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QOB HELP THE POOS . God help Hie poor , who on this wintry morn Come forth of alleys dim , and courts obscure } God help yon poor , pale girl , wko droops f orlom , jLXtd . meeXTj ber affliction dotb encore T Odd help ike onbc&sb lamb ! she trembling studs , j ^ H irsn her lips , and frozen red ber tiaadB ; Her sunken eyes are modestly downcast ; Her night-black h&ir streams ' on the fitfnl blast j Her bosom , passing fair , is htlf reve&Td ; And , 01 10 cold , the saow lies there eongeal'd ; Hex feet benumVd , her shoes all rent and worn : God help thee , outcast lamb , who stand ' st forlorn ] Gtod help the i > oor !
God help the poor ! An infant ' s feeble trail Comes from yon narrow gateway ; and , behold , A female crouching there , so deathly pale , Saddling her ctald , to screen it from the cold J Her Testure scant , her bonnet craah'd and torn ; A thin ahawl doth her baby dear enfold : - And there she bides die ruthless gale of morn , TPhjch almost to her heart hath sent its cold I And now aha -sodden darts a ravening look , Ai one with new hot bread comes pazi the nook J And , as the tempting load is onward borne , She weeps . God help thee , haplesj one forlorn l Sod help the poor 1
God help the poor ! Behold yon fwaish'd lad ; Jfoshoes , nor hose his woHnded feet protect ; With limping gait , and looks so dreamy Bad , He wanders en ward , stopping to inspect Each wicdow BtcrM with articles vt food . He yeama but to enjoy one cheering meal ; ©! to his hungry palate , viands rode Would yield a z ^ t the famish'd on ! y feel . ' He now devours a crust of mouldy bread -, With teeth and hands the precious boon is torn , Unmindful of the storm which round his head Impetuous sweeps . Goi help tiee / thild forlorn ! Gad help the poor !
God help the poor ! Another hare I found , A bo Wei 2 nd venerable ma is be ; Bis llonehed hat With . &dsd crape is bound ; Bis © oat is grey , and threadbare , too , I see ; " The rode winds" seem ts " mock his hoary hair His shirtless bosom to the blast is bare . Anon he turns , and casts a wistful eye , And with scant napkin wipes the blinding spray ; And loeks again , as if he fun would spy Friends be fcati feasted in his better day : " Ah ! some are dead , and some hare long forborne To know the poor ; and he is ltfi forlorn ! God help the > oor J
Godtelp the poor , who in lone valleys dwell , Or by iar hills , where whin and heather grow . ' Theirs is artory sad , indeed , to tell ; Yet Jittte tares the world , and less 'twould know , About the toil and want tbey undergo . Tie wearyiBg loom must £ avc them "up at mom ; Tfeey work till worn-cut nature will have sleep ; They taste , bnt are not fed . The snow drifts deep Around the Sreless cot , and blocks the door ; 3 * he Bight-storm iurarl 3 a aixge across tbe moor . And gh * H they perish tirns , oppress'd acd lorn ? fjWa ! l toil and iaxnine hopeless still be borne ? 2 f « 3 Gad will yet arise , a : ; -d help ihe fooh ! SAMtEL BAUTORD
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WHAT ARE BEPEALERS ? " ? apa ! what are Repealers ? - —3 ! T SOS Am— "Tippcrary , OP ' Mimoss who ' ve given their gage , my boy , Pierce war with oppression to wage , my boy , Till Erin once more Shall shine as of yore , The land of thfc hero and sage , my boy I The land was all Europe ' s pride , my boy , Its glory and fame vr&re "wide , ray boy ; Ana Roman and Bine , Whooffei'd the chain , By \ h& sword of its heroes died , my boy . '
Her chiefs wax'd faithkss and proud , my boy , And discord's hosrse voice grew loud , ay bay ; And , rteord of shame , The stranger then eame , And libeny tod in her shroud , my boy 3 That land red rapine leng swept , Hiy boy , And mercy and truth long slept , my boy ; Oi could yon tmt know 5 ucb tyrants—sneih woe , Tonr young eyes with mine bad wept , my boy But in the despots' despite , my boy , The millions arise in their might , my boy ; And swear by the tears , Asd blo&d of past years , To wrest from that despot their right , my boy !
They are banded , and firm , and truej my coy , Resolved to die or to qo , my boy ; The young and the old In the cause are enroll * d . And I ' ve sworn you one of them , too , my boy ! Ere this tow be unsafe in thy keeping , boy , May your father bemota your sleeping , boy , Where green -willows "wave Above your "yoiHssr jrrave , And rone to-console his weeping , my boy . ' Xation
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£ * For "Papa" read Father . Surely the Editor of : She Nation was in a fit of ihe " lackadasical" wben he put such a milksop word into the mouth of his poetic * « Toung Hannibal" I ] j
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A POPULAR HISTORY OF PRIESTCRAFT , abridged from "Wiliiam Howirfs work . London : Cieavej Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . This is a new editon of a work which has been some years before the pnblic , and which to our certain knowledge has been productive of no small amonnt of good in laying bare the enormities of priestly domination and corruption ; and awakening the too long blinded classes to the real nature of a B eraft ^ which for ages npon ages has been . employed and perpetuated to keep mankind in ignorance and darery .
As is expressed in the title page , this work iB an sbridgeirent of the famed " History of Prie-craft , " ¦ wri tten by "W illiam Eowitt , a name which , when the history ot the present time ? shall come to be written , laus ; shine conspicuous on the historic page , as that of one of ihe &niighiencrs and benefactors of the inman race . Bn : though an abridgement , the publication before us contains the pilh and spirit of the Isergerwoik of Vi ^ am Howiu ,-wnicn from the comparatively high price si vrhich it was necessarily published vfss placed beyond rhe reach of the working classes . All who can ? fford to purchase tie larger and complete work "sriii of coHrse do so ; but those who cannot , Trill find in this abridgement an excelleEt substitute . The following extracts will tell a thousand-fold more in favour of the work than anything -we could pen .
