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{ I HE ABSENT FATHER . -Frw * a Work entitled * ' The Miller tf JteuihattghS "U , -mother , what taks my 4 ear father awa , When mnir an * wfeen mountaln . are fceapit wi' snsw ; Whan tftif * nrirlin' drift daoda the dead sapless earth , An' a * thing is drear save our wee cozy hearth ?" " The young hfflsiae lammies -wad dee wi' the cauld , Weort bo for your father wha leads than afraid ; Bl > voice is weel kenned by ilk pair mither ewe ; Be * s saving their lives -while he's toiling for yon . "
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"G in e ' er Imsunxnnckle , an * pulrfatherspued , m xuak ye a leddy , an' faitber a laird ; I'Jl brave the dour -winter on mountain an' lea , Ac toil for 78 baith , wha hae toiled aae for ma . " " Gomelay your wee head on your ain rainnle ' s knee , An * gass in her face wi' your ain father * * ' ee ; The night settles down , O ! 1 -viah he were here ; HarkJ Is nae that CblhVa wowflfi Aiblina t&ejTe Tte » . " The door gets a dirl , as * flees back to the wa * , Tis him , see his blue bonnet -wawfij aff the snaw ; 'I ' m here my wee boo , an' my « outhie sweet dame , Jfciwn , Collie , he tbankfn' -we ' re t now at hame . "
B . HYMES BY THE ROADSIDE . We ' re losing fast the good old days Of rattling wheels and gallant greys ; We ' re losing fast the luggaged roof , Tbe whistling guard and ringing hoof : The English stage and high-bred teams , Will soon exist bat in oar dreams ; And whirling mail or startling horn Ne " r cheer the night , or rouse the mom .
Ah ! weH-a-dayl no cracking lash , No damping bit , no restless dash , Ho "» pall up" at the " Cross * ' or " Crown , " "Mid all the gossips of the town ; For Time , -with deep rail-roaded brow , Changes JD thing * bat horses new . Tet who shall wish for nobler speed ? "Who would forego the rapid steed T - 172 io that lores Beaaty would resign , The -winding road for formal " line ?"
Tis joy to mount the lofty seat That bears n » from the city-street ; To lightly roll from pent-up smoke To singing bird and towering oak ; Scanning , despite our bounding haste , The forest deH and heath-clad -waste . On through the TaHey , rich and rife With fragrant air and blooming life ; Where the clear brooklet softly flows , Kissing thelffly as it goes ,-When quiet herds lie dows to crop The grass-blade and the cowslip drop ; Where the low cottage-thatch is sees , 'Mid trailing arms of jasmine green , And the "wide gingfog wuamnmt glass Shows the pec lower to all -who pass .
Away ! away 1 one lingering look At Talley , cottage , herds , and brook ; And bowling on , we gain the hill Crowned -with the old church and the mill The sun-ray plays upon the spire , Tinging the cross with glancing fire . The , south-wind freshens there , bat * rfi * To ten the heavy sluggard sails ; The milter steads with peering eye , To see the famed "Eclipse - goby ; MIm next fire minutes fairiy lost In -wondering what that chesnut cost , And -way they ' ve changM the clever bay Thai graced the pole the other day .
Onward I the tiny hamlet comes , The Tillage nest of peasant homes ; The ploughman ' s ear -wakes from his dose , With perking tars and sniffing nose ; The thDd upon the red-brick floor Crawls quickly to the open door ; The old man and the matron stand Withstanag gam * nd idle bans , The maiden , smiling , nods her head To the blythe fellow donn'd in red ; 1 X 9 matter -what they hare to do , They all must see the mall go through .
The inn is reached : host , men , and boys , Gather around -with bustling noise . Few momenta serre—the harness bands Are flnng off as by siagie hands ; The loosened sags are panting hard ; Staking the well-known stable-yard ; Forth come the wheelers—glossy black—With bit in mouth , and doth on back . Quick ! bring the leaders—two bright roans As ever spurned the wayside stones . Each boekle tight— 'tis done , " All right ;" The steeds an ready for their light ; - And old Huff Jehn ones again Swings up to sola the whip and rein . Onward we Me , like shooting star , That rent all dasliBg fleet and far , And worthy sight forking to see Are four bold csursers fast and free .
O , Kngiand 1 Trypy an olden tale Shall yet be told o ' er Christmas ale Syllp * unborn ; and they shall say What rare works graced their fathers' day Toong boys shall chatter in the son , And tefl wfesi English steed * hare doae ; Beeords shall note the bye-gone age , And Taunt th * « i » trM « M English stage . Ah I weE-a-day ! the gk * r * o ' er ,
Soon steed and stage shall ba no more ; The roads that break oai fertile sod , Seem all deserted and nntrod . Ah ! grJsre I win , and grieve I must , To miss the saaS-oncb cloud of dust ; To think that I shall never see The blood-like team , so fast and free ; And End old Tisoa , with scowling brow , Changing an things bat horses now . Elista Cook .
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THE 6 BATE OF GENIUS . A TALE . Bj J O . la . ¦ Morr . London : Strange , Paternoster Kow , The antbor of this little work ! b well known , a * at any rale by name , to oar readers . His present prodnetio * is * another evidence of his sympathetic feelings , enlarged views , and literary qoalifica tiosB . His Bubject is sot exactly & taking one , the herd struck being in a melancholy key ; though there are Boi wanting plenty of admirers of "The Sorrows of ^ Wetter" and Sterne ' s ** Maria . * ' To all rash we Bay here iB a book calculated to excite your sensibilities , and at the same time improve your iearta .
Ihehero of ihestorj is a Scotchman , one George Cblsholm , a native of Perthshire ; whose parents dying whan he was an infant , "was brought op under the kind protection of the " village Itoxninie , " by whom he was xaade an apt Bcholar , assistin / j Mb benefactor in the teaching of the school . The Dominie died when George was about twenty years o > f age ; he consequently had-to proceed elsewhere to " seek his fortune . " He , accordingly , as is the custom " in such case made 1
and provided , * proceeded to London , where he hoped to earn his bread as a contributor to the literature of the day . His hopes were blasted ; and too proud to confess his poverty , want and hunger soon introduced disease , and finally he was added to the number of victims who , with Otway and Chat-Urton , at their head , have perished , victims of the present system ; whitening with their bones the pathway to the temple of literary fame . Such is -die history , which aa the author tells ob , quoting Bvroni « —they who listen may belk-re ,
Who heard it first had cause to grieve . " Audit certainly bean the semblance of being an ^ oWer true tale . " Be that as it zoaj , the trials and tortures o ? poor George Qdaholra , ar « stern truths , and frightful realities : and we fihonld not ¦ wonderhut that the author describes some of them from personal experience . The following extracts bat too truly illustrate the situations of the pennjless and unpatroaised literary bread-seeker , in that Babel of wealth and misery , grandeur and destitution , broken hearts and blighted Slopes , —London .
