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310 TUEU CHURCH AXD THE CIIERRT TREE . See tlosecherries ! how they cover Yonder sunny garden wall ! lla-l they not this network over . Thieving birds would cat them all . So , to guard onr Church and pensions , Ancient sages wove a net , Through whose holes of small dimensions , Only certain birds can get . Shall -we , then , this network widen ? Shall we stretch those sacred holes ? Through which e ' en already slide ia Certain small Dissenting souls ? " Jleaven forbid ! " old Testy crieth ; " Heaven forbid ! " so echo IEvery ravenous bird that flieth . Then would at our cherries fly . Ope but half an inch or so , Aii'i behold how birds do break in ; jjow some curst old Popish crow , 1 ' ops his Ions and liquorish beak in . There Sociuians flock unnumbered , Independents slim and spare ; Bum , with small belief encumbered , Sty . ia easy anywhere . Methodists , of birds the aptest , ~ Where there ' s picking going on ; An < l that water-fowl , the Baptist—All wool'l have our fruits anon . Every l » : rd of every city , That for years of ceaseless din , Math reversed the starling ' s ditty , " Singing out , " I can ' t get in . " If less cestly fruit won ' t suit them , IJijis and haws , and such like berries-Curse ihecormorants 2 stonethem ! shoot them Anything to save the cherries ! —
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Foreign , Reminiscences . By Henry Richard Loud Holland . Edited by Ms son , Henry Edward Lord Holland . Longman and Co . The late Lord Holland , by his good humour , good taste , and good dinners , long made bis residence at Kensington , the resort of all ilic most distinguished men of his own Sme , and of many who yet remain to remember the charm he spread over his parties by his own graceful , courteous , hut unaffected manners . But , Lord Holland was not only fond of collecting literary men , and especially Whig writers , about him , —he was an author himself , and as this work shows , possessed of many of the highest qualities .
The work contains shrewd and observant , yet genial criticisms , on the persons who played such important pails hi history at the end of the last century and the commencement of the present . Most of the personages of whom wo have sketches , have been already drawn by numerous other hands , but it appears to us that some of Lord Holland ' s portraits arc more truthful than their predecessors , because more homely , and less ambitious . He first visited the continent in 1701 , when yet a mere youth . He was , however , naturally very forcibly impressed -with the magnitude of the evcuts which characterised the outbreak of the first French Revolution . Of those who distinguished themselves on that terrible arena no one , in the earlier scenes , stood out more boldlv than Alirabeau .
Lord Holland thus describes him : — I arrived at Paris not long after the death of Mira ' reau , and soon after the acceptance of the constitution by Louis XVI . The designs of Mirabeau to coalesce with the Court party , or at least to chock the revolutionary spirit , were more than suspected before his death , lie was in a constant state of intrigue with all parties , and particularly with Monsieur ( Comtc de Provence , and afterwards Lewis XVIII . ) in the business of Favras . The Duke of Leyi was the channel of communieatio : i toiwoen him and Monsieur in that mysterious nn 4 disgraceful affair . Yet the solicitude of the people dining his illness was unabated , and
Storks almost incredible of the attention of the populace , iu preventing the slightest disturbance in the street where ho was lying ill , were related in all societies with that delight and adiniratien which draumit ; displays of sentiment never fail to excite is Paris . The shops and quays were crowded with his portraits and busts . A stranger could discern in his jihwinauaray nothing but TisiWe marks of debauch , vanity , presumption and artifice , which were strong ingredients in his composition ; but the Parisians , yet , stunned by his eloquence , and dazzled l . y hi 3 splendid talents , eeemed to dwell on the representation of his Large features , pockfretied face , and frizzled hair , with fond
complacency mingled witU regret . He was certainly an extraordinary man . That his powers would have been e ^ aai , as has often been suggested , either to check or to guide the subsequent course of the French lierolat j ? n , may nevertheless be very questionable , lie was thought to be , and probably was , very corrupt ; but an exemption from that vice was the solitary yiriuc which gave individuals , and Holie . >]» ien * i ! in particular , any ascendancy in the laitcr and more stormy seasons of that frightful period . Mirabeau had the talent , or at least the trick and contrivance , of appropriating the ideas and labour * of other men to his purposes in a very extraordinary degree . I have been assured by
one ( Dumont ) who knew him intimately , and acted for a short time as I 113 secretary , that not only the reports he made , but the speeches he delivered , were often written by others , and read by him in the morning , or even run through and adopted by him { as I luve seen briefs by our lawyers ) while lie was actually speaking . The various imprisonments an-I embarrassments to -which his disorderly life and licentious pen had exposed him are well Lnovra . The prosecution against him in England was the malevolent contrivance of a crazy " and faithless servant , who falsely accused his master of laving robbed him . There was nothing remarkable in that incident , but the public and warm
testimony of Sir Gilbert Elliot and Mr . Burke himself in favour of a man whose influence on the French devolution was afterwards so conspicuous , and vhoM ? lax principles and immoral life furnished so fertile a theme for invectives against it . The vanity cf Mirabeau exposed him , it is said , to a droll reproof . At some important political crisis , he was descanting in society on the qualities requisite in a minister to extricate the crown , the assembly , and tue nation , from the difficulties in which they were involved , viz ., great knowledge , great eenius .
