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KOBLEMEN . |( BT C . » . SIDABT . ) The noblest men I know on earth , _ ire men whose hands are brown with toil ; « f » backed by no ancestral graves , ^ ZTdTn the woods and till the soU , 4 nd thereby win a prouder fame fnan follows a fang or warrior s name . « ke woriin ? men I whaler their task , To carve the stone or bear the hod , — They wear upon their honest brows The royal stamp and seal of God ! And brighter are their drops of sweat Than diamonds " in a coronet ! r , od bless the noble working men , Vho rear the cities of the plain ; fffao dig the mines and build the shi ps , -crfcnlirive the commerce of the main ;
Cai h ' e « s them ¦ for turn swarthy bands Bare wrought the glory of all lands .
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And manly language ?—bluab . with , shame . 3 Jni , in the future s misty sphere , Jlethiaks I see some brighter days In store for Erin ' s land , so dear To all fond hearts who freedom praise . Strive on , then Erin , spurn their jeer , To freedom s cause be true , be tried ; "The day will come—ay ! and ' tis near , When " Erin ' s need sham , be supplied . "
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AS" ADDBESS TO THE ELECTORS A 1 ST ) NON-ELECTORS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM , on the defective stale of the Representative System , and the consequent unequal and oppressive- Taxation ? & c , & c . B y W . Wiluams , Esq . ( late M . P . for Coventry ) . London : E . Wilson , Royal Exchange . * 2 ? otwithstaxdisg certain ! " moderate" sentiinents given expression to in this pamphlet , -which meet with no sympath y from us we can conscientiously -wish Mr . . Williams ' s work a wide circulation . Therein the reader will find a good deal of information relative to the collection and expenditure of the public money , and the crying necessity that exists for such a reform of parliament as will g ive the taxpayers full control over those who vote away the people ' s money . We quote the following from Mr . Williams s opening observations : —
TO THE ELECTORS JkJH > SON-ELECTORS . You , the non-electors , who are excluded from the possession of the elective franchise—the proud "birthri ght of a free people—number , iu the TJnited Kingdom , six millions . of men ; while you , the electors—the favoured class entrusted with the suffiage—the great privilege which forms the distinc--tion between ihe freeman and ihe slave—count but 1 , 061 , 000 , who were invested with this exclusive privilege by the Beform Act , which , seventeen years -ago , became the law of our country . In order to neutralise the opposition-and secure the eo-operation of the Radical Reformers , who contended for
-conferring the elective franchise on all men after attaining the age of maturity if not disqualified by legal disability , those of-you who are old enough , 'well remember the plausible arguments used , and -the confident assurances given , both in and out of Parliament , during the agitation and debates on the Reform Bill , that "the Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing but the Bill / ' would be effectual in constituting the Commons' House of Parliament a real representation of the people , instead of being the -creature of a borougn-inongering oligarchy . The abolition of so many rotten boroughs consigned to Schedule A—the sale of whose seats in the House of Commons was admitted to be " as notorious as the
Sun at noon-day —and the conferring upon populous towns the right to fill those defunct seats , -was ostentatiously displayed ; and although the Reform Bill constituency formed but one-seventh of the adult male population , yet assurances the most confident were held out that the first fruits to be produced by the House of Commons , elected under the provisions of the Beform Act , would he . that of retrenchment and economy in the expenditure of the public money ; so equalising the taxes that their burthen should fall on those best able to bear it , -instead of on the bard earnings of toil and industry ; and that the laws should no longer be made to favour ** classes " - —or more particularly tha rich class—but -eonallv for the well-being of the whole community .
