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! THE NEWSPAPER . Id gown and slippers loosely dress'd , And breakfast brought—a -welcome guest , — What ia it gives the meal a zest ? The paper When new-laid eggs the table grace , And smoking Tolls axe in the ?* place , Say— "what ealiTena every face ? The paper 7 n tan the tub is hissing hot , III vain rich hyson stores the pot , If the ille neirEman has not brought Thepaper . What 1 st can make the man of law Keglect the deed or plea to draw , Co . 33 . Ji / o . indictment Saw ?
The paper "What is ? t can soothe his client ' s -woe , * T » rt maka him quite forget John Doe , Am well & 8 Jlr . Richard Roe ? The paper "What ist absorbs the wealthy tit , The half-pay tod , the fool , the -wit , The toothless aunt , the forward chit ? The paper TiThat 1 st informs the ^ country round . "What ' s stolen or strayed , "what's lost or fonnd ^ r' Wh # "s born , and who's pat under ground ? The paper
What tells yon all that ' s done and said , — The fall ef meal , the rise of bread , And how the Tankees « go a-he&d" ? The paper . What la it girea the price of stock , Tells of the plans of the aew dock . And every ship that rounds " the rock" ? The paper What rpeaks ol thieves . ana purses taken . And murders done , and maids forsaken , JLnd average price of Wiltshire tecon ? - The paper "What is it tells the fcrmert loss , Of oxen , cows , and sheep , and horse , AiVd how the tariff does 'Mm cross ? Thep 3 per
Abroad , at home , infirm or stont , in health , or-rsvlng with the « out , Who possibly xan do without The paper ?
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TO THE PR 1 ENDS OF FREEDOM . Te friends of freedom , would you brave Tyrannic rage , and free the alaTe F-rnTn Tn ^ gVy-j "Want JUjd pals ? Enlighten first the human amid With ideas of the noblest kind ; Then break oppression's chain Why do ye starTe ? see nature ' s soQ In rich abundance round you smile , The gift of earth and heaven ; The valleys sing , the hDls rejoice , ~ Wtyi » man , tis Blare of 8 V * ry "rice , Prom all their sweets is driven .
BeHevenot those whose lawless might Usurps by fraud , your native right , In pilacss to dwelL Their strength is in your lack of Bense To keep your labour , gold and pence , Tbeir barrier , iq _ . jour heB i Ifow justice calls ; the truth obey > Your mental fetters cut away , In reason ' s purest light ; And be je free to breathe the air From all the ills ol sordid care , In moral manhood bright .
Stoop not in Tain , to slave and toil Tor titled fraud that robs the soil , And lives in idleness ; Tour gardens dress—your meadows mow , And reap the corn , you sweat to sow , To feed the fatherless . Kor be "fey views aHur * d astray . When on your radient sober way An erring world to save ; Her let ignoble passions rise To draw you from the peerless prize , To ruin and the grave .
When right shall reign , and kindness smile O ' er nature ' s rich productive soil , Instead of tyranny j Sublimely high your iiags unfurPd Will wave all o ' er this poudTous world In glorious harmony . And labour ' s xms in peace win live , ¦ While heaven and earth tbeir treasures give Man s social adnrs to Hes * j No kings wiE rule—no lords be known , When men no prond superiors own , To blight their happiness . J . Booth . HH 1 Cottage , near Button Hill , Wigan .
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THE POOR llA ^ v'S COMPANION , A POLITICAL AKD STATISTICAL ALMANACK FOB . 1 S 44 . Leeds ; $ . Hobson , Market-street . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane . Were we , of * the race that write , " at all like ordinary mortals , we should occasionally find ourselves in seme queer dijemmas . For instance , an Editor is allowed to praise or censure any book , the work of another ; and who shall gainsay his perogative 3 But let him turn Author himself , and let him be judged by the law to which others are subject , he
Tronld be deemed prcsnmpiious indeed , were he t « praise his own handiwork . Fortunately , the mysterious ** we" is often the " outward and visible Bign " of some rt best possible pubic rinstructor" with more heads than one . This , ( Allah be praised i ) is our case . True , we have not quite so many eyes as Argus but we have more than one good pair constantly on the look oni ; and , this being the xase , our readers may tske ii for granted that tre haTS a head for every pair of tjes , to say nothing of " grey-goo 9 e quills" in proportion .
Courteous public ! we haTe a book to review a Threepenny Annual of real " Useful Knowledge " and sterling common sense ; matters not to be got f or threepence every day ; and indeed but rarely found in btoks of larger size axd costlier - price . Out readers will have not forgotten the name of the pnb-Esher ; and if &ny of them think they have heard ' somewhere thai ihe name of Editor of this paper is very like that of the almanack publisher , to beg of them not to forget what we have jnsl said about heads ; and * - > juppose that *» 2 \ e . 2 /* ~ So . 3 , " or aoy other B 2 * o . "ifaey please , is thai which , trader the Editorial ** we , " now discourseth to them .
We had written vhus far when , in casting our eyes Bpon a faatk nnmber of our ever racy contemporary , Punch , we observed a review by Punch ' s own self of " Pnnch s Pocket Book for 3844 / " Avast with 111 maiden-like coyness , after ibis 1 Gentle reader , whether it be * W jJo . 1 , *» We" No . 2 , or " -We " iso . 3 , 'iwill matter not . We have Punch for a precedent 5 and , quoting H 3 words , we s-ay , ffobsen's Poor Man ' s Companion for lr 44 " as jflbsi-xazb . m ^ TEST DKP . &KI 2 SEXT . To thjnK of adding to tie abore recommendation ; to try to improve spon the Delphian words of the great orade of wit and wisdom , Punch , wonld be Vforse ttian moon- * rruck madnes « . We might as "Bell try
To rDd refined gold , to paint the lily ; To throw a perfume en Xhs violet " We will , therefore , let our readers judge for them-KlTes , so far as a Fpecimen will enable them to do , of the work before re . Let us premise the principal of the contents . in adamen to the nsnal information in an Alma-^ theIfe ^ Ite found , amongst many other highly anportant tables , » A return of the nnmber of all Per ^ ns Mnmntied to any prison in England or
Yi Jr ? T ?* 1 C ' ff € nce ™ Ttoiott Wolkhonse esteb-^ T ?? £ ^ e P rOTi ^ ons of the Poor Law Amend-? . Tms return comprises the years 1 S 35 , wnl A " ^ exhibiunx , at one view , the ^ S ^^^ "Boon . " in the manufacture of enmef scewing that in the last seven years , no ies than ten tl . vusxnd eight hundred and sixty-nine ^ ersww haw been commuted to prison Jor breaches of 7 early , from the 1 st of JannaTv . 1 S ] r ?« + >« 51 =+ J
, wS fT of thenumber ^ f the British wmsm wmas which have b ypassed from the id ™ Ofc £ 3 , f ?? t ° £ S , present * " «» « "i showing also th ^ » Corn LaTfB"Arenot amatter of jBsteAj ^ Z ^ y ^ Mortality M Englaad a a document of much iutettrt .
