trial will convince ot its immeasurable superiority over all other p lanters , iiuids , &c .

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      ^ rasas ^ i ^^^^ " -r noVkinThokTof Si a jug wItWut a hand ^' there ^ B thy iSranceSS ? - " ° U Wilt be CUred h ? mSS ° a . jurisdiction , which the wise dew ' * - « c ° gnni 8 e nor entirely ^ r £ Z * T ^ T * i ™ P B ° n one leglikea gShoK : ^ ^ . pac : ? -BecattSe it ' s a JJ ^ vpr ? - ° , would Nelson ' 8 8 tat « ebe like , and Still . Vered witl 1 gwen . baize ^ The Qreen Man on £ mvt I \ l ? ffe mke one friend and one ^ j ^^ 'isai "'** ' ^

      It er W » " ^ ° il ° f freedom , " cried a stump orator . No , exclaimed his shoemaker , " you stand in a pair of boots that you have never paid Fktodoh from pain is of itself pleasure ; but to know this , one must have suffered . ¦ Fbbkoh ! JouRNA .-Of one hundred journals founded alter the French revolution , ninety-six have already perished . . . The glutton is the lowest souledof all animals , the butcher s boy is to bim an Atlas bearing Heaven on his shoulders .

      One of the claimants on the Treasury , after repeated calls without effect ( query effects ) , was coolly told by the chief clerk , that he wasn't wasting his time , as ne certainly appeared to be acquiring " habits of application . " , . curiosity ;— Amongst the "latest from America , it is stated that an editor down east got his pocket full of money , and was afraid to go by the Museum , lest they should catch him for a curiosity . People who are always talking sentiment haye usually not very deep feelings . The less water you have in your kettle , the sooner it begins to make a noise and smoke . The Honky-comb . — " Mother , why does Pa ' call you honey ? '— "Because , my dear , he loves me . " — " No Ma' that isn't it . " - " It Isn ' t ! What is it then ? " - " I know . " - " Well , what is it , then ?" — " Why , its because , you have so much corab in your head—that ' s why ;"

      If you are not resolved steadfastly to combat , to bear every thing without bending , never to weary , never to yield , keep your . chains , and renourice ' a liberty of which y ou are unworthy . A newly married couple riding in a carriage , were overturned , whereupon a stander-by said it was "A shocking sight . " "Yes , " said the gentleman , " to see those just wedded fall out so soon . " A lady haviag surprised her husband kissing her maid , took the earh ' e&t opportunity of discharging her ; observing , "I have no longer any need of you ; the work you do here , I am quite able to perform myself . " . . ¦ ¦;¦ ¦

      In ybahs gone by , when it was the fashion for ladies to trim their straw bonnets with artificial wheat and barley in ears , a satirist of the time " let on" as follows : — " Who now of threatening famine dare complain , When every female forehead teems with grain ? See how the wheat sheaves nod amid the plumes—Our barns are now transferr'd to drawing rooms ; And husbands who indulge in active lives , To fill their granaries , ' may thrash their wives . " A bookseller , while making his catalogue , came to a Hebrew book , and not knowing how to name it , set down , "Moreover , a book , the beginning of which is at the end . " John Wilkes was once asked by a Roman Catholic gentleman , in a warm dispute' on religion , " Where was your Church before Luther ? " '' Did you wash your face this , morning ? " inquired the facetious alderman . " I did , sir . " "Tuen , pray where was your face before it was washed ?"

      The enormous gun of Beejapore , one of the greatest trophies of the Mahratta war , is expected to arrive in England in the course of next month , and is to form a prominent object in the Industrial Exhibition . It ia cast entirely of brass , and weighs fortyone tons . ¦¦ •' .... Exhibition op 1851 . —The National , Lisbon paper , states that nooning will be Bent from Portugal to the General Exhibition of Industry ; and tliia remains uncontndicted by the other papers . As Portugal had a national exhibition last year , this seems the more surprising . The Standard Bearer . —A Fable . —A standard bearer was sent out to raise the inhabitants of a

      certain town . As he ran through the streets , he dragged the standard behind him , so that it trailed in the mud ; and a rabble of boys and dirty vagabonds ran after him trampling upon it . After a while he turned round to see who followed him . Looking upon the rabble and upon the torn and dii tied standard , he was about to revile the town ' s-people , when one of them advised him after this fashion : — " The next time you are appointed to carry a banner , bear it heavenward , thai the sun may shine upon it , and the pure winds float it over our . heads , that we may read the motto upon it . When you trail it through the mud , you disgrace the . cause whose servant you would call yourself , and no upright man can read your message . "—M M .. ' . Another Sinecure . —The offices of ranger and keeper of St . James ' s Park and Hyde Park , vacant by the death of the late Duke of Cambridge , have been bestowed upon the Duke of Wellington .