In confirmation of this , the public declarations of many leading men of that period might be quoted , but especially those of the then prime minister , Earl Grey , and of Xord John Russell , and other members of the government who framed the Beform Bill . In his speech in introducing that bill into the House of Commons , Lord John Russell said , that" to establish the Constitution on a firm basis , you must show that you are determined not to be the representatives of a small class , or of a particular interest ; but to form a body who—representing the people , springing from the people , and sympathising with the people—can fairly call on the people to support the future burthens of the country , and struggle with future difficulties . " Again , said the noble Lord , "Looking at the question , then , as a question of right , the ancient statute
—the 25 th Edward the First—contains the germ and vital principle of our Constitution ; it thus declares , in the name of the king , "Moreover we lave granted for us and our heirs , to all the comtnonaltyafthe land , that for no business from henceforth we shall take such manner of aids , tasks , nor prises [ taxes ] , but by the common assent of the realm , and for the common profit thereof "—that the people shall send to the House of Commons their leal representatives , to deliberate on their wants tmd consult their interests—to consider their grievances—to hold the purse-strings of the nation —to lay the foundation for the most salutary ¦ changes iu the well-being and comforts of the people , and that laws should not be passed for the benefit -of classes by men -roused from their slumbers at twelve o clock at night , to vote for they know not what .
Is it not an indisputable fact , that the Reform Act has entirely failed to realise any of these promised national blessings , for the attainment of which it was Tauntingl y pretended to be passed ? 3 > oes it not , then , exhibit , in . a questionable character , the sincerity of its promoters—especially that of Lord John Russell—who , without venturing toassert that it has effected the promised reforms , nas strenuously opposed all of the many propositions forreforming the House of Commonsj whether it were Mr . Hume s comprehensive measure , shortening the duration of parliaments , establishing the tote by ballot , or even abolishing the disquahfica-£ on to be -placed on the register of electors by
nonpayment of the poor-rate ; although , since the * eign of Queen Elizabeth , a law has existed which fives the power to enforce the payment of rates due y selling a defaulter ' s furniture or other properly he may . possess , and , if insufficient , to cast him into prison , and thereto remain till paid ; this was the lajr until the last Session , when an act was passed fo limit the term of imprisonment to three months . It would seem that the Whi gs , in framing the Reform Act , foresaw that its results would only give to them a larger share of political power , and thereby enable them to get possession of thegoverhment , and , through a subservient House of Commons , to squander the resources , of the country on their minions and aristocratic connexions .
The Bake of "Wellingtons ministry was no sooner installed in office in 1828 , than a great movement acd agitation took place for Beform and Retrenchment , to which an impulse was g iven by the notoriously corrupt case of East Betford . ; The duke , either in deference to the public outcry for retreneht & ent and economy , or , perhaps , what may be more lastly dne to him , from a sense of public duty , ef-« cted large reductions ; and at the close of 1830 , JS **" - his ministry resigned- office , the expendituie JK ; that year was brought down to £ 52 , 018 , 000 , " *»* kss than that of 1 S 27 £ 4 , 318 , 000 , and which Svm- aoMe duke to , eaTe , as an inheritance ms Wug successors in office , a surplus of revenue over expenditure of £ 2900000
, , . Uw ^ ministry under Earl Grey , in 1831 and tW i ^?* two & st yeara in office-had to submit Estimates to an " Unrefonned " Parliament ; S ^ PPointment ™» not , therefore , felt that * a « T ?? £ te daced the expenditure in those two ffiflw ' 908 , ? 00 being lew bj £ 1 , 100 , 000 than * V * . ™ e preceding nunistry . * ft « m TVr *^ mder fte bahny shade of the ^^ T ^ eat- " 8 P ringu * g from the people , ^ R ^^ -with , the people" - which was fc ^ wonld leep a tight hold of the national strings , aud , in the terms of King Edward ' s
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jaw— . «« from henceforth to take no manner of aids oS r ^ ln ^ m , ^ e * n 1 ' . ^ jo ** the common profit thereof . " The first estimates of expenditure , presented by Sofr 8 g ° . rnment *» the Reform Parliament , il ^ ia ^ Q *^ « , ount ; £ 49 , 166 , 000 , and , for 1834 , f 49 , 223 , 000 . Towards the latter end of that year , King William turned the Whigs out of office , and a new . ministry was formed under the premier-I p , tl- ? obert Pee , » who framedthe estimates for 183 o , which were partlv voted before their resignation of office in the month of March of that year , t " , were' . adopted , unaltered . b y their successors , Lord Melbourne ' s administration . The amount of the expenditure , under those estimates , was