"Situations Is connexion-with the press are at all limes difficult to obtain ; and , onfortnnateJy , poor George bad neither the authority of patron , nor the recommendation o ! inflnential friend , to srway , at best , the doubtful , dediion of those who might have place * open ; or might , cade ? other circumstances , have tarred oat joswfttx ? for the destitute stranger . Without patronage , a amila and parting " call again , " were the KV » Mp"t retains the poor Scotchman could anticipate : for it woald iadeed be a task equally easy of aoaoxspIiBbmeBt lo remove St . Paul ' s , bodily , from us jtreeeat alto , -without injury to tbe noble pile , as to obtain bj independent effort , a lucrative situation connected ¦ with the metropolitan press . So bleak and cheerless are tiie prospects held out to those ambitious of claiming alliance with UUn lettm ; andbeeoming , uspatroalsed , ssAdiaatesfoz the rank and tmohuBeats of tiiertdewr in
iondon . " like thousands who enter the metropolis , fresh Iroa their raral homes . George had , -already , pietared SBocess as the least ef bit returns , for coming so far to benefit his etmntry witti his labours . Tfie future looked suuny , brieht , and invitinK ; and a lively imagi-BBtkm had Already strewed his path with' flowers . Already , the honour-won ehaplet decked bis brow ; and She blood rushed warm through its Tfiins , aa he thought of the applause which thousands were preparing to % wsrd him , for part exertions ; and u a stimulant to future effort Honour , and Fame , and Glory , were prominent in these id « l paintings ; nor was tb »
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climax finished eren then ; for yet a nobler rewardiMMOBTAim , beckoned him on ! But , alas ! the dreamer awoke to sad and colourless reality . A visit to the Row , a ! once told him that -visions however lustrous in etherial imagery , were hot substantiated there The trade mi being overdone—to use a common and expressive phrase—aad those publishers who might have dosed with his proposal to produce something novel and likely to suit , were sickened at tbe prospect of having to combat with others , who by reason of their wealth and systems of perpetual puffing , ware fast glutting the market with werks , having no recommendatory merit save aristocratic titles dangling to the writers' names ; and the fact of their authors bein * of
a clan high above the rank commonly gifted with genius ! George waited on the publishers of respectable periodicals in other quarters of the town ; but they were already 'full , ' and really could not accept contributions from genius in hsmble life , so long as the services of my Lord Fleeeem and Sir Babbleton Contraband—both members of tbe 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 could only dream of such high , r ich , and noble personages condescending to link sentences , and to wield the pen for filthy lucre , the hope of literary employment for a plebeian writer was small indeed . Of course , George feli the publishers' ' reasons' to be unanswerable ; especially when the youth calculated the influence which wit and
learning , and knowledge , and , vftoJ mot—emanating from tbe mirrored closets of iLP . ' a ., Peers , and Peeresses , must command at all timaf and in all cjtcIct . And , when the saleable character of tbe works , the -very tasteful arrangement , and beautiful superabundance of figures , and facts ; rich sentiment , apt-simile , dripping daggers , lace frills , flaming torches , diamond rings , sparkling wins , and pale faces , is all their vigour of fun and horror , —were considered , there could be only small chance for the humbler claims of one so utterly ignorant of all these essentials to polite literature . And , abovs all , seeing that tbe nujor number of casual readers cam muster sufficient moral courage to decide Impartially ; while , testing the relative merits of titled twaddler , and a poor countryman , with a vulgar name , who boasted so brilliancy , save that derived from
" Spark oNature ' s fire . " " His next alternative was the Morning Press ; and , here , by dint of incessant application , he contrived witk hundreds of ' occasional reporten * to earn a guinea ; say onee in four weeks , or thereabout : —for tbe Maitbnuinn evil , ' over-population , has filled up this * opening * also ; and the poor scribe has to thank his luck , when , out of a hundred contributions only ninety-nine are rejected ! But many a despairing -victim , has the Daily Press saved by this ' encouragement ; ' —many a
thankful prayer has been wafted from the heart * of a starving family group , to Heaven for this guinea ;—and many grateful blessings have been showered on those , who—by official connection with the Daily Press , have a Toice in its distributisn . But even here , cruelty and crime are not unknown ; and grovelling creatures , on a morning paper , have stooped so low as to rob the penny-a-liner of his guinea , by stealing the marrow from a contribution , and dressed in other garb , obtaining its insertion for iJtemtdoesi Yet , to th » credit of the British Daily Press , such crimes are rare . "
We have no room for farther extracts , but commend the book itself to our readers . Theuga small in sixe this work is eminently calculated to add largely to the well-deserved popularity of its anvnor .
THE STOKESLEY NEWS , AND CLEVELAND REPORTER . George TweddeU , Stokesley , North Riding . This is an interesting and well-conducted miscellany , published monthly , at" tbe low charge of one penny . " In No . 10 is commenced a series of letters on the People ' s Charter t under the signature of T . Canwright : a very appropriate name for such a subject ; audio truth tbe writer seems to do justice to ihe principles of his elder and mightier namesake . From No . 10 we take the following : —
THE MEMORY OF BURN * WsTs pledged to kings , we ' ve pledged to lords , Through dull routine we ' ve ran ; Our flask a bumper still affords To pledge the honest man . One round I claim , while to hla shrine My heart instinctive turns , To give , for love of auld laug syne , Ihe memory of Buna While courage fires the Briton ' s soul , While freedom nerves his arm ; While country's love kis hopes controul , Friendships his bosom warm ; While worth and wit shall lustre shed , O ' er the soul that meanness spurns , This homage pay tbe mighty dead . The memory of Burns .
His was the boon , so rich , so rare , — An independent mind ; Stored with poetic beauties fair . And love tat human kind ; But now he sleeps his last long sleep . We grieve while nature mourns , With silence sad , and feelings deep , Tbe memory of Bums . We do not say that these lines are the bsst in the numbers before us , but they are the most to oar taste . Here is an extract from M The Welshmen and the Toll Bars , " in No . 12 , ( for October ) . Some of the writer ' s animadversions are bnt toe-well deserved .
