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MARCO BOZZABTS . He fell in an attack upon the Turkish Camp at Xaspl the rite of the ancient Pla- ' &j , August 20 th , 1823 , and exoiredin tb * mc-Tnent o ! victory . His last "words were f To die lor liberty is a pleasure , " and not a pain . " ' [ Tte republication of these beautiful lines w 2 I not be coBsdered inappropriate with the recent glorious events in Greece fresh in the memories of-our reader * . Alluaioiis to the daughters of the " modern Iieenidas" iiil ] ite found in our Greek dbws in another column ] . At midnight , in his guarded tent , TheTari -was dreaming of the hoar , When Greece , her taiee in suppliancebent should tremble at his power ; In dreams through camp ^ md court he bore ' The trophies of a conqueror ?
Xq dreams bis song of triumph heard , Then wore his monarch ' s signet zing , Then pressed the monarch ' s throne—a M"g As TrQdbb thoughts and gay ef wing , Aa Eden ' s garden bird . At mionigbt in the forest shades , £ zziriB ranged his Suliote band , Trne as the steel of their tried blades , Heroes in heart and hand . There had the Persian ' s thonsands stood , There had the glad earth drunk their blood OnoldPla : » ra day ; And now they breathed that haunted air , The sons of sires who conquered there , With arm to strike and soul to dare , As quick , as far as they .
An h « ur passed on—the Tnrk awoke 1 That bright dream was Ms last ; He woke—to hear his sentry's shriek , "To arms ! theycome ] the Greek ! the Greek !" He woke—to ^ ie , ' midstiame and smoke , And shout , andgroau . aodsabre stroke ; And dsaih-rhota Ailing thick and fast lAke forest pines before HieT > last , ¦ Or lightnings from the mountain cloud ; And heard , with voice as trumpet loud , BtzeotLb cheer his band ; "Strike—till the last arm'd foe expires , " Strike for your altars and your fires , 11 Strike for the green graves of your sires , " -God—and your native land !" They fought , like brave men , long and well :
They piled that ground with Moslem shun They conquered—but Btzziris fell , Bleeding at every vein . His few surviving comrades nw TTi n imiie when rssig their proud inirah , And the red . field was -won ; Then saw in death his eylids close Calmly , as to a nlght * B repose , Like flowers at set of sun . € ome to the bridal chamber , Death ! Com * to the mether » a when she feels Tor the first time , her first-born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke , And erewded cities wail it stroke ; -Come in consumption ' s ghastly form , The earthqnake ^ s shock , the ocean storm ; -Come when the heart bests high and warm ,
With banquet-song , and dance , and wine ; And thou art terrible ; the tear , The jroan , the knell , the pall , the bier , And all we know , or dream , or fear Of agony are thine . 3 ut to the hero , when his sword Has won the battle for the free , Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word , And in its hollow zones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be . * < 3 ome , when his task of fame is wrought ; Come , in hex crowning hour ; and then Thy sunken eyes' nnearthy light To him is welcome as the sight
Of sky and stars to prisen'd men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry , Which told the Indian isles are nigh , To the world seeking Geonese , When the land wind , from woods of the palm , And orange groves , and fields of balm , Slew o ' er the Haytien seas . Banana ! with the atoried brave , * Greece nurtured in"ber glory ' s time , Best thee : there's no prouder grave , JBven in her own proud dime ! She wore no funsral weeds for thee , Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume , lake a torn branch from death's leafless tree , In sorrows pomp and pageantry , —
The heartless luxury of the tomb ; But she combers thee as one long-loved and for a season gone , for thee her poet "» Jyre Is wreathed , Her marble wrought , her music breathed , for thee she rings the birth-day bells ; Of thee her babe's first lisping tells ; For thine her evening prayer is saia , At palace couch , and cottage bed . Her solHer , closing with the foe , Gives f 02 flay sake a deadlier blow ; His plighted maiden , when the fears
Por him , the joy of her young years , Thinks of thy fate , and checks her tears : And xhe , the mother of the boys , Though hi her eye and faded cheek To read the grief she wifl not speak , The memory of her bwdea joya ; And even she who gave frim birth , Will by their pilgrim-circled bearth , Talk of thy doom without a sigh ; Por thou art Freedom ' s now , and Fame ' s One of the few , immortal names , That were not bom to die .
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tTHE ERRORS OF EMIGRANTS , &c &c . By Geosge Floweb , of Albion . Edward ' s County Illinois . London : Cleave , ' Shoe-lane , Fleetstreet . The author of this work is a gentleman who , with the lat » Mr . Morris Birkbeck , took the 3 ead in forming an English settlement in the State of Illinois , in the year 1817 . The speculation excited considerable interest at the time in this country , from the fact of the leading characters engaged therein being men who were imbued-withth& " Radical" principles of the day , and -were consequently dissatisfied with the political order of thingB here ; and migh on the other hand , be . supposed to have expected much from the more democratic institutions of the country
whither they went pilgrims , seeking a home in the * far West , " where freedom would protect and prosperity reward their labours . Judging from the work before us , we should say , that whilst all the anticipations indulged in by the adventurous u pioneers" may not have been realized , the greater and more substantial portion have been . Mr . FJower describes the settlement as being thoroughly established ; and vrhile some have acquired wealth , the whole have acquired and are enjoying a high degree of substantial comfort . The toils , disappointments , and difficulties , of the first stages of their location having been surmounted , thB settlers are rapidly progressing and fast becoming a ilourishing community . At
least such is the picture drawn by Mr . Flower , ana apparently with truth -and sincerity . The object of the author is not so much * to give a history of the settlement , as to warn emigrants against the errors often , —indeed almost invariably , —eommittedby thoBe wio have hitherto left Europe in . quest of a home on the Columbian shore . These errors are severally enumerated in different chapters , and advice and directions given on matters of vital importance ; which advice , &c , so fax as we are competent to understand its worth , we consider to be wise and of surpassing importance , to the adventurer and the eole ^ Thisiittle book also aSbrds information of the most valuable description , ioucbiag tbs ^ ise and progress of the Western states of the Jtorth the