£ 48 , 787 , 000 , which combined the economic efforts of both Tories and Whigs , and were thenepftw ultra of retrenchment by " Reformed" Parliaments , being £ 2 , 120 , 000 less than tie estimates voted by the last rotten-borough Parliament , in the last year of its existence . This is the fulfilment of the " cheap and good government , " -which it -was promised the Reform Act would produce : but even this "tight hold of the nation ' s purse-strings' * . was but short-lived . The Whig economical ministry , finding itself backed by a " safe working majority" in the second Reformed House of Commons , in the next year ( 1836 ) , increased the expenditure to £ 50 , 819 , 000 , or within a few pounds of that of the borough-mongers of old ; aud that , too , when tnere was not a ruffle—" not even a cloud of ihe size of a man ' s hand" — visible
within the whole circle of the political horizon , either domestic , colonial , or foreign . I well remember this increase of more than £ 2 , 000 , 000 of the public money being voted often by less than forty mcmberi—the required number to form a House—and that , too , " without opposition or comment from any one but . the faithful guardian of the people ' s money—Mr . Hume . I had been , then , too short a time a member to enable me to render him very efficient assistance . A remarkable scene is presented in the " Reformed" House on a motion for going into Committee of Supply : a general flight and dispersion takes place , a corps de reserve of officials and expectants being kept at Bellamy ' s dining-rooms , read y
to defeat a motion to " count out" the House , or to answer the "Division Bell ; " all being thus made safe , the " Supply nights , " when the people smoney is voted away by millions , are devoted to dinnerparties and other free-from-care enjoyments . To return to the public expenditure , which was annually on the increase : —that of 1839 reached £ 53 , 44 : 0 " , 000 , and exceeded . the revenue by £ 1 , 500 , 000 , which was ; quietly added to the National Debt . The increasing " expenditure went on , year after year , until , in 1847—in tho first estimate of Lord John Russell ' s ministry to the fourth Reformed . Pai liament—itreached to nearly £ 60 , 000 , 000 and was then only arrested by a refusal , in 1848 , to increase the Income-tax from little less than three to five per cent ., or from sevenpence to one shilling in the pound sterling ; which , in this year , exhibited
the remarkable anomal y of three budgets in the same Session , in each ofl which reductions were made in the estimates of the expenditure , to bring it nearer to the amount of the insufficient revenue , and this after having been atpeacc Hdrty-ihree years ; for the disturbances in Lo wer Canada in 1838 were soon suppressed , and our interference between Turkey and the Pacha of Egypt was brought to an end by sending a few ships to take possession of Acre . The cost of Indian wars is defrayed by the East India Company , and that of the rupture with China was more than defrayed by the Chinese ransom . As to the tiffs with Louis Philippe , it would seem they were ' nothing more than adroit contrivances to frig hten and alarm the people of France and England , the better to enable their governments to increase their warlike armaments and thereby augment their patronage .
To provide for this enormous and prodigal expenditure , the amount of . the taxes was insufficient , aad the Beform ministry and Parliament— " during the eleven years the Whig Reformers were in possession of the government since the Reform Act was pissed—have added £ 41 , 000 , 000 to the National Debt ; of which £ 1 , 000 , 000 was applied to paying the Irish parsons * arrears of tithes , due from the Irish Roman Catholics , the payment of which they had successfully resisted . I well remember condemning , in strong terms , the iniquitous immorality of thus mortgaging the produce of the industry of generations yet unborn to pay the interest of a debt so shamefully contracted , and to have observed , that , if future generations should look into the items of which the debt is composed , and discover this and so many millions added to it to nrovide for a orodinal ex penditure exceeding the
revenue in a period of profound peace , it might shake the stability of the whole fabric . It is but justice to Sir Robert Peel to state that , on his coming into office in 1841 , having found the exchequer nearly empty , and the expenditure of Lord Melbourne ' s ministry in that and the four preceding years having exceeded the revenue by £ 6 , 000 , 000 , he put an end to a financial system so ruinous , and had recourse to the Income-tax ; by which means he p laced the finances of the country on a solid basis , and so continued them up to his resignation of office in 1846 . His " reforming " Whig successors—Lord John Russell ' s ministryno sooner got possession of the government than they again adopted the spendthrfit for their financial model . Their expenditure in 1847 and 1848 exceeded the revenue by £ 3 , 361 , 000 , and that , loo , was ungrudgingly countenanced by the " Reformed " Parliament .
