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I 0 IE 2 CHARTISTS OF SHROPSHIRE . the Spring of 1 S 42 , tie colliers SBd iroa-TrorkCTS " L ^ L ^ Shropshire were amongst tbe firmest and fore-*\ YJrfT 8 C * t » of W beloved Charter . Is tbe spirit L jnocrscy dead amongst them novr , or only » J 2 j jj ? I vrtwld in the following lines call upon ^^ ff a ^ jie , was , and again wifnrl the banner of ?* »! All England is moving ; will Shropshire JjJJ jte * , Bilent , and mate ? Brse the Chartist banner high , plant ik in the Wrekin *; !«; iU m&ttoes prondly flj , Jo the tyrant speaking . AciUte escb -wooded Tale , " Agifet ^ e = f & Tillage ; gicwthe wife and orphan pale , Bow the factions pillage .
Xeare no spot in Shropshire wide X * Eiil it owes the Charter ; 5 pira the roan who would divide * " Josr rants , or freedom barter . prove Hat in each vein dott rar , i lbs British blood of old ; ^ a ihit—crashing freedom ' s foes—Xc dare be firm , and bold . Cjsss not in yonr noble cause , "Until jon freedom gain ; ^ cd liberty , and equal Iaw 3 , Are England ' s own again .
jfc-n bear the Chartist nag once mere , O " = r Tncuniaia stream and Tale ; J . on * Eke yonr ' s , k > bright and pure , Is scTar doom'd to fail . jUy 1 ? iS- F . , fbe highest hill in the Midlands ; it is situate a u-jsaa ftffl 11 Wellington , Salop , aad is 1320 feet ^ -jj sleTfel of the Bea .
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jgf KATIO >* AL TEMPERA 2 S"CE ADVOCATE A HEBALD , ToL 2 ., No . 5 , May 15 ih , jjsis esceUeat periodical still keeps on its way —jrjsg against evil and doing much good . Th « aia ^ i b ' . e Doctor Trho coadncts it is a watchman -gjijoftispos * - He keeps always dropping en Aj ^ e sione . From Tarlo -s attitudes and diiferggjls , his fire may be directed , bat it is always 'fcSTtrsd home'' ' at one point . The giant evil of •^ ffiwranee is his tar ™! , and he suffers nothing to ^ pe lil ? qsiveT out of which an arrow can be made 9 wsmd tee monster , nor does one of them ever j ^ cs aafk- The readiness wiih which he makes £ pvis ^ g scl-v-eis b ? n d to his genius and uphold js > r ? icz , esssli 3 Dr . Lees to make this paver jsa ' more interestingly diversified in character ? nd B * thaa might be expected . We give the follow-Wj anises from the leader in the cumber now before
•' CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME . " * Bst . " it sis ? said , " it should not end there . " 2 Ceizi&si , th = t ^ eH of this proverb contains ths kernel ii pas : traih , and supplies a toncbiione for the detects of alae-motived , if not CiliadouB charity . Bsal ^ o ^ will always biffin at home . Tbe best loTe , like isiTili radiate from the brightest centre . It will seek fesal the sorrows of hoine iisl , the sttijericsB of feasiij af ^ rwards . He irbo provides not for his own fcs—irhese labonrs begin not si Jerusu ' em—whose arasTc beneTolence forgets Ms own country asd kintk— is sn DrFlDEi , i e-, he has not the true spirit of fj-vHr . Uiih snd charity . There is , however , in tba rdii s sounciB ? , popcl ^ r , and cffidoia stTnb ' ance of hsi-rdaica , whicc pass-. * enrrfctt for charity—which & * & * in cccodttces and subscription lists , and mikes aeJfiECWs in lond-cxpressed sympathies on paper or tainas—that , after ail , is rotten at the core . Its
tLs is telescopic , not microscopic ; it can see the snffeifi of the Hindoo widew , and the light cf her fessl pyre , far acroea the waste of waters , and beyond t ' ui ' . tss deserts and scow-crested mountains of diste * 633 tiis = a 3 . bat is blind ta the English wife , whose & jLd jore aud hope are being daUy cocsomed , an nfd sailce to the idolatry ef British intemperanee tffl pfustzate to the Tery centre of India or C . ina sdbmeiit , in the poppy-gardens of Assam , that the sztJl thoald be made to yield poison instead of food , tc it eannot decline its lefty gls .--. ee to the hop-yards iJsn , the orchards of 3 > eTOH , and the barley-fields of Hsz ' - ^ nd , which are made to contribute to that Ctbse e 2 siTiiy , ai : dsapport thatMA > r ~ PACTCHE of alco-S , which transcend a hundred-fold in dre&dfo nsjaences the horrors of Indian superstition and the Bs in opinm . yo ; that is merely a blind or a popuko 5 T —a ifcau of charity—which bts no charity for tt . sijd therefore not a sincere and CLristian charity iiat-DE to hnmanity at larga
t -rxyuld be amusing , did not the mrjeet present so feE-cbcly an exhibition cf human hJl .-Hrity , to note fc i ^ mdness and iEconaifteEcy of thess Professors cf C ^ nty . A remarkable exsmp' . e of this sort , happen-% » ntiE tbe walls of Piriianicnt , has ju 3 t attracted feeal attestfon . * Be CDrcffilitees of tha TTeslfyan , the Baptist , and tSlcBCca Miisionary Societies have presented , through Lrt A £ bley , petitions to the B -nse cf CouiEsors , BjEgfor the ab-. 'iitiv-nof the opits traffic , whith t £ cs sach dreacfol mischi-f bwth on the Indian ana TV- **? populBtwn . Lord Asb- ^ ty ally laid bare the Riof ths opiusi trtrfic , and , in a harrowing an ^ im-Jscte itatcment , depicted the deadly andbrutalizng £ ca-cf ths druz on the hueos and bouies . of the
P ^ ty K > ai which Ere para / jz s , mating dnveBizg s 2 feKfcson-e carets of those who indulged in it . He fr woduced statistical tables 10 stow iha iBJary done * m 3 CB * e commerce—tables that showed taut as the feaisiian of opium increased , Xh it of cotton poods feV , fiirir versa . He likewise pi » T © d that it prejudiced ticiaese ogaizst ChHslicati'y that it obstructed the * &i 3 iiaiicEaricfl , who wcie met by the iiqniry—T ^ 7 &eir countrymen im porttd this delettrions drug ? ^ F&Jaeed medical ttstimony to prove its eril tfi ^ cts c ~ ts ecasaniuon , and concluded by a most impressive tjt'J to every Christian and patriot , to nssist in wipini ? £ i L = l fciafc ircm obt conn try . The noble fff ^ rts of Icrd AAley hive bctn ncutr&iizrd , inaetnucb as memfa »« the Hoase of Commons cculd refer to our oim
s-r 1-irdi , snfl testify to more mnit ; , wretchedness , and e £ tx » produced by intoxicating lfqnora in our own ^ = ^ 7 , than wss to t * fo- -nd in Cbina thrcneh the nse € ' 4-ti 3 > The TiSiRs oi tb « ovh < A April reports Sir i - * ter . Prtl to hive said , durii g the discussion— " Are & £ ¦ M-abes oppoaitc so verj senniivt on the subject ^ f / isa / I X ) ws cot derire a large rereaue , to the isxiii , f £ 3 -iOO . C'OO , froui toVacco , which is imr-ted ^ tit wtd , and wh . ch is iao £ t Eiimulaticg in its ehaoce . * Ba we not also raise a revenue from Gi ;* , spii -S , BiANDT , -wiSEi—trticiw WBicii are often vsti a ? ac fiites , < u , d < 7 i " rr rfj * Zt » H 3 o » y disastrous an ^ e P ** z > : From bariey tuQue 3 rtveEU * of betwetJ ) » Si ; ' . nt . i'i j v -STL * C&iTrrA . TTilh these fje ' s before in .