American Union , statistics of population public lands , mineral and agricultural resources , jnodessnd charges of conveyance , description of the different routes to the " far West , " face of the country , climate , general health of the inhabitants , trade , politics , education , religion , " &c . &c . &c . The whole b written in a highly pleasiDg style , and enlivened with witty anecdotes . As we perused its pages , we marked a number of passages for extract , but on concluding we found we had marked the greater part of the book I "We perhaps could give our readers no better proof of our opinion of its merits , from chapter 20 we-select . » . -few Extracts illustrative af-ihe progress of the settlement founded by Messrs . Birkbeck and Flower . After stating that certain circumstances led to an estrangement between himself and Mr . Birkbeck almost atfheTery ^ settling , " which resulted in a division of the land they had purchased , ( a prairie and
adjoming woodland ) , Mr . Jilower thns proceeds > - * 'A crowd of emigrants immediately followed , is * constant stream of succession- Monnnrs of discontent circulated through the 01406 x 104 and ill-accommodated su&tade . - The incoBvenieneet of -a population in ad-¦* K » e « T necesaazy shelter ana sometimes of mffideot lood , were then experienced . Provisions had to be dealt oat by those who bad them to those who wanted ; * edd 5 ng , covering « f every aeseripBonr cooking nten-Kfla , bridles , addles , even-from the necessity of the ttBe , were almost common property ; and this state of difficulty and confuikm Teas doubtleesEUgmented by the Jict , that every individual there assembled was utterly ignorant and inexperienced in the business of settling in a new country—ignorant not onSy of the difficulties of a new country , but destitute of experience in country life in any country whatever ; for one-third at least of that motley population had never I * en out of a town w city in England . Common to the occasion irere ^ ra-
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rious strange acenes of sudden and conflicting emotions . Anger , joy , vexation , jnirtb , and Imprecations often succeeded each other in quick and ludicrous succession . It may well be Imagined thattbose who were the original cause of this congregation of the people in the wilderness , came in occasionally for a share of reproach and abuse , I must now bear testimony that there was much less of this feeling than might have been expected j and a spirit of energy and action prevailed that overcame every obstacle . This elementary confusion soon gave place to comparative order , and very soon every man went his way , and did that which was right in the sight of his own eyes . Those that had money soon sought and selected lands for themselves in prairies adjacent to the one in which we had Bettled ; these collected about them a portion of the labourers , some with families and some without Thus was the incongruous
mass divided , and each man with money was then at the head of a little community , aiding him in his schemes of improvement with their labour , who in turn received from him their support . One of the first things most needed and difficult speedily to obtain near every man ' s door was a welL In digging a well in the village prairie during the first months of our settlement , a meat fatal and melancholy accident occurred . One morning , upon descending the yet unfinished well , the first man fell senseless , and the second , hastening to his relief , fell also . Not suspecting the cause , two others in succession descended , and in a few minutes the corpses were all that remainded of four robust and healthy men . The noxious damps bad killed themalL They were the first deathB in our settlement . The bodies were interred with the usual ceremonies of the Church of England . " The origin of the town of Albion .
" The ineonveniEnce « f living in detached settlements , without any common centre for artificers and mechanics necessary to the most common husbandry , was Boon discovered . " A neighbtur living hi the village prairie , six milea north of me , agreed that each of us shonld start from our dwelling at a given hour , and guided by the compass ; one going South , and the other North , proceed onward through the woods until we met Through the tangled vines , and brushwood of the forest , theBnening needle guided us to a meeting . , There was nothing objectionable in the spot . Here , said we , let us raise our blacksmith ' s shop for mutual accommodation . " The eveniDg , after the day ' s txcureion , was spent at my rabin ; as we lay on our beds on the floor , we extended our projects , we built mere cabins , raised a town , and peopled it with various trades ! We discussed , proposed , decided on a name . It was Albtotj .
" Our American neighbours twenty miles off were the architects , who raised the first cabin , and & blacksmith was duly installed in his trade . Soon after this , five or six other persons clubbed Ive hundred dollars each , for building cabins , and other public pnrposes . A section of ground was secured for the scite of the town . House after house wsb soon raised ; mechanics came in . A tavern , and a grog shop were established . The scattered backwoodsmen from a distance gathered round the whiBkey-boUlB , like bees attracted by the sweets of a favourite Sower ; and scenes of brawl and drunkenness , usual in the young towns of Western America , huralded the birth of the infant town of Albion . Emigrants continued to arrive and settle themselves according to their tastea and means , on many of thB beautiful scites afforded by the eminences on the skirts of the woods .
" In two or three years after our first settlement , many of the labourers that had first come out , rented these farms which they bad been previously employed to fence and prepare for cultivation . Many more made purchases of small tracts of land , from their earnings during the two or three previous years , and commenced farming on their own account . " This was the first step of independence , and one which has ever since been pursued with unvarying success by this class of settlers . They have ever progressively advanced in property , comiort , and attainments . " Many a poor lad who then came with nothing , is now the father of a large family , living in his own comfortable house , on his own weli-fll / ed farm . '
" This process has been constantly going on ever since the commencement of the settlement The labourers are continually advancing to the condition of independent farmers . Their place is filled up by ethers that arrive , who also become independent farmers , and in their turn hire the newly arrived labourers . " About four years after our first settlement the county seat , heretofore located at Palmyra , an unhealthy spot on the Wabaah , was removed to Albion . " The introduction of the curse of slavery was bravely and successfully opposed by the settlers ; and Illinois preserved from its withering contamination .
" A great question now agitated our whole state , and our settlement particularly ; and no wonder , for it is a subject which agitates the whole union when it is in active controversy . Many of the settlers in Illinois were from the Southern slave states , and as they thought , in sufficient numbers to induce a change in the constitution , for the introduction of slavery . The time arrived for the popular vote of the state to be cast for or against an amendment of its already Dewly formed constitution . That i * , so to amend it , as to allow of the introduction of slavery .