The following extract cites a few examples as to HOW THE HONEY GOBS . Without going into the labyrinth of the public expenditure , whence flow , from countless sources , the most profligate extravagance and waste of the country ' s resources to provide patronage for the government , to supply the insatiable cravings for places , pensions , and sinecures by the Aristocracy , their parliamentary supporters and creatures , denominated by Junius the " Scavengers of the Ministry , " I will instance a few heads of expenditure in which great reductions may be effected . In the second Session of 1841 , 1 brought under the consideration of the Hause of Commons the enormous
increase in the Cost of collecting the public revenue , which had been nearly doubled . I took , as an example , the year 1806—an eventful year of war—in which the cost was not less than that of other years about that period , but because a Committee of the House of Commons had investigated the cost of the collection of that year , which amounted to £ 2 , 797 , 000 for collecting £ 53 , 250 , 000 of taxes , or a little more than 4 | per cent . The amount of the taxes for the year ending the oth of January last was £ 57 , 054 , 000 , of which the cost of collecting was £ 4 , 684 , 000 , or 8 i per cent . ! In making that motion in 1841 , 1 showed that the cost of the necessaries and luxuries of life was much leas in that than in 1806 ; but they are at present
year still lower , and may be estimated at fully one-third less than in 1806 . These strikingfacts induced Sir Robert Peel , who had just come into office as prime minister , to appoint a Commission to inquire into the whole system of collecting the taxes ; but the only inquiry instituted by the Commissioners was in the port of Liverpool , and their report exhibits the system there pursued as hi ghly discreditable , both as to the expensiveness aud inefficiency . The cause , it was understood , of cutting short the Inquiry , was a discovery that enormous reductions might be effected , but which , if acted upon throughout the vast ramifications of the Customs , Excise Stamps , Post-office , and the Estates of the Crown , would lop off an immense amount of corrupt
Government Patronage , which is carried on unseen and uncontrolled . Parliament having surrendered its great prerogative of supervision , each department intercepts the amount of the salaries and pensions of its officers from the Taxes on the way from the people ' s pockets to the Treasury , and in the annual account published , the net amount only is given , and no mention is made of the cost of collection . This is a public grievance of long standing ' ; in reference to which , the Marquis of Lansdowne , in 1797 , in his place in the House of Lords , said , that «« Every officer seems to be lord of bis own will , and to have unlimited power over the purse of the Nation , instead of being—as the spirit of the Constitution directed — under the constant check of Parliament . "
Soon after the Whig ministry were installed in office in 1832 , a Commission was appointed " to examine into the manner in which the public money is received and paid in the several departments of receipt and payment . " The Commissioners , in their Report , strongly recommended that , in future , all public moneys should , without any deduction whatever , be paid into the Treasury ; and , as a consequence , that the salaries aud pensions of the officers of the revenue departments should be annually voted . This recommendation was signed by the Commissioners , Lord John Russell , Sir James Graham , Sir Francis T . Baring , and Mr . Edward Ellice . Motions were repeatedly made in the House of Commons for carrying into effect this recommendation , but they , were resolutely resisted , because this hidden source of corruption has
been found too tonvenient to be relinquished . This accounts for the enormous increase in the cost of the Collection of the Taxes , which was commenced by Mr . Pitt , before whose administration it aid not exceed two-and-a-half to three per cent . If the present cost of the Collection- were reduced to three percent ., a savingof £ 3 , 000 , 000 a year would be effected ; or , if reduced to four and three quarters per cent ., the cost in 1806—and that eventful year of war , < o > - £ 2 , 000 , 000 would besaved : . The property of the Crown , which the Queen has sunendered to the public for a Civil List of £ 385 , 000 a year , is nearly swallowed up by plunder and mismanagement . This property is under the management of the Commissioners or Woods and Forests , who received from it in the last three vears an income of £ 1 , 157 , 746 ; of this amount tbey only paid into the Treasury £ 313 , 316 , being £ 874 , 430 less than they received . If this pro-