"Too many of the people are too ignorant to under-» t » d « Wr xixats , and teo base to dare to assert them . Many will sign petitions without number , tor » ** d * Ma of grievances ; they will cheer at every public meeting for tbe principles of Tirtne ; they will swear devotion to the cause of freedom ; they will declare themselves ready to arm for liberty , and wishful lor a contest with the whole tyrants of the globe ; they will call the most sealous of their leaders too lukewarm , and seem jealous that anyone should dig the grave of oppression but themselves ; and yet , when tbe hour of trial comes , when danger threatens , and when persecution is the patriot's portion , they meanly retreat from the eminence on which they had taken their stand , and basely desert a cause is which they had vowed to conquer or die .
" Othsrs 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 ; sot caring whether the liberties of their country are protected or destroyed , so Jong as they get their own brutal existence comfortably dragged over . These political sloths are quite ready at all times to receive any benefit that may accrue from the exertions of their more industrieus eitiEens , whom they generally denounce and cry down as 'disaffected subjects . " " There are others too , and their number is daily increasing , who perceive the cause of our national distress , and are not iHow to avow it
* Men who know their rights , And knowing dire maintain / are tbe honest and intelligent portion of every age and dime . They have generally been persecuted by the bigoted and the knavish ; laughed to scorn by the witless , and tbe sport of every fooL They have , however , kept the lamp of freedom for ever burning , and it is this 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
pulHsg down of strongholds * of a system which perpetuates ignorance , vice , and misery ; nor is the burning of old thatched bouses , during the shades of night , to be mentioned in comparison with the open avowal of the great principles of Democracy , or Repruextative Government . Cleanse tbe fountain , and the stream will soon be pure . Let us strive to disseminate , on all hands , trae knowledge on political subjects , —what ought to be done , and how it may be achieved , and weaball serve the cause of justice and freedom better than by ' routs , riots , and rebellions . '"
Host assuredly this little publication so honestly conducted , deserves support and we hope will obtain it . THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE No . II , vol . 2 . This , like the last No . that we noticed , is mainly filled with the proceedings of Father Mathew . , Under the head of " Chronicle of Ami ; Teetotal Sayin £ 8 and Doings , " the following choice bit is given from the Gospel Magazine . From which it appears that Father Mathew is employed by Auld Hornie" in his tee-total mission : —
" Who do yon think employs Father Mathew ? The DeviL (!) We axe as great advocates of temperance [? j as he is ;—[ Is this a specimen f}—but the practice nowa-days of an indiscriminate mass assembling professedly to advocate ihe teetotal tcfreme , is a trap of "the arch deceiver , leading men from one kiDd of sin to the embrace of Mother . The present pitige system , we have no doubt is a Bomaa Catholic maomvre , which wu < # KCQCte < iinthtmcr 7 Kle * t pitl It will have its day —run its length— •< aede a mpttai aidatUxlM for nlisim—help on the cause of the Mother of Harlots—and by and by burst with fearful conseqneness upon its poor 4 fiiBded votaries 111
This is * new » ove" of the u ould inimj" that really we were not prepared for ! We always knew that the shrines of Baeehus were favomnte resorts for the arch-tempter ; bat was certainly not prepared to hear that hehad a partiality for cold water ; or that he considered a teetotal lecture , or a Mathewite pledge as a good draw by which to fill his netB with victims for . « - that immortal fry
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Of almost everybody born to die" ! Well , well , this does > ang Baa « har l Trash Greig and Ids brother bigots of the DnbLn Protestant Operative Association , ace for © nee beat hollow I
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IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN By R . MoffTGOMKBT Mxbtik , Esq . Part I . London : Orr and Co ., Paternoster Row . This iB a work undertaken by the author for the purpose of reflating the charges brought against England and the English Government by Mr . O'Connell and the advocates of Repeal generally . The writer in his preface , after quotiDg an extract from the "Address to the Inhabitants of th * Countriei subject to the BritUh Grown , " in which is contained , in very forcible terms , the pith of the charges against England ; proceeds to say that : "It is due therefore to the character of England that these
charges should 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 . Our readers will judge for themselves , from the following extracts , how far tbe wr iter has succeeded in his object . We must say that he shews fair p lay to his antagonists , by giving verj fully , and ia their own precise language , the accusations which he purposes to repel . ; The first few pages give a sort of Bketcb of the ancient Irish , commencing vita the landing of w Cs 53 ara , anieceof Noan , previous to the Deluge . ' —{ Fudge I ) 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 redress the sufferings of the people , sank 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 the invasion itself was . He shews that Ireland never hada native Parliament , till England gave her one , " to be held at the will of the latter . Hefuotes a number of records from the time of the landing of Henry ; in proof of this , from which we select the following extract ! relating to : —
POTNING ' S ACT . ' " A Parliament was summoned before Edward Poynlngs , Knight , tbe King's Deputy , and bald at Drogheda , x . D . 1495 , and an Act passed , since known under the name of Poyning ' s Act , by whioh it was provided that no Parliament be holden hereafter in Ireland but at such season as the King ' s Lieutenant in Council there first do certify to the King , under the Great Seal of the land , tbe causes and considerations thereof , and all such Acts as to them setmeth should pass in the M&m 9 Parliament ; and auch causes , consideration * , and Acts , affirmed by the King and his CodbcH , to be good
aud expedient for that land , and his license thereupon , as well ia affirmation of tbe said cause" and Acts , as to summon the Bald Parliament under his G eat Seal of EnglsDd had and obtained ; that done , a Parliament to be had and holdeu after the form and effect aforere-bearsed ; and if any Parliament beholden in that laud hereafter , contrary to the form and provision aforesaid , it shall be deemed void and of none tfket in law . ' Tbe Lord Lieutenant or tbe King in Conooll became by this Act the proposer of all laws to be passed , and the dependence of tbe Irish Parliament was completely enacted , and declared by tbe Irisk themselves .
"In the ever earnest endeavours to influence the minds of the people of Ireland against the ¦ agjlah , attention is repeatedly called to ' Poyning ' s Act , ' as one of the cruel specimens of English domination ; but the circumstances under which it originated are carefully omitted , sod perfect silence as to the fact that it wu at the time one of the most popular Acts ever passed in Ireland , on account of the people being thereby relieved from thousands of lecal oppressions undwt the cover of Acts of Parliament ; while that eloquent and patriotic Irish historian , Mr . O'Priscoll , thinks it would have been better for Ireland bad Qrattan left untonohed Sir E . poyning ' s Act * This Act was modified in tbe third year of Philip and Mary , by the Governor and Council being empowered to certify such other causes requiring legislation , which were not foreseen at tbe beginning of the session .