" We had just removed from the most free country in Europe , because it was not free enough ; and had selected the most pleasant and free state in the union for cur future residence . We had invested in it our fortunes , and brought to it our families . Just at the period when we had proved this land of our choice , to be entrapped aB it were , into the very jaws of slavery , excited onr apprehension , and aroused our indignation . We spoke perhaps too rashly , for we felt deeply . The vote of our state by a small majority was cast for freedom . But the excitement of the contest separated for a time the harmonious intercourse of many worthy friends . "Since that time the vast increase of population from the Northern and Eastern States , and the drawing off of those attached to the institutions of the South , leave not "the slightest expectation that slavery can ever be introduced into Illinois . "
Here is a description of the present state of Auion and the neighbourhood ;—" Albion is situated in a high-rolling country , between the Little and Great Wabaah , ( ten miles from eack ) at an elevation of 140 feet above both . It is far distant from the stagnant water and low land , those sources of ill health , in a new and unimproved conntry . Thetown itself is not in a prairie , but is surrounded at a short distance with prairies of every aizs , and well adapted to every description of cultivation . " Society in and around the place has been in progressive improvement The few lawless rovers , ever to be found in a new country , have long since moved away . A large and respectable class have supplied their place . The spirit of temperance prevails , quietude , industry , and sobriety are the strong characteristics of the neighbourhood . The absence of speculation is another feature in the aspect of our somewhat peculiar settlement
"The increase of the numerous large farms around Albion , and of the varioua trades within the town are all from the same source . They are the fruits of constant industry and patient labour . The town itself is yet small , but many of the houses built of brick and stone give it a more substantial appearance than is common to young towns in the West " We were not worldly wise las the Americans are ) in the settlement of our town . We did not at first settle in it , but each person pitched his residence on some of thosebeautl ' uljBcites on the prairies around , and left the town to take care of itself . '
" It contains three taverns , eight stores , two manufactories of castor oil , and all the mechanical trades ne « essary to an agricultural population are carried on with great Bpirit and perfection . In the character and conduct of the business of our stores , we too , have something to commend . The regular and stated prices at which goods are sold renders the business of shoping , simple , and agreeable . One price asked , and another taken , is a practice that does not exist here . A child is as fairly dealt with as the principal It should seem that our storekeepers are as regular and moderate in their family concerns as in their stores , for the five principal storekeepers have each seven children ; this is regular ana moderate too , in a country where thirteen to the dczan is by no means nncemmon . " The aspect of the country has changed filisca we fl * st settled . It was then rich in the wild luxuriance of
vegetable life . When driving through the praine , a pan -of full-sized horses in a carriage , the tall prairie grass waved high above their backs . In the succeeding year , sixty full-sized oxen were completely hidden in the grass at a hundred paces distant Now from repeated cropping , that grass is not more than eighteen iuches high . Then a newly-erected cabin on the margin of the wood , was a sight of some interest Now numerous fauns ,
large cabins , and many good houses are scattered all around , on the skirts of every prune in the neighbourhood . Every gradation of cultivation may now be seen in the dose proximity from the first breaking tip of the prairie « od , to the well-tilled field , and well-grown orchard , and aiiwelling surrounded with all the appendage * of rural plenty and rustic enjoyment " Then a single trace from a remote settlement was the only path to guide the traveller through an interminable wilderness . Now a daily mail stage , and a daily post unites us in travel and correspondence with the whole world . During the few years of our
settlement , hope , exertion , and enaresiasm surmounted all obstacles . The next period waa distinguished by dulland general stagnation . The . produce of our land exeeeded onr want »; x » purchasew came in to boy . We had no roads oh land , no steam-boat * plied oar waters Produce wasat its lowert price . J well reromber sellingalotof fine &fc grass-fed eattie , to the ^ firrt drover that ever came in to purchase , s * the rate of about one eent per jxmna . A neighbour delivered to . me * lot of fine hams for two cents per pound . Although the article of com has never been so abundant , or at a price so extremely low as in some districts , yet I have bonght and sold large quantities at ten cents per ¦
bushel . , " That time is passed . A market at improved prices is now at our fioors for produce of all kinfifi . The merchant * in our Email towns purchase with considerable competition . Although the prices of meat and bread stuffs are comparatively high , they mast yet strike persons from the Old Country a 8 extremely low .
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The beef that was dnecent is now three , the perk that was two cents is now four . But goods- of every kind for the farmer * consumption are abundantly lower in price than formerly . - By reference to Mr . Birkbeck ' B letters , sugar was then twenfcyrfive cents per pound , and coffee , forty ; sugar Is now ten cento , and coffee , sixteen . These changes both in the price of articles of production , and consumption are greatly in favour of the emigrant of the present day , when compared with the circumstances of his predecessors thirty years back . " "Although we have been more than twenty years settled , we may be considered in the light of pioneers for ethers . We have but opened the resources of the country , and thousands may now find employment in
various branches of industry , where hundreds would have found it difficult to establish themselves without the preparation and conveniences afforded by the settlement already made . The rich resources of the country we have opened are reserved in their full abundance for those who yet may come . Without one brilliant attraction to offer to the ambitious , the gay , or the wealthy , the prevalence of general good health , the absence of great mortality or sickness for twenty years , the presence of a quiet content and gradual improvement in the situation of the inhabitants , are circumstances that will be appreciated by all who have experienced the c&teB and . vicissitudes of life . "
We should state that the price of the work , consiBting of 64 pages of closely printed matter , is One Shilling . We can conscientiously recommend it as a highly useful and most important work .
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handfnl of men commanded by Strongbow" and hi « h 'T ; ? VM ^ ust clo 3 e ou ? remaps for the present , gmngfifFe * extracts to enable the reader , in some wisei to jadce for himself :-
ANCIENT HISTORY OP IEELAND . » The , early history ef- Ireland , like the early history of all other countries , is involved in obscurity- Poetry itS ^ E 5 + S " ^ deed toId ua o' the early glories of ? k ^ L ght " ^ . Power of her kingdoms . Viewed ri I ^ TIi ! k ^^ pH yinglens of tradition , the " Bright Isle , of the West" baa thus been made to shine resplen ^ L ? . ^? . !! ory an ¦«*»*«* Bat . alas ! the vision Issteipunts most gorgeous fanes , whea 6 xamlned « y ^ f *^ r Ug ? - ° * rea 8 ° * and judgment ; and we find that the early glory of Ireland , like the boasted ^^ l !! l oth " coni * r ie 8 > exists rather in the mind of the poet , than In the veritable records of the past '
The early hiBtory of all European countries is very nearly the same . The greatmasa of the people were Pagans in their religion , the wowhippers of stocks and ^^ u W 8 re 8 ° v e'ne < i *> y chiefs , who were distinguished by a restlosa thirat for aggression sad plunder , and were generally at war with each other . T ? JT *?? i * then the only law ; and might constituted the only right to govern . The state ripened into the feudal system , during whioha race of chiefs grew partially civilised , and from them spread downwards among the followers a partial refinement and civil-zv tion . Then coalitions of chiefs took Dlace , who recognised some or other of their order " as a king . This kingwas generally their creature ; if he refused to
