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number ig about 100 guns , of sizes ( including nine 1 Spunnder iron , guns ) , and seventy or eighty wall-pieces and jinjallB . Thousands of balls and p : eces of china were king 1 » I tue guns , most of which were found loaded and spiked , some to within sis or eight inches of the muzzle , one filled with duck shot . " The place is most offensive from the number of dead bodies of men and dogs , audfrom the stench of the decayed fisb , which the Burmese are fond of , and sickness has , I am sorry to say , commenced to n very great extent . Cholera is raging fearfully ; one offiser , Captuin Hint , Paymaster of ber Majesty ' s SOth Foot , has already fallen " a victim , and another is scarcely expected to recover . The soldiers of the different regiments are dying in numbers . "The heat since tbe troops landed has been fearful . Two officers , Brevet-Major 0 > kts . of the Madras Artillery , and Brigide-Major Grifluhs , of the Madras Brigade , died from a coup de soteil on the l" 2 sh , and Brigadier Warren , and many others , with numerous soldiers , have suffered severely from the same cause . " fttiftftnnM in aLkmI 1 / 1 A _^ _; / " 1 .. J : T irt
THE ilGHT ASD SLACGUTEK DESCRIBED BY AS ETS WIISESS . The following is an extract- from a private letter : — _ , " Rangoon , April l « 3 th , 1 SD 2 . " ihe iy . ik has been done and ltangoon takeu by storm . Our frhnd will no doubt give you an official account t'f all our « romg 3 on , by which you will see we rather astonished the natives with onr heavy suns . Poor old MoozuSer hasbeen riddled with shot , jiiijiils and musket balls , and the felloe certainly opened a very pretty fire O : us under 200 yards , and as wo had our whack of troops 0 hoard ( S 50 ) it was the greatest good piece of luck in the ¦ world that we had not more casualties . The Burmese fired low at first , and when they got their range , as good luck would have it , the tide fell . So to them it must have appeared as if tbe shins rode and sank at pleasui e , for as we
fell with the tide their shot cut our rigging up a good deal . However , we did for the rascals , anda ? toni 3 hed one beggar who took aim at ¦ whilst on the paddle-box with a ship's 9 pr ., mUsed h : 3 mark , and sent the shot hissing through the funnel . We in a very short time silenced the " Dalia" Stockade , and then took to shelling the forts on ihe other side of the river . The Feroze and Ses ostris were in like manner on the same affair , but we had the brunt of it , as old ¦ will tell you when he sees you . The slaughter was immense inside all the Stockades , and in some of them we found the poor devil 3 made fast to their gons with their heads off , whether by shot 3 or Mardarins ' swords is another affair ; bnt there they were . At night the howling of the dogs was most dismal . Here everv hoase ha * a family of them , which , like cats , stick more to
the dwelling than the man who feeds them , and the yells at nigLt sounded for miles and miles , and must have created a nasty sensation among tbe rest of the Burmese troops for , by eight in the evening of Sanday , the 11 th of April , all their Stockades had been burnt and destroyed as far as the shipping was concerned ; and the Stockades of the otters inland as well as the Great Golden Pagoda was left to the aoldiets . The Ferns and ourselves bad to nroceed up the Eemmendine to the support of the Serpentand Phlegethon . However , these big steamers they dread , and so onr friends the Burmese cut out of the Stockade , and gave us the trouble of sbellinsr and storming the place without a soul in it . The next thing we did was to shell tbe new town and Pagoda , and for forty-eight hours the Burmese saw nothing but falling stars and bursting meteors . They certainly must have thought us devils , for shells , shrapnel ] , carcase , and rockets were falling all round them ; and the place actually stinks from the dead and dying . But on the
14 th the place was stormed and taken , and ic wa 3 a pretty sight to see the Woongees , or chiefs , running about with gilt umbrellas , encouraging tbe fellows to fight , which they did right well , supported by some European deserters . However , tbe thing is over , and no doubt the despatches wiil tell for tho rest . Since leaving Madras we have been as it were in a whirlpool ; and ¦ when we ceased firing the other day it appeared unnatural , and having got rid of the troops tba ship appeared deserted . V ? e are now falling back into our old ways . I fancy we shall be back with you by tbe middle of May . The ships are all healthy and busy , but the cholera has broken out amongst the troop 3 and in some of her Majesty ' s ships and the Berenice . I do net know if it is of a serious kind . The troops on shore did not take off their clothes for four days . This is a moet baautifnl country ; green forests , trees , " and verdure ; and we cannot have burnt less than 100 , 000 spars as big as our mainmast . "
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COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS IN THE UNITED STATES PltOBABILITF OF A " SMASH . "
New York , May 15 th , 1 S 52 . Since American credit wa 3 restored in Europe by tbe redemption of bonds which were at one time repudiated , such has been the general prosperity of the country that we have had unbounded credit at home and abroad . But we hare now reached a period -where speculation in almost every department of business and of commerco has gone so far that a crisis must be soon reached . There is nothing alarming at the present time in the state of our
