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BHYMES BY THE BOADSIDE . "We ' re losing-fast the good old days Of rattling -wheels and gallant greys ; "Were losing fast the Inggaged roof , Ths wfeistling guard and ringing- hoof : The English stage and high-bred teams , "Will soon exist trat in our dreams j And whirling , mail or startling horn He ' r cheer tfee nizht , or rouse the mom .
Ah ! "well-a-day 2 no cracking lash , "So champing bit , no restless dash , Ko : " pull up" at ths " Cross" or " Crown , " 'Mid all the gossips of the town ; Tot Time , with deep rail-roadjed brow , Changes all things bat horsetf ^ M ^ - Tet who shall wish for nobl » Upd ? Who would forego the rapid tib&At Who that lores Bsauty would resign , Th& winding road for formal " line r "
Tis joy to mount the lofty seat That hears us from the city-street ; ¦ To lightly Toll from peni-np smoke To singing bird and towering oak ; Scanning , despite our bounding haste , The forest dell and he&tb-clad ¦ waste . On through the "valley , rich ana life "With frcgrsnt air and bioomim : life ; Where the dear brooklet softly flows , Bossing the Kfly as it-goes ; Where quiet herds lie down to crop The grass-blade and the cowslip drop ; Where the low cottage-thatch is Been , 'Mid trailing arms of jasmine green , And the ¦ wide flinging easement glass Slows the pei flower to all who pass .
Away * awayl one lingering look At valley , cottage , herds , and brook ; And bowling on , we gain the hill Crowned " with the old church and the ™? n The Enn-iay jilayB upon the spire , Tinging the cross "with glancing art . The sonth-wind freshens there , bat *^ ~ » To tarn the heavy sluggard sails ; The miller stands with peering eye , To see the famed " Eclipse" go by z Sis next five minutes fairly lost In wondering what that chesnot cost , And t ? hy they ' ve chang'd the deTer bay That graced the pole the other day .
Onward 7 the tiny hamlet comes , 32 te Tillage nest of peasant homes j The ploughman ' s car wakes from his dose , With peiting ears and sniffing nose ; The chBd npon the red-briek floor Crawls quickly to the open door ; The old man and the matron stand With staring gsaa and idle hand , The maiden , smiling , nods her head To the blythe fellow dbnn'd in red ; If matter what they have todo , They all zenst see the mail go through .
The . inn is reached : host , men , and boys , Gather around with bustling noise . JPew moments serre—the harness bands Axe flong -effaa by magic hands ; The loosened nags are panting hard ; S&eking the well-known stable-yard ; Forth come the wheelers—glossy black—With bit in month , and cloth on back . Quick ! bring the leaders—two bright ro&na As ever spumed the wayside stones . Each buckle tight—' tis done , "AH light ;" The steeds are ready for their flight ; And old bluff Jehu once again Swings up to rule the whip and rein . Onward we Me , like shooting star , That runs all dazzling fleet and far , And worthy sight for king to see Are four boldcaursers fast and free . *
O , England ! many an olden tale Shall yet t « told o'er Christmas ale By lips unborn ; and they shall say -What rare works graesa their fathers' day Tonng boys shall chatter in the bub , And tell what English steeds htTe done ; -Eeeoids shall note the bye-gone age , And Taunt the mntfthlww English stage . Ahl ireiH-a-dayi the glory ' s o ' er , b #
Soon steed sod stage ^ hall no more ; The roads that break our fertile sod , Seem aH deserted and untrod . Ah J grieve I will , and grieve I most , To miss tjii xasS-coach cloud Of dost ; To think thai J akall never see The blood-like team , « o fast and free ; And find old Time , with scowling brow , Changing all things bat horses sow . Eliza Cook .
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THE GBAYE OF GEKIXJS . A TALE . By J . O . Li itcrex . London : Strange , Paternoster Bow . The author of this little -work is "well known , a * at any rate by same , to oar readers . His present production is another evidence of his sympathetic feelings , enlarged views , and literary ojialifica tions . His subject is nov exactly a taking one , the chord struck being in a melancholy kej ; thpngh there are not wantmg plenty of admirers of "The Sorrows of Werter" and Sterne's Maria . " To all soch . -we say here is a book calculated xa excite your sensibilities , and at the same time improTe your hearts . * llie hero of the storr is a Scotchman , one George
Chisholnx , a "native of Perthshire ; whose parents flying when he -was an infant , was bronght up under the kind projection of . the " Tillage Pominie , " by ¦ whom he was made an apt scholar , assisting Ms i > enefactor in the teaching of the schooL The . Xteminie < Iied "when George was about twenty vears of age ; he consequently had to proceed elsewhere to ** seek hi 3 fortune , " He , actXirdiEgly , as is the enstom " in such case made and provided , " proceeded to London , where he hope ^ to earn his bread as a contributor io the liters ^ n of * he day * H ^ hopes w ere blasted ; and too -dt , md to confess Ms poverty , want and hunger and he added
soon in trodnced disease , nn&Uy was ? -, the no tz 0 ** of victims who , with Dtwsy and Chatterton , at their head , hare perlEhed , victims of the resent « -stem ; whitening witn their oones the xathwav o * & * temple of literary fame . Such is the history , which as ihe surhor tells ns , quoting Byron , « ? Sey " » ho listen may feelisTe , yfixol . tsrd it first had cause to grieve . " Ana it cerfinlv " bears " the semblance of beingan « ow 4 r mittale " Be thai as it may , the . trials troths , and fright ! . ^ *^<* : *»} we sb ° ^ d ^ » Si bur that the *** " >* describes some of them
' * % !* $£££%£% *« too truly illustrate the brea ^« s « . tpj- in f > i « t H «« 1 of wealth and misery , SSfaSLluuol ^<* ***** ***** hop ; ^—London . " Situation * in connexion * 5 & the prea . are at all Ernes difficult to obtain ; ai . «• unfortunately , poor George had neither the authorit , ^ «* Patron , northerecommaiQauon ol influential fria . ^ , to rway , at bes * . ihe doubtful . decMon of those wh «» ight iaTe places
open j or might , under other , ci -fceaostances , toye csrred oat somdhing for the destitute ^ smger . Without patronage , a smils and parting " e ^* sgafn > * ^ Q » liktliest returns the poor Scotchma . ^ f * * aofiapate : for it would indeed be a task equaiV ^ « f accomplishment lo TemoTe SU Paul ' s , bod . V * , ? L * Tresent site , wifliont injury to the noble pile , a * P ° °° ^ kj ¦ independentefibrt , a lacratiTe situaUon t' ^ 186160 - * ith"ae njetropolitan press . So bleak and cbeei ^* are fi » prospeeti neld out to those ambitions of ck ^^ « Biaj « 8 witti idia lettret ; ana becoming , nnpatron T"f » sadJoatBifoi SienmltandsmolumeotBof Wentea » Jj Ondon .