•• In fact , the Irian Legislature was never considered independent of Great Britain ; and English Acts of Parliament , in which Ireland was named , wtre held to be binding . An Act was passed 10 th Henry TIL , c 32 , ia tbe Irish Parliament , declaring that ' all statutes late made within the said realm of England , concerning or belonging to tbe publio 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 tbe tenoux and effect of tbe same , and ones that ; by authority aforesaid , that they and every f 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 tbe law /
" From 1668 to 1692 , namely , fer twenty-sue years , then tea * no regular meeting of the Iritti Parliament at alt , so little was it considered a constituent assembly . Four sessions were held lo the reign of William HI . ,-and from 1703 to 178 S , it was only convened bien ~ fatfjr . " Here is our author ' s version of the " Act of Independence /* If it be the trae version , a sorry sort of "independence" it was . After stating that the period of England ' s difficulties was chosen for this outbreak , ana that troops were asked for by the Irish to defend the coast from invasion , well knowing that England had none to spare , he adds the following account of
THS VOLUNTEERS . "By tbe permission of England , 50 , 000 men , as if sows by Cadmus , instantly sprang into activity , and were no sooner organised 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 carte blanche , to fill up with Tr *** crH-Tin . r **»• : © onunon » or Ireland , « na « the influence of the guns and sabres of the Volunteer * , declared that no * e but the King , Lords , and Commons of Ireland , had power to mako laws for Ireland . Mr . Grattoo undertook to be tbe tranquilliser of his country , and Ponypg's Act was modified , but not entirely repealed by the following Act of the Irish Parliament , XJ > . 1781 ,. 3 Gee . III . 21 and 22 , c . 47 , entitled " An act to regulate the manner of passing bills , and to prevent delays in summoning of Parliament '
•• • Sbct . 1—No bills are henceforth to be certified to Great Britain but such 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 of Great Britain , and not altered , shall pass , and no other . ••• Sect . 3—No bill shall hereafter be certified for the holding of a Parliament in Ireland . " Sect . 4 . —No Parliament shall be held without license under ihe great seal of Great Britain
Tbe assent of the sovereign under the great seal of England ( not of Ireland ) , was still required to any Acts paaeed by * both Houses of the Irish Parliament . Tbe Great Seal of Bngland was responsible to the English House of Commons aud not to that of Ireland . Neither was there any Irish Cabinet , The Eaghsh Cabinet therefore , -virtually and necessarily controlled all acts passed by the Irish Legislature . The Lord Lieutenant aid Chief Secretary were still nominated by and responsible to the English Cabinet . "
7 BTCTS Of THS INDBPBNDKNCB . " * ' , Mr . Grattsn demonstrated that tbe Legislature of Ireland neither possessed tbe substance nor tbe shadow of independence ; and on the 26 th February , 1790 , he asked , " Wb&t has our renewed constitution as yet prodaced ? A place bill ? No . A pension bill ? No . Any great or good measure t N « . 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 ?" " In 1793 , the House of Commons was set fire to while the Members were slttiag , and amidst the shouts of an immense and ferocious multitude , tbe Representatives has just time to escape , when the vast dome became enveloped in flames , and , falling in , crushed everything beneath it "
"The country was torn ( from 1782 upwards ) by factions and intestine feuds ; the whole island was kept in tbe most wretched turmoil , nights and day , by furious communities , under the designations of Patriots , Agitators , Right-boys , White-boys , Peep « ef-Day-boys , Conventions , Aggregate Bodies , Catbolic Committees , Tarring and Feathering Committees , Defenders , Assassins , Houghen of Men and Honghera of Cattle , Aasodators , Whig Clubs , St James's Delegates , Excbequerstreet Delegates , National Congresses , Emancipators United Irishmen , Reformers , Revolutionists , Societies of Peace and Societies of War , cum mullis aliis !"
ABSENTEEISM . " Absenteeism is a very old grievance in Ireland , even under a resident' legislature . ' " Legal enactments against absentees , from 1877 , to 1753 , all proved ineffectual . " In 1773 , Mr . Hood attempted to revive the old laws against tbe absentees ; and in 1783 , proposition for ditto by Mr . G rattan ; both failed , " In 1797 , Sir John Tandeleur proposed , in tbe Irish House of Commons , to raise an annual revenue ef £ 240 , 00 * 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 THS GOVBRHMBKT COXSrJKX THB "REBELLION ? In the following extracts the writer proves too much and at tbe same time too little . H « prates th * foraer by shewing that the government placed the country under martial law , and thus goaded to " rebellion , " tbe people of that unhappy cdaiitry , who whether their oppressors have been Saxen or Milesian , have most oertaiuly suffered centuries of oppression and wrong . He does not prove enough , by his silence on the employment , by the Castlereagh Government , of those Iscanot scoundrels of whom the eternally infamous Reynolds was the chief , and Armstrong , H the bale old man' * ( monsterJ , who lately appeared at the Dublin Police Offioe , one of the gang . He forgets , ? VoL » . p . ISO .
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too , to defend or disprove ) tbe " pitch-caps , " "&os-™« , » and ;• walking gallowses , " whioh bad no "RebeU ° with "fostering" and " extending" the J" 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 the OmpouOer BUI , by whfsh only certain licensed persona were authorised to import gunpowder into Ireland . The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended j the Insurrection Act passed , and * ome of the founders and promoters of the ' Society of United Irishman' Wolfe ToneHamilton
, , Rowan , Colonel Bntler , and Oliver Bond , were proceeded against by Government on charges of hlga treason . Did these acts bear tb » semblance of encouraging rebellion for the purpose o fcarrying the Union * "Bat this was not the only « ep uhdertaken by the British Government , and forced from the Irish Parliament , in spite of those factious persons who contended that Ireland was tranquil , while the slumbering volcano was ready to burst beneath their feet . The Contention Bill' was : passed , by which self-created conveationa wete dissolved , and the seizure of unregistered arms effected .
