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. THE ABSENT FATHER . Jrom , a Work entitled " The Miller of D&mhaugh . * * ' mother , what taks my de » father awa , 'When muir an * w £ en mountain are keapit wi' maw ; When thick swirlin' drift dands the dead sapless earth , An a * thing is drear save our wee cozy hearth ?" "The young hillside lammies -wad dee wi' the cauld , Wer * t no for jour father wha le&ds them s-fauld ; Hia voice is "weel tinned by : ilk pair mUher ewe ; He * a saving their lives while he ' s toiling for you . " " Qin e'er I ' m man urnckle , an' pnir father spared , I'll mak ye a leddy , an' faitber a laird ; ITTbrave tae dour winter on mountain an' lea , Alt' toil for yehaith , wiia has toiled sae for me . "
" Come lay your weeiead on yonrain minnie ' a knee , An' gsza in her fac& wi * yonr ain- father ' s ' ee ; The night settles down , O . ' 1 -wish be were here ; Hark ! is nae that Coliie ' a wowff ! Aiblins they're
Dear . The door gets a diri , an * flees back to the wa % "Tib him , see his bine bonnet wawi&fcfFthe * naw ; I ' m here my -wee son , an' my eouthie sweet 4 ame , Down , Collie , be thanfefu' we ' re a * now at hame . *
RHY 2 JES BY THE BOADSIBE "We ' re losing fast the food old days Of rattling wheels and gallant greys ; "We ' re losing fast the luggaged roof , The wMsliing guard and ringing hoof : The English stasre and high-bred teams , Will soon exist Bnt in our dreams ; ' And ¦ srhvrlini , mail 01 startling horn 2 fet cheer the night , or rouse the mom . Ah I well-j-day ! no cracking lash , 2 fo champing bit , no restless dash ,
Jfo " pull np" at the Cross" or ' Crown , " 'Mid all the gossips of the town ; Par Time , with deep rail-roaded brow , Changes all things bat horses now . Yet ffho shall wis&ior nobler speed ? "Who wonld forego the rapid stead ? "Who that loves Beauty wonld resign , The -winding road for formal " line P * Tis joy to monni the lofty seat That bears us from the city-street ; To lightly roll from pent-up smoke
To singing bird and tewering oak ; Scanning , despite our bounding haste , The forest dell and heath-clad waste . On through the valley , rich and rife "With fragrant air and bloomin ? life ; "Where the . clear brooklet softly fiowa , KT wring the KUy &a it goes -, Where quiet herds lie down to crop The grass-blade and the eewslip drop ; Where the low eotta ? e-thaich is seen , * 2 did trailing arms of jasmine green , And the wide flinging easement glass Shows the pet fiDwer to all who pass .
Away J away . ' one lingering look At valley , cottage , herds , and brook ; And bowling on , we gain the hill Crowned with the old church and the T" ^> The sun-ray plays upon the spire . Tinging the cross with slanting lire . The wrath-wind freshens there , but fails To turn the heavy sluggard sails ; . The miller stands with peering eye , To see the famed "JEdipsa" 50 by : HIb ntit five minutes faiily lost In wondering what that chesnut eost , And why they ' re ehangM the clever bay That graced the pole the other day .
On-srard ] the tiny hamlet comes , The Tillage nest of peasant homes ; The ploughman ' s cor'wakes from his dose , With perking ears and sniffing nose ; " The child upon theied-brick floor Crawls quickly to the open door ; The old man and the macron stand With staring gzsa and idle ban . 3 , The maiden , smiling , nods her head To the blythe feilow donn'd in red * ; 2 J « matter what they hsTe to do , They all must see the mail go through .
The inn is reached : host , men , and boys , Gather around with bustling noise . Pew moments serve—the harness bands Are flung off as by magic hands ; The loosened nags are pasting hard ; Seeking the well-known stable-yard ; 3 ? orth come the wheelers—glossy black—With bit in mouth , and cloth on back . Quick 2 bring toe leaders—two bright roans As ever spurned the wayside stones . JBaeb bntkle tight—' tis dona , ' All right j " The Bteeda are ready for Iheii flight ; And old bluff Jetm once again Swings up to iule the whip and rein . Onward we Me , like shooting star , That runs all dzaimg fleet and far , And worthy sight for king to see Are four bold cearsera fast and free . '
O , England ! many an olden tale Shall , yet be told o ' er Christmas ale By lips unborn ; and they shall say What rare works graced their faihers day Yonng boys shall chatter in the son , And tell what English steeds hare done ; Records shall note the bye-gone age , And Taunt thB m ^ ti-Ki w— English stage . Ah ! weH-a-day ! the glory's o ' er ,
Soon steed and stage shall be no more ; The roads that break our fertile sod , Seem all deserted and ustrod . Ahl griere I will , and griere I mnst , To miss the mail-coach cloud of duat ; To think that I shall never see The blood-like team , so fast and free ; And find old Time , wixh scowling brow , Changing all things bn& horses now , Eliza Cook .
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THE GBATE OF GENIUS . A TALE . By J O . io . Most . London : Strange , Paternoster Hour . The author of this little work is well known , a t at any raw by name , to our readers . His present production is * another « ridence of bis sympathetic feelings , enlarged "views , and literary qualifica Sons . His subject is not exactly a taking one , the chord struck being in a melancholy key % though ibere are not-wanting plenty of admirers of "The Sorrwa of Werter ' and Sieroe ' s ** Maria . " To all such we say here is a book calculated 10 excite yonr sensibilities , and at the same time improve jour hearts .
ttbe hero of the story is a Scotchman , one George Chisholm , a natiye of Perthshire ; whose parente dying when he was an infant , was brought up nnder the . kind protection of the " Tillage I > ominie , " by whom he was made an apt scholar , assisting his benefactor in the teaching of the school . The Dominie died when George was about twenty vears of a $ e ; he tonsuguestly had to proceed elsewhere to ** seek his fortnee . " He , accordingly , as is the custom " in such case made
and provided , proceeded to London , where he hoped to earn bis bread as a contributor to the literature of the day . Hi * hopes were blasted ; and too ^ p roud to co nfess his poverty , want and hunger soon introduced disease , and finally he was added ti the number of Tictims who , with Otway and Chatterton , at their head , hare perished , victims of the present Ejstt-m ; whitening with their bones the pathway of the temple of literary , fame . " Such is the history , which 83 the author tells as , quoting Byron ,
" —they who listen may Relieve , Who heard it first had eanse to grieve . " And it certainly bears the semblance of being an R er true tale . " Be that as it may , the trials and tortures of poor George Ciiisholm , are stern troths , and frightful realities : and we should not "wonder but that the antbor describes some of them i-om personal experience . The following extracts but too irnly illnstrate the situations of the pennjlfss and unps-tronised literary Iread-seeker , in that Babel of wealth and misery , grandeur and destitution , broken hearts and blighted hox * % —London .
" Situation * in connexion with the preEsareatall times difficult to obtain ; and , unfortunately , poor George had neither the authority of patron , nor the recommendation of influential friend , to sway , at best , the doubtful , decision of those who might haTe places open ; or might , nnder other circumstances , hare carved out something tor the destitute stranger ^ Withontpatronaee , a smile and parting " call again , " were the likeliest returns the poor Scotchman could anticipate ; for it wonld Indeed be a tasi equally eaay of accompliBbiaEnt lo xemoTe . St . Paul' s , bodily , Iromiu present site , without injury to the noble pile , as to obtain by independent effort , ft lucratiye situation connected trith the metropolitan preta . So bleak and cheerless are file prospect ! held out to those ambitious of clajnring alliance -vita bellet Itttret ; and becoming , nnpatroniaed , sndidatesfor the rank and cmolnmenti of literatear in IiOndon .