      The-Railway King . —A shrewd Northumbrian farmer , who has a race-horse , which , until lately , was called the Railway King , has , in consequence of recent occurrences , changed his name to Beggar-my-Neighbour . — Sunderland Herald . Irish . Labourers . —A respectable farmer stated to us ( Waterford News ) this week , that he is acquainted with farmers who have labourers employed at the munificient sum of scvenpence per week , and their diet ; and others lmve offered to work for their diet alone . Sir R . Peel ' s Originality . —Blackwood , in his number for September , demolishes one of Sir Robert Peel ' s pretensions to originality . Everybody thought that the famous saying , " The battle of the constitution is to be fought in the registration courts , " was Sir Robert's ; but it is now shown that the phrase was printed in large capitals in the periodical ( of which' the statesman was a regular reader ) in the month of May before he uttered it !

      " Pig-tail . "—An acute arithmetician has calculated that , if all the tobacco consumed in Great Britain in one year had been worked into " pig-tail , " half an inch thick , it would have formed a line ninetynine thousand four hundred and seventy miles long ; enough to girdle the world nearly four times ! Labgo Law has a venerable inhabitant of eightysix , the mother of thirteen sons and daughters , who have seventy-three children and nine grandchildren . She boasts that she has sent off eleven daughters , each with a heavy two-horse cartful of household furniture and household gear , and never found herself the poorer .

      Animal Cunning . —A farmer in the North discovered that a fox came along a beam in the night to seize his poultry . lie accordingly sawed the end of the beam nearly through , and in the night the fox fell into a place whence he could not escape . On eoing to him in the morning , the farmer found him stiff , and , as he thought , lifeless . Taking him out of the building , he threw him on the dunghill , but in a short time Reynard opened his eyes , and seeing that all was safe and clear , gallopped away to the mountain , showing more cunning than the man who ensnared him . " .

      Thr Housk Fly . —A fly . on the wing is no less curious an object than one on foot ; yet when do we trouble our heads about it , except as a thing which troubles us ? The most obvious wonder of its flight is its variety of direction , most usually forwards , with its back like a bird ; but on occasions backwards , with its back downwards , as when starting from the window and alighting on the ceiling . Marvellous velocity is another of its characteristics . By fair comparison of sizes , what is the swiftness of a race-horse clearing his mile a minute , to the Bpeed of a fly cutting through her third of the same distance in the same time !

      Thb IIuman Rack . —The usual estimates of the population of the globe vary from eight hundred to a thousand millions ; and taking the mean , the human family would seem to be distributed among the races in something like the following proportions -. —The White , 330 , 000 , 000 ; the Mongolian , 300 , 000 , 000 ; the Malayan , 120 000 , 000 ; the Teliugan , 60 , 000 . 000 ; the Negro , 55 , 000 , 000 ; the Ethiopian , 5 , 000 , 000 ; the Abyssinian , 3 , 000 , 000 ; the Papuan , 3 , 000 , 000 ; the-Negrillo , 3 , 000 . 000 ; the Australian , 500 , 000 ; the Hottentot , 500 , 000 . Cruelties of Haynau . —The traveller in mountainous regions often stands rn the edge of an abyss

      so deep , and dark , and fearful , that he shudders to look down into the chasm . With a similar feeling humanity , recoils before the character of this Haynau , scarcely daring to cast a glance into its depths , so frightful is every outward and visible manifestation of the influences there at work . Hardly had he received the command , hardly had he time to muster his forces , reconnoitre the croundupon which he was to begin the war in earnest , Iiard | y had be issued a single order of the day , when already two sentences ot-death had received his signature . Baron Mednianski died on the gallows , and with him Grubcr , on the oth of June , at Pressburg . The former as commandant , and the latter as artilleryman , had taken

      an active putt in the defence of LeopoJdfitadt . A cry ot horror rang through the whole empire , a wild cry of revenge echoed through Hungary , when people saw the manner in which Haynau passed sentence on the piisoners of war ; and , hardly had the pale look of horror disappeared from men ' s countenances , when the sentence of death was passed and executed ( June 18 th ) on the priest Razga . In vain had the citizens of Pressbur- ; supplicated mercy for this universally honoured man : he was doomed to the gallows , and

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      ever since that : time the han gman has had full employment w herever Haynau ' s cburts-maftial have been held . But with all his bloody sentences Haynau could only create martyrs : to intiraiilate , to terrify , to disarm , to convince , ' he was unable . —Max 8 chk * singer ' s War in Hungary . ¦¦ .: ¦ ' ¦ : ¦• ¦ ¦