_ " General Lake was instructed te seise arms in Ulster , and « to disperse all tumultuous assemblies of perwns , though they might not be in arms , without waiting for the sanction and assistance of the civil authorities , if the peace ; of the realm or the safety of his Majesty's faithful subject * should be endangered by waiting for auoh authority . ' There were in Ulster 00 iOO United Irishmen ; but by the indefatigable efforts of General Lake upwards of aim thousand Hand of arms , and many thousand pikes and other formidable weapons , were seized ; so that when the rebellion actually broke out in the subsequent year , not 30 , 000 oat of 90 000 men could asssemble armed . " THE COBEUPX MEANS BY WHICH THB UNION WAS CARRIED . " The writer reples to this as follows •—
" The long-desired 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 , 600 . " " The same plan of paying the proprietors of nomination boroughs was proposed in the discussion of the Lite Reform Bill , and had it been effected , no one would have said that the Reform Bill bad been carried by bribery and oortuptlon s > yet it Is asserted that tbe Union was carried by bribery and corruption , because tbe disfranchised proprietors of the Irish boroughs received £ 15 . 800 each . This is not , surely , a fair
charge te make against Mr , Pitt ' s government , as to corrupt means used in effecting the Union . It is asserted that Lord Castleresgn spent £ 2 , 000 , 000 ia notorious and profligate bribery to carry the Union . Now the sum actually paid away to tbe proprietors of nomination boroughs disfranchised at the Union was £ 1 260 00 * , at the rate of £ 15 , 000 for each borough ; and on tbe same principle , and at even a higher rate of payment , Mr . Pitt projected parliamentary reform in Eogland . What he bad , therefore , proposed for England , it woald have been unjust to deny to Ireland , when nomination boroughs were destroyed there . "
We cannot spare room to reply to the above , and shewaa we might do that the writer has anything bat fully compacted thin charge . There were other monstrously corrupt means employed which he doea not even glance at ; but we have not apace at disposal to enter into the question at present . Mr . Martin concludes b y detailing at some length the "benefits" which have resulted to Ireland from the Act of Union ; amongst which he enumerates the " Tithe Commutation Aot" (!) and the "Poor Law" (!) He says : . " That , previous to tbe Union , of three hundred members of the Irish House of Commons , two hundred member * were stated to be the nominees of private Individual * that from forty to fifty members wete returned by constituencies of not more than ten persons each ; that several boroughs had not more than one resident elector , and that out of three hundred members thus returned , one hundred and four were placemen 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 106 members to the Imperial Legislature , whether of the Roman or Protestant faith . " He says that those who complain of English domination "have two-tbirdB 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 and integrally a kingdom as she ie at thifl moment .
Aad yet , Mr . Martin , the great mass of the pedple are politically slaves—are denied the rights and franchises of freemen : and this " most eloquent fact" remains unanswered , that for not more than thirty weeks out of the fifty-two , they have not even third-class potatoes to vegetate upon ! Unhappy people of Ireland )! no wonder you cry for Repeal . The wonder rather iB , that yoa do not cry , for the annihilation of your rulers and yourselves in one 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 Castlne ' u Empire of the C «» r , " in Tail ' s Magazine for October . ] THE APPROACH : TO 8 T . PBTEASBUIIO . " Nothing can be more melancholy than tbe aspect of nature in the approach to St . Petersburg . As one advances ap the Gulf , the flat marshes of Ingria terminate in a little waving line drawn between the sky sad the sea ; this lineis Rnssia . It presents Uk appearance of a wet lowland , -with here and there a few hireb trae * tblnl 7 . cttorcxl . Th « l . « fac » p » 1 » -rold-of oltfmatm Mni colours ; has no bennds , and yet no sublimity . Itbma
just light enough to be visible ; the grey massy earth well accords with the pal * sun which Illumines it , not from overhead , bat from near the horiaon , or almost indeed from below , —so acate is tbe angle which the oblique rays form with the surface of this unfavoured loiL In Russia , the finest days have a bluisb dimness . If the nights are markedby a clearance which surprises , the days are clothed with an obscurity which saddens . ? * To reach St . Petursburg , yon must pass a desert of water framed in a desert of peat earth ; sea , shore , and sky , are all blended into one mirror ; but so dull , so tarnished , that it reflects nothing , ''
A 8 UMMEE KIOHT SCKKB . "The temperature of the day bad risen to fifty degrees , and notwithstanding the freshness of the even-Ing , the atmosphere of the palace during thejfefo was suffocating . On rising from table I took refuge 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 . light which we see only in the north , during the magic brightness of a polar night It was half-past twelve o ' clock , and the nights having yet scarcely begun to' lengthen , the dawn of day appeared already ia the direction of ArcbangeL The wind had fallen : numerous belts of black and motionless olouda divided the
firmament into zones , each of which was irradiated with a light so brilliant , that it appeared like a polished plate of silver ; its lustre was reflected on the Neva , to whose vast and unrippled surface it gave the appearance of a lake of milk or of mother-of-pearl . The greater part of Petersburg , with its quays and its spires , was , ander this light , revealed before my eyes ; it was a perfect composition of Breughel's . Tbe tints Of the picture cannot be described by words . . The domes ol the Church of Saint Nicholas stood in tbe relief of lapia lazuli against a sky of silver ; the illumioated pertico of the Exchange , whose lamps were partially quenched by the dawning day , still gleamed on the water of tbe river , and was reflected—a peristyle of gold . "
RUSSIAN BUGS . " Scarcely was I installed in this abode than ( the fatigue of the night having got tbe better of my cariosity , whioh usually impels me to sally forth and lose myself in a large unknown city ) I lay * owa , wrapped in a cloak , on an immense leather sofa , and slept profoundly during —three minutes I " 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 covered , I was devoured with bogs . Russia is , in this respect , not a whit inferior to Spain ; but in the sonth we can both console and secure ourselves in the open air : here we
remain imprisoned with the enemy , and the war is consequently more sanguine . I began throwing off my clothes and calling for help . What a prospest for the night ! This thought made me cry out mere lustily . A Russian waiter appeared . I made bira understand that I wished to see his master . The master kept me waiting a long time ; aad when he at length did come , and was informed of the nature of my trouble , be began to laugh , and soon 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 seat myself on a Russian sofa , because the domestics , who always curry about with them legions of insects , sleep on these articles of furniture . ¦'
[ The cart-whip democrats (!) of Cincinnati hare the Bcoundrelism to talk about the stink ef the black African as offending their republican ( 1 ) nostrils , aud being a reason why he should be kept in a state of slavery ! What will they Bay to the following account of the stink of the white Ruauan tj
BUSS 1 AH rBBIVMB . * In general the Russians carry about tbtiht persons disagreeable odour , which is pereepUbl » at a consldef able distance . The higher cla sses smell of musk , the common people ef cabbage , mixed with exhalations of onions and old greasy perfumed leather . These smeus never "vary . " .