^^ r ^ irf iii te . 'die ! ttie iw }* . l-itum of opium . < vid * & * -2 jciu zrovcJi , in order to pP . ZSEKV £ THE 510 ^^ i Li iiii PiOPi £ " TV-.-, t-jo , tlanir ihe poJ : cy •^ ti : ; rjspts i t ,. fat-vS' Cbin--te , and 5 ct sustains a ejs-^ 'ii'iisGoiEg much mort mischief to gut neighbours , J ^ s . iod rtlatiTes at home . >" o w , ttough the alle ^ a-** cf i dotble evil casnot by union contribute to the H ^^ cioa uf one good—and therefore the casuistry of « ? rcaitr supplies feu : a mistr-tl-le apology for the J *^ ^» ers hEd vtiidoTS—be ntverthtiess adniiEi&-~ 5 " -ic petitioners a severe catti ation , ft ^ nied on r * . ? 5 - "" - ^"! , ont-eytd , and oHiqoe visioctd chirtct ' -r of ? chsrity , -which weep * ovtr the wretched victons ^ t r-sin . ul : ; fc jt reaps prc-Si in sileDce from the im-Ski - - of the victims of aJcofeoL We truit the
armf ^* - - * -id kihih . em applied by thr Premier will issu ^ ^ J ^^' -ag tit ptationera cf thtir false and inconsis-^^^ 7 . an I indue *! them to come out , with equal r ^ - * or ; the temperance qn&biion , and dencunet the S ^ ia a t iEioxicating poisons , both at home and fy * - y ? e do not wish tLcm to diffiiniib , bnt to ^ j * i = . n , by the power of cgn ^ lsttacy , their tfiurts £ f fi * tn £ j in tkc Indiin poison , opium . ' * Phy-^^»^ tai fk ysdf "—is a declaration on which they j ^ - s i * act , by ceasisg to sanction the tisSL ; in the ^ S - ^ joUcai , alcob . 'L We say , then , l » 0 this , BVZ - ^ U > oi the oiurs r ^ DO ^ E . j ^ ^? the leader from which we hav e taken the j ^ £ - sere are several solid and valuable articles , J- ^ ° ^ Some dczrn or so of books , and ail the x !^ f \ nx ! e * news of the vreik . givinn a perfect * £ ^ i of ; he movemeat . TheXoiionrJ Ttmperanct f' X * & C 3 ^ -t i 0 ° « read bv ercrv man and woman £ l £ ^ gaoa . ?¦
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THE FLEET PAPER 5 . j T ^ - GiSTLEH A 5 D THE Fj CTOP-Y BlIX AGAI >' . — liL * 3 itr h ^ s returued to the att : u- £ upon the jgr * 311 e-2 n = es of the n-iisisjerml Faciory BilL jjj ' - ^^ is naTe a force about them which we look * l 5 L , ' ae writings ° ^ a ^ J other man . The fifevi ^ t ' are n » w » indeed , of acditioaal interest : ^ iT ^ nts of tt the Kuig" are words of wisdom to ^ W ^ V * subjects —his poor factor ? hands , -who U ^ . * * 31 be 6-li £ htea to lesrn ' that he eiill ^¦ iaa ibt it light , and advocates their cause , wT ?^ iC dTtsdEg the " educated" portion of the ktf- In the forthcoming sumbtr ( dated May 27 ) , ws » tocres es 5 ir James Graham . —
ito T ~^ -ncsSon ! Education ! J 3 the word which j ^ /* vended trough the length and breadth of the a ft 1 : natters now whtre or by whom—Education 1 j" ~ « aiy theme diseaEE = d , whether in the ftj vj . * ' the Dit ^^ Eiera meeting bouse—j Ij ^ ^ -twjQics' TxEtitntes c , tne Houses of Par-: jj . ^ . . ^ * 7 draymtn in the stretts , or Cabinet \ J ^ tr :- " ? tt * CpcncD Chamber— Eduction is now I ^ --J = CDjtct upon which all' can Jea T 2 ed : 'y prattle . ] Ifts «? " '• ^ ^ at i « Education ? I knew a man fcsjj ^ ^ ai tt rca d nor write—be is a sree d servant . « > tataer , ntiihtour , and eubject—he is a vise
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-dj ana an Cinstian ; bat he is not etnaied evpn in the A B G . The national fool of this ago , there is co nee-3 to nsmehirc } ' « perhaps the most tean . ed asd coupcqaently the best educated man of his day . He is immoral , for none will say that he Is honest Thai man . however , is cujurf ^ . sjodcors-qDentJy he is not destUute of ricbes , honours , or rani . Nay . you huve rtcently furnished p * oo ! that it is possible that an educated mnn may be a fool—that a Minister of tte Crown maj , whilst mourning over the ignorance , and legislating for the Education of the People , talk nonsense even in Pa , liamerd—nonsense which , in a Sunday-school , would bavt » entitled him to the fool ' s-cap . R-ad yenr own words , spoken in the House of Commons . May 1 st , 1543 , when yon were describing the duties t > f j ^ oiw scboelmasters—read , and educated as jru ~ re , blush at your own ignorance . Tou aaid , so The Times asserts
" It was the duty of the master to see that the pupil not only learned words , bnt acquired ide ^ s , the rule , therefore , must be , tbat the master was not to be a commentator , but an er ^ osUor . "— " The master , in explaining the passage of Scripture , was not to be at liberty to give to it a doctrinal explanation , his duty being merely that of an expositor , laying fee / ere his pupils the true and obviona meaning of the passage , taking core HOT to accompany it uriih avy comments fan-ur able or adverse zo the docirii ^ s o / a ^ Y purlicu ' ar church OT sect : that was the iine of his duty , and if he departed from ii he was liable to be dismissed .
Such an absurdity was propounded by an educated Secretary of Sta-e to an educated H'ju ? ° of Commons , bsck-d by the Erili ? h and Foreign School Society , " i all of them educated men ' . ) Yrs , Sir , and at such an ignorant conglomeration of wirds without meaning , no surprise was manifested . The educated speaker and the educated hearers were satisfied that the ignorant masses would take euch folly for wisdom ! And this education plan , forsooth , is the efiVpricg of the " collective wisdom * ' ef the nation assembled in Parliament ! SnrHy there is some mistake here ! It cannot be their < fispring . Old " Absolute Wisdom " himself must have presided ct thai Cabinet Council ! Tal * about education , indeed—education frcm such a source ! Why , Sir , the only s-nsibie answer to such rigmarole would be a eousd noggins—" a rod for the fool ' s back , " says Solomon . If yon have truly defined " the duty of the masters , " you have placed the effice above the powers uf any human being . Thus your whole scheme is a delusionan impossibility . * * * *
When you talk about Edu ~ ut-on and bring Bills into Parliament to force people to Its educated » t . d that too at their own expsuce , is it your with to coLVcrt them into lea . iicd Tools and curjiinj kn :. v « ? or do you aim at making Jjut pupils vriser am be : ier < D- > cot sn-. er at these qa < . s : i » us , Sir ; thtre is more mi-anir . g in them , more Ut > ed fo-r them , than you may at first imagine . It seems to me that there is a great mis ' ake—a Parliamentary , a Ti ^ tiosal uiiatakt . en this Education que » t- ! ou . I Hisy tnc ^ unUr c : Siculty if 1 o . » re to grapple ¦ with it- Tuat la on-.- r ^ aijn mLj I m ^ k . the attempt .