indebtedness to Europe , and this will only be an incidental cause of embarrassment when our affairs begin to go wrong at home . That time , however , will doubtless soon come . I will specify more particularly the grounds upon which I have formed such an opinion . It appears by the statistics of the last census , that in January , 1 S 52 , there had already been completed 10 S 14 mi'es of railroad iu the United States . 10 , 600 miles more are now in process of construction , and a very lar <» e portion of these roads will be completed ( unless some great financial crisis arrives ) during the next three years . All this indicate
s great prosperity ; but it should not be forgotten that these roads are not constructed as they are in other countries ; for here the vast proportion of means relied upon for building them is obtained upon credit . Of all the American railroads now in process of construction , or those which have been recenthy completed , not one mile in fivehaa been built with the capital stock of tbe road itself ! If , for instance , a road is to cost a million of dollars , it is considered sufficient to organise the company with a capital of 2-50 , 000 dollars , and then issue bouds and raise the balance by loans . In a considerable number of instances , » 3 in the Erie Railroad for example , three , four , and often five tunes as much money U raised by bonds as is paid in by Stockholders . In this manner it is estimated that an amount of 100 , 000 , 000 dollars has been raised during tbe last five years ; and in a considerable number of instances in has been proved that the interest upon the monev so
borrowed has been paid out of the instalments of tbe original stockholders—thus eating up the bona fide capital of the road to pay tbe interest of the money it bad borrowed . I estimate that probably not less than seventy or eighty millions of dollars advanced in loans of this description have no permanent security to re 3 t upon , and that either repudiation or annulment by due process of law is as inevitable as that a man who dies insolvent must leave some of hia creditors to suffer . The scale upon which speculations of this kind are now going on in America is stupendous beyond conception . The estimate of value now attached to Amer ican property of every description is exaggerated beyand precedent . 6 a Broadway , the principal aveaue through the city of Sew York , presents this spring a curious and brilliant , bat an ominous spectacle . Ileal estate in this city has nearly if not quite doubled , during the last tweke months , and ' has quadrupled during the last five years . Pronert * nhtoh
' C live years ago produced in rents bnt 2 , 000 dols . a-vearis now , with new and enlarged buildings , producing from 10 , 000 to 1 G . 000 dolls . Multitudes of VerchantaI whe C marly transacted as large a business as they now do in buildings where they paid from 700 to 1 , 200 dollars per annum are now paying from 3 , 000 to 7 , 000 . Six or ci » ht Of the largest and most magnificent hotels in the world are now in process of construction in Broadway , every one of of which , I believe , is built and furnished with borrowed money . Steamboat ? , ships clippera , and everything that can float on the ocean , are seized hold of the moment thev come in sight , and purchased either on time or on borrowed money . The banks nave extended enormousl y in their issues The controller of New Yorkcity , who manages finances morfl
extenaeatnantnoseof some of the kingdoms of Europe told me a few days ago that he could borrow as many mill lions as the city of New York would call for at less than five per cent , per annum . Money is indeed abundant it never was so much so , in vast sums , where there is complete security ; as , for instance , there is for the scrip and stock of the State and City of Xe * York ; for hero , in P 4 od faith , and to answer the demands of capital , legislation bas accorded securities which are beyond tbe rich of accident , therevenues , for instance , of the canals , the docks , wharfs , piers , public buildings , and all public works . But the completeness of this kind of security for some of the UBS * 1 l ? 1 "borr ? wed h « only deluded and beguiled thousandsof others into loans which are really based Slf ° JHn , V i erer - , When Istate tLat * ^ ve myself , withm a few days , known of very large sums of money loaned out on bonds and mort ™*™ nn ™ nJl in
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" Vbrv ukb k Whale !" -Ia Eiderstedt there was a miller who had the misfortune to have his mill burnt every Chri&tmss eve . lie had , however , a courageous servant wno undertook to keep watch in the mill on that p ortentous Bight . He kindled a blazing fire and made himself a good kettleful of porridge , whxh he ssirred about with a large ladle . He had an old sabre lying by him . Ere long there came a whole regiment of cats into the mill , and he heard one say in a low tone to another , " Mousekin ] go and set by Hanskln ! " and a beautiful milk-white cat came creeping softly to him and would place herself by his side . At this , bedashed it her
taking a ladleful of the scalding porridge , m face , then seizing the sabre , he cut off one of her paws . Ihe eats now all disappeared . On looking at the paw more attentively , he found , instead of a paw , that it was a woman s delicate hand , with a gold ring on one ot tbe tiiigets , whereou was his master ' s cypher . Nest morning the miller a wife lay in bed and would not rise . " Give mclhy hand , wife ! " said tho milier . At first she refused , but was obliged at length to hold out her mutilated limb . When the authorities got intelligence of this event , the woman was burnt for a witch . —Northern Mythology .