THE AUTOCRAT . " The Emperor is above the usual height by half ahe » d ; his figure noble , although a little stiff : he has practised from bis youth the Russian custom of girding tjhe body above the loins to suet a degree as to push up the Btomach into the chest , which produces ansmn
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natural swelling or extrusion about the ribs , that is as irsjurious to the health as is is ungraceful in appearanea . This voluntary deformity destroys all freedom of movement , impairs the elegance of the shape , and imparts an ail of constraint to tite * whole person . They say that when ] the Hmperor loosens- bis dress , ' the viscera , suddenly giving way , a » disturbed tot a moment te their equilibrium , which ; produces an extraordinary prostration of strength . The bowels may be displaced—they cannot be got rid of . The Emperor has a Grecion profile—the forehead hlga , but receding ; the nose straight , and perfectly formed > the month very finely cat ; the fece , which in shape i > rather a long
oval , is noble ; the whole air military , and rather Garman than Slavonic , His carriage and bis-attitudes are naturally imposing . He expects alwaystobegazsdat , and never for a moment forgets that he Isao , It may be even said that be likes this homage of tbe eyes . He passes the greater past of his existence in the open sir , st reviews , er in rapid journeys . "I do not say ] that the physiognomy of this prince lacks candour , but it lacks natural expression . Thus , the chief evil unrier which Russia suffers , the absence of liberty , is depicted even on the countenance of its sovereign : be bis many masks , bat no face . Seek for the man , and you will always find tbe Emperor . *
( There is much of truth in tbe following picture of M Constitutional" Governments . We live under just such a system of fraud , lies , and corruption in this England of ours ] NICHOLAS ON ' CONSTITUTIONAL' GOVKBNMBNTS . " Here the Emperor interrupted himself , and looked at me attentively . I continued to listen without replying , and he proceeded : — " I can understand Republicanism : it is a plain and straightforward form of government , or , at least , it might he so ; I can understand absolute monarchy , for I am myself tbe bead of such an order of things v but I cannot understand a representative monarch : it is the Government of : lies , fraud , and corruption ; and I would rather fall back even upon China than ever adopt if !
••• Sire , I have always regarded representative Government as a esmpaot inevitable In certain communities at certain ] epochs ; but like all other compacts , it does not solve questions—it only adjourns difficulties * ] " Tbe Emperor seemed to say , * Go on . ' 1 continued : "It is a trace signed between democracy and monarchy , ander the auspices of two ( very mean tyrants , fear and interest ; and it is prolonged by that pride of intellect which takes pleasure in taking , and that popular vanity which satisfies itself on words . In snort , it is the { aristocracy of oratory substituted for the aristocracy of biitb : It is the government of the lawyers . ' f .
"' Sir , you speak the truth / said the Emperor , press ing my hand : 'I have been a representative sovereign ; and the world knows what it has cost me not to have been willing to submit to tbe exigencies of Otis infamous government ( I quote literally ) . To buy votes , to corrupt eonsdeBoes , to seduce some in order to deceive others ; all those means I disclaimed , as degrading tbose who obey as much as those who command ; and I have dearly paid the penalty of my straightforwardness -, tut , God be praised , I have done f « r ever with this detestable political machine . I shall never more be a constitutional king . I have too much need of saying all that I think ever to consent to reign over any people by means of stratagem aad intrigue . ' " The name of Poland , which presented itself incessantly to out thoughts , was not once uttered ia this singular conversation . "
THS SB 88 ZAH 8 TSTEK . "Th » movements of the men whom I met appeared stiff and constrained ; every gesture expressed s » will which was not their own . The morning is the time for commissions and errands , and not ose individual appeared to be walking on bis own account I observed few good-looking women , and heard no girlish voices ; everything was doll and regular as in a barrack . Military discipline reigns throughout Russia . ' ¦ I . ? ' ¦ • * Fancy can almost descry the shadow of death hovering over this portion of the globe . .
" Now appears a cavalry officer passing at full gallop to be * r an order to some commanding officer { theU a chasseur carrylBg an vrder to seme provincial governor , perhaps at tbe other extremity of the empire , whither he proceeds in a kibltka , a little Russian chariot , without springs or stuffed seat This vehicle , driven by aa eld bearded ctachman , rapidly conveys the courier whose rank woald prevent bis using & more commodions equipage had be one at bis disposal . Next are seen foot soldier * returning from exert ' ise to their quarters , in order to Ttceiviordm from tneii captain . This automaton population resembles one side of a chess-board , where a single individual causes tbe movements of all
the pieces , but where the adversary is Invisible . One neither moves nor respires here except by an imperial order ; consequently everything is dull , formal ^ and spiritless . Silence presides over and paralyses life . Officers , coachmen , Cossacks , serfs , courtiers , ail servants under thejsam * master , blindly obey the orders which they do not understand . It is certainly tbe perfection oC discipline ; but the sight of such perfection does not gratify me ; so much regularity can only be obtained by the entire absence of independence . Among this people bereft of time and of wm , we see only todies without jsQuis ; and tremble to think that , fo so vast a multitude cf arms aad l « m , there is ' Only one head . " 1
I ns * BirTA » ra » . It ia a common sight to see an underling of the Government , brutally and unmercifully beat any one who may offdad him ; the individual attacked not daring to offer any resistance . Of ons scene of this sort we are told : — ¦ . ' ¦ -I . ¦¦¦ *» Tfee ps ^ eni by were la nodegrw moved or excited bf tb » axailtm * ait oa » pf tb * Tmmwrt— of the snf-« m * , TSfho ws » i watawtng ids ' . tmrnrn'm tow tens 68 , otedint ^ » ilga of « w amafad feU-jago- BDprosched to hold his hone's bridle daring the time that he was pleased to prolong the punishment . In what other country could a man of the lower orders be found who would assist in the infliction of arbitrary punishment upon oae of bis companieus t
" The scene in qusstlon took plaoe in the finest part of the city , and at the busiest hour . When the unfortunate man was released , be wiped away the blood Which streamed down his cheeks , wmoanted his seat , and neomasnoed his bows and salutations as usual . It should b « recollected that this abomination was enacted ia the midst of a silent crowd . " i * Here ia another ease : — " A small boat was brought alongside by other police agents ; the prisoner was bound with cords , his Bauds were fastened behind his back , and he was thrown On his face into the boat This second rode shook was
followed by a shower of blows ; nor did the torture here finish . The sergeant who had seised the victim ao sooner saw him tbus prostrate , than he jumped apon bis body , and began to stamp upon him with all his fore * , trampling ihim under bis feet as the grapes are trod in the wins-press . I bad then approached the spot , aad am therefore witness of all that I relate . Poring this horrible torture , tbe frightful yells of the victim were at first redoubled ; but when they began to grow fainter and fainter , I felt that I could no longer command myself , and , having no power to interfere , I hastened away . " j
ITS TBBBIBIB RB 8 ULT 8 . The Emperor having emancipated the serfs on some domains which he had purchased , the peasants on the Wolga sent deputies praying their Father to purohaso the lands to which ( hey were enthralled , and free them likewise . The Emperor received their deputies graciously ; but as he did not buy the estates , he could not emancipate them , though j he wished , he said , that they all were free . The coasequences as related to M . De Custino . were horrible .
