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» WELCOME liOSSUTfl . " - ^ ¦ ffclcom e Kossuth !? ' Ten thousand thousand „ „ JifndS ' than old Ocean ' s loudest roar , m * while Freedom ' s heart of hearts rejoioeB , ^ f * drent to onr hospitable shore . m advent too » Welcome Kossutttl " trplcome , Kossrith ! " It rings o ' er the Atlantic , " S 3 free millions catch the strain ; ' ^ with huge glee and . exultation frantic , ; I oU > rh it to the Baltic back again . . jerce Jellacbich , . vile George / ,, and . flogged « ,. J ^ and to their tyrant masters pale , ' onies a ^ from throa * of volcano . ' Hpwafted , thundering back ; on every gale ;—Beffa ' » Welcome . Kossnth !"
, 11 ti , e free spirits , of all climes respond ifc : - k \ l states call'dfree—save suicidal France ! « t" Far-West , " . and the Ocean Isles beyond it , Snout , sudden wakened from their , long soul-I trance "" " Welcome , Kossutn !" I Aoi thy lovM country ( how % name endears it I To patriot hearts J ) which yet thou'lt live to free , I With sympathetic gratulation hears it , And clanks her fetters with prophetic glee ! " Welcome , Kossuth !" for she has steadfast faith in thy returning To lift her from Oppression ' s black abyss : ? jus know her tyrants ; and , 'neath masks of scorning , Tremble , and feel" how awful goodness is !" " Welcome , Kossuth !"
Welcome to all that hate the fiend , Oppression ; Weleome to all that love the angel , Truth ; Welcome to all that feel a degradation . In Hungary ' s scourg'd women and crnsh'd youm— " "Welcome , Kossuth I " \ sv , read thy welcome In the stars that cluster * Around thee as a sun , illustrious guest ! Tictoria ' s crown itself drawa a new lustre From this thy stay in progress to the West . " Welcome , Kossuth !" And thon art welcome to the aid * we proffer ; And thou art worth ?;—for thou well hast won An immortality with Tell and Dofer , Wallace and Bruce , and glorious Washington . Xoble Kossuth !
Sow , peace and joy attend thee to the region ' Where the free sons and beauteous daughters dwell Of the old Pilgrim Fathers !—Thy religion Be Love , and Troth , and Goodness still 1 Fare * well , Glorious Kossuth ! W . Jones . Leicester .
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* Alia ding to a public contribution of funds for the cause o ' Hungary , to be placed in the hands of Louis Kossnth on Jus return from America to England .
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Le Morvah : its Wild Sports , Vineyards , and Forests . By Hejtki x > e Cbigxelle . Translated by Gapt Jesse . London ! Sannders and Otley . ffimouT " having a taste for 'Wild Sports ' readers of every class will enjoy this spirited description of a district in Prance , which presents in perfection all the characteristic features of Forest life . Such a book best speaks for itself ; and we shall , therefore , give a few extracts , illustrative not only of the style of the author , but of the wild region to which it refers : —
Le ilorvan is a district of Prance , in which are included portions of the departments of the Uievre and the Tonne , having on the west the vineyards of Itargnndy , and on the east the mountains of the Xyernois . Its ancient and picturesque capital , Trzeley , crowns a hill 2 , 000 feet in height , and commands a panoramic view of the country for thirty miles round . It has all tbe characteristics of itown of thQ feudal times , with high embattled and loop-holed walls , numerous towers , and deep and HroDg gateways , under which are still to be seen ! tie grooves of the portcullis , the warder's guard j t . joui . and the hook 9 that supported the heavy I mwbridge . * * Le liorvan rears | a its sylvan depths a population of hardy and kr aest men and lovely wonum , fresh as roses and : mv as butterflies . There the soft evening breezes
are charged with the songs of ten thousand birds , the odours of the eglantine , the lily of the valley , and lie violet , which , shaking off its winter slumbers , spens its dark blue eye and combines its perfume with that of its snowy companion . Le Morvan is a country that would deiight an Englishman , for it a full of game ; here the sportsman may vary his pleasures as fancy dictates . The forest abounds Trith . deer—the plain with rabbits and tbe timid Lars—aad in the vineyard ? , daring the merry season of tbe vintage , the fat red-stockinged and , gray-clad partridges arc baeged by bushels . Here the sportsman may watch in the open glade 3 the treacherous ¦« ild cat and the bounding roebuck ; and , should tiis . se sports appear too tame , he may , if foot and tort are sound , plunge into the dark recesses of tie forest in pursuit of the savage and grisly boar , tr tiie fierce and prowling wolf .
