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Lola Moxtes.—The much talked of engagement of Lola Montes with Mr. Barnum, has, it appears,
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n <« t oeen concluded , as ttie lady in question , haa been dancing at stnenil of the provincial theatres , and lately at Lyons , but without success . "The "Salut Public" of Lyons publishes n warlike epistle , from the Countess lo Dr .-Vernon ( of the Constitutionnel" ) , in consequence of some sarcastic remarks upon her in his journal , in wl . lch she warns the doctor that , in case of the attacks upon nor being contijiiiod iu the " ' Constitutionnel , " sue will send . him a challenge to fi-hf a'duel—not with sword or pistol , but arms moro fimiliarto him —two pills—one { poisoned each of the combarantsto swallow
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lORAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . -C The following testimonial is another proof et' tha ureat efficacy of this motucine . — ' Winchmore-hill , Middlesex . April IGth , 1851 . * Sir , —In consideration of the great benefit : 1 have derived from taking Friunjiton ' s Fill ot Health , I feel it a duty that I owo to you mid the public to > end jou the fol « Iwwing statement . For upward * of nine years ! have ex « perienced the efficacy of this excellent medicine . I had iong previously been afflicted with headache anil indigestion , but a friend having induced me to make a trial of fc ' vampton ' s l'ills , I now inform you that a few dosea gave me great relief ; and during this long period of lime I have taken thtraiR preference to any other mediciee ; and I have the linppiuesj of ssiying that I never had a better btato of health , which I attribute to Frampton ' s Pills . I bog further to add , that this medicine is ia general use by my family , and we knotv of nothing to equal it . ' I am , sir , yours respectfully , ' Thomas Pbbvence . 'To Mr . T . Trout , 223 , Strand . London . '
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Pains in the Back , Gravel , Mheumatism , Gout , lumbago , indigestion , Dtbilitu , Stricture , Oleet , d-c . DR . BAEKEll'S " PURJFIC PILLS ( of which there are useless imitations , under Other ' titles ) , have in many instances effected a euro when all other means had failed , and are now established , by the consent of every patient who has yet tried them , as also by the facomt tuemsilves , as the most safe aud tffica . cious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any kind , retention of the urine , and diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary Organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently end in Ht'r tie in the liludder , and a lingering death ! JW Gout , ec atica , RUevmwtism , Tic Doloreux , Erysipelas , Dropsy , Scrofula , toss or Hair or Teeth , Depression of Spirits , lilushing , Incapacity for Society , Study or Business , Contusion , Giddiness , Drowsiness , Sleep without Refreshment , Fear , Nervousness , and even Insanity itself , when , as _ is nften the case , arising from , or combined with Urinary Diseases , they are unequalled . By their salutary action on Acidity of the Stomach , they correct Bile and-
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A THOUGHT ITtOM TIIE RHINE . Even as an eagle crying all alone Above the vineyards through the summer night Among the skeletons ot robber towers , — The iron homes of iron-hearted lords , 2 « ow crumbling back to ruin year by year , — Bec ause tbe ancient ejrie of his race Is trenched and walled by busy-banded men , And all his forest-cnace , and woodland wild , Wherefrom he feu bis young with hare and roe .
Are trim with grapes which swell from hour to hour , And toss their golden tendrils to the sun For joy at their own riches : —so , in time , Th 8 great devonrers of the earth shall sit , Idle and impotent , they know not why , Down-staring from their barren heights of state On nations grown too wise to slay and slave The puppets of the fevr , while peaceful lore And fellow-help make glad the heart of earth With wonders which they fear and hate , as he , The Eagle , hates the vineyard slopes below . Charles KisaaLBT . From the Christian Socialist .
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" The splendour falls on castle-walls And snowy summits old in t-tory ; The long light shades across the lakes And the wild cataract leaps in glory . Blow , bugle , blow , set the wild echoes flying , Blow , bugle , answer echoes , dying , dying , djing . 0 h 3 rk 3 0 hear ! how thin and clear , And thinner , clearer , farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar Tbe horns of Elfland faintly blowing : Blow , let us haar the purple glens replying Blow , bugle , answer echoes , dying , dying , dying , O love , they die in yon rich sky , They faint on bill , or field , or river ; Our echoes roll from zovX to sold , And grow for ever and for ever . Blow , bogle , blow , set the wild echoes flyinjgf , And answer , echoes , answer , dying , dying , dving . ' Tennyson ' s ' Princess . "
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Robert Owen ' s Journal . Vol . II . London "Watson . Is this ¦ volume the venerable octogenarian expounds , with his usual consistency , the principles of the System of Society he has so long propounded , and exhibits the same unwearied industry—the same hopeful and buoyant enthusiasm which has distinguished the whole of his useful and disinterested career .
