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ISE CHARTISTS' ADDRBSS TO IRELAHD BY WM . 8 . TILLIEBS &AHXBT , H . X . AiB— " Away with this posting and Badness- " A way -with this doubt and suspicion , Sweet Erin , sad hear what we say ; We wish t o Improve your condition , And trust tis the readiest way . Believe not the folks who -would tea yon That Chartists but aim to destroy ; Oh . ' ao— Tis the ' fellows who sell you Alone eould such pleasure enjoy . The rich and the noble are seeking For justice to Ireland , tis tone ; Bat their justice , for all their fine speaking , Will yield but small justice to you . Twill leave you to eat your potato
Wit £ salt , in yonr wretched ^ ud cot , While they , wilh their fine sauce Tomato , Will scare * give a sigh for your lot Oh » think not that we would disseTer The Unto that unite to the Priest ; We know that his wish has been eTer To lkbten your sorrows , at least Then Iti as join bands for the Charter , 'Tis Christian—twill raise up the POOR , And ret rid of the fallows that barter Yw rights , ikur ewn gain to secure .
Tax the BALLOT , alone , never heed it , Zxrpl they wiil give ys « the « ofe ; Pot a button , you know , yon dont need it , Unless you have / rrf got a coat Then hurrah for the Charter , if granted , Two hundred twill gire yon and o ' er , To vste for REPEAL when tis wanted ; Or if yon wish—anything more .
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T AIT'S MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY , 1841 . Tait goes on in his old way , folly sustaining the charac ter he has so long maintained . His political article this month is a capital shew up of the Pal-Bieiston policy . W e « tract the following passages : — * War , say the people of this country—in the name of the c ommon sense , we ask for what are we to go to w > Syria j Turkey ! the integrity of the Ottoman empire ! What are these things to us ! Can any ar-BBgement of the affairs of the barbarian , Mehemet Ali , and these of the still greater barbarian , the Sultan , be frasgbt with mischief to us and the world equal to what would follow if war were to break oat between a and France ? Certainly not , is the answer of every njjonal man . How then , is it possible that on snch a
pretext war can arise * Satisfied , as each man is , of the absurdity of raeh a reason for disturbing the peace of Europe , all pursue their ordinary avocations : comforting themselves with the notion that our neighbours m u excitable people , much given to fierce gesticulatioa on trifling occasions ; but on the whole far too Kssibie to forget their real in Wrests in maintaining peace , and stir np a war with England on account of ioae idle unintelligible disputes about Syria , Egypt , aod Turkey . The Minister for Foreign Affairs is , therefore , allowed to do as he pleases ; and that he pleases to create a diiturbance in Europe , is but too manifest to aU who will . take the pains carefully to watch his conduct throughout the whole of the proceedings relating to what is called the Eastern question . "
After a few remarks upon the state of parties in Fnaee , the writer proceeds thus : — " One of the greatest calamities that could at this Boment happen to the civilized world , would be a war between France and England ; and any one who deliberated risks the immediate bringing about of this dire event , ought , if he wish to escape the execration of his fellow men , be able to show that he was driven by an overwhelming necessity to run so dangerous a bassrd Bat , in ta present case , no such excuse can fee offered ; ignorance o t the probable consequence cannot be pleaded ; Lord Palmerston we ll knew , as did every one at all acquainted with France , that if hs pnrsuidhis proposed scheme with respect to Syria , it might be utterly impossible to prevent an immediate declaration ot war by
the French people . Wh ether peace or war would result was as uncertain a contingency , as the number that would appear upon the throwing of a die . For what thea has this risk been encountered ? What interest of England was at stake ! What wise purpose is sought to be attained ! Wherefore , we reiterate , are we , at this moment shedding blood , squandering treasure , and risking the terrible calamity of a general war ? What ii the answer hitherto given to this question ! It is impossible to discover any that a rational man can for a moment listen to . The integrity of the Turkish Empire ? In the first place , we ask fearlesslj how does this supposed integrity concern us ? and , in the second place , this integrity has been long since destroyed , and was , by the very proposal to make Mehemet Ali sovereign of
Egypt , utterly set at nought But Mehemet Ali , if parmiued , would have become undisturbed master of Syria . Well , and whai then ? B » ill-treated the Syrians . Is this a reason for interfering in the affairs of another people ? Ask the Irish Catholics if England ill-treats them . Ask the inhabitants of Lower Canada if England has been a merciful master . Let the thousands of her people slain by the sword , by famine , by frost , and misery answer ! The pretence is ridiculous . Mehemet Ali ill-treated the Syrians ; therefore we have spread war and desolation over their land , and levelled their cities with the eart * . If ours be a merciful consideration of their misery , this is a strange way of showing it . ' But it was necessary to counteract Russia . We confess we cannot understand how this was to be
effected by destroying the only power in the East that was steadily pursuing a system of improvement and civilisation . Mehemet Ali powerful , might hare been a useful ally—checked in his plans , ruined abroad , crashed at home , he is useless as a friend , while he may be a vengeful and annoying enemy . We pretend to desire the improvement of the East—we say that we wish to see European civiliiation spre&dingjever Africa sad Asia ; and , in order to forward its advance , we destroy the only power which has hitherto successfully attempted to bring . the natives of those regions even into the path which Jeads to this desired goal J * * * War once declared in Europe , that spirit will be up and doing , over every part of the Continent And who will say that here in Britain and in Ireland all will be
peaceful ? Is there no discontent among our people . 'Is it perfect quiet in Ireland ? Let us not hide the truth from ourselves . Throughout England said Scotland , more especially in the manufacturing districts , the working classes are bitterly hostile to those institutions by which they are excluded from political rights . In some parts of the country they have , in a time of profound peace , risen in open insurrection , and are only kept down in sullen obedience , because they have learned that violence is useless . This desire to resist i » not confined to a few—the feeling of discontent is widely spread ; and this feeling -Rill not be soothed or allayed by insreasing the misery which gave it birth . Bat war will inevitably do this—millions will be again thrown away—our burthens , already far too heavy ,
win become insupportable ; discontent will , all over the land , break out in open violence ; and an armed effort will be made to attain those ends , which , if peace eonUnue , the people hope to attain by the gradual advance of truth , and the increase of knowledge among all ranks . Thin wonld be , even for those who feope , in -war , a means of staving off the evil day of reform , a far worse result than peaceful change ; for with this violent tumbling down of old institutions , rnin will come far and wide . The debt which hangs round our necks , a vast and almost overwhelming burthen , -rill be shaken off , without regard to the direful icString which must follow . All improvement must , for the time cease . The millions which , even now , £ nd a s canty subsistence , will then be all too many for