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perty were honestl ir managed , it / would produceI a sum equal to' the ' amOunt of tho Civil List , thereby p lacing our most gracious Queen in the independent position ; of receiving no more from the Nation than Her Majesty repays , from the produce of her own estates . The great Crown Forests , which annually ought to supply the Havy with a vast quantity of timber , produce . scarcely a sufficiency to pay the pensions and salaries of officials and peculators . TheDock-yards is another department in which there is a not in prodigality . Since tho termination of the war £ 52 , 700 , 000 have been expended for timber and other materials for ship-building , salariesand wages of officers and workmen employed in these dock-yards ; for every shilling of which there
ought to be something to show . What has become of this money it would be difficult even to conjecture , as at the close of the war there were 666 shi ps in commission and 335 in ordinary . If stock were taken of the ships built and on the stocks , and repaired , since the Peace , I doubt if anything approaching to one half of thia enormous amount could ho accounted for . During the same period £ 9 , 000 , 000 have been expended in what is denominated " enlargingand improving the Dock-yards , " although sufficiently capacious during the war for building and keeping in repair the above 1 , 000 menof-war , store ships , & c . Pembroke is tho only naval yard added , and basins for steamers . The entire system of conducting the business of the
Dock-yards has been one of continuous blunder , mismanagement , extravagance , and waste ; for , as hag been truly remarked by The Times , " ships have been built two or three times over . " It would be marvellous , indeed , if a better state of things existed under the present svstem . The qualification for First Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary seems to be , utter ignorance of Naval affairs ; and if the other Lords should have a better qualification , their being required to be Members of Parliament , the duties of which occupy so much of their time both day and night during the Session , renders it impossible for them to attend to their official duties . It is hardly reasonable to expect that so vast a concern as the Naval affairs of Great
Britain , on which £ 203 , 000 , 000 have been expended since . the Peace , can be otherwise than mismanaged under such a ruinous system . Much of the same character has been the Expenditure of the Ordnance department , in building barracks in Great Britain and Ireland , and the construction of Fortifications and Barracks in the Colonies . The Expenditure under these heads , in the last five years , was £ 3 , 000 , 000 . Upwards of £ 400 , 000 was expended in fortifying one of the Ionian Islands ; and the value of our Exports to the whole of those islands is about £ 120 , 000 a year The Ordnance Estimates for the expenditure of the year ending the oth April last were £ 3 , 001 , 100 ; in 1790 they were only £ 375 , 000 .
£ 4 , 000 , 000 are taken annually from the pockets of the people of this country for governing our Colonies ( exclusive of India , which pays its own expenses ;) besides this , the Colonists pay taxes to the amount of about £ 4 , 000 , 000 a year , which ton large extent is , absorbed in paying extravagant Salaries to Colonial Placemen , who are imposed upon the Colonies by the Government ot this Country . The return we receive for this Expenditure is , trading with them to the amount of about £ 9 , 000 , 000 a year : not a very profitable investment , except to the government as a source of enormous Patronage . And , as was recently observed by the Times , " We have spent hundreds of millions in fostering and protecting our Colonies , and are now paying millions over and above the interest of the debt for the establishments and defences of our Colonies . "
The Half-pay and Pensions of the Army , Navy , and Ordnance , amount to £ 4 , 000 , 009 a year , which is but little less than the whole expenditure of these departments in 1700 ! and not quite £ 2 , 000 , 000 less than the entire Expenditure of the United States ' Government . The Miscellaneous Services amount to £ 3 , 888 , 600 ; in 1790 it was only £ 168 , 600 . The charges on the Consolidated Fund are £ 2 , 811 , 000 ; in 1790 they were £ 1 , 003 , 000 . In days of yore , the House of Commons rigidly exercised its high prerogative of holding the purse-strings of the King ' s Exchequer , and allowed nothing derived from the people ' s