No writer of ancient or modern times has denounced and exposed the existing errors and evils of Society with more truthful boldness , than Mr . Owen ; hut the spirit of charity , ¦ fthichhasbeen at the same time the invaluable characteristic of his writings , has preserved him from the violent persecution and personal suffering endured by many other advocates of human regeneration , whose views were far less comprehensive , and whose plans would , if adopted , have made not a thousandth part of the change in human institutions . Mr . Owen has always attacked false principles of action , and the irrational and injurious systems which grow out of themnot men . The Classification and
Organisation of Society are , in bis eyes , the irresistible and predisposing causes of the anarchy , strife , malice , poverty and suffering which everywhere prevail . While men continue to be placed iu the midst of each circamstances , and to be impelled to action by the motives "which they necessarily generate , there can be HO real effective or enduring improvement in the condition of Society . Upon this fundamental proposition , Mr . Owen proceeds with a fearless logic to build up -a new order of Social arrangements—all of them deduced from an investigation of the laws of human nature , and intended to harmonise with these laws , and develope that nature in a superior manner , both in its individual and collective
aspects . It will , we fear , however , be felt as a drawback by the the ordinary reader , that Mr . Owen , in the exposition of his views , dwells too much and too frequently on the fundamental principle of his system , in language too uniformly monotonous , and of a somewhat peculiar kind . The reason for hifi doing so is the overwhelming importance he attaches , in bis own mind , to the full understanding of that cardinal point of the New Tiews of Society ; and we have no doubt whatever , that if Uub be not the case at the commencement of the Btudy , no one can ever perceive the completeness and perfect adaptation of the System of Society the venerable
philanthropist proposes to substitute for the present . It is , in fact , what he terms ifc—tbe Science of Society ; and it must be , like other sciences , mastered in principle before it can be understood in detail . Once the key note is strack , however—once the reader perceives the fall importance and bearing of the proposition with respect to the formation of Character , which Mr . Owen , in all subsequent proposals , never loses eight of—all is as straightforward and simple and beantiful as Mature and Truth . The incessant repetition of this grand fundamental idea is perceived to be a- necessity , because , until it is mastered and ever present in its full force and immenaity of consequence , nothing whatever has been done towards the object of the writer .
But it must be confessed , that Mr . Owen Heeds an interpreter to the middle and working classes . His style and mode of expression is too abstruse . His generalisations are so rapidly performed in his own mind , that in too many instances he neither shows the reader the successive mental processes by which the conclusions were arrived at , nor states them in such precise and definite terms as their importance requires . A popularly written , consecutive , comprehensive , and practical development of Owenisui is yet a desideratum in our literature , which will be both honourable and profitable to the disciple of tne Philosopher who undertakes the tusk , and succeeds in it .
In the meantime , the volnme before us contains an ample store of materials for such a ¦ work . The encouragement given to Mr . Owen by the father of our present sovereign , and many of the most influential personages in 1822 , is fully narrated . His vigorous expositions of his views at that time—now thirty years ago—are contrasted with the opinions and the style of the man who has passed into Bis eighty-first year , with the mind of a sage and the simplicity and hopefulness of a boy . But , besides this recommendation , the volume contains many papers of great value and importance , from the pen of the learned and amiable gentleman who has undertaken the duty of Editor as a labour of love ; and the matter included between the two covers of
this half-a-crown book , take it altogether , may be safely pronounced to be of more importance to the present and the future permanent well-being of mankind , than all the books that have been issued from the press in theyear of theGreat Exhibition . Ourreadersmaythink this eulogiutn is too great ; as some justification read the following admirable dissection of Parliamentary Government : — To those whom nature has first made competent to detect this error of errors , and to perceive these all-important truths , how melancholy a task is it to hear or read the speeches and observe the conduct of the men elected as the most wise and fit to make laws for and govern Great Britain , the United States , and Franco , tbe three most forward and presuming nations of modern times .
Hereafter to read the present speeches of the members of the British Parliament , of the Congress of the United States , and of the Chamber of Depu « ties in France , now deemed to contain tbe elite of tbe human race , will be to discover how admirably theae members confused their own minds and the minds of all others , in vnin attempts to legislate for human nature in opposition to their own nature , Jind to well govern their respective populations by discussing and passing laws directly opposed to the possibility of governing rationally , aud to all good government . To hear these parties talk about the beBt means to suppress crime , to relieve the paying class of the
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burdens of pauperism , to prevent poverty , to remove ignorance ; to give a religious education—of Ue necessity of education , of their ideas of their own religion and of other religions—of the best modes of creating wealth , of producing charity and love or real goodness among mankind—or to hear them explain their notions of the laws necessary to produce good government ; or , indeed , to listen to them upon any of what they call their grave and most important subjects , is truly , to those who have discovered the erroneous fundamental suphni * nana t \ f nniinnHtam i-A __ .. _ J- i i _
position on which the'human character has been hitherto formed and all society hitherto constructed , to attend to language conveying no more rationality or consistency , if so much , a 8 is ' every day to be heard among a similar number of inmates in any well-regulated lunatic asylum . The professed object of these three assembliesin Great Britain , in the United States of North America , and in France , is to well-govern their respective populations , and to ascertain their united wisdom . '
Observe the condition in which their populations are at this day . To well-govern any population is to well-educate , well-employ , and well-place all its members , to unite them cordially in interest and feeling , and to instruct them bow to live in peace and amity with their neighbours and to speak the truth only on all occasions . Each of these three assemblies , since their first establishment , has been occupied , at an enormous expense of time and capital , to attain these results . What are the effects which they have produced during this time and with this capital ? Are any of these populations well-educated ? No !