" like thonsanflj who enter the metropolis , betb from their rural homes . George had , already , pictured « aecea as the least ef hia retams , fer coming bo far to benefit his csuntry -with his labours . The / ature looked sunny , bright , andinTitine ; and a liTely icagi . aafion had ^ ready atrewed his path with flowe-ts . Already , the honour ^ won chaplet decked his brow ; anJ Ihe blood rushed warm through its Teins , as he fiiought of the applause which thousands ¦ were preparing to award him , for past exertiens ; and as a ftimn-Isnt to future effort Bonour , and Fame , and Glory , were prominent in these ideal pointings : nor was the
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climax finished eren then ; for yet a nobler rewardiMaoBTjaiTS , beckoned him on ! But , alas ! the dreamer awoke to sad and colourless reality . A Tisit to the Bow , at once told him that Tislons boweTer lustrous in etherial imsgery , were not substantiated there The trade was being overdone—to use a common and expressiTe phrase—and those publishers "who might haTe closed with his proposal to produce something noTel and likely to suit , were sickened at the prospect of haTing to combat with others , who by reason of
their wealth and systems of perpetual puffing , were fast glutting the market with werks , haTicg no recommendatory merit saTe aristocratic titles dangling to the writers' names ; and the fact of their authors being of a class high above the rank commonly gifted with genius J George waited on the publishers of respectable periodicals in other quarters of the town ; but th&y were already 'full , * and really con id not accept contributions from genius in humble life , so long as the serrices of my Lord Pleecem and Sir Bibbleton Contraband—both member * of the Cabinet
—were continued on the Review . Other exalted personages^—being mentioned as regular contributors—having names ami UUss equally appalling to the ears of one who could only dream of such high , rich , and noble personages condescending to link sentences , and to wield the pen for filthy lucre , the hope of literary employment for a plebeian ¦ mi ter was small indeed . Of course , George fell the publishers' * reasons to be unanswerable ; especially wfcen tne yonth calculated the influence which wit anil learning , and imo-wied ' ge , and , what not—tinanatiBg from the mirxoresl closets of AL'P . ' s ., PtBTS , BJid Peeresses , must command at all times , and in all circles .
And , wfcen the saleable character of the works , the Very t-istcful arrangement , and beautiful superabundance of fi ^ UTbs , and facts , rich sentimeut , apt-simile , dripping daggers , lacs frills , filming torches , diamond rings , sparkling wine , and pale faces , in all Vbeir Tigonr of fan and homir , —w « re considered , there could be only small chance for the humbler claims of one bo utterly ignorant of all these essentials to polite literature . And , above all , seeing that the major number of casual readers can muster sufficient moral courage to dec . iie impattially ; while , testing the relative merits of tilled twaddler , and a poor countryman , with a vulgar name , who boasted no brilliancy , save that derived from
" Spark o' Nature ' s fire . " " His next alternutiTe was the Mornipg Press ; and , here , by dint of incessant application , he contrived with hundreds of occasionai reporters , to earn a guinea ; say once in foui ¦ w « = ks , or thereabout : —for the Malthusian evil , " over-population , hfcB fillbd upth' 8 " opening" also ; and the poor scribe has to thank his luck , when , onl of a hundred contributions only ninety-nine are rtjected ! But many a despairing victim , has the Daily Press saved by this encouragement ;'—many a
thankful prayer 6 as own wafted from tne hearts of a starving family ? r «* np , to Heavtn for th ' s guinea;—an- , many grattfnl blessings have been showered on those , who—by official connection with the Daily Press , have a voice in its distribution . But even here , cruelty and crime are not unknown ; ana grovelling creatures , on amoiaiijg paper , have stooped so low as to rob the penny-a-liner of his guinea , by stealing the marrow from a contribution , m . o diessed in otber garb , obtaining its insertion for themselves ! Yet , to the credit of the British Daily Press , such crimes are rare . "
We have no room for further extracts , but commend the book itseli to our readers . Though small in size this work is eminently calculated to add largely 10 the well-deserved popularity of its autuor . THE STOKESLEY NEWS , AND CLEVELAND HEPOHTfill . George Tweddell , Stoiesley , North Riding . This is an interesting and well-conducted miscellany , published monthly , at " the low charge of one penny . " In Ko . 10 is commenced a series of letters on the People's Charter , nnder the signature of T . Cariwrighi : a very appropriate name for such a subject ; aud in truth the writer seems to do justioe to ihe principles of his elder and mightier namesake . From J 10 * 10 we take the following : —
THE MEMORY OF BURNS . We * tk pledged to kings , we ' ve pledged to lords , Through dull routine we ' ve ran ; Our flask a bumper still affords To pledge the honest man . Oni- round I claim , while to his shrine ily heart instinctive turrs , To give , for love of suld lang syne , The memory of Bums . While courage fires the Briton ' s soul , While freedom nerves his arm ; While country ' ^ love h is hopes controul , Friendships his bosom warm : While worth and wit shall lustre shed , O ' er the soul that meanness spurns , This homage pay the mighty dead , The memory of Burns .
His was the boon , so rich , so rare , —> An independent mind ; Stored with poetic beauties fair , Aud love for human kind : Box now be sleeps his last long sleep , We grieve while nature mourns . With siience sad . and feelings deep , The memory of Burns . We do not say that these lines are the bsst in the numbers before us , but they are the most to our taEte . Here is an extract from " The Welshmen and the Toll Bars , " in No . 12 , ( for October ) . Some of the writer ' s animadversions are but too-well deserted .
" Too many of the people are too ignorant to understand their rights , and teo base to dare to assert them . Many will sign petitions -without number , for a redress of grievances j they will cheer at every public meeting for the principles of -virtue ; they will swear deTotion to the cause of freedom ; they wilt declare themselves ready to arm for liberty , and wishful for a contest with the whole tyrants of the globe ; they will call the most zealous of their leaders too lukewaim , and seem jealous that any one shonld dig the grave of oppression but tbemselTes ; anil yet , when the bonr of trial comes , when danger threatens , and when persecution is the patriot's portion , they meanly retreat from tha eminence on which they had taken their stand , aud basely desert a cause in which they had vowed to conquer or die .
" Others there are , who , unlike to angels' Tisita , are neither few' nor iar between , ' wbo will not trouble themselves to examine into the cause of the national calamities ; not caiing whither the liberties of their country are protected or destroyed , so : long as they get their own brutal existence comfortably dragged over . These political sloths are quite ready at all times to receive any benefit that may accrue from the exertions of their mmre industrious citizens , -whcni thsy generally deDouuce and cry down as dis&ffectfcd . subject * . " ** There are others too , and their number is daily increasing , who perceive the cause of oar national distress , and are not slew to avow it Men who know their rights , And knowing dare maintain , '
are the honest and intelligent portion of every age and tlime . They have generally been persecuted by the bigoted and the knavish ; laughed to scorn by the witle £ s and the spoil of every fooL They have , however , kept tbe lamp of freedom for ever burning , and it is this bright fliine -which warms the heart's blood of tbe Welch yeomanry . Let us counsel them , however , against committing any outrage whatever . The tearing down of toll-bars is not so glorious as ' the pulling down of strongholds' of a system which
perpetuates ignorance , vice , and misery ; nor is the burning of old thatched houses , during the shades of night , to be mentioned in comparison with the open aTowal of the great principles of Democracy , or Representative Government . Cleanse Ihe fountain , and the stream will boon be pure . Let us strive to disseminate , on all hands , true knowledge on political subjects , —what ought to be done , and how it may be achieved , and we shall serve tbe cause of justice and freedom better than by ¦ routs , riots , and rebellions . '" Most assuredly this little pablication so honestly conducted , deserves BDpporl aad we hopa will obtain it .
THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE No . II , toI . 2 . This , like the last No . that we noticed , is mainly filled with the proceedings of Father Mathew . Under the head of " Chronicle of Anti-Teetotal Sajints and Doings , " the following choice bit is giren from the Gospel Magazine . From which it appears that Father Mathew is employed by"Avid ffornie * ' in his tee-total mission : — " Who do you think employs Father Mathew ? The Devil (!) We .-ue as great advocates of temperanct [?]
as he is;— [ Is this a specimen J }~ but tbe practice nowa-days of an indiBcr > minate mass assembling professedly to adTOcate ihe teetotal seheme , is a trap of the arch deceiver , leading men from one kind of Bin to tbe embrace of another , itfla ptesent pledge system , we haTe no doubt is a Bomb's Catbolio maiajuTre , which ¦ was concodea in the tottomltX * pit ! It will hare its dsy —run its length—6 e made a atpttal substitute . for reli-Vim—celp on toe cause of the Mother of Harlots—and loj ana by btr » t yrHh fearful eoiT" « ego ne * npon Ito poor deluded Totariea !! J
ThisU % new more" of ihe « onld inimy " th&t really we were not prepared for ! We always knew that the Bhrines of Bacchus were faT ° * ite resorts for the areh-tempterj bat was certain !) * bo * prepared 0 hear that he had a partiality for colJ " ***** , » 0 T that he considered a teetotal lecture , or » AJalhewite pledge as a good draw by which to fiO Jus nets with Tictims for " ¦ that immortal fry
Of almost eTerybody born to die" I Well , well , this does bang Banagbar ! Trash Gre ? gand his brother bigots of the Dublin Pro-! lestani Operative AssociatioB are fox osce beat jl oliow !
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IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN By R . Montgomery Mahtin , Esq . Part I . London Orr arid Co ., Paternoster Row . This is a work undertaken by the author for the purpose of refuting the charges brought against England and the English Government by Mr O'Connell and the advocates of Repeal generally . The writer in his preface , atter quoting an extract from the "Address to the Inhabitants of the Countries subject to the British Crown , " in which is containedin very forcible termsthe pith of the charges
, , against England ; proceeds to say that : "It is tiue therefore to the character of England that these charges should be fully and minutely investigated . He therefore takes up the gauntlet thrown down by the Repealers , and " pledges himself to prove the falsehood of the allegations of O'ConneM . O « r readers will jud ^ e for themselves , from the following extracts , how far the writer has succeeded in his object . We must say that he shews fair p ' ay to his antagonists , by giving very fully , and ih their own preci-e language , the accusations which he purposes to repel . ......
The first few pages give a sort of sketch of the ancient Irish , commencing with the landing of " Cae * ara , a niece of Noah , previous to the Deluge . —( Fudge !) He then asserts that Ireland was oi ' . c vast theatre of crime— a horrible field of bln ^ d , ' before ihe landing of the English ; and that it was to extirpate this state of crime , and redress the « ufteriEgRofthepeop 2 e , sunkin " deep degradation' by the rvranny and rapacity of their chiefs , that He-. ry was called in . Of course , Mr . Martin volunteers no defence of the orime which led to the invasion , nor of the giant crime which the invasion itself was . He shews that Ireland never bad a , " native Parliament , till England gave her one , to be held at the will of the latter . He qaotes a number of records from the time of the landing of Henry ; in proof of ihis , from which we seleoi the following extracts relating to : —
POYNINGS ACT . " A Parliament was summoned before Edward Poyning 8 , Knight , the King's Deputy , and held at Droj ; - beda . a . 1195 . and an Act passed , since known under the name of Poynirg ' s Act , by which it Was provided that no Parliament be holden hereafter in Ireland but at such season as the K'ne's Lieutenant in Council there first do certify to the King , under the Great Seal of the land , the causes and considerations thereof , and ell such Acts as to them setmeth should pass in the some Parliament ; and sucb causes , considerations , and Acts , affirmed by the King and his Council , to be good
aud expedient for that land , and hia licence thereupon , as well in affirmation of the said causes and Acts , as to summon the said Parliament under his Great Seal of England bad and obtained ; that done , a Parliament to be had and holden after the form and effect aforere-hearsed ; and if any Parliament be holden iu that laud hereafter , contrary to the form and provision aforesaid , it shall be deemed voui and of none effect in law . ' The Lord Lieute&a&t or the King in Council became by this Act the vroposer of all lavrs to be passed , and the dependence of -the Irish Parliament was completely enacted , and declared by the Ifin& themselves .
" In the ever earnest endeavours to influence the minds of the people of Ireland against the Bugliah , attention is repeatedly called to ' Poyning ' a Act , ' as one of the cruel specimens of English domination ; but the c rcnmstances under which it originated are carefully omitted , and perfect silence as to the fact that it was at the time one of the most popular Acts aver passed in Ireland , on account of the people being thereby relieved from thousands of local oppressions under the covet of Acts of Parliament ; -while that eloquent and patriotic Irish historian , Mr . ODnscoll , thinks it would have been better for Ireland had G / attan left untouched Sir E . Pojblng ' s Act * This Act was modified in the third year of Philip and Mary , by the Governor and Council being eiiipo svered to certify such other causes requiring legislation , which were not foreseen at tbe begmniag of the session .
" In fact , the Irish Legislature was never considered independent of Great Britain ; aud English A cts ot Parliament , in which Ireland was named , were held to be binding . An Act was passed loth Henry VII ., c . 22 , in the Irish Parliament , declaring that' all statutes late made within the said realm of England , concerning or belonging to tbe public weal of the same , from henceforth be deemed good and effectual in the law ; and ones that be accepted , used , and executed within this land of Ireland , in all points , at all times requisite , according to the tenour and tffect of tbe same , and ones that by authority aforesaid , that they and every of them be authorised , proved , and confirmed in this said land of Ireland . Aud if any statute or statutes shall have been made within this taid land hereafter to tbe contrary , they aud any of them by authority aforesaid , he annulled , revoked , void , and of none effect in the law . ' :
• 'From 1666 to 1692 , name ' y , fer twenty-six years , there texts no regular meeting of the Irislt Parliament at all , so little was it considered a constituent assembly . Four aeaaiona were held in tbe reign of William III . ; aud from 1703 to 1783 , it was only convened biennially . " ¦ Here is our author ' s version of the " Act of Independence . " If it be the true version , a sorry surt of "independence" it was . After stating that the period of England's difficulties was rhosea for this ont break , and that troops were asked for by the Irish to defend the coast from invasion , well knowing that England had none to spare , he adds the following account of THE VOLUNTEERS .