" Like thousands who enter the metropolis , fresh bom then rural tomea . George had , already , pictured Access as the least ef his returns , far coming so far to benefit his _ c » nntry with Ma laboura , : The future looked sunny , hrijjhW and . imrifiBK ; and a U- ? ely imagination bad already strewed bis path -witli flowers . -ilK »> 2 y , the bonom-won chapiet decked his brow ; and She blood rushed warm through ita Teins , as- he thought of the applause which , thousands were preparing to ^ ward him , fcr past exertions ; and asa Btimu-Iant to future effort Honour , and Pame , and Glory , " Were prominent in ttess ideal piinUup : nor was the
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climax fiaisbed eyen then ; for yet a nobler reward—1 MH 0 BTAL 1 TT , beckoned him on ! But , alas ! the dreamer awoke to sad and colourless reality . A visit to the How , at once told him that visions howerer lustrous in eiherial imagery , were not substantiated Acre The trade was being overdone—to uae a common and expressive phrase—and those publishers who might have closed with his proposal to produce something norel and likely to suit , were sickened at the prospect of having to combat with others , who by reason of theii wealth and systems ol perpetual puffing , were fast glutting the market with werks , having no recommendatory merit save aristocratic titles dangling to the writers' names ; and the fact of iheir authors being of
a class high above the rank commonly gifted with genius 1 Gaorge waited on the publishers of respectable periodicals in oUrer quarters of the town ; but titty were already ful ! , * an < l really couid not accept contributions from genius in hurable life , so long as the Bervices of my Xord Fl ^ ecem and Sir Bibbleton Contraband—botn memben of the Cabinet —were continued on the Review . Other exalted personages—being mentioned as regular contributors— -having names and titles equally appalling to the ears of one who couid only dream of such high , neh , and noble personages condescending to link sentences , ana to wield the pen tot filthy l ucre , the hope of literary erop-oymeirt for a plebeian writer was small indeed . Of coaree , George Jell the publishers * ' reasons' to be unanswerable ; especially when the youth calculated the influence which wit anu
learning , and knowledge , and . what not—tnmnatirg from the mirrored closets of il . P . 's ., Peers , and Peeresses , must command at all time 3 , and in all circles . And , when the saleable character of the works , the Very tasteful arrangement , and beautiful superabundance of fiifuies , and facts , rich sentiment , apt-simile , dripping daggers , lace frills , flaming torches , diamond rings , sparkling wine , and pale faces , in all their vigour of fun and horror , —were considered , there couid be only sinail chance for the humbler claims of one so utterly ignorant of all these essentiaLi to polite literature .. And , above all , seeing that the nisjor number of eSsnai readers can master sufficient moral courage to decde impa * tiaUy ; while , testing the relative merits of titled twaddler , and b poor countryman , with a vulgar name , who boasted no brilliancy , save that derived from
" Spark o Nature ' s fire . " " His next alternative was tbe Morning Press ; and , here , by dint of incessant application , be contrived with hundreds of * occasional reporters ? to earn a guinea ; say once in four weeks-, or thertabout : — for the Maithuaian * evil , " over-popolition , has filled up this opt-Ding * also ; ana tbe poor bcribe has to thank his Jack , ¦ when , oh * of a hundred contributions oo / y ninety-nine are i > j » cte < l' Bat many a despairing victim , has the DaUy Press saved by this ' encouragement ;"—many a
thankful prayer ba > been wafUd from the heart * of a starving family arwup , to Heaven for this guinea;—an- many grattfnl blessings have been showered on those , who—by official connection with the Daily Press , have a voice in its distribution . Bat even here , cruelty ana crime are not unknown ; and grovelling creatnrea , on a morning paper , have stooped so low as to rob the penuy-a-liner ol his guinea , by stealing the marrow from a contribution , aiio dres . « ed in other garb , obtaining its insertion / or themselves I Yet , to the credit of the British Daily Press , such crimes are rare . "
We have no room for farther extracts , but commend the book iiseli to our readers . Though small in size this wurk is eminently calculated u > add largely to the well-deserved popularity of its author .
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IRELAND BEFORE &&D AFTER THE UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN By R . Montgomery Mabtin , Esq . Fart I . London \ On and Co ., Paternoster Row . This is & work undertaken by the author for the purpose of refuting the charges brought against England and the English Government by Mr , O'Connell and the advocates of Repeal generally . The writer m his preface , alter quoting an extract from the " Address lo the Inhabitants of the Gqrmtries subject to the British Crown" in which is contained , in very forcible Terms , the pith of the charges
against England ; proceeds to eay that : "It is due therefore to the character of Ensland that these charges sbonld be fully and minutely investigated . ' He therefore takes up the gauntlet thrown down by the Repealers , and pledges himself to prove the falsehood of the allegations of O'Connell . Ojr readers will judge for themselves , from the following extracts , bow far tbe writer has succeeded in his object . We must say that he shews fair p ' ay to his antagonists , by giving very fully , and ia their own precise language , the accusations which he purposes to repel . :
The first : few pages give a sort of sketch of the ancient Irish , commencing with the landing of " Csesara , a niece of Noah , previous to the Deluge . " —( Fudge . ) He then asserts that Ireland was one vast theatre of crime- ^ - " a horrible field of blood , " before the landing of the English ; and that it was to extirpate this state of crime , and redresa the sufferings of the people , sunk in " deep degradation" by the tyranny and rapacity of their chiefs , that Henry was called in . Of course , Mr . Martin volunteers no defence of the crime which led to the invasion , nor of the giant crime which ihe invasion itself was . He Bhews that Ireland never had a " native Parliament , tili England gave her one , " to be held at the wDl of the latter . He quotes a number of records from the time of the landing of Henry j in proof of this , from which we select the following extracts relating to : —
potjukg ' s act . " A Parliament was summoned before Edward Poynings , Knight , the King ' s Deputy , and hsld at D : oi ? - heda . a . D . 1495 , and an Act passed , since known under the n ^ ime of Puynirg ' s Act , by which it was provided that no P . \ rli . iment be holden hereafter in Ireland but at such season as the King ' s Lieutenant in Council there first do certify to the King , under tbe Great Seal of the land , the causes and considerations thereof , and all such Acts as to them seemeth should pass in tbe same Parliament ; and &uch causes , considerations , and Acts , affirmed by the King and Mb Council , to be good
aud expedient for that land , ana his license thereupon , as well in affirmation of the said causes and Ada , as to summon the said Parliament under bis Great Seal of England bad and obtained ; that done , a Parliament to be bad and holden after the form and effect aforere-hearsed ; and if any Parliament beholden in that latid hereafter , contrary to the form and provision aforesaid , it shall ba deemed void and of none effect in law . * Th « Lord Lieutenant or the King in Counoil became by this Act the jroposor of all laws to b 9 passed , and the dependence of tbe Irish Parliament was completely tsnacted , and declared by the Irish themselves .
" In the ever earnest endeavours to influence tbe minds of the people of Ireland against the Bngliah , attention is repeatedly called to * Poynlng ' s Act , ' as one of the cruel specimens of English domination ; but the circumstances under which it originated are carefully omitted , and perfect silence as to the fact that it was at the time one of the moat popular Acts ever passed in Ireland , on account of the people being thereby relieved from thousands of lecal oppressions under the cover of Acts of Parliament ; while that eloquent and patriotic Irish historian , Mr . O'Dnacoll , thinks it would have been better for Ireland had Grattan left untouched Sir E . Poynlng ' s Act * This Act was modified In the third year of Philip and Mary , by the Governor and Council being ; euipo «¦ ered to certify such other causes requiring legislation , which were not foreseen at tbe beginning of the session .