«* Our Father desires our dellteranc * , ' cr ied the retained deputies ( on the borders of the Wolga . 'He wishes for nothing bnt our happiness ; he said m > to us himself : it is , then , only the nobles and their sgeats who are our enemies , and who oppose the good designs of Our father I Let us avenge the eaperor 1 * After this , the peasants believed they were performing a pious work in ( rising upon their masters ; and thus all the aobles of a canton , aed all their agents , were massacred , together with their families . They . spitted one and roasted ihim alive , they boiled another in a caldron ; they disembowelled and killed in various otherways the stewards and agents of the estates ; they murdered all they met , burnt whole towns , and , in short , devastated a province ; Hot in the name of liberty ; for they ] do not know what liberty means , but in the name of deliverance and of the emperor . " .
" As everything is in sympathetic accord , the Immense extent of the territory does not prevent things being executed from one end of Russia to the other , with a punctuality , and a simultaneous correspondence , which is magical . If ever they should succeed ia creattna a kbal ! revolution among the Russian people , massacre would be performed with the regularity that marks evolutions of a regiment Tillages woald change into barracks , and organised murder would stalk forth , armed from the cottages , form in line , and advance in order ; t » short tbe BomUum would prepare for pillage from Smolensk to Irkutsk , m they march to the parade la Petersburg . "
HOBXOBt O » IKSPOTISM . « Bloody scenes are yet being daily , renewed ia various parts of the am cotmtry , where public order hat been disturbed , nd re-established in so terrific a manner . TheRasslaushav » Borighitor « proashPrau <» fw her poUtlsal disorders , and to draw from thesacoose < ueneesfavo » rabl « to despotism . Let but the liberty of the press b » accorded to Russia for twenty-fout hoars , and we should learn things that would make us recoil with horror . Silence is indispeusable to oppression . Under an absolute government , every iuiiscretion of speech is equivalent to a crime of high treason . "
J ? Spaw . —Mabpid , Oct . 23 . —The militia of Sara-KOBsa have « nV f 6 rih a strong maaifeato , to the militia of the whole nation . It is dated the 12 th instant , . but haa only lately arrived hereV the . asual eomuuaioatiod being , of oourse , cut off .
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CHARGE OF F ^ Sf ^ i ^ i ^ NST ^ N ^ m ^ mmm - ¦¦ ¦ On Monday last , at the Magistrates Office , Court Heuse . Leeds , Mr . Thos . Walker , of Dawsbury , attorney-at-iaw , was charged before George Goodman ^ Ewj ., with having twice forged tbe signature of Montague Baker Bere , Esq ., one of the Commissioners in the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy , to an instrument purporting to be an interim order of protection from the Coart to an insolvent Mr . Walker was apprehended at Dewabury , on Saturday afternoon , by Mr . James , superintendent of tbe Leeds Police i Mr . Blackbdkn , solicitor , of Leeds ^ was the attorney fer the prosecution ; Mr . Boap , solicitor , of Leeds , and Mr . Scholes , solicitor , of Dawsbury , attenied to watehthe oase on the prisoner ' s behalf . —The following evidence was adduced : — '
George Newsome , of Batley Carr , deposed—I Hire si Batley Carr , and am a clothier ; io August last X was in insolvsnt circumstances . I applied to Mr . Thos Walker , solioitor , of Dawabury ; I told him I wanted to see if I could not get shut of my debts , and asked" him what I should do ; he said he would do it for me for £ 15 ; he said he would get me aprotection , butJ should have to keep out of the way for a week ; I was to pay him £ 2 down , and the remainder by instalments of £ 1 per month ; I then signed some papers , whieh I understood were for an advertisement which was to appear in the-Wakefleld Friday ' s paper ; this was on the 23 rd . of August , and he told me I shouldhave my protection on the 4 th of Sept , on which day he ' said he should have Urgo to Leeds to get it for me ; I saw Mr . Walker again on Saturday the 2 nd ef September , on which day
I signed some more papers , and ; paid him £ 2 again . I saw him again on Monday , tbe 4 th , when I said to him that if b » thoaght I could get my protection by coming to Leeds with him , I would come . He said I had better not go to Leeds , but be would meet me at Wakefield at two o clock in the afternoon , at the public house opposite tbe sessions bouse , where he would give me my [ protection ; I went to Wakefleld , and waited at the Railway Station all the aftoraoon , until about seven o'clock , bat did not see bint there . I saw him the next day at Pawsbury , when he said , ! " Well , I ' ve got your protection here . " andlhe gave me a paper oat of his pocket-book , which he said was my protection . [ The document was produced , and on being ; handed to the witness he identified it as the sarn * which he had received from the prisoner !
Examination resumed—I know the paper from sa alteration which was tnade in It by Mr . Walker in my presence ; the signature " M . B . Bere , " was on th » paper when it was given to me on the fith of September . He told me then that the hearing day was fixed for thft 9 th of October . I saw the prisoner again on Saturday tbe 7 th of October , when he told me that my hearing day was pat off till the 11 th of October . I then asked him what I should do , as my protection was only till the tfth . and it woald ba of no use to me . He said he could soon alter that , and asked me if I bad it with me . I produced it , and he erased the word " ninth , " and wrote in the word "eleventh" in my presence . He then said I should be safe from the bailiaT « , and if any of them came , I wu U show it to them , bat not let them have it ; I gave him a sovereign at that time . Os Wednesday , the 11 th , I met
the , prisoner by appointment at the GriSn Inn , Leeds , and afterwards went to tbe Court of Bankruptcy . I went first into the room up stairs , and afterwards into that down stain ; Mr . Walker was with me . It was about eleven o ' clock when we went , and I stayed there till about three . I was in the same room with Georg * Lister , another insolvent I heard his aanlu called , and saw him Btand up at the desk ; my name was not called . Before leaving the Griffin , in the forenoon , I gave my protection to Walker , at his request ; at that t ime there was no writing on the back part " of the protection . Walker filled up some writing at the back part , and then said it would want signing fbr the next hearing day , and he would take it and get it signed He took it with him to the Court , but did not say anything to me about the protection whilst in the Court * but told me that he would give it to me at the Griffin when the Court was over . When he came t * the
Griffin , George Lister asked him if he bad got them signed , aud be said , "O . yes , " and produoed two papers , one of whioh he gave to Listerr and . the other to me . The paper he gave to me was the prote $ tio « L which I had before received from him ; It was filled ugr ' at the back , and at first I thought it was not-signed , but ob the prisoner pointing it out to me , I found on that ^ side also the signature , " M . B . Bere . " It extended tbe protection to the 29 tb of November , on which day VTaJker said I should get a fiaal hewing . I had the paper in my possession ap to the 24 th inst . ¦
firoas-examined by Mr . SCHOts * . —It was the month of August when I flrat applied to Mr . Walker . I cant say how many papers I have signed ; . there were more than one ; there was so agreement in writing between me and Walker ; no such thing as 4 & down and Jtf > at the first hearing was ever mentioned , nor was any written agreement to thaVeflfcct ever signed by me ; I never knew that any memorandum to that ftffeot had been prepared . I never received any other paper from Walker but tbe one produced : ; I am quite auro of that . Walker did not demand any money from me when he gave me my protection at Dawsbury .