_ accede to their demands , Be was at once dethroned or assassinated . ? Feuds became perpetual between kingdoms . Turbulence pervaded the entire frame of society . Aims was the only noble profession ; and the most successful destroyer of his fellow-creatures was lauded as a hero , and almost worshipped as a god . fierce and ruling animal will was the great characteristic of this period . The mass of the people remained sunk to a great depth in civilization . Whilst the kings and chiefs of the time occupied the page of history , we find that the people who fought and bled for them passed away unnoticed . But thus has it ever been . The units have always monopolised the ear of society . While they have made the World olamorous with their
deeds , their achievements , their joys , and their sufferings , the " dumb millions , '' doomed to pine on in thick obscuration , have toiled , suffered , bled , and died for others , and then passed away info silent oblivion , without a record . "
SAINT PATRICK . " Saint Patrick is said to have laboured for thirty years with immense success among the Irish , demolish ' ing Druidism , and establishing in its place the religion which Ireland fervently , cherishes down to the present day . After him , a succession of pious and faithful men arese , who , ere long , made Ireland famous for Us learning throughout the civilised world . Civil communities were formed in various parts of the country by the monks , which in coarse of time became
wellpolished cities ; and thither youths , not only of the island , but of the neighbouring nations came to be educated . From these Beats of learning emanated the men who founded most of the celebrated monasteries and colleges of the time , in France , Switzerland , Italy , and England ; many of which flourish down to the present day . And thus did the priesthood continue te exercise an increasing influence , until they became the arbiters and almost the lawgivers of the people , down to the period of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century . "
ANCIENT DIVISIONS OF IRKLAND . —DEFECTS 0 *
GOVERNMENT . "At an early period , Ireland was divided into the five kingdoms of Ulster , Leinster , Connaugbt , and Meath . The four kingdoms ^ first named were each ruled over by their independent king , and the whole were governed by one paramount sovereign , who , while he reigned , claimed the smaller but more central and abundantly fertile kingdom of Meath as his peculiar property . These kingdoms were again subdivided into principalities , which were inhabited by district clans or Btpts , each ruled by its own chieftain ( or carfinny ) . : Each chieftain was independent in his own demain , administering justice , and exercising the right of making war and peace with his neighbour , at his own pleasure . The power and government of each
provincial king were thus similar to those of the monarch himself : he also received tributes from inferior chiefs , paid for their services when he wanted their aid in wax , and was entertained by them in his progress throughout the country . The sane system extended downward * among all the ranks of society . " " this was regulated by-what was called the law of TanUtry , which confined hereditary right to certain families , but not to individuals . Thus the chiefs and kings could only be elected from royal houses ; but there was not individual of a royal or noble family , no matter how numerous it might be , who might not become a candidate for the office of tanist , or chief
tainelect Toe custom was to elect this tanist immediately after the accession of the chief , and to assign to him a portion of tbemesoal land . When the chief died , the tanist . succeeded him , and another was immediately elected ^ in his room , This practice was found productive of the greatest mischief . The accession of a chief or a kinjr wan generally the nlgnaT for party feude , and often pitched battles , to determine ¦ who should be the tanist to succeed him . The chiefs also looked with suspicion on the person thus elected , who often eagerly longed for their death , to attain the tank of prince ; and the tanists too often gave them room for this suspicion , by openly making war on them , or secretly assassinating them . "
DISTRACTED STATE OF IRELAND PREVIOUS TO THE ENGLISH INVASION . "So distracted and torn to pieces was Ireland , from these and other causes , for a long time previous to the Anglo-Norman invasion that the country might have fallen easy prey to any foreign invader disposed to make the experiment . It seems to have been the fate of this noble country , from the first , to be the prey of social discord , convulsion , and strife . The pause of the common welfare of all , has almost throughout been sacrificed in selfish struggles between rival factions ; and while the people have been tearing each other to pieces at the bidding of their respective chiefs , the common enemy has been enabled to forge the chains ef their national coercion and . enslavement . "
Here , for the present , we conclude . So far as we are yet able to judge , we consider this " History of Ireland" to be well worthy the support of the public . We shall return to the subject again , and give farther extracts from its interesting pages . Of conrsc the publishers will supply the " parts , " as fast as they appear .
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• In the MBt of one bundled and seventy-eight monarchs of the Milesian line- enumerated by the Irish historians , only forty-seven died natural deaths , seventyseven were 8 la > . n in battle , and sixty murdered . —Taylor ' s History trfifn Civil Wars of Ireland . Vol . 1 , p . 18 .
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Light Sovereigns . —Bt PthtcH ! A PBoci .. iH * tcion : — Whereas it has been represented to Us , that certain Sovereigns are very light , and not of the value that they ought to be ; and whereas such a Sovereign was lately current in the hetghboarhood of Kew , but has since been withdrawn from circulation : We do hereby Command all people to CHt snch Sovereigns , and have nothing whatever to do with them . — -Given at Our Office , in the Strand , this twenty-first day of October , one thousand eight hnnt * dred and forty-three . —Punch .
The City Election . —Official Dkclabatioh of the Poll . —The Hall was opened at eight o ' clock on Moadiy morning , when the poll-bookB were unsealed , and the Secondaries and their ^ offieers proceeded to oast up the poll . Shortly before on « o ' clock the hall began gradually to fill , and by halfpaat one it was crowded . At five minutes before two Mr . Sheriff Musgrove come forward and announced the numbers to be—James Pattison , Esq 6532 Thomas Baring , Esq 6367 Majority for J . Pattison , Esq ... — -165 Whereupon he declared that James Pattison , Esq ., was duly elected to serve in Parliament for the City
of London . This announcement was received with tremeadous cheering . The return was then made out oScially and signed by the Sheriffs , as tha returning officers . Mr . Travers addressed the meeting for Mr . Pattison . Mr . Baring also spoke amidst great uproar . The usual vote of thanks to the Sheriffs elosed the proceedings . Kewdae Elecit © n . —The Kendal " Liberals" have at length selected Mr . Ma £ thusi * n PsAD-BopT Bill Wahburton , as their candidate at the ensuing election for that borough !
A Letter from Graetz ( Styria ) , states that ft vulture lately pounced down on an infant , ten months old , which a woman had left for a moment on the grass , in a field near Waiz . It carried up its prey , and alighting fifty yards off began to devour it . Some farmer ' s men ran up , and frightened it away , but the child was so dreadfully torn that it died immediately . Coal King ' s Fortunes—Mr . Buddie , the agent of the Marquis of Londonderry , has died lately worth the enormous sum of £ 150 , 000 , from having been am ^ re pit lad— [ How much of this has been plundered from the poor Miners 0
WE EVEK D 0 AT MOST ON THINGS WHEN THBT JiBK wanting . —Before we possess them , we chase them with eagerness ; when we have them , we slight them ; when they are gone , we sink ander the wing of sorrow for their loss . Infatuated estate of man ! that the enjoyment of a pleasure must diminish it ; that perpetual use must make it like a pyramid , lessening ; itself by degrees till it grows at last to a punctual , to > a nothing ! Scalded to Death—A most distressing accident
befel a young man named Edward Brown ; a native ofMonmouth , in the employ of the Messrs . Hall , of Redbrook Brewery . On Monday Brown was employed washing bottles , and had heated water in the large copper for that purpose , and having got on the top of the furnace he fell backwards into it , and was completely immersed in the scalding water . He gofc out himself , and exclaimed It is a bad job . " He remained perfectly sensible and conversed with his friends to within a few minutes of his death , which took place a few hours afterwards . —Bath Journal .