acj qaamtancff , and perhaps connexion with the upper I tanks , some common feelings with the lower classes , j- a power of speaking and of writing eloquently and I readily , fiaiiliarity with the world , the popularity I o , a martyr from recent prosecution , and many Bothers , which it was obvious enou « h that he thought I were united in himself . "All this is true , " said a I fnend , " but you have omitted one of his qualities . " I No-surely ? what do you mean 1 " « Should he gnot , replied the same sarcastic friend , "be very I much pitted with the small-pox V" J
Here is a new light thrown on the character sad motives of the famous JEgidlite , father of the king , who , disguised and terrified , tinder the uuromantic name of Smith , fled from prance to die at Claremont , a few months 'Since . Perhaps not one of the revolutionary jKlebrities has been painted in blacker coloura fthau the Duke of Orleans . Lord Holland is F opinion that the "Devil is not so bad as mq is said to be " : — I I believe that no man has lived in my time whose | tuaracter has been more calumniated , or will bo
* fOre misrepresented to posterity . * * His car-V-agc and countenance , though the latter was disfi-£ yeJ by carbuncles , were prepossessing , and his * flaiiners were perfect . Ifis superiority hi those j * espeeis , as well as command of money , excited £ & . jealousy of the Court . Ilia popularity at g ' * , the Judidum Paridis , was perhaps sufficient If a « ount for the first estrangement of the Queen . L ,. - ^ . v womanish artifices were resorted to to t . r . 10 spoil his amusements , to interrupt his 1 « uio » , and to expose him to those small mortifica-£ « shieh , in all countries , are apt to awaken & ? i-A f mment Of WCak . mmdS ^ mUCh 0 I > fa-ll m serious injuries , and to which an Sraa " Ut im ortance is always annexed in & « ee }? ven by persons otherwise of some sense and ^« iiiimity . That hostility , however , in which r .. _ - J 'f , not the Duke of Orleans . WA 9 the acr <» resand
isSaf no means confined to petty warfare . In ^^ decency truth , the most malignant fcnaa " * 11 cowardice were propagated and coun-!> - '• < f ? J ^ e Queea and her party against the 1 i : ' i' 1 ? "eans » on his return from the fleet in tribl 1 , ; - ? e neard ^ ell-informed Frenchmen as-*» 'v " M " to England and predilection to onr BxcT- - ' termed Anglomanie , for the studious lau ^ " hha { rom . toth the business and the ffSJ ' e ' t s of *" na m court , and to the disgust fcia a the uifect and indirect slights put upon & '•>'\ k ) 1- same time it must be acknowledged B ^ o l ^ r were far from respectable . Those I a "rat eDgaeed him ia the Revolution were
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S 5 £ ^^ , !^ « » a . to which the M WKSta ^ S " --ssss thou-h vnl \ 6 a ?? earance of an icnominious , £ H ? " ntai 7 ' k- To those remonstrance fcSS aaUy J f }'^ ' th 0 B Sh if the Court wou ! d nave been prevailed upon to appoint him ambassador n London , he distinctly offered to remain . Adunral layne , who conducted him in a small boat w his yacht off Brighton , assured me that the puke of Orleans , on taking leave , grasped his uana witn much emotion , and , with tears in his eyes : said . » If I consulted my inclination or my safety I should stay in your hapnv country , but I am told I am bound in honour to return ; for that reason , and that reason only I " 0 You , my dear Payne , will recollect that I am not blind to my situation , nor to the scenes I am < min < r rSn ^
to encounter . I shall do no good to anybody I shall lead a dreadful life and I shall probably perish among the first , or , at least , very soen . " Before leaving France , he had made some very slight advances to the Court , bat such as showed that if he and his friends had been secured from persecution and revenge by being admitted into a due share of power , he was not unwilling to co-operate in preventing matters from coming to extremities He renewed these offers when in England , and before his return . * * After the return of the Kin ^ from Varennes , it is said that he declined the President ship , and was unwilling to take any forward part . * * Talleyrand , who knew him well , and who in a joint work with Beaumetz , which was never publishedhortl
, s y afterwards delineated his character , described him to me as indifferent alike to the pursuits of pleasure or vanity , ambition or revenge , and solely intent on enjoying ease and prc serving existence . He was so jaded ( si blmt , un Immme si disabuse , that he had outlived even the necessity of emotion ( Ze besoin de s ' emouvoir . ) There 13 , indeed , reason to suspect that the persons instrumental in creating and preserving his personal influence in Paris , were active agents in the municipal cabals and revolutions which preceded and accompanied the 10 th of August and tue 2 nd of September 1792 ; and true it is , that the only party which showed the least disposition to identify itself with his interests , or to concert with
him , consisted of a portion of those to whose f language and manoeuvres the horrors even of that last day are mainly attributed by well-informed authors . Some of them , and Danton in particular , were not unwilling , in concert with the Duke of Orleans , to save the life of the King , and by a junction with the Brissotins and moderate republicans , to put a stop to the excesses of the populace , provided they could obtain an oblivion and impunity for all that had hitherto passed . But republicans and philosophers were as unreasonablehostile and nearly aa blindly improvident wherever the Duke of Orleans was concerned , as the Royalists themselves . Scruples , honourable no doubt , but highly unseasonable , and not altogether consistent
with their own conduct before and during the 10 th of August , made the friends of Roland , Brissot , and Guadet , revolt at any thing like coalition with men covered with the blood of their fellow-citizens , though such a junction was the obvious , and perhaps the solitary , method of preventing the effusion of more . Danton and his followers , who had so largely participated in the crimes of the Terrorists , were compelled to ' proceed with their associates , when they despaired of obtaining impunity from the triumph of the more moderate and numerous but less popular party in the Convention . The Duke of Orleans could not have saved the King by voting against Uis death ; and he more certainly than any one man in the Assembly would have
accelerated his own by so doing . On the other hand , he was also the one man in that assembly , on whom , had any counterrevolution occurred , the Royal vengeance would most unquestionably have fallen without mercy . Such considerations would not weigh with a Cato , but they were calculated to shake the constancy of ordinary men . The Duke of Orleans had , therefore , at least as much excuse for the vote he gave as the 3 C 0 who voted with him ; and those who hold regicide to be the greatest of possible crimes , have nevertheless no right to select him as the greatest criminal . Tie was well aware of the peculiarity of his own situation . Of that I have seen some curiou 3 proofs in a short narrative written by Mrs . Ellott , who had , I believe , lived with him , and who , on the score of old
acquaintance , prevailed on htm to save through his garden at Monceaux , and at no small peril to himself , the younger Chancency , who was implicated in the affair of the 10 th of August , and who , as was justly observed by the Duke in his hearing , so far from incurring any risk to serve him , would have been among the first to urge his execution . lie was , to my knowledge , among the last to relieve the subsequent distresses of his generous benefactress , Mrs . Elliot , or to mitigate the censures with which it was the fashion in most companies throughout Europe to visit the name of the Duke of Orleans . That Prince perished soon afterwards on the scaffold , and disproved one of the imputations cast upon him by the composure with which he met his fate .