The extent ol these * dark recesses' may be } u « l ged of from the fact that , notwithstanding the inroads made upon them to supply Paris with fuel , they still cover upwards of 200 , 000 acres . This immense wooded expanse is pierced by a tangled skein of paths , known only to the luuter and foresters ; and among which , it is casv for the stranger to lose himself—as the following adventure testifies . A Paris student on a visit to Ms uncle , who resided in a large Lrw house in the forest of Erveau , had a sirouo- desire to shoot a cuckoo which he espied oa the lofty brauches . of an ash tree . Accordingly , possessing himself of his uncle's gun , — wariiv and stealtbiiy did tbe student approach ; bent nearly double , he scarcely drew his breath , as Ms distance from the tree grsw less ; but , says the song of the poacher , —
If women smell triefcs , cuefcocs smell powder . And agaiu , — 'Us a difficult thing to catch woman at fault , 31 ore difficult still , an old cuckoo with salt . "Without appearing to do so , from the height of his leafy turret , the prudent cuckoo kept a wary eye upon tie tortuous movements of his enemy ; but as hs < aw at a fiance what tort of a customer he bad to deal with , he evidently did notfeel any particular iiurry to shift his quarters ; only every lime he saw the double barrel moving up to tbe Parisian s shoulder , and that hostilities on his part were about to be opened , be , as if jasi for fun , dropped his own dear brown self on the branch below him , flapped bis wings , and soon perching himself on a tree a
l : tt ! e further off , gravely re-opened his beak and resumed his monotonous chant . The young student , irnjued and mortified at this discreet behaviour of the cuckoo , which , like happiness , was always on tiie wing , perseventgly followed tbe provoking bird —one walked , the other flow , the distance increased a : every flight , and thus they got over a great deal of ground t the young man still believing his uncle ' s farm was close behind him—the cuckoo perfectly easy , knowing full well be could find bis leafy home trlieuever he might please to return to it . So , for the fiftieth time , perhaps , the cuckoo was vanishing in tbe foiiage , when a sudden thought cramped tbe legs and cut short the obstinate pursuit of the youn «* lawyer ; he then , for the first time ,
remembered the wholesome advice his uncle u&d given him on Ms arrival . " Beware , iny fine fellow , beware of "oing alone in the forest ; for to those who know not ho w to read their way , that is , on tbe bark of the trees , the mossy stones , and dry or broken twigs , the forest is full of snares and danger , of deceitful echoes and strange noises , that attract and mislead tbe inexperienced sportsman . "By Juno , ' thought our hero , " as ifc is most certain that in Paris they are not yet clever enough to teach us gsograpdy on the bark of trees , I am an uncommonl y Jucky fellow to have just remembered the dear " gentleman ' s warning . Dang the internal cackoo ! Good morning ; sir : my compliments at come . " And then , with the terriule carbine under lib arm , he retraced bis st < -ps , expecting every moment to see peeping through the trees in front ol liim his unele's large white house and lofty
dovecote . But , alas I no such thing met his hungry tves ; still on be walked , trees after trees were passed , glade after glade , and many a long avenue , but neither white farm' house nor gay green shutters greeted his anxious sight . * * Aiany a v-in he made and many a blackberry he picked as h- walked hither and thither , in every direction . Tiie day wore on , " the sun had long passed tbe Meridian , and with the coming evening rose a ? - -ntle breeze , which moaned in the dry ferns ; and ti-.-. s and the rustling of tbe giant creepers that ie ithed from tree to tree , and swung between the lr . incb . es , fell mournfully on the student ' s ear . A va * ue fear , a fatal presentiment of evil , began to Cr . ^ ep over liim ; a ^ aiu he shouted , tbe echo from i lark wi : d ravine alone replied ; he fired his gun s ^ -iiu an-J again , the echo alone answered his signal o ; distress , and nothing could he hear , except at interrals , far , far . away in the green depths of the
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forest , the notea cuckoo—cuckbot" Tairit ~ and weary . fromhunger and fatigue , the = 7 pung ? aiftfi , no longei'iable to proceed , fell ' down at " the foot of as dreading beach , and gave wayT to an agony . of grief ; drops of-cold sweat stood iupon bis brow ';" the clammy feeling of fear took- possession of his heart ; and though , perhaps , ht would have had no objection to try . the fortune of the pistol or the sword , in any , college broil or senseless riot , of the populace , the circumataticea under whu ) a he ' thctv stood were so new to him , that he wa ' s quite unmanned and . incapable of further exertion . In Wood-red streaks sank the setting sun , bis large yellow orb glancing through . the trees like tbe
dimmed eye ofsome giant ogre ; twilight came , and soon after every valley lay in shadow ; ' the breezej as if waking from its gentle slumbers , whistled in the' highest branches , and , increasing in force , rocked the lowei limbs , which moaned mournfully as the night closed in . Hungry and alarmed , and now quite worn , out with ; . his lengthened walk , the young Parisian lay stretched on the moss , listen ^ ing with painful anxiety to this melancholy conversation of the woods , when , suddenly , and as night fell , spreading over the earth her sable ; wiogs . and shaking from , the foldB of , her robe tbe luminous legions of stars , he heard a prolonged and sonorous howl in the distance—a strolling wolf .
Cruel as death ! and hungry as the grave ! . Burning for blood ! bony and gaunt and grim , had scented the Parisian , and was inviting his good friends with the Ion ? teeth , to come and sup on the dainty morsel . Touched as if by a hot iron , up got the terrified youth , and striking his ten nails into the friendly tree near him like an Indian monkey , he was in an instant many feet above its base . Here , astride upon a branch , shivering and shaking , each hair on end , and murmuring many a Pater and Ave Maria , unsaid for years , he passed the mostborrificnighttb . it any citizen of . the department of the Seine had ever been known to spend in tbe middle of the forest of Erveau ' . The following morningbut not until the sun had already run
, nearly half his course , for he never dared to leave his timber observatory before , le pauvre diablc dropped down from bis perch like an ncorn ; and , marching off with weary steps , and scarcely a hope tbat ere another night fell he should gain the shelter of = some cottage , be dragged himself along . On he rolled from side to side , torn with the thorns and bitten by the gnats that swarmed around him , sometimes calling upon his mother , sometimes upon the saints , when a wood-cutter happily met him , and seeing his . exhausted condition , threw the slim student over bis shoulders like a bundle of straw , and carried him to a neighbouring village . ' There , he was put to bed and attended with every care ,
when he soon recovered , and received the charming intelligence that he was about forty miles from bis uncle ' s house—that he had been wandering for that distance in the most beautiful part of the forest of Erveau—and that if by any chance he had deviated a little more to the right in his unpleasant steeple-chase across the woods , he would have gone , in a straight line , eighty-six miles without meeting house or cottage or human soul until , he found himself at the gates . of Dijon ,. chief town of the COte-d'Or , where he migbt and would , no doubt , have been able to refresh himself with a bottle of Beaune and inspect the Gothic tombs of the great Dukes of Burgandy .