Fibst Ihpobtation of Tea into mull . —The cargo of tea which we announced last week , as being daily expected , being the first direct from China , arrived as this port , on Saturday last , in the fine snip Raymond , M'Kay » master , the praperty of Thomas Ward , Esq . The Raymond was towed up by a steamer , and but few persons were assembled on the pier to witness her arrival . We understand the oar go consists of 4 , 897 chests , 2 * 530 half-ohests , 300 lOlbs . catty-boxes , and 600 13 lbs . boxes , and weighs in all about 607 , 0001 bs .-r- # u « Advertiser .
The Peers and the Pledge . —The Marquis of Waterford , Lord Waterpsnk , Lord Rivers , Lord Brook , Lord Lake , the Marquisi of Bath , and the Duke of Wellington , are meditating the propriety of " taking the pledge . " Ibe Eatl of FHswtfliain , Lords Portland , foreman , and / V / arlington , Viscount Beerhzren , and Lord Alesbury , shake their heads , and won't have anything to do with Father Mathew . Ihish Wretchedness . —From Edenvale to Lilrnsh is a distance of somewhere about sixteen English miles ; yet along this whole country , although the eastern main road of the county passed through it , I did not pass one single village , nay , not even a
single , I will not say regnlar , but even tolerable human habitation . The landscape Was every where bare and unvaried by trees , the * colour of the land , as far as the eye could reach , most melancholy , that is to say , a brown or dirty red or black , the surface of the whole country , even of the hills and rooks * being covered with peat ; no alternation of green meadows , and purling streams , and wooded hills , but all one mass of peat and moor ; and even when an elevation in the road presented to the eye a more extended view , still nothing was to be seen but * greater extent of peat and moor , of bleak rooks , de solate hills , and ruined huts . It made me ; melanbut far
choly to tTavel through this country ; now more melancholy must it be to : dwell'here asj bgleoce ascriplus a servant of some hard master , arid , Withal , a father of a host of ragged and hungry children . I have seen , in Hungary , Lithunani , and the neighbouring countries , dwellings wretched enough , but scarcely in any land have I beheld such miserable hovels as are to be seen here , and , sad to say , in many other parts of Ireland . It is fortunate that the sky ia generally dull , and the air so full of mist and turf smoke , that all this wretchedness is not clearly visible . Were we able to see every / thiBg plainly and thoroughly brought out , it would scarcely be possible to endure it . —Kohl .
A Nice Fit . — The Echo Rochelais relates that a man , nearly eighty-five years of age , residing at Tangon la Ronde , near La Roohelle , having felt that his end was rapidly approaching , and being anxious about the case that was to enclose his mortal remains , ordered a coffia to be made according to his own directions , and a few days ago conceived the fancy of trying whether it Would fit . The old man * who was of large bulk , lay down in it with apparent ease ; bat when he attempted to rise from it , he did not find that so easy to do . All his efforts werd vain , and he was nearly rendered a fit subject to remain there for ever : by his exhaustion . At length , when the old man was almost dead with exertion < and fear , a person happened by chance to enter the room , and released him from the singular position in which his folly had placed him .
Saunpebs , the Forges . —This unfortaBate yonth , who committed adroit forgeries on several of our city banks in the name of his emyloyers , Austin and Wilmerdingof this city , to the amount of 2 ) O 0 Oj dols and who was taken in Boston last week , has beett brought to this city and committed to the city prison * He acknowledges having hadan accomplice , oneRage , a Frenchman , as it is said , who has also been lodged in prison . —New York Freeman ' s Journal *
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Richmond Cobn Makket , Satdbday , Oct . 21 . — The supply of Grain in our market to-day was very limited , aad in conseqaence , Was soon bonght up * atanadvaace on last week ' s prices . —Wheat from 6 s 6 d- to 83 . Oats 2 s 9 A to 3 j 6 d . Barley 4 s to 4 a 4 d Beans 53 to 53 3 d per bushel . London Corn Exchange , Monday , Oof . 23 rd . — For fresh Wheat up to-day the demand ruled active , at an advance on last Monday ' s quotations of from .
Is-to 2 i per qr . There was a good show of find Foreign Wheat . The fineBt DanUic parcels were the turn higher , but in other kinds ho ^ Iteration occurred . The best Malting Barley at a trifling rise ia value . Grinding and pi 4 tilling sorts were a heavy sale . In Malt last week ' s quotations ^ were with difficulty supported . Oats at an improvement in the rates of 6 d to l&per qr . Beans and Peas were taken at our quotations , ilour may be considered the turn higher . .
Smithfield Cattm ? Market , Monday , Oct . 23 The Beef trade was in a very depressed state , and prices were again on the decline . The primest Scota at from 3 s 8 d to 3 * lOd per 81 ba ; Devons , ronte , Herefords , &c , were 2 d per Bibs lower . The Mutton trade ruled heavy , prime bid Down from 4 s to 43 4 d per 8 lbs ; all other kinds kinds at a depression of 2 dper 81 bs , < Jalve 9 43 4 d per 81 b 3 ; For' Pigs no alteration to notice in their value . The imports of foreign stock , since onr last , have been confined to 30 beasts from Spain , and 20 ditto from Hainbnrgh . ' Borough and Spitalfields . —Potatoes about late rates . York reds , 653 to 70 s ; Scotch ditto , 553 to 623 ; Devons , 503 to 60 s ; Kent whites , 40 d to 50 a ; Jersey and Guernsey , 38 s to 44 s per ton .
BoRoceB Hop MABKET .--Nearly the whole of the present year ' s growth of Hopa having bees on sale , aprettyaocurate estimate can now be formed of it . Thatit is not less than last year , is without doubt , as the doty is estimated no higher than £ 130 , 000 The results , however ; of Weyhi ) l * n 4 other large hop fairs has noi come up to the expectations of the growers . This afternoon the demand is by n » means active , yet last week' s quotations are generally ¦ ¦
supported . ¦ • - '¦ ' ; : -- \ - ' - "'¦¦ ' Tail « w . —There ia bo new feature in this markei since our last statement ; prices-are about tne ^ iBaiae ^ With bat littfci inclination to d © business either on the , part ; of speculators ^ or ike ; tradB ^ -tti © ! & **« * having generally bought some months since : for arrival , are not in a position to speculate beyond their necessities . There are about ^ SjOOO casks between Laadon and St . Petersburgh . The 'home produce is very good . T own Tallow , 40 s 6 d to 433 net casn .