PAGAX PBIESTCEAFT . " When we recollect over "what an immense extent of country , and thresh -what a cumber of ages , idolatry extended itseli , what a terrible turn of miseries Ernst we tee to have been iifllstcd on terrace , by the diabolical zeal and cupidity cf priestcraft ! From the temple of Bnduh and Jaggutrath in India , to the stony circles of DrnidiioD xd Europe ; Irom the snowy wastes of Siberia and Scandinavia in ibe north , to the most southern lands in Africa and America , the fires of Koody deities have rejoiced the demoniac priests , and consumed the people . "
" The unbridled sensns 5 ity of the pagan worship added greatly to its attractions and power ol mischief . Ihe Assyrian Baal was made the seape-foat of the sensuality of the pritsts , wbo , under the pretext of providing a sacrifice of btsu * y to the deity , salected the most lovely women of the nation for themselves ; a species of detestable deception -rfuch seems to have been carried on to an ecorisoas extent in aiscient times , as the Grecian stories te'tify . When th ? Assyrian was merged in ifae Babylonian empire , the ergies of the temple of ITylitta , the Babylonian Tcnus , were ini&moos above all others . Every woman was bound to present heiself before the temple once in hef .-Iife , and there submit to prostitution with whoever first chose her . The price of hsi dame tras paid into the treasury , to swell the revernes of the prieJls . '
" If we turn to Enrope , we shall find that Whatever ¦ was the came , the language , or rise goTernment of the different countries , the religion was essentially the same . There wa « , first , an ordtr of priests ; secondly , an order of military nobles ; thirdly , a snbjnrated multitude ; and insUtnUens , the spirit of which , is tiat of tinnstiiig the lower order * from all place and authority , and systematically doomingthem to an unaltBrabl ^ state of servile depression . * " The priests often unired the sacerdotal and sovereign power in their own persons ; and where this was not the ease , they exerdsed a power superior to that of kings . They itfiicted pains and penalties , exacted the ntost abject submission , and as the pretended interpreters of the divine will , xiared even to demand , in thy wnM of heaven , the blood of kings . This they
obte toed .-"The great and long-bidden continent of America WaSjTrhen discovered , found to have been anbjected to fitf Hme roperBtitions , ths same dominant sphit of priesthood , and the tame terrible systems of worship . " " Of theii Tiloody sacrifices the Spanish writers are tdSL v Par is described to have been the soul of the MfritaTT worship . They never approached their altars without blood , drawn from their own bodies . Of all feeir offerings , and they were numerous , human sacrifiees were deemed to be the most acceptable . Every » ptiTe taken in war was sacrificed , with horrid « rueltifi 3 , at the temple ; the head and heart being de-Toted to | he gods , and the body appropriated to the warrior ij sbm the captive had been taken , to least
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himself and his friends . The prevalence of these horrid rites coaateraclcd all tko humanizing and sefcening effects of all their social institutions , and their progress in the arts . Their manners became more ferocious as they advanced , until tfee barbarity of their actions greatly exceeded those of the savage state . " * ' The priest-ridden-condition of Egypt is > known to all readers of history . Lord S&aftejbnry Calls it , ' the mottierlana of superstitious . ' So oompletBly had the priesthood here contrived , to fix themselves on the shoulderaof the people , so completely to debase and stupify them with an abundance of foolish veneration , that tke couBtry swarmed with temples , gods , and creatures , which in themselves most noxious or loathsome , were objects of adoration , "
" The popular theology of Greece , though it had the same origin as other mythologies , assumed , by passing through the glorious minds of Hesiod and Homer , all thgse ckaracters of grace and beauty which they conferred on their literature , tbeir philosophy , and all the aits and embellishments of life . " But beautiful as the system was made to appear by the embellishments of ; their immortal poets , the Grecians celebrated the same mysteries , offered the same hnman sacrifices , aad were eontauiinated by the same Phallic abominations , as all the other pagan nations . "
" In India , priestcraft assumed its mo 3 t determined and fearless air . In other lands , it placed itself in the first rank of horror and power . In thia it vent a step farther . Its chains appear t& be indissoluble xivetted on the mind of this mighty empire . The perfection of its craft and the selfishness of its spirit are exhibited in millions on millions bousd in chains : of the most slavish and soul-quelling castes , and tke servility of a subtile religious aeed . India has its triad of gods , its doctrine of metempsychosis , its practice of the Phallic licentiousness , its horrors of human sacrifice and
selfimmolation . "We need not specify the bloody rites of Jaegernatb . the barbarous burning of widows , or the unnatural immolation of children . Throughout continental India , we have an example of prietscraft in its most decided , undisguised , subtle , and triumphant character , at once in full flower and full fruit ; in that state at which it has always and everywhere aimed , bnt never attained elsewhere . It h ^ s bere stamped itteZf on toe heart of a great nation , in its broadest and most imperisDabie style ; in all its avowed despotism , its aelfistineBs , imperturbable pride , aud cool arrogance of fanatical power . "
"The avarice of the Bacerdotal tribe in IndH kept pace with the same passion in the priesthood of otbur parts of tbe world . Immense quantities of wealth were made to fljw into their coffers . Their pagodas ¦ were adorned with the richest metals ; the altars and s&cred vessels of the temp ' es were of massy gold ; and their statues , numerous and large , were made of the same material ; or that next to it in value , silver . " " Mr . O / rne ( in his History of Hindostan ) tells us : — that tbe BrabminB slumbered in tbe most luxurious repose in thbir splendid pauodaa , where the numbers accommodated were astonishing ; that pilgrims came from all parts of the Peninsula to worship at that of Seringbam , but Done without an offering of money ; that a large part of tbe revenue of the island is allotted for tbe maintenance of the Brahmins who inhabit it ; and that these , with their families , formerly composed a multitude , not less in number than fort ; rbrmsand souis , supports Without labour , bj the liberality of superstition .
Having thus seized tbe reins of o&Iimited power , the Priests had enly to command and nuke an empire ofslaves . And such was tbtir course . The Brahmin wieidtrd both tbe empire and the monarch . He stood in the place of ceity ; the will of heaven was thought to issue from his lips , and his decision was reverenced as the fiat of destiny . In fact , the Indian Qoy ^ rnvieat is jusUy considered as a tbeecracy—a theocracy tbe more terrible , because the name of God was perverted to sanction and support the most dreadful species of despotism—a despotism which , noV content with subjugating tbe body , tyrannised ovflPbe prostrate faculties of tbe enslaved mind . " A short , chapter on " The Jewish Priesthood " follows , and then , under the head of " The Popish Priesthood , " is given a capi -al no masking of
CHRISTIAN P 2 IE ^ TCR 1 !> T . from which we can only finu room lor the following extracts : — " Having thus prostrated tbe human mlad , they lorded it over the people with insolent impunity . Tbe Bann was adopted , and its terrors became felt throughout Christendom . Was a king refractory—did he refuse the pontificial demand of money—had he an opinion of his o ^ n—a rcpnguau ce to comply with papal influence in his affairs ? The thunders of the Vatican were launched against him ; his kingdom was laid under the biBn ; all people were forbidden , on pain of eternal damnation , to tra . le with his subjects ; all churches were shut ; the natien was on a sudden deprived of ali txterior fxurciws of its religion ; the altars were despoiled of thtir ornsme- *»; the crosses , the
reliques , the imagea , aad tht -tatties of tbe seints were laid on the ground ; and , as if tbe air itself might pollute them by its cuntact , tbe priests carefully covered them up , even from their own spproschand veneration . The use of bellB entirely ceased in the el" nrches the bells themselves weie itmovtd from the steeples , sad laid on ibe ground , with tbe ether * acred ntenriis . Mass was celebrated with shut doors , and none but the priests were admitted to the holy institution . The sy . ergj refused to marry , hapr ' z * . or bniy ; tbe dead were esst into ditches , or Irt ] utrefyin * on the ground ; till the superstitious per . ple , locking on their children who died without baj-ti » ni , as gone to perdition , and those dead withont Christian bnnal , as seiz-d on by the devil , rose in rebellious fury , anrt obligsd the prince to submit a : ; d bumble bin . srii before the prund priest of Rome . "
" Bnt the most potent and friehtful engine of the papacy , was ths luqmsition . Its history is one of the most awful horror that can affright the human soul . Its boly office—its ffficea of ir . ercy , astl ^ y were called in that spirit of devilub abnse of Christianity in which they were ctn > eei- » f > d , -were ppw » dily to be fotind in var :-OUS Countries of Europe , jisia . and America , bnt distinguished most fearful } it S .- ain . Toeir horrors have be € n made familiar to the publie miDd by the writers of romance , especially by Mr * Ritcliffe ; bnt all tbe powers of romance have not been able to overcome the reality . Spain bas always gltjried in the supremacy of her iniqrcisition . She fees strenuously contended with the Pope fer it ; andhasdetmed it so jrreat an hononr , as to parade the aulo-da-Je , as one of the most fascinating spectacles . Her kings , ber queens , her princes ,