"In fact , tba Irish . Legislature was never considered independent of Great Britain ; and English A cts of Parliament , In which Ireland was named , were held to be binding . An Act was passed 10 th Henry YII-, c . 22 , in the Irish Parliament , declaring that * all statutes late made within tue said realm of JEngland , concerning or belonging to the public weal of the same , from henceforth be deemed good and effectual in the law ; and ones that be accepted , used , and executed within this land of Ireland , in all points , at all times requisite , according to the tenour and effect of the same , and ones that by authority aforesaid , that they and every of them be authorised , proved , and confirmed in this said land of Ireland . And if any statute or statutes shall have been made within this said land hereafter to tbe contrary , they and any of them by authority aforesaid , be annulled , revoked , void , and of none effect in the law . *
" From 1668 to 1692 , name y , fer twenty-six years , there was no regular mzeting of the Irish Tarliament at all , so little was it considered a constituent assembly . Four sessions were held in the reign of William III . ; and from I 70 S to 1783 , it was only convened biennially . " Here is oar author ' s version of the " Aofc of Independence . " If it . be tfoaJtruft version- * sorry sort of " muepeuaence" it jMK | gAfter stating tnat the period of England ' sffHHuties was chosen for this outbreak , and : that troops were asked for by the Irish to defend the coast from invasion , well knowing that England had noDjfcto spare , he adds the following account of ^
THE , VOIASSTEERS . " By tbe permission of England , 50 . 000 men , as if sown by Cadmus , instantly sprung into activity , and were no sooner organ zad than they commenced dictating to the Parliament , and threatening England with separation . His Majesty accordingly , in 1782 , sent a message to the Irish Parliament , with a carle blanche , to fill up with Irish grievances . The Commons ot Ireland , under the influence of the guns and sabres of the Volunteers , declared that dom bat the K < ng , Lords , and Commons of Ireland , had pow « to make laws for Ireland . Mr . Gratton undertook to be th « tranquilliser of his country , —and Ponyng's Act was modified , but nut entirely repealed by the following Act of the Irish Parliament , A . D . 1781 , 2 Geo . III . 21 and 22 , c . 47 , entitled " An act to regulate the manner of passing bills , and to prevent delays in summoning of Parliament . '
" Sect . 1—No bills are henceforth to be certified to Great Britain but sach as have been approved of by both Houses of Parliament under the great seal of Ireland , without alteration . Sect . 2 . —Such Acts returned under the great seal o ! Great Britain , and not altered , shall pass , and no other . " * Sect . 3 —No bill shall hereafter be certified for the holdiDg of a Parliament in Inland . " Sect . A . —No Parliament shall be held without license under the great seal of Great Britain
The assent of i the sovereign under tbe great seal of England ( not of Ireland ) , was still required to any Acts passed by both Hease 3 of the Irish Parliament . The Great Seal of England was responsible to the English House of Commons and not to that of Ireland . Neither was there any Irish Cabinet , The English Cabinet therefore , virtually and necessarily controlled all acts passed by tbe Irish Lsgislatare . The Lard LituUnant and Chief Secretary were still nominated by and responsible to the Enelish Cabinet , "
FRUITS OP THB " INDEPENDENCE . " , Mr . Grattan demonstrated that the LegfsMure of Ireland neither possessed tbe substance nor the shadow of independence ; and on the 26 th February , 1790 , he asked , •* Wbat has our renewed constitution as yet produced ? A place bill ? No . A pension bill ? No . Any great or good measure ? No . But a city police bill—a press bill—a riot act—great increase of pensions : fourteen new places for Members of Parliament , and a most notorious and corrupt sale of peerages * Where will all this end V " In 1793 , the House of Commons was sot fire to while the Members were sitting , and amidst the shouts o ! nn immense and ferecions multitude , the Representatives has just time to escape , when the vast dome became enveloped in names , and , falling in , crashed everything beneath it "
" The country was torn ( from 1782 upwards ) by factions and intestine feuds ; the whole island was kept in the most wretched turmoil , nights and day , by fnrious communities , under the designations of Patriots , Agitators , Right-boys , White-boya , Peep-oi-D . iy-boys , Conventions , Aggregate Bodies , Catholic Committees , Tarring and Feathering Committees , Defenders , Assassins , Honghers of Men and Bouchers of Cattle , Associators , Whig Clubs , St . James ' s Delegates , Escbequerstreet Delegates , National Congresses , Emancipators "United Irishmen , Reformers , Revolutionists Societies of Peace and Societies of War , cum muliis aliis !"
ABSENTEEISM . " Absenteeism is a very old grievance in Ireland , even under a resident' legislature . ' " Legal enactments against absentees , from 1377 , to 1753 , all proved ineffectual . ' In 1773 , Mr . Hood attempted to revive the old laws against the absentees ; and in 1783 , proposition for ditto by Mr . Grattan ; both failed . " In 1787 , Sir John Yaudeleur proposed , in tbe Irish House of Commons , to raise an annual revenue of £ 240 , 006 by a tax on the property of absentees . The motion was not supported . " 1799 , Mr . Tandeleur ' i similar motion met with the same result . "
DID THE GOVERNHEKT CONSPIRE IHE "REBELLION ? , In the following extracts the "writer proves too much and at the same time too little . He proves the former by shewing that the government p laced the country under martial law , and thus goaded to " rebellion , " the people of that unhappy country , who whether their oppressors have been Saxon or Milesian , have most certainly suffered centuries of oppression and wrong . He does not prove enough , . fay his Bilence on the employment , by the Castlereagh Government , of those Iecariot scoundrels of whom the eternally infamous Reynolds was the chief , and Armstrong , " the hale old man'' ( monster ) , who lately appeared at the Dablin Folioe Offioe , one of the gang . He forgets , * ToL a p . 180 ,
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too , to defend or disprove the " pitch-caps " " flog-S'nsy and " waikia * ealiowses , " which had no " ¦ R ebeuf " ^ fo 8 terin £ " aad "extending" the "Then were the eyes of the Government opened to the danger of the crisis , and the Irish opposition were compelled to permit the passing of tbe ' Gunpowder Bill , by which only certiin liesnsed persona were an-Uiormad to import gunpowder into Ireland . The Habeas Corpus Act . - . was suspended ; the Insurrection Act passed , and same of tha founders and promoters of the Society of United Irishman' Wolfe ToneHamilton
, , Rowan , Colonel Butler , and Oliver Bond , were proceeded against by Government on charges of high treason . Did these acts hear the semblance of encou rauins rebellion for the purpose o fcarryiny the Union ? " - But this was not the only step undertaken by thb Br / tish Government , atjrt forced from the Irish Parliament , iu spite of tbose factious persona who contended that Lfeland was tranquil , while the slumbering volcano was ready to burst beneath their feet . Tbe ' Convention Bill' was passed , by which self-created conventions were dissolved , and the seizure of unregistered arms effected .