pockets to be expended without its authority ; but , to a large extent , it has surrendered that great constitutional power to the Government . In the year ending the 5 th January , 1847 , it permitted the Government to spend £ 7 , 004 , 000 without its permission or the exercise of any control over it ! The Bank of England having stopped payment in 1797 , caused a depreciation in ' the value of its notes ; in consequence of which , a great increase took place in the salaries of all public officers and persons paid out of the public money ; they are now , in very numerous cases , double what they wore before 1797 . Take , for example , the salaries of the Judges : —
1792 . 1849 . The Chief Justice of the Queen ' s Bench ' s salary £ 4 , 000 8 , 000 The Puisne Judges of do . 2 , 400 each 5 , 000 each . The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 3 , 500 „ 8 , 000 „ The Puisne Judges of do . 2 , 400 „ 5 , 000 „ The Chief Baron of the Exchequer 3 , 500 „ 7 , 000 „ The Barons do . 2 , 400 „ 5 , 000 „ "We trust this pamphlet will have an extensive sale . Its disclosures should suffice to arouse the plundered people of this country to a great and national struggle to achieve a complete and Radical Reform of Parliament .
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Ketchiana , See , 8 fc . B y the Eev . Alexander Duncakson , of Falkirk . London : C . Gilpin , Bishopsgate-street Without ; J . "Watson , Queen s-head Passage , Paternoster-row . This pamphlet has been written to prove that " The Punishment of Death by the Civil Law is in opposition to enli ghtened reason and growing social and political policy ; and also antagonistic to the mind of God , as expressed under the Patriarchal , Jewish , and Christian dispensations . " The author is evidently a man of strong convictions , enlig htened sentiments , - and generous feelings . The work is ably and eloquently written , . and is well worth y the careful perusal of those who are giving their attention to the important question of Capital Punishments .
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Mackenzie ' s Educational Books . London : E . Mackenzie , 5 , Wine-office Court , Fleetstreet . . ' . .. . ; Here are three more specimens of Mr . Mackenzie ' s enterprising venture in furtherance of the all-important work of popular education . First we have " Walkingame ' s Tutor ' s Assistant , '' comp lete for fourpence , or in two parts each at half that sum ; second , a new system
of " Short-Hand made Easy , " adapted either for self-instruction , or the use of tutora , students , or schools ; and third , "A Treatise on Phrenology , in which that science is elucidated and illustrated . The " Phrenology " and the " Short-Hand " are charged no more than twopence each ! Faithfully prepared , neatly printed , and marvellously cheap , these works deserve , and , we trust , will have an immense circulation .
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ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE . Mr . Batty has adopted a plan which is well worthy the imitation of all managers of theatresnamely , that of having a juvenile night once a week , when the pantomime is played first . The second of these nights took p lace on Thursday , when the attendance of smiling faces was more than usually numerous ; the boxes being literally crowded with youngsters , at home for the holidays , who seemed to enjoy the fun of Yankee Doodle . The truly wonderfuI performance of that mistress of her art , Mdlle Angele , elicited the most rapturous applause . The graceful dancing of Mdlle Gardonic on the tight rope , also excites the admiration of the audience . ' The performances concluded with the grand chivalric spectacle of the Knight of the Eagle Crest , which still continues its triumphant career .
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The Tuscan Monitore o f the 30 th nit . contains the following : — " We are happy in being able to contradict the statement given by the-Gratz Gazette , and repeated by us , that Count Ziohy was at Florence attacked . with insanity . We quote the following passage of a letter with which h . & . Prince Demidoff has favoured us on the subject : — " For the last six weeks I have had , at San Donato , the pleasure of the company of Count Zicby , whose name is Edmund and not Edward , and who is a brother of my unfortunate friend Eugene Zichy ; and hia numerous friends have the opportunity oi
seeing him every day as healthy in mind as he is resigned in heart . " ¦ ' ., Liiebary Gossip . —Dickens will start a weekly journal in March , and on the 1 st of the same month Douglas Jerrold will produce the first number of a new magazine . A new satirical publication is being organised . Kenny Meadows is to draw for it , and the literary contributors are men of some standing . The title fixed upon is Pasauin . The first number will appear on the 18 th inst . Mr . Doug las Jerrolu s new comedy is now nearly ready for tho stage ; it will he ' produced at the Hayraarket iu the course , of next month .