apd ber nobles , have assembled with enthusiasm to witness them . So great a treat did the Spaniards formerly consider them , that Llorente Elates , that on February 25-h , 1560 , cne was celebrated by the inquisitors of Toledo , in which several persons were burnt with some frfBifes , and a great number subjected to penances ; and ihis ^ ras performed to entert in the r . ew qu ^ en El-z . beth . < 1 au ? ht < Tof Henry II . of France , a girl of thirteen years of age , accustomed in htr own country to brilliant , festivals tu . ttd to her ra ^ k and age . So coniplet « -ly may priestcraft brotr . ' - ' z a nation , and so completely has thifl devilish institution stamped the Spanish cbaracter , naturally ardent ted cnivairic , with glo = arsy horrcr , tb ^ t both 1 ' orente ai < d Inmborcta represeni ladlfcs witnefisisg th * a . % on ' z ng tortares of men end women expiring in flames , with transports of delight "
" We h 2 ve net jpace to detail the atrocities com-Hiitted by this ofiioua institutn > n . Limborch has given tbe followinc vivid summary of its operations : — ' In eonntriea where the irgoiskioE has existed , the bare idea of its progress damped the most ardent mind . Formidable and ferocious as the rap . ici-. u 9 tiger , who from the gloomy thicket surveys bis un&uspecting prey , nutil the favoured moment arrives in which he may pinnae forward and consummate itsdt-stTuetion . the-inqmsition meditates in secret ^ nd in silence its horrific projecta . In thedt * -T-rst seclusion the calumniator propounds his cbaree ; witb aEXicna vigilance the creatures of its power rtgp-rd its ur-happy victim . Not a whisper is heard , cr ths least hint of insecurity Eive-. i , uctil at
the dead cf night a bar . d of sav- --ge monsters snrroucd the dweiiiE ? . They demand an entrance . Upon tbe irquiry , by wtom is that riqaiie < 3 ? tbe answer is the * holy effice . " In an instant eII th ^ ties « f nature appear as if dissolved ; asd either through the complete dominion of scp&rstition , or the conviction that resistance would be Tain , tbe master , partnt husband , is resigned . Fiom tte bosom of bis famny , anil bereft . of all domestic comforts , he enters the itquisHion housi ; its ponderous doors are closed , asd bopt-cJ excludedperhaps for ever . Imnmrrf in a noisome vault , surrounded by impenetrable waUs he is left alone ; a prey to all the f < ad r « fl .-clio : ; 3 of a mirtrat-ie < nr . c-a * t . If be venttue to iEq ^ iie tb »; ytsson of his fate . Le is told , that silence and secrefy aTi' htre inviolable . *"
" Let every man vrho hesitates to t ' -i bis band to the destruction of Etate TbliEions , 1 ti or . thia picture of all enormitiea that can disgrace our nature . on 4 nflect that such is the inevitable tendency of all pTie-5 > crjift Is it said we Bse coining so bail no' ?? ! Ar . ct tibj ? Because man has got tte upper tor . fi cf bis tyrant , and keeps him in awe—not because tke nature of priestcraft is altered ; and yet , let us turn but our eyes to Catholic countries , Spain , Portugal , Italy , and tbe scene is lamentable ; and even in cur o . n country , where free institutions check presumption , and -the presa terrifies many a monster from the light of daj—we bthold things which make our hearts throb with indignation . "
The " Second Part , " and by far the larger portion of the work is tsken up with an exposure of the ** English CbnTcb" and the " Church of Ireland . " This most important portion is far too lengthy for ¦ as to dip into ; we must refer t ' se reader to the work itself , promising iim thai he will find such revealationfi therein as will exhibit in its true light the real character of the self-styled " Poor Man's Church" U ) We Bar observe ^ that at the commencement tie writer denounces all priestB because they are pri-sts ; whereas at the close he appears to denounce connected with the state
priests only when they are . Tons thiBappears inconsistent . Waving all questions as to the troths of particular creeds , we proclaim it as our conYiction that any body of men set apart for the offices of a priesthood , whether paid by tbe state or by the Tolnntary offerings of their "flocks" ( fit victims for shearers !) , is an en —a enrse . If men conviEced of the truth of their respective creeds would pay their adoration as each ibcnjjtt . proper , each for himself , not inter ering -with his neighbour , it would be well : but allow of &e existence of & priesthood , do matter whether
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voluntary or state paid , " and you have theoockatrice ' s egg , which , in due season will produce its terrivle brood of giant crimes atainst humanity . All priests must have been originally supported by the voluntary contributions of their dupes ; aad man ' s history tells the hideous result . The author appears too to be greatly in love with " American Chiistianity" where the " voluntary system" flourishes j hut , what is the truth ! Why that there is more priestcraft in the United States ; that ib , that the priests of the several sects have a greater influence over the minds of their followers than even in this country . Even in that land of " civil aad religious liberty , " there have been " prosecutions for
blasphemy" ! And it is a well known fact that no priest&axa more venal than those of the States , prostituting their power * of mind , and the mighty influence they wield through their " orift" to the upholding of that accursed system of slavery , by which the American atmosphere is poisoned , and her boasted liberty rendered a cruel and disgustiug mockery in the eyes of all rational men and true democrats . That " M American churches" are "the bulwarks of American slavery" is " as notorious as the sun at noon-day . " What do wo infer from this ! That priestcraft is now what it was in the days of Socrates : and that to destroy the power of the priest you must annihilate his
" craft . " Still , despite these objections wa can most cordially recommend this work as an excellent one for young beginners . " Having read it , the reader will be nearly sure to ask as we have done , when closing the volume : " how is it that the priests of all ages have been enabled to atquire and maiutam their terribly-used power f" Such question can only be solved by inquiring into the systems of belief which under so many names they ha . vc espouuded . If the reader gets so far , there is no fear but that he will progress , " until be understands fully i" the History of Priestcraft" with all its frauds smd falsehoods , horrors and crimes .
B ^ Owing a press engagements we have btau unable even to look at the works noticed laat week aa received for Review . We will bring up arrears next week . Pcblicaticks Received— An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamlet ; Temperance Herald , " &c , &c .
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PROGRESS OF SOCIAL REFORM ON THE CONTINENT .-No . Ji . GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND . [ The following extracts are from a continuation of this interesting snbjtct , in the A ' eu > Moral World of Nov . 18 : h , 1843 ) LBTHBS AND THE MUNSTER ANABAPTISTS Germany bad her Social Reformers as early as tbe Reformation . Soon after Luther had begun to proclaim church reform and to agitate the people against epiritual authority , the peasantry of Southern and Middle Germany rose in a general insurrection againet th « ir temporal lords . Luther always stated Mb object to bo to retornto original Christianity in doctrine and practice ; tbe peasantry took exactly tbe same standing , and demanded , therefore , not only the eccleaiaatieal , but aUo tbe social practice of primitive Christianity . Ttiey conceived a state of villainy and Bervitu-le , such as they lived under , to be inconsistent With the doctrines of tho B-. ble . Tney were oppressed by a sqt of baugbty barun * and earls : robbed and treated like their cattta
every day . Tfley had no / aw to protect them , and if they had th&y found nobody to enforce it Such a state contrasted very much with the communities of early christ-ians , and the doctrine * of Christ as laid down in tha Bible . Therefore they iTose and began a war sgauut their lords , which could only bo a war of extermination . Thomas Murzsr , a preacher , whom they placed at tbtir bead , issued a pioclamation , full , of course , of tbe reli gious and superstitious nonsense of the 2 £ e ; bnt containing aleo among others , principles like Vht'e : That according to tke Bible , no Christian is entitled te hold any property whatever exclusively for himself ; that community of property iB t&d only proper state for a society of ohristiamB ; that it is not allowed to r . ny good Christian , to have authority or eommand over other Christians , nor to hold any vfike of Governnifcnt or hereditary power , but on tbe contnry that , as all men are equal before God , so they ought to be on earth also . These doctrines were nothing but conclusions drawn from the Bible and from Lutbev ' s own writings ; bat the Reformer was not prepared to ro
as far as the people did . Notwithstanding the courage he displayed against tbe spiritual authorities , he had not freed himself from the political and social prejudices of his age . He believ&d as firmly iu tbe right divine of princes and landlords , to trample upon the people , as be did in the Bible . Besides thia , be wanted i *< e protection cf the aristocracy and the protestant princes ; and thus he wrote a traot against tha rieters , disclaiming not only evi ; ry connection with them , hut ai * o eshorting tbs aristocracy to put them down «; th the utmost Feverity ^ as rebels agaii . st the laws of God . Kill them like do « ! " he exclaimed . Tie -whole tract is written with such an animosity , nay , fury and fanaticism against the people , that it will ever form a blatupon Luther '? character ; it shews that , if be began bia career as a man of the people , he was now entirely iu tbe service of their oppressors . The insurrection , after a most bloody civil war . was suppres > £ d , and the peasants reduced to their former servitnde .