" ^ Gvneral Lake was instructed ta seiza arms in Uifuer , and to disperse all tumultuous assemblies of t . eri * as , theugh they might not be in arms , without wv ung for the sanction and assistance of the civil authorities , if the peace of the realm or the safety of his Majesty ' s faithful subjects should bo endangered by ^ aitin < 5 for such authority . ' There wero in Ulster 99 400 United Irishmen ; but by the mdf > faM « ftb ! e fff > rts of General Lake upwards of sice thousand stand of arms , aud many thousand pikes and . other formidable weapons , Were se zrJ ; bo that when the rebellion actually brok 8 out in the subsequent year , not 30 000 out of 90 . 000 men could aassemble aimed . " THE C 0 RRUP 1 ' MEANS BY WHICH THE UNION WAS CVRIUED . " The writer roples to this as follows : —
" The loiw-dtsired object of Parliamentary Reform was , to a certain extent , gained by the disfranchising of a number of nomination boroughs , the possessors of which each received £ 16 . 000 . " " The same plan of paying the proprietors of noraination boroughs was proposed in the discussion ef the Lite 'Reform Bill , and bad it been effected , no one would bavo said tb&t the Reform Bill had been ea-ried by bribsry an < i corruption ; yet it is asserted that the Union was carried by bribery and corruption , because the disfranchised proprietors of tbe Irish boroughs received . £ 15 600 each . Tbis is not , surely , a fair
charge t 9 make a {? iinat Mr . Pltf s Rovernment , as to corrupt means used in effecting the Union . It is asserted that Lord Castlerea ^ h spent £ 2 , 000 , 000 in notorious and pn .-flicate bribery to c » rry tb . 6 Union . Now the sum actually paid away to tbe proprietors of nomination -boroughs disfranchised at fchtf Uaiwn was £ 1 260 , 009 , at the rate of £ 15 , 000 for each borough ; and on the Buma principle , and at even a higher rate of payment , Mr , Pitt projected parliamentary reform in England . What he had , therefore , proposed for Eugland , it would have been unjust to ileuy to Ireland , when nomination boroughs were destroyed there . "
We cannot , spare room to reply to the above , and shew as we might do that the writer has anything but fully combatted this charge . There were other monstrously corrupt means employed which he does not even glance at ; but We have not space at disposal to enter into the question at present . Mr . Martin concludes by detailing at some length the " benefits" whioh have resulted to Ire land from the Act of Union ; amongst which he enumerates the M Tithe Commutation Act'H !) and the H Poor Law" ( 0 He says : " That , previous to the Union , of three hundred members of the Irish House of Commons , fc «? o hundred membars were stated to be the nominees of private indivnluala ; that from forty to fifty members were returned by constituencies of rot more than ten persons each ; that several boroughs had not more than oue resident elecwr , and that out of three hundred members thus returned , one hundred aud four were placam&n and pensioners . "
Such was Grattan ' s description after the establishment of the " glorious independence . " He adds that now " 96 , 000 electors are free to return 105 members to the Imperial Legislature , whether of the ; Roman or Protestant faith . " He says that those who complain of English domination " have two-thirds of the Parliamentary representation and the whole of the corporations of Ireland entirely within their own control . These' facts demonstrate that Ireland never was so truly aud integrally a kingdom as she is at this moment . "
Aad yet , Mr . Martin , the great mass of the people are politically slaves ^ are denied tne rights and franchises of freemen : and this " most eloquent fact" remains unanswered , that tor not more than thirty we « ks out of the fiity-two , they have not even third-class potatoes to vegetate upon ! Unhappy peupleof Ireland , ' no wonder you ory for Repeal . Thd wonder rather is , that you do not cry for the annihilation of your rulers and yourselves in ono common destruction , rather than remain upon your native soil the slaves mis-government has made you .
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LIFE IN RUSSIA . [ From the Review of De Curtine ' a Empire of thv Czar , " in Tail ' s Magazine for Ootober . l
THE APPROACH TO SV . PETERSBURG . " Nothing can be more melancholy than the aspect of nature in tbe approach to St Petersburg . As one advances up the Guif , tbuflit marshes of Ingria terminate in a little waving line drawn between the sky and the sea ; this line is Russia . It presents the appearance of a wet lowland , with here and there a few birch trees thinly scattered . The landscape ia void of objects and colours ; has no bounds , and yet no Bublimity . It has just light enough to be visible ; tbe grey messy earth
well accords with the pale sun which illumines it , not from overhead , but from near the horizon , or almost indeed from below , —so acute is the angle which the oblique rays form with the surface of this unfavoured soil . In Russia , the finest days have a bluish dimness . If the nights are marked by a clearance which surprises , tbe days are clothed with an obscurity which saddens . * * - To reach St . Petersburg , you must pass a desert vi water framed in a desert of p > -at earth ; sea , shore , and sky , are all blended into one mirror ; but so dull , so tarnished , that it reflects nothing , "
A SUMMER NIGHT SCENE . " The temperature of the : day bad risen to arty degrees , and notwithstanding the freshness of the evenins , the atmosDhere of the palace during the fete was suffocating . On rising from table I took refu > g > in the embrasure of an open window . There , completely abstracted from all that passed around , I was suddenly struck with admiration at beholding one of those effects of lisht . which we see only in the north , during tbe maijie brightness of a polar night . It was half-past twelve o ' clock , and the nights bnvlng yet scarcely begun to Itngthe ;) , the dawn of day appeared already in | be direction of Archangel . The wind hud fallen : numerous beita of iDlack and motionless : clouds divided the
firmament iato zones , each of wkich was irradiated with a light so brilliant , that it appeared Like a polished plate of silver ; its lustre was ttfljcted on the Neva , to whose vast and uurippled surface it j ; ave the appearance of a lake of milk or of mother-of-pearl . The greater part of Petersburg , with its quays and its spires , was , under this Hunt , revealed bt-foro my eyes ; it was a perfect composition of Breughrl ' * . The tints of the picture cannot be described by words . Tbe domes of the Church of Saint Nicholas stoo < l in the i-elief of lapis lazuli against a sky of sUver : the illuminated pwrueo of the Exchange , whose lamp * were p : miai ) y quenched by the dawning day , still gleamed on the water of the river , and was r « flacted—a peristyleof gold . "
RUSSIAN BUGS . " Scarcely was I installed in this abode than ( the fatigue of the night having got the bott-r of my curio 3 ity , which usually impels me to sally forth and lose myself in a large unknown city ) I lay elo , vn , wrapped in a cloak , on an immense leather sofa , and slept profoundly during —three minutes ; ' * At the end of this time I woke in a fever ; and on casting my eyes upon the cloak , what , a , sight awaited them ! A brown but living mass : things must be called by their proper name—I was covoiert , I was devoured with bogs . Russia is , ia this respect , not a whit inferior to Spain ; but in tbe t-xuth we enn both console and secure ourselves in ; the open air : here we
remain imprisoned with the enemy , and the war is consequently more sanguine . J began throwing off my clothes ami calling for help . What a prosp * - ; t for the nigiit ¦ ' This thought- made me cry out more lustily . A Russian waiter appeared . I made him understand that 1 wished to see h s master . The master kept me waiting a long time ; and when he at length did come , and waa informed of the nature of Miy troublo , be began to l&ugh , and Boon left ; the room , telling me that 1 should become accustomed to it , for that it was the same everywhere in Petersburg . He first advised me , however , never to Beat myself on a Russian sofa , because the domestics , who always carry about with them legions of insects , sleep on these articles of furnitnre . "
[ The cart-whip democrats (?) of Cincinnati bare the acoundreiism to talk about the stink of the black African , as offending their republican (!) nostrils , and being a reason why he should be kept in a state of slavery ! What will they say to the following account of the stink of the white Russian !]