Has there been one individual in these three advanced nations of the world , trained and educated from birth to become rational , that is , to acquire true ideas only , to think consistently , and to act naturally and ot course rationally ? No , not one , There is not an individual within the dominions of any one of these so-called most civilised nations , so placed that he can venture openly to declare the troth , however strongly he may be impressed with it , upon this vital subject . Are any well-employed ?—that is , justly and in the best manner for tbe individual and for society . Not one . Many are over occupied , and many under occupied or idle ; but there is not one justly and the most beneficially employed for himself and others .
Are any well-placed ? Not one . The human race over the earth are to-day sadly misplaced for their own happiness and that of their fellows , far aud near ; the greater part of them could scarcely be worse-placed for themselves and all society than they are to-day . Are they cordially united in interest and feeling ? No ; they are strongly disunited in both ; and are trained and placed from birth to become and remain opposed to one another , and to acquire the most powerful artificial feelings of repulsion for those who differ from them in class , sect , party , country , or colour , and often for those of the same class , sect , party , country , and colour . Are they educated to live in peace and amity with their neighbour and with other nations ? No .
They are trained to wage a war of competition with both , aud often to contend with the latter in senseless , cruel , and bloody conflicts , to the lasting injury of both- * a 9 the existing national debts of nations and their jealous feelings towards each other prove to demonstration . Is the language of truth the language of these nations ? No . They are all taught to endeavour to buy cheap , sell dear , and to overreach each Other in trade aud politics ; and are so educated and placed , iu a system false through all its ramifications , as to render the language of truth an Utter impossibility ; and they will continue so as long as that system shall be supported by the governing and religious authorities , and by the pre « judices of the ignorant made masses .
Such are the natural aad necessary results of these three assemblies , from their first establishment ; and to-day they are in a more confused and irrational state than they have been at any former time . They have more means at their control now than at any previous period to prevent and overcome error , falsehood , aud evil ; aud they appear to know Jess how to apply the means to attain those results . Could a remedy be introduced among these parties to overcome their present disordered intellect , to soothe their naturally irritated feelings when they first hear these disagreeable truths , and to induce them to think and act rationally , —how delighted would they be after their anger had Subsided , and when they could see things , not according to their present distorted imaginations ; but as they really exist .
Could this be done—and to me it appears now to be practicable—these three assemblies could do more—yes , very far more—for themselves , and for Europe and America , in three months , and for the world in three years , than they have done during their previous existence ; for , in fact , they have done nothing yet , except to increase the obstacles iu the way of the population of the world becoming rational and happy .
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The Home . Part 4 . Office , 2 , York-street , Catherine-street . Oub old friend Richard Oastler continues to battle bravely in the columns of the ' Home ' for those great principles of Protection to Native Industry which have been the guidingstar of Mb long and nsefullife . In the present part there is a series of articles from his own pen on the Lyons Rising of 1831 , which is peculiarly deserving of the thoughtful and attentive perusal of tbe working men of this country . The events were , pev ~ haps , never more graphically related , nor their political and social bearing more
pointedl y and instructively explained . The selfish and unjust millowners , whose only object in life is to amass wealth as rapidly as possible , no matter at what cost to the labourers from whose toil ifc is extracted , or to the highest and most enduring interests of the nation at large , find a severe censor in Mr . Oastler . The pernicious nature of the theories by which they justify their unprincipled and ceaseless aggressions upon industry , and the fatal consequences which have ever flowed from g iving such a party supremacy in any country , are pointed out in that plain , pithy , and telling sty le which constitutes the great charm of Mr . Oastler's writings . We do not pretend
to say that we agree with all the contents of the'Home , ' or in the general opinions entertained by its editor and proprietor on political questions ; but we have unfeigned and sincere respect for the manly earnestness , good faith , and lofty patriotism by which he has been actuafced throughout his long and arduous strugg le on behalf of the toiling millions , and we are happy that such a man can speek for him-6 elf through a periodical like the' Home . ' It should be a welcome and a constant companion to the fireside of every operative in towns , and the ingle of every peasant in rural districts . Asa specimen of its contents , we take the following portrait , taken in the cotton mill by an experienced hand : —
The Scavesgkb . —We have in our cotton factories little boys called " scavengers , " whose occupatien is confined to clearing away the dust and dirt which accumulate under the spinning frames , lou see the little fellows on . their hands and knees , under the threads , as the spinner draws them out , as active as rabbits , following their wearisome occupation , inhaliog tbe dust and cotton flue , and escaping before the spinner closes the machine , —the bystander wondering how they can escape . . . In vain will the visitors to the cotton spinning department of the Great Glass House look for this
diminutive little creature , about whom so much noise has been made , both in and ont of parliament . Many are the inquiries made respecting him by the knowing ones , but generally some evasive answer is given why he has not been exhibited amongst the numberless curiosities at the World ' s Fair . Surely , the cotton Iord 3 are not ashamed of its being known that they have any connexion with himt since his name has become so notorious ; if so , we may at once pronounce the Great Exhibition incomplete , and calculated to deceive the world at large .