It is well to know * that should such a calamity as is here recorded befall the tourist , he may meet with assistance from the Cures whose habitations dot the district of Le Marvan adjoining Burgundy . Here is a description of the animals which frequent these lonely woods ; that seems more like a picture of the interior of Africa , than a portion of a thickly [ populated country like France . In the violent heats of July and August , when the sun burns up tbe herbage—when the wind as it passes parrchesthe skin , and the sultry air scarcely allows the lungs to play—when the earth is quite dried up—the hot blooded animals , whose
circulation is rapid , remain completely overpowered with the beat in their retreats all day , either stretched panting on the leaves , or lurking in the shade of some rock ; but the moment the sun , in amber clouds , sinks below the horizon , and twilight brings in bis train the dark hoars of night , and its humid vapours , the beasts of the forest are in movement , again tbeir ravenous appetite returns , and they lose no time in ranging the woods , seeking how and where they may gratify it . Then it is these large Mares , silent as a woman that listens at a key-hole—silent as a catacomb , —is all at once endowed with life , is filled with strange noises , like an aviary , and becomes aa night falls , a common centre to which tbe hungry and thirsty cavalcade direct their steps .
The first arrivals are hundreds of birds , of every size and colour , who come to gossip , to bathe , to drink , and splash the water with tbeir wings . Next come troops of hares and rabbits , who come to nibble the fresh grass that grows there in great luxuriance . As the shades grow deeper , groups of the graceful roebuck , timid , and listening for anticipated danger , their large open , eyes 'gazing at each tree , giving an inquiring look at every shadow , are seen approaching with noiseless . footsteps ; when reassured by ttusit careful reconaissance . they steal forward , oropping the dewy rich flowers as they come , and at last slake tbeir thirst in the refreshing waters . At this instant you may , if you are fatigued , and so desire it , finish your day ' s
sport . You may bring down the nearest buck ; aud as then the troop , ; wild with affright , make for the forest , the second barrel will add a fellow to your first victim . But no ! pull not the trigger ; stop , if only to witness what follows . See the roebuck prick their ears ; they turn to the wind ; they appear uneasy ; call one to the other , nssBinble ; danger is near—they feel it , hear it coming ; they would fly , but find it is too late : terrified , they are chained to the spot . For the last half hour the wolves and wolverines , which followed gently and at a distance their own more rapid movements , have closed in upon them from behind—have formed tbe fatal circle—have noiselessly decreased it as much as possible—and at length come swiftly down upon
tbe helpless creatures . Each seizes his victim by the throat—the tranquil spot is ere long full of blood and carnage , and the echoes of the forest are awakened to the hellish yells of the savage brutes that thus devour thsir prey . ' The cries of agony , of death , and victorj , sometimes last for a quarter of an hour , and during the fifteen minutes that you are watching the scene from your hut , you may fancy tbe teeth of these brutes are meeting in your own flesh , and feel a cold paw with claws of steel deep in your back or head . The slaughter over , these monsters pass like a flight of demons across the turf , vanish , —and again all is silent . And when the tenth chime of the distant village clock is floating on tbe breeze , though it reaches not your cabin—when the falling dew , now almost a
shower , has bathed tbe leaves , with ram chilling their fibres—when the blue-bells and the foxgloves and all tbe wood-flowers rest upon their stemswhen the songsters of the grove , with heads comfortably tucked under their warm wings , sleep soundly in their nests , or in the angles of the branches—when the young fawns , lost in some wild ravine , bleab for their mothers whom they never will see moro ; and the gorged wolves , their muzzles red with blood , are . stretched snoring in tbeir dens and lurking-places , —then it is tbe heavy boars , sliaking off their . laziness , [ leaving their sombre retreats , take to the open country , and trotting , gruntin ? , and with hesitating footsteps , come and plunge their awkward and heavy bodies in the marshy waters , and wallow in the soft mud .
A considerable portion of M . do Crignelle's hook is occupied by a description of the various methods employed to destroy the wolves which yet infest the forests of Central France in almost undimimshed numbers . This animal , alike dreaded aud hated by both peasant and sportsman— for he is the uncompromising enemy of everything else that has life—ia hunted and destroyed in every possible manner . Battues , however , which occur twice a year , are the most efficient exterminators of
this terrible pest , and these are looked forward to with great pleasure by the peasantry . Bloodhounds , bred expressly for the purpose , are employed with great success to run down wolves , and powerful traps , called ' trequenards , ' are set in parts of the forest frequented by them . As it ia important that these engines should be concealed , their locality is in * dicated to the peasants by well-known signals which are placed in their vicinity . But though every precaution is adopted to guard against accidents , terrible catastrophes sometimes occur .
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Trade and Travels in the Gulph of Guinea , Western Africa s with an Account of the Manners , Habits , Customs , and Religion of the Inhabitants . By J . Smith . London : Simp kin and Co . The author * having made several voyages to "Western Africa , in the doable capacity of surgeon and trading-captain ( as the Africans style the agents of European merchants ) to one of the first mercantile houses in Euglaud , —aud having been repeatedly brought in contact with a ^ reat number of the inhabitants ou several occasions for many consecutive months , has acquired , ' he thinks , ' some information , and witnessed some extraordinary scenes , ' worthy of being related to the English public .