Lafayette is cleverly sketched , especiall y in the credulousness which induced him to put faith in the King , of whose sincerity Lord Holland by no means raises our estimation . Without being habitually the liar and deliberate faith-breaker that our Charles the First was , it is evident enough that he held the obligation of either word or oath li ghtly enough when it suited his purposes . Lafayette was , however , then as always , a pure , disinterested man , full of private affection and public virtue , and not devoid of such talents as
firmness of purpose , sense' of honour , and earnestness of zeal will , en great occasions , supply . lie was indeed accessible to flattery , somewhat too credulous , and apt to mistake the forms , or , if I may so phrase it , the pedantry of liberty for the substance , as if men could not enjoy any " freedom without subscribing to certain abstract principles and arbitrary jests , or as if the profession and subscription , nay , the technical observance of such tests and principles , were not , on the other hand , often compatible with practical oppression and tyranny .
The heroine of romancists , Marie Antoinette , is not less tenderly treated by the Whig nobleman , either as to her beauty or her virtue . As I was not presented at court , I never saw the Queen but at the play-house . She was then in affliction , and her countenance was , no doubt , disfigured by long suffering and resentment . I should not , however , suppose that the habitual expression of it , even in happier seasons , had ever been very agreeable . Her beauty , however extolled , cousisted , I suspect , exclusively , in a fair skin , a straight person , and a stately air , which her admirers termed dignity , and her enemies pride and disdain .
As to her conjugal virtue we are told : — Madame Campan ' s delicacy and discretion are not only pardonable but praiseworthy ; but they are disingenuous , and her memoirs conceal truthwell known to her , though such as would have boen unbecoming a lady to reveal . She was , in fact , the confidante of Marie Antoinette ' s amours . Those amours were not numerous , scandalous , or degrading , but they were amours . Madame Campan ^ who lived beyond the restoration , was not so mysterious in conversation on these subjects as she is in her writings . She acknowledged to persons who have acknowledged it to me , that she was privy to the intercourse between the Queen and the Due dc
Coigny . That Pronch nobleman , from timidity of character and coldness of constitution , was not sorry to withdraw himself early from so dangerous an intrigue . Madame Campan confessed a curious fact , namely , that Feraen was hi the Queen's boudoir or bed-chamber , utc-a-tete with her Majesty on the famous night of the Cth of October . He escaped observation with considerable difficulty in a disguise which ahe ( Madame Campan herself ) procured for him . This M . de Talleyrand , though generally somewhat averse to retailing anecdotes disparaging to the Royal Family of France , has twice recounted to me , and assured me that he had it from Madam Campan herself .
Here is another glanco at Royalty—the King of Denmark of that day : — The Crown Prince ( afterwards Frederick VI ) , nephew of our king , was the ostensible head of the government . The incapacity of his father was acknowledged , and though he continued to sign the edicts and public instruments , he was not permitted to take any part in the deliberation upon them , nor were any of his acts deemed valid , unless countersigned by his son , whom the council had in truth invested with all the functions of royal authority . In fact the royal signature was preserved as a medical rather than political expedient . The object was to humour and soothe the feelings of the deposed monarch , not to give any validity to acts which without reference to such formality were recojrnispH hv
the courts of jastice , and obeyed by the people When first set aside , he had bitterly wept at being no longer a king , and adduced as a proof of the misfortune which had befallen him , that he had no longer any papers to sign . To satisfy him , they were afterwards offered him for signature , and he never declined annexing his name to all that were presented to him , from a fear of losing that , his sole remaining , but , a his view , distinctive prerogative ef Royalty . It happened once or twice , from some motive of convenience or accident , that the Crown Prince put his name to an instrument before it was sent to his Royal father for his signature ; the jealous old Monarch perceived it , and when the next paper was brought , he , to the surpris&and consternation of the courtiers , signed " Christian and Conk , " maliciously obserying , thattewas 'once
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? mK ' v of i firm > but hc found [ i ™ s 11 OW ti ^ S S ^ - and , VV 0 uld sPavc his Awociatestho tlZl ? W r dlne , r " - IIis insanitv was ture S Wh ^ Pk yful rather than a malignant na-Z Vwlt . " T P ° . v of the Ci « een Dowa-S « o ^ P : ' notier > to maintain him in theexeicudnl o f ? nctl e !' . ' usetl t 0 exhibit him at c . d [ parties in public . It is usual in the Sorth of hurope to score with clmlk , but his Majesty on such occasions diverted himself with employ-, » . "\ less decorous manner . He would proprie ^ of h ^ fiTmTbut he founditwas nnw
hSZ a m ° - si obscene figures on the green baize and wmfc to the by-standcrs , whenever , * $ T ^ gWi with an averted face and attested carelessness , rubbed out the obnoxious ropiesentations with her cuds , her hands , her Handkerchief , a napkin , or anything which she couia witn some appearance of absence pass over them for that purpose . He continued for many years to dme occasionally in public . Though the toreign ministers were cautioned neither to provoke nor to remark any of his pcculinritics , he not utifrequentl y succeeded in disconcerting them , lie would , for instance , ask them to drink wine , and then throw the contents of his glass in the face of l ^; f ? a § e r chind him and when by this , a «< l the audition of sundry grimaces , gesticulations , and antics he had provoked a smile , Tie would suddenly iwT F ilve and solemn countenance , and aduressing the minister opposite say , "Monsieur ttnvoye } xirait fort nni ? „ . * . n „„„; . „ ,,, „; , „ ,, „ „ , „
« fiT \ « Je le pric dc m ' enfaire part . " Such was " ! , "n 0 cent natul'c of «><> royal insanity . It is a MonLh " a * COnlmcndation on tbe institution of vZZ V ° , ra : irk that undei > tJua absolute « S h ? n . X chlldlsbness amounted to imbecility Wtr If fK i ^ e c mm erce , agriculture , and prospenPnnW kl » gd <> m . continued to improve , the K J ™ £ ^ edfrom the ancient feudal bur-S .. ^ ? - OppreS f dthera « tranquillity was prefnH i ^" ? " - ' ely ai ? d ^ Partially administered , lf th f etelsa ff wy conducted , throughout Vnvnn ° f unexam P ' Peril and confusion in Europe , ln a manner which , when the insignificant resources of Denmark are considered , must be acknowledged to be creditable and even glorious . / We conclude with one extract relating to . Napoleon , which is peculiarl y deserving of the attention of his nephew at the present monient : —
Nothing could exceed the order and regularity with which his household both as Consul and Emperor was conducted . The great things he accomplished , and the savings he made , without even the imputation of avarice or meanness , with the sum comparatively inconsiderable of fifteen milions of francs a year , are marvellous , and expose his successors , and indeed all European Princes , to the reproach of negligence or incapacity . In this branch of his government he owed much to Duroc It is said that they often visited bhe markets of Pans ( les halles ) dressed in plain clothes and early in the morning . When any great accounts were to