We , however , who know him well , willstrivc todescribe him to our readers . Little is known respecting his infancy , except that it was passed in the midst of misery and want . His mother and father , who both worked at the mill , had to leave him in charge of an old woman , who , for two shillings per week , nursed him , and carried him to the mill twice a day , to be suckled by bis mother , fatigued and exhausted as she was by the heat and labuur in the mill . How he learned to walk no one knows ; but at the age of nine years he was examined , and
pronounced a fine healthy youth , by the certifying gurgeou , quite capable of being sent to work at the mill , whitber we will follow him . It is a bitter winter ' s morning when he has to commence his career as a " scavenger " the earth is frozen hard , and covered with snow ; the wind is keen and piercing : but our little hero , nothing daunted , descends into the dark , cold street , where his father lifts him upon his back , and carries his child , now shivering and shaking , to the factory , which is already open and lighted up , though it yet wants a quarter to six o ' clock : Bhould they happen
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to be a few minute 9 too late , the fine of a quarter Of that day ' s wages is inflicted . The gigantic steamengine soon begins to move the wonderful and ponderous machinery , and the child of toil is instructed to commence his task of creeping underneath the spinning mules , and with an old rag to cleanse away the dust and dirt that niay accumulate there ; and this is repeated so often , amidst the unbroken noise of clashing wheels and almost ntolerable heat , that the necessity of constant action on the part of the child , in following the never-tiring machines , often proves too much for exhausted nature , when , inactive from fe « r or weariness , he is trapped in the machine , which often lacerates his little frame . If . spared these wounds , for five hours each day is he compelled to work , at the end of which period he is sent to school : but oh , how apt is he for instruction ' . — How fitted his mind must be , to receive any im-. _ . . _ .
pressions that might prove of service to him in after life ! Poor fellow ! it is the schoolmaster's chief work to keep him awake , the Bhort time he is uniler his care . —What a mockery ! The chief desire and wish of the poor wretch , when his work ceases , is to fall asleep , and , if possible , court fbrgetfiiluees in peaceful slumbers ; and for four years ti'ia goea on , until he is thirteen years old , when the now ( socalled ) educated youth is doomed by the legislature to labour ten and a half hours per day , for which he sometimes gets as much as three shillings and sixpence per week as wages . Wonderful boy ! he now imagines himself a man , when he is allowed to carry such a large sum home to his mother . Such is the monotonous life of the " scavenger" until Ue is cither promoted to some higher situation in the mill or else , as is now often the case , flies from such a horrid Btate Of slavery , to hord with thieves and felons .
Wearisome as the poor " scavenger ' s" life now is , thanks to the labours of such men as Sadler and Fielden , it is comparatively easy to what he had formerly to endure . In bygone days , at seven years of age , he was doomed to twelve hours a day { nay , often longer , ) of such labour . It must never be forgotten , that the relief he ha 9 obtained , was wrung from the "liberal and enlightened" cotton lords , after thirty years' contest ; nor must the reader neglect to observe , that the enemies of John Fielden ' s factory act have already succeeded in obtaining its repeal , by adding half an hours' laoour to the factory day , nor , that they declare their determination , never to rest satisfied , until every vestige of a factory regulation act is torn from the statute book . We warn the factory workers to keep a sharp look-out .
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The Two Friends ; or > Li fe is Earnest . B y Mabbiott Oldfield . ( Parlour Library . ) London : Simms and MMntyre , Unexceptionable in purpose and moral , but very indifferent in execution , is this addition to a useful and admirable series of cheap volwneB . Within the range of the writer's own limited experience , she writes forcibl y , thoughtfully , and pointedly , and the style throughout is smooth and well-sustained , if it never startles or excites by novelty of illustration , or originality of expression . She has lived more in the world of thought than action , and lacks the imaginative and inventive
faculty , which in the case of other female writers makes up for a want of a practical acquaintance with the stern reality and buffefcings ofitshard work-a-day life . The story is simple in its incidents , and progresses towards development in an easy , natural way , which ca'ls for the exercise of none of these faculties on the part of the reader , required by the more highly spiced and intense school of fictitious literature . It is indeed one of character , rather than incident ; and is written from what may be termed a subjective , rather than objective point of view . The two friends are two young ladies who are perfected through
suffering . ' Oae high-minded , gifted , and impulsive , marries a man possessed of a fair exterior and many surface accomplishments , but at bottom thoroughly selfish . That selfishness , mingled with more pardonable excitements , has induced him also to be guilty of a great crime , which puts him in the power of a gang of sharpers , who ultimately make use of their power to rob him of all the wealth he gained through the accelerated death of his uncle , and to leave his wife and child in poverty , while he is compelled to fly to America . It is , however , not the loss of fortune which constitutes the trial of Annie Vincent . It is the
growing estrangement which results from a more correct knowledge of her husband's character , and the blank despair which succeeds a full perception of their utter incompatibility . Mary Brooke , the favourite heroine of the authoress , suffers through those around her , and also by the protracted absence and the misapprehensions of oue to whom she has given her affections . We need not add that all is explained and set right at last . But that ' last ! ' The tale ought just to begin when It is abruptly closed . « Lite in Earnest commenced when Mr . Mornington began to support himself and wife , as well as Annie and her son , by writing for reviews and magazines . How he did that , and managed to get back to his fine , quiet , old retreat at Monkshill , and
to enjoy so much happiness as we catch iu a closing glimpse of him , we can't understand . Press drudgery is not so remunerative as the author of the Two Friends imagines , as she will yet find by experience , we fear-. One feature of the tale , however , which most forcibly arrested our attention , is the manner iu which many grave questions , connected with the present position of women , are discussed . There is evidently a powerful o pinion on theae subjects growing up among the other sex , which will , in due time , make itself Mb in society , and produce some greater changes than mere alterations in the length of the skirt , or the substitution of ' pettiloons' for 4 petticoats . ' Here are some thoughts worth pondering . Miss Watson , a strong miuded , active , charitable spinster , loquitur . —
I did not mean to speak disparagingly of women , but I feel almost bitterly how niuxh " better they might , and ought to be , than they are . In these days , when so many of us harp on that hateful theme , the "r ights of women , " as it is termed , we must all of us reflect on our position , and no one can deny it has many hardships : the indubitable , and , perhaps , the inevitable consequence of the fact , that men have made the Jaws which regulate society ; aud of the no less important fact , that these laws , most of them , originate from the time when women possessed , and deserved less influence , than they have at present . But I can never believe that these evils will be cured by clamour on our parts . We must begin the reform with ourselves .