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The volume is lu . 11 ofinteresting matter ,, and tells more about the n » . Jves of-Western AfricaV than many books of larger ; -, dimensions , and greater literary . endeavours . " ' .- . , The following is an interesting sketch of the manner in which trade is carried on between Furopean ships and the Negroes of the African coast . It certainly puts the Negroes in a more , respectable light " a ' s ' Buiart' mercantile men than we had . seen them ever represented in bsfore : — . . , :
Pew things aSloai 9 h a white man so much on a first Visit to this place , on a trading expedition , as the amount of goods solicited by and intrusted to this people . With the "" utmost confidence a fellow nearly naked , will ask you for three or four , or even fire thousand ' pounds ' - worth of goods oh credit , and individuals are' often trusted to that amount . I' have trusted tn 6 re than one' man goods , the returns of which were worth between two , and three thousand pounds . Not one in ten , however , that asks for trust'is worthy of credit to the amount of so many farthings . Some few of the chiefs are really splendid merchants . Hard in making their bargains , but strict in their payments , they approach very near in their
commercial transactions to their brethren of Europe and the civilised parts of Asia and America . And thay go about tneir business in a business-like manner . " Capt . A or B , " a chief will say , " 1 want some trust . ' If you know that in the com * mercial sense of the word your customer is a good man , you will perhaps ask him when he . means to pay you for any goods he may purchase , and what are his resources ; and he is sure to preface anything he may have to say by asking , if'he bas not a good head and knows how to turn any goods with which you may entrust him to good account ; and if he has not a good name among white men , and if he does not aways meet his payments . Having admitted all that he says of himself to be
true , he will inform you that he has so many canoes and so many slaves to man them , that he has several clever slaves to take command of the canoeaand trade the goods in the interior , and that the only thing he wants is money ( goods ) to send to market . Trusting to any great amount , or even at all , depends entirely upon circumstances . If a trader have a good name and a large house , that is , numerous wives and slaves—pretty good criteria of his wealth—he may be trusted . But some of the young aspirants to commercial fame may as safely , be trusted as great chiefs . To ac » quire wealth , he knows ho must cultivate a good name , which makes him attentive to business and prompt in his payments . These men are easier to ¦
treat with than the wealthier merchants . * ¦ •¦* Everything being prepared for the reception of goods , trade commences , every one being anxious to obtain goods on credit . If it be the first time you trade a ship , the chiefs and small traders approach tbe subject cautiously . They will apprise you of their great wealth and importance and the large amount of business they did when you were captain , surgeon , or clerk of such and such a ship ; how well they paid their debts without detaining the ship a single day—the rascals perhaps never paid at all—what very good friends you used to be ; perhaps ask how the parrot'or monkey is they presented to you on a previous voyage ; insinuate tbat they knew you would bring a ship to trade
that voyage , you are such a clever fellow , and " savoy black man's fashion , and have told their women and boys so . " After a long palaver to this efftiCt , they ask you to . trust them ; if you hesitate they feel certain of success , and ask for a large amount , four times more than they know you will let them have , supposing tbat after asking so large an amount you will never refuse them a considerable quantity . The goods being examined , a bargain struck , and a book signed to the effect that if you aje not paid by a certain time they shall make certain forfeits , and the goods being paid to themi , they go away in great glee to spend the evening in jollification . The staple articles of trade are Manchester cottons , guns , gunpowder , tobacco , rum . and cowries :
and besides these there are numerous Otlierarticles of commerce taken out , of less importance , as Iron bars , copper and bar rods , beads , knives , hatchets , soap , earthenware , crystal , jars , iron pots , horns , pearl buttons , silk handkerchiefs , &c , &e . * * When you have sold all the goods that remained after giving trust , you send up the lofty masts of the ship that were lowered after mooring , as a signal , that you have done trading , and are now waiting for the returns for your trust ; and this is the time that your real trouble commences . Some of the people that made such splendid promises of trading with ' you when you first entered the river , have never been near your ship sinee they were trusted , but have been trading with other ships on
ready money terms with your goods . This is exceedingly vexatious ; by giving credit , you perhaps lose a good customer , and run the risk of losing your goods into the bargain , or at least of being put to great trouble and anxiety , and if you do not give credit , the great merchants will do no business with you . Your best friends now leave off tniding with other ships , and send you the oil as it comes down from Eboe , Quaw , &e . If any to whom you have given trust be trading with other ships , with your good ? , in order to turn the capital over as often as possible , or tbeir canoes have been detained at the various oil markets , the work of dunning commences in earnest , and to convince them tbat you are really in earnest , you perhaps visit them three
times a day ; your errand , if not always alluded to , is perfectly understood . ' ? What come again , captain , " a trader has said to me the third visit , " that time it be cockevap-ak , I look your face ; tbat time sun stand for top ( noon ) , I look your face : and now that time man wants to go moona , ( sleep ) , I look your face again ; what palaver this be ? "— " Trust , my friend , I want my money . What think you tell me that time you get my money ? You no tell me I cannot stand ( wait ) one day for your side , ( on your account ) and don't you see what w ; iy my ship masts stand , and by-and-by my people must cry for
chop . " If they promise to pay you on a certain day , you may generally depend upon them . If you are very much tried , you sometimes lose or affect to lose all patience , and call them ugly names , as niggers , bushmen , &c , and threaten to " makB book , " and send it to all the white men to inform them that they are rogues and not to be trusted , and to tell the merchants in England to caution their agents against having anything to do with them . If they have the means of paying , this sort of language will generally have the desired effect , but you , like themselves , must study the characters you have to deal with , and treat them accordingly .