De submitted to the Emperor , Duroc would apprize him in secret of some of the minutest details . By an adroit allusion to them or a careless remark 011 the points upon which he had received such recent and accurate information , Napoleon contrived to impress his audience with a notion that the master ' s eye was everywhere . For instance , when the Tuilenes were furnished , the upholsterer ' s charges , though not very exorbitant , were suspected by the Emperor to be higher than the usual profit of that trade would have warranted . He suddenly asked some minister who was with him how much the egg at the end of the bell-rope should cost ? " J ignore , " wi 3 the answer . — "i 7 t Wen ! nous verrons said heand then cut off the ivor
, y handle , called for a valet , and biddin" him dress himself in plain and ordinary clothes , and neither divulge his immediate commission or general employment to any living soul , directed him to inquire tho price of such articles at several shops in Pans , and to order a dozen as for himself . They were one-third less dear than those furnished to the palace . The Emperor , inferring that the same advantage had been taken in the other articles , struck a third off the whole charge , and directed the tradesman to be informed that it was done at his express command , because on inspection he had himself discovered the charges to be by onethird too exorbitant . When afterwards , in the height of his glory , he visited Caen with the
Empress Maria Louisa , and a train of crowned heads and princes , his old friend , M . Moehin , the Prefect , aware of his taste for detail , waited upon him with five statistical tables of the expenditure , revenue , prices , produce , and commerce of the department . Crest bon , " said he when he received them the evening of his arrival , " vous et moi nous ferons hen de Vesprit sur tout cela demain au Cornell . " Accordingly , he astonished all the leading proprietors of the department at the meeting next day , by his minute knowledge of tho prices of good and bad cyder , and of the produce and other circumstances of the various districts of tho department . Even
the lloyalist gentry were impressed with a respect for his person , which gratitude for the restitution of their lands had failed to inspire , and Which , it must be acknowledged , the first faint hope of vengeance against their enemies entirely obliterated in almost every member of that intolerant faction . Other princes have shown an equal fondness for minute details with Napoleon , but here is the difference . The use they made of their knowledge was to torment their inferiors and weary their company —the purpose to which Napoleon applied it was to confine the expenses of the State to the obiects and interests of the community .
That is the reason wh y he has left so many enduring monuments of his reign in France . His nephew should take a hint . Better spend money in that way than in sausages and champagne .
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Romanism the Religion of Tenor . Bv S . I . Day . London : Truolove , 22 , John-street Fitzroy-square . Mr . Day was formerl y a Monk of the order of the Presentation , and , therefore , knows what he writes about . Making every allowance for the natural zeal of a convert , and the repugnance which men must feel towards doctrines that they once sincerely believed , and havo subsequently discovered to be falsehoods , we should suppose that the terrible picture drawn bMr
y Day , of the religion he has abjured , is correct Running over the long catalogue of successive and sanguinary massacres , under the sanction and in the name of religion , one's blood runs cold to thiuk of the incalculable evil and misery which credal dogmas have inflicted upon humanity . Mr . Day commences with the Emperor Theodosius , who made public profession of Christianity iu the year 381 , and brines the history down to a recent date . Here is ° a sample of his statements : —
Ilorentto , m his history of the Inquisition , ekes the following summary of individuals who were sacrificed to the rage of the " mitred autocrat of creed and cross : — Condemned and burnt 31 9 P Burnt in effigy 17 ; G 95 Placed in confinement , with rigorous punishment 201 , 450 Making a total of 011 , 057 Llorentte is an excellent authority ; for when the French obtained possession of Spain under Joseph Buonaparte , he obtained permission to examine the Bscret archives of the holy office . The Jesuit Moravy also paints the character of the " infernal tribunal" in a masterly style , His description of an execution is truly awful , " Heretic ? , " ho observes , " are burnt , haying first been strangled if they are not Jews , for in that case they are burnt alive . Of this let me give you a direful
instance : — When Philip of Spain was allied to Elizabeth , daughter of Henry II . of France , he could devise no better spectacle wherewith to rogalo his youthful bride and queen than what is called an Auto da Fe . Ihe prisons of the Inquisition were searched and a certain number of victims produced . On that memorable occasion the seat of the chief inquisitor was elevated above those occupied by the kin" nnd queen of Spain—an emblem not easily mi 3 takoable . At length the mournful procession advanced , with solemn step and slow , bearing the standard of Dominic in the van ; and so dense was the crowd , that many of tho condemned passed close to the
chair of state , where sat , in all the glistening pomp of royalty , the regal bride . Among the rest was one vri \ ose peevksa charms fav excelled the courtly pageantry that surrounded her . Young in ycavs , of seraphic beauty , with heaven-lit eye , and modest , pensive aspect ; her raven tresses , falling on her bosom in lovely negligence , half concealed tho majesty of her form , as well as the deep emotions her soul ' s anguish painted on her cheeks . She was a Jewess ! Scarcel y arrived at full bloom , the cankering worm was preying on tho fair flower , and threatening it with speedy dissolution . There was a melancholy in her bearing which discovered the agony of her heart . She halted as she passed before
the throne of the female sovereign , and thinking that sympathy for her sex would create pity for her wretchedness , shrieked out in the fervent eloquence of grief , " Mercy , mercy ! great queen ! I am about to be burnt alive for professing tho only religion I was evor taught . Save me for tho love of God ! " The young bride was deeply affected by a scene so tragically touching . She glanced at the king , and then at the chief inquisitor ; but felt it were vain to intercede for her release . The procession moved on . The sacrifice was completed . And Elizabeth declared in her d ying hour , that she heard distinctly in her ears the screams of the burning Jewess : " Misericordiapor amor di Bios '"
" My God , ' exclaimed Constantino of La Fuento " were there no Scythians or cannibals into whose hands to deliver me , rather than to lot me fall into the power of these barbarians . " Some one exclaimed , during tho bloody days of the great French Revolution , " O Liberty , what crimes are committed in thy name . " With far greater reason may we exclaim upon surveying such cruelties as I have adverted to , " O Religion ! what enormities havo been perpetrated in thy name !" When we add to the horrible persecutions just particularised , the extensive massacres in Paris and tho provinces of France in 1572 , during the pontificate of Gregory XIII ., who with Charles IX .