Tceiar ^ s " B-n ^ books , " which y . ir C-Jiuailssioners of Inquiry Lave Iattiy furri&hed yuu with U-iius ibm the working ptopls ; j » imuirral ss » l dtitiiutr becaVSE they are uneducated ; and scJ tri : ! y anew i >; ni tbiDis upoti the minds of oar pnilitibr .-j .-iiib arid st ^ teiauu ; next a law , conjured up by jcur ^ elf , ia proposed to cure imiucraljiy and ti&tiiution smon ^ the wwrkirg elites , by waa . is VcriiiLd a compulsory Educu tion . Now , if the premises le tru ? , i . e . if the immorality and destitution of the wurkin ? dosses do arise frciij their want of education , then the proposed reiut 4 y is wise . If , however , the immoral : !} and destitution of the working ciassts happen io have its origin in the education cf thvir tnijl ^ jers , ' . hen tLo extension of that « urt of education can bat incrtate the evils which are engendered by itself .
Mayhap I sa-U be laughid at ; but never mind—I am accustomed to the je < -rs of the tduca : ed . 1 have i een made to f » el the weight of their lash ; regartiltss of -incressinii ¦ ibeir Sispleaiure , I will U-ll my ttii-ushts , unpleasant though they may be , to educated ears . it the working people are immoral anc 2 tje ^ titnte , I believe it is because their employers aTe educated . ' foi the result of that education exhibits iiscif m " an example which is constuhtlp before the eyes of tLe children [ whom they emploj ] , and in which they [ the children ] grow up , familiar z = d wilh the grosses " , fr ^ uils , the snbtle&t tricks , and the most dishonest evasions , habiiuaVy practised by the musters . ^* Have the ciii . Jroc other or better example to nuiae thtsi ? I did not require a " B ; ue-book" ts inform me on that Eu jrct . I am , howt 7 er , rejoiced that , amid so much delusion , the truth has forced itself on the conviction of one of your own officers .
We'J , then , the case being so , ai ; d it being a truism that " example is stronger tbsn preeept , " the first step towards a stfe ana certain remedy will not be to eitend the impure system of education from the masters to tbe children , but to fiDd out what is wrong in the system of education already given to the masters , which it is proved has issued in their Betting mch bad examples to the unfortunate children who are in their employment This , Sir , is the " common sense"" view of the qnestion . It is certain that the " habitual practice of the srossfst fraud ? , the subtlest tricks , snd tbe most
dishonest evasions , " must be lessons highly calculated to breed a generation of immoral knnvss . If the " masters" are allowed to set such exiinj-lcs to the children , it matters Dot what other urflorJa yen may force those eLiuiicn to attend ; unless you can alter the educiti * n of their ns-si . rs , " tbe habituil practices" which are constancy p : rstnted to the childr-n . -will , as sure as example is stronger than precept , train the juvenile operatives in vicious habits , and tbe foreeH school education that you intend to cive vail only serve to ru ^ ie them more expertly fraudulent , more subtle triefc-te-r- * . ar : d more dishonest knaves . '
R « -ad zhe following anes ^ -.-tc—it is true . A boy was engaged in the service of a Manchester merchant One eveuii-i ; he returned home , and sail to his mother , " My master is a Very had man . " Ths Kother replied , " Dont say so , my cfciW ; be is one o ? ths best men living . He is very r » - ]' giou 3 . ' "— "D'tl you not always tell me , mother , tfcat if I t-M lies 1 i-hould be a tea boy ? ' inquired the Jad . — " Yes , child , to fce sure I did , " wjuined the motter . — " " Well , then , I am sure my mssteT tdis lies , anu to be is a ba 4 man . Yesterday a person s : ld him some goo ^ s , and befoie he bought them my mrister said they were very bad and fall of faults ; an 3 io-day , vrhea he was tryiog to sell them , he said th = y were as good as could be . " The same boy was , soon after , told by his master to say to a person who knocked at the door , that "his ui 3 rter was not at hctne . " The boy said to the visitor , " Please , Sir , m ^ ttr says he is not at home . " Wh = n that c-me to the ir > E . ster ' B tar 3 , the bf-y wis aiseLarged , " because he wiis a f ^ ol . "
How say ycu . S r J-mes , was the cd-uca'ed master or tie naednc ' -ed / fo / the \ flnsi of the f * v ? See also , "with reference to educated mfes ' ers in Scotland—the c ' jal-mi : a proprietors . Oa the 15 th of May , Ir 43 , in thr House of Cummins , Lord AEblt-y pro-red them £ Bi " ty , by the evid' -cce of thtir own hacdwritins , cf imposing iies on ths . t House , by irVJxni datirg " dTLgctn ' -ng , " thai is the wor ^—wom en to sign petitions earnestly eotreating the legislature to remove the pTotsction of the law from them—nay , even " dra-? . % cr , ing '' the citify to petition Ptrliamtnt to Tepeal tte law which txcliidcs women from the borribie and flfctestable slavery in mines ; and then pretending that these petitions were the spontaneous efforts of these poor females aid tbe clergy . So tliat , individnaily an . 1 ecllettively , it is proved—yes , eir , positivc-y proved—t hst the education of the wasters ia vicious .
I wonder , after tbe perusal of Mr . Home ' s report , that you did net at or . ee think of providing a cur ; to drj the source of rational ' Til , by bringing iu a Bill for tie belter ' ¦ ducai ' wn of the musters . Tbe remarks are forced frcm me , because I knew , lon ^ btfore Mr . Home informed you of the fact , that although there is great immorality an . cng musy members of the working classes , as a body , there is more honesty , more patriotism , more sacriiice of self , and rccre true religion , than amon ? those wfco compose the mi ^ Jle and upper classes of society . I knew , also , before 3 dr . Home published the fact , th ^ t it was the exacple cf " the masters" ttat fcattred immorality snj ' . ug tLe working people , and that it was their knavery which created the destitution of tbe industri--us . Oa that subject I have already written volumes ; I am , therefore , rratified that in teat fact , as in many others , tb . s " Blue-books" bav ? established all Uiut I
h * Ve told SO \ 0 V . g 3 g 0 . . B'gin , then , at the beginnin ? , a ^ d restrain , by Christian laws , the vicious propensities of the educated masurs , and see to it that , in future , thtir education ' ibill be Cbhistiax ! Bo this , Sir , and you wiil soon Snd tbe biessed effects cf ycur la : ours in a virtcocs anu TKC-sptr ' .-Uji poptl-itic-n . You will then need no fo > ced national e . Iccaton for the poor . Then , the mother , the scboolnititer , Eid the clergyman will soon : egain their ^• osltion as prtctptors to the minds of the ptopie—a ! p 3 s " : tion from vrbicb ( for the viiest purposes of stifacerancissinenti they have been driven , by lii 6 cunuirg , cruelty , and injustice of the educated matters ! Kevtr f ' -TQct " th ^ t , if efiucaticn is worth having , its seeds 3 irsT bc 3 IATEB >" al . Hence the laonstcr evil of the F-ictory iQbtem , and the unnatural employment of iE . fints in " the production of wealth , which prevent , thos- seeds from being sown in the minds of their un- ]
hsr r-v kilict VicUms . , tsti ! ;>'' J kb contrive a plan io Aerp mothers at home , ahd - ' maie them the nurses of Gieir otm children , it is ! va n that you attempt to Chrisiianiza and moralize tbe people- If yon tr-m a deaf ear to tAis snegeshon—ii you think this pclut unworthy of the most serious and solemn attectien tf a Statesman , you still have to leain the mdimezts of a Statefiman ' s education . Ths co ; -ideration is awful , but tbe truth must be told . E-sbcd * bonld -wetp over its accumulated miUiocs ef treasure!—we thould view them as they are , the cravea of cur prosperity . ' If we cou ; d but know v ... ^_ nation has lost , in the physical and meatai
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distracWon . distort ; > n , and ^ estructi n consfqient on the accumulated millions of our Arkwrisht 3 , aurPeeiS , and our M ^ rshi-is . in .-t-ad of pricing ourselves on suc ! j accumula ^ ons , wa should put on sackcloth and asbes for the national crimes which , are consequent en sudi wealth . On this most important topic . I will not rest on my opinion alone . The able . Editor of the Standard has thus eloquently discanted on the same subject : — " We have a rich nation and a poor people—this is the
first and greatest of evils '— "As the world has hitherto been governed , and according to the prevailing doctriuea of political economy , national wealth must be the cause of national misery . The consequence is not , however , nectssary iu the constitution of natUTe . "—11 The rich cannot become excessively rich without tbe poor becoming excessively poor . "— " Thus , confusion is brought in , and the fabric of subordination is destroyed . Poverty first- becomes infamous , and next it becomes formidable . ' Shamed as a beggar' now , it is soon ' dreaded as a foe . ' •'
" What is the remedy ? When we see one man , or a number of men grow in a short time enormously rich , we kr . ow thit some mu 3 t have been nia < le poor . Respect tbe ri h man's riches , but relieve the poverty of those from whom he has extorted them . Again , when we see a number of people reduced to extreme wretchedness , look out for some enormously rich man or class that has suddenly started up—again , respect their riches , hut be cartful not to enable them to extend the sphere of misery . Above all , protect the poor , and the other classes Till protect themselves . If the poor are not in a condition to benefit by your protection , educate them to that condition , but protectioJt mnsl go first . "—The Standard , April 21 , 1843 .