THE MILLER'S DAUGHTER . It is the miller ' s daughter , And she is grown so dear , 80 dear , That I would be the jewel Tnat trembles at her ear ; For hid in ringlets day and night , I'd touch her neck so warm and whitej And I would be the girdle About her tiainty , dainty waist , And her heart would beat against mo In sorrow and in rest , And I should know if it beat right : I'd clasp it round so close and tight . And I would he the necklace , All day long to fall and rise Upon her balmy bosom With her laughter or her sighs ; And I would lie so light , so light , I scarce would be unclasped at night .
Chika . —Foreigners who know nothing about the internal state of the country , are apt to imagine that there reigns lasting peace . Nothing is , however , more erroneous : insurrections of villages , cities , and districts , are of frequent occurrence . The refractory spirit of the people , the oppression and embezzlement of the mandarines , and other causes , such as dearth and demagogues , frequently cause an unexpected revolt . In these cases , the destruction of property and hostility against the rulers of the lar . d ( especially if these have been tyrants ) is often carried to great excess : there are instances of tbe infuriated mob broiling their magistrates over a slow fire . On the other hand , the cruelty of government when Victorious , knows no bounds : tbe treatment of political prisoners is really so shocking as to be incredible , if one had not been an eye witness of these inhuman deeds . Fostisellb , when very old , was placed by tbe side of
Madame de Froidment , who was ninety-five . "Ah ! my poor old shepherd ! " said she to him , tossing her head , and lisping slightly , " Hew old we are getting ! " " . Hush ! Death forgets u 3 , " said Fontinelle , putting his finger on his lips . Compehtios . —Sweet competition ! Heavenly maid I —• Isow-a-days alike by penny-a-linew and philosophers as the ground of all society—the only real preservers of the earth Why not of Heaven , too ? Perhaps there is competition among the an ; els , and Gabriel and Raphael have won their rank by doing the maximum of worship on the minimum of grace ? We shall know some day . In the meanwhile , " these are thy works , thou Parent of all good ! " iMan eating man , eaten by man , in every variety of degree and method ! Why does not some enthusiastic political economist write an epic on " The Consecration of Cannibalism ?" TherS are two things which ought to teach us to think meanly of human glory—the very best'have had their calumniators , the very worst their panegyrists .
The debauchee offers up his body as a " living sacrifice at the shrine of Sin . " We most readily forgive that attack which affords us an opportunity of reaping a splendid triumph . A wise man will uot sally forth from his doors to cudgel a fool , who is in the act of breaking hi 3 windows , by pelting them with guineas . Wb ask advice , but we mean approbation . It is much easier to ruin a man of principle , than a man of none , for he may be ruined through his scruples . Knavery is supple a « d can bend , but , honesty is firm and upright , and yields not . Dr . Jonssos was asked by a lady , what new work be was employed about ? "I am writing nothingjast at present , " he replied . " Well , but , Doctor , " said Bhe , "If I could write like you , I should be always writing , merely for the pleasure of it . " " Pray , Madam , " retorted he , " Do you think that Leander swam across the Hellespont , merely because he was fond of swimming ?"
The Italians have a story that a nolileman about to celebrate hi 3 marriage feast , wanted a fisb , which could not be procured . At length a poor fisherman made hiB appearance with a turbot so large , it seemed to be created for the occasion . On being asked tho price of it , he replied , " One hundred Iashe 3 ' on my bare back is the price of my fish , and I Will not bate a stroke . " Remonstrance was in vain , and at length the nobleman consented to pay in that coin . After fifty lashes had been administered , the fisherman exclaimed , "Hold , hold , I have a partner in this
business who has to receive the other fifty as his share . " " 'What , " cried the nobleman , "Are there two such mad caps in the world ? Same him . " " He is the porter who Stands at your gate , " said the fisherman . " lie would not let me in until I promised him half what I should receive for my turbot . " " Oh , oh , " said thenoblemnn , " lie shall receive his half with the strictest justice . " The fisherman was amply rewarded . Hisir people drink the nectar of existence scalding hot . The most effectual way to secure happiness to ourselves is to confer it upon others .