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The Census of 2841 , and tables compiled therefrom ia one of the most important features of the book . We give the following extracts from &n article of surpassing importance entitled : —
THE STATISTICS OP CRIME . One of the greatest anomalies that presents itself to the mind of the enquirer , in relation to the Conditionof-Englsnd-qaestiori , is the fact that with the vast increase in our means of producing wealth , and the increase in the aggregate amount of wealth , there should be such an increase in the amount of CRIME . We have increased our meaiisot producing wealth ; for it is now computed , by persons conversant with the' subject , that we have a non-conEuminfl-producinj ? power , mech&aieal and chemical , equal to the labonr of iri hundred millien pair of " hands , " in addition to the mnnpal labour of the country ; while , fifty yean ago , the mechanical and chemical producing power was compnted as equal to
only fifteen million pair-of hands : we have increased the aggregate amount of wealth ia the country ; for while the possessions of our Ugitimatt aristocracy have tremendously risen In vahie , we have al » o bad brongbfc into existence beneath ear very noses , another axis-TOCBACT OF "STEALTH AKD LOKQ CHIKNIES , mote powerful , and more wealthy , than the legitimate aristocracy itself j so much so , that it was made matter of loasis . t public meetings by the "Capitalists" themselves , that " they are able to buy-up the Aristocracy of England : " and we have also bad an increase ol crime ; for the Criminal Records , for the last forty years shew an increase SEYEN TIMES ts amount ! Of Uie tttee facta just enumerated there can be no doubt .
The latter fact is most humiliating to us , as a nation . One of the old characteristics of England was , the good conduct of its population ; and in no particular was this good conduct more conspicuous , than in obedience to ihe laics . Englishmen have ever been famed for great skill , indomitable perseverance , and untiring industry : but , above all , and before all , have they been famed for a ready and cheerful obedience to authority . It has ever been matter of boast that the appearance of a constable ' s batoon was sufficient to uphold the majesty of the law : that before it the most turbulent quailed ; the most strong fell powerless . 2 * or was Wi ready and cheerful obedience to law , witbeld from the enactments that secured life and property . Jn no country on earth was property more secure , or life or limb more respected than in England . It is notorious that this was the fact . Whatever , then , can have wrought the chanpe in the character of our population that the Criminal Statistics indicate ?
Snch a result certainly ou $ ht not to have accompanied the increase in our means of producing wealth . Tkatincnaae , ordinary men would say , bbould rather have tended to repress Crime : and it undoubtedly would hare had such an tSvct , bad proper means existed to diiiribule . lo ai / l their lair share of the wealth resulting from soch increased means . There never was an instance on earth of a hard-working and skilful population , who could by the exercise of their bodily powers and their ingenuity , procure the necessaries and some of the comforts of life ; there never was an instance of a people so situate , becoming thieves and robbers . Crimb , under such circumstances , 1 b comparatively unknown . But , on the other hand , there sever was an instance where hard work and great skill did nci secure for the labourers plenty to eat , and drink , and wear , that CRIXK did not abound . And can this be wondered at ? Could any other result be expected ? Povbbtt is thB creat parad of Cbihb . It is the
fashion to attribute it to " ignorance '' : but an " ignorant" people , well-fed and weU-dad , -will not tbieve and 8 t £ Sr \ They may *• ahog-on" throngh life , not living ; dead to all intellectual sentibilily ; unable to appeciate the leasfcof the glorious emanations of mind . They may be all this ; but they will tot pilfer and rob . They would have no inducement . The only wants they would know of , their animal ones , would be sufficiently provided for : why then should they not respect property ? But with an fll-fca people ; with a population starving ; with extreme poverty as the lot of THE WOBKKBS , amid stores of unheaped wealth ; with a state of things like this , what else can be expected than that " taking " ihould be resorted to ? Will "intellectual acquirements ' ever convince a people so circumstanced that it is their duty to starve ? Will ail the ' education" in the world -teach men so situated , that it is their duty to lie down and die , that property may be respected ? It would be arrant folly to expect it !
Poverty amongst the worfeers most ever indure CRIME : and the only way to remove the fcul stain bom off the Record of our national Morality , is for our rulers to better the physical condition of the people . THE 3 Have the means TO do this . Those means superabonnd . When they have acquired the knowledge bow to apply them to that rtf nit , then will they decrease crime . But until they do so apply those abundant means , all their other effort * will be vain , as they have hitherto been . They may multiply the police and constabulary forces ; they may build a piison in every town ;
tfiey may introduce their silent" and their " separate " systems of discipline ; they may increase the rigour of the " rules : " they may do all this , and increase tbe number of places of worship , and ministers of the gospel ; nay , they may even " educate" the people , either in Puseyite or Dissenting schools : they may do whatever they list , or misdirected ingenuity can devise : but until they mend the physical Condition of the labourers , they never tciuput a stop even t 9 the increase o / CRlXE . Let them however once exterminate Poverty ; and Crime will be found to have taken iU flight also .
That Ods ¦ cnik iif j . * t&rmin 5 irinn ia much needed , the following DAMN ik g B . ECOBB but too abundantly yrx ™» * It is taken from the Cbxhikal Retbhns for 1843 . Let it be looked at , even tbough with shame ; for IT IS a g sbat pact , ancl ought to be extensively known , that the proper means to remedy it may be devised . The tabular st&Ument is extracted from tbe "Criminal Tables for ihe year 1842 ; " precsded by "Explanations and calculations , by Mr . Redgrave , of the Home Office , who cempiled amd prepared the said Tables . " " The Criminal Tables compiled from the Registers of Commitaenta for Trial , kept in the Home Department , again show a considerable increase ; and the numbers in 1842 exceed those of tbe preceding year by 3549 persons , « r 12 8 per cent Tbe progressive increase of Commitments , which , with a slight exception in 1838 , has continued during the last seven years , and within that period has reached nearly 50 per cenl . U 9-2 ) is shown by the following figures : —
1836 20 . 984 ; increase 1-0 per cent 1837 23 612 ; „ 12-5 „ 1838 „ 23 094 ; decrease 2-2 „ 1839— 2-4 . 4-13 ; increase 5-8 ,, 1840 27 , 187 ; „ 11-2 „ 1841 27 , 760 ; „ 2-1 „ 1342 31 , 309 ; „ 12-8 „ " Within the above seven years , in the extensive and populous Counties of Tork , Lancaster , Chester , Stafford , and Salop , the Commitments haTe doubled ; and also in Monmonth , Rutland , and Westmoreland .