assisted at and encouraged them ; the diabolical cruelties which disgraced the reign of Louis XIV when Catholic soldiers would bind Protestant mothers to posts , and let their sucking infants lie languishing in their sight for days and nights , cry ' in * mourning , and gasping for life ; the civil wars ! n France , during the seventeenth century , carried on by Louis XIII . when over a million of men lost their lives , and when , during its progress , nine cities , four hundred villages , two thousand churches , two thousan d monasteries , and ten thousand houses ^ . ^ 5 ^ te i 8 hed - Alluding tothe king , Madame de Mottevillo
aays :- " What gave him the greatest pleasure was his thought of driving heretics out of the kingdom , and thereby purging it of the dineren t religions which corrupt and infect the church of God ; " the massacres in the Netherlands , in consequence of the edict of Charles V ., when full one hundred thousand persons were hatred , beheaded , buvned or buried alive ; and , finallyftbe persecutions dnring the reign of Mary in England , when nearl y three hundred individuals were offered as holocausts at the blazing shrine of the Romanist religion j When we sum up these bloody deeds and cruel punishments , besides others of more ream *
date , ail perpetrated with tho view of crushing free opinion , Mi building up upon another Golgotha , a sceptred power and priestly supremacy ? which claimed two worlds and aped omnipotence ! can wo fairly come to any other conclusion , than that Romanism is pre-eminently the Religion of Terror ! the votaries of Islamism , the Popes have carved their prophet ' s words on the devouring behest ! ^ ^^ they Were fulfillin S a hign Mr . Day concludes thus , we hope prophetically j— r It is cheering to the ea * nest friends of humanity and progress , that a bold front is being presented to papal inteferenoe and priestly rule . The Pope may hence learn the popular English sentiment
» u , u regaro . to His claims as the viceregent of Almightiness , and the estimation in which Englishmen hold scarlet hats arid red stockings , and every eiaes trumpery , from the crozier to the jewelled
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crown . And leb high and low Church parties likewise learn a practical lesson , ami take a timely warning , from the present excited condition of the public mind . "Coming events cast their shadows before ! And those interested priests who procure memorials to the Throne numerously signed and have " God save the Queen" struck up and sun " as afinah to the devotions of their church , which they now imagine built upon a rock , may yet find
to their dismay that the present movement is not so much Protestant in its conventional sense as it is I . rotestant in asocial , moral , and political one ; ana that what they consider a rock , against which storms may rage and spend their fury in vain , was merely a mountain of sand to be washed away by thenrsfc popular billow that should strike against it , * ' The outworn rite , the old abuse ihe good held captive in tho use , ino pious fraud transparent grown (\ F ?_ 1
"A-iSLssarssfftrK ** 1 ? 1 % om their decay . " Let us hail the present universal demonstr ' jitmn agarnst popery , and regard it iSj S ; B R 1 tang , ible ovidence ° f thiit iSli tIS mHioL of y a 1 d tn r ' wWohreigiia supreme in millions of hearts . Let us view it as immhefif . l cvol ? « fV ° i l da . UI > on it 3 d « -kness-as the c > cle of a change sub me , which will sween through the earth , when every valley . hi IW
low T . n ? ' r and m 0 U"lain shlIU be bro « S t it e "IS V ' ? ^ error 8 hilU fl ° »» h cSumlfif \ % S yet those adventitious cncumstanceB which administer to their growth and expans . on Usp da b ( j w K m l ^ ' ., « oss ' and snored , ready to be prcand Truth will be uppermost one day ! Thev contiui withm themselves the germs of their own S 5-mortality as their opposites inherit the pvinoiZ of their dissolution . That which is natural is alone permanent . " Fantastic idols may bo wo " shipped for awhile , but at length thov aw , Z
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The Operative . Nos . L , II ., and III . a . Berger , Holywell-street , London . Among tho now periodicals which 1851 has brought forth wo have great pleasure in notwing The Operative , a weekly magazine , of which au advertisement appears iu another column . From the three numbers which havo alread y appeared , it seems well calculated to represent tho views of the Amalgamated of the
Society Iron Trades , ( by members of which it is conducted ) , and to forward the great work of Industrial Co-operation . As well as its graver matter , it also contains talcs evincing considerable literary power , well-written reviews , and good popular poetry ! We are always glad to hail an efficient coworker in the cause of the people , and hope that The Operative may obtain the support it deserves .
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ADELPIII . One of those Adelphi melo-dramas , whose intricacy of plot is not to bo unravelled except by proncients in the mysterious arts of Adelphi construction , was produced at this theatreiast nit'lit . It is founded upon tho drama of Paillasse , which for the last three months has been played with success in Paris , and in its English dress is called Bdphegor the Mountebank ; or , the Pride of Birth . Bel-P hegor ( Mr . Benjamin Webster ) , a mountebank of the true Dulcamara school , so far as his professional
mo u concerned , but a doting husband and kind parent , has married Madeleine ( Madame Celeste ) , who has borne him Henri ( Miss Ellen Chaplin ) , and Louise ( Miss Stoker ) . Tho period of the drama is 1814 , and Buonaparte having abdicated tho throno ot 1 ranee and the Bourbons returned , myriads of irench cmigrees are about to claim their confiscated J ^ j ! ' ,, ^^ ' 118 ' ifc appwus , is the child of a titled follower of the house of Bourbon ; and before the exile of her parent , has been left by him in the owe of some person , from whose custody she is taken to be made the bride of Belpbogor . With him she has lived comfortabl y enou"li , but with secret repinings at the humble destiny to which she is consigned . And now the Chevalier de Rolao ( Mr . U . bmith ) steps upon the scene as the person who
many years bctorc had been employed to convey Madeleine to her place of refuge . This is a villain of the orthodox sort , who , upon the restoration of tlHS lionrbons , conceives the design of nassin " Maueleme oft as the daughter of the Duke de Monfbwon ( Mr . II . Hughes ) , a noble who has also comnutted two children to the custody of De Rohc during the perils of the revolution . De Rolac ' s object is a partici pation in the estate , and ho also betrays the sinister design of settine the mamaim nf
Aiudeioineand Bel puegor dissolved , in order that he may possess her himself . By the vilest arts De Rolac contrives to make Madoleine desert her husband , and convey her to tho palace of tho duke , where she lives in splendour , and tries to forget her low born husband . But love is strong with her , and she nnds her new existence a burden to her . Belpliegor , m the meantime , has become a heartbroken wanderer , when accidentall y meeting De llolac , in a scuffle which ensued , the latter artfully contrives to place in the other ' s Dockets naDers
aoscribing the possessor of them as a convict escapod from the galleys . These papers are found upon Bolphegor , and he is about to lose his life , when some new evidence points out tho guilty party to be De Uolac , who , when he find 3 further evasion to be useless , makes a confession of his crimes , and discovers that Bclphegor , and not Madeleine , is the child of the Duke de Montbazon . The retributive justice may bo conceived . Bel pliegor is the heir to the dukedom and estates of Moncbazon , and Do Rolac pays the penalty of his crimes . In the underplot , Ajax ( Mr . Wright ) , a kind of factotum of 1 elphegor in the mountebankish art , is adopted by tlie Baron de Montroulade ( Mr . P . Bedford ) as his son , to further the attempts of the latter to regain his property , which had been confiscated by the Republicans , but in those aristocratic pretensions ho is constantly receiving a check in tho person of Nini ( Miss Woolgar ) . The character of the wife of
Pail-Jasse , devoted to her husband in spite of the remonstrances of her family , is sustained with great force by Madame Celeste , and two comic parts are introduced which are not in tho French original , and which ave highly amusing in tho hands of Mr . Wright and Miss Woolgar . Indeed , tho whole company is employed to give effect to the numerous dramatis pcrsonm , but the real interest of the piece centres in the character of tho mountebank .