M 0 DER . N COMMU . NISTS . —WEITLI . NO . It was among the working class of Germany that Social R ^ urm has been of late made again a topic of discussion . G-rmany having comparatively little nianu-/ ac ' . uring industry , the mass of tbe workiat ; classes is made up by haudierafc&men , who previous to their establishing th-jnselves as tittle masters , travel for s-me jeara over Girraany , Switzerland , and Very often over France also . A great number of German WOlk * mrti is thus continually going to aud from I ^ atis , and must of course , thtro become acquainted with tho political and social movements of the French working classes . One of these men , William Weitling , a native of M&dgeburg in Prussia , and a simple journeymen tailor , resolved to establish communities in his own country .
This man , who is to be considered as the founder of German Communism , nfter s few years' stay in Paris , went to Switzerland ; and , whilst he was working In Eorue tailor ' s shop in Geneva , preached bis new gospel to bis fellow-workmen . He formed Communiet As > ociatioiia in all the towns and cities on tbe Swiss side of tbe lake of Geneva , most t-f the Germans who worked there becoming favourable to hia view * . Having thns prepared a public mind , hf issued a periodical , tbe Young Generation , for a more extensive agitation of tbe country . This paper , oUhongh written for working nieu only , ai . d by a working man , has from itf I eeiuninK betn superior to most of the French
C-m-munist publication . " , even to Fatljer CUbet's Populaire It shows that its editor uinst huva worked vry hard , to obtain Hist knowledge of hi » t < -ry an . ' poiit ' es , whictl a puhiic writer cannot do witttovt , ami which a Uegiectert education had left him deprived of . It shows , at the same time , tbut Weitlinji was always struggling to unive liis various idtas and thoughts oil society into a complete system of CuniruuDism . The Young Gene } a iion was first published in 1811 ; in the following yunr YVfcit > . D 2 published a work : Guarantees of Harmony and Liberty , in which be gave a review of the oWl BO&ial syateui and the outlines of a new one . I ihall . perhaps , some time give a few extracts from this book .
Having thus estaolisbrfl tbe nucleus of a Communist party in Geneva and its neighbourhood , he wtnt to Zurich , where , as in other towns of Northern Switzerland , £ ume of bis friends had already commenced to operate upon tho minds of tbe working men . He ; ow bejiin toorgsE-. &i his patty in tbxse towns . Under the name of Singing Ciabs , associations were formed for the discu&ion' of Smii !! re-organiz ition . At the tame tiinu Weitling adv ^ -rUseA his iattntion to publish a book , — The Gospel of the Poor Sinners . But here the police interfered with the proceeding *
AKHEST OF WEITLING— PERSECUTION AND PROGRESS . In June last , Weitling was taken into custody , his papers ai . d his book were seized , before it left the press . Tne Executive of the- Republic appoiuttd a committee to investigate thv matter , and to report to tho Grand Council , the representatives of the people . Thia report bas been printed a few months since . It appears from it , tbat a great niscy Communiet associations existed in t-very pan of Switzerland , consisting mostly of German working men ; that Weitlin ? was considered 03 the leader t-f the party , and recoived from time to time reports of progress ; that ho was in correspondence with similar associations of Gern ans in PariB and London ; and that all these societies , being composed of men who very often changed their reaidencs , were so many seminaries of " dangerous and Utopian doctrines , "
sending out their elcier mtinbsrs to Germany , Hungaria . and Italy , nnd imbuing with their spirit every workman who came within their reecb . Tho report vras drawn up by I > r . Biuntschli , a man of aristocratic and fanatically Christian opinions ; and the whole of it therefore is wiiiten more like a patty denunciation , than like a calm , cfiisial report . Communism is denounced as a doctrine dangerous in the extreme , subversive of all existing order , and destroying all the sacred bonds of society . The pious doctor besiBes , is at a loss for words sufficiently strong to express his feelings as to the frivolous blasphemy with which these infamous and ignorant people try to justify their wicked sad revolutionary doctrines , by passages from the Holy scriptures . Weitling and bis party are , in thia respect , just like the IeatiauB in France , and contend that Christianity is Communism .
The result of Weitling ' a trial did » ery little to eatisfy the anticipations ef the Zarich Government . Although Weitling and his friends were sometimes very incautious in their expressions , yet the charge of high treason and conspiracy against him could not be maintained ; the criminal eourt sentenced him to six months' imprisonment , and eternal banishment from Switzerland ; tbe members of the Zurich associations wero expelled Ihe Canton ; tbe report was communicated to the Governments ef ihe other Cantons and to the foreign ambasjsies ; but the Communists in other parts of Swit-
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zerland were very little Interfered with . The prosecu . tioa came too late , and was too little assisted by tht Other Cantons ; it did nothing at a-i for the deatraotiou of Communism , and was even favourable to it , by the great Interest it produced in all countries of ttu German tongue . CommuniBm was almost unknown k Germany , but became by t&ifl an object of genera ! attention . FHILOSOPHJCAL COMMVNISM . Besides this party there exists another in Gey-many , which advocates Communism . The former , bein f thoroughly a popular-party , will no doubt very soor unite all the working classes of Germany . Toe partj which I now refer to , ia a philosophical one , uacon nected in its origin wiiih eithar Fr « uch or Eoglist Communl 8 ts , and arising from that philosophy which , for the last fifty years , Gbrmnny has been so proud of
THE HEGEMAKS . : The political revolution of France wsa aceompatue < by & philosophical revolution in Garm . iny . Kant began i by overthrowing the system of Luibnitzian metaphysics Which at the end of last century was introduced in al Universities of the Continent . Fichte and Schellin ! commenced rebuilding , and Hegel completed the i ; &v system . ? * The Young Hegelians Of 18 i 2 . wer ^ declared Atheists and E . *{ jublicaus ; the periodical . o the party , the Garman Annuls , " was more raiica and open than before a political paper was esta
binned , and very soon the whole of the Gstmat liberal press was entirely in out hands . ' We hac friends iu almost every considerable town of Gh » r many ; we provided all the liberat papers with th ( necessary matter , and by this means made them oui oriiaus ; we inuDdated the country with pamphlets and soon governed public opinion upon every quistion A temporary relaxation of the consurship of the presi added a great deal to the energy of the movement quite novel to a considera le part of the Gdrmai public . Papers , published under the authoriz iticn o
a gavHjnment censor , contained things which , even ii France , would have been punished as high treason and other thines which could not have been pro nounced in England , without a ttfil for blaspbeinj buing the const q lance of it . The movement was si sudden , so rapid , so energetically pursued , that thi gOTernjient OS wtll as the pubHc were dragged ali > nj With it for aoine time . But , this violent character o the agitation proved that it was aut founded upua i strong party aniomj tho public , and that its pawe was produced by the ' surprise and coasttrn ition onl ; of its opponents . The governments , r ? ei > vcring thui 86 U 83 S , put a st' ^ p to it by a moat cfespotiu opprvs slon of tho libeity of speech . P . vmphlels , newppap ^ ra periodicals , scientific works were suppressed by d < z ; ns aud the agitated state of the ountry soyu subs . deil .