To return . In tbe next place , Sir , you must combine health < -f ho ^ y with the developeoient of the mental faculties . It matters act if you ue educating a Judge , an embryo Statesman , or a Hand-loom Weaver . If , in the precess of jour education , you are negligent of physical health , you are burdening , destroying , and weakening the State . Then , as you have resolved to undertake the education t ! the people , yon must take caro that the seed is adapted to th 9 soil , and applied in just proportions too , and be careful to prepare land in which the plant can afterwards flourish and tbe fruit ripen ; el 30 your farm , the listion , -will be unprofitable and worthless . It is worse than useless to teach what cannot afterwards be profitably used . As well might you spend your money ai . d time in building a bouse knowing that it would never be occupied .
Tbt ? se remarks are needful—these facts must be well considered , before any plan of education can be successfully digested . Before it is matured , other weighty eu " - jects mu : t be discussed and understood ; for if your sole oV'jcct b to teach a population to read , write , and cypher , without reference tj the f : iture utility of those acquirements , no real good can be effected . T . ' .-e object of education should be , first to impress upon the mind the dread of that responsibility to GA under which every rational beivg ought to live ; for it is certain , that The fear of the Lord is the beginning of kr .- ) Wie ; 5 « e "—then to lead men to improve their natural faculties , to cultivate them so : is to enable those facci ie . i to a-ssUt in the improvement of tbxir physical cr-nliiitni . ; i ; ' ; thus to set-ore tbeniieives from poverty ar 1 destitution .
T > tflVct this , they should be taught to acquire a knovrVd ^ e of the will cf God , and &f those facultiesthe tilents ef the mind , and of the arts and sciences , ¦ which may hereafter conduce to their usefulness and pnS ahle employment—thus affording an escape ( which w : ust be placed Within the reach of all ) from poverty and destitution . Unless you eff-ct this by your education , you produce harm instead of good . Attain , men should be taught the right use of such kn « wkdge , so as to be able to give that direction to its ex « icis 8 us Bhall make it jeneraVy useful ani } beneficial . They should learn that th « sole object of their instruction is uot that they may accumulate wealth , thereby hoping to procure happiness for themselves , but that they , beiiig each one of a gruat family , ( that f . imily is the whole nation , ) each weuld best secure hia own prosperity by promoting the happines of all .
To fix their attention to this principle of order , it will be necessary that each member of society should be well instructed in his rights and privileges , as wtil as in his duties . He will then be able to detect the first breach of the nnivers . il law of order , and will be inxicus to corrtct that error , not more for his own interest , than for the benefit of all . Tbe true principle of action , the principla of universal order and cf the due proportion , should be taught , studied , and prtserved— that principle which is at eternal variance with selfishness and competition , and is opposed to the wild theory of irresponsibility and freedom of action , ( engendered by what are called liberal and enlight ned principles , ) which teaches that each man may choose for himself , without reference to the common weal .
Tbe true principle , which is the Christian principle , and the osly principle which can be productive of real prosperity , teaches that no man can beyirfit htmse' f to thi injury of another . Wheu this truth is thori > ushly understood , tbe acquirement ot knowledge is usefulotherwise , educated' men , feting regardless of their responsibility to Gad and their neighbours , produce the evils which we axe now deploring , and become cultivated savages , civilized brutes , and educated knavesmaking a profit of other people ' s necessities , by reversing the Christian command , " Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you , do ye even so to them- " Yes , Sir , it is from tbe wa . t of this truly Christian education among the " masters , " that poverty and destitution inundate the land .
It is also from a disregard of this principle of love and order , that so much confusion of opinion and of action prevails in the world . No wonder that such tad seed should produce the fruits of iianurality , poverty , and destitution . It is , then , clear that a mere secular education , or that which only tea-hes man to write , cypher , work , and invent , must be inoperative for good—r . ay , it \ v ; ll be injurious , because it increases the power , and the deposition also , of creating more mischief , if it be unaccompanied by the proper direction of those acquireraenta in their future operations on society . Its sure tfiVct will be , a refinement of villainy—more screwing parsimony . The dupes and victims being made more cunning , their defrauders will become more expert in all the acts of chicanery ! Thus the mass of wickedness will be increased .
Let me be perfecty understood . This sound and true Christian education is as necessary for the ricb as for the poor—for the karned as for the unlearsed . Ui'happi ! y , hitherto it baa been neglected . Hencs , whsthtr we watch the operations cf tbe gover meat , tLe menied , the arricuitural , or the manufacturing inter tst 3 , we find that , as Mr . Horne says , " tbe grossest frauds , the sub ^ cst tricks , and tn « most dishonest evasions , hare been habitually practised . ' How can it be otherwise when universal , uncontrolled competition , under tbe system of " buying at the cheapest mark *! , and telling at tbe dearest , ' ( a system Etauiped wiih fraud and knavery , ) is taught as a Christian principle by our legislators , and incu . ' catcd on the minds of the people , by the Lighest authorities , as " the principle of common sense" ?
I am perfectly aware that this view of the ense will not be approved by the parties who are enriching themsLi-res by the . r cunning and knavery on the products of the industry of their victims . But , sir , the only question with me is—Is it tiile ? Kuofnns ; it to be so . and bow having been supported and confirmed by tLe Reports of your o"wn Commissioners , I deem it >• ue to yourself and to the public to assure you that any scheme of Education that is wanting in the inculcation of just principles of action , whether it be given to governors or governed , to employers or employed , will be unproductive of goad . Believe me , sir , it is mnch more necessary that our Statesmen and Senators should " go to school , " than that cur art zi :: s and labourers should imbide their notions of " comni ' -a sense . "
The " Blue-books" demonstrate that "the masters "the apr ^ r and middle classes—having obtained the greatest degree of this nsere secu lar education , without , the true sound principle of order and union to direct them , hiring thus let loose on society , have applied themselves to the work of individual aggrandisement instead of social good ; and , as Mr . Horne savs , by mer . ns of " the habitual practice of the grossest frauds , the rubiest tricks , and the most dishonest evasions , " lin other words , by their c '* verness , divested of social and moral restraint , ) that they have mads tbem-Belves the prolific instruments of social eviL By a disregard of the rights of others , and a reckless pursuit of self-interest by uncontrolled competition , they have made their education the cause cf the greatest national evil—the bitterest national curse !