i aCSSIAM PERFUME , " In general tbe Russians cany about their persons a disagreeable odour , which ia percepvible at a conaidarabte rtiaSance . The higher classes smell of musk , the { DnvoD people of cabbage , mixed with exhalations of crn'ons and old greasy perfumed Leather . These smells never wy . " THE AUTOCRAT . " TheEmWrorla above the usual height by half ahead ; his figa . 6 noble , although a little fatiff : he has practised from A * youth the Russian custom of girding the body above tb . 0 * loins to such a degree as to push up the stomach into &@ ehest , wnich produces an un-
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natural swelling lor extension about the ribs , that is as injurious to the heaith as it is ungraceful in appearance . This voluntary deformity destroys all freedom of movement , - impairs the elegance of the shape , and imparts an air of constraint to the whole person . They say that when , the Emperor loosens his dress , Jthe viscera , suddenly giving way , are disturbed for a moment in their equilibrium , which produces an extraordinary prostration of streneMi . The bowels may be displaced—they cannot be got rid of . The Emperor has a Grecian profile- ^ the forehead high , but receding ; the nose straight , and perfectly forme ! ; the tiiouth very finely cut ; the face , which in shops is rather a loan oval , is noble ; the whole air military , and rtuher Q-: tman than Slavonic . Hw carr :.-t «; e aud his attitucU-s > ire naturally imposing . He expect * al' + ays to be g ^ z-d at , and never for a moment ior ^ u iU . it Ue is ( so 1 . It may be even said that ho li&es ttv ' . a homage of th <) eyes . He passes the greater part of his ex . stence in the open air , at reviews , © r ia rapid journeys .
' * I do not say that tue physiognomy of this prince lacks candour , but it lacks nutural fxpr ^ asion . Teas , tbe chief evil un- er whicii Kviss' 4 suffers , the nbserice ot liberty , is depicted even on tan countenance of its sovereign : he has many maskd , but no fuce . S ^ tk for . the man , and you will always flnu tbe Emperor . '' . [ There ? s m ich ' of truth in the fo ! lowing picture of 11 Constitutional" Governments . We liv » under jnst such a system of fraud , lies , and corruption in thi 3 England ot our- ] i NICHOLAS ON * i CONSTITUTION At / GOVERNMENTS "Hera the Emperor icK > rrui , t « d himself , and looked at tue attentively , jl coutiaued , to listen without replying , ami he proceeded : —
" ' I can unieMtand R ° pnblic . m sjn : it is a plain and straightforward form of govwnm-nt , or , at l » -ast , U might be so ; I causuadu-stantl ubsi lute monarchy , for I am myself the head of auch an order of things ; but I cannot understand a representative monarch : it is the Government of lies , fraud , aud Corruption ; and I would rather fall buck even upon China than ever adopt it . ' j . "' Sire , I have always reg&rdorl representative Government as a csuipact inevitable in curtain communities at certain epusbs ; but like all other cum puts , it does not solve j questions—it only sojourns difficulties . ' ]
" The Emperorseemed to say , 6 o on . ' I continued : "It is a truce signed between democracy and monarchy , under the auspices of two { very mean tyrants , fear and interest ; ( and it is prolonged by that pride ot i < te ! Iect which takes pleasure in taking , and that popular vanity which satisfies itself on words . In short , it is the aristocracy of oratory substituted for the aristocracy of birth : it ia tbe government of tht lawyers . ' I "' Sir , you speaklthe truth , ' said the Emperor , pressing my hand : ' 1 have been a representative sovereign ;
and the world knows what it has cost me not to have been willing to submit to the exigane ' es of this infamous government ( I ( quote literally ) . To buy votes , to corrupt consciences , -to seduce some in ordev to deceive others ; all those means I disclaimed , as degrading those who obev as much as those who command ; and I have dearly puid the penalty of my straightforwardness ; but , God be praised , I have uune for ever with tbis detestable political machine . I shall never more be a constitutional king , j I have too much need of saying all that I think ever to consent to reign over any people by means of stratagem aud intrigue . '
"The name of Poland , which preaeuted itself incessantly to our thoughts , was not once uttered in this singular conversation . " THB JRU 3 SIAN SYSTEM . " The movements of the men whom I met appoared stiff and constrained ; every gesture expressed a will which was not their own . The morning is the time for commissions and j errands , and not one individual appeared to be walking on hia own account . I observed few good-looking women , and heard no girlish voices ; everything was dull and regular as in a barrack . Military discipline reigas-tbrouphent Russia . ¦ ; * * * Fancy can almost descry the shadow of death hovering' over tuis portion of the globe .
" Now appears a cavalry officer passing at fall gallop to bear an ordtr to some commanding officer ; then a chasseur carrying an order to some provincial governor , perhaps at the other ' extremity of the empire , whither be proceeds in a hibiiha , a little Russian chariot , without springs or stuffed seat This vehicle , driven by an old bearded coachman , rapidly conveys the courier , whose rank would prevent his using a more commodious equipage had he one at hia disposal . Next are seen foot soldiers returning from exercise to their quarters , in order to receive orders from their captain . This automaton population resembles one side of a chess-board , where a smgle individual causes the movements of all
the pieces , but where ] the adversary is invisible . Ooo ' neither moves nor respires here except by an imperial ' order ; consequently j everything is dull , formal , aud j spiritless . Sitence presides over and paralyses lifts . Officers , coachmen , Cossacks , serfs , courtiers , all servants under the same master , blindly obey the orders which they do not understand . It is certainly tbe perfection of discipline ^ but the ai « ht o « *«« b p »^«« Wir uoeaiibt gratify ihe ; bo much regularity can only be obtained by the entire absence of independence . Among this people bereft of ] time and of will , we see only bodies without souls j ; and tremble to tkiuk that , for so vast a multitude of arms and legs , there 13 only one head . " ITS BRUTALITIES . It is a common sight to see an underling of tbe Government , brutally and unmercifully beat any one who may offjnd him ; the individual attacked nob daring to offur any resistance . Ofoua scene of this sort we are told : — i * " " The passers by were in nodegree moved or exc : ted by the cruelty ; and jone of the comrades of the bufferer , who was watering bis horaea a few steps off , obedient to % sign ] of the enraged feid-jag » r , approached to bold hia horse ' s bridle during the urn .- that be was pleased to prolong the punishment . In wh ; tt other country could a maa of tbe lower orders be £ ou > d who would assist in the infliction of arbitrary puuisoment upon one of bis companions ?