oar narrow limits ; the most terrible convulsions will oecoi -, and , if TOrwdvng generations may be destined to see happier times , we at least shall be miserable . In Ireland confusion is yet more likely to happen . At this present time the leaders of the Tory party are fearful of accepting power , because they dread insurrection and civil war in that ill-governed land . Will the chance of evil be lessened by the miseries of war . ' If the powerful hand of England be once withdrawn , or if the Irish once successfully resist our dominion , a ernl war will tollow » f" » t will rerj much resemble the war of extermination between the whites and the blacks of Hayti The Catholic and the Protestant have so long been opposed to each other , such a fearful spirit of hate and rtvenge has been aroused , that an internecine wcr would be the inevitable consequence of any
appeal to force—one party or other would be rooted eut for ever . This is no exaggeration . We are on the br ink of this precipice . ?* - »*• The warlike propensities of Lord Palmerston appear to us fraught with the most terrible calamities to this country . What good he may be seeking for himself , we know net : he has , indeed , figured in every ministry , except one , since 1812 . He may wish to spend his last days in office , and to that end may be seeking to conciliate those who must soon succeed the Whigs . War with France may be a means of reconciliation . Of all this we know nothing ; but of danger to ' the country there can be no doubt ; and we cannot think this danger wisely incurred , even though it should insure to ui the continuance of Lord Palmerston ^ services u a statesman . "
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Owenism has its dne modicum of attention , in the following quiet wipe-down : — " Owenism . —However powerful aome kind of folly may be for mischief , I do believe that this one particular sort is beneficial In the way of burlesque , or all the incomprehensible philosophy that mad imagination , ever invented , nothing , I believe , ever equalled this ! What think you of man having acted contrary to his nature from the beginning of the world ; . and having done se > because all circumstances ( that is , every thing ) , have been contrary to nature also ; which unnatural circumstances have bad an
absolute power over the destinies of men : and yeV Robert Owen can change all men and all things ; or , in other words , can make all things as God meant them to be , bat could not make them ! Now , do you believe that any serious harm can come of this ? For my party I think It * Tery good satire on modern philosophy and folly . No danger from them , you may depend on it ; but I admit that the fact of such notions spreading at ull , at this time , is an alarming fact . It shows that large quantities of people are convinced of the necessity o £ a great change , without the remotest notion of what that change ought to be . "
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REPUBLICAN APHORISMS . BY ABQUS . Republican Government is the least complicated in system , and the most easily rectified where an error from unforeseen circumstances may have crept into its policy , and deranged the state machinery . If our readers will tax their memories with the past , for some eight or ten weeks , they will find in a " case" of pomsumeut for " libel" ( that is daring conscientiously to " tell the truth , " " nothing bnt the trnth , " but something less than " the whole trnkh ; " ) a patriotic individual unjustly imprisoned , was forced by the authorities to perform a task , that even to a felon , who had set all moral and social laws at defiance , would have been properly considered an unwarrantable , bestial , and revolting duty ;
yet , this man , bred in the " upper" ranks—according to established phraseology—was accustomed in his private circle to practice and to be treated with decency and well-merited respect ;—a person of acknowledged talent and education ? yet , because ha bad leagued himself with right against mightbecause he asserted that poverty is no crime—because he claimed equal rights , aud equal laws , to the honest poor man , as well as to the wealth-privileged aristocrat—because he claimed by right of birth—of country—and of character and justice , a voice in the framing of the laws that were ostensibly devoted to the government of all ranks and ail classes ; this man labouring under physical debility , was confined in a cold damp cell , without a seat to
rest upon—without food , and restricted in clothing —obliged to associate with felons—rudely treated by Mb keepers—denied the indulgence of a look at a newspaper—forced to submit to felon disciplineto wash his cell , and to empty chamber-pots amid the ribald jests of thieves and vagabonds . What a position ! What a punishment ! ^ Vheri this illegal , ( exoept under a Monarchy , ) unprecedented , and tyrannio punishment was publicly condemned , the worthless iufiictors privately and publicly arraigned before the tribunal of publio opinion—when that tribunal decided iu favour of tho injured man , and decided that justice should be done to the sufferer ; and when the voice of Europe demanded the punishm » nt of the royal blackguards who had thus openly
trampled on all law , humau and divine : it is a fact , history will bear testimony to its truth , that tho beastly perpetratore of the villany—could never be discovered I The foul deed was first traced to the Magistracy , who received their " orders" from an understrapper to the "HomeSecretary : " this fellow obtained his orders from the Cabinet Connoil ; the Cabinet Council obtained its authority from the Crown ; and the Crown derived the Royal prerogative from the &illy attachment of dark ages to a knavish leader , skilled in the art of cajoling the strong-, and intimidating the weak , and versed in the " noble' ! science of Tivele Roif-umph , hump , phum J ! Vive la Bagatelle ! 11 The Crown , when taxed with the crime , referred to the " Ministry : " the Cabinet Council knew not of its existence , and pointed to the ** Home Secretary , " he to his
understrapper—the understrapper to the Magistracy , aud the " Magisterial Board" vice versa . Thus the performance of a moral duty was punished ; and thus the commission of a flagrant act of injustice , of tyranny , and fiendish malignity wu rewarded with royal favours at the National expence . Heavens ! ** What a piece of work is man" ( 1 ) In thus particularising this royal u act , " we do not point to it as » glaring " case' * in the mal-administratron of publio justice ; not because it stands prominent amongst the " thousand-and-oue" decisions of a like kind , but , because , occurring lately , and exciting universal interest , its details must be known tcall our readers . We disclaim all intention of individualising , having nothing to do with men—but principles ; it is our aim to grapple with a system' * of legislation ruinous alike to nations , and to individuals . —Chartist Circular .
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TOTAL ABSTINENCE CHARTISM : THE NEW YEARS ADDRESS OF THE SCOTTISH LEADERS . TO THE WOftKING MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN . ( From the Char tut Circular . J Feliow-Couwthyiiejt , —You have read , we presume , the deeply interesting and philanthropic address of Henry Vincent , William Hill , John Cleave , and Henry Hetherington , to the working men of this country ; and , as we have uniformly placed a high estimate on your intelligence and sensibility , we trust that you have not perused it in vain . It depicts in glowing language the evils of intemperance , exhibits this hydra-headed monster as the enemy of our liberty , our moral dignity , our national strength , our health , happiness , and comfort , and it appeals to us , as we wish for better days , to abandon lor ever that mainstay of tyranny , and that voluntary agent of our own weakness and political degradation .