THE COMMUNISTS . The princes and rulers of Grmany , at the verj moment when they believed to hnve put down for ever . Republicanism , « uw the ri . se of C iiutnunum from the ashes of political agitation ; and this now doctrint appears to them even more d » nacrous and formidable than tbat in whose app&re'it destruction they rejoiced . As fciirly na autumn . 1842 , some of the party contended for the iHttimViency of political cbange , and declared their opinion ro be , tbat a Social revolution bafiod UpoD Common property , was tt : n only state o ( Uiacki&d agreeing with tbeir abstract principles . But eveu the leaders of thei party , such ;\ s Dr . Bruno Bauer , Dr . Ft-uerbach , and Dr . Ra ? e , w « -re not-then prepared for th ' ia decided step . The political paper of the party ,
the Rhenish , Gazette , published some paptn advocating Communism , but without the wi-hfi-fur effect , Coiniiiuuisin bswever , was such a necessary cor . se quenoa of New Hegelian , philosophy , that no oppos ' .. tion could feecp it down ; and , iu th « course of thia present year , the originators of it bad the satisfaction of seeing oue republican after the other join their ranks . Besides Dr . Hess , one of the editors of the now ^ Suppressed Rhenish Gazelle , and who was , in fact , the iBr 8 t Communist of the party , thtre are now a great many others ; as Dr . Ruge , editor of German Annals , the scientific periodical of the Youn ; , ' Hege . 'aus , which his been suppressed by resolution of the German D . ot ; Dr . Marx , Bnother of the editors of tho Rhenish Gaxalle ; Gsorge Herwegb , the poot , who « e letter to the K ; n ^ of Prussia was translated , last winter , by most ot tbe English papers , and others : an-i we hope that the remainder of thts Bepulflican p ^ rty will , by-and-by , come over too .
CHARACTER OF THE GERMANS . The Germans are a very disinterested nation . If in Germany principle cornea into coliision viith interest , principle will almost always 8 il « nce the claims of interest . The same love of abstract principle , the same disregard of reality aad self-iiiCercst . wliich have brought the Germans to a state of political nonentity ; the&u very aame qualities guuraoted the sacce . ss of philosuphica . 1 Comniunism in that country . It will appear very singular to Englishmen , that u pnrty which aims at the destruction of private property , is chiefly ma < tt * up by thoRe who have , property ; a . ; d yet thiB is the case in Germany .
PROGRESS OP COMMUNISM . Thus , philosophical Commuoism m * y b considered for ever established in Germany , notwithbtanding the efforts of thfi govemmunts to ktep it ( iown , They buvo annihilated the press in their dominions , but to no effect ; the progress party profit by the free press of S « "Stairland and France , and their publications are as t'Xtensively circulated in Germj »> y , as if they were printed in that country itself . AM ptfrswutioDs an : ' , prohibitions have proved ineffectual , and wilt ever do so ; the Germans are a philosophical nation , and will not , canaot abandon Communism , us m > > n as it is founded upon sound philosophical principles ; chi < fly if it is deprived as an unavoiaahle conclusion from their own philosophy .
Notwithstanding the persecutions of the G Tin in governments ( I understand that , in B&rlin , Mr . E igar Bauer is prpseoated for a Communist publ uiuon ; and in Suttgart another gentleman bus I'ean committtit ! for the novel crime of " C laimunist correspondence ! ' i notwithstanding this , I say , every necessary step is taken to brtns about a bnccessfnl nijitation for SJCial Reform ; to establish a new periodical ; and to secur « the circulation of all publications advocating Communism .
" A NIGHT WITH BURNS . " The following under the above head is from Ainsworth ' s Magazine . A certain Andrew Homer of Carlisle , took it into his head tl ai he was a poc . He wrote , and he would print . To carrv Ins iauda . ble design into execution , he took a-j niruoy to Glasgow , and agreed wiih a printer ana publisher . In returning from Glasgow he found himself upon an evening in the ancioiH town of Ayr , ami in the common room of tho iun he forgathered with some halfdoz : n " ranting , roaring ,, dashing young feliowtf , fond of tljeir « lasa « nd their juke . " "Tne night drave on with eong and clatter ; " and at labt Andrew was inducrd to lay a wagrr thai he woald beat a " poet lad" wjio lived nerr by . The poet lad wai introduced , arid—but we will let the writer tell tie rest : —
' " * An epj ^ rsm was the subject chosen , because , as Andr&w internally argued , ' it 18 the stiortest o \ all poenop . In compliment to him , the cornoanv rcsolrrd that his otvu merits shouid supply the theme . " He commenced—* In seventeen hunder thretty aine 'apd he- paused- He then said , * Ye seo , I was born in 1739 , [ ho rtal date was some y « jars earlier ] so I . niak tnat the cotriu : ^ ucemen ' . ' " He thcu took pun in hand , folded his paper with a conscious air ot authorship , squared him-elf to the table , like one who considerea it no irifia nven to write a lutttr , and slowly put down in good round hand , as if he had been making out a bill of parcels , the line' In seventeen hunder thretty-nine ;' but beyond thia , after repeated attempts , he was unable to advance . The second iino wad the Rubicon he could net pas ? .