"The scene in question took place in the finest part of tbe city , and at tbe busiest hour . When tbe u ; ifortunate man was released , he wiped away the blood which streamed down bis cheeks , remounted bis seat , and recommenced his ] bows and salutations as usual . It should be recollected that this abomination was enacted in the midst of a silent crowd . ' * Here is another case : — " A small boat vras brought alongside by other poiica agents ; the prisoner was bound witn cords , hi& L n . is were fastened behind 'bio back ., snd he was tbrown oh his fuce into tke buufc . ! This second rude shock was
followed by a shower of blows ; nor did the tortur ? b ^ re finish . The sergeant \ who had seized the victim no . sooner saw him tl . aa prostrate , than he jumped u ^< u his body , and begun to stamp upon him with ail tils force , trampling him nnder Ins feet as the gi ^ pes are trod in the wine-press .. ! I had then approached tiie spot , and am therefore wituess of all that I telate . B . ring this honible torture , tLe frightful yells of the vur-iin were at first redoubled j bu \ when they began to grow fainter and fainter , I felt that I could no longer command myself , and , having no power 10 interfere , 1 hastened away . " ;
ITS TBEB 1 BLE RESULTS . The Emperor having emancipated the serf-- on Home domains whichiiio had purchased , the peasants on ihe Wolgaj sent depuries praying tl . ih Father to purchase the lands to which th ^ y were enthralled , and free their d * putic-a graxriouBly ; out as he did not buy thd estates , he couid not emancipate ( hem , though he wished , he ? aid , that they all were free . The cpnsequenoes as related to A 3 . De Custine , were horrible . " Our Father desires' our deliveranet , ' cried the retutned deputies en th 4 borders of the Wotga . ' He wishes for nothing but ] our happiness ; he said 83 ta
us himself : it is , then , only tbe noblos and their agents who ave our enemies , aud who oppose tbe good designs of Our Father !] Let us avenge the emperor !' After this , the peasants believeu they were p « tft > vim ; ig a pious work in rising upon their masttrs ; ami tLud all the nobles of a cantion , and all their agents , were massacred , together with their families . They spiked one and roasted him alive , they boiled auotuer ni a caldron ; they disembowel ed and killed in var ^ as otherways the stewards and agents of the estates ; w . ey murdered all they met , ! burnt whole towns , aDd . in short , devastated a province ; not in the nam ¦¦ of liberty ; for t&ay do not know what liberty means , U : ia the name of deliverance and of the emperor . "
" As everything is in sympathetic accord , the immense extent of the territory doss uot prevent ti . inus being executed from one end of Russia to the ouii-r , with a punctuality , and aj simultaneous orresponilenco , which is magical . If ever they should succeed iu creating a real revolution among the Russian pe ^ ir , massacre would be petfojrincd with the regularity that aiarks eroiufcions of a regiment . Villages wouid change into barracks , and organised innriler would stalk forth armed from tbe cottages , farm ia line , and advuuee ui order ; in short the Russians would prepare for pillage from Smolensk to Irkutsk , as they march to the parade in Petersburg . " 1
HOBROHS OP DESPOTISM , . 1 " Bloody scenes are yet being daily renewed in various parta of tbe same oountry , where public order has been disturbed , and re-established in so terrific a manner . The Russian * have no tight to reproach / franco far her political disorders , and to draw from them consequences favourable to despotism . Let but the liberty of tba press b « accorded to Russia for twenty-four hours , and we should learn things that would make ue recoil with horror . Silence isi indispensable to oppression . Under an absolute government , every iniiiwretion tf speech is equivalent to a crime of high treason . "
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CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST AN ATTORNEY . On Monday last , at the Magistrates Office , Cotnt Heuae , Leeds , Mr . Tqob . Walfedr , of Dewsbnry , attorney-afc-liw , was charged before George Goodman , Esq ., witbhaviDg twice forged the si ^ rjatnre of Mon agoa Baker Bore , Esq ., one of the Commissioners in the L- ^ eda District Court of Bankruptcy , to » n instrament purporting to be an interim ordtr of protection from the Contfc to an insolvent . Mr . Walker was apprehen ^ -i at Da ^ sfcnry , oa Si'uHay nftcru-. - on , by Mr . James , . ¦ iupsrintemU >! T < . of th ,- L "da P ^ lic * | I » lr . Blackbukn , solicitor . o fifiscJs , was tb-- ^ rtor * Bey Ihc the prosecution ; Mr . Bond , solicitor , of E < edp , and Yiv , Schoies , solicitor , of r > 6 . wsbury > atten :-oA to watcn the utsa on th « prisoner ' s behalf . —Tbe following evidence w » s adduced : —
George Nowso > ne . of Batley Carr , deposed—I live at , Bititry Cirr , sn-l am a clo ' -hitr ; in August last I was in h ; i-olv * nt eireunishinces . 1 applied to Mr . Thos . W :, !* - * , solicitor , of D .-WiMiry ; 1 told him I warr . *< l to aee if I cuuW not get sfc-ut of my debis . and a * k «< i him wb * i I should do ; he said ho rwou ' d do is for his for £ 15 ; he said be would get me a protection , but 1 should tiiivu r . o beep out of tht . way for a week ; I was z » pay him £ 2 down , aad ttis reni . ismfer by instalments of £ 1 per tuvJitta ; I thtn ssgnou some papers , whivh i uiKisrstood we . e fur an . Hivtrtiseiueiu w-Mch was to a . i- ; &st in tb . o VVak'jfiaut Friday 8 pap ^ r , mis was on the i-ird . of AuttU 4 t . ond he told me 1 si . uuid Lira my pro-u uion en tiie 4 tbofSept ., oa whtcti iay be'g ala he < -J : / uld have to go to L-= <; i » s to g * t it ! or tus ; I saw Mr . W . ; . ker ai'n a on Satuiiiav ins 2 nd « f S v . ember , on wb ;« L < icj
I sigfimt some t'tore papers , sr . i ; paid him £ 2 as&in . ., I « . iw him attain on . * lont ! ay , tee 4 th , when 1 suit-: to him that if he thou hi I couui ? tt my protection by coming to Leeds with him , I Aoui-. i come . Resai- > I Uadl better not go to i verts , but he wouid meat me at \ V kafiaid at two o clock ia the afturrmon , at the public lioase opposite tbe sessions h » uee , where be uuuld give me my . protection ; I wtut to Wnkefltld , and waited at tbe Railway Station all tbe afternoon , uut'l ab . ait seven o ' ciock . but did not see him there . . ! iiafl bun the next day ai Dewsirory , wbsn he said , s" Well , I ' ve got your ptotsotion bore , '' and he gavo me a v-yes out ot his pocket-book , which he said was m ' j yrctectinn . [ The document was produced , and on bticg banded to the wttiie&a he ideuti&sd it as the ^; mo which he had received from the prisoner ]
Examination reaunted—I know the paper ft obi an alteration which was made in U Xy Mr . Waiktr ;« my presence : the flignnture M . B . Bere , " was op ihe paper when it was given tome < . ¦ th ? 5 ihof Sepieuiber . Ho told me then that tba bearing day was fixed ' fin the 9 Lb of October . I saw tbs prisoner again on Su ' . uruay ibo 7 ih oi Oatobt-r , when ht > tout me that my bearing day was pat off tiil tt * 11 ' ih ot October , I then a ' s&ed hi-. n what I should do , as my protection was omj till the 9 : h , and it w < juld be of uo uid to ma . He tani he couid soon alter that , and ask « d me if I bad u with ine- I pruducart it , andheerasail tbe word ** n-iita , ' and wrote iu the word " eleventh" in my i « rtrsd « ici » . He then said I should be safe ft ^ m the bailiff 1 , and if anv nf thi . m came , I was t « bhuvr it to them , Ini not
let thtin have it ; I gave ium a sovereign at tbat time . Oa Wednesday , tbe 11 th , * mod the prisoner by appointment at the Griffin Inn , L \ iada and afterwards Went to tbo Comt of Bankrupt ? , I Wfu 5 first into the room up Ktaira , and aftowan ¦ , iiifco lba £ down stairs ; Mr . Walker was with me . It & £% about eltjven o'elo-ik wben we went , and L Btayect ttere till about three . I was in the uaaiereom with < i ^ urge Lister , another insolvent . 1 hoard his name wiLicd , and saw him stand up at the desk ; my name was nob called . Before leaving the Griffin , in the forenoon , I gave my protection to Walker , , ihiB rtqatssfc ; at that tune thuru was no writing on the back part of tha projection . Walker fiUed up aoM . o writing at the bactC part , and then eaid it would >^ ant signing f&f tha
next hearing day , and Ue would taka it and get it signed He took it with hisa to the Court , but did liuS a 3 j anything tome about the protection whilst intlie Court , but told me that ho would give it to me at ths Onnia when the Court was over . When he came ta the Griffin , George Ltete ? asked him if he had got tiienj signed , and he said , "O , yes / ' and produced two papsrs , one of which he gave to Lister , and the otae * to me . The paper he gav « to ma was the protection which I had bsfore received from him ; it was filled up st the back , ana at first I thought ifc was not signsd , but on th < i prisoner pointing it out to me , I found on that side aleo the signature , " M . B . Bete . " It extended the protection to the 29 th of November , on which day \ ralkt » r said 1 should get a final hearing . I had the paper in my possession up to the 24 th inst .