Kay , so deeply has this educational disease festered in thi .- public mind , that the very sources of evil are coiled the fountains of good—right social princiy-es Lava vanished , in order that the evil cut-tLrua " : principle of unrestrained competition , of the uncontrolled action of tha educated human faculties , may Lave fuil scope on the ignorant and the defenceless . Still worse—so cunningly and cleverly have argument and statistics been managed by tbe votaries of the free and unfettered , but wrong principle , that even those whose feelings are shocked and outraged by the curstd fruits of this bad system , are bewildered by the cunting sophistry of the advocates of Competition ; and while their hearts revolt at the consequences , they are induced to pause , nay , sometimes even to surrender the cause of truth , by eaying , ?• W « grant that your theory ia true , but , in consequence of different vested interests , it is impracticable in our present circumstancss . "
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Choleiu of a serious oharacter has broken out in the parish of Eye , near Peterborough . The Queen has resumed her daily barouche rides witfl Priaco Albert . Thkre abb six hundred Church livings in the gift of the Lord Chancellor of England . There has not been so largo a military force in Ireland for the last sixteen years , as at the present time . The Number of members belonging to the Independeit Order of Oddfellows , Manchester Unity on the 1 st Jan . last , was 214 , 000 . Thk Library of the Duke op Scssfx , comprising 45 , 000 volumes , is to be forthwith disposed of . The Papers state on authority , that the Queen Dowager does not intend to visit Germany this year .
A Society has been formed at Berlin , chiefly consisting of ladies , to impiove the eonditiea' of females in India 1 The Mystery Solved . — " A down east Yankee says the light supposed to be a comet ' s tail , is nothing more than a streak of lightning friz up . " Mr . O'Connell will not leave Irelnnd to attend his Parliamentary duties before the 10 th of June . — Limerick Chronicle . Me . Green , the aeronaut , has arrived in Dublin , ai » d will ascend in his baloon from different parts of Ireland during the summor . Father Mathew is expected to arrive in England in the course of a short tim * , and is expected to visit Cambridge , Wisbeach , Norwich , Ipswich , and many other places .
Notick haa issued from the Lord Chamberlain ' s office , that the Queen ' s birthday will not bo celebrated on the 24 th instant , but on a later day , to be fixed hereafter . A Meeting of the members of the British Iron Company was held on Friday , and a committee to wind up the aifairs of the concern was appointed . The statement of the affu-irswas exceedingl y uosatisacfory , the losses for the last year having been very great . Provisions in the Principality . —Fresh eggs are now selling at seven for 2 d or 42 for Is ; salmon trout , nine for od ; best fresh butter retail , 10 J per 1 b ; potatoes 61 b for a Id ; a quarter of veal costs only 2 j Cd . Rent is at the same low rate as living , and clohies of tlio inativa manufacture cost next to nothing . — Welchman .
The West India mail , with intelligence from St . Thomas ' s to the 17 th April , reports sicklini ss and continued shocks of earthquako in the West Indies . It is computed that one-third of tue crop in Guiduloupe is destroyed . Notice to Everybody . — The projectors of the Aerial bhip are now prepared to take contracts for regulating clocks and watchps by tho day , wck , month , or year . Their facilities of constant acc . ' -sd to the sun H'iJl enable them to sot chrouoin-. ^ . Ts nearer to it than has been attempted before . Ships at sea supplied twice a day with the mean time at Greenwich . —Punch .
A Revkrend Defaulter . —The Rev . Chas . Tayler , of & > i ] thirell , iu Nottsnghamahiro , who got no lc-sa than £ lt ! OU a year by his preachiog , and £ 300 a year by school-teaching , has mado an assti ^ nmeut to hi 3 creditors , and absented himself , leaving hia claimants to condole themselves with this spiritual advice , " Do a 3 I hay , not as I do . " —Sun . The cekejioxy of churching the Queen took place at noon on Friday , in the Chapel Hoyal at Buckingham Palace . Tho Archbishop of Canterbury offi' -iaied , assisted bv the Bishop of London , Dean ot tho Chapel . The Bishop of Norwich attended as Clurk of the ClOsOt . O . v Friday seven mechanics sailed from Sundcrland for tho continent , in search of emp ' oyrneut . Suvcral Eng i-h artisaii 3 , masons , sawyers , &c , have of lut <» , from time to time , emigrated froai tno Wear for Franco , wiih a View to hotter iheir condition . — t'tirlulc J umal .
Irish Presents to the irince of Wales and Piu . vci . ss Koyal . —Cornolius Donovan , a woodturner in Altulow , has received £ ' J from the Queen and Prince Albert for a present of toy- * and a diminutive apinuiiig wheel , hi 3 own manufacture , sent to Buckingham Palace . One of the toys was a top tor tho Prince of Wales . The Iron Trade . —The total number of blastfurnaces in Great Britain , lor the year ending January , 1843 , was in blast | 339 , and out of blast 190 , whilst , the annual produce taken at 50 weeks amounted to 1 , 210 , 000 tons of crude iron . There were made 8000 tons at the Forest of Dean ; in South Wales , 457 , 350 ; in North Wales , 19 , 750 ; in Northumberland . 25 750 ; in Yorkshire , 42 , 000 ; in Derbyshire , 25 , 750 ; in Norn Staffordshire , 21 , 750 ; in South Stiflordshire . 300 . 250 ; in Shropshire , 76 , 200 ; and in Scotland , 238 , 550 . — Welshman .
In the will of the recently-deceased Mr . Arkwri ^ ht , there is one line winch perhaps contain more than any ono line that was ever before , or may ever be written . It is— " I bequeath to my son inlaw , Sir R . Wigram , ono million sterling . " Sir R . Wigram married one of Mr . Arkwright ' s daughters ; ai"l had the father-in-law left his property to Lady Wigram , there woald have been ouly £ 1 per cent . ( £ 10 , 000 ) payable as legacy duty ; but having be tj ' v n-hed , £ 1 , 00 ( 1 , 000 0 : eriiny to his fon-in-law , thpro ih £ 10 per cent , legacy duly to bo paid , which amounts to £ 100 , 000 Thu-- a small portion of this leviathan fortune of £ 7 . Ot ) O , 0 U 0 returns to the public . —hriuhton Gaxette .