If mothers taught their sons true principles of equity , we should gain more than by being represented in parliament . ; but to do that , mothers must first educate themselves . Every step we rise , as a sex , in moral and intellectual force , is a step towards emancipation where we need it . Brute force may be far more easily repressed than the spiritual force to which I allude ; and tliou » h this reform is a work of time , the result of . which vie shall probably never see ourselves ,, it may yet be advanced by each and all of us . Do you not think this noiseless , inward reform , is more suitable , more dignified , more right for us , than any outcry which , impotent as we arc to enact or repeal laws , is but too apfe to souud contemptible ?
" I know bow much we all need this' inward reform , ' " replied Mary ; " but you apeak aa if all the need is with us . Do you really think so ?" " Let us leave men alone , " replied Miss Watson . " We have enough to do with ourselves and our children ; if we make them what they ought to be , the victory is ours , and oppression must vanish . " The evils of the governess Bystem are also well pourtrayed , and the great quest ion of the employment and independence of women is treated in a manner which shows the subject is ripening for action .
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MR . GLADSTONE'S LETTERS ON THE STATE OF NAPLES . We have received tho following correspondence between the-Pnnoe Castelcicala and Lord Palmer-M , ° n fJ tlVe l -Jl communication , ofScially , by He former to the Foreign office of a pamphlet pubished m London in reply to Mr . Gladstone ' s letters to the Karl of Aberdeen . PEINCE CASTKLC 1 GALA TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON . lo , Princes-street , Cavendish-square , << « f t T " August 9 th . » Tim ? T ' " ~ In *« port which appeared in the rr iima , P Per of yesterday of the sitting of the -
uouse ot Commons , I have read that your Excelf ™ * 1 D ? n * mv *•»¦*«•»» put by Sir De Lacy Mans , relative to some publications of Mr . Glad , stone against the government of the King my august master , said that you considered it your ouy to send copies of the same to the British Ministers-at the various CourtBof Europe ; anil since a reply to the said publication , grounded upon substantial documents , has recently wade its appearance , I have the honour to send fifteen copies to your Excel ency , and therefore request your excellency will take precisely the same means for v ? eir « , . trlbution aB y ° u have done for those of Mr . Gladstone .
The known maxim , 'Audi alter am par tern , ' tne courtesy of your Excellency , and , in the present conjuncture , what is better , your justice , all lead me to hope that your Excellency will not find my request indiscreet . " Castblcicala . " V 1 SCOUNI PALMER 8 T 0 N TO PRINCE OAsTElCICAtA . " Foreign-officc , August 18 . Prince , —I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 9 th inat ., inclosing a copy of a pamphlet entitled "The Neapolitan Government and Mr . Gladstone , " and requesting that copies of that pamphlet may he forwarded to Her Majesty's Ministers at the several European Courts . I have to state to you in reply that I must decline being aeceasor y to the circulation of » pampbefc , which , in my opinion , does no credit to its writer Or tho government which he defends , or to the political party of which ho professes to be the champion .