" To show how far this great increase has arisen in the MacufacturiBjc , as compared with the Agricultural Counties , the following calculations have been made of the aggregate increase of Commitments , during tbe last three years , in the thirteen English Counties , having relatively the largest proportional manufacturing and mixed , and agricultural population . In the Counties classed as agricultural , the agricultural population , in the Census of 1831 , ranged from 56 to 45 per eent ; in the Counties clashed as manufacturing and mixed , the proportion of that population ranged from 96 to 71 per cent . Then follows a most valuable mass of Statistics ranged nnder appropriate heads and occupying not less than eight pages of Nonpareil type . We have not room to enumerate even the heads ; the reader must refer to the woTk itself . The article thus concludes : —
It must be borne in mind that the foregoing Table * and Calculations relate onjy tit England and Wales . There are separate Tables for Scotland and Ireland . In Scotland , the number of persons committed for trial or bailed , for tbe year 1 S 42 , was 418 P . Of thnt number , 284 were transported ; 2009 iniprEoned , for various periods ; 221 fined ; 11 discharged en sureties ; 20 received no sentence ; 31 cntlawed ; 8 f « und insane j 388 not guilty ; and G 16 diicharged without trial . If we add the 4189 efftcdera in ScoUarri to the 31 . 309 in England , we shall fipd tbe total > cmbeb of Committals for Crime in Great Ukjtaj : * , for tbe year 1842 , to be 35 458 ! crim
To show at a glance what tbe regular increase of e has been during the last forty jears , iLe number of Committals tot each year , from 2 £ 05 to 1843 is here given . It should be remarktd that prk > r to the 5 ear 1805 , no authentic record of committals was kept Wfeat reason our forefathers bnd for not " booking " them , we can scarcely it preecBt divine : it might be that there were so fete , that it was not deemed of importance to note thtrn . Be that as it n ; ay . the Record since 1805 is sufficiently degiauing to our national character . It plainly indicates that wL cave social diseases at work , eating into tbe moral heart of society : and the lesson to be drawn from it is , that wu stand ranch in need of a physician . Where is teat plijsicinn to be ° Here are the facts : fatts in figures . Tfcey tell a woeful tale ! INCREASE OF £ B 1 ME .
year , <— - ^ ear , < ^_ Y ^ j C g " 1805 4 , 605 f 1818 I 33 . 932 | 1831 18 M 7 6 ; 4 , 346 29 14 . 254 J 20 f 9 7 i 4 . 446 1820 13 . 710 S 26 0 / 2 8 4 735 1 13 116 4 ** I 1 5 350 2 12 , 241 5 20 . 731 1810 1 J . 2 ! 1 , » i * : s 3 5 g in 11 5 337 * 12-968 7 23 . 612 13 ' 7 164 « I 6 - * 9 II ? 1390 T 17 , 924 1540 27 , 187 15 iill 8 16564 1 27 . 760 17 13 , 932 » 183 ° 1 18107 ' We commence in 1805 with 4605 ; we end in 1 $ 42 rith sfS" o ? j " t upon a SEVEN H » SS 1 SCBEASE ! ! ttX Ze walked- " where to are we going" ? SPBSK ^ ggS riBes aixtv-four pages of closely but neatly printed
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ire can conscientiously recommend The Poor Man ' s Companion , feeling assured that they have but to read it to acknowledge , as they will do one and all , that it is " fibst bate in kteet dbpart-1 IENT . "
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THE RE BEL PROVOST , Oft THE TWO CITIZENS . Glasgow , Miller , Bell-street . Thisi is a . tale of Glasgow in the olden time , by J . O . yLa Mont , whose recent work , " The Grave of Genius , we lately reviewed , It ia in the author's usual style , having for its moral that which the author never omita , the beauty of virtue and the advancement of the cause of universal liberty . We give the aanexed picture oi' Glasgow as it was : would that some features of the picture had been retained amidst the mass of modern improvements ; there would then be less of that misery and filth abounding which so disgraces the " Q , aoen of ihe West" at the present time .
GLASGOW AS 11 WAS . " An hundred and thirty years ago , the Western Metropollfl possessed not © yen the semblance of those township qua ! iaeation& that now elevate her to the higheBt and the fitat rank amongst the structures of the universe . With solitary exceptions , her stre&ts were narrow , crooked , and dirty ; the huuses , then , though chieBy built of free-stone , presented not the traits of beauty and of elegance in their externals , that so much adorn and enrich her present appearance . They were built Of irregular height , and boasted no feature in architecture , eave what the eccentric , or , if you like it , i n dependent wfaim of the lairds thought proper to evince . The Tplbooth , the Hie' Kirk , and the College were the pride of the citiztms in the olden time , as the two latter especially claim the admiration of her eons in our own day .
" The Saut-Mercatand Hie'JGate were then the principal mute of beauty as well as trade . In both streets , adjoining the Tolbooth , the shops were all within pi&zzos , which gave the city in that quarter an « legant appearance , by the number and regularity of the lengthy line of pillars . The warea within , especially in the Saut-Mercat , were of costly inaleriel , chitfly intended for the , " custom ' of the wealthy citizens . However much a modem may doubt or ridicule tbe belief , it is a fact , and the'remaics of elegai . ee still observable attest its truth , that to a stranger visiting Glasgow these shops appeared of singularly imposing grandeur .
" The Saut-Mercat and Hie' Gate , by right » f eminence as direct thuroughfai es , and trade emporiums , claimed priority of attention from ettangera who might then visit the gude toon . The curve-line formed by the junction of the Hie' Gate and Saut-Mercat described the entire length of the city , wh \ ch miftht extend some three-fourths of a mile , a little way from tbe Green , or Clyde , en tbe south , to the upper termination of the Hie' Gate , at the " Castle Loan . " On the north-westward , where the present commerce , trade , and grandeur of Glasgow eeat their focus , there was , at that time ,: scarcely a vestige of hamlefc or inhabitants . Towards the north-east , from the Galloway to tee Hie ' Kirk , the city was chiefly populated ; and there did the toiling and the l& ^ y , the virtuous and the ae ' er-do-weel ,
tbo thrifty and the vicious , accumulate comfort and peace , poverty and crime . From lack of labourers , few of the puir folks of those days , willing to labour , went to the labour market witbout returning with their due reward . Young men , by industry and frugality , and the perseverance of a few abort years , seldom made respectability an aim without attaining their object . The worthy had always affluence within their reach , without grasping at a favourable circumstance , or seizing an advantage . There were no signs of poverty apparent , unless where and when indulgence in sloth , or participation in crime were the agents visible that ranked the fallen with the few who were shunned by the well-meaning &a wicked and worthless . "
Though printed at Glasgow , we presume the work can be had of the London publishers .
THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . Parts 2 and 3 . London , Strange , Paternoster Row . This work , the fiist part ; of which we noticed some timo back , is continued with unabated spirit . The following extracts—all we can find room for—will best exhibit its merits : —
: CROMWELL AT DROGUEDA . " Arrived before the towa , Cromwell immediatoly summoned the governor to surrender , which was refused . Some delay occurred in the arrival of the artillery from Dublin , but no sooner bad it come up , than he commenced thundering against the walls , and speedily effected a breach . He now determined to take the place by storm . Twice did his bravest men mount the breach , and twice -were they repelled With great slaughter . Cromwall rallied them to a third effort , nnd himself led the assault . A terrible struggle ensued , but the impetuosity of the besiegers bore down every opposition , and they were at last successful . Colonel Walpbeing killed at the head ^ t hia . ieaixaaat .. hia Boidiera throw down their arms .
on tbe piomiBO or quarter ; and Crbmwen »» , * ti . m ^ now rushed into the town . The garrison , however , was not yet subdued . They had thrown up three intrenchmeiits behind the walls , and defended every inch of ground , fighting bravely aud desperately at the corner of every street . At last , the town was completely in tho hands of the enemy , and all resistance ceased . A dreadful slaughter immediately ensued . Cromwell , with an infernal coolness , issued his orders for the massacre of the entire garrison , and they were accordingly indiscriminately put to the sword . A number of the inhabitants—soldiers , officers , priests , women , and children—took shelter in the great church of the town ,
where they imagined they would be safe from the fury of Cromwell ' s soldiers . But tho saerednesB of the place did not save them from destruction . ' they were butchered like tbe rest . Tho brave governor Sir Arthur Aston , Sir Edward "Verney , Colonels Warren , Fleming , and Byrne , together with all the officers , were put to the sword , though they bad been promised mercy when they laid down their arms . The horrible slaughter continued for several days : it is said that for nearly a week the streets of Drogheda rah with blood . Thirty only of the brave defenders of Drogheda survived ; and these , even more luckless than the test , were shipped off us slaves to the plantations in Barbadoes .
" Lest our statement of tlio above transaction may appear exaggerated , we 8 hr . Il give Cromwell ' s own account of it , in a dispatch written on tbe spot , immediately after the town had been taken . After describing the desperate resistance of the enemy , admitting that' through the advantages of the place , and the courage God was pleased to give the defenders , our men were forced to retreat quite oat of the breach , not without some considerable loss ; ' —he adds , that bis veterans were induced to make a second attempt , ' wherein , ' says he , ' God Was pleased to animate them so , that they got ground of the enemy , and , by the goodness of God , forced him . to quit bis intrenebmonts , and after a very hot dispute , the enemy having both horse and foot , and we foot only within the walls , the
enemy gave ground , and our men became masters . ' Then be adds , having effected a passage for his cavalry into the town , ' tbe enemy retreated , diverse into the Mill-Mount , a place very strong and of difficult access , boing exceeding high , having a good graft , and strongly palisaCoed ; the governor , Sir Arthur Aston , and diverse considerable officers being there , our men getting up to them ,, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword ; and indeed , being in the beat of action , I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town , and I think that night they pub to the sword about two thousand men . Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge into the otb . tr part of the town , where about one hundred of them possessed St . Peter ' s church steeple , some the west gate , and others a strong round tower next the gate called St . Sunday , —these being summoned to yield to mercy , refused ; whereupon I ordered the steeple of St . Peter ' s church to be fired . Tbe next day the other two towers were summoned , in
one of which was about sis . or Beven Bcore , but they refused to yield themselves ; and we , knowing that hunger must compel them ] , Bet only good guards to secure' them from running away , till their atoruacba were come down . Froih one of the said towers , notwithstanding their condition , they killed and wounded some of our men : when they submitted , their officers were knocked on tbe head , and every tr . nth man of the soldiers killed , and the reflt shipped for tbe Barbadoes ; the aoVdierB in the other tower were all spared , as to their lives only , and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes , I believe all the friars wero knocked on the head promiscuously but two , the one of which was Father Peter Taaf , brother to the Lord Taaf , whom the soldiers took tbe next day and made an end of ; the othet was taken in the round tower , under the repute of lieutenant , and when he understood that tho officers in that town hud no quarter , he confessed he was a friar , but teat did not aare him . '
" Snch was the siege and butchery of Drogheda—the successful issue of which Cromwell , in his dispatches to the Parliament , ascribes 'to God alone'J characterising it as ' a marvellous great mercy . ' It is indeed horrible to find the name of the Most High so often employed by legalised destroyers , to give a sanction to their works of carnage . The Mabomedan conqueror puts a whole nation to the sword , and straightway he falls on his face and cries , ' ' Allah , il Allah ! God is great" The Imperial Catholic tramples down the population of the richest and most fertile countries in the world , and then goes in processien to tbe
magnificent cathedral , where , amidst the hallelujahs of a thousand choriaters , be gives praise to God , aa tbe worker of all hie cruelty ! And the avenging Protestant , mad with fury and fanaticism , immolates crowds of defenceless beings , and while still reeking with the blood of slaughtered women and children , he turns up his eyes to God , and returns him thanks for the * marvellous great mercy' ! 'I wish '—thus runs the conclusion of Cromwell's despatch to the Pailiament' I wieb that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone , to whom the praise ef this mercy belongs . ' And tbe Parliament responded te the call of Cromwell , for it forthwith appointed' A thanksgiving
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^* j ^ ' ^^^^^^• wb&bbm day'to be held throughout the nation , to celebrate the triumph of Protestanism amidst the blackened walls and the mangled corpses of the ill-fated inhabitants of Drogheda I" j
CHARACTER OF CBOMWELL IW IEELAND . " Cromwell left behind him a name in Ireland , which Is mentioned with feorror down even to the present day . The curse of Cromwell light on you ! ' or , may you suffai : air that a tyrant like Cromwell would JBfl'Ct ^ -is one of the most blighting imprecations which u : i Irishman can use . The massacres of Wexford and Drogheda ate yet green in the memory of the people of Ireland ; aud not only is Cromwell hated as the author of these horrible atrocities , bub , as if these were not enough , he is also denounced as ' fcbe author of numberless cruelties and acta of destruction in places that he never so much aa visited . In almost ail parts of Ireland traditions are preserved of the atrocity of the Bloody Cromwell , ' aud ruins are pointed out hundreds of miles
distant from the tract of country to which his operations were comflned , aa -the work of this cruel and exterminating destroyer ; It would seem as if upon his memory were thrown the infamy of all the Crimea which the Royalist ^ Confederates , and Puritans had committed , even before he dreamed of coming to . the country . The atrocities , also , of thevPailiamentarian army , which fee lefty behind him to complete the subjugation of the country , seem all to hive beou set down to the account of the ' Bloody Cromwell . * Thia Is partly owing . ' says Dr . Taylor , ' to the artiacea of those who wished to persuade the Irish , in a subsequent generation , to take tap arms in defence of the House of Stuart ; and still more to the conduct of his soldiers and their descendants , who so loJig swayed tbo destinies of Ireland . " i
THE SIEGE OFjDERRY— " HO SURRENDER . " " James and his generals were completely disconcerted by thia spirited defence of the citizens . The Biege was pressed , and the artillery plied their missiles of destruction against the place -with greater perseverance than ever . The citisi'ns , ( taunting James aud his army , sent to tell them they might spare their powder and shot in waking a breach , as the gates were thrown open to them , and they might enter if they dared . After eleven days of assault , James withdrew from the siege , imuted nnd disappointed ; aud in a tone of querulous rage , hereproachod tbe Irish soldiers for allowing thera-Helves to be foiled ; exclaiming that ' had they betn English they could ] have brought him the walls stone by atone . ' Marshal ! Rosen way left in command of the French and Irish forces ; and Jame 3 lefc for Dublin , to open in person the Irish Parliament .