In Africa—as in places nearer home— -the priests are found to be the greatest obstacles to progress ; Mr . Smith says , Another great difficulty in the way of acquiring or imparting information , or of inducing triern to adopt our more civilised customs , is the almost unbounded influence of the priesthood , who exercise the power of lite and death to a fearful extent . For a very trifling infringement of their ecclesiastical laws ( which are so blended with civil laws , that it is an easy matter to find occasion of offence ) , a chief is ordered to proceed some four or five months ' journey , thither and back ) into the interior , to consuit the Grand Ju-ju , as he is called , to tbe chief ' s great hindrance to business , and at no trifling
expense and trouble . And what is worse than all , should he not come down with a handsome douceur in the shape of English goods to both the priests at home and tbe Grand Ju-ju in the interior , he need never expect to find his way home again . Innovation is dreaded by tjio priests . They have wit enough to know that if a Blight advancement only in civilisation were made , it would rapidly progress , and their priestly power and arrogance would speedily be thrown off . I will just relate a little circumstance in illustration of their disinclination to adopt European customs . Observing a large guana crawl out of a hole in the raud floor of a with him
king ' s sitting-room , while conversing about a dash or present I was to take him next voyage , 1 oflered to bring him a quantity of flags , or bricks , to lay the floor . Be seemed pleased with the proposal , and after musing a short time , replied , be would consult the priest and tell me the result . On calling next day he informed me that ju- | u would not allow it . This is a small matter in itself , but sufficiently indicative of tbe power the priests exercise over even their kings . Being subject to rheumatism , he is very kindly permitted to use a p iece of board as a footstool , to protect him from the damp , during the rainy season .
The following is a negro account of the creation of man , and the origin of blacks and whites , which is just as credible as other myths held in high respect by more civilised races : — At the factorj of an English trader , a mafoukamachanga-man , a superior order of magistrate , joined us at the breakfast table , of whom I learnt how the cook fell into sad disgrace , by occasioning one half of the inhabitants of the world to be p lack , while the other halt is white . The conversation on this subject was in substance as follows— " Wuat will you take mafouka-machanga ; here ' s fish , fowl , and goat , cassaii . ana bread ; sweet tombo , cottee , and rum-and-water . "— "Part a part , " ( a little of
each , ) " but what kind of fowl that a be , a cock or a hen ?"•— " I don ' t know ; it makes no matter , I suppose . "— " Oh , but it makes a great deal of matter , —if he be a cock , I cannot eat him . "— " Why so ?' — " Because them cock be d rascal . "— " How is this—what harm has he done you ?"— "A great deal of harm , tbe rascal ; bad it not been for him , I should have been white man , all same yourself . "" What has the cock to do with your being a black man ?"— "Everything . "— " Come , tell us all about it . "— " Well , I must . You see , when God Almighty first made man , hfr bad only one day to make t / tem in . lie beg « an easly one morning , and worked hard ail day , very kgd * for he wanted to make a great
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The Life of Kossuth , and his Doings in the Hungarian IVsr . Collected by a Hungarian . London : Donaldson . ' At a time when public , attention ia so generally turned to the illustrious Magyar Patriot , this cheap and clever , summary of the leading events of his career , will be found of use by those whose purees do not enable them to command ampler but higher priced works .
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Escape of an Italian Refugee to Liverpool . — By the screw stea mer Arno , which arrived at this port from Italy last week , we had transported to our shores an interesting refugee , in the " shape '' of a mere boy , sixteen yeaw of age , whose name , for obvious reasons , we are not permitted to mention , who had literally to " run his country to save bis n § ck , " Half an hourbefore the Arno left Leghorn he was brought on board concealed in a sack , and plaoed for safety among the provisions in the lazaret . The person in charge of " the parcel " paid its passage money to England , and thus far was all Captain Haram knew about the matter at the time . On getting clear of the port , however , it turned out that " the sack , ? like many of those dropped in the Bosphorous , contained a living
freight ; and a dark eyed boy made his appearance to claim the protection of the commander of the vessel . His only credentials were an appeal to the sympathies of human nature in assisting a fellowcreature in distress , and a letter of introduction to Messrs . M'Keau , M'Larty , and Co ., of this town It appears that this young gentleman , and a number of other precocious spirits , had formed themselves into a secret society or olub , for the printing and circulating of religious and political works , among which the distribution of the Bible and pamphlets on the " freedom of Italy " formed a prominent part . The authorities having got wind of their proceedings , several of the members were arrested and summarily shot ; and to escape a similar fate , our hero was . embarked on board the Arno . Hia
parents knew nothing of his connexion with the affair , until startled by the appearance of the soldiers to demand the person of their son ; and for a couple of days provious to the . Arno ' s arrival at Leghorn , he had been removed from house to house in the Suburbs Of the city to escape detection . Machinery , p or Coopebade . —A novel method of constructing casks and barrels , and all vessels connected with cooperage , may be seen in operation at the Patent Cooperage Works , in Wenlook « road , Citv-road . By the employment of the steam engine the circular saw and a recently . invented jointing and backing machine , a cask of the largest dimensions can be completely formed and made ready for use in the short space of five minutes from the raw material—viz ., a piece of oak . The staves of the