" By tte permission of England , 50 . 000 men , as if sown by Cadmus , instantly spuing into activity , and were no sooner org&nzad than they commenced dictation to the Parliament , and threatening England with bepiiradoD . His Majesty accordingly , in 1782 , sent a message to the Irish Parliament , with a carle blanche , to fill up with Irish grievances . The Commons ot Ireland , under the iLfluer . ce of tbe guns and sabres of the Volunteers , declared that noae but tbe Kng , Lords , and Commons of Ireland , had powtr to make laws for Ireland . Mr . Gratton undertook to be the tranquilliser of his country , —and Ponyog ' s Act was modified , but n » t entirely repealed by the following Act of the Irish Parliament , a . d . 1781 , 2 G «> . IIL 21 and 22 , c 47 , entitled " An act to regulate the manner of passing bills , aud to prevent delays in summoning of P « rliament . '
" ' Sbct . 1—No bills are henceforth to be certified to Great Britain but sacb as have been approved of by both Houses of Parliament under tbe great seal of Ireland , without alteration . V SBCT . 2 . —Such Acts returned under the great seal of Great Britain , and not altered , Bhall pass , and no other . " * Sect , 3 —No bill Bhall hereafter be certified for the holding of a Piriiament in Irt-land . " ' SECTi 4 . —So Parliament hludl be held without license under the great seal of Great Britain
The assent of tb > j sovereign under tho great seal of England ( not of Ireland ) , was still required to any Acts pawed by both Hgnaes of the IriBh Parliament . The Great Seal of England was responsible to the English House of Commons and not to that of Ireland . Neither was there any Irish Cabinet , The English Cabinet therefore , virtually and necessarily controlled all aota passed by the Irish Lsgislature . The Ljrd Lieutenant aud Chief Secretary were still nominated by and responsible totheEntlish Cabinet . "
FRUITS OF THE " INDEPENDENCE . " " , Mr . Grattan demonstrated that the Legishtore of Ireland neither possessed the substance nor the shadow of independence ; and on the 26 th F « bruary , 1790 , he asked , What has our renewed constitution as yet produced ? A place bill ? No . A pension bill ? No . Any great or good measure ? No . But a city police bill—a press bill—a riot act—great increase of pensions : fonrteen ne * places for Members of Parliament , and a most notorious and corrupt aale of peerages . Where will all this end ?" * ' In 1793 , the House of Commons was set fire to while tbe Members were sitting , and amidst tbe shouts of an immense and ferecious multitude , the Representatives bus just time to escape , when the vast dome became enveloped in flames , and , falling in , crushed everything beneata it "
" The country was torn ( from 1782 upwards ) by factions and intes'ine feuds ; the whole island was kept in the most wretched turmoil , nights and day , by fnriooa commnnitle ? , under the designations of Patriots , Agitators , Bight-boys , White-boya , Peep-e .-Djy-boys , Conventions ; Aggregate Bodies , Catholic Committees , Tarring and Feathering Committees , Defenders , Assassins , Houghers of Men and Hougbers of Cattle , Aasociators , Whig dabs , St . James ' s Delegates , EschequerstreeS Diileijates , National Congresses , Ema » eipalors United Irishmen , Reformers , Revolutionists Societies of Peace and Societies of War , cum multis aliis !"
ABSENTEEISM . " Absenteeism is & very old grievance in Ireland , even under a resident' legislature . ' " Legal enactments against absentees , from 1377 , to 1753 , all proved ineffectual . In 1773 , Mr . Hood attempted to revive the old laws against the absentees ; and iu 1783 , proposition for ditto by Mr . Grattan ; both failed . " In 1787 , Sir John Yaudeleur proposed , in the Irish House of Commons , to ruse an annual revenue ef £ 249 . 000 by 5 tax on the property of absentees . The motion was not supported . " 1799 , Mr . Yandeleort similar mstion met with the rame result "
DID THE GOTBRKKEMT CONSPIBE THE "REBELLION ? In the following extracts the writer proyes too much and at the same time too little . He proves the former by shewing that the government plaoed the country under martial law , and thus goaded to rebellion , ^ the people of that unhappy country , who whether their oppressors have been Saxon or Milesian , have most certaiuly suffered centuries of ; oppression and wrong . He does not prove enongh , by his silence on the employment , by Ihe Caatlereagh Government , of those Isoariot scoandrels of whom the eternally infamous Reynolds was the chief , and Armstrong , " the bale old man" ( monsterJ , who lately appeared at the jjablin Police Office , one of the gang . He forgets , * YoL il p . 150 .
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too , to defend or disprove the " pitch-caps , " "' flos-KingH , " and " walking iiallowses , " which had no hUletodo with' " fostering" and " extending" the Rebellion . ' " Then were the eyes of the Government opened to the danger or the crisis , and the Irish opposition were compelled to permit the passing of the Gunpowder Bill , ' by which only certain licansed persona were authorised to import gunpowder into Ireland . The Habeas Corpus Act was suspended ; tha Insurrection Act passed , and some of the founders an < 1 promoters of the ' Society of United Irishman , ' Wolfe Tone , Hamilton
Rjwan , Colonel Butler , and Oliver Bond , were proceeded acainst by Governi . ient on charges of high treason . Did these nets hear tho semblance of encou raaintr rebellion for the : purpose o fcarrying tbe Union ? ' But this waa not the only step undertaken by the Brit-ah Government , and forced from tho Irish Parlia-Imenfc , in spite of those factious persons who contended that Ireland was tranquil , while the slumbering ynlcp . no was ready to burst beneath their feet . The 'Convention Bill' was passed , by which self-created eonveati . ns « ere dissolved , and the seizure of unregistered arms effected .