Wool Markets . —So far as auctions have progressed full prices have been readily oaid 4 wniie lUS the general opinion an advance will be estaoliBiiea ere they are brought to a close . Privately next to nothing is doiagi
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Mabch of Refinement . —A well-knowu confectioner of Cambridge was lately requested by an equally well-known { bootmaker ia the game town to send him some ice , as he was going to give a- party . The confectioner returned the following Uvconic reply : — " Mr . L—i— never freezes for snobs . "
Active HABrss of Great Men . —We have read lately in the papers a paragraph oa the subject of the aotive habits of bis Grace the Bake of Wellington , who , it is said , cuts about from place to place with an agility that for a man of his years is truly wonderful . There is another great man , whose moves a 7 e no less rapid than those of the hero of Waterloo . We allude , of course , to Lord Brougham , who left the extreme of popularity by the down-train-, and arrived at the terminus of popular contempt in something next to no time . Lord Stanley is another public character whose rapidity of movement is astoaishmg . His Lordship left Whiggery at sueh a rate as to lose sight of the station he started from , and was put down at Toryism within an incredibly short period . —Punch .
Smuggling . —Smuggling , we are told , is , notwithstanding the recent ; disclosures , almost as brisk a trade as before , andj at least one extensive " operation" has been recently effected in tobacco . A sailor , it is stated , sauntering up the Commercialroad a week or two ago , was overtaken by a car carrying from the docks apparently some old ship ' s ropes ; amongst them was a hawser , of unusual size . Jack , recognising in it an old ship acquaintance , hailed the oar , which having brought to , he jumped in , and forthwith commenced cutting off about eighteen inches of the hawser . The carman remonstrated ; Jack laughed , and letting him into the secret , showed him that the old hawser was capital negro-head tobacco . It is needless to say the hawser was delivered a few feet short , but all at events duty free . —Morning Harold .
Head-dress of the Irish Peasant . —The cover ing of his head harmonizes with his coat , for instead of a useful , light waterproof cap , he wears a quizzical , shapeless felt or silk hat , which may have been soaked a hundred times in the rain and dried again . That the higher and ! unoccupied classes should encumber themselves with so uncomfortable and inappropriate covering as our hats , and keep to them because they have been once the fashion , is intelligible enough ; but how such an absurd article of dress could have been kept up for years among millions of people of the labouring classes is to me incomprehensible . —Kohl .
Opposite CHARACiERs . ^ -Some men are eminent in blessing thoir fellow Icreatures , and some in cursing . Some have devoted their lives to pursuits of bloodshed and death—and some in communicating the means of comfort and prolonging life . To the latter class Old Parr most undoubtedly belongs ; and the seed which he sowed ] will germinate and flourish in future ages , and yield the happy fruits of innumerable blessings to thousands aad tens of thousands of his fellow-men . I u Tongues yet unformed shall spread his name afar , And future ages bless the name of Parr . "
Abominable Working of the New Poor Law . —Our readers are probably aware that the late Mr . Day , the blacking ( manufacturer , bequeathed the interest of £ 100 , 000 , jto be applied by his executors in annuities of not more than £ 20 a year each . to poor men and women . Some time ago a young woman totllay blind , who was living with her parents at South Petherton , in Somersetshire , and receiving 5 a a-week from the Yeovil Union , applied to this Charity for ( assistance , and the Exeoutors , finding that she was a deserving object , felt disposed to allow her to become an annuitant , but as some Poor Law Guardians had taken off the weekly allowance to poor families to whom Mr . Day's executors had granted relief , they resolved in this case to
ascertain , before granting the annuity , whether they might be assured that such a disgraceful proceeding would not be followed in this case ; and accordingly Mr . Croft , the acting executor , wrote to the Rev . Mr . Bond , who had interested himself for the young woman , for the purpose of inquiring whether the Guardians of the Yeovil Union would still continue the same allowance ] to the family , if the blind girl became a pensioner on Mr . Day ' s charity ; and Mr . Croft , having , in reply , received a written assurance that the allowance by the Union would continue , granted the young woman an annuity of £ 20 a-year ; but , to the great surprise of Mr . Day ' s executors , the Yeovil Union , not long after , stopped their allowance altogether , j Mr . Croft wrote to the Guardians to remind them of their written guarantee , but they coolly replied , ] that tnoy were a changeable body , and the then guardians were not bound by the
aots of their predecessors ; and notwithstanding the remonstrances of the Rev . Mr . Bond and Mr . Croft against this breach of faith , they would not alter their determination ^ and the effect , therefore ,, in reality , is , that the parish is receiving the benefit of Mr . Day ' s bounty , j Mr . Croft applied to the Poor Law Commissioners On the subject , but could get no redress , their answer being— " that the guardians mast exercise their own discretion in the matter . " Another case of nearl y similar shabby conduct-on the part of one of the City of London Livery Companies has also been brought under our notice . The Paper Stainers' Company have funds to distribute to their poor freemen ; and a poor blind man , who was a yearly pensioner of theirs , to the amount of £ 10 , on becoming an annuitant of Mr . Day ' s charity for £ 16 , had the whole ofhis Company ' s allowance withdrawn . Weekly Dispatch . I
The Ibish compabed with Foreign Nations . —I remember that I once pitied the poor Lithuanians in Livonia , when I found them dwelling in houses formed merely of stumps of trees , the insterstices filled up with moss . I pitied them , especially on account of the low entrances to their dwellings and the smallness of their windows , and gladly should I have seen their chimney better arranged . I remember , too , what melanoholy reflections rose in my mind when I beheld the simple , rude , and wretched arrangements of their household . Now , may God forgive me for my ignorance ! I might have spared all this , for I did not I know that it had pleased God to lay such privations and worse upon another people . After I bad seen Ireland I found that even the
poorest among the j Lithuanians , Esthenians , and Finlaaders lire decently ; and that in ninety-nine oases out of one hundred , Paddy would be delighted if he could be housed , clothed , and fed as any of those people . Whoever has seen Ireland will no longer think any other part of Europe miserable . He will even consider the position of savages preferable . A log but lined with moss—what a luxury The Irishman ' s dwelling-place is usually built of mud , and how 1 one shovelful piled upon another , intermixed with a few rough stones , picked up in the fields , till the walls are sufficiently high . A house regularly thatched , or covered with bark woald be indeed admirable ; the Irishman often covers his with the turf taken from his bogs , Small windows filled up with panes of glass , or half-transparent bladders , or talcas here and there in Walachia and some