Our minds are like ill-hung vehicles , when they have little to carry they raise a prodigious clatter , when heavily laden they neither creak nor rumble . What we wish to do we think we can do , but when we do not wish a thing it becomes impossible . Free Deveiopment of Man . —If I were to express in a lino what constitutes tbe glory of a state , I should say it is the free and full development of human nature . That country is the happiest and noblest whose institutions and circumstances give the largest range of action to the human power 3 and affections , and call forth man in all the variety of his faculties and feelings . That ia the happiest country where there is most intelligence and freedom of thought , most affection ap . d love , most imagination and taste , most industry and enterprise . Oxb half of mankind pass their lives in thinking how they shall get a dinner , and the other in thinking what dinner they shall tret .
In- speaking of a learned sergeant , who gave a confused , elaborate , and tedious explanation of some point of law , Curran observed , " That whenever that grave counsellor endeavoured to unfold a principle of law , he put him in mind of a fool whom he once saw endeavouring a whole day to open an oyster with a rolling pin . " A . sailor sat in a shaver ' s shop , at Shields , when the mistress of the pole shouted down stairs to her liege lord , inquiring why everybody in the streets were gazing in the sky ? " Oh ! " cried Jack , taking the answer out of her husband ' s mouth , and a handful of soapsuds from his own , " it ' s only the moon , ma ' am , that ' s broke adrift and got athwart the sun . It'll all be right by-and-bye , if the old boy only puts the helm hard over . " He shut his mouth profoundly , and looked up at the flabbergasted barber , whose rszor and reason shook before the unsh&ved sage .
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Fire-alirm Telegraph . —The people of Boston are constructing a fire-alarm telegraph . Forty-nine miles of wire have been stretched over the city , diving under the arm of the sea which separates the main portion from South and East Boston . The first of tbe forty cast iron si gnal-boxes has been placed on the Reservoir in Uandcock-street . These will be so distributed that every house in the city will be within fifty rods of one . Whenever a fire occurs , resort will la had to the nearest box , where , by turning a crank , instantaneous communication will be made to the central omce , and from that—which stands related to the whole fire departments of the city like the brain of the nervous system—instant knowledge will be communicated to the seven districts into which the city is divided , by so striding the alarm-bell simultaneously that the locality of the firo will be known exactly to all . This system , the perfec success of which is now eevt ' . in , will stand forth a 3 oac of the finest achievements of scientific skill , and a S 0 'i' ! ° ' J ' « ) lidl -t 0 Boston . —Scientific American .
Ti : c co :. iir . utc 3 appointed by Congress to consider tho sanjeet , Lave recommended that the Greenwich zero of longitude should bo preserved for the convenience of navigators ; and that the meridian of the National Observatorv , at Washington , should be adopted as its first meridian on the American continent , for defining accurately and permanently territorial limits , and for advancing the science of astronomy in America . a *""""•"
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anomaly may be explained by the supposition that he did not reflect that a black smith is not necessarily a nigger . Sale of the S « ult Gallery .- The spoils of Soult ' s Spanish campaign have been sold within the past few days in Paris . The papers speak of the crowds that beset the place . At a certain time came the President to look at the works ; when tbe sergens-dc-vilh , much to the disgust oF the Parisians , entered and cleared a way for the ruler of France . Louis Napoleon was highly delighted with many of the paintings ! Now as they were nearly all of them originally stolen , we woader whether the admiration of the President was raised more by the works themselves than by the means by which they were obtained ? Any way , it was a proper tribute to the memory of the plunderer of Spain that his moveablD 3 should be duly considered by tbe burglar of France . °
EXTRACTS FROM PUNCH . No Conscript Fathers !—Among the exemptions from the conscription under the Militia Bill we observe ia included , "Any poor man having more than one child born m wedlock . If a poor man wishes to be a man of peace it ought to be enough for him to hold out a single olivebranch : we don ' t see why he should be obliged to produce two . Removal . —Ths Crystal Palace , from Hyde Park , to Sjaenh&m , for change of a « . Colour , fok an American ' s REMABK .-The American Minister , dining with the Fishmongers , is reported to have said , "This corporation bag tbe honour of numbering amon ° its members the man who slew Wat Tyler . " It seems strange that an American should have sympathised against instead of with , the patriotic blacksmith ; but perhaps that
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1681/page/2/
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