fiross-examinea by Mr . SCHOtES —It was the month of August when I utst appiud to . vlr . Walker , i cant giy how many papers 1 have signed ; ' there were ntora than one ; there was no agreement in writing betw *< c ^ n me aud vVulker ; no such thing as £ 5 down and £ 0 ab tne first hearing was ever mentioned , nor was any written agreement to that effect ever signed by me ; I never knew that any memorandum to that offset bad been prepared . I never received any other paper ifroax Walker but the one produced ; 1 am quite Bure of that . Walker did not demand any money from me wtea aa gave me niy protection at Dawsbury ; . _ . _ .,,..,, - . Wp » ta « ui « -B » t »» Bwrw-fii ^ tteposett ^^ rnain one 01 tbe Commisaiouers of Bankruptcy for tbe teedsf District . I hava examined the paper now produced ; it
purports to be aa interim order of protection to George Newsome , antosolvent ; it has at the foot ef it tha words " M . B . Bare . " It is not my signature ; nor waa the signature murfe by any person by nij authority . The endorsemeot at the back of it purports to be a renewal of the protection , which . 'a granted after tbe insolvent's first hearing fur hftt protection to Uie day of his final hearing ; that also has the words " M . B . Bere , " which is doe mjr signature , nor has it been made by my authority . The renewal , which is filled up for tne 29 th of November , is a day on which I do not ait , being Wednesday , fbia interim order of protection , and the renewal , are boih
in the usual forms of the Court , and have been issued wiinout my personal signature . No person baa any authority to sigp , mj name—no one ever had Tha paper now produced is the one produced to me en tbe 24 th of October , by Graorge Newaome . I have bad several opportunities of seeing . Mr . Walker Write , im& I beheve the imitation of my eiguature to be in his band-writing . Mr . Walker was not in Court on the 4 th of S / pteinbar ; at least 1 presume so , for he waa summoaed to appear , and on his name being called several times , ha did not auswer . I wrote to Mr . Walker oa Wednesday last , requesting him to attend the Court on Saturday toexplalu ttteaa tuattara to me , he did v . ofc auead .
CDarles Waterfield , Esq—I am one of the deputyregistrars in tne Lueds D strict Cju t of Bankruptcy ; I nit iu Mr . Bore's Court . A petition of George Newsoma , rag-iteaifr , of BiU « - -y , was filed in the Court previous to ths 25 ih of Miwhia this year , aud on that day bia fl / iui protection waa granted . No other petifcioa frota any puraua cuiled Gaur ^ e Newsoine , baa taea fi . ^ d iu either Court since that time . 1 hava fenterud tbe name aud number av . d every petition tiled j » ' bath courts sincd tbe Court was established . Tiisr . a ia uo c-iitry ot any petition ffom George Newsoius , of Bitley s : nce the 25 . li of March . Gk-orge Newsoma w ? 3 not called on hiu petition on the 11 th of October
am-G ? 'jrge L ? st « . ' waa called on the 11 th ; he receive * renewed pro : ection on tbat day . Jb& Commie ^ 0 ^ 5 ' s . gns nil papers himself . I have not , since the 25 th ot 5 iarcb , received ituy fees on bshalf of Qeorge Newsome , froai tiithtr Mr Walker or any one elae . Fees wou ; d [ fee payable tn OoarC both when tbe interim order vna granted and wten it was renewed ; also on filini ? t- ' a petition . I rec'jivtil the paper produced from Jot . a Briggs , ths usher of the Court , on the 24 th of October , aud a&ked Newiome , ia the presence of Briggs , if tba % was the psper he l . nd given to Briggs ; he said it wcji . This being the whole , of the evidence , Mr . Walker , after bein ^ cautioned , said he should reserve any thing lie had to say udUI another occasion . Ha was then b « slvl to bail , himself in £ 100 , and a surety in £ 100 , for his appearance at the next aouaea at York , to take his trial for forgery .
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Hreadful Gale on ihk Kiver Thames . — -Aboas one o'clock oa Fciday uiorainK , tb . 3 atmospueitt exhibited symptoms ot aa approaching Bioroa , and sooa afterwards the indicatioos were fully verified . Ie was hi ^ h w ater at London-bridge a few miauteg befure five o'clocU ; but two hoars previously , tha wind , which had beep , blowing fresh from aooafc w . rs . W . inoreased to » perfect hurricane , aad tha shipping and small craft on the river have sustained considerable damage About half-past six o ' clock the hurricane , which waa accompanied with tremendous .-quafe , waa at its height , when several v .-sseig that had befara held to their moorings , siari ' ed , and were dtiren with great force against ncrs of shipping on the northern shore . The tide
r-jae'io a greater height than any in the recollection of the olceit iuhabitantg along ; tae water fflde . Fortu ! ii » . ely an txtraordinary flood was anticipated , and ia many places precauiioaa were taken whioti nad the effect of materially lessening , the ifajiiij wii'oh must otherwise have rasulted . A great deal or '< ijn . ag-j has , boweVer , been sustained , and pj-o-P > ny destroyed , in the warehoases situated " along both baaks of the river , t ' r , om Woolwic > to ! Cheiaea , Tftc fitearanavitjaSioa above bridge was stopped for a cotVoiderable pttiod , in . consequence of the impozuibili ty of passing under some ot it ^ o bridges . isFANTiciDE in lKEJLAND .... There . ia afearful , bat , " ; t ' ov the iaosfe part , uosuspected sacrifice at bumas life- continually ^ oiag on among as . The Foundling ^ ! Hospital wa , 3 closed on the 3 d of October , 1838 , aui : "' during the five vearaiEat « lanaed betweeu that and :
the Sd of the present inpntb » no ; fewer tbiuieigb , ^ -Bjii ; .: ' inquests have bten held a : the Bridewell on the bodies of deserted infani ^ t ) i ^' 'i ^' | ii'pliia- ' E ^^^ a <»; - ' . * : fewer than so ma ' Dj murders have been perpetrated ; , or permitted by the anhappy paren ^ wto : ; broiigb : t sheminto beiu « ! And yel ( Were ^«( Lw « Sw of , icquests without troubling ourselyea with though ! of tbe iniquity or the guUt which ofeiy ;^ qairjr : ; imi-lies 1 Hat the number of death _ 9 by no ^ , n » ean * > "' ¦¦ ? reprcaent& tho number of helpless fc | Bing 8 C » rton * U > " . perish , or to take the chance . - . of ' being pt < njiaentia ^ ig : ¦ picked up , lor at the . last city ratef 8 eafflons---oiie , siuicio aefisium—t , ae appUcatwM by . eharcliWMaens fof rlie supporo ef mfduts found deserteq iUHOoaJed to 3 ^ 3 ! Daring the five years previous to the closing of . u-c F .-jcdling . Hospital the number ef iDqae 8 t 8 _ oa n . w ^ -ij . ra iufauts was forty-eight . —w » r « Constiiulion .