There are few , we will venture to assert , who have disinterestedly , and with judicious discrimination , investigated the cause , nature , and extent of the privations which prevail among the working classes , but have perceived the pernicious effects ot' the use of inebriating drinks on their physical , moral , and political well-being . It'is , however , but a circumscribed amount of the evils which the intoxicating cup produces that Comes under our individual observation , and , therefore , we have felt the more indifferent at its ravages on society ; but , could we bring vividly be ! ore us the ruin it has wrought in our
deluded and unhappy country—could we calculate the power that it has given to our oppressors—the imbecility that it has communicated to the peoplethe mental energies , the virtue , usefulness , and talent that it has withered or annihilated ;—the thousands and tens of thousands that it has beggared , and the hospitals and gaols that it has peopled with the victims of disease and crime , we would contemplate with intense feelings of horror and vexation its blightening influence , and never rest until we had banished from our own ranks , this deadly enemy of our liberty and happiness .
To men contending as myriads of you are , for the blessings ot independence , for the saored rights of political equality , no subject ought to be more interesting , nor be taken up with more unremitting zeal and indefatigable energy , than the reformation of those baneful habits which produce such miserable consequences . Think , Fellow-countrymen ! on the vast number of your thoughtless and dissolute brethren , who might have been swelling the ranks of freedom , but who have been rendered wretched and useless ; nay , worse than useless , by their love of the drunkards' beverage . Tnink on their heart- broken wiY 68 , who might have been inspiring their husbands with the noble desire of independence : but Who , familiarised with vice , have become strangers to such
virtuous emotions . Think on their ill-fated children : they inhale from their birth the noxious atmosphere of vicious example , uneducated and ignorant ; their minds are prepared for physical slavery and degradation ; while , had they been surrounded by circumstances congenial to the dignity of human nature , they would have acquired a knowledge of the duties and the rights which they ought to perform and maintain ; aud instead of growing up to be the crouching vassals of the oppressor , they might have glowed with the enthusiasm of the patriot , and gloried in the liberty of their country . Reflect , then , on these momentous considerations , and say if the reformation of suoh destructive practices is not a question of high moral and political importance . It
isgrievous , indeed , to see man—man , the child of reason , the image of his Creator , thus sacrificing his best interests to the gnawings of a vitiated appetite ; thus sinking himself below the level of the brutal creation , and degrading the character of humanity . Humiliating , however , as it is to Bee his intellectual and moral faculties , which were given him for nobler ends , laid prostrate by intemperance , the drunkard aggravates the evils of his conduct by forging chains not only for himself , but for all the labouring men and women of the country . It is intoxicating drinks that in . general supply tyranny with jta armed mercenaries . Few sober , welleducated young men enlist . Those who embrace an occupation so ignoble are commonly either under the influence of drink , or the victims of misfortunes
which originated in it . Nevertheless we have an army of upwards ofone hundred and twentythousand , who are employed for the purpose of supporting injustice , and enslaving their friends at home , or of murdering at the will or caprice of their superiors , the unoffending inhabitants of foreign lands . Nor is this the only service which the consumption of these " maddening liquids , " performs to the Government , it not only raises the army , bnt it draws from the tippler ' s social board and the drunkard ' s revelry upwards of sixteen millions a year to pay , and provide implements of destruction for , the army , ' the navy , and the State constabulary , so that the people may be deterred from asserting their heaven-bestowed rights . Neither are its resources exhausted by this mooifioance ; it awards enormous pensions
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to . the Aristocracy for directing the operations of these forces / ' and for their ingenuity in plundering we people through the instrumentality of iniquitous laws . Hence the reason why onr unprincipled legislators encourage the progress of intemperance , for the more the people-drink , as Lord Bexley said , when Chancellor of the Exchequer , the richer will be the revenue . But there is another reason besides their attachment to the treasury which makes the aristocracy rejoice over the dominion of drunkenness ; it is the same reason that induces them to oppose a repeal of the inhuman bread tax and that is their unrelaxnyr determination to keep , by all means , natural or artificial , Jheir agricultural produce at the hi
ghest possible price . Were the Corn Laws abrogated , there would always be the most abundant supply of grain in the market which the corn-growing countries of Europe or America could afford : consequently , its price would be regulated here by its standard abroad . It would be cheap when the supply was greater than the demand . Calculating therefore , on the value of scarcity , the lords of the ' soil , —and they are those who make our laws , —profit largely , by the prodigality of intemperance , as well as by their restrictions on the importation of corn for , were total abstinence one of the ascendant virtues of the nation—did it exercise its heavenly supremacy over the inmates of every dwelling in our land , the whole of that enormous amount of grain , which is utterly destroyed by the fifty thousand
brewers and distillers who are licensed by our Christian legislators to demoralize and murder society , would be converted into bread for the nutritious sustenance of our existence ; then would our markets be superabundantly filled with our homegrown produce ; then would the criminally-misdirected selfishness of the proud magnates of our country be disappointed by the transcendant virtuos of the people . Food would be cheap , because it would be plentiful , and the starvation tax of our luxurious lordling s might continue to disfigure the statute book , but it would be like a huge serpent which , though still retaining its venom , had happily lost it ' s sting . Oh ! deluded and infatuated people that we are ! Our home is a sea-girt island ; law
prohibits us from availing ourselves of the rich crops which grow on the fertile fields of the wide continent ; we must live on the produce of our own hillsand valeB . or if that is not sufficient to save us from famine , we must pay an enormous duty on the quantity we may bo allowed to bring from foreign lands . Under such circumstances , were we wise , we would husband well the fruits of every rood . But hear this , ye farmers of Poland , Prussia , France , Germany , Switzerland , and Holland ; attend to what we say , ye agricultural labourers of the transatlantic republic ;—although we dare not buy your barley , wheat , and oats ; although sour soil is of no service to us , —so far from economising our own , we waste , in our breweries and distilleries
, forty millions two hundred and twenty thousand bushels every year , of the grain which we raise our-8 elves and devote to its production and its necessary quantity of hops , one million one hundred and fortyeight thousand acres of our arableland . Alas ! alas ! fellow-countrymen , is this not a frightful evidence of national insanity ? that grain , which we impiousl y destroy— -which we convert into a poison that maddens the brain , engendering disease , and crime , and sorrow , and presenting daily to its victims a yawning , an unhonoured grave;—that grain would furnish to the six hundred thousand families of Scotland more than six pounds of bread every day in the year . That land , which we ungratefully abuse by the prostitution of Ha fruits , would make three
millions of oar working people happy ; can we reflect ou these truths , and not feel appalled at the magnitude of our folly ! We have voluntarily transformed the magnificent bounties of our Creator into a deleterious drug : and dare we , in vindication of our conduct , suppose that it was for this he endowed us with reason to appreciate his goodness , and to apply it to our necessities J ^ that it was for this be promised us seed-time and harvest , and faithfully sends in due time the cheorful spring , to re-animate the vegetable world;—the invigorating summer , with its sunshine and shower , to nurture its chaste and tender fruits : and the ripening autumn to furnish for us , and for all that lives , his hospitable table ; were we only to contemplate , as we ought , the
beneficence of the author of our Being , we would be inspired with a feeling so pure and elevated , that it would effectually prevent us henceforward , from perverting , as we have done , His inestimable goodness ; and were we while in that exalted tone of mind , to reflect on the direful consequences which have emanated from the mis-appropriation of that goodness , on the moral wreok and physical wretchedness that it has made , on the fetters that it has rivetted on our country , we would be so thoroughly impressed with the principles of warm philanthropy ana intellectual patriotism that we would , from that moment , unite in heart and in soul to redeem our country and our country's liberty from the deadly power of the spell-binding demon of intemperance . Do any of you ask , fellow-countrymen , how such a glorious reformation is to be effected ! Would to heaven that we could as easily emancipate ourselves
from the bondage of political tyranny , as we may accomplish this moral revolution 1 We have only to abandon the use of all intoxicating drinks , and our victory is gained—gained over ourselves , and ultimately over our oppressors . Let us then begin our conquests at home ; a firm and conscientious adherence to total abstinence on our part , will not only deprive the enemies of freedom and justice of the means which they have insidiously used to enslave us and protect themselves ; but it will draw us together in the bond of enlightened union , which will give us new and resplendent virtues , as a nation , to persevere in advancing our glorious cause—more time and rabre meana to promote it , and it will give us an invincible strength and unconquerable vigour to storm the strong and gloomy citadels of corruption , and to rear on their ruins the magnificent templo of liberty .