cask are first cut with straight sides , the circular saw being placed at a right angle with the oak plank . The stave is then placed horizontally , and bent into a curve by a powerful machine , and brought into contact with a circular saw on each side of it , placed at an angle . This process gives the proper shape to the st&ve , the sides being gradually tapered at the ends and made to bulge in the middle . The jointing and backing machine , the new invention , is also used for this purpose , and is more rapid in its execution than the angular saws—it in fact works with the most marvellous rapidity and precision . The staves and one end of the cask are then placed in a machine formed of iron rods , called a trussing machine , each rod acts upon a separate stave , and the whole of the staves being equally compressed into a circle , the hoops are placed around them , and the cask is complete . The
neatness and finish of the . work is equal to what a good cabinet maker can produce , every part being true and accurate . The calculation is that fifteen workmen with the use of this machinery can make 150 casks a day , whereas the same number of persons U 9 ing only manual labour , could scarcely produce a seventh pait of that number . The importance of the invention , and ¦ the application of steum power to it , may he imagined { com ( be fact that the great brewing firms of the metropolis atone expend many thousand pounds annually in cooperage , that the expenditure of the navy is still greater , and that the demand of the . vintagea of the continent is so great that a great deal of wine is lost from tbe difficulty of furnishing vessels to hold it . The process of this invention will repay the time of a visit to tbe works . '
Pbbpatmknt op Letters . —The following has been issued frooTtho General Post-office : —Notice to the Public—On arid from the first of November next , all letters or . packets posted at any provinciiil post-offices for places within the United Kingdom , ¦¦ must either be prepaid by stamps , or be sent unpaid , as money prepayment for inland letters will no longer be permitted at ; iny such office . " Tho introduction of the universal prepayment of letter postage by stamps will then be complete , with these exceptions : viz . —that money ^ prepay * ments of postage on inland letters will 31 ill be allowed in London ; that unpaid letters will be paid through tiie post ; and that money prepayments of foreign postage will be permitted .
Thb Marquis of Granby has come to the rescue or resurrection of Protection . At an agricultural dinner at VTaltham on the Wold , the noble heir of Belvoir made - himself very merry with the Times , " the " poor Spectator , '" Mr . Wakley and liis inquest on Protection , &c . ' . He did not believe Mr . Disraeli had given it up , and he was sure a general election would restore it to the statute-book . Increase in the Liverpool Customs Receipts . —For the quarter just , ended , there hss been an increase in the Customs receipts at Liverpool of upwards of £ 58 , 000 on the corresponding quarter of 1850 ; that - for the ' present year having reached £ 1 , 013 , 361 . This improvement bears a remarkably large proportion of that for the kingdom generally , which is only £ 83 , 190 ; so that the increase at all the other ports together amounts to little more than £ 25000 .
, Loss of an American Steam Ship by Fire . — The steam ship La Fayetie was entirely destroyed by fire , while lying at Chagres , on the lltti of September . The passengers and crew-were all saved ; part of the freight was lost . She had arrived there a few days previous , and had taken on board a few passengers to return , some of whom , such was the rapidity with which the flames spread , saved nothing but the clothes t > n their backs . The La Fayette was under the command of Captain Sioddard , and was a new ship . She had only made a voyage to Europe previous to going to Chagres . ¦ conference
Dr . CtAnKE and his Wife . —All business is not allowed to transpire before the public ; and had not the question just expatiated on not been a public one , it would have been sooner and more summarily dismissed . At the conference to which reference is now made , a subject waa about to be introduced , which the preachers were not to disclose even to their wives . Dr . Clavke , who waa seated in one of the front seats on the floor of the chapel , partially sheltered from the eye of the president , was in the act of slipping out unperceived , when a voice was heard , " Dr . ClarKe is about to leave the conference , Mr . President . " —President : " You must not go out , Dr . Clarke . " —Dr . Clarke : " Imu 8 t , Sir . " —President : "You must not , Dr . Clal-ke . " -Dr . C .: " I will , Sir . "—
President ( more poremptorily ) : " You must not . —Dr . C .: " You state , sir , that we are not to tell our wives the subject ) that is about to be brought forward ; I want to hear nothing that I cannot tell my wife ; I tell her everything . Those who have talkative wives may refrain from telling them ; but mine is not such ; what is deposited with her is kept safely . " —President : " Very good , doctor , you m- < y stop , as j our wife can keep a secret . " The question was not bo much one of delicacy a 3 one respecting which it was necessary to guard siguinst premature diaolosvue ; and subjects fre-Quently escape from a second person thoughtlessly , when out of tho pale of the first iut « rdict , as though the responsibility ' rested solely with the first hearer . —Rev . James Evarclt .
The " Connaught Watchman" says that at a concert given at Ballinasloe last week during the fair , a lloman Catholic clergyman having refused to take off bis hat during the performance of the National Anthem , was booted out of the room . A Floating Tjibatbk . —Spaulding , the circu 9 proprietor , is about building in Cincinnati a monster floating palace , for theatrical , circus , and menagerie performances . It is to be 400 feet long , with sixty feet beam , ; md is to accommodate 4 . 0 U 0 spectators . It is to be towed by two steam tenders to tho various towns upon the Mississippi and its tributaries , in summer , and to be moored at tho levee in Sew Orleans in tho winter . It is estimated to cost 40 , 000 dollars , and will be completed next sprmg .-rifcnfreai Courier .