Elo p ement . —On Monday some sensation was created in Tcnby , by tho c . opemont of a young lady of family and fortune with a German musician , one of the itinerant band performing hero last season , who remained during the winter , ftiving lessons on the Kui'ar . The attempt was made a week previously , but frustrated by the lady's friends , who ai « covered the plan , ami intercepted her night . She contrived , however , io escape through a window in defiance of heavy showers ot rain , copiously descending the whole of Sunday night . Tho route of th-: fugitives has not Been traced , but tho first part of thtir journey was performed on foot . The lady has a handsome fortune at her own disposal . —
Welshman . English Literary Characters . —Lady Blessington is ihe widow ot' an blarl , with an allowance of 44 , 000 a-year , and , though she receives no ladies , she is visited by a circle of men of rank and political eminence , who would , probably , know little of her as simply the authoress of tho works that bear her name . Lady Stepney and Lady Charlotte Bury are also ivum < "ii ofrauk , and the former gives very fine parties , that certainly would not be drawn together by her mere literary fame over a cup of tea at ( ho ea ^ t end . Mr . Bulwer conies of a very aristocrp . tio family , is a Mt mber of Parliament , and has £ 1 , 200 a-y < arior hi * private- fortune , besides being an elegante of the first water . D'l . ^ rauli has married a
wrv rich and very ¦ fafchionublo widow , and , in his b-. autitul mansion in Park-lum , cares very little for ai y eons « qici ; ce given tp him as the aulhor of " Vivian . Gny . " Lady" Chsttcrron ' s position is ra ' . her damaged than t u ^ ved by her weak-tea scribbhiigs ; and the Hon . John Wilson Cvoker is a political whipper-in , and inherits Bime of tho tainted ^ old oi'bis irem 3 , ttoo liis .-ointo Maiqnis of Hertford . Ludy Eaieiine Stuart WortUy's productions are the puns , '< ni mortification of her titled husband , and the navai au hors find in literature as a social in-fliK . nce neither an advantjgenor adornment , Christopher North is a profet-sor moral philosophy , and Lockhart married the daughter ot ' . Walter Scott , and these are circumstances to which thty owe som 6 of the advantages ot : their po-ition . Tlies-.. are the most of ; hosti auiojig ihe litti&ry notabilities whose standiiisi in soi-kty is mainly based on other than liierary
foundations . But ih . re is a large cia > s mercy aisiiiiijuihhed as literary men , whose social consequence i * , iu all its bearing , little understood in this country . Thomas Moore , Mr . Wordsworth , Mr . Procior ( Barry Cornwa ¦!) , Thomas Hood , Mr . Aiiisworth , and some others , are frequently guests at : he tables of tho nobility and aristocratic gentry of England . But , at these ? arae tables , Mr 3 Moore , Mrs . Wordsworth , Mrs . Proctor , Mrs . Hood , and Mrs . A > nt * worth are . never been , and seldom asked for or thought of . The author and his wife are not one in ihi code of fashion ; but this humiliating distinction , which , at the first blast seems , as Dogberry say * . " viry tolerable and not to be endured , " is , upon rtfl cioii , so much a convenience to authors , that it is dv . ub-. ful whether the habit of inviting th ^ rn tingly did not-t'row from their own suggestion nnd practice . —7 i / o . 7 w Jonathan , edited by N I' . Willis .
Last Fkiu . a y iiight ' 4 Gazette announces the follow int : appointments : — The Earl ol R-pou to be President of the Board of Control . Prnice Atfxrt to he Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle George Edward Anson , Esq ., to be Treasurer of the Household of the Prince of Wales ; Thomas Pctnberton Leigh , to b . > Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to his Royal Highness ; James Robert Gardiner , E * q . to be Secretary and Clerk of the Council to his Royal nighuess , and Keeper of the Records of the Duchy of Cornwall ; Edward White , Esq ., to be Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall ; the Honourable John Chetwynd Taibot , to be Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales .
Jamet < Robert Gardiner , Esq ., to be Secretary , Receiver-General , and Keeper of the Signet , tor the Stewartry and Principality of Scotlacd . Ltputenant-General the Honourable Patrick Stuart to b < : Governor of Mai ' . a . F ; i . cis Burgess , Esq ., to be Chief Police Magistral ; and the Reverend George Giles to be Chapla ii of ihe Female Penitentiary in Van Dkman's Lund . William "Walter Raleigh Kerr , Esq ., to be Assistant Auditor-General to the Government of the island vi' Mauritius .
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The fcPEB . VALL Ml-bd ^ b . — It is generally report , and upon o wi . iithori y , 'hat James Crowley , who shot pooT Til 3 i ' -y » at Speraall , on Chri-tmas-day last , has at length becn apprehendod . The principals of a respectabi ' manufacturing establishment ii the neighbourhooi ' ° f Redditch have received letters from their agen ' ln America , stating that an English police officer . ' lad pursued the assassin to that country , and had a oprehended him , and would forthwith return with hi . "a io England . — Worcester Herald .
Punishment op Death .- -An act came into operation on the 11 th ult ., amend . n > i the act 4 th and 5 ; h Victoria , c . 5 ( 5 , relating to p unkhineutg substituted for capital offences . By the » * st mentioned statute persons convicted of maliciously ' destroying property were to be transported for seven vears , or imprisoned for any period not more than th " r > 'e yeara . It seema that doubts have arisen whether ti ' ey could be transported for life , and the present act declares that offenders shall , at the discretion of the Court , be liable to transportation for life , or to imprisonment aot exceeding threo years .
Orange Wine— A Spanish journal siutes that in consequence of the abundance of the growth of orang-s in the South of . Spain , and the difficulty ov disposing of them , several of the growers convsrt them into wine , which is said to be of a dolicicos quality , and resembling much iu flavor the wino of Madeira . Thejuieo is pressed , and left to fermonS in the same way as that of the grape , after which it is put into casks , without the admixture of either alcohol or waier . —Alheneewn . Impudent Robbery . —While the corpse of Lord Fifzyerald , late President of the Board of Controul ,
was lying in the house , two rascals deliberately went in , during the confusion of measuring for mourning , and fetched up the plate chest from tbe butler ' s pantry ; they carried it through all the servants , plased it in a cart , and drove off . The robbery was not suspected for some time , as the men did not betray any concern , but walked as if on business , but the butler boing asked , it was discovered permission had not been given , and that all the plate was stolen . A cabman has been arrested and sworn to as one of the men , b y a female seryaut ; he had a cart and horse answering the description with him , when apprehended .
Caution to Impoktehs of Sausages . —Bologna saa-asws , of Brussels manufacture , seem likely to he at a discount for some time , in conseqeence of a discovery made by the police at Molenbeek . The proprietor of a ham and beef shop in that faubourg had for - ¦ Hue time been purchasing a considerable quantity ' ! ' hor . ie iUsh , and cattle dead of disease , under piw : ; , i " . i cf cianufacturing black ( lamp black ) . It was ob-vrved , at the same time , that he was making a very ' -onsiderable provision of Boiogna sausages . The attention of the police having been directed to the . se circumstances , a largo quantify of these suspicious sausages were seized upon the premises , and handed over for chemical analysis to competent perton ? . —British Gaxette ( Brussels ) .
Kailuoad Extortion . —We see it stated in the Derby Reporter , tha : on the Muthuid Railway , pashungers who havo paid for ticke a for a srea ' . er distance , and stop short of the greater distance , are required to pay for the less . Some gentlemen who had paid for tickets from Derby to Coventry ( sixty mile ?) , stopping at Leicester , half the distance , wero told their Coventry tickets would not clear them , and were called upon to pay ia ad / Jitiou the Leicester fare . This is too grossly absurd an injustice . If a passenger be taken ill on the road , or receive intelligence causing him to alter hiss plan ? , is he to pay more for only relieving the train of hi * weight , and vacating a plao which another may fill , paying a new fare for the same place 1
The Stone pier at Greenwich has become a ruin . One of the piles that fronted the pier and supported the masonry gave way , between nin ? and ten o ' clock on Tuesday morning , and part of tho structure fell with a loud crash . The damage spread to other parts of the pier ; whieu was shattered in every direction , large atones cracking and breaking in pieces . Several people were oa the pier at the time ; but no ono was hurt . It is supposed that the whole foundation has given way ; and it is said that the loss will fall on the contractors , Messrs . Grisell and Peto , as a more solid foundation ou ^ ht to have been formed . The permanent" pier codt £ 30 , 000 .