, parts of Russia—such' luxuries are unknown to an Irish peasant . Here ] most of the huts are without windows ; one f qaare : hole in front serving at once for window , chimney , house-door and stable-doorfor light , smoke , meni and pigs to pass through . * * Russians , it is true , are often m harder bondage than the Irish , but their habitations and food are as good as they desire ; there is no trace of Irish beggary among them . Moreover , they are happy in their Blavery , and do not , like the Irish , bite their chains ' and endeavour to break them . The Hungarians , too , are not , as a ! people , very well off ; but even the lowest among them get excellent wheaten bread to eat , and tolerable wine to drink . Could a Hungarian believe that there are many people in a
Christian land who can only afford to eat potatoes on alternate days ! The Servians and Bosnians are reckoned among the most miserable peopJtf ia Europe and indeed the sight ] of their villages is not very inviting—but how well these people are clothed ! If the Irish peasant could peep into a Servian cottage and see a Servian woman sitting therein in her full dress , the mea standing by her with their weapons , I think he would be inclined to tell his countrymen that the " good people" had taken him to a laud where all the women looked like Queens and the men like princea . Among the Tartars of the Crimea few luxuries ) and comforts are found . ; this fchey seem to know- ithemselves , as they emigrate in ereat numbers to Asia Minor : they are called
poor and barbarous , but after all they took like men ; they have a regular national dress ; neat , clean cottages , in good repair , i How neat are their orchards ! How well kept axe their horses and harness ! But the Irish have neither form nor shape ; they look all edge and trimmiag ; except their rags , they haye no national dress ^ their dwellings have no national form , but are bailfc hap-hazard ; their whole house hold seems withont rule or law . Among the ^ Tartars and other such nations , the saddles , travelling bags , carpets , divaBS , dishes , spoons , even the soullest articles are made after a eastom » ry and aneaent
pattern , being well-adapted to their several porposesr ; the Irishman has nothing of the kind . As he dresses himself with rags gathered up here and there , his seat is at one time * chair , at another a block of wood , or a barrel j and a dish a broken , vessel of one shape or another . We have also oar beggars and p&or , who cannot keep pace with the national manners , yet lawless beggary forms with us and other nations the exoeptiohlbiit with , taolrisbit is the rule . Here is a people of beggars , among whom the wealthy form the exception . It is this which makes Ireland unique among the o . ationa of the world . —Kohl , \
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tical a ' mfla of the commnnftf . Ib is in fact a vivid picture aad transcript of any , and of every , language spoken on the earth , having as uuiversil an application as notation of musicallaigns , with . this superiority , t&at it represents sot only * aouads like nvusical notation , but sounds which are the images and fligns of thoughts that breathe and words that burn . '" ? ¦ ' i _____
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THE MINERS' JOURNAL . No . I . Newcastlenpon-Tyne : T . Dodds , No . 77 , Side . This , as its title bespeaks , is a publication devoted to the interests of the Miners , price One Penny , conducted by a well-known advocate of the democratic principle , Mr . William Beesley , late of North Lancashire . Mr . B . * s sterling honeBty , and notorious sturdines 3 of character j are sufficient guarantees for the uncompromising spirit ia which this publication will be conducted ; and the specimen we give below is proof of thiB . Like most "first numbers , " it is
deficient in many respect ? . It is too small ; its contents are not so judiciously selected as they might be , and the arrangement of publishing fortnightly is not generally a good one . We can understand a local reason for this last arrangement , which may or may not exist . Instead of attempting to give " news , " which , to say nothing of a more serious objection , must necessarily , from the limits of the paper , be very imperfect , and consequently next to useless , we would strongly urge the propriety of giving original and selected matter : the former expository of the wrongs of the Miners and the means by which they may be remedied ; and the latter devoted to the intellectual culture of the Miners , gathered from the inexhaustible stores of knowledge which abound on every side .
But to affect these improvements ( including the suggested enlargement ) , it is absolutely necessary that the conductors should be heartily supported in their praiseworthy undertaking . We therefore appeai to the Miners , not only of the Tyne and Wear , but also to those of Lancashire , Yorkshire . Scotland , and all other places , to give their support to the Miners' Journal . We hail its appearance as a useful and necessary auxiliary to us in our labours to make known the wrongs and assert the rights of the oppressed class whose cause it advocates . Its support by that class will go far far to assure us that the Miners are really in earnest , and resolved b y every legitimate means to work out their emanoipation . The following are extracts from the opening address : —
" The miners can now boast that their union to them is a tower of strength ; that it baa enabled them to accomplish much already ; and that there is a bright prospect of accomplishing much mere . In eleven months not less than 40 , 000 of the hardy sons of toil have enrolled themselves under its banners , determined to obtain a fair remuneration for their labour , and no longer to remain the eerfs at a class who have hitherto treated them worse than beasts of burden ; they have sent their lecturers throughout the length and breadth of our oppressed country ; who have already given such instruction as has convinced them that a working miner is of more value than all the coal-pit kings in Christendom . They shall now be taught to the utmost of our humble abilities that labour is of more value than gold ; and that without labour mankind could not exist ; and that tfae splendid carriages in which are dratrn the bodies of the owners ; the magnificent palaces-that are built upon our green hills and in our
fertile plains ; the euperb furniture with which they are adorned ; the gardens and pleasure grounds by which they are surrounded , and in which are set steel traps andspring guns ; the green-houses and fish-ponds , have mostly been filched from the earnings of the Working miners . As a proof that this is the case , -we will in some of onr future numbers point out individuals ¦ who a few years ago were penniless , but , after obtaining situations as viewers , and receiving salaries of from three to five hundred pounds per year , have accumulated fortunes of ten or twelve thousand pounds , and have btcome coal masters themselves , exercising their d ~» - potic tyranny over these from ¦ whose ranks they have sprung , and whose money they have cribbed , in the shape of fines , " set out , " and " laid out" tubs or corves in cheating the poor miners in the weighing and measuring of those coals that have cost them so much sweat and toil to produce from the dark caverns of the earth ; amidst the unhealthy gases and at the risk of their lives . :
" Tfee Pitmen's Union will enable us to do this . It has called Into existence a paper that shall , whilst we have co&trol over it , advocate tb « ir rights , and fearlessly defend their interests ; and we earnestly request onr friends to make us acquainted-with every act of tyranny that it may bs exposed . What can we not do ? backed and supported In the counties of Durham and Northumberland alone , by 20 , 000 generous and ' warm-hdaxted sons of the mine . Have we not a preof of what they can do when united ? Have they not given to the world not only a proof of their Btrength , but of their wisdom , in the establishment of a paper to make known their grievances , and to give them every usefnl information and instruction , and in their selection and