Montague Baker Bere , Esq . deposed—I am one of the Gommissioners of Bankruptcy for the Le ^ , ^ trict I have examined the paper now pRjdBCe < j . n purports to be an interim o ;^ ^ ^^{ 00 ^ q ^ t& Newsome , Miir ^ lT ^ t . | t ha , at ^ 9 foo > « f it ths words -m if . & ftare . * xt u npt my rignat ,, ^ . > * , & the sigaature made by any person by Wy authority Tb # eudorsemenl »| the back of it purports to be a renewal of the protection , which Is granted after the insolvent ' s first hearing for his protection to the day . of his : . final hearing ; that also has the words " M . B . Bere , " which is not my signature , nor has it been made by my authority . Thm niaawal , which is filled ap foe the 28 th of Wbvemfcer , lis . d » rxm -whUOH doxtot sit beliflW ^ Wediwsda > . T&tt
interim order « f »»> t « wtloQ , and the renowal , an botH In tbs'saBMl P >^ P ^^* hmfictm ^ . m ^ hKnb « BSiinvaA witDootmy penoaai rt ^^ Z ^^^ to ^ SSS ^ a * any authority to sign my nnm « . no ow ww lad . To papier now produced Is tbe o&e produced to ma en the 24 th of October , by # aorge Newsome . I have had several opportunities of seeing Mr . Walker write , and I belieye the imitation of my signature to be in his band-writing . Mr . Walker was not in Court on the 4 th of Ssptember ; at least I presume so , for he was summooed to appear , and on his name > being called several timts , he did not answer . I wrote to Mr . Walker oa Wednesday last , requesting 1 him to attend the Court on Saturday to explain these matters to m « , he did not attend . - -: , < ' ¦ - -.. ¦ ¦ ¦¦¦¦' . ¦'' ¦¦ ' ¦ : .- ¦'¦¦ „ ¦
Charles Watsrfleld , Esq . —rl am one of the depatyregistrars in the Leeds District Court of Bsakruptcy ; I sit in Mr . B « re ' s Conrt A pstition of George Newsome rsg-desler , ef Bstley , was filed in the Court previous to the 36 th of March ia this year , and on tbst day his final protection was granted . No other petition fron » any parson called Gsorge Newsome , ^ has ] been filed in either Court sinoe that time . I have entered the name and number and every petition filed in both courts since the Court was established . There is no entry o * any petition from Gaorgs Ifeweome , of Bfttley since the 26 th of March ; George Newsama was not called on his petition on the 11 th of October
George Lister was called on the lltb j he rewtvedsj renewed protection on that day . the Gommissiou * signs all papers himself . I have not , since the 21 th ot March , received any fees ou behalf ol George Newsomt , from either Mr . Walker ox any one else . Fees would be payable in Court both when the interim order was granted and when it was renewed ; also on filing th « petition . I received the paper pfodoced front John Briggs , the usher of the Court , on the 24 th of October , and asked Newaome , in the preflenoe of Briggs , if that was the paper be had given to Briggs ; he s ^ id it was . This being tbe whole of the evidence , Mr . Walker , after being cautioned , said he should reserve any thing hehad to say until another occasion .
He was then held to bail , himself in 4100 , and a surety is £ 100 , for his appearance at the next assisas at York , to take his trial for forgery .
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D&EADfVL GALB 05 THB RlVBB THAMES . —About ne o ' elook on Friday morning , the atmosphere exhibited symptoms of an approaching slorm , aad aooa afterwards the indications were folly verified . It was high water at London-bridge a few minutes before five o ' clock ; but two hoars previously , the wind , whioh had been Wowing fresh from about W . S . W ., increased to a perfect hurricane , sad the shipping and small craft on the river have sustained cousiderable damage . About half ; past six o ' clock the hurricane , which was accompanied with tremendous squalls , was at its height , when several vessels that had before held to their moorings , started , and were driven with great force against tiers of snipping oathe northern shore . The tide
rose to a greater height than any : in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants alongthe waterside . Fortunately an extraordinary ftood was anticipated , and in many places preoautious were taken whioh bad the effect of materially lessening the injury which moat otherwise have resulted . A great deal of damage has fr however , beea sustained , and property destrojed ^ in the warehouses situated aleng both banks / . of tbe river , from Woolwich to Chelsea . The steam namgatioa above bridge was stopped for a considerable period , ia coaseqaencd of the impossibility of passing under some et the bridges . UVAX 4 IICIBB itt lBBiAin > . « -There ia a fearful , bat , for tho most part , ansmapected Baorifice of human life continually goiag on among us- The Foundling Hospital waa closed on tho 3 d of October , 18 M , and daring the ; five years that elapsed between that aad
the 6 d of the present month , no fewer than eighty-six inqueatabaTo been heldMtht BridcweUon the bodies of deserted iBfant 8--t ] uU is , in plain English , no fewer than 10 nuny smvders hate been perpetratod or penoitted by the » nhappy paren * who brought them into beiax 1 Aad yet wo read and we hear of inqaests withoat troubling oaraelw with a thosght pf the iniqaity or the guilt ^ wluoh « tery inquiry implies I But tha number of deaths by no means represents the number of helpless beings cast out 'toperish , or to take the chance of being providentially picked up ; for at the laat city rate sessions—ono Bingle BeBBions—the appUcaiioas by chorchwftrdens for the support of infants found deserted amounted to S 53 ! paring the five years previous totbe ^ losing of the Foundling Hospital the number ef inctiufcM ^ newly-born infanta was forty-eight . - ^** Got * stilution .
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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-ncseproduct826/page/3/
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