" Marshal Rosen conducted the siege with vigour and perseverance ; | but Btill without success . The gallant spirit ef jtho garrison remained unabated . Tbough suffering frum famine , from disease , and pestilence , their rallying cry was still , ¦• No surrender : Long niphts of watching , days and weeks of fasting , and months of fatigue and Buffeting , and constant danger , had not broken down the spirits of the brave defenders of Derry ; Their clergy inspired them with new courage , preached consolation to them by day and night , and kept up their hope and faith by renewed promises of success . J T « ro months had now passed , and the famine had become dreadful within the walls . The moat loathsome oVj ^ cts were devoured as food , —horseflesh , dogs , cats , rats , and mice , and even salted and
dried hides , were eagerly sought after and purchased . At length help approached : a fleet of thirty sail was observed within sight , laden with supplies for their relief . The help had come from England , where the news of the garrison ' s brave defence had now reached . The fleet was uudW the command of Major-General Kirk , a thorough-paced miscreant , whose cruel butcheries in the south of Euglauc ) , when in the service of King James , had niacle him both feared and generally detested . It is inexplicable how William should have selected such a scc > uudrel for tiie command in Such a delicate and important afiV . r as the relief of the
beleagued Protestant city of the north . But he did so ; and Kirk , whose heart was utterly hardened against the sufferings of his fo ' . low-creatures , made no attempt to relieve the garrison , but taunted them with messages , and finally sailed away without granting them the slightest relief . The Irish army , encouraged by his delay , made haate to oppose him by throwing a boom across the river , and planting batteries against bis ships . His ironical parting advice to the besiegers , before setting sail down Loch Foylt-, waa ' to be good husbands of their provisions '—an advice from which they had a too melancholy presage of the dreadful suffering that followed .
" Fancj the thousands of hungry eyes watching the fleet of ships filled with provisions , almost securely within their reach ;! and then , heart-sick , famished , aud utterly hopeless , imagine the wild shriek ef agony which rose upon the air , when they saw the ships destined for their succour , swing from their moorings , set sail , and disappear . What a blight has now fallen upon the withered . ' hearts of the besiegers . Surely they must now surrender , having not a hope of rescue left . But no ! Tbe cry is still ' no surrender !' Gaunt and half-dying men stalk , like spectres , about
the streets , threatening death to the traitor who should speak of a surrender . The plague was now within the walls , to add its horrors to the famine and sufferings of the siege . Food , ] eren the most l 83 th « 0 me , TTaa scarcely now to be bad ; bat the garrison * with desperate , and seemingly not with empty threat , declared that they would ' eat the Irish , and then one another , eooner thau yield ! ' General Hamilton , one of the leaders of the besieging Irish , endeavoured to subdue the Derrymen by kjndnesa and entreaty ; but they : reproached him with ; his treachery , and still reiterated UO 8 UTK ^ B < tov V " * . *» .. i ;~;« ...- .-.. * fc . _ .... ^ „ .- ..., ¦ -A < ft
" The garrison were now redaced to the very last stage of famine and despair . The preachers could now no longer cheer them . ' Our spirits sunk , and our hope 8 were expiring , ' eays Mackenzie ; audthetheu ^ sands' within the walls of Derry looked forward only to capitulation or death . The defenders , but lately eo valiant , now wan and haggard , could scarce crawl along the dismal streets , j Many fell down as they walked , and died where they lay . The air became laden with the noisome pestilence . But joy came at last Cheer up , brave mea of Derry , for help i 8 at hand . After all your long and weary watchings , —after famine , and suffering , and wretchedness , —hops is fulfilled , and the . defenders see relief approaching at last .
" It was a bright summer day , the 30 th of July , that straining eyes , looking out across the waste of waters towards the north-east , beheld aome ships approaching . The news spread , and crowds turned out to gaas . Soon the ships were seen beating up tbe beautiful waters of Lough Poyle , andj rapidly nearing the city . They proved to be the Dartmouth frigate , with a convoy of three vessels laden ! with provisions . The eyes of the famishing thousands wore at once rivetted upon them , in atl the earnestness of suspense and expectation . But there Still lay the enemy ' s boom between them and their approaching aid . The Irish meanwhile manned their batteries en either side of the Lough , and thundered against the j approaching ships , which briskly
returned tbe fire . One of tbe victuallers now reached the boom , and striking against it with great force , snapt it asunder j } but ; the rebound drove tho vessel ashore . The Irish ] shouted with joy , the besieged on the walls groaned in despair . Suddenly the Irish prepared to board her ] when , firing a broadside against them , she righted , and floated off . The little fleet now passed the boom together , aud sailed slowly and safely up to the quaya of tbo city . The delirium of joy which succeeded can only be imagined . The multitude which crowded round the ships cwuld only gasp their thanks : they had scarcely strength left to speak them . And yet strength was found to set the bells of the battered cathedral ringing , while the cannon thundered at occa death and rejoicing from the walls .
" On the day following , Mawhal Rosen raised the siege , which had lasted one hundred and five days . Altogether , about 9 , 000 people bad perished within the walls , during that period , from famine , disease , and the shot of the enemy . And thup ended the famous siege of Derry , one ] of the best contested Struggles between half-armed citizens behind thair walls , and " a numerous and welUappointed army . Though the defence was one of Protestants against Catholics , yet it was a defence of which all Ireland may be justly proud . There is one other ! noble defence of the same kind which it yet falls tojus to record—namely , the defence of Limerick , by the j Irish Catholics , which also proves , no less than Derry ; the indomitable courage , fortitude , and endurance , of which all ranks and classes of Irishmen aro capable . It | ia now full time that history were deprived of its party taiut , and that Irishmen of all creeds cherished in common tho memory of such glorious defences as thosa of Darry and Limerick .