It is one of our political axioms , "that half justice is no justice ; " and therefore it is that , throughout the whole of out momentous movement , we have contended for the full Charter of our rights , and nothing less : therefore it is that we have held up the delusive theory of " moderate justice" as the source of all our national evils—the parent of injustice . May we not characterise " moderate drinking" as a kindred deception ? It is unquestionably the progenitor of drunkenness , and probably consumes , in its noiseless orgies , as large a libation of the intoxicating poison . We should take in morals ,
as we do in politics , a decided position . "Moderate drinking" is a dangerous ignis fatuus , which has allured millions into the depths of dissipation j where it has left them to perish is misery and disgrace : but total abstinence ieads to virtue , peace , and safety ; it is the only infallible specifio against the vices of intemperance . Let us embrace it , then , as the angel of our deliverance . And if we array against the use of intoxicating drinks the worth and intelligence of the unfranohised , drunkenness , if it be not expelled from the country , will , at least , be confined to the dens of its irreclaimable outcasts , or to the halls of its rich and irresponsible patrons .
Fellow-countrymen , in the name of injured humanity , we appeal to you—in the name of liberty , we call upon you to dedicate this year to total abstinence . It will then , ( indeed , bo the year of our redemption : our character as working men will be redeemed from the infamy which the enemies of justice endeavour to attach to it ; our habits will be redeemed from the baneful customs entailed upon us by the votaries of sensuality , and with these advantages the influence of Our concentrated power will at last redeem our country from the thraldom of tyranny . Your ill-requited labour bids you respond to this appeal ; your innumerable wrongs demand It ; misery implores you to write it on the tablets of your heart , and nature and Christianity invoke your acquiescence , because it is allied to " virtue and to heaven .
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TOWN HALL , BRIGHTON . Serving out a Witness in Style . —An athletic countryman , who bears a very bad character , was charged before the bench of Magistrates , with violently assaulting a young woman named Mary Ann Paul . The complainant , whose face waa much disfigured by the violence of the prisoner , stated that on the evening of boxing-day she was in the Helmet public-house , when the prisoner and two other men went in , and the prisoner , without speaking a word , struck her several times in the face , and knocked her down .
The Magistrate asked whether she could account , in any manner , for the attack which the prisoner had made on her ! The complainant said that she had given evidence against the prisoner , in September last , for a gross assault on a young female , and he then said he would * r serve her out , " and he had done it "in style "—( laughter ) . Prisoner—Please your honours , look at my nose ; it's quite spoilt from a whack she gave me with a quart pot . - . The complainant denied this , and said his nose ( which was badly cat ) mast have been hurt in a scuffle with some men who took her part . - Henry Butler stated he was present , and seiied the prisoner , to prevent his continuing his assanlt on the complainant , when the defendant knocked her Q 0 wn » ¦ Chairman—Did he g ive you that black eye I Witness—Yessir . ¦
, _ _ . Prisoner—Will yon swear I gave you the eyei—No , not the eye , but the colouring . , Ah ! you mean I spoilt its beauty!—( laughter)—but look * tmy ruue ! The Ma « istbates said it was ft very eenons offence to interfere with any person giving evidence is support of those laws without which society could not exist . and the present case was more aggravated , as it was a cowardly attack on a woman . _ - . The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 40 s ., and , in default , was committed for * month to LewaiGaoL
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My Aunt ' s last Tooth .-M . Michard and Ms wife , * &ae portly duney of rather beyond a certain age , appeared a day or two since at the bar of the Correctional Police , accompanied by a hopeful nephew of theire , against whom they had to make a charge of the most serious nature , he , the said nephew , having , in defiance of a | l theiaws of nepotio affection , inflicted on his venerable aunt a blow by which the last of her masticators was removed front the situation it had occupied for so many years . The following colloquy took place among ihn dramati * persona ot the affair . Pbesidknt—What offdnce have yon to complain
M . Michard—Simplice is my nephew , that I must allow , but the crime of which he has been guilty has broken every tie of blood that was between nsu Simplice , you are no longer my nephew . Simplice—That is folly . Will you deny that I am Btill the son of your brother ? M ; Michard—Physically , it cannot be otherwise : but morally I discard you . Siinplice—rOh , uncle , what a blockhead you are t Instead of heaping blessings upon me for what I have done , you have brought me before the Tribunal " Correctional Police , as if I were a Turk . M . Michard—You have conducted yourse'f towards your aunt like a savage . Simplice—And you—you are a henpecked husband , to say nothing more . Madame Michard here tried to be hysterical had recourse to her smelling-bottle , and exclaimed , ' ¦ Oh . rleavens ! '¦ : ¦ " - ' .