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" Tiil CfsrsTAr-vPALACB . —A dissenting friend of , ours calls the Crystal Palaee " tbo Meeting House " for all . naHbns . —TheMonth . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ,. . : Cox—What is the difference between a Puseyite anda Baptist?—One uses wax caudles , and' the other'dips . —The Month . . ; .: ;• ¦'• ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ; EMfOKATioN . —On the 15 th of September there arrived in New York no fewer , than 3 , 890 emigrants ,. QfwKom 2 ; 452 were from Liverpool . ¦ Servants : —Make not a servant a confident ; for if be finds put that you dare not displease him , he will dare to displease you . . . "•••• Superstition . —A Dorsetshire . matron always cuts her children ' s nails so that the parings fair on the BiblQ because then " they will never steal !"
Irish-MAtACHiTE . —Specimens of malachite have lately been brought from copper mines in the county of Cork , equal in beauty to that found in Russia . Very Cohsolatory , — « ' I feel , " said an old lady , " that I ' ve got about through with this world . I Bhan't enjoy much more trouble ^ nor suffer much more comfort . '" Good cotton , it is said , can be grown on the African coast ; s : x bags were last week shown at Manchester , which , were forwarded , as samples from . Liberia . ; ¦ ¦ -. •;¦ ¦ . ¦ -. , ; . : An Orthodox Clerical Topeb . —Fielding mentions a clergyman who preferred punch to wine , for this orthodox reason ; that the former waa a liquor nowhere spoken against in Scripture !' Yakkee-Doodlb-do . —An American ' Paper remarks , smeetLfe late triumphs of the Yankees in steaming , sailing , &e ., Yankee-Doodle-do" should be changed in England to " Yankee-Doodle-Did . "
Good ; Advice . —A young student at a veterinary college , being asked , "If a broken-winded horse ' were brought to him for cure , what he would advise , ' promptly replied , "To sell him as soon as possible . " - ¦ ¦ . .. . , . PLBisTTCB . —Whenever we drink too deeply of pleasure we find a sediment at the bottom which pollutes and embitters what wo relished at first . A Desirable Debtor . — « , ' Mr . Brown , 1 owe you a grudge ; remember that !"— "I shall not be frightened , then ; for Inever knew you to pay anything that you owed . " Ridiculous . —We are never ridiculous when we act as nature dictates ; when we . assume what she never gave us , we at once become ridiculous .
v A Darino Boy . — "Oh ! my dear , how came you so wet ? " inquired an affectionate mother of her 80 n . — " W , hy , mar , one of the boys said I daren ' t jump into the creek , and , by gosh , I tell you I ain ' t to be dared . " •'¦/ . . Bulls are not confined to Ireland . There is a perpetual advertisement in tho London papers of " unmarketabli shares , " every description of which the advertiser Btates " he continues to iiiyand sell !" Punctilious . —A man in Lowndes County , Alabama , haying published another ¦ as - " a-liar , a scoundrel , and a poltroun , " the latter complains that he does not spell poltroon correctly ! Another Phase' of , Church op Englandism . —An Oxford graduate double classman , and late University scholar , advertising for a curacy , says he has a knowledge of music , a good voice , and that his views are " Hookerian . " -
What is Idleness ?—A public mint , where various kinds of mischief are coined , and extensively circulated among the most despicable of the human race . Peat Company . —The great Peat-working Company of Ireland has commenced vigorous operations at Caliirciveen , near Valencia Harbour , and has been for several weeks affording employraent to from 400 to 600 of the peasantry of that district . A _ Swindler at Glasgow . has been in the habit of buying rotten eggs , on pretence of making blacking with them ; by a chemical preparation lie made them look good , and sold them for eating . He has been fined £ 10 for the disgusting cheat . '
AllTPl'L THIEVES . —Two lads entered a retail shop in Bradford , and Btated that they had dropped a penny down the cellar grate . The good-natured shopkeeper descended in search ¦ of the coin , and in the meantime the juveniles decamped with the till . Very Affectionate . — "Wcel , Sandy , " said a neighbour , the other day , to a little boy in the South of Fife , whose mother had been seriously indisposed , " Hoo is your mither the day ?"— "Deed , I dmna ken verra iveel hoo she is , " replied Sandy , scratching his head ; " but the coo ' s ta ' en ill—that's war nor my mither . " Emigration from Ireland . — The intelligence fr 6 Bi the western counties of Ireland respecting the thinning of the population , by the wholesale flight of the cultivators of the soil , is . found to be substantially correct . It is evident that the emigration of the Irish people to'America must speedily terminate in the utter annihilation of the Celtic race .
Speculators generally die poor . If they make one thousand pounds to-day on a coal mine , they must try and make two thousand to-morrow , by dabbling in the Po- 'Em-Brown railroad . Like the boy who undertook to steal preserves through a knot hole , they get their hands so lull of . sweets that they can ' t pull them back again . Femalb Bailwat Passengers . — The Great Northern Company have put up a notice at their stations , informing females tbnt the servants are ready to secure all classes of female passengers seats in carriages id which other females are travelling . The ladies are also informed , that upon appealing Co the guard at any station at which a train may gtop , it is the duty of the guard to place them where they will be free from anuoyance . ; Reverend " Sons of Guns . "—In the game list for the county of York we find the names of forty " Reverend" sportsmen : — ;
Let Mother Church this comfort take , While everywhere dissent increases ; The canons though her sons forsake , They rally with their fowling pieces . Sale of Poison . —The first prosecution under the new Act for regulating the Sale of Poison has taken place at the petty sessions for Accrington , when a druggist was fined in the mitigated penalty of five pounds , for having sold to a young woman , not of full age , two ounces of arsenic before it was mixed with indigo or seot , as required by the law . The poor girl , it appeared , said , when applying for the arsenic , that her mother it wanted to destroy rats ; but she took it herself , and died ia consequence .