'•* At last , when Andrew Homer rolupUntly admitted that he was not quite in the Vein , the pen , ink , and paper , were banded to his antagonist . By him they were rejected , tor te instantly &a > ve tha following , viva voce — 1 In seventeen hunder thretty-nine , : The Poil gat stuff to mak' a swine , And pit it in a corner ; But , fahortly after , changed his plan , Made it to ? omeihing like a man , And called it Andrew Homer . '
" The subjeot of * hia stinging stanza had the good sense not to be offduded with its sarire , cheerfully paid the wager , set to for a night ' s revelry with his new frienda , and thrust his poems between tha bars of the grate , when ' the £ > ma' hours' caaae on to four in tho morning . Ay his poetic rival then , kindly roiled up the hearthrug , in a quiet corner of the room , to serve as a pillow for the vanquished rhyme-Btor—tlieu literally a carpet knightr—the old man , better prophet than poet , exclaimbd , Hoot , mou , but ye'll be a greater Roe * , yet !' ' '' i i < '
" Answer , ( 3 nations , whether the prediction waa fulfilled ? In a few months after , volume of poems was published from the press of John WiWu , of Kilmarnock—the autiiot was a pettsaut by birth , a poet by inspiratioa . Coarse was the paper on which these poems were printed , and worn was the type But the poems themselves . wore of that rare class which the world does not willingly let die . The fame of their author has flown , far and wide throughout the world . His genius and his fate have become ' at once the glory and the reproach of Scotlauo . ' Tbat author was the same who , in a sportive mood , made an epigram upon poar Andrew Homer . His name was ROBERT BURNS . "
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PnooHESs of Literature in Italy . —Daring the year 1842 there have been printed in Italy 3 , 042 books ( the number printed in 1841 was 2 999 ) : of these 3 , 042 1769 , or about three-fifth ? , were published in tho Lombardo-Venetiari kingdom ; ^ of the remainder , 508 appeared in Piedmont ; 235 in the grand duchy of Tuscany ; 216 in the papal states ; 174 in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies ; 19 in the duchy of Modena , and 11 in thu state of Lucca . Of these works a considerable portion were translations . ) ! f j i ; >
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Murrain . —In the northern circuits a virulent aad faint disease exists amon ? the cattle . One farmer has losi nineteen milch cows and a fine bull . Ths disease is ir-fl immationj of the heart , of which the cattle die within eight hours after they are attacked . The crimes of horss and sheep stealing have been considerably on : the increase late ' -y ia Sussex , and several formers have been great sufferers . Chinese Language is France—With a prompt wisdom and ready foresight a royal ordonuance has beon issued in 'France , establishing a professorship of tke
Chinese language In the schoo ! of the livisg-oriental tongues , and appointing M . Bazin to the chair .. Surely tke study of the Chinese ought to ba sedulously iuraued in England . Young men intended for mercantile pursuits would jdo well to think of ifc . KNiiriNG and SHIRTING—Tt is in contemplation to establish societies for the distribution of prizes to farmers' wives Jand daughters , for proficiency ia shirt Huking and stocking knitting , and other accomplishments more useful than pr ' z ; d in thoaa degenerate days . :
HOUSE MaSURE . —Mr . Whitley , a writer on the application of geology to agriculture , states that ri carcase of a horse | is equal to at least ten times its weight of farm yard manure , aud would prove much more valuable to thej farmer , if convsrttjd into a - compost , than if sold for : the kennel . RaTaFIA—derived Lorn res raia ji . d - let the matter bo ratified . When the ancients concluded a fc&rg&in , they were in the habit of opening the btst wiu « in tho collar , and as they qu-iftlid the nectar , of ! pronouncing the words ; the last two of which , -with a tnfl-. nst change , are ne ^ used to designate a iiquture couipoatd of brandy , sueair , and fruits .
Lead Mink ^—A valuable lead min e has lately bee u discovered on the eaUo of Mr . Cole Uamiliou , couniy Tyrone . We have seen a specimen of the ore , w& ch is the sulphuritof lead , and may produce , pc-rhips , Beventy per cent of tliu pure metal . Tiiis is much . i ! -ovt ) the usual average , anit we hope that it may prov « it mine ef wealth to the country us wtli aa to t&e possessor— Dubtin Literary Journal . Mothers . —jHuw liui « do wo appreciate a mother ' s tenderness while living ! How heedless are we in childhood of all hsr anxieties and tvinUnces . But When she is dead and gone ; when tne cares and coldness of the world come withering on our hearts ; when we learn how hard ; it is to find tvua sympathy , bow few love us for out 8 b 1 « i . s ; how few will befriend uh in our misfortune ; thtm it ia we think of the mother we havet lost . I
Glasgow Univkksity . —The election of LordR ctor tot tho Glasgow University took pLce on Wednesday . Lord Eglintoi . iud Air . Fox Maule wtre thecandidates . The latter v ? ns elected by a large majority . THE AMEKi j CAJr savy c / nsistB of ten ships of the line , all buile and neariy finished , fourteen frigatts of the flrat-class , tpo o £ the second , aevevi ^ en sloops , eight brigs , nice schooners , i . ad six steamers nf war carrying immensely lon ^ gunp . "Jacks the Lad !"—I left my old friend tTVieting his hemp ( who ' iuaat me a bow at parting that would have done no discredit to the Court of Louis le Gran-:, )
and strolled ag'iiu u < ihe harbour , where I saw Li Feine Amelu-f-the p / eiiaure yacht of the Qa tn of France—a beautiful little f > ch . ooiier of most ek-jant anape , all saiinwuou and Rikling , manned by some of the finest and mo 3 t sailor-Miss looking fellows I ever saw . One of her cu > v ca ' . itd out to an Esmlish sailor , on tbe quay , who v . ds eyeing tho craft with . a critical and somewhat jconteiuptuoua air . " I say , meesfca'ra , you Quin , has she tt ship ' s iikesees V " My ' Q- ' . essc ? sa ? d Jack , " "Vy , I Rhid be B- ^ hatned of her M ^ jesty if fbed spit iu such n ltdai ' ,: '—J Trip to Havre ' de Grace —Illuminated ilayas > ne ,
To Prevent beer fiiom being Turned bi TilUKDEJt . —Having asjertained t ' hiit it is perfectly good , draw off ] entirtly in pint pots . Then having collected an equal number of railway navigators , distribute accordingly . Tola will answer in the hottest summer . —Pandh . War . —In a speech of a Becbnano chief , he says—What is war ? . jW .-tr builJs no tewns— p ants no gardens—rai 3 es no { children—his no j' » ya - What is war ? It iB the World ' s destruction—it breaks in pieces tho hearts of mothers , and caused the orphan to moarn . to
Pbejudice- ^ I remevaber a man corairjj me with a doleful countenance , putting himself into many lamentable postures , gaping as wide as he could , and pointing to his mouth , & 9 though he wouLd say he , could not speak . I enquired of his companion what was the matter ? And jwas informed , " he bad fallen into the bands of the Turks , w jo had used him in a barbarous manner , and cut out his tongue by the roata . " I believed him . But when the man bad bad a cfteerful cup , he could { find his tongue as well as another . I rt fl > . cted , how is it I cuuid so readily believe that tale ? Tne answer was | ea ^ y— beoause it was told of a Turk . " — John Wesiey . l
iwo Children Buknt to Death . —Mr . Payne , City Coroner , lield two j » quests on Siturday , In the bo'inl-room of [ St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , on the bodies of two children , of the respective ages of three and iour years , j who met their deaths by accidental burning , during ; the temporary absence of their parents ( torn home . Verdict , *• Accidental de » tIi . " Nunnery . — "fh * Cat'ooiica are about to establish a nunnery in Nwttinghani , and have taken spacious premises in ParHiment-siriH-t for the : purpose The nuns are to be ot the ' order of tho " Sistera of Charity , " an « 4 . several of themiure shortly oxpsctsd from the neighbourhood of Btruiinghiin . AiiiBOROUGH Tkillok , tue Murderess . —This UDhappy woman , on whom sentence of death was passed by Mr . Jusuctf E skine , at tbe Hereford Summer Assizijj , 1842 , for the murder uf he ? infant iaas had her sentence commuted to transportation for 1 fe .