M . Michard ( supporting her )—Oh , Emeline mv love ! - ( To Simplice ) -Wret ^ ryoU ' wish to ^ J ner death—you wish to be guilty oiauni-icide . Simplice—In-that case you allo ^ tj ^ j j ^ tjn your nephew . M . Michard—Hold your tongue , ftapegracc , and let me state what I have to chaw you ^ ith Simplice—With all my heart ; but you had better not , for you will expose yourselves the mo * by it M . Michard—Heartless wretch 1 ( Bownof \ ym judges ) Gentlemen , I have iu the provinces afrotber who has had the misfortune to give birth to t » i = * a-i pent here . Six months ago he was 6 entton \ On » visit . aud t& Bee what I could make of him . ^ we treated him with every kindness as if he weAm own son . ^~ 3 Simplice—That is true ; and that is why lam « o much attached to you . v
M . Michard—But , would yon believe it , gentli men , one day last week , when we had a large com )' pany to dinner , fae gave his aunt a slap in the face ! SimpJioe—I know I did , and knocked oat her iasJ tooth . I tell you what , uncle—you are deceived bt her . But it is in vain for you to persecute me , for j shall never cease to love you all the same . Madame Michard ( with a faint voice)—Merciful Heaven ! » Simplice—Your wife is a good-for-nothing prude uncle , and deceives you along with M . Leroche , that old dandy , whose smell of musk makes his approach known when he ' s more than a mile off . M . Michard—Hold your tongue , you calumniating scoundrel . ¦• ¦
Simplice— : Ah ! that ' s the way you take it , ia it t I was behind a curtain , and heard them talking like real friends , not to Bay lovers . I , who love yon . seeing that , could not restrain my indignation , and so I gave aunt a slap in the mouth . If you aro offended , I can give sou satisfaction . Here Madame Michard rained a languishing pair of eyes towards her husband , and faintly said '' Ah { Michard . " M . Michard—Never mind , Emeline . I doni believe a word of all these horrors . I know you to be Virtue personified . Simplice—Ah , you are the . best of husbands . Simplice was sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment .
* Hwat the divil are you after being after , " " roared Pat Lardner , catching his foot-boy thrashing a " Gloster" with a whip ; " Hwat ' s all this pillalu . you thafe o' the world ? " " Why , yer rivrence , " replied the bogtrotter , " I ' m jist after whacking the cbazri , to make it confess what ' s become uv the fa ^ sure /' Election . Bi £ l . —The following is a copy of a curious election bill , actually delivered in to an Irish member of parliament , by a publican , alter a late general election : — ¦ - ' : ¦ £ s . d . To eating 16 freeholders above stairs for Sir John , at 3 sh 6 d a-head 1 12 0 To eating 11 more celar stair * and two Clergymen after supper 1 15 t To six beds in one room and four in another at two Guineas every bed three
or four in a bed every night ............... 22 15 i To 23 horses in the yard all night at 13 d every one of them and for a man watching them all night ............. " ................. 1 5 S To Breakfast and Tea next day for every one of them and as many as they brought with them as near asl Can Guess ...... 4 12 0 To Beer porter and : punch , for . the- first -Day and ' night I am not sure But I think for the three first days and a half of the Electon as little as I Can Guess and be very exact is in all or there abouta ....................... 79 15 5 To shaving Dressing and Cropping the heads of 12 freeholders for Sir John at lSdfor every one of them 2 5 9 £ 114 l f In place of Jemmy Carr Bryan Geragherty . Pbavebs . —Ini FJacourt ' s History of Madagascar , is the following sublime prayer , said to be used by the people we call savages . 0 Eternal ! have mercy upon me : because I am passing away . 0 Infante I because I am weak . O Sovereign of Life ! because I draw nigh to the grave . O Omniscient ! because I am in darkness . O All Bounteous 1 because I am poor . O All-sufficient ! because I am nothing .
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- — - —~— ^ ¦ ¦ . The Hon . Captain Plunkett was last week sen * tenced at the Lancaster Sessions "to be imprisoned for two months in the Kirkdale Honse of Correction . " His crime was assaulting a man named Atkinson , one of the monitors of the Lancaster Gaol , where the Captain was a prisoner for ms share in tha disturbances at Wigan . He pleaded guilty . Rights op our Forefathers . —During the exia » tence of the British Constitution , as originally constituted , every freeman was entitled to take his seal as a member of the Legislature . In those times freemen and freeholder were synonymous terms . A distinction existed between the freemen , who were all proprietors of land , however minute the quantity
held by some , and the freedmen who were of foreign extraction , and manumitted by their masters ; but these were expressly excluded from the high privilege enjoyed by the freemen , of having a share in the administration of the commonwealth , unless they became proprietors of land . But there was another right inseparable from the right to sit in Parliament —namely , that by the fundamental principles of the Constitution , every freeman had a right to elect hi « own procurator , or attorney , to represent him in Parliament ; and that system was in full operation , till it was subverted by the Act of 1 st Henry V . c . 1 , which disfranchised all but residents ; and this disfranchisement was extended to all bat forty shilling freeholders by the 8 in Henry VI . c . 7 .
Fatai Railway A # cjdent . —A fatal accident occurred on . the Midland Counties Railway , about three o ' clock , on Friday morning , in last week . A down luggage train left Rugby for Derby , at twenty mmuteB past nine o'clock on Thursday night ; but , owing to the severity of the weather between Leicester and Derby , the engine pipes were frozen up , and the train , consequently , unable to proceed . The mail-train from London started from Rugby to Derby , ( the point at which it leaves the Birmingham line , ) at one o ' clock , Fit ., being then throe
hours and forty minutes behind the goods train . The distance between Rugby andDerby-is between forty and fifty miles . Not withstanding the advance of the luggage train , and the precaution said to have been taken of holding out a signal light , when within a few miles of Derby the mail down train ran in upon the luggage carriages , and the consequence was , that the engine of the mail train was thrown off the trams , and the engine driver and stoker precipitated on to the line , and both killed on the spot . '• . '•' ' ' ¦ ¦ "' " . ; . ' ~ - ' -h . ¦ ¦"¦ : ' . <' ' ¦ .