Mowing : Machine . —Mr . Morgan Butler , of New Hartford , Oneiu ' a county , informs us tiai he lias used Ketchum ' s mowing machine for two seasons , and can cut with it an acre of grass per hour , with one pair of horses ; tbat it cuts " as smooth as any farmer could wish ; " leaves the grass spread evenly over the ground ; that it will cut lodged grass , and that which is fine at bottom . lie states that it is manufactured by G . "W . Allen and Co ., Buffalo . Price from 100 dollars to 115 dollars . —American Cultivator .
An Odditt . —Among the peculiarities of Cavendish the celebrated chemist and natural philosopher , was his excessive dislike of women . On the authority of an old inhabitant of Clapham , it is stated that Cavendish would never see a female servant , and if an unfortunate maid ever showed herself she was instantly dismissed . lie was in the habit of ordering his dinner daily by a note , which he left on the hall table , whence the housekeeper was to take it ; and such was his hoi-ror of the sex that , having one day met a maid servant on the stairs with a broom and a pail , he immediately ordered a back staircase to be built .
A Bit of Advice . —Never make a poor mouth ; but if you are wise , you will always affect independence , though you may be as poor as Job's turkey . If you are poor , don ' t let folks know it , as they will discover in you a thousand blemishes—a host of defects which would never be discovered—or at least never talked about— -if you kept a stiff upper lift , and carried yourself , as if you had ten thousand dollars , instead of but ten cents , at your command . Ic is as natural for the world to hold poor folks in contempt as it is for cats to steal cheese . —American Paper ,
Colkuidge on Horskback . —C"lendge was a remarkably awkward horseman , so much so as generally to attract notice . lie was once riding along the turnpike-road in the county of Durham , when a wag , approaching hint , noticed his peculiarity , aud ( quite mistaking his man ) thought the rider a line subject for a little sport , when , as he drew near , he thus accosted Mr . C— " I Bay , young man , did you meet a taifovon the road ?"— " Yes . " replied . Mr . C , who was never at a loss for a rejoinder , "I did ; and lie told me , if I went a little further , I should meet a goosi I" The assailaut was struck , dumb , while the traveller jogged on . —Dr . C / talmer's Life .
The Dkath of a Wife . — " The death of a man ' s wife , " says Lamartine , "is like cutting down an ancient oak that lias long shaded the family mansion . Henceforth the glare of tbe world , with its cares and vicissitudes , falls upon the old widower ' s heart , and there is nothing to break their force , or shield him from the full weight of misforture . It is ss if his right hand were withered ; as if one wing of his angel was broken , and e . very movement that be made brought him to the ground . His eyes are dimmed and glassy , and when the film of death , falls over them , he misses those accustomed tones which would have smoothed his passage to the grave . "
Ameyucas Description or a Teetotaller . —I once travelled through all the State of Maine with one of them ' ere chaps . He was as thin ns a whippin ' -post . His skin looked like a brown bladder after some of the air was leaked out , kinder wrinkled and rumpled-liiie , and as dim , ib a lamp that ' s living on a short allowance ofile . He put me in mind of a pair of kitchen tongs , all legs , shaft , and bead , and no belly ; real gander-gutted looking critter , as hollow aa a bamboo walking cane , and twice ss yaller . He looked actually as if be had been pitoheu off a rack at sea , and draggeil through : i gimlet-hole . He was a lawyer . Thinks I , the Lord a mat-sy on your clients , you hungry , hiilf-starved-looking critter , you , you ' ll eat ' em up alive . You . are just the chap to strain at a gnat find swallow a camel , tauk , shank , and flank , all at a gulp .
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Wreck op a Fke . nch C . urvkttbV— Intelligence , has reacbedjis . ' J by , the overland mail , of the wfeck of a fine fngate of war belonging tothe French Uepublic » called the Alcraene , mouating thirtyrsix guns , " com « manded by M . 'Le Coropte d'Harcourt . on the w"e » t coast of Sydney , New South Wales ; Towards thg utr e " n une she Proceeded on a voyage from Hobart Town , and on the 3 rd of Joly , when between K-iapara Head and HockinngaHead , she was driven ashore on a formidable ridge of Hand , ¦ AH exertiong proved fruitless in getting her off . Nearly the whole of the crew succeeded , in reaching the-ooast , but unbappiiy all were not preserved , between twelve and
fifteen poor fellows having perished in trying to reach the beach . Several of the officers and men after obtaining aid , pushed their way on to Auckland , and having informed the governor of the lamentable event , his excellency instantly adopted the mort prompt measures to afford them assistance . The loll of" the frigate will reach to upwards of £ 30 , 000 . Ti ! E Cologne Gazette" sayst— "The Russian , government have made war against beards . Verj few are now seen at Warsaw , but there are still a great number in the provinces . It is said that travellers with beards who arrive at the gates of Warsaw are immediately turned over to military barbers , who cut off their beards . "
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Pains In The Back , Gravel, Mewnalism, Oout, L\M * Bago, Indigestion,.Bcbiltiy, Stricture, Gleet, Die, Dr. Barker's Purific Pills (Of Which There Are Useless Imitations Under Oth»R
Pains in the Back , Gravel , Mewnalism , Oout , L \ M * bago , Indigestion ,. Bcbiltiy , Stricture , Gleet , die , DR . BARKER'S PURIFIC PILLS ( of which there are useless imitations under oth » r
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 25, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1649/page/3/
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