Loss of Life , and Remarka 6 ls Preservation . —On Friday morning three ineii . . namely , Robert Price , Hugh William * , and John Owen ( accompanied by the Rev . W . Williams , curate of Ltanbedr Goch , according to previous arrangement ) quitted Redwharf-bay in a good sized fibbing-boat , for the purpose of collecting eea-weed at Puffin Ialand , for potatoes . The three men were thus occupied for several hours , which period was passed by the clergyman in the telegraph station , or in sauntering about the island . At four o'clock in the afternoon the whole party started on the homeward voyage ; and it being a dead calm , the oars were made to do the work of sails for aboat half the distance , by which time there sprung up a stiffish breeze , which induced 1
the captain U rice ) to hoist every stitch o ! canvass the boat carried . The imprudence of this was evident to tho other . ' , who remonstrated with Price , but he heeded them not , until awakened to a sense of danger by the water rushing in over the bows . In tho confusion occasioned by shortening sail , and lightening the boat , she capsized , and rolling over and over , finally Settled keel upwards . Robert Price and Hugh Williams , who could not swim , sunk almo t without an effort ; one of them clutched the leg of the Rev . Mr . Williams , who , by a vigorous effort , disengaged himself from the drowning man's grasp , and laid hold of the bottom of the boat not only in such a way as to su ^ -tain hia own weight , buc materially to assist , John Owen in establishing
himself on the keel , upon wlnoh Mr . Williams also got astride . Escaped from the very jaws of death , their position was yet one of extreme peril from the rolling of the boat , and it required their utmost exertions to maintain an equipoise . In this state of agonizing suspense , at a distance of more than a mile from low-water mark , they were kept for hoursdrenched , exhausted , their limbs paral } Z 3 d from cold and inactivity , and with scarce a hope of human aid to sustain their sinking spirits—what wonder that despair should eater into the very soul It was thus with poor Price , until re-assured by the encouragiug words of the minister , " GoJ , who has preserved us thus far , will assuredly deliver us out of this ! peril . " Presently a vessel hove in si ^ ht—deliverance was at hand—their cries were heard—a boat was sent to their assistance , and after much difficulty and delay they were , about midnight , got on board the sma' . k
Susan , of Bangor , from who .-e captain they received that caro and attention their precarious and helpless condition required . They wero lauded at Bangor , on Saturday morning , when Mr . Williams received the hearty congratulations of his friends . Tne reverend gentleman speaks in ihe highest terms of the noble conduct of Captain Griffith Williams , who risked the safety of his vessel in effecting their deliverance . The two unfortunate men wiio perished were single msn , but John Owen ( saved vvich Air . Williams ) i-t married , and ha 9 a family to maintain . A more providential escape , perhaps , is not on record , for the captain had that morning contemplated casting anchor at PonlidynllueuT-had he done so , the survivors must have b . en losi inevitably , for it is their belief that they could not pos ^ bly have held out a quarter of an hour longer . —Carnarvon Herald .
Dreadful Steamboat Exposion . — -Louisville , April 23 , 1843 . —Oa the 19 th instau ' , the steamer Harry of the West , on her way from New Orleans to St . Louis , having shipped -10 cords of wood at a point 41 ) miles bulow Memphis , on the Mississippi river , was about leaving the bank , when two flues of the larboard boikr collapsed . One of the firemen who stood directly in front of the boiler , was blown overboard , and , doubt . ess instantly killed . Another was found dead on tho forecastle ' s deck . Several of the hands , including the two cooks , are missing , besides some of the deck passengers ; another had his jaw broken in two places ; another was badly bruised and injured internally bv steam . A dec ^ passenger , with 1 , 200 dollars in gold in a belt round
Ins ptrson , jumped overboad , and was drowned alongside the boat , leaving his wife and child on board . I saw four other men fljatins < down the river , holding on the drifiwood . A skiff from a flit boat put off after them ; and whether they were saved or not , I cannot say . Nor was it known , ncr do I think it ever will be known , how many , all told , are lost . The mate had his leg broken in two places ; another man also had hia > g broken . Five or six of the hands attached to the boat were sadly scalded , some of them very severely . I was standing at the extreme forward part of the hurricane deck , when I heard the pi ' ot ' s bell ring for the engineer to go ahead . I started to go aft , and when abreast of the wheel-house I heard the explosion .
The boiler deck was torn up , and tho stanchion , under which 1 had been standing , was knocked down . One of the pilots told me that , had I rcmiiiucJ forward . I should inevitably have been thrown overboard . Thank Gi > d ! I received no personal injury whatever . Tne steamer Gray Eagle wis wooding at the time of the accidint about three miles and a half above the Harry of the WesC . Sho immediately came down to her assistance , took the Hairy of the West in tow , and drew her to Memphis—an act of great kindnesB and humanity to the wounded on the part of her captain . To crown oar confusion and distress , very soon after the explosion . Captain Horben announced ia the cabin that the IJarry of the West was on fire . Fortunately , it was soon
extinguished . There were about thirty cabin passengers , of whom perhaps ten were women . Had tho boat drifted into the middle of the river , where the current was rnnning at the rate of five miles an hour , the tragedy would have been still more terrific—The Harry of the West is a new boat , built at Cincinnati , for the St . Louis and New Orleans trade , and is owned at St . Louis . She is believed to be the largest boat ever built at Cincinnati . She is 232 h feet in extreme length ; her breadth across the guards , abreast of the wheels , is 59 i feet ; and she has an eighteen feet hold . Her burden is 750 tons . Her cabin is 168 feet long . She has excited much admiration for her size , beauty of model , and spleudoux of decoration , wherever she has appeared .
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The Cot'Rr of KxctuviFH was occupied on Satu . rJay . in Lrji : i ^ ' ani-Jonu . ; ; -n Hod by tho A'forney-Guicral , to r-covr from Mr Hurel p ? nal-je .-, to tho amount of £ 3 X 00 , for illegally defrauding tha Board of Cust un . " of du ; ie 3 payab ' o on 921 pairs of glovus . Mr . llurcl is a glove-importer in Old Jewry and ho has ? partner , 31 . Videl , at Grenablo . Tha ' fraud wa . seff . cted by a col'usion between Mr . Tye , who acted < is Custom house-agent for the importers , and two as Custom-house-officers , Mr . Homorsaam . ane Mr . Burnby Burnby turned Queea ' s evidence ; Homersham h c '^ aH ; Tya is said to be at Boulogne . Some g'i > V 63 wero landed from the Lady de Saumarez in February 1841 ; and Buruby , the landing-waker , took a ' sight ent ry" of the goods in a " bias book . "
This book 13 one of which tho leaves arestajapeddnd the strings are secured wit ' i a Government seal . Af erward ? , at the instance of Tye , and- with the aid of HomershiMn . the leaves wero torn out of the book , a fresh seal being forged ! and other leaves from a blank book wcra fubstituted , with a faLe eotry , s'atin * tho goods under tho true quantity—namely , 548 nairj , instead of 1 439 pairs : the duty paid was £ 127 , instead of an amount proportionably larger . Another charge related to eormi goods landed about the same t-jmi-. The defendant counsel took som 9 teclmical objections on points of law , and contended that there realty was no evidence to bring home to him proof of participation in tho fraud . The Juryreturned a verdict for tbo Crown , damajjes £ 4 , 500 ;'
Repeal . —The ReDoaT movement in Ireland grdwa hotter ; a \ l the Catholic Bishops have j > ined it ; it has advanced to the dignity of a movement denounced by Governaieut ; a . id Mr . O ConE 3 lI talks to multitudes vyinjfin numbers with the whole British army in the words of prsiaise common to revolutionary leaders on the eve of action—though O'Connell verbally disdains all violence . Troops congregate ia Ireland ; and the agitators generally think that tho Repeal makes progress under perseverance . and z ? al , just as Catholie Emancipation made progress under the same agencies , to actuil fulfilment . Yet the English politician has no difficulty in perceiving that the Irish are as far off Repeal as ever . Those who calculate their progress omit one element in the
calculation—England . In the case of Catholic Emancipation , the agitators had on theirsidfl—justiee , expediency , and the conviction of England : in the case © f Repeal , neither of those advantages ia with them —for the R « pealerg themselves have put their present claim as an alternative to "justice for Ireland "; therefore justice mijiht ba rendered to Ireland with » out Repeal . In favour of Repeal , Mr . O'Connell has his own will and the consent of tha easy Irish people minus the Protestant population . But the Union is an Imperial question , and Ireland ' s consent even if unanimous , woul'i not suffice . When North Carolina , a sovereign state , which Ireland is not , talked of seceding from the American Union , it was compelled to drop its stout language , aud it
still belongs to tho Union . The agitation , indeed , def a s the objeft . ^ of tho real friends of Irelaad ; for England and Scotland havo no sympathy with it—it estranges them ; whereas a well-coacerted agitation , far the just ends to which Repeal is proposed as tho means , wou ! / cnlirl in ifc . s favour all tha growing practical liberality i » f Great Britain . Ono t ' . 'ing not credilabfe to Ireland is exhibited by the disturbance—the utter lvjjiect and impotency of the Irish gentry . In England , in ca « e o ? commotion , all look to the Government to guide and direct ; but all are ready to do avast deal . In tho rural districts especially , " tha gentry are among their people , not only quellinii fWce but using counteracting influences . This is still more apparent before the critiexl time ; whon one agitation is sure to b ^ get its coun'cr-agitation ; and every question is debated in every town and hamlet—rui ; s the guir . tlet of every disturbing influence , suasive and cocreivj , public and domestic *
Every qi ^ e .-tion is thus ripei ^ d-and settled by tho nation at larg ^ , before the Government is called upon to fcive effect to the balance of opinion . In Ireland , on the contrary , nothing , in times of embarrassment , stands between the Gjverument and tho populace . True , there are divers loyal persona who will fi ^ ht when called upon ; but there is no mediating class mixing with the people , moderating them , neutralizing extremes , and leaving nothing but final and well-atcertained results forGovernment to deal withal . Here is an immense gap in tho machinery of Irish polity ; one cause why Ireland docs not ' feel the influence of central government ia a comparatively steady and easy pressure , but only in hours of ex'remity . harshly and resentfully ; one cause of habitual unruliness—of popular resistance of-every unpopular tax—of reckless sacrifice of life and property , because Government is wholly forgotten . Thus does absenteeism become its own punishment . —Spectator .