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THE MINER . S OF THE NORTH . The workmen of St atort Deleval Colliery , together with several frien ds from the adjacent ' collieries , met on New Yea r ' s Day to celebrate the anniversary of the present organisation of the " Society , for . the Protection Of tho Labour of the Miner , " which society was . vlrst' - ' established b y the workmen of that colliery , in c onhexioai with the miners of Cowpeii and Blythe . i' ' t having been arranged to take tea together , about " 340 . of . tho hardy miners were accommodated in the I » rge room , of the Hastings Arms Inn , many of who m were accompanied by their wives and sweethear ^ - ¦ -.-The . com ? mittce of management havin ^ disj . 'osed of one essential and necessary narfc oftnis « a . tiering , viz ..
the providing each with a very good CU , ** tea and Christmas bread , next proceeded to bV'ing before the audience several well-known friends to counsel and advise them with regard to their fu turo welfare . Before , however , entering upon this ' ' part of the business , it affords us great pleasure to remark the example of cordiality and harmony of sen timeiit which characterised the whole proceedings o f this body of men , who have for the last twelve nu * ihs acted in concert and union with each other , i ' >© th with regard to the proper and equal distribution « f their labour , and the fellow feeling displayed whom the late epidemic raged so fearfully among them . XV is pleasant to observe that those proceedings stand out in bold relief when compared with the
miserable exhihition of a nei ghbouring colliery , where the workmen were regaled with £ 10 . worth of ale , which only served to bury in a momentary oblivion the aches and pains entailed by the last year ' s competitive labour . It is also worth y of remark , that in consequence of the Jong and severe illness which has prevailed in this colliery , added to which , tho work has been of late very much reduced , many ol the workme ' n ' could not spare the necessary shilling to take tea with their brethren ; but to obviate this a subscription was set on foot , and the needful raised in a short time , thereb y giving many an opportunity of being present at this goodly gathering . On the motion . of Mr . Hall , Mr . M . Richardson was called upon to-presido , and Mr . J . Mandorson to officiate as vice . -
The Chaihman then enlisted the attention of the audience by a few brief remarks , and introduced Mr . TniRiAVKu . } who said : man in himself was an apt illustration of union ; the feet could not possibly do withoutthe belly , nor ' the latter exist without the various members which constituted the whole organism of his frame ; but though man ' s imperfection would be visible without these combinations and dependencies , yet in the question of his co-operation with his brother man much had been said on both sides ; for himself , he wan decidedly of opinion that such co-operation was good for all ; by it the advocates for man ' s redemption from slavery and serfdom were enabled to prosecute their labours , and lay bare the nefarious practice of holdinsr in
chains a portion of God ' s children . What fearful evils have the kings of the earth perpetrated by the congregated masses of mankind ; but we unite ourselves for the holy purpose of disseminating the heavenly doctrine of bearing each other ' s burdens , and establishing a common and universal brotherhood ; and let it be understood , that in carrying out those views and objects we would also embrace and connect the interests of our employers , and although we have as yet failed to impress bur employers practically with this view of tho question , perhaps the day is not distant -when these opinions will be better understood , when upon the principle of each for all , and all for each , the moral elevation of the human family will be a necessary sequence of man ' s existence . A better time is on the wing , and we
must endeavour to afford ourselves the consolation that each of us have done something to facilitate the onward march of" human redemption . The aiyecfc of things is improving . We have , like the Romans , sown the seed , and in due time we shall reap the fruits . Union cannot do all things at one time , but great things can be accomplished thereby . We desire to achieve the power whereby to pay all our creditors their fair due , and to banish that curse from so great a branch of our national industry , namely , —continued and necessitated degradation , by being constantly in debt to our shopkeepers , We want also moral elevation , and that we can obtain only by setting shoulder to shoulder , and by using our best efforts , the objects desired may bo realised before man ' s journey comes to a close .