" I should never have taken tbe liberty of addressing you on the subject of Mr . Gladstone ' s pamphlet , if you had not by your letter of the 9 th m&t . rendered it necessary for me to do so , and I cm assure you that it is not without pain and reluctance that 1 state to you my opinion in regard to those pamphlets and to the nutters of which they treat ; but I feel that silence on my part , after the receipt of your communication of the 9 th , would expose me to . misrepresentation . I feel myself , therefore , compelled to say that Mr . Gladstone ' s letters to Lord Aberdeen present an afflicting pictore of a system of illegality , injustice , and cruelty practised by the officers and agents of the government in the kingdom of Naples , such as might have been hoped would not havo existed in any
European country in the present days ; and the information which has been received upon these matters from many other sources leads , unfortunately , to tbe conclusion that Mr . Gladstone by no means overstated the various evils which he describes , but that Mr . Gladstone ' s letters were evidently written and published , not , as the pamphlet which you send me insinuates , in a spirit of hostility to the King of Naples , or with feelings adverse to the parliamentary and monarchical constitution which his Sicilian Majesty has granted to his subjects and has confirmed by his Royal oath . Mr . Gladstone ' s object seems , on the contrary , to have been the friendly purpose of drawing public attention to , and of directing the force of public opinion upon , abuses which , if allowed to continue , must
necessarily sap the foundation of the Neapolitan monarchy , and prepare the way for those violent revulsions which the resentments produced by a deep senseoflongcontinued and wide spread injustice are sure sooner or later to produce . It might have been hoped that the Neapolitan government would have received those letters in the spirit in which they manifestly were written , and would have set to work earnestly and effectually to correct those manifold and grave abuses to which their attention has thus been drawn . It is obvious that , by such a course , the Neapolitan government would Aoxnore to frustrate the designs of revolutionists , and to strengthen the monarchical institutions of their
country , than could be effected by the most rigorous proceedings of the most vigilant minister of the police . But the government of Naples will be much mistnken if it imagines that a pamphlet , consisting of a flimsy tissue of bare assertions and reckless denials , mixed up with coarse ribaldry and commonplace abuse of public men and political parties , will accomplish any useful purpose or render any real service to the government on whose behalf it appears to have been written . And I must take leave to observe that there are admissions , direct and indirect , in Mr . MacParlane ' s pamphlet , which go far to ^ establish the conclusions which he pro * fesses an intention to overthrow . " Pakuehston . " It will be remarked that the letters above given were written so far hack , as the month of August , but we understand , that it was only lately that they have been made known to the diplomatic world .
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MR . RAMSIIAY AND TIIE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT—COMMUNICATION FROM THE EARL OF CARLISLE . On Friday morning tbe 24 t ) i ult . the following communication , addressed to Mv . Samuel Holme , was received from Lord Carlisle , respecting the inquiry into the conduct of Mr . Ramshay , the judge of the Liverpool County Court , from which it will be seen that his Lordship has decided that the inquiry shall be conducted in Preston , and not in Liverpool , as had been requested by the memorialists . This will of course increase the expense , as well as the trouble of conducting the case ; but there is no appeal from bis lordship ' s decision : — Duchy of Lancaster Office , Waterloo-Bridge , London , Oct . 23 . 1851 .
Sir , —I am now directed to acquaint you , for the information of the committee appointed to prepare the late memorial to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , that a communication having been received from Mr . Ramshay repudiating the charges made , against him , his lordship has decided to hear evidence in support ot and against those charges , on Wednesday , the 5 th of November next , at ten o ' clock in tlie afternoon , at the Courthouse at Preston , in the County Palatine of Lancaster , when Mr . Kamshay and the memorialists may be represented by counsel , if thought , fit . _ I am , sir , your very obedient servant , 1 ' . K . Dawes Danvers .
Imjned'ately upon the receipt of the communion tion , a meeting of the committee was called , when it was determined to present a memorial to the town council on "Wednesday , praying that the council will undertake the coiiduco of the case , conceiving that it is one of so great importance , < ind involves a question so deeply affecting , not only the due administration of justice , but also the pergonal liberty of every member of the community , that it should be conducted by the authorised heads of this community , and not by private
indiv iduals . Petitions , from the burgeasea of each ward to their respective representatives , urging them to support this opinion in council , have been prepared , and are already in course of extensive signature . Notwithstanding fcke approaching inquiry , Mr . n-tmshar took his seat on the bench on Monday morning precisely at twenty-five minutes to ten o ' clock , and tho ordinary business was immediately proceeded with . As the morning advanced , the court became execedin ly crowded .
Meeting of the Liverpool Town Council , —A meeting of the town council was held on Wednesday , when a memorial from the inhabitants very numerously signed was read , calling upon the council to become prosecutors in the inquiry about to be held before tlu- Earl of Carlise into the conduct of Mr . U-tmshny , the judge of our County Courfc . —Mr . Councillor Holme moved that the council adopt the prayer of the memorial , which , buying been seconded , the town-clerk said he had written to Mr . Crompton , barrister , and that gentleman had forwarded an opinion to the effect that to apply the funds of tho corporation as proposed would be against the spirit of the act ot parliament . Tbft town clerk then proceeded to flay that , beiug satisfied of the illegality of so applying the corporate funds he should refuse to countersign the order
for payment of the money , should the council decide so to expend it . Ultimately Mr . Holme withdrew liis motion , and substituted the following motion , which was carried by a majority of fifty-one to three , Mr . Hoiine remarking that , seeing the impo : 8 it > ility of carrying his original motion in the face of counsel ' s opinion , he had ao modified it as to express the opinion of the council on Mr . Ramsbny ' s extraordinary proceedings . The motion , as carried , was as follows : — " That in the opinion of this council , the circumstances which have taken place in relation to the course pursued bv the judge of the Coun ty Court for this district are such as to call for . in inquiry before the proper authorities but this council having been advised that it cannot legally expend the corporation funds in prosecuting such inquiry , regrets that it cannot comply with the prayer of this memorial . "
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SHNIjterial Uhangbs . —we near that Mr . Hawes is about to resign his office of Under-Socretary of State for the Colonies , upon his appointment to that of Deputy-Secretary at War , in place of the Right Hon . Lawronce Sullivan , who retires after upwards of forty years' service . Mr . Hawes is succeeded in the colonial department bv Mr . Frederick Vaz \;— Globe . Famrh Mathew . —A tribute is collecting in America for Father Mathew , whose pecuniary embarrassments are considerable . Tho £ 300 a year pension which he receives from the British government is appropriatd to Ms creditors .