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OLYMPIC . A two-act piece , described as a comic drama , was produced on Monday evening with success . The scene is laid in the family of a wealthy cottonspinnor , one ef whose sons is enamoured of a young girl employed confidentially in the establishment , whose beauty , virtue , and general worth fully justify his attachment . Anothor son is married , but to a young lady of superior condition . She , however , has laid herself open io misconstruction with regard to the attentions of a former admirer , a fashionable rake , but is shielded by the fiancee of her brother-in-law , who is Ignominiously dismissed on suspicion of being the really guilty person . At this point , an eclaireistemnt occurs " , and all ends happily , the would-be seducer being summarily
warned off the premises , " the wife pardoned for her involuntary offence , and the young girl made happy by being united to her employer ' s son . This petite meio-drama ( which is called All that glitters is not gold ) is of a sentimental cast ; tho dialogue has much point ; and tho characters are well marked out , although tho brevity of the piece does not afford much scope for the author ' s skill in this respect . It embodies the strength of the company . Mr . W . Farren lent his aid as the father and head of the firm . Mrs . Stirling acted , as she always does , with pathos and tact " as Uie young girl ; and . Miss Louisa Howard not only looked very pretty but also performed with much feeling as the wife . Mr .
Leiijh Murry developed his artistic power by his performance of tho young lover ; but his assumption of the local manners and dialect , though very cleverly maintained , is an anomaly ; for wealthy young manufacturers do not talk broad Yorkshire or Lancashire patois . The comic portion of tho affair fell to Mr . Compton . The drama was announced as being from the pen of Mr , Thomas Morton . The fairy tale of Prince Dorus , or the ro ~ mance of the nose , was presented for the sixteenth time , in which we were delighted nt wi tnessing tho re-appearance of that charming and graceful dansuese Madlle . Adcle , after her severe domestic calamity . She was well received , and her difficult , yet talented pas , was rapturously encored .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Mr . Pepper , the chemical lecturer at this establishment , has been engaged in delivering a lecture " on Fire and its Antagonists . " The learned Professor commenced by observing that it was chiefly intended for a juvenile auditory , and , therefore , any lengthened preface would be unnecessary The audience were then reminded that the principle called Fire had always been invested with a mysterious dignity , and was worshi pped by the Persians Chaldeans , and the Magi as a deity-a God ; that Aristotle considered it as a component part of the globe , and classed it with the earth , air , and water , calling these all elements . The sources ! of
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fire aero t ! . en demonstrated , and oven- thin * tho cojuror seemed to touch , even water , « ai S ^ to tho dominion of Fnv . Various combusMona on a lwro scale , ( hen followed ( one flame w s uc ' ntv % t in length ) , also the magnificent « ro clou ? wuh Us leautiful rolling ami umh . lath ° flanX . e \ v ^ ir ? fdit ^ > entcolo « rs - »»* &tof E bv Uiln o " „ ° Ut hC Vari 0 US P ' ' U > ts Of th 0 rooni 5 . 0 Kn - C 0 tt 0 n > r" ? ininilinff « 8 ^ the pas . SltoenA r But tllc loctttror ( iid not yet "SSte ^ K-s-s -A s " J £ 5 S 3 a » £ 3 ga 3 bonic acid « , wL collected hX 32 K 'Sdtk ^ advantage of the proper time , the lecture ?• baK ft out with a pail , and succeeded in ext . ni » uUlAn J largo bonhro by pouring i , lto it the whole contents of the cistern . Tlie lecture was attended bv a most crowded audience who greatly applauded " tho learned gentleman ' s diseoursei
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Robert Owen ' s Journal . London : Clayton and Son . Part II . In noticing this journal last week we were compelled to omit an extract we had marked for quotation from want of space . It will , we think , be interesting to our readers to know the views of a man like Mr . Owen , on the controversy which has for the last few months created so much public excitement . We , therefore , take the subjoined from his address " to the Hierarchies of tho Churches of Rome , England , and Scotland . '' If we do not mistake , there are principles enunciated in it which raise more radical and profound questions than any yet propounded by cardinals , bishops , or priests , of any sect or creed
whatever : — The churches and states over the world have hitherto been the two great classes of circumstances which have formed the character and created the condition of the populations under their government and control . And -what are the characters , and what is the condition , of all people , at this day ? The people have been systematically trained , educated , and placed , from their birth , to become irrational , insane , or mad ; and , in consequence , they have made the earth into one great lunatic
asylum , divided into so many large open cells ; the occupiers of each , opposed , furiously or with less violence , to all the others . There are the cells or dens of the Pagans , of Fo and Confucius , of the Jews , of the Mahomedans , of the Christians , and of Infidels ; making , by tho errors forced into the mind of all , a Babel of opinions , feelings , and conduct , and thus producing a pandemonium , or a too perfect heil , upon this earth which , fortunately for the human race , is destined in future to become a paradise , without any cells for lunatics or madmen .