employment of W . P . Roberta , Esq ., the people ' s Attorney- Gteneral ? We can irith pride defy the intelligent coal owners , amidst all their wealth and with all their learning , to produce the same amount of talent , wisdom , flrmnsss , and discretion that has already been displayed by the coal miners * executive ; and again , with delight , v « can point to their lecturers who are now travelling England , Scotlsnd , . and Wales , diffusing abroad a spirit of union , whicb 4 « ere long , will teach the coal owners , to : their sorrow , that they have used the ¦ whip with too much severity . This is our first number ; but we confidently believe that we shall receive that support from our friendB , that we shall ia a few weeks circulate it throughout every part of the empire . "
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The truth is , that the working classes of England and Scotland , whether we view them as struggling for political or social reforms , are far in advance of the same class of any other country on the face of the globe . They could not now be tricked as they were in the matter of the Reform Bill . Their continued and unfaltering opposition to the anti-Corn-Law jugglers is proof of this . They could not now be deceived , as the people of France have twice been . They could not be made the dupes the people of Spain have been made repeatedly . They could not make tne . miserable use of political rights , were they invested with them , that the Americans have done . Nor , lastly , conld they be bought and sold , used and trafficked with , as ia the case in Ireland ,
A HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH PEOPLE UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF ENGLAND . Part . I . London : Strange , Paternoster-row . At the present time , when Ireland and the Irish" is the all-absorbing theme , an anxiety is naturally exhibted on the part of the inquiring and liberal-minded portion of the people of England , ' to know something more than they have hitherto known of the history and condition of their Irish brethen . The work before us is produced to supply this desideratum . The supposition that " the English people wish to remain ignorant of the history of Irelacd / ' as stated by the author or compiler of this work , is as absurd as it is false . The very production of this work is a proof of both ; for we presume it is to English and not Irish readers that the publisher will look for purchasers .
where the masses are blindfolded by man-worship . No : they have progressed beyond all these follies , and most certainly beyond the felly—the most contemptible of all absurdities , thai of regarding with prejudice men of another clime or creed . To charge them with anything of the sort is to libel them ; and however much such libels may be in vogue with the " patriots" (!) of the G'Connell and Nation school , they are altogether unworthy of the talented author whose work we have under consideration . Thi 8 work is published in weekly numbers at threepence , and monthly parts at One Shilling ; six of which will render it complete . It is printed oetavo size , in clear bold type , eighty pages to the part . Want of time has compelled us for the present to be content with only dipping into the introductory matter and two or three , of the earlier chapters . The work is written in a vigorous , pleasing , and
often eloquent bVjIb . We Bhould have liked to have seen a brief detail of the •* ancient" history of Ireland under its Mii ft piup monarohs , which might have been prefixed without adding materially to the balk of volume . In the few general remarks given instead , we are glad to find that the author nas not committed the folly of some of the Hibernian historians who being " more Irish and less nice " , have represented Ireland as being a land of saints , Bages , and heroes , —an elysiwa of freedom , philosophy , and morality , before the invasion of the English . What may have been the actual state of things immediately following the time of St . Patrick ; we believe there ib not very clear evidence to shew ; but certainly the very reverse of the above _ must have been t' « ie case at the period of the English invasion . That the conntry must have been in a wretchedly div . dtd and demoralized state , is sufficiently proven h j the fact of its comparatively easy conquest by the
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A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY ; from the French of M . Da Voltaire . London : Holywell-• street . This is the cheap edition of a most celebrated work of the most celebrated author that ever took pen in hand . Here we have the entire work , un * abridged , in two portable volumes , neatly " got up , " and embellished with excellent steel-engraved portraits of Voltaire ; and all for the " low charge of " 12 s , I There is beside , a lengthy memoir of the Author . If the " reading publio" do not buy this cheap edition , it will be much to blame ; at least , those portions of it who have any desire to know of Voltaire's philosophy .
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A MANUAL OF PHONOGRAPHY , OR WRITING BY SOUND : a natural method of writing all languages by one alphabet , composed of sighs that represent the human voice ; adapted also to the English Language as a complete system of Short-Hand . By Isaac Pitman . Fifth Edition .
1 HE PHONOGRAPHIC CLASS BOOK , THE PHONOXYPiC , AND PHONOGRAPHIC JOURNAL : Loadon Bagsterand Sons , Paternoster row . These are works , introducing to the attention of the publio a new method of / writing by Sound . If we may judge from the Reports of the Public Meetings and Festivals , holden in different large towns in the kingdom , to commemorate the introduction of Phpnography , the system is at least deserving of examination . When we find assemblies numbering " 600 sitting down to tea" to do honour to the discoverer of the science , and his enthusiastic brothers who are aiding him in its practical application ; and when we find one single class of learners numbering 800 , as is the case in Manchester at the present , we are constrained to say that there must be something in the system to commend it to public attention ,
We learn that in a short time the good folks of Leeds will have an opportunity of hearingthe system explained and expounded . In a few weeks a course of Lectures will be commenced , to be followed by the formation of classes , for the study of the science . One feature connected with the labours of the Pitmans we must not overlook : they do not confine their teaohings to those who are able to pay ; but they fheklt instruct those who are poer . We do not pretend to understand the system of Phonography . Indeed , we know nothing of it , except What a hurried and oursory glance at the above-enumerated works ha * imparted . We cannot , therefore , say anjrthing in its favour , further than that it appears to us to be deserving of consideration and examination . But we can give the opinions of others ; and shall close this present Hotice by the following from the Manchester Gucmhan of August 23 rd , 1843 : —
" We ; believe this science to be the only mode , at once phUosophica ) and practical , of writing language by sign * , accuratoljr representing tto »|™ pl e articulate Bounds , or elements of which all laBgaageia coaposea . In these dato of general acceleration , its : ^ niversal use would be a great benefit *> $ » eMU »« l world , howeverchimerloal the auticipattonsof mica an . extension may and do appear . ItlM hitherto received far too little attention fccta thosa philosophical inquirers , whose Ada have bo much weight With th « moteprac-
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Publications BfeeiyED . — " The Ch-avs of Genius ;" " The Vattona / I Temperance Adi'ocate : " and " Ireland before and after the Union " "i _
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 28, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct953/page/3/
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