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DESTRUCTION SOF THE INQUISITION AT | MADK 1 D . The Rev . Mr . Kellogg , Principal of Kuox College-, Illinois , United States , and who recently attended the annual meetings of tha London Missionary Society at Leeds and Bradford , ! s « nt the following account « f ths destruction of the Inquisition at Madrid , first , to the Weite / n Citizen , published v . % Chicago , Illinois ; and afterwards to a London paper . It is the substance ol a lecture delivered by Colonel L mwomki , in the cabin , of a steam-boat , in which tkoy were fellow passengers . Colonel Lemanonski was for more than twenty years an officer under Napeleon . He has fought scores of battles , received fourteen wounds , lived on horse-flesh and the baik of trees , with snow and ice for his beverage , and once , at least , in his life , maddened with thirst , baa opened a vein ind drank his own blood . After these deeds and sufferings of martial life , he baa been for some yoara a minister of Christ in the United States . Bat , ad rem . —
In the year 1809 , being then at Madrid , my attention was directed to the Inquisition in the neighbourhood of that eity . Napoleon had previously issued a decree for ttie suppression of this institution , wherever his victorious troops Bhouldjextend their arms . I reminded Marshal Soult , then -Governor of Madrid , of this decree , who directed me to proceed to destroy it . I informed him that my regiment , the 9 fch of the Polish Lancers was insufficient for auch a service , but that if he Would give ma two additional regiments I would undertake the work . He accordingly gave me the two required regimenta , one of which , the 117 th , was under the command of Celonel de Lile , who is now , like myself , a minister ef the gospel . He is pastor of one of the evan&elical ehurches ; ia Marseilles . Witb these troops i .
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MHB ^ I proceeded forthwith to the Inquisition , whicti waf situated ab « ut five miles from the city . The Inquisition was surrounded by a wall of great strength , and defended by about 400 soldiers . When we arrived at the wall I addressed one of the sentinels , and suffiavenej the holy fathers to surrender to the Imperial army , ana open the gates of the Inquisition . The seatinef , who was Btanding on the wall , appeared to enter into conversation for a few moments w ; th some one within , at the close of which he presented his nuMfe .. * and shot one of my men . This wow a signal for attack and I ordered my troops to flie npon those -who appeared on the wall .
It was soon obvious that It was an unequal warfare The walla of the Inquisition wore covered with the soldiers of the holy office ; there was alas a breastwork upon the wall , behind which they kept coatinaally , only as they partially exposed themselves when they discharged tbeir muskets . Oar troops were ui the open plain , and exposed to a destructive fire . WV had eo cannon , nor could we scale the " walls , and the ^ atetf successfully resisted all attempts at forcing th- ^ m . I saw that it was necessary to change the mode of .. iraclr » and directed some trees to be cut down and trin . uu . ed *
and brought on tbe ground to be used as bauenng rams * Two of them weia taken up by detachmt ' . ^ s , of men , as numerous as could work to advantage , and brought to bear upon the walla with all the powet which they eoutd exert , regardless of the fire waicfit was poured npon them from the w&Hb . Presently the walls began to tumble , and under tha well-directed and persevering application of the ram , a breach was n . sde , and the imperial troops rushed into the Inquisition . Here we met with an incident which nothing but
Jesuitical effrontery is pqual to . The Inquisitor General , followed by the Father Confessor in their priestly robes , all came out of their rooms as we were nuking our way into the interior of the Inquisition , an'i mib long faces , and arms crossed over tbeir breasts tneir fingers resting on their shoulders , as though the ? had been deaf to all the noise of the attack and defence , and had but just learned what waa going ons they addressed themselves in the language of rebuke to their ov ¦ soldiers , saying— " Why do yon fight our friends , the Freneh ?"
Their intention , apparently , wa » to rn&ke ns tbinlr , that this defence was wholly unauthorised by u . em , hoping , if they could produce in our miado a b < . iefi thai they were friendly , they should have a bett- r opportunity in the confusion and plunder of the 1 ¦ qplsltion to escape , ' i'litr . r artittce was too shallow md did not succeed . I caused them to be placed under guard , and all of the soldiers of the Inquisition ' ,.- be secured as prisoners . We then proceeded to ex-uuine the prison-house of hell . We passed through i oom after room , found altars and cruciflxis , and wax candles in abundance , but could discover no evidences ' . of iniquity being practised there * , nothing of those peculiar features which we expected to fiad in an Ir . <
uiisition . Here was beauty and splendour , and the j- 'toafc perfect oidei on which my eyea bad ever rested . The architecture—the proportions were perfect . Tho caning . and floors of wood were scoured and highly poi ^ tied . The marble floors were arranged with a strict regf > r I tO order . There was everything to please the ey * and gratify a cultivated taste ; but where were those ' i <» rrid instruments of torture of which we had been told , and where those dungeons in which human heiaga were said to be buried alive ! We searched in vain The holy fathers assured us that they had been belttdthat we had seen all ; and I was prepared to givb up the search , convinced that this Inquisition was- different from others of which I bead heard .
But Colonel De Lile waa not so ready a 9 mysrff to give up the search , and said to me , •' Colonel you are commander to-day , and , as you say , so it must ba ; but , if you will be advised by me , let this marble fl >> r be examined more . Let some water be brought in , and poured upon it , and we will watcb , and see , if tbj : a iB any place through which it passes more freely than others . " I replied , "do as you please , Colonel , '" and ordered water to be brought accordingly . The slabs of marble were large and beautifully polished . When the water had been poured over the floor , much to the dissatisfaction of the Inquisitors , a careful examination was made of every seam in the floor , to see if the water passed through . Presently Colonel de Lile exclaimed , that he had found it . By the aide of one of these
marble slabs the water passed through fast , as though there was an opening beneath . All hands wore now at work for further discovery . The officers with their ewords , and the soldiers with their bayonets , seeking to clear ; out the seam and rise up the slab . Others , with the butta of their muskets j striking the slab witta all their might to break it , while the priests remonstrated agninat our desecrating their holy and beauuful bouse . While thus engaged , a soldier , who was str king with the butt of his musket , struck a spring , and the slab flow up . Then the faces of the Inquisitors grew pale , and , as Belshazzir , wheu the hand writing appears ! on the wall , so did these men of Belial shake and quake la every bone , joint , and sinew . We looked beneath the marble slab , now partly up , and we saw a staircase , I
slapped to the table , and took frem the candlestick one otthe candles , four feet in length , which was buruing , that I might ; explore what was before us . Aa 1 was doing this , I waa arrested by one of the Inquisitora , who laid bis band gently on my arm , and with a very demure and holy look , said , " My son , you must not take that with your profane and bloody hand ; it ia holy . " " Well , well , " I said , " T waut something t&afc is holy , to see if it will not shed light on iniquity j I will bear . the responsibility . " I took the candle und proceeded down the staircase . I now discovered why the water revealed to us this passage . Tinder the floor was a light ceiling , except at tbe trap door , which Could not be »» n *««» 4 oloi » . vsh « s »» . th » , # vuiaeaa ot Col .
de Lile ' s experiment As we reached the fool of the stairs we entered a large square room , which was called the Hall of Judgment . In the centre of it was a large block , and a chain fastened to it . On this they had been accustomed to place the aC' -u « ed , chained to his seat . On one side of the room was one elevated seat , culled the throne of judgment . This the Inqui&or- General occupied , and on . either side were seats lees elevated for the holy fathers when engaged in the solemn business of the Inquisition , Protn this room we proceeded to the right , and obtained access to small cells , extending the entire length of the edifice ; and here , what a sight met our eyes i Hot ? has thereli ^ ion of J « us been abased and slandered by its professed friends .