Your churche 3 and all the churches and states in the world have been fully tried and fairly weighed in the balance , and one and all have been found to be wofully wanting in all the essentials to unite mankind and to make them good , wise , and happy . The course of all ehurches and states , in the direction which they have hitherto run , has terminated ; they can continue ifc no further , without churches , states , and people , —from being partly irrational , insane , or mad , becoming altogether the victims of uncontrollable madness . The system itself , which has created the churches and states of the world , and has given them their direction to the present time , is worn out ; it can work advantageously for men no longer .
Another system , therefore , is now required , to terminate this pandemonium , and to commence this happy future state of justice to all , and of universal charity , kindness , and love . In this new system of happiness for our race , a new direction will be given to the preaching of the churches and to the practices of states . As the principle of evil , leading to individualism and universal disunion and falsehood , is the foundation on which the superstructure of this old , worn out , irrational system has been constructed , —the new system about to bo introduced will be based
on the principle of truth and goodness , which will kad direct to knowledge , unity , charity , kindness , and love , and its whole superstructure will be combined to ensure the permanent wisdom , excellence , and happiness of our race . The churches of the world are as well adapted to become churches in which truth , knowledge , union , wisdom , may be taught , as to teach , falseiood , ignorance , disunion , and the performance of senseless and injurious ceremonies . You essentially aid to govern and form the characters of the most advanced nations oi the world .
This is freely admitted ; and you arc tasrefore called upon to commence this great cbange > and peaceably , in wiioa with existing go ? ewnaea ^ » to
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^ fiftSSSB ^ H termilion ° " nment 3 must now be >™> S"t to a space ? y ° U consider ^ « iat there can be no limit to That there can be no beginning or end of time » - stiuctibeP rmVer . S 0 i 3 fullof uncreated 'Se S tie a e n e dT \ i ' i P ° TTg u » chanSing internal out o 3 n * nnmn l " J ntrollui S Power ' w 8 loh wi «« - theseSent , V d ., ccom P ° ' and recomposes existences ?^ . tOendleS 3 animatc and inanimate OonlK , S Pntei , T notbin £ of this Great few effectM ^ E ' ° L' '" vme ' CJWe P t from " » wW ^^^ JJJ ^ t *! - ^ Zr-: ===-
globe candT UpOt ? T e 3 S ^» a grain of sand of « nv i , n f V ? klnd of g ° 0 ( 1 oy harm , or service UnSif' to this Great Unknown Power of ffi « nd sensS ? lt tha ? yo"r voices < genuflexions , to tlu f pSi : P »?»« ° »» . «™ be more important cW-es I n O HnI rr hlch , - rVad , eS the ™ " ™* noise andft- ' , l mind th" « ghout it . than the floaX-X ' f the 8 raalle 3 t and most insignitkm tint I T \ y ° - i 3 Proof t 0 demonstra . naleiro , m f have ' by some new creatiotl of eternal circumstances , to be brought out of the irrafXonrXu' ° ^? d and . ? nditi ° n ^ * hioh P ^ t unuvomable and false trainings have placed you . PowTr wwJT taUght t 0 CaU tllis Unim 3 al J- ower , which , to our senses , appears eternallv to compose decompose , and recompose the elements ot uuivewe
uu « , liod , or some term of similar import . hatM a WOrd ' or a term which through past a « es has been made to divide and brutaliSe ° the human t \ Iln ^ ° } ' by J any mean 3 within >' P ower , do a ?^' ar : i rirr 5 « fe itrssssssfsr' ^ " *** See what madmen it makes of you all to-dav . Used as it has been , it can only make men into fools or hypocrites , and all hypocrites are fools . And all the actions of all men to-day are most foohshly irrational . There are none thinkin * or acting right—no not one . °
And the Churches and States of the world are , through the errors of their instruction , the immediate cause of the incongruities in mind and practico and of the present gross irrationality of the * JUiJll % Ll A llvvi These truths aro now thus told and published to the world , to become new circumstances , to open the mental eyes of all , and to induce all to aid in preparing the population of the world to become rational and to commence the system of universal happiness for man .
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. A GRENADIER .-Thcve is a boy in Indiana , a » ed ten years , who is so uncommon tall that he cannot tell when his toes are cold . CosuKDBu « . _ Why is a lady ' s hair like the latest pajers ECaUSC " morninB We a ! wa ? s findit ia vefed . Wn de 0 f •"' Pewtognwto "aa been discowhiu ou wis ° h o S 1 UCC - ° ann 0 t makc y ° urlel £
£ s »^ ^» ssf How 10 Makk and Losv : FmEjnw .-AVincandffooiI dinners make abundance of friends ; but in the time ol adversity not one is to be found . Lkoal Lous -A ph ysician cannot obtain recovery fttient . ° he maycaUse thc ™ S of hnugeW -- Indade , an it does marai-jast as nice asif I hadn ' t a touched it—I didn't hurt it ata ? I * " WocLD you know this boy to be my son from his resemblance Io me ? " asked a gen . leniiu . --K Ourran replied , " Yes , sir ; the maker ' s name is stamped upon the Mad e " Fancy is a butterfly , which must be delicately handled ; ii we lingers tamper with it , the bloom is nibbed oft , ami the gay insect perishes . Jme Lmtal Service Gazette reports tho strength of the British army to be 123 , 708 men oi M »™ j »
sides iKi . UOU ot pensioners , yeomanry , < tc . lAUPKnioJt .--. The statements of numbers in eacli iiS V "is Metropolis , show a decrease of nearly . iU . OJO from those of last year ! Pauperism con ' tinucs to decline in many parishes of England . ihe pertume of a thousand roses soon dies , but the pain caused by me of their thorns remains long atier ; a saddened remembrance in the midst ol mirth is like that thorn amons the roses . Gas 1 VES . --It is estimated that there are tip . wards of one thousand live hundred miles of gasmains ramifying throughout the streets of London . He are inclined , however , to thiuk that even this is too low au estimate . —JSuilder . Speaking yocii Mind . —a pedagogue tl reatened to punish a pupil who had called him a fool behind his back . — " Don't , don ' t ! " begged the boy . " I won ' t do so again , sir , never . 1 never will speak what I think again in my life !"