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Con . —Why are military officers all literary ?—Because they are so fond of reviews . The United States take nearly fifty per cent , of our exports of earthenware . " ¦ : Cheap tailors are . had enough ,. but the Water Companies are the worst of slop'Stllers . A Forgotten Fkast . —A feast in . -the Crystal Palace to the workmen who built it . —Punch . , " You cannot possibly , succeed , " as the frying-pan said to the eel , wheu he tried to leap out . A live lobster is a perfect puzzle , which can only be red , "inwardly digested , " and fully solved , after its death . ¦ In Genoa , out of & population of 120 , 000 , there are U . 000 monks , triarg , nuns , and ecclesiastics of various orders . . • ¦ ¦ .-.
Matchss , — "Do you keep matches ? " asked a wag , of a retailer . — " Oh , yt-s , all hinds , " was the reply . —'' Then I'll take a trotting match . " The Future . —It has been beautifully said that " the veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy . " Am old maid , who hates the male sex most vehemently , cut a female acquaintance who complimented her on the buoyancy ot her spirits . To Remove Stains . —Repentance may renovate reputation , but it wont do for shawlBor silk dregses ; the only thing letc in 6 uch cases is t < v dye .. ' Leghorn Bonnets . —In the Great Exhibition were some exquisite specimens of Leghorn bonnets , one of which , the most valuable one , Was said to be worth thirty guineas . THE CbiTkbion . —Dr . Johaaon , speaking of a well dressed lady says : — " The best evidence I can give upon this subject is that one can never remember what she had on . "
FutK Taadb . — A Nottinghamshire labourer states that he remembers working three weeks for a bushel of wheat , then selling at 21 s . Be now gets nearly three bushels of wheat for one week ' s labour , A Slow Man . —There is a man in ScUenectady so lazy and Blow , that his friends say if death only wars with the quick , ' that he will live for ever , lie is first cousin to the man who invented
laudanum . Thoublb Sated . — " My dear , said a gentleman to a young lady to whom he thought to be married , "do you wish to make a fool of me ?"— "No , " replied the lady , " Nature has Baved me the trouble . " A SiEEpy Epidemic . —In Galieia there is an epidemic of a very novel character ; people are seized with 80 violent a disposition to sleep , that they remain often six or eight days in a state of perfect torpor . Ghandmamma is supposed to have given Master Tom some 1 i , ums . —Master Tom : "bow , then , Granny , I ' ve eaten the plums , aud if you don't give me . sixpence , I'll swallow the stones !" — Punch . The Flower < ss Yankbelakd . —It is natural to inquire what sort of flower is the Bloomer ! An American Aloe , probably , as it is of transatlantic origin , and ia hardly likely to come out in bloom ofrener than oncu in a century . —Punch .
A showman exhibiting a picture , said : " Ladies and gentlemen , there is Daniel in the den of lions . These are the lions , and that is Daniel , whom you will easily distinguish from the Jiona , by his having a blue cotton-umbrella under his arm . Profank Swearing . —The mo 3 t amusing man in the world ia a Frenchman in a passion . '' By gar , you call my y it ' e a vomeu three several times once more , and I will call the vatch house , and blow your brains like a candle , by dam !" Thb Gorham Controversy . —Tiie expenses in the contest between Mr . Gorham and the Bishop of
Exeter were £ 3 , 604 7 s . » d . ; and the total subscriptions for defraying Mr . Gorkam ' s expenses amounted to £ 2 , 857 0 s . lOd . ; leaving a balance of £ 253 2 s . 2 d . ; which has been handed over to the revereud gentleman . A Blister . — " I say , Mr . Johnson , did you hear 'bout de catalepsy dat betel Pbillise ? " — " Ob , course I didn ' t ; what was it ? ' '—'' You see , de Uocior ordmd & blister on her chist ; well , as she hadn ' t no chist , no how , she put urn on de band-box , and it drawed her new pink bonnet out ob shape and 9 pileutn entirely . "
Search after Happiness . —If you cannot be happy in one nay , be happy in another ; and this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy , for health and good humour are almost the whole affair . Many run about after feliciiy . like an absent man looking fur his hat , while it ia on his head or in his hand—Sharp . A Chau . engb . —Darius Daviaon sends' forih a , challenge 10 the world in the American papes . Her will build a yacht on a new plan , and sail her against any yatcu whatever . If lie should win , tbe second and last yacht to be his . If he should lose , his yacht to go to the winner . Who is the Alexander that shall conquer this Darius ?
Done Crying . —The old Irish cry of " Ireland for the Irish" will suon be lulled , and beard no more ; for if the emigration keeps up its present enormous rate , tbere will soon be not a single Irishman left in Ireland , and the cry muse tie changed . t < . > "Ireland for the English , " or any one who chooses to live in it . —Punch . Reclamation of Land . —The local papers state that o company now forming intends to make an upplication in the ensuing Session of Parliament , for a bill to reclaim Moreeombe Bay from the sea . If the application be successiui , an area of land comprising about 70 , 000 acres will be added to Lancashire aim Westmoreland , and , as grazing land , will ad : ! mmerially 1 o the wealth of the district .