Liability os Parishes as to Exposed Children and Dead Bodies . —At an inquisition held before Mr . Wakley , M . P ., Coroner for the Western Division of Middlesex , on the body of a male child about twelve months old , which had been found exposed at the gate of the house , No . 14 , Maida-hill West , Paddington , and who died in a few hours after its removal to the workhouse of the Kensington Union , a question arose as to the P © W W of tha parish officers of the Board of Guardiai ^ to issue advertisementi offering a reward for the disfovery of the inhuman parents , which has draw » from the Poor Law Commissionera an opinioa that Asparisfe officers have no power to incur any expenees ^ for tfo proseqntion of vagrants * and have w duty to provide for the burial of a eorpse found in the
parish , the Commissio , nere ooiiwder tha , t there is n » authority tor their incurring expente . is adveriisinaj for the discovery of the peraon who exposed su « S child or such corpse . If , indeed , upon any euo « advertisement the party ^ were diaiovered , a proMK cution might be instituted , but the CommisBoners do not know how any reimbur 8 emento £ the expenee could be obtaiaedfrom iuch party . " . The result of , the correspondence , from which tae above is an extract , appears io te , that there ax « no fnndf whatever applicable ' to the payment of expences intorred in the prosecution . of perwnB desertingaud . expoaing their children , even should the offenfB apoooBt- to murder , as in the aoove case , npr to adveriuinx K desariptioh of tke' child < fe « .. or offering % rewax 4 for the apprehenaion of the delinqionJi .
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THE FLEET PAPERS , No . 2 . The second of Mr . Oastler ' s missives has been Unaehed at the head of his oppressor . We need say nothing-of ihe style or matter ; it is Oastlert : onr readers all know it , and , of course , will buy it . We Perceive his wrapper to be filled with closely printed extracts from various publications , giving favourable notices of the former number . We cannot deny ourselves the pleasare of giving the following relation of his interview with the Doke of Wellington : — . " Oh ! I -was a proud man that day ! I had pleased my matter , and had btained , as my reward , from hia hinds , as honour which I rained more , and do so at this hoar , thm if he had given me the one half of his * ery large estate *—an introduction to the Poke of 'We Uifigten 2 I aball oarer forget that day . J hurried
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away to the Dake "*—knocked at the door—delivered my credential—and , in a trice , received for answer : — ' The Duke of Wellington desires bis compliments to yon , and will be happy to see you to-mtrrow at eleven o ' clock . ' - " The morrow seemed a long time in coming . I slept little that night—I sleep much sounder here . 1 revered the character of the Puke . I believed that be waa at the bead of 'the order , ' . which I had , ail my life-time honoured , and for which I had suffered so much . I thonght that be was the most powerful man in the country : and I hoped—it was that hope which most excited my reverence : I beg 70 a always to remember that , 8 ir—I hoped that , through him , I could obtain amelioration for my poor wretched factory children and-their miserable parents ; and that when I had toki him the true state of the working classes of the North , he womld stretch out hia powerful arm to save them from a state of wretchedness to which philosophy alone could have reduced them .
" Full of these fondly cherUhed hopes , I arrived , five minutes before eleven , on the morrow , at Apsley House . I had often pleaded before the people for the emancipation of my poor infant slaves : now I was abont to tell the Great Dnke himself how they were tormented . " I was shown into a waiting room which looked into the Park . The splendid china service , emblamatical ot the Dnke ' s military achievements , adorns that room . I amused myself by looking at the pictures ; but my mind was fully engaged in framing a sort of introductory address .
"I fancied that there would be . much form In the approach to so great a man ; for , although I bad previously companied with nobles , he seemed , in my estimation , to cast a dimness on all their coro&ets . I was very wishful not to disgrace you or myself , and thus mar my obj » ct on the threshold of oar acquaintance . I might have saved myself all that trouble : I found that Wellington was as easy of access as a Fixby neighbour . The clock had aot finished striking before a door opened behind me , and a very pleasant , but rather faint and shrillish , voice said , ' Good morning ,
Mr . Oastler , will you walk this way ? ' I did not know who it was that spoke . I turned and l » oked . The sound came from behind a door which was open . I moved onward . I needed no introduction . The Duke stood before me in his dressing coat . I knew the -welldefined features . What could I do or say ? I was in his- presence ere I was aware . No introduction , no speech , no anything was needful He smiled , and said , Walk forward , Sit . ' I did ask him to ^ aliow me to shut the doors . ' 'Oh no , Sir ; walk forward , I will cl « se the doors , ' was his reply .
" I did just as be bade me ; and then stood in the middle of that three-windowed room where the Duke transacts business , still facing the Park , feeling , for all the world , ' as queer as Dick ' s hat-band , ' not knowing either what to say or do . I was in the Duke of Weilington > presence , however , about to render service to the aristocracy and the poor , as I thonght , and that was enough for me . There was , in the middle of the room , a long table , loaded with books and papers , piled and arranged with scrupulous order and neatness . The sofa , too , excepting at the end , next an easy chair , bj the fire-place , was carefully filled with what seemed to be Parliamentary papers . When Wellington had closed both doors ( little did I think of prison doors then , though his Grace was as careful to secure those doors as our well behaved and gentlemanly turnkeys are to fasten these ) , he walked towards me and said , pointing to the vacant space on the sofa , ' Be seated , Sir . '
" Again I was obedient But how can I describe ray feelings when I found myself squatted on the sofa , and England ' s Duke standing before me , and in Apsley House , too ? I really felt ashamed , Sir . 1 felt out of my pla « e , and quite uncomfortable ; but could not at first tell the Duke so . He asked me , * Well , Air . Oastler , what is it you wish to say to me ? ' And then I told him that I could not sit in his presence , and in Apsley House , whilst he was standing . ' ' Ob , ' said he , if it will please you better 1 will sit' No sooner said than done . He was seated on my left hand , in the arm chair , in a second , and then he said , ' Well , Mr . Oastler , proceed . " I still felt very so-so-ish—under restraint , and all that sort of thing . I told the Date so : he smiled and answered , You must fancy you are talking with one of your neighbours at Fixby , and then we shall get on . '
" The name of Fixby , spoken ao pleasantly by Wellington , acted like a charm upon me . All uneasiness , reserve , and hesitation was iastantly removed . I felt as much at home , tete-a-tete with his Girce of Wellington , as if I had been in my own arm-chair , chattering with your under-steward , Chadwick . " I told him ' I sought for neither place nor pension , that my only wish was to serve my country , by explaining to him what I knew was the real condition of the inhabitants of my own neighbourhood . 'That , ' said the Duke , * is a rery good hearing—go on . ' ' Well , my Lord Duke / 1 continued , there two very great mistakes , which I wish , if possible , to rectify . 'What are they V asked his Grace . ' Your Lordship and y * ur Lordship ' s order , the aristocracy , think , that the working classes wish for the plunder of your estates , and to deprive yon of your honours . * — ' Aye , ' said
Wellington , it looks very like if—My Lord Duke , it is only their enemies who saT ^ so ^ tbe ^ grj ^ jftaflu&atJuius miUiotmains , who have an ~ interest ui keeping the working classes and the aristocracy at variance , that they may the more easily fleece both ; it is they who thus . traduce the operatives . ' His Grace seemed struck with this remark , and listened with great attention for my proofs and arguments . I told the Duke of the cruelties endured by the poor Factory Chi ) own in the north—of the weight of their oppressions , and of the parties who were deriving profits , and making immense fortunes by the hateful Factory System—and how they were pushing the old country gentlemen out of their estates , making the people believe that the aristocracy and clergy were their only tyrants , and that these mercenary men , were endeavouring to constitute themselves an aristocracy , and to plunder the Church .