These cells were places of solitary confinement , where the wretched objects of Inquisitorial hate were confined year after year , till death released them of their sufferings , and there their bodies were Buffered to remain until they were entirely decayed , and the rooms had become fit for others to occupy , to prevent this practice being offensive to those who occupied the Inquisition , there were flues or tubes extending to the open air , sufficiently capacious to carry off the odour from those decaying bodies In these cells we found the remains of some who had paid the debt of nature ; some of them had been deed , apparently , but a short time ;
while of others , nothing appeared but their bones , still chatted to the floor of their dungeon . In others we found the living sufferer of every age and ef both sexes , from the young man and maiden to those of , threescore aud ten years , all as naked as when they were born into the world . Our soldiers immediately applied themselves to releasing these captives of their chains , stripped themselves in pact of their own clothing to cover these wretched beings , and were exceedingly anxious to bring them up to the light of day . But aware of tbe danger , I insisted on their wants being supplied , and being brought gradually to tbe light aB they could bear it
When we had explored these cells , and opened the prison doors of those who yet survived , we proceeded to explore another room on the left ,. Here we found the instruments of torture , of every kind which the ingenuity of men or devils could invent . At the sight of them , the fury of our soldiers refused any longer to be restrained . They declared , that every inquisitor , monk , and soldier of the establishment deserved to be pat to the torture . We did not attempt any longer to restrain them . They commenced , at once , the work of torture with the holy fathers . I remained till I saw
four * different kinds of torture applied , and . then retired from the awful scene , which , terminated not while one individual remained of the former guilty Inmates of this ante-chamber of bell , on whom they could wreak revcoge . Aa soon as the poor sufferers from the cells of the Inquisition could with safety be brought out of thdr prison to the light of day , ( news haying been spread far and near , that numbers had been rescued from the Inquisition , ) all who had been deprived of friends by the holy office , came to inquire if theirs were among tbe number .
O , what a meeting was there ! About a hundred who had been buried alive , for many years , wore now restored to the active world ; and many of them found here a son and there a brother ,, and some ., tilaa I could recognise no friends . The scene Was Mich that no tongutjcan describe . When this work of recognition was over , to complete the . business in which I had engaged , I went to Madrid , and obtained a large quantity of gunpowder , which I placed underneath the edifice , and iri its vaults ; and aa we applied the slo-w match * there was a jovfnl sight to thousands of admixing eyes . O ! it would have done your hearts good to see it j the walls and massive towers of that proud edifice were raised towards the heavens , and -the Inquisition of Madrid waa no more !!
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* The fourth kind of torture from which this , then , daring man of many fights and many horrors ; hurried away with sickened heart , waa called the Virgin When used , the prisoner was compelled to embrace it , and it waa so constructed with machinery inside , that it returned the , embrace with nnrelaxing and murderous bag : for its embracing the prisoner caused it to thrust forward some iron spikes concealed in its breast , which then pierced the breast of the prisoner . Thus bound and pierced by the Tirgin ' s embrace , tbe victim learned , by lingering torments , the horrible mookery of the religion of love in the deadly cruelty of its false professowf .
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THE SPEECH OF MR . GEORGE GAME DAY , ON "FREE TRADE" AND THE "FREE TRADERS . Tenth edition ; Price Sixpence . London : Olliver , 59 , Pall-mall . We have heard much of the " triumphs" of the Anti-Corn Law League at the various county meetings held within the last twelvemonth . These triumphs have been trumpeted forth as a sort of wholesale conversions of the farmers ; but which conversions we know to be all a hum , the meetings beiBg composed generally not of farmers but of country shopkeepers , and all the hangers-on and dnpeB of the League whioh can be collected together for miles round by the thirty shilling agents Bent for that purpose a week , or two previous . Of eourae a few farmers attend the meeting oat ofcnrioBity ; aud when the counter-jumpers and penny-whistlers have had their yell for "Free Trade , ' * forthwith v ? e have it announced tnat the county of —— - has
proclaimed for the movement 1 or that — -shire has issued its " pronunciamento . " Glorious triumphs I " Down with your dust , boys ' .. Swallow voar gruel , you Spooney , aad tip us your five hundreds . We ' re the lads to spend it for you" 1 At some places the farraetB have mustered , and the result haa been the thrashing of the mouthers , instead of the " convereion" of the listeners—Huntingdon to wit . There Bright John ana Rogney O'Moore got such a dressing as will induce them , we 6 hould think , to eschew any further attempts at ' ' pronuHciamentos" in that portion of " the agricultural districts . " Take our advice dear John and Rogue j ; confine yoar displays to ticket meetings and eighteen penny admission " talks . " Don ' t try the open air . The Day-light , is far too strong for you whose "deeds being evil , " have had to grope through the " darkness" of in-door "snuggeries "; wherever you are known , because , being known , you are justly hated by your wretched serfs and trampled upon slaves .
On the 17 th June last , a county meeting" was held at Huntingdon , when , after Meeers . Bright and Moore had had their say , Mr . G . Q . Day , a g « atleman residing in the neighbourhood , replied to their mystifications , and of course the' gentleman' repealers ( John ana Roguey ) did not fail to exhibit their good breeding by the most unseemly and disgraceful interruptions during the speech of their talented opponent . We hardly wonder at their loss of temper ( if they had any to lose ) when we consider the terrific castration to which they were subjeoted . Their constant interruption is a proof how every stroke of the lash wielded by Mr . Day told upon tbeir wincing carcases . Mr . Day took up the arguments ef the Freebooters one after the other , and in the most admirable manner confuted their miserable sophisms , "tearing them to pieces and hurling them in their teeth . " The result was their complete discomfiture ; their free-trade amendment being rejected by a large
majority . Bo extract that we could find room for would do justice to this excellent speech . The whole must be read for the full appreciation of its merits . At the close of the " speech" is an exposure of the unblushing falsehoods ot * Mr . Roguey Random Robert Moore which would make that personage , were he not a JLeaguer , ashamed to exhibit himself in the company of any man or men having the least regard for truth . A precious specimen he is of the honesty of the whole gang .