Dreadful Accide . vt . —Oa Sfiturday evening an inqaast was hold at the sign of the Green Gate , in the City-road , before Mr . Barker and rt jury from the neighbourhood , on the body of James Hurren , age < 1 67 , who carried on business us a wholesale clothier in Wormwood-street , Bishopi * fue , As James Harrod , porter to Meiers , C . itor and Woods , lii : « ndMpers on Finsbury pavement , was j standing « t his . employers' door , at balf-past eight jo ' ciocfe on Friday evening , he saw a cart laden with two tons of brewer ' s grains , and drawn by i wo horses , who wwe in it : ; allop , coming at a rapid pnee from the City-road t ) wards Chiawell-street , fall . iwtjfi in the rear , at the ciistince of eight or ten yards , by tan driver , jwho was endeavouring to overtake it . At tiiis tiumentjthe deceased was crossing the end of Cniswelt-street fur F . nsbury-squar « f when the horses tuiurt . i sharply jinto the street ; the deceased , seeing them coming against Lira , hesitated , as if about to turn biick , and held up his hands to stop the horses ; but he
w ^ s insiaatly knocked clown , aiid the near wheel went over the miilf 1 le | of hia fcoiy , crushing in Wb ribs .- He was raised from' the ground bj the witness and other persons and carried into the shop of Ms . Alfred Miditlctou , a surgeon in Finsbury-place , on his passage to which he move < $ slightly , but expired the moment be got th « re . Kicbiarct uob&y , tiio driver , in ihe service of Mr D kVi 3 , a cowkoeper in Kosier- ' . an ? , Siuilhtield , now came up , and was takt-n iui /> custody , by poiicsmun Hainys , 155 G , tha lu < fsbs : \ n € > cart being stopped and taken to cue ^ reepyar-. I . G ^ b ^ y sabstqnently underwent an < x »! ninati' > u at vVorhnip-ptreet Police-court , on the chiiTije of ruanalau ^ Si ^ er , bat an inqutet not hvsving 6 een haid on the bwly , and Che evidencd not fieing complete against him , ho « ,, s rt > map > 1 t 2 d for further examination . After several otber witnea ^ ex had been examined , the Cjiouer char ^ eit ti «> j-jry , and aft « Half an hour ' s dclibtration they relumed n verdic - of * 'Accidental death , caused by the cirt ( t " 'iug over the deceased ; but that thr ; ru was uo evileice Lo ohow how that catt wes
put in motion . " I Civilisation ! of the Greeks —The Times having asserteu that " the Grupks had made more rapid progress iii education , civil ; . asiwi , and > 7 ealih , ttian couid have boon rcasouaoiy exptcted , " a correspondent , who spent the iao : » i ! ia of February "and March last in that country , confirms tho assertion : — " I can especially bear witr . ess to their proereas in education , and their extr ^ yr Unary Iqve of leatning . I shail never forget henriDg Piofes ? r > r Ojopius ' s ieoture on Grecian an'iquities , in Q > : ek , . nsid to Greeks , in the uuiversity of Athens . Not that I understood much uf what besaid ; butit was the deep aud eager-attentiou of tbe immense audience of ail ages anA classes , Did and youne , from the vetornn warrior with bis white
' moustache , down to m »> re boys—ricb and poor ; from 1 gentlemen of the ! modern school , and chieftains in their ' ' picturesque dresses , down to tho bare-footsd peasant— , 1 maoy taking notes , and all intelligently listening—it was thut which j surprised and delighted me . And I j waB told that this was the case with nil the public ; lectures , which ) are open to every body gratuitously . If it be a G . rm&n professor lecturing , of cturao in , ! Greek , on Gorman motayhyato , it is just the -same— there they all are takiu ? note" , and doing their utmost j ! to get something from it . 1 venture \ o say , ttat they . j will soon be oaejof the be 3 t educated people iu Europe , ' taking tttem as a body . Tr . ere are several booksellers' I shops iu AtLensj full of the cUssica and a rising modern literature . They havs magnzlnes and ecverai news- ¦ papers admirably conducted . " '
. , The Dog . —The dogs by the Nile drink whih running , t « csoape the crocodile ? . When those vt Navv Orleans wish 10 cross the Mississippi , they bark 1 at the river ' s edge to attract the alligators , , wb . o I are no sooner drawn from their scattered haunts aud concentrated on the spot , than the dogs set off it full ' epaed , aud plunge in the water higher up the stream 1 An Esquimaux jdog , that was brought to thiB coun' try , was-given to artifices which are rarely seen , in 1 the native Europeans , whose subsistence does not 1 depend on theiir own resources—strewing his food 1 round him , and feigning sleep , in order to allure 1 fowls and rats , iwhich be never failed to add to his ' store . —Blair's Hittory of ' . the Dm .
] MARATHON . " Groat king remember Athens 1 " From this day Thy cionching slaves , each ; mom , shall need no mere To bid thee thick of her . By the seashore Of Marathon the flisbing sunbeams play On golden arms , the pomp of thy array , The gorgeous ranks that Dates leads to war . Hark 1 drowsing in their battle shout the roar Of the ^ E . » ib , fiercely to tho fray , ' . With fiery speed , rush , t'wards their glittering foe , The iron ranks of Athena : on they pour Like ocean ' s billows when the north winds blow . Thy Persians , ! like their foaai , are swept , before The charge . Rejoice , thou everlasting sea , Ye heavens lift up your toice ^ fhe eaiih is free .
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A Whale in the Dow . ns . —Ds . icg the laBt / tfseK one of these mongers of tue deep has teen visitip * ' oar coast in search of barrings , its favouriie food , and was distinctly seen on Sunday mornin ? in the Dawns , sending up its natural fountain ' s . Yesterday it was seen off Diver from the shore , and some mea wno were va 9 boat , just as it wai approaching , bad a narrow eBSipe ofanup « st ; but tney luckily got oh board ¦*¦ . galhot , which was passinc at ; he tima , ami saved tbeto ^ Jvas frotn , •» watrry ar . ive . The ttany g iant is suppss * . to bs upwafils cf sixty teet in length . Tha herring-finery is progressing very slowly on this part of thB C 02 it . — Dover Telegraph .
Instant Death from Swallowing a Pea . — On Tuesilay last , the inhabitants of Kfrkalady wera thrown into a state of extreme excitement by a report that Aaue Henderson , a fine gwl of about sik yea . ra of r . j ? e , was suff ; cat « d by swallowing a pea . It appear * that she wa 3 playing with her " 'dusa-m ^ tea , and . v ^ ' ^ U 9 t rucnfBg fomewhat smartly bad thrown a psa "int >» her mQuth , wb . ich unfortunately entered the windr . ipe . Ertry assistance was rendered . , but it became too 6 vi « dent that the tide of life waa ebbinc fust , and that Uh' ias ^ niflc ant pea wis not too insignificant to prove tbe instrument of death . Her distracted pireuts were scuccely on the spot ere she who was only five minutes be ' ore all life and harmless itlee was numbered w ; tQ the it ! ad . Drs . S ; i ; ith aud Toung arrived on the spot sot long after the occ « renc « , bat coaUl do notbing . The l- 'ttet gentseman yeuteniay made an incision in tb . 9 windi'ipe , mid found the fatal pea had lodged there ; it hac not descended very deep . It was a boiled one , and ; f a
very 8 T . au s'zs—Scotsman . Economy . —rEcrtnomy should be practissd in all t . ' . iintis , bur . moiB partinulariy in matt rs of modi -me . The restoration to health baa generally b ; en , ircc . asp . d at a cos'ly priw ; and certainly if h < - to could not be procured at any other rate , a c < - j-ly price si . cald nut bo s ,- \ o ^ j- 'O t . of scruple . !> ut whore is the wi-sdom , where is the ecouomy in ep ^ iding vast suras on a physician s attendance , vr ^ ea eound health and lac ^ l >* o may be ensured by j he cheap , safe , and simple remedy of Parr ' s Life Fills . Robbeet at Halstead Chubgh . —On Thursxiay ttsoraiiifj some persons broke into Ha ( stead Chu ^ oh i and droke open several boxes containing small sutib ofmonty , which they took away . A panel at ibo back ot the altar was also forced down by tK-ra , their search biing evidently for ihe communion plate .