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      The Engineer and Machinist * and Engineering and Scientific Revieiv , for-September . Orr and Co ., London . ; :. V : " This useful periodical contains a large amount of information for the classes for whose special benefit it is " published . The vacillation exhibited by the managers of the Industrial Exhibition of 1851 , and its consequent injurious effects upon those classes in this country who are likely to become competitors , meets with

      severe but merited reprehensionin the opening article . The folly of entrusting to titled and aristocratic amateurs the practical arrangements for an exhibition was , never more conspicuously demonstrated than in the past career of the Royal Commission . Another interesting article is entitled . ' " GuttaPercha , and its application to Engineering purposes . " This material has been more rapidly and extensively applied in manufacturing and domestic economy than any other ever discovered by

      man . In 1843 , Dr . William Montgomerie sent from Singapore to the Society of Arts of London , sundry specimens , for which they awarded him the gold medal . The Doctor states that there are varieties of this substance , —GuttaGriek , Gutta Tuban , and Gutta Percha , —and that the name gutta percha is pure Malayan , it being pronounced as if spelt pertsha . The term " gutta" means the gum or sap of the tree , and " percha , " the species from . . . which the sap exudes . The use of this , substance has increased most rapidly ; the first export from Singapore , the island on which it was first . discovered , being scarcely two hundred weight , while now it is

      equal to 14 , 000 cwts . annually . Whether we look upon , it as useful as & decorative agent , for multiplying at a rate hitherto unequalled for cheapness and durability , those specimens of the beautiful , the works of the pencils of our artists , or the gravers of our sculptors , —or aa app licable to the less ostentatious uses of various branches in social economy , —we can have no hesitation in noticing gntta percha as one of the most remarkable substances which has yet been introduced , and ope which bids fair—if that is possible —to be applied to more numerous uses than we

      have hitherto seen it . Extended in its applications to a degree never yet possessed by one and the same substance—unaltered in its composition , and subjected to the same processes of preparation—we find it as simply and easily brought out in the shape of an elaborate piece of carving , fit for the palace of a king , as in the plainest form used for the exterior covering of a peasant ' s shoe . Its applications are daily multiplying , and the question is not "for how many purposes can it be used ? " —but , struck by the never-ceasing novelties it is changed to , —" where will its applications cease ?"

      After noticing a great variety of purposes to which this exceedingly valuable article has been applied / the following is mentioned , which appears to us deserving of wide publicity , and calculated to be very serviceable in the humblest households . By the adoption of this plan , a water-tight , clean , aud healthy cistern , may be obtained for a mere triflle .. An engineer , of some note ; had ordered a wooden cistern to be made for the purpose of

      supplying the boiler of a direct acting engine . From some ' defect in the workmanship , needless to be here specified , the cistern when finished and set up in its place , leaked very badly . It could not be remedied , but at a considerable expense . The engineer when referred to , thought of a simple remedy to obviate the defect : he remembered that the solution used for fastening gutta percha soles on , was nothing but that substance dissolved in naptha . No sooner was the idea settled in his mind-but it

      was acted upon ; the cistern was emptied and reversed over a coke fire to dry it . This done , a good quantity ( a rare order for the vendor ot tho gutta percha soles ) of the solution was obtained And melted , till of the consistence of paint . By a broad brush , this " patent waterproof paint" was quickly applied to the interior of the- cistern . As each coat dried the operation was repeated , till three coats were thus put on ; they dried quickly . The cistern was once more put up in its place , with a beautiful layer of gutta percha covering its interior . It leeked no more from that day to this . The whole operation cost . five shillings ; a lead lining , would have cost as many pounds . This simple ana admirable plan has since been privately adopted for lining cisterns . ¦ : The remaining articles are written , with a thorough knowledge of the subjects referred to , and , as far as we can judge , in an impartial spirit . « o »

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      Mackenzie's Educational Books . Mackenzie , Wine-office Court , London . For a mere trifle Mr . Mackenzie has put it in the power of a poorworking man to supply his children with an ascending series of admirable school books , beginning in the simplest and most elementary , and gradually rising to the more complicated and difficult studies of our usual commercial schools , When we say that Mavor's Spelling Book , and Murray's Grammar , are each to be obtained for a couple of pence , and the other works at a like price , we have done sufficient to indicate the . value of

      the boon which this series confers on the working classes . The high rates at which they are ordinarily published , constitute a serious item in the quarterly school bill of the middle classes , and we can conceive of no un > dertaking more useful in itself , or more worthy of general support , than one which thus places the power of acquiring accurate and varied knowledge , within the reach of the humblest classes of society .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 21, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1592/page/3/