" Gh ' neial Lake was instructed te seize arms in Ulster , and to disperse all tumultuous assemblies of ^ er ^ ns , tho-jgh they might not be in arms , without w ' ling for the sanction and assistance of the civil aufuoritiea , if the peace of the realm or the safety of his Mujosty ' a faithful subjects ahoiim be eiidftDgered by waiting for such authority . ' There were in Ulster 99 400 United Irishmen . out by the inrlpfati «> irj ! e efforts 1 > f General Lake upwards ot si * thousand stand of arms , and many thousand pites and other formidable weapo . B , Wteie se % A ; so that whtn tbe rebellion actually broke out in the subsequent year , not 30 , 000 oat of 90 000 men could asBsemble armed . ;" the orrupt-muans by which the union was C . 1 RR 3 £ 1 > . " The writer reples to this as follow ? : —
"Tne lontr-desired object of Parliamentary Reform was , to a certain extent , gained by the disfranchising of a number of nomination boroughs , the possessors of which each received £ 15 , 000 . " ' The ? am « plan of paying the proprietors of nomination boroughs waa proposed in the discussion of the lute Reform Bill , and hart it been effected , no one would have said that the Roforin Bill had been ca-rieel by bribery and corruption r yet it is asserted that the Union was carried by bribery and corruption , because tbe disfranchised proprietors of the Irish boroughs received . £ 15 . 000 eacb . Tbia is not , surdy , a fair
charge t& ruake aefuinst Mr . Pitt ' s government , as to corrupt means used in effecting tho Union . It is asserted that Lord Caatlere& , 3 h spent £ 2 , 000 , 000 iq notorious and yrUlisg&te bribery to c « ry % ha Uoion . Now tha sum actually paid away to tbe proprietors of nomination boroughs disfranchised at the Union was * £ 1 . 2 < J 0 009 , at the rate of £ 15 , 000 foi each borough ; and on the same principle , and at even a higher rate of payment , Mr . Pitt projected parliamentary reform in England . What he had , therefore , proposed for Eugland , it would have been unjust to deny to Ireland , when nomination boroughs were destroyed there . "
We cannot spare room to reply to the above , and shew as we might do that the writer has anything but fully combatted this charge . There were other monstrously corrupt means employed which he does not even glance at ; but we have not space at disposal to enter into tho question at present . Mr . Martin concludes by detailing at some length the "benefits" which have resulted to Ireland from the Act of Union ; amongst which he enumeratta the " Tithe Commutation Act"U ) and the " Poor Law" ( . !) He says : " That , previous to tbe Union , of three hundred members of the Irish House of Commons , two hundred members were stated to be the nominees of private indiviuuils ; that from forty to fifty members were returned by constituencies of 1 ot more ' than ten persons each ; th * t several boroughs bad uot more than one resident elector , and that out of three hundred members thus returned , one hundred and four were placemen and pensioners . "
Such was Grattan s description after the establishment of the " glorious independence . " He aurfs that now " 96 , 000 electors are free to return 105 members to the Imperial Legislature , whethf r of the Roman or Protestant faith . " He says that those who complain of English domination " have two-thirds of the Parliamentary representation and the whole of the corporations of Ireland entirely within their own control . These facts demonstrate that Ireland never was eo truly and integrally a kingdom as she is at this moment . ' *
And yet , Mr . Martin , the great mass of the p : ople are politically slavus ^ -are denied the rights and franchises of freemen : and this " most eloquent fact" remains unanswered , that for not more than thirty we « ks out of the fifty-two , they have hot even third-class potatoes to vegetate upon ! Unhappy peoplo of Ireland , ! no wonder you cry for Repeal . Tha wonder rather is , that you do not cry for the annihilation of your rulers and yourselves in one common destruction , rather than remain upon your native soil the slaves mis-government has made you .
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LIFE IN RUSSIA . [ From the Review of " De Curtine ' s Empire of the Czir , " in Toil's Magazine for October . ] THE APPROACH TO ST . PBXfiRSBUBO . " Nothing can be more melancholy than the aspect of nature in tbe approach to St . Petersburg . As one advances up the Gutf , the flit marshes of Iugria terminate in a little waving line drawn between the sky and the sea ; this line is Russia . It presents the Appearance of a wet lowland , with here and there a few birch trees thinly scattered . Tue landscape is void of objects and colours ; has no bonads , and yet no sublimity . It has just li « ht enough to be visible ; the grey messy earth well accords with the pale sun which illumines it , not from overhead , but from neat the horizon , or almost indeed from below , —so acute is tbe angle which the oblique rays form with the surface of this anfavoured soil . In Russia , the finest days have a bluish dimness . If the nights are marked by a clearance which surprises , the days are clothed with an obscurity which saddens . * * To n-acli St . Petursburg , you must pass a desert vt water framed in a desert of pt-at earth ; sea , shore , and sky , are all blended into one mirror ; but so dull , &o tarnished , that it reflects nothing , "
A SUMMER NIGHT SCE . XE . " The temperature of the day had risen to fifty degrees , and notwithstanding the freshness of the evenin ? , tbe atmosphere of the puface during the fete was suffocating . On rising from table I took refu ^ in the embrasure of an opeu window . There , completely abstracted f , om all that passed around , I was suddenly Struck with admiration at beholding one of those effects of littht which wa see only in the north , during the mutiie brightness of a polar ni « b . t . It was balf-p » st twelve o ' clock , and the nights hu . ving yet scarcely be ^ un to lengthen , tho dawn of day appeared already in tbe direction of Archangel . The wind had fallen : numerous beUs of black and motionless clouds divided the
firmament into Z'Mies , each of which was irradiated with a light so brilliant , that it appeared like a polished plate of silver ; its lustre was ttflictod on the Neva , to whose vast and unrippled surface it nave the appearance of : v lake of milk or of mothor-uf p ^ arl . The greater part of Petersburg , with its qu ; ys and its spires , was , under this li ^ ht , revealed before my eyes ; it was a perfect composition of Breughel ' s . The tints of the picture cannot be duBtribed by words . The domes of the Church of Saint Nicholas stood in the relief of lapis lazuli afiainst a sky of silver : the illuminated p » ruco of taa Exchange , whose lam p « « ere partially quenched by the dawning day , still gleamed on tbu water of the river , and was r < flc-cted—a peristyle of sold . ' *
RUSSIAN BUGS . " Scarcely was I installed in this abode than ( the fatigue of the night having got tho batter of my curiosity , which Usually impels mo to salty forth and lose myealf in a large unknown city ) I lay do ^ vn , wrapped in a cloak , on an immense leather sofa , and slept profoundly during —three minutes ! " . At the end of this time I woke in a fever ; and on casting my ejea . upon the cloak , what a , sight awaited them 1 A brown but living mass : things must be colled by their proper name—I was covered , I was devoured with bugs . Russia is , in this respect , not a wh > t inferior to Spain ; but in the south we can both console and secure ourselves in tbe open air : here we
tvtuain imprisoned with the enemy , and the wsr is con . 8 tqu < atly raor « sanguine . I b « gao throwing off my ciothea and calling for help . What a pfosp * -it for tho n ^ iit ; This thought made me cry out more lustily . A Russian waiter appeared . I made him understand that I wished to see h s master . The master kept me waiting a long time ; and when he at length did come , and was informed of the nature of my trouble , he began to l&ugb , and soon left the room , telling me that 1 should become accustomed to it , for that it was tbe same everywhere in Paterstmrg . He first advised me , however , never to seat , myself on a Russian sofa , because tbe domestics , who always carry about with them legioDB of insects , sleep vn these articles of ftrrmture . "
[ Tho cart-whip democrats ( 1 ) of Cincinnati have the bcoondrolism to talk about the stink of tho black African as offending their republican (!) nostrils , and . being a reason why ho should be kept in a state of slavery ! What will they say to the following account of the stink of the white Russian 11