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JESS ABSENT PAIHEB . Jrom a Work entitled " The MiUerof Deanhaugh , " "G , mo ' -her , "what tafai my Sear father awa , "When mniran" when mountain are fceapit wi * maw ; When thick awirlin * drift dauds tiie dead aaptess earth , . An'V things drea saTe our wee eczy neartix ?" Theyonng rMEideJammies -wad dee wi'the cauld , Wert no for your father wha leads them a-fauld ; His Toics is vreel fanned by ilk puir mither-ewe ; Ee ^ a saving tiieir lives Traile he ' s toiling for yon . " " CSn e ' er Vva . man mnckle , an' pnir father spared , 101 mak ye n leddy , an' faitSer a laird j J 51 brave tlie dour winter on mountain an' lea , An' toll for ya baith , Trha hae toiled sae for me . "
••¦ Come'lay yonr -wee head on yonr a ! n minnie ' s knee , An * gaza in her face t ? i' your iin father ' s ' ee ; The Jiight settles down , O * 1 wish be were here ; Hark ! is nae that Goiiie ' a wc-vrff ! Aiblins they ' re near . " * * ! Tha door gets a dirl , an * flees back to the ¦ sra , Tib him , see Ms blue bonnet -tra ^ ffs aff tha sna w ; ** I ' m here my Tree son , an' my eouthie sweet dame , Dawn , Collie , be thaukfu * -we ' re &' no » at name . "
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THE STOKESLEY NEWS , AND CLEVELAND REPORTER . George Tweddell , Stokesley , North Rjoing . TMs is an interesting and well-conducted miscellany , published monthly , at" the low charge of one penny . " In &o . 10 is-commenced a series of letters on tbe People ' s Charter ^ under the signature of T . C&rvwrighi ; a very appropriate name lor such a subject ; and in truth the writer seems to do justice to ice principles of his elder and mightier namesake . From No . 10 we take ihe following : —
THE MEMORY OF BURNS . We ' ve pledged to kings , we've pledged to lords , Through dnll routine we ' ve ran ; Our flask a hnajper still affords To pledge the honest man . One round 1 claim , 'while to bis shrine My heart insitinctive turns , To give , for love of auld lang syne , The memory of Bums . While courage fires tbe Briton ' s soul , While freedom nerves hifl arm ; While country's love his hopes controul , Friendships his bosom warm : While worth and wit shall lustre shed . O ' er the soul that meanness spurns , This homage pay the mighty dead , The memory of Burns .
His -was the boon , so rich , so rare , — An independent mind ; Btor&i With poetic baaatitte [ alt , And . love foi human kind : Bnt now he sleeps his last long sleep , We grieve while nature mourns , With silence sad . and feelings deep , The memory of Burns . "We do not say that these lines are the best in the numbera before ns , but they are tbe most to our taste . Here is an extract from "The Welshmen and the Toll Bans / ' in No . 12 , ( for October ) . Some of the writer ' s animadversions are but too-well deserved .
" Too many of the people are too ignorant to understand their rights , and teo base to dare to assert them . Many -srill sign petitions without number , for a rcdresa of grievancee ; they will cheer at every public meeting for the principles of virtue ; they will ewear devotion to tkB cause of freedom ; they will declare themselves lead ; to arm for liberty , and trisaful for a contest with ths whole tyrant * ot the globe ; they will call the moat zealous of their leaden too lukewarm , and seem jealou « that any one should dig the grave of oppression but themselves ; and yet , when tbe hour of trial comes , vhen danger threatens , and when persecution is the patriot's portion , they meanly retreat from the eminence on -which they had taken their stand , aud basely desert a cause in * which they had vowed to conquer or die .
"Others there are , -who , unlike to angels' visits , are neither * few' nor far between , " "who will not trouble themselves to examine into the cause of the national calamities ; not caiing whether the liberties of theii country are protected ox destroyed , so long as they get their own brutal existence comfortably dragged over . These political sloth * are quite ready at all times to receive any benefit that may accrue from tbe exertions of their mnre lndustrions citizens , whem they generally denounce and cry down aa disaffected subjects . " " There are others too , and their nnmber is daily increasing , who perceive the canse of our ^ national distress , and are sot slow to avow it ' Men who know their rights , And knowing dare maintain /
are the honest and intelligent portion of every age and clime . They have generally been persecuted by the bigoted and the knavish ; laughed to scorn by tbe wltleis , and the sport of every fooL They have , however , kept the lamp of freedom for ever burning , and it is thi » bright flime which warms . the heart ' s blood of the Welch yeomanry . Let us counsel them , however , against committing any outrage whatever . The tearing down of toll-bars is not so glorious as ' tbe polling down of strongholds' of a system which
perpetuates ignorance , vice , and misery ; nor la the burning-of old thatched houses , during tbe shades of night , to be mentioned in comparison with the open avowal of the great principles of Democracy , or Mepreientative Government . Cleanse ihe fountain , and the stream will soon be pure . Let us strive to disseminate , on all hands , true knowledge on political subjects , —what ought to be done , and how it may be achieved , and we shall serve the cause of justice and freedom better than by ronts , riots , and rebellions . '"
Most assuredly this little publication bo honestly conducted , deserves support and we hope will obtain it .
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THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE No . II , vol . 2 . This , like the last No . that we noticed , fa mainly filled with the proceedings of Father Matbew . Under the head of w Chronicle of Anti-Teetotal Sayings and DoiflgB , " the following choice bit is given from the Gospel Magazine . From which it appears that Father Matbew iB employed by AuId Hornie * in bis teertotaljnisaion : — ' Who do yon think employs Father Matbew ? The Devil {!) We are as great advocates of temperanct [? 3
as he is j— £ Is this a specimen ? J—but the practice nowadays of an indiscriminate mass assembling professedly to advocate ihe teetotal scheme , is a trap of the arch deceiver , leading men from one kind of sin to the embrace of another . The present pZediw system , we have no doubt is a Boman Catholic maDanvre , which to oonatoted in iheooUorrdess pit ! It will haTfl it « day —ran ia lengft—be made a capital substitute for religion—betp on the cause 0 / the Mother of Harlpto—and by and by bmt irith fearful eonBeguenc * upon it » poor deladad votarifa 11 J
This is * new » 0 Ye" of the " < mW immj" that really tre werenot prepared for 1 We ^ wayrknew that the Barines of . Baeehos were fwonrite resorts < or the arch-tempter j bnt was eertafoly not prepared o ^ ear that he iad a partialit j for cold **•*« £ or thai" he considered a teetotal lecture , tfr a MatfcewrtepL ^ geas * -good draw by which to $ 11 ws nets with -ni ^ nmB for f ¦ ' that immortal fry
Of Almost everybody bora to die" 1 Well , well , tbis does bang Banaghar ! Tmb Greig and his brother bigots of the Dublin Protestant Operatrre Associatioa are for once beat hollow I
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Spain .-Madbid , Oct : 23 . —The miliiis , of Saragossa have sent forth a strong manifesto , to * Lt » militia of the whole nation . It is dated shy 12 * h instant , but has only lately arrived here , the usual commimieaiiod being , of coarse , cut off .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 4, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct675/page/3/
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