Pride of Ancestry . —In the castles and palaces of the ancient ex-nobility of France , the tapestry frequently ( jreaentB iuemoriaiB of iheiv pride of ancestry . Un the tapestry of au apartment iu the palace of the tx-Duke of Choiseul , is a representation of the Deluge , in which a mart is seen ruiiuiiig atW Noah , aud calling <« n , " My good frfend , suve the archives of the Choiseul family . " A Solemn Question . —At a recent meeting of ;» parish , a solemn , straight bodied , and most exemplary deacon submitting a report , in writing , of the destitute widows aud others standing in need ot assistance was asked , " Are you sure , deacon , that
you have embraced all the widows ? " He said , " he believed he had done bo ; but if any had been omitted , the omission could easily be corrected . " Ho did not take at all . " ' —Knickerbocker . A Cold . — " Do you know what it is , " says Lamb , " to succumb under an insurmountable day mare?—an indisposition to do anything or be anything—a total deadness and distaste—a suspension of vitality —an indifference to locality—a numb , sopurificai good-foi-uothingneBs—an ossification all over—an oyster-like inditfereuce to passing events—a mindstupor—brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience—with a total irresolution to submit to water gruel processes ?"
OuB Life Time . —Man lives seventy years . The first thirty are his human yearB , and pass swittly by ; he is then healthy and happy—he labours cheerfully , aud rejoices in his existence . The eighteen years of the ass come next , and burden after burden is heaped upon , him ; he carries the corn tbat is to feed others , and blows and kicks are the wages of his faithful service . The twelve years of the dog follow , and he loses his teeth , and lies in a corner and growls . When ihese are gone , the ape ' s ten years form the conclusion . The man , weak ami silly , becomes Ibe sport of children . —From the German .
Travelling in the United States . —Pievieusly lo 1844 the lowest fare from New York to Albany , a distance of 145 miles , was in . 4 d . ; at present the fare is 2 s . 2 d ., and for an additional sum of the same amount the passenger can command the luxury of a separate cabin . When the Bplendour and magnitude of tlift accommodation is considered , the magnificence of the furniture aad accessories , and the luxuuousness of the Table , it will be admitted that no similar example of cheap locomotion can be found in any part of the globe . Passengers may there be transposed iu a floating palace , surrounded with all the conveniences and luxuries of the most splendid hotel , at the average rate of twenty miles an hour , for less thau one-sixth of a penny per mile !
Pat at the Posx Office . —The following colloquy actually took place at an Eastern Post Office : —Pat : " 1 say , Mr . Postmaster , n there a litiher for nje ?"— " Who are you , my good sir ? " " I ' m meself , that ' B who I am . "— "Well , what is your same ? " " An' what do ye want wid the name?—is ' ntitonthe litther ?'— "So that I can find the letter if there is one . " " Will , Pat Byrne , thin , if ye must have it . "— "No , sir—there is none for Pat Byrne . " "Is there no way to git in there but through this pane of glass ?"— "No , sir . " "Ii ' b will far ye there isn ' t . I'd teach ye betther manners thin to insist on a gintleman ' s same ; but ye didu ' t git it aftw all—bo I ' m aven wid ye ; divil the bit is me name Byrne !"
Fool Air in Weli . 8 . —With reference to the best Diode of using lime lor the purification of wells , a correspondent of the " Builder" says— " Put some unslaked lime into a large bucket ( not so much as to cauae it to fall over when it becomes slaked ); and before lowering tho bucket into the well , pour a sufficient quantity of water on the lime to slake it . Immediately that the water has been put to the lime , let the bucket and its contents be lowered to the water in the well , but not go as to go into it . In a few minutes the well will be cleared of the foul air ,
the slaking lime either taking up the noxious air or forcing it out of the well . Some persons recommend throwing unslaked lime into the well ; but there are , I conceive , two objections lo that mode-one , that it can seldom or ever be efficacious , for the lime would , of course , immediately sink to the bottom of the well , and , if the water be deep , the alak . hv of the lime at the bottom of the well would have little if any , effect beyond the surface of the water The other objection is that if lime be thrown into the well , the water would not , at least for a considerable Ume afterwards , be fit to dvink . " u ° w «* oie
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Kossuth ' b Delivbhancb . — We have been informed on good authority , that in the event of any untoward accident to the American steam frigate jIissiBsippi having rendered her incapable of embarkwg Kossuth and his companions in the Bospherus , the Admiralty had ordered her Mnjssty ' s steam vessel Oberon to be sent to Constantinople , to convey the Hungarians to Malta . — United Service Gazette . A New Femalb Revolution . —A singular remale pronumiamenio has just taken place at Geneva , where the milk-women have fought to cause , by revolutionary means , an increase in the price of their commodity . They promenaded their donkeys , dressed in mourning , through the streets , stopping from time to time , to read a placard , proclaiming that the measure of railk would henceforth be 5 c . instead of 4 c .
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PUBLICATION RECEIVED . The literary fiambler . Hos . 1 and 2 . October and November .
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Lola Moxtes.—The Much Talked Of Engagement Of Lola Montes With Mr. Barnum, Has, It Appears,
Lola Moxtes . —The much talked of engagement of Lola Montes with Mr . Barnum , has , it appears ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 1, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1650/page/3/
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