RUSSIAN PBKFUMB . " In general tbe Russians carry about their persons a disagreeable odour , which is percepUble flt a considerable distance . The higher classes smell of mask , the common people of cabbage , mixed with exhalations of onions and old greasy perfumed leather . These , smells never vary . " THE AUTOCRAT . " The Emperor is above the usual height by half ahead ; his figure noble , although a little stiff : he has practised from bis youth the Russian custom of girding the body above tbe loinB to such a degree as to push up tbe stomach into the shest , which produces an un-
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natural swelling or extension about the ribs , that is aa injurious to the health aa it is ungraceful in appearance . This voluntary deformity destroys all freedom of movement , impairs the elegance of the shape , and imparts an air of constraint ; to the whole person . They say that when the Emperor lossena his dress , the viscera , suddenly giving way , are disturbed for a moment in their equilibrium , which produces an extraordinary prostration of strength . The bowels may be displaced—they cannot be got rid of . Tb 6 Emperor has a Grecian pro ^ ie—the forehead high , but rec&'i . ng ; the nose straight , and perfectly formed ; the mouth very finely cut ; the face , whfah in sb-ipo is nthtr at ng oval , ia noble ; the tvholft air mint try , aad ni : h ? i G rman than S .. iYor . ic . His cirr ; .. j ; e and his attitiiiit ^ , re
naturally imposing . He exacts alw . \ j 3 to ba i ; : Z' . i at . and never for a ] moment fun ; . t > . vh : it he ie bo . it tviy be even said this he likes this boma ? e of th ^ eyetj . He paasea the greater patb of his ex >< stdace in tht opoa iiiv , at reviews , or in rapid j ^ urueys . 'I do not say that . the physMignomy if this prince lacks candour , but it lacks u-. itui-al exi > ' * ss ' oa . Tbas , the chief evil an- er which K'issm suffers , the abstucv of liberty , is depictei even oi : tuo countenance of its sovereign : he has many ma ^ ks , but no fuce . . Seek for tlie man , and you wiil always rind , the Emperor . ' [ There is ma ? h of truth iu the following picture or 'Lon'ititutiouai" G > vernments . We liv-- vnider jn ? t s nch a system of fraud , lies , and corruptiou in this England oi our .-J NICHOLAS OS * CO . -JSTlTUriONAL'
GOVERNMENTS"Hera the Ecnperor infcerriu <' . ri 1 himself , aud looked at me attentively . 1 continued tu ii *' . en without replying , and he proceeded : — " ' I cm understand K < put We . in ' im : it ia a plain and straightforward [ form of fiovc-rnrn-nt , or , at * least , U might be so ; I Can ur . d-.-rstancl uh . soluttt monarchy , for I am myself tho head of such an order of things ,- but I cannot understand a representative monarch : it is the Government of i lias , fraud , &u <\ corruption ; and I would raxher fall back even upon Ctr . ua than eve ; adopt if I " ' Sire , I have always regMda * rtpts » eT » ta , ttvo Government as a compact inevitable in certain communities at certain epochs ; but like all other compacts , it does not solve questions—it only a'ij . aras difficulties . ' I
" The Emperor seemed to say , ' Go on . ' I continued : "It ia a truce signed between democracy aud monarchy , under the auspices of two { very moan tyrants , fear and interest ; aDd it is prolonged by that pride of i tellect which takes ple / isure in taking , and that popular vanity which satisfies itself on words .- In short , it is thai aristocracy of oratory substituted for the aristocracy of birth : it is the government oi thb lawyers . " j " ' Sir , you speak the truth / said the Emperor , press > ing my hand ; ' I have bt « n a tepTtssentative so ^ eteiiu ;
and the world knows whut it has cust me not to have been willing to submit to the exigfoces of ( hti infamous government ( I quote literally ) . To buy votes , to corrupt consciences , to seduce some in order to deceive others ; all those means I disclaimed , as degrading those who obey as much as those who command ; and I havo dearly paid the penalty of my straightforwardness ; but , God be praised , I have done for ever with this detestable political machine . I shall never more be a constitutional kiiig . I have too much need of saying all that I think ever to consent to reign over any people by means of stratagem aud intrigue . '
• The name of Poland , which presented itself incessantly to our thoughts , was not once uttered in this singular conversation . " TUB B . U 3 SIAN SYSTEM . 0 Tbe movements of the men whom I met appeared stiff and constrained ; every gesture expressed & wilt which w . 'ts not their own . Tbe morning is the time fur commissions anl errands , and not one individual appeared to be walking on bis own account . I observed few good-looking women , and heard no girlish voices ; everything was dull and regular aa in a barrack . Military discipline reigns throughout Russia . i * * ¦ * Fancy can almost descry the shadow of death hovering over this portion of the ulobe .
" Now appears a cavalry offlcar passing at full gallop to bear an order to some commanding officer ; then a chasseur carrying an order to seme provincial governor , perhaps at the other extremity of the empire , whither be proceeds in a kibitka , a little Russian chariot , without springs or stuffed seat This vehicle , driven by an aid bearded c » achr aan , rapidly conveys the courier , whose rank would prevent his usiiig a more commodious equipage had he one at bis disposal . Next are seen foot soldiers returning from exercise to their quarters , in order to receive orders from their captuin . This autotnatun population resembles one side of a chess-board , where a single individual causes the movements of all
the pieces , but where the adversary is invisible . One neither moves nor respires here except by an imperial order ; consequently everything is dull , formal , aud spiritless . Silence presides over and paralyses lit ' *' . Officers , coachmen , Cossacks , serfs , courtitrs , all servants under the same master , blindly obey the orders which they do not understand . It is certainly tbe perfection ot discipline ; but the sight of such perfection does not gratify ! me ; bo much regularity can only be obtained by the entire absence of independence . Among this people bereft of time and of will , we see only bodies without souls ; and tremble to think that , for so vast a multitude of arms and legB , tueru is oal > one head .
i ITS BRUIALITIES . It is a common ai ^ ht to see an underling of tbe Government , brutally and unmercifully beat any one who may offjiid htm ; the individual attacked not daring to offer any resistance . Of onj scene oi this sort we are told : — " The passers by were in no degree moved or exe'ted by the cruelty ; land one of the comrades of tho Hufferer , who wasi watering bis horses a few steps off , obedient to a jaigu of th . 3 enraged , fei
" The scene in question took place in the finest wart of the city , and afc'itne busiest boar . When the unfortunate man was' released , he wiped away the blood whicQ streamed ( town his cheeks , remounted his & 2 ai , and recommenced his bows and salutatio a as usual . It should be recollected that this abomination was enacted in the midst of a silent crowd . " Here ia another ca 3 e : — *• A small boat was brought alongside by other ro ! ic < j agents ; the prisoner was bound with cords , his true * s ¦ were fastened behind his back , « nd he was thrown mi his face into tke boat . Ttaw second rude shock whs
followed by a siiower of r > jow > s ; dot dm the torture nt ; re finish . The sergeant who had seized the victim l » O sooner saw him t » us p"ostrat < , t ' . uiu lie jumped upon his body , and began to stamp upon , him with all his force , truoipling ' him under tis reet aa the 3 jcz \>^» ar « trod in the winy-press . I had t& ? n approached tbi < spot , and am therefore witness of all that I rel . lfl . Dicing this bonib . e torture , the frightful yells of tho vic . ! iii were at first redoubled ; but when they began to ctjw fainter and fainter , I feu that ( could uo longer command myself , and , having no power to interfere , " I hastened away . " ;
ITS TERRIBLE RESULTS . The Emperor ! havint * emancipated the serf on some domaius which he had purchased , ta ° peasants on iho Woiga , sent deputes praying t ^ . civ Fathkr to purchase the lands 10 which ihiy were enthralled , and jfree their di-putus graciously ; tout as he did not b ^ y the estates , he could not emancipate thorn , though he wished , he said , thjit iliey all were free . JFhe consequences as related co M . De Custine . wore horrible .