A Dear \\ u-e .-A gentleman just married told a tnend that hc had that morning laid out three thousand pounds in jewels for his dear wile . " Faith , sir , said he , « laec you ars no hypocrite , for she is truly your dear wile . " A memijrr of the Connecticut Assembl y moved for leave to bring in a bill for extending the powers o £ justices . Another requested , as a previous motion , that a statute might be passed to extend their capacities . l Uuuke and Dr . Jon . vsos .-Dr . Robertson observed that Johnsons jokes were the rebukes of the righteous , described iu . Scri pture as being like excellent oil . " \\ -s , " exclaimed Burke , " oil of
Life . —Though we seemed grieved at the shortness of hie in general , we are wishing every perird of ifc at au end . The minor lungs to be at age-then to be a man of business-then to make up an estatethen to arrive at honours—th en to retire . —Addisos . An old maid was telling her age , which , she said , was just thirty-six years . A gentleman in company doubted the truth of her statement , but was corrected by her brother , who said it must be true , for she had told the story fur ten years . Definition of Puseyism . — The late facetious oytlney buiith , when askea to define Pusevisai , remarked that it was a mixture of posture ' and imposture , flexions and genuflexions , of bowiiv to the east and curtseying to the west , with au immense amount of man-millinerv .
1 he population of the city of New York on the 1 st of June last , was about 520 , 000 . Adding to this Brooklyn ana the circumjacent places , which as uroperly belong to New York as Manliattenville , the result is a metropolitan population of nearly 750 , 000 or three quarters of a million . Novel Way op Resigning Office—The parish clerk of Westcote , near Stow-on-the-Wold , has resigned his office . His mode of proceeriin . r was P , 1 ? , ? , !^ . ^ . " ^ noti ce on the church " door—Ibis is to give notice that I shan ' t ba clerk any longer , so you be at liberty to get another . " Mrs 1 ahtikgton- read a criticism the other dav , m winch a writer was chafed with " nclentiriir the antece dent . ' - "That ' s just like some rtuKarS tocrats that I know , " arid the old lady ; " they at ways nedect their aunts , and other relations too , if they happen to be poor "
, Dki » artbub from PunimvE Rule . — The Society of Friends have agreed to place stones over the graves of their deceased relatives of Bishopwearmouth , with the initials of their names inscribed upon them in the same way as a stone was placed over the grave of their founder , George Fox at his decease . IinoAD Snom . OTns .-It was proved at Paris , in ? iJ " i ° occu P al 5 o » of t » at city , that a body or British highlanders or lowlanclers , standing " shoulder to shoulder , " stretch over more ground than a similar number of inhabitants , soldiers or civilians , of any other nation in Europe . —Sir F Heah .
A Desperate Undertaking . —There is a divine out west ( says an American paper ) tryin" to persuade gwls to forego marriage . He might as well try to persuade ducks that they could find a substitute for water , or rosebuds that there is something better for their complexion than sunshine Tim only convert he lias yet made is a single lady , a * ed sixty . ' British and Foreign Bible Society —At th » usual monthly meeting of the committee of theabove society , it was stated that , by dint of unwearied exertion , 3 , 217 district associations had been formed in Great Britain alone—it has circulated duriog the last forty-five years more than twenty-three million copies of tho Scriptures , promoted the translation and printing of the sacred volume into M 0 different languages or dialects , and expended nearly £ 3500 '
,, 000 . Glass for the Palace op Industry . — The finUhed glass for Mr . Paxton ' s building , writes the Commissioner of the Morning Chronicle , will wei"h 4 00 tons , requiring for iis manufacture upwards o £ o tons of sand and other materials , and about 3 , 000 tons of coals . The average quantity of coal required tor the manufacture of glass is eight times the bulk of the glass produced , or from ft to 8 tons ol coal for one ton of glass . Tipperary Honour . —A gentleman from Ireland , ou entering a London tavern , saw a countryman of his—a Tipperary squire , sitting over his pint of wine in the coffee-room . " Blood an' ounds ! my dear fellow , " said he , " what are you about ? For the honour of Tipperary don ' t be after sitting over a pint of wine in a house like this . "— " Make yourself aisy , countryman , " was the reply ; " it ' s the seventh I have had , and every one in the room knows it . "
Black not Green . —Said a gentleman the other day to a servant at the hotel where ho was stopping — "Bless mj ; soul , Sambo , how black you are ; how in the name of wonder did you get so black . — " Why loq k ' a here mnssa . de reasom am dis—de day dis child was born dero was an eclipse . " Ebony received a shilling for his satisfactory explanation , and after grinning thanks , continued— " I tell vou what LUc « rn " ' w . niggermaybe blaclt ' bJhoai ^ A TRAVELLER AS » L * MOCED Hawker . - A youns man , lately arrived in one of the northern haw&t ^ nf ^ ' T ? ' ' ^ 'S fundIn ? on ri accumula , ted some money and a vast tund of conceit , was one day lecturing to a group of afrfiT lnduOtivC PMowphy . A byinder asKed it he was acquainted with Bacon ? - <• Bacon , sir , said the mar . of knowledge , with a contemptuous S !' yes , I have often got it to breakfast
_ my vhen I was in England . " J Railway Traffic—The published traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom during the torty-mne weeks of the last year , ending thc 7 ih of December , shows that the aggregate receipts amounted to £ 12 , 036 , 170 on 6 , 2-10 miles of railway , tor the corresponding period of 1819 , the receipts amounted to £ 10 , 397 , 600 on 5 , 100 miles , showingan increase in the gross receipts of £ 1 , 633 . 570 , or lo . 8 per cent ., and in the mileage , at the end of tho forty-nine weeks of 1 , 080 miles . The average receipts per mile for the forty-nine weeks in 1850 , amounted to £ 2 , 111 , and in the corresponding period of 1849 to £ 2 , 183 , showing a falling ¦ " 6 f-in the receipts per mile of £ 72 , or only 3 . 3 per' . cent , on an j increase in the mileage of 20 . 9 percent ? ;/; . , ' ., l : ' ¦ : ; ,- ; . .. - y ^ ii
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 18, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1609/page/3/
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