¦> 'I assured him that the only way the aristocracy and clergy could regain the affections of the people , and save themselves from ruin , was , that the ; should use their powerful influence , to rescue the working classes from the thraldom aud delusion in which the money and steam powers held them , in a word , to exemplify Christianity in their conduct towards them . I urged him to support Mr . Sadler's Ten Hours' Factory Bill He promised to giTe the subject hia most serious attention . " When we had closed that part of the subject , I Biid , ' There is another error , my Lord , which is producing much mischief , and which the enemies of the people , who . unhappily for England , are now * u pposed to be their friends ithis was in the summer r / 1 S 32 ) , are perpetually ringing In their ears , nam ly , 'taat the Duke of Wellington is a tyrant—the enomy of the working classes , and that he wishes to govern them and feed them by swords , bullets , and bayonets . Now ,
my Lord Duke , I have come to head quarters to ask , —is it so ?—in order that , if such be not the case , I may be able to remove that false impression from the minds of the people . " The Duke smiled , but spoke earnestly , when he replied , — ' Those who say so of me , cannot know me . What can I gain more than I have gained , by the sword ? ' We had a good deal of conversation on this and other subjects . I explained my views fully to him . He seemed impressed by my observations , —said I had opened a new field of contemplation to him—wished me to call npon him when Icame again to London , and to write freely to him , on any subject which I wished to communicate . He particularly wished that I would call the next day , before I left London . When my hand and the Duke ' s hand were joined , at parting , I did feel proud , Sir ! A few minutes before twelve the Duke rose , and very kindly told me that he was engaged with other persons , and before I left the room , they were announced by his valet .
" Next d » y I called with my dear friend , my most faithful friend , the Rev . G . S . Bull , at Apsley House , when we had a very nice bit of talk with the Duke ; and before we left , I assured bis Grace , — 'That 1 would strive to remove the prejudices -which his enemies were implanting in the minds of the working classes . " You remember , Sir , when I returned to Berkleysquare , how pleased you were , when I told yon all this , and much more . Now , tell me , Mr . Thornhill , was it likely ihat I should then predict , that you were only alluring me towards this net ?"
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THE PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE . No . I . This is a new periodical , edited by the Rev . J . R . Stephens , who takes this mode of making his voice heard from the prison-house . Mr . Stephens' style and manner are too well known to our readers , to need any comment from us ; and as by far the greater portion of the magazine seems to be original , and from his own pen , it ia needless to describe its character , as being likely to be not the most palatable to the proud oppressors of the poor , however disguised or situate , we give the following passages from the first article , which is entitled " Thoughts on the Times" : —
" Were this wretchedness of the working classes of Great Britain and Ireland owing to their own idleness , unthrift , folly and crime—as some say it is—it would make ne great odds , in so far as it is an evil which affects and threatens every other portion of society . It exists . Here it is in the midst of us , and we must grapple with it , and put an end to it , or it will grapple with us , and break society up . If -we cannot drive it out from amongst us , all that we have hitherto l » oked up to , and trusted in , and boasted of , will very soon go under , and no longer be . We claim it aa our right , toltad , and guide , and have the mastery over these millions ; and we say that it is their place to walk is
the way we stake out for them—to keep the laws we make for them , and to yield themselves np to our management and rule . Well , be it so . They have looked up to us until hope , again and again put off , has made their heart sick and faint ; they have followed as and bleated after us , like sheep crying on their shepherd to find pasture for them ; and lo ! a wilder ness , barren and without water-spring * We have neither fed them * nor tended them , nor folded them , nor watched over them 5 and they follow us no Ungerthe / bleat after us no more . If God and the laws ever gave us these million * in charge , we have not fulfilled oar trust , or have shewn ourselves unequal to it Is fit *"" case , unteai now in the eleventh hoar aome
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remedy be at hand , we must leave them to other governors , and bear the consequences of our acknowledged wickedness , or weakness , or both . "Bui the present condition of the labourers of these kingdoms is not of their own bringing on . They are not idle . Nowhere else ia this wide world is a race of men to be found that works so long , and so hard , and so steadily , as they do . Why it would not be too nmeh to say that , leaving all the mea entirely oat of the question , the wives and children of our fellow-countrymen raise and make more of all kinds of stuff that is
eaten , worn , sod used , for the wants aad eojpymeatJ of life , than an equal number of full-grown man to any other part of the earth ! The like of what is done by weak women and very babes , in these islands of ours , was sever heard of since the world began t Is It not right—is it not high time the wrath of a holy God was poured out upon as , for the awful sin of ever having suffered such a monstrous violation of nature to become a common household thing with us ? Yea , aad indeed it is ; and God only knows whether the day » f grace be not already gone down , and the night of hia fierce anger even now darkening upon us . '
" It were quite enough for the wisest and mightiest of statesmen , had they nothing else to deal with than this living heap of ~ uneasiness and fiery restlessness , which hunger , and thirst , and nakedness , and want have made in the land . This , of itself , one would think , were something to look at and sorrow over—to make every-day rulers , and all others wbo could not help seeing it , east about in their minds , and take counsel one of another as to the best and speediest way , not merely of helping all such as for the time were suffering need , but of so settling things as to put it in their power to fend for themselves and their own , without asking or wanting help from any body for the time to come . This is not so very silly—so very frivolous a business , but that our wise men , and great men , and good men might Wrll undertake it without danger of losing either their reputation or their labour , were they
tut for once in earnest , and set about it as if fcoey meant to do , and would do , something . But the ' something * they would have to do is not talking , or speech-making , or any imaginable species of political thiinbleriggery . That will not do in England now . What millions of our countrymen want , ask for , and must and will have , is bread—bread for themselves and for their children . They are famishing for lack of food . Fair shows will not stiil the gna wings of hunger ; juggler's tricks will Hot fill their empty bellies ; books give them no warmth against the cold , and they are as forlorn and comfortless as ever , after the stoutest argument , or the most orthodox sermon in the world . You may talk down the north wind when it rages at its height , or coax the tossing , tumbling sea to sleep , like a peevish child ; but this storm you cannot hush—these waves you cannot stay , save but by one means , for hunger will have bread .