The present edition being the tenth , we should suppose that the original cost of publication has long since been returned . We therefore submit to Mr . Day the propriety of publishing a " People ' s Edition" at the price of a penny . At its present price it is beyond the reach of the mass of thoBn who ought to peruse ic . HopiDg that this suggestion may be be acted upon , we , in the meantime , heartily recommend the present Edition to Chartist lecturers , working men ' s reading looms , and all who can afford to purchase it .
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more than teal or food , and have not a symptom remainingof what i vinea to experience when I felt oc-^^ UrwW . «» 7--. iife- » w ? bbSiDS - away , Thus I am ' M * ipersuaded , lii my oyra mind , and by my own experience , confirming avlf does the testimony of many ; able and ( important judges , that the very medicine we take in this manner to give us strength , does Jo reality produce an Increase of faintnesa , lassitude , andgeneral debility , " T Jj , e ° Voice" will be found an able auxiliary to the lemperauoe Movement , and ehouki be read by all seekers after truth .
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THE BAIRNSLA FOAKS ANNUAL , AN P 0 GM 00 R OLMENACK FOR 1844 . Leeds : Alice Mann , Duncan-street . London : Strange , Paternoster-row . This , as Us title betokens , is an Almanack in the Barnsley dialect , and will be found amusing to those who admire comicalities of this Bort . As a Bpccimen of the author ' s " style" we give tbeopeDiug of his preface : — " TUT HEADERS . " Well , ah do declare , hah time dnz but ; slip on , ta beouar . Wha , It nobbat looks like't tnther day sin ah wrate to jo befoar , it duzint hacktly ; an here -we ar , poppin into anather year , sz tbowtless an az nnconsarn'd az a donkey goin past a guide-poast Well , 80 it iz ; an , e wun sense , its happan az weel it iz so , for if we wor to try ta think a all at hed past , an wot wor
ta cum , wha , we sud want heads az big az maantains , an memories » z strong bz Samson's arm . Then , wot objects we sud look I—wha , it ad ta * k a man three weeks ta wesh biz face : an wun on hiz thinks ad be sa paarfnl , it ad be e&if ta knock a atoan-wall dajn a mile off . Hey , yo may weel laugh ae me sayin so j but then , yo nawj am nobtwt b jokin like , becos my reaj , >~ zLutnA ideal 1 % . at w avt ta hft eoasarn'd iwers day & a wer live * , bo&th sbaght -wet wirlnn , an wot wir join ta do ; if wedoant , we sal spend wer bit a time in a bacfeads an fora da way , summat like a spinner in * band walk . But , al say no more up a this head , for if a do , sum on yo al begin a roatin , a see that varry plainly ; an ah suddaut like ta witness owt at soart , cos sum on yo < z ntiaa so varry hansum when yor smilein . Well , then , enuTs bin sed up a that subject ; an , it next place , ah mean ta tell yo at bav been as near lost uz o tutcber e explorin t ' gravity at gloab . "
For the author ' s adventures while w explorin t ' gravity at gloob " , we must refer our readers to the " Olmenack" itself , the price of whioh is Sixpence . A VOICE FROM THE VINTAGE ; OB , THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE . By the Author of " The Women oj England" London : Fisher and Co . This is a " People ' s Edition , " price One Shilling , of a work not the least recommendation of which is its author ' s name—Mrs . Ellis , the great female moralist of tbe present day . As an authoress , Mrs . Ellis has , we believe , been the instrument of no small amount of good ; but hitherto her works have been shut out from the great bulk of the people whose means are not equal to the purchasing of expensive publications , and we wish that the work before us had . il ' it coald have , —been produced at half its present price . No further recommendation will be needed than what the following extracts will themselves convey : —
THE AUTHOR ' S EXPERIENCE . 11 Without entering generally upon the question of htalth , a question which has been circumstantially examined by judges ruoie able than rojaelf , and in relation to which many important and interesting facts are now laid before ihe , public , tending clearly to prove , that , inBteao of buffering frc-m otal abstinence , moat persons by whom it has been fairly tried , have experienced not only no injury to their health , hut considerable benefit ; 1 may perhaps be allowed to add a few words on the subject of my ovn txperience , which may possibly derive additional weight from the circumstance of my
h iviug beeD , for many years of my life , an obstinate chsbfcliever in the tfficacy vt temperance principles to ifleet any lasting or extensive good ; while of all respectable societies , th : tt for the promotion of total abstinence—that which I now esteem it an honour and a privilege to advocate , would have been moat repulsive to aiy feelings to join . Indeed , such was my contempt for ttm system altogether , that I often pionounced it to be a mocktry of corjiinon sense , and at the same time frequently asserted my belief , that nothing could be mure likely than the restraint of a public pledge to crrate an immediate indication \ o break it .
" For two years—years I may say of total ignorance on this P '' int , ( iuricg "which 1 took no pains to make mjsfcif bftter irfonjied—I trtated the suhject with the ultiost contempt Vfbfcnewr it was brought under notice . By dtgreid , however , it began to wear a differentaepect before t > . e woiId in gei . erul , and facts were too powerful in its favour to be disputed . By degrees it began also to assume with me somewhat more of a personal character . I could not see how I was right while indulaing in what was so ftarfusly destructive to others , and to Home whom I had known and loved . Yut euch ¦ was tbe force of habit ; such my willingness vo believe ¦ what doctois u > U \ rue , tbat ¦ wine w&s necessary to my health , at that time far from good ; and feucb , also , vras my dt-pendeLce upor stimulants , for increasing the strength of which I often felt miserably in want , that three years more elapsed before I had the resolution to free myself practically , entire , and I now trust for ever , from the Blavery of this dangerous habit .
f * Four ytaisof total abstinence from everything of an intoxicating nature , it has now been my happy lot to experience ; and if the iu / proveraent in my heaith and spirits , and the increase of strength during that time , be any proof in favour of the practice , I am one of those who ought especially to thank Goa for tbe present , and take courage for tbe future . " Like many other women , and especially those w&oi are tx * nipt from the necessity of active exertion , I was , while in tbe habit of taking wine for my health , subject to almost constant suffering from a mysterious kind of sinking , which rendered me at times wholly unfit , either for mental or bodily tffort , but which I always found to be renieved by a glass of wine . Mr spirits ,
too , partook of tbe malady , for I was equally subject to fits of depression , which also were relieved , in some degree , by tbe . same remedies . During the fonr years in which I have how entiraly abstained from the use of such remedies , I have been a total stranger te these distressing ^ ensationb < f sinking and exhaustion ; and I say tbs with'thankfulness , because I consider such ailments irfisitely more trying than absolute pain . That time of the day at which it is frequently recommended to teke a glass of wine and a biscuit , I now speEd as pleasantly as any of the fbnr-and-twtiity hours , v . ithout either ; and when fatigued by wholesome cxtrcise , which is a totally different thing from ; ke exbaiis ' . ioB above alluded to , I want nothing
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 16, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct681/page/3/
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