Hkal Heioism . — An extraordiuary in ^ tanc of prew : ice of miud , lately occurred a- the quarrit in tho Ross of MttU , Ar ^ y lebhire ; now wrought for the pier in connexion with tho Skerryvore lighth- 'iisa by- Vip Cotnmissii > ners of Northern Li g hthouses . On the 17 ih alt as Mr . Charies Barclay , theforemiJ » ot the quarries , was engaged in removing a spJintt ; of s ' . ono from the face of a block of len tons W ' -iuHt , which lay on aa inclined ledge , above h m , the bloek slid forward and oncloeed his loft hand , which * as bruised in such a manner that two of his miJ " -Ie fiii ^ rs were destroyed , aud the sharp points of r , cfc came in contact at the palm of the hand , so that ifc was held complettly fast , as in a vice . In tru » dreadful sitaa ^ tonAir . Barclay ' s great presence of
. mind and strength of nerves proved tho meaiu of saving his life and those of tha men that were along wish him . The first impulse of the rasn was to fetch a lever to raise tho stone and liberate the prisoner ; and had Mr . Barclay ' s presence of miud deserted him , or had he fainted under the excruciating torture he endured , this rash purpose won Id have he ^ n executed , and tbe stone would h . ve launched him forward and crushed him and his co > n rad « s beneath its mas 3 . He , however , wa 3 enab ; id to direct their proceedings with a wonderful dejrr-ie of composure , and , after fruitless attempts to raise tho bioelr . Mr . Barclay resolved to cut out the stone
round his hand as the ouly means of escape ^ Tkia painful operation occupied aboat twenty minutes , durioff which time the torturea he endured did not prevent his working wiiin . the remaining hand ia effecting his liberati m from his exraor . ! iu » ry captivity . Mr . Barclay afterwards walked without assistance to the neighbouring village of Buness » a , two miles off , where Dr . Diannid , a gentleman wtio had lately returned irom the Arctic expedition under Ross , removed the shattered bones . Next day Dr . Campbell , who acts as surgeon to the Serryvore works , arrived from Tyree , aiid conveyed his patient to the barracks at Hynish VVorkyari , where he is fast recovering .
A Muprain . —As a proof of tho alarming nature of tho disease among cattle and of its extent in c > . r neighbourhood , we may siate—and we haT 9 _ the statement on unquestionable author'ty— that , in a district of ei £ ; ht or ten miles round Darby , the low of cattle from this cause has been something like £ 2 , 000 within the last year or fifteen months . Of course , th « whole Joss cannot be ascertained ; but we have seen a list of 227 head of-cattle iost by the disease during this time , belonging to farmers residing near us , which , valued at £ 8 each , is pretty nearly this earn . —Derby Mercury .
Wgxderpui . Delivery . —A iaaaj , named Mitchell , who resides at Ilininster , having been suspected « f stealing some geese , at Chililngton , the constabJc 3 were despatched to search his houso , having gained admittance , they found Mrs . Mitchell , according to her own account , in a very delica ' e condition , ia fact , on the eve of confinement . Medical assistance in this case , as in all similar cases , was required and , of coarse , soon obtained . Oa the arrival of the doctor the good lady was assisted to turn out and stand up , when , as if by magio , and to the astonishment of all present , not excepting the doctor , * he was delivered of two very clean picked geese . Tne business was soon over , and the patient immediately became convalescent , aud was enabled on Monday ( prepared , we presume , for another confinement though of a very different nature , in company wit ! i her husband ) , to pay a visit to the honourable bench
j of magiserates at Chard , to receive ta ' cfr CongratlUft " I tions on this wonderfai delivery . —Sberborne ' Journal ' VVab Against Knowledgs . ' —Serial publications of a literary and scientific nature cannot now be sent by post , without tha full charge , even it stamped . Au experiment tvas recently made which sets tha question at rest . A new literary periodical , printed on a stamped sheet , similar to the regular now .- , - papers , passed through the post tMae for two successive weeks , when its transmission was interdicted , the Postmaster-General conceiring that tha privilege derivable from the stamp is to be considered as applicable only to newspapers . "—[ A . JBse and jasfc Government would aid the circulawfmi of knowledge , aud the consequent mental cut"tare of the people by every means at its command . Our Government is " neither ; hence it trammels by stamp acts , pos-t-office regulation ? , & . c , the circulation of mind ' s productions--. But we
V Will war Witb all who war with , thought ;" and to the best of our power aid in the annihilating of a ' * system" which " lovech darkness rather than light , " aud keeps in ignorance the enslaved ** many , " as the only means of uphol 'ing the " privileges" of the tyrant " few . " - £ . N . S . ] The Queen ' s Visit to Sib R . Peel . —It ia her Majosty's intention to honour Sir Robert Peel with a visit at his residence at Dray ton Manor on Tuesday , the 28 Mi inst . Her Majesty will proceed from Windsor Castle to Watford , and thence by railway to Drayton Manor , to remain till Friday , the 1 st of December , when her Majesty will go on a visit
to his Grace the Duko of Devonshire , On Moaday , the 4 . h of December , the Qaeea will honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir Casde , and return to Windsor Castle on the 7 th . Her Afajssty will be accompanied by his Koyal Highness Prince Albert ; and wo learn that her Majesty the Queen Dowager has pignified to bir Robert Peel her intention to join tha Royj . l party at Drayton Manor on the 29 t , ti inst . ; so that the Premier will have the distinguished honour of receiving in his house at the same time his Sovereign and her illustrious Consort , and her Majesty the Queen Dowager , with their respective suites and attendants . —Standard .
A Bkacs of Fools —Dpel . —A hostile meeting took place on the sand near Haverfordwesfc , da Tuesday se ' nnight between Captain B - ^ y , an bfficiT who very gallantly distinguished himself in the wars in Afghanistan and Seinde , and a Mr . T . J- ^ s , in consequence of some language spoken by ihe latter highly derogatory to the most illustri ous personage in the realm , in the presence of the captain , who resented it by a personal attack upon the disloyal subject , and a meeting ensued , in which Mr . J s was very -severely , injured , so much so , that ids life is did paired of .
Melancholy Affaib . —On Tuesday , a rumour obtained extensive circulation in Marylebone that Mr . Joseph Hume , M . P ., had on Monday made an attempt to commit suicide , by precipitating himself from one of ihe windows of hi&remdenee i Bryaii $ ton » jquare . During the latter part of that day and the whole of yesterday che house of the Houoarable Member was literally besieged by the calls of his political as well as personal friendB . The ramour , as regards Mr . Hume himself , proved erroneous ; but an occurrence had taken place of an equally serious and afflicting tibaraotex to the Honourable Gentleman's son-in-law , Mr . Charles Gubbins , who is the brother of her Grace the present Duchess of St . Aiban ' s . Ob . ' Monday inprniug , shortly before five o ' clock , the screams of Mrs . Gabbins atroka
Mr . Joseph Hume and his family , and it wag then discovered that the nnfortnnate gentleman had thrown himself from his bed-room vrindow , on th « third floor , on to the payementj Hstyjug been conveyed into the house iu an insensible state , Dr . Arnott , of Bedford-square , Jlr . Listpa ^ , » ad SeTeral other emineut members of the medical profession , were sent for , fend promptly arriyedi when it waa discovered that Mr . Gubbins haa sustained a compound fracture of one of his ^ thigh * in two places , and that his other lfg was broken . ^ Mr . ^ Gnbbins was visit- 'd two or three times thronghont yesterday by his medical attendants , and but very faint hopes are entertainftd of his ultimate recovery . The sad event has thrown the family of Mr . Buine and his Grace the Duke oi St . Altai ' s into a state of great affliction . ^ ¦
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct972/page/3/
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