Anothes Conflagration at Liverpool . —Another most destructive fire broke out in this town about two o'clock on Friday morning , which in a very short time reduced three large warehouses to little more than a heap of smoking ruins . This fire commenced in a back cellar of a warehouse in Jackson ' slane , a narrow passage between Union-street and Qneen-streot , a short distance from the Exchange . The warehouse contained a large quantity of cotton , saltpetre , and other inflammable articles . About half-past two Mr . Hewitt , Mr . Leveratt , and other superintendents of our police force , arrived oa th « spot ; but , as usual , half an hour elapsed before pufficent . water could bo got from the mains , and ia the mean time the fire gained ground rapidly .
During this delay , the flames had reached the second story , oentaining saltpetre , which soon afterwards exploded with a tremendous noise , blowing up part of the wall , and doing other damage . This explosion was followed by another , almost as terrific . None of the firemen or bystander were injured , although some of them had very narrow escapes . The fire spread rapidly , and about four o ' clock the blaze was fearful . At five o ' clock all hope of saving the warehouses where the fire first commenced , or Wright ' s warehouse , to which it had spread , , was at an end . The firemen therefore turned their attention to the adjoining valuable warehouses , one of which was already on fire . Between eight and nine the third warehouse had caught fire , and in the course of the
morning that also was destroyed . Next to the shed , adjoining the warehouse on the east side , which had first ignited , and from which the explosions had proceeded , was another shed , also fiJied withaJarga quantity of saltpetre in bags , and &uch men as could be # ot on the emergency were employed to carry it out into a yard in Queen-street . Police-firemen 255 , Armstrong , and 355 , Dixon , were the first who got on the top of the warehouse next to that consumed One police officer was severely , but not dangerously wounded by a brick from the warehouse in Unionstreet falling and cutting him in the forehead . We have heard of no o : her accident . The whole of the police , officers and men , did their duty well . At a
quarter-past eight , the front of the large warehouse came down with a great crash into Union-street , struck a house opposite , and carried part of the corner of the house along with it . Some of the burning materials thus thrown into the dwelling set it on fire ; but the engines being brought to bear upon this fresh conflagration , it was soon got under . Tho wiHd during the morniag blew from the S . E ., but was not very high , else tbe immense body of fl tme must have set fire to other buildings , and the damage would have been much more extensive . During the afternoon the fire , which was confined to ttie three warehouses , was got under . The total loss is estimated at from £ 60 , 000 to £ 80 , 000 . The origin of the fire is not known . —Liverpool Times .
Imposition . —A lady in Nottingham , having communicated a wish to several persons , that she could like to see some onfc Mesmerised , was waited upon by a young girl , who said she should be happy to gratiiy her . The lady thanked her for her kindness , and sent for a young gentleman she knew could Mesmerise , and he agreed to come . A time was appointed , and the young girl was eent for , and he commenced operating upon her . In three minutes she was thrown into a state of coma . She went down on her knees and repeated a prayer ; she emptied her pockets , sang , recited one of Watts ' 3 hymns , and performed various other extraordinary acts , to the great astonishment of the lady and the friends she had assembled round her , to see the
wonders of Phreno-Magnetism . They were highly gratified for about a quarter of an hour . When the young girl was restored , she said sho felt quite well , and recited several pieces of poetry as a proof of it . A few days after , the lady was waited upon by some of the girl ' s friends , who informed her that the girl had nearly lost her senses , aud her sight was so far gone that she could not see to work in consequence of having been improperly Mesmerised , and that unless something wa 3 done for her , to enable her to cease working for a time , she was a ruined girl . The lady was horrified , and they saw it ; they thc : \ said , if she would allow her three or four shillings a week , till she was able to work , they would say no more about it . The lady agreed to do
S'j . Some weeks passed on ; she was no better ; when a relation , a medical man , coming on a visit to her , she related the aircumstanco , and he said he believed she had been imposed upon , and was determined to see tho girl ; ha went to her home , and asked if there was a young man lived there who could Mesmerise people ; he was invited in , and there sat the blind girl , backstitcbing a pair of shirt wristbands for a young man . He entered into conversation with her ; she told him she had been thrown into the mesmeric Bleep abo ^ e twenty timeB , and it never injured her , and offered herself as a subject if he could find the young man he was in search of ; he thanked her and said he did not know
how to requite her for her kindness , aad offered to give her sixpence for one of the wristbands she was fctitching so neatly ; she said he might have it ; he took it and departed . In the course of an hoar the gentleman again entered the house , accompanied by the lady and a policeman . She was then given to understand it was at her option to return the money she had exacted , or be taken into custody , on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences ; she gladly preferred the former , and after having severely talked to , she confessed she had never been under mesmeric influence at &U < but that it was all " shW' from beginning to end . —Nottingham Review ,
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At the annual meeting of the governors of the Kensington Dispensary on Thursday , Sir Henry Willock , K . L . S in the chair , the treasurer , Mr . Saintsbury , announced that he had that day received from His Royal Highness Prince Albert his gracious cons- nt to be named patron of the institution , in the room of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex : and tent Pnnce Albert had acce-mpankd hi 3 acccptauce of ihe cffi-,-e -with the liberal acd perfect ' y spontaneous deration of £ -20 , in aid of the funds of the charity . Tbe announcement was received vvitfl iheino-- { iivi- " : y feehngpof gratification by themoetiiig and tbe t :-p treasurer was requp ? kd toreturn a suitafcle acknowledgement in its name .
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THE NORTHERN STAR .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct970/page/3/
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