'" Our Father desires our dehvoranct , cr-. ea tba returned deputies on tbe boidtrs of the Wotga . * He wishes for nothing but our happiness ; he said bo to us himself : it is , tben , only the uooIjs and thuir agents who are our enemies , aad why opposu the ^ ool designs of Our Father ! Let us avyngo tbe > . aipero : : ' After this , ttte p ^ aanta relieved they Wure puiforiulng a pious work in rising upon their masters ; arui tLu . s all the nobles of a canton , end all their ; ^ enUi , wvre massacred , together with their-families . They spit i « i one and roasted him alive , they boiled an' ^ ii ^ r in a caldron ; they disembowel ed and killed in v . inuus otberways the stewards and agents of tho estatci ; tiiej murdered all they met , burnt whole towjia , atJ , ijj short , devastated ; a province ; not in the ni ) - ; . < . t liberty ; for they do not know what liberty means , tu ' in the name of deliverance and of the emperor . "
"As everything is in sympathetic accord ,-the immense extent of the territory dow nut prevent it ;!; .. * being executed from one enu of Kuaaia to tha ¦ : lhr . »" with a punctuality , and a simultaneous c rtespon ' . r . ae , which is magicali If ever they shouid Buccetd in creating a real revolution among the Russian pe - ^ isi , massaore would be performed with the regularity i . tut marks evolutions of a regiment . Villages would change into barracks , and organised murder wouid stalk forth armed from tbe coitages , farm ia line , aad advance w order ; in short the Russians would prepary iW pillage from Smolensk to Irkutsk , aa they uiarcu to the parade in Petersburg . "
HOBROBS OF DESPOTISM . " Bloody scenes j ate yet being daily renewed in various parts of the same country , where public order his been disturbed , and re-established in bo terrific a manner . The RuMriani have no right to reproach Fiance fur her political disorders , and to draw from them const- * quencea favourable to despotism , Lst but the liberty of the press b » accorded to Kusaia for twenty-four hours and we should learn things that would make us recoil with horror . Silence is indispensable to oppression . Under an absolute government , every insistfretioa tf speech is equivalent to a crime of high treason . "
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CHA . RGS OF FORGERY AGAINST AN ATTORNEY . On Monday last , at the Magistrates Office , Conrt Heuse , Leeds , Mr . Thos . Walker , of Dewsbury , sttorney-at-law , was charged before George Goodman , Esq ., with having twice forged the signature of Montague Baker Bere . Esq ., one of the Commissioners in the L-eds District Conn of Bankruptcy , to an instrument purporting to be nu interim order of protection from the Coatfc to an insolvent Mr . Walker was 3 p ? reh&n 4 a . i at DeWbbary , nu Sv . nn ' Jiy t ; ft < r u ( > n , by Mr . Jamu 6 , -uper-UiCeiiiiu ! r - of < he L' < ' ( l 3 P . 'lic « Mr . BlackbI'HN , solicitor <> ' L ? jds , was tfc-: -Moxn « . y fair Uih ( . iroseculi « n ; Mr . Bond , solicitor , of-. l = ¦ >¦ & , and Mr . Scholes , bolicitor , of Dotfsbury , atMcu-i to war . cn the cisa on tiiu prisoner's { jsh . 3 lf . —The foliwwiag evi « it ! ice was addac" ( 5 : ¦ -
G-eoige NewBoine . of Batley Carr , deposed—1 lire at Batiey CUrr , and am a ctothitr ; in August last 1 waa in iiisoivtnt cireuin » ta . nces . 1 applied to Mr J ' fios . VV Ik r , solic ' tur , tf D ^ sbuiy ¦ , 1 tuM him 1 wanit'l to set ; if I cuutd not get shut of n . y twbts , and a » kr > iiim whm . I should do ; he SdKl tie Wuii'd do is for isrc fot £ lo ; he sain he would get mb h protection , bu f I -hoald tuive to keep eutof t / n . way fora week ; 1 was £ <• pay liitu £ 2 < iovrn , and ihe remainder by instalments o > £ 1 per luynth ; I then stg ; j ' U some , papers , wfaith I op ier > stuod wee for an ; irivertianiii ; ii . w Ich . wastoajieiir in tn ..- Wak ^ aeiii Fn ' uj sp . tp . r , ii . is was on the Hid . of Aavn . it . i-nd ne bolil me 1 s . liUid b ± Vd lay prow ion mi tt »¦ 4 "b of Sf-pt ., uu wbicii ay be ' sairthoil aid have to so to L-. -- . iu to s « t it for me ; I saw Mr . W-iktX ah a ; i on Sa ' . u . v > . iy tUu ' 2 nd wf ^ -utesftbei-, on vrb » t-i liaw
I fc ' giKiii some i- < o : « papers , an-J ; paid him £ 2 . -up . ip . I so ?! him av'iio uii Monday , the -i' . hv when I sz \ : ' , to hiii ; that if h « th-m ht I could uti niy" pt 6 tecti « - by coming to Leoda wiih uiiu , I vn .-uid c ^ Oi ^ s . H « j sai < i I uad ! jfisier uo £ go co I ceds , but he would mett me at \ V kefl = ld at two ocis . -ck in the afternoon , at the j < ti '> lic house opposite the sessions bouso , where he « > uldl K ivd me my . prortetiuu ; I went to Wakefittd , and waited at the Ruilwny Station all the afternoon , n > it l about sevun o ' clock , but did not see him there . I saw him tha rji-xt day oi Dewsbury , when he said . jt" Wall , l ' vo got yonr protection hurts . " aad he gave rae a vuPec out of Lis pocket-book , which he said was mj protection . fTh © oocurnitnt waa produced , and on btipg handed to the witness ho identifled it as tha ? uma which he had . ri-ceived from the prisoner ]
Examination eesuwed- —I k uw the paper fio > . < an Siteration wbiuh was nude in u by Mr . Waiktr m my presence ; tha signature " M . B . Bere , " * waa oc . rhe paper when it wasgivou tome ou th 3 5 ! h of Septtbil-er . Ho toid me then th > tt ihe hearuift day was fixed fc ; ' . he 9 M f October . I saw tha prisoner again on Saturday tiie 7 th oi Outobar , when ho toid me that my h < s ;« riug tiu > was put off tiiitr . u 11 tb of October . I then asKed hi . ii what I should do , oa my protection was on ; , , till the 9 . h , and it would be of uo use to me . He eaa , h 0 cuiilti noon alter that , aDd a « kc-i ine if I had it . With me . I produced it , and he era ? ea the word " n ; T-V * and wruto in the word " eleventh . ' * in my prett ,. cr . He then said I should be xsfe firm the baiiiffj , m »> . if an v of tbtm came , I waa to atm * it to them , biu uot
let tbt ni have it ; I gave i-uoi a Boyerei * , ' !! afc , th : it time . Gu Wedue-sday , the 11 th , I met tha prisoner by appomtmbnt ut tha Griffin Inn , !«• 0 ia » : in « i afterwarus Went to the Guuj-t of Bankrupt ; - - . I will first into the room up stairs , and dfterwan ¦ - liito that down auirs ; lit . Walker was with me . II ' " 23 ahout eleven oVslock when we went , and I stayed V ^ re till aboaD three . I was in the sairie reom with G-urge Lister , another hwolveat . I heard his nanui ca ! l ' -d , and saw him stand up at the < Iesk ; iny name vca- not caU « d . Before leaving the Griffin , in the forepovU ) I gr . ve my protection to Waiter , ix , his rtqaest ; at tliat tiiue tbure was uo writing on tbe back part of tha protection . Walker tilled-up s ^ me writing at the oaefc p . ut , anu then i-aid it wouid vmat signing f «< r ih 8
next hearing day , aud Ue would tafeo it and gtt it signed Ho took it w ' . tti hiai to the Court , but did noi . » a jf anything to me about the protection whilst in the C <> urfc , but taid me that he would give it to me at the G-. ( Ba when the Court was over . When he came to the Gr'ffin , George LUter aaked him if he Bad got' tn « m signed , and he said , " O , yes / ' and produce * two papers , one of which he gave to Lister , and the other to me . The paper he gave to me waa the protection which I had bbfore received from Uim ; it was filka up at the back , and at first I thought it was not eigiicd , but on the prisoner pointing U out to me , I found on that side also the signature , " M . B . Bere . " It extended the proteetion to tbe 29 th of November , on which dajp vralfcar said I BtioaU get a fiaal hearing . I had tha paper in my possesaio / i up to th « 24 th inst .