" The causes ! Aye , that is the sorest and saddest thing of all ; for who can bear the probe to search the angry wound ?—who will allow that the sin , the blame , and the bate are on his own head . ? and yet are we all verity guilty &s concerning our brother . Our feeble voice has not been unheard on this pressing—thU perilous subject , but it has been unheeded ; and unheeded , too , we greatly fear , will be the warnings , tew and far between , that have been given by those whose rank and office ought to cause them to be attended to . They are but as the vain alarm the lone watcher
gives , who wakes too late to rouse tbe sleepers from their heavy pillow . The fire is loose—it burns—it spreads , and in its strong arms encircles the careless city and its denizens . When we find such men as Archdeacon Wilberforce—to name as one of the lost of the good wen whose lips the Lord has touched—step forth to prophesy against the land , we could weep to think that such old should come , but come too late . At least we fear so . We hope it may be otherwise . Hear him , then , ye who will not hear us . He has spoken almost our Terr words ;—
' Is it not true that there is a great and widening separation in this land , between the varioas classes of society , and even between man and man 7 Thus the bonds , which of old held the high and low of English society together , are melting away . Where , for instance , among our vast manufacturing population , are the old bonds of mutual affection and respect?—of national care on the one hand , aud generous trust upon the other , by which the peasantry and gentry were united 7 And this poison cannot be anywhere present in the circulation of the body politic , without reaching more or less to every part It creeps on to the trading classes—to the shopkeepiDg classes , and thereon , even to the rural districts . This change is passing upon the very conditions of social life in England ; and , at the same moment , and from the action of the same causes , the straiter bonds of family life and subjection are wearing out—children are becoming more independent , and brethren , therefore , more disunited . '
" We &hall have more to say ou some of these sad things at another time ; but how , we may meanwhile ask , can all this , and worse , be otherwise than it is , since God ' s right and wholesome way has been forsaken , and eur own wicked ways followed in the stead ? God made man to be the life-upholder of his household , and theinby / lald . deep within us the strong foundations of fi » Ve and law . Home is the seat of all true happinessthe school of all true virtue , order , loyalty , and national security . Men wbo have good homes will make good laws , and die rather than suffer the safeguards ot their homesteads to be broken in upon . But what of men who have no home ? And can he be said to have a home whose wife , whose children—those who still bear that name , but are far from being what that name
should signify—are torn from his bosom , and snatched from his knee , toiling here and there , day and night , for the heats—the draff of the bodily life , and not even enough of that ? For ages we have been bearing dewn the yeomen and htuban < -mtn , and handicraftsmen of our country—grinding thtm absolutely , and without a figure , into dust ; and now behold the fruits ! The end , Wb fear , is drawing nigh . Our accursed selfishness—our love of gold , as the means of fulfilling the sinful and wicked lusts of life , has dene it all . So that it is well with ourselves , we heed not , ask not , how it stands with our poorer brother ! No reasonable man , ' says the good Archdeacon , ' can doubt that the idolatry of property is at this time one of our prime national sins . And has not God so ordered things , that rich and mighty nations , when they do become
entangled in this idol-worship , shall become also his avengers on themselves ?—that the careless , selfish rich shall became the prey of the untrained , violent needy J —that the feebleness of all human institutions , when they rest not upon God ' s Word , shall sooner or more late be proclaimed by all the agonies and horrors which wait on civil strife V Yes , violent , ' because needy ;' nature ' s first law—self-preservation , will sot itself right with us at last Put down , kept at bay , and baffled it may be for a time ; but like Samson , when shorn of his strength as it was thonght , and brought out to be a sport for the Philistines , it will gather all its inward , hidden might for « n » last heave ; and in the deaththroej of despair , will bring tower and temple toppling down—a heap of hideous ruin and ghastly desolation . "
" The Monk , " a brigand story , from the Swedish , is a stirring legend . " The New Poor Law" gets " a terrible whopping" in a rattling ballad under that title , tie only fault of which is its unqualified praise of the Tories . There is also a ' Crumb Basket , " apparently made up of contributions , from which we give the following awfully true description of " The present state of the People " : — ' < Presen c State of the Peoplk : From the notes of a Traveller . —Aa the result of the whole tour , allow me to make one or two observations . I speak , not only in my own name ,= but in that also of my illustrious and clear-sighted camerode , who has been over a part of the same ground , I think , about five or six yean aro .
" 1 st . There is much more misery , real , abject suffering , poverty , and rags in the streets now than formerly . I dont know when I have been so overwhelmed with the conviction that this is , indeed , the country of the rich and the poor—the millionaire and the mannikin . I assure you , that not only » many a time and oft , ' but almost alwayB , 1 have been filled with a holy horror at being clad in garments , not of the lowest kind , when I saw so many hungry and naked wretches , shivering , and cowering , and flitting past me in the face of the broad-eyed day , and by the glare of our luxurious nightillnminators , Onca in particular , I never shall forget the tear-dimmed countenance of Baron ????• # , when he came home late , and related to me how he had emptied his pockets of all his shillings , to give te the poor , abandoned pauvres honieuses , who had crossed his path home : ' I could not bear it , ' he exclaimed , ' it went too far . '
" 2 nd . Of all the hells of vice , starvation , and infamy I have ever heard of , Glasgow is decidedly ' the Worst Crowded by the tramping ofikcura of nsed-np millworkers , Irish immigrants , and Highland bog-hut men , it exhibits a crawling mass , such as I hope will never cross my eyes again , in any country , whether worshipping God or deviL " 3 rd . There appears to be a great increase of silent misery amongst the people . I mean that tbe faces of the lower orders in general exhibit decided marks of homeless , cheerless , comfortless existenee '; though their general bearing and clothing do not , as yet , announce the shocking pauper . " 4 th . ' Wealth' and ' improvement * appear to be progressing ; new homes and new wareaoaws > n » w palaces aad new pagodas , meet tbe eye at every step . So far , so good ; if it is only not taken from the many and given to the few . O law , law I 0 man , mas , how weak thou ait . . ¦
" ith . Presbyterian Scotland , appears to be a-head of Puritan England in the good new system of stopping up private roads , pretty paths , long drawn lanes , and public walks , sod in enclosing every foot of common , and otherwise improving the ' garden ot the earth . ' " 6 th . On the other hand , we are decidedly below Scotland , in our attachment to local liberties , and country sports . Hundreds of places in Scotland , especially along the borders , have very well organised societies and clubs for running , leaping , shooting * ball-playing , bag-pipe music , ' putting the stane , ' and various other old popular games and amusements , as-distinguished from the aristocratical amusements of oar snare favoured U&d . "
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