Oross-exiinined by Mr . Scholes —It was the month of Auanst when I first applied to ilr . Walker . I cant say how many papers I have signed . ; there were 11 ^ ra than one ; there was no agreement in writing between me aud Walter ; no such thing nn £ 5 down and £ i at the fivat hearing waa ever mentioned , nor wufe i > ay vn-itten agreoment to that tfFect ever signed by m ^ , I never knew that any memorandum to tiiat effect had been prepared . I never received any otber paper ir-jeo . Walker but tha one produced ; 1- anl quite sure of th jt . Walker did not demanrt any money from me wten ae gave me my urotectiou at Dawabury .
Montague Bibtr Bere , E- ; q . deposed—I am one of the Commiasioners of Bankruptcy for the Leeds District . I have examined the paper now produced ; it purports to be au hiteritn order of protection to Gc- 'ge Newaoiue , an ianoivent ;; it his at tbe foot of it tfta words " M . B . Bsre . " It is not my signature ; nor was the signature mado by any person by my author i-y . The endorsement at the back of it purports to be a renewal of the protection , which ' 8 granted after the insolvent ' s htat hearing for tia protection to t ^ e day of bis final hearing ; that also has the words " M . B . Bere , " which is not my signature , nor has it been made by my authority . Trie renewal , which is tilled , np for the 29 tn of November , is a day on which I do not ait , being Wednesday . Tbig
interim order of protection , and the renewal , are b' ; : h in the usual forma of the Court , and have been i ^ ncd witnout my personal signature . No person has any authority to sign my name—no one ever had . Ttia paper now produced is > the one produced to me en tiia 24 th of October , by Gaorge Newaome . I have had sevetal opportunities of seeing Mr . Walker writei ,. & :: dl I believe tbe imitation of my signature to be ia bis hand- vrriung . Mr . Walker was not in Court on the 4 ih of September ; at least I presume so , for he was t-ummoned to appear , and on hia name being called sevural tfoiea , h « did not aaawer . I wrote to Mr . Walker on Weduesday last , requesting him to attend the Court on Saturday to explaiu these mattsra to me , he did uot attend .
Charles Waterfleld , Esq—I am one of the deputy * registrars in too L » eds D strict Cju t of Bankruptcy ; I sit ia Mr . Bern ' s Court . A petition of GaorgeNewsomd , rag-ilesiler , of BitUy , was filed in the Court previous to in * 25 ih of Marcb iu thia year , and on that day t-ia tia ? . i prsiectiou was granted . No other petition troto . any paiaou ciiled Gjorjje Newsosne , haa t ^ en a ; -jd in tuber Couro aince that time . I ' havg mbbr-id tbe uama and . number and every petition tilf ; i in both courts e ' . n& ) the Court was establLsSed . Tiic-a is n- > e-Ltry of any petition from George Newfomc of B ^ t ky s ,: aiw tbe 2 &'ii of March . George Newsome w ^ a not called on his petiUon on the 11 th of October a * - < .
G-. 'crge Liste waa called on tha 11 th ; he receive' i rauevscd protectija on that day . Xha Coman ' ssio : a ¦ s gns atl papctn hirussVi . 1 have not , since the 25 io - > t Mavcb , received any f < ie « on buhalf of George Newsonif ? , froiu tlther Mr . Walker or any one else . Fees wou . i fce payable in Court bosh when the interim order < s-. \ 3 granted and wb ^ n it waa renewed ; also on filing v 3 petition . I received the paper produced' from J . ji . i Br i ^ s , tho usher of tbe Court , on the 24 tn of Octo <• ¦¦>¦ , and , a «« ed N-jwaon ' . e , in tbe presence of Briggs , if tt ^ t w »»\ he paper he L >» d givun to Brigga ; he said it wss . This being the Whale of tho evidence , Mr . Walkti , aft ^ r bbin ' cautioued , said he should raaerve any thirsj be bad to aay until another occasion . Ha was tbea hold to bail , hiaiself In £ 100 , and 1 surety in £ 100 , for hia appearance at the next assiztj at York , to take his teial for forgery . ^ fci
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Dreadful Gale on tub Kivkb Thames . —About one o ' tilook on Friday morning , the atmosphere exhibited symptoms 0 " an approaching storm , aad sou a afterwards ihe iadicaiioas were fully verified , is waa hi « h water at London-bridge a few minutes before five o ' clock ; but two hours previously , tba wind , which bad been blowing fresh from about , W . ?\ W ., increased to a perfect hurricane , aad tho . ihrpping and small cia-ft on the river have austaine , di considerable damage . About half- past six o'clo : k the hurricane , which waa accompanied with trGm * r ± - d ^ us tquails , was at its height , when several Vos tjis that haJ . beforo held to their mooring * , siai ; ed , and were drifen with great force again ? : i . ' . ts of shipping on the northcra shore . The tide to ia
ro ^ a a ^ r-vater height ihan any the recqllectioa of the oldest inhabitants along ttte waterside . Fortunately au extraordinary flood waa anticipated , auc . in aiany pkoss precautions were taken whiou nad the effect of materially lessening the injury wh * ch iuust otherwise have resalted . A great deal ofdaHiaff-: has , however , been sustained , and propp rty m-.-. troyod , iu the warehouses situated along both taaks of the river , from Wpolwioh to Chelsea . T > . 6 steam nttvigation above bridge waB stopped for a considerable period , in eonseqtienee of the iinpodsjbility of passing under some ot cne bridges . iMfAMxiciDE in IasXAra ; ... 1 ? hereiaafearfa ! , but , for tho mo 3 t part , unsuspected sacrifice of humaa life continually KPing on among us . The FoantlUng Hospital was closed on the 3 d of Ootobeti 1838 ^ ana dunng the five years that elapsed between that and
the 5 d of the present month ; , nofewer than eighty-six iuquests have been held at the Bridewell oh the bodies of deserted iiifants—that 1 b , iii plain ^^ EngKsh , uo fewer than so many mturdera / have been perpetrated or permuted by the unhappy parent who brbaght them into being ! And yet we lead and * we hear of inquests without troubling ourselves with a tboDght of the Iniquity or the gmlt whicb ^ . " otort inqtiiry implies ! Hat ifeo ndniber of deaths ' iby -no i&eana represents r- ! u > number of helpless , beings east out to perish , or to take the chance of being providentially packed up , 1 or at the-last city rate sessionsH-ona shm , ic sessions—the applications by chnrehwardens f .-. r ! hd support of mfants found deserted amonntea ; o 3 o 3 ! During the five years previous to the closing ofuit F -audiing Hospital the number efinqueata on nuw-y-fjorn iufaate was forty-eight . —Cork Constitution .
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Spain .-Madhtt ) , Oct . 23 . —The militia pf Saragossa have sent Ifor'h a strong manifesto , 10 Me miljtia of the whole nation . It is uated . thj l-th instant , bnt has jonly lately arrived here , the usual commuuioatiod being , of course , cut off .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 4, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct971/page/3/
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