Mr . Bell said , when this union was first ori g inated it was purel y a defensive one : our wages were threatened a considerable abridgment ; and when we perceive tho uncommon amount of good done in so short a time , wo are wishful to apprise ouv Seghill brothers that the " feast of reason and flow of soul" is much . more preferable than the debasing practise of closing the year ' s labour with drunkenness and disorder ; we aro enabled to enjoy ourselves at our own cost , thus securing our independence , whilst they , although the recipients of £ 10 from their master , have but received it as a premium in exchange for their birthright . This
country is the most wealthy , perhaps , under Heaven , yet what a terrible mass of misery does it contain ! Experience proves that until there shall exist a powerful pressure from without , the burdens of the people - will still increase . Let us demand , then , a proper share of that wealth which we produce , and we shall obtain it . Our assembly here this day is an omen of future good , and , perhaps , we shall not long be witnesses of the disgraceful manner in -which our hard-earned wages are nefarioutly taken from us , This would not be if union , instead of competition , had been in the ascendant . We wish for justice and fair play , and if united we shall obtain it .
Mr . Hardy observed , that many people were at the present time suffering keenly from the contracted means of subsistence , but what , indeed , would have been the miners' condition if the union hud not commenced ? Previous to its formation , wages were tumbling to pieces—reduction followed reduction , and we were fast approaching the lost and forlorn condition of the weaver who was enabled , in 1812 , to earn his £ 2 per week , but who could only at tho present time earn five or six shillings per week , for exactly as much as was formerly done for the larger amount . He could well recollect when a putter , was bound to a bond which guaranteed a fixed price for a year , at which a certain amount of work would bo paid for , but many of them , as well as himself ,
could testify their astonishment at the terrible increased size of the corves by which that amount of labour was calculated , and which increased quantity was a fraud upon the hewer and putter , who were paid by the piece ; and the amount thus taken from them was not less , upon the average , than fifteen percent . There was at present some stir about educating the miners . Why no children got so early an education as the trapper ; doomed to sit twelve hours in a dark corner beside the door , he hourly had his attention drawn to the curses and imprecations given expression to by the putters , who are apt , on the smallest interruption to their work , to vent their rage in horrid oaths , and unseemly language . Thus it was that tho miner ' s child
was educated , and his young mind—like a blank sheet of paper—became readil y and indelibly impressed with that stamp of wickedness which , in after life only fits him to act the schoolmaster to the next generation . However , it is gratifying to learn that the miners have improved , and that a few of them are enabled to . break through the coarseness of the pit college , and it was to tho efforts of these men that a great deal of their altered and improved condition may be ascribed . Yet a great work remains to be done ; hundreds and thousands of miners at the present day have no time nor leisure to attend to any instruction . The severity and lengthened nature of their toil unfits them to take advantage of attending any lecture or address that any party may feel disposed to give
them , and thus they pass away tho time between work and rest—from the bed to . the pit—and from the pit to bed . History furnishes us with a picture of the condition of the labouring people in the fifteenth century , when Sir J . Fortesque declared that every man in England was well clothed—well housed—and had plenty of good and substantial food , and that no man drank water except in doing penance . It is onl y by union that we can restore so enviable a state of things , and by attention to the principle of supply and demand we may , at least considerably nullify the extent of the sufferings now endured by our brethren—procure fair wages for our dangerous toil—and get clear of the degrading system of receiving our wages by tommy tickets , which is to some extent yet in existence in this district .
Mr . G . Hah said , our progenitors have , through ignorance , allowed themselves to bo deprived of their birthri ght like Esau of old , and it remains for us to work out our own salvation . Let us exert ourselves to improve our condition , and then may we expect to present to the world an aspect of comfort and peace . He expected to witness tho period when our rulers would remove the taxes upon knowledge , and that also which kept tho sun of Heaven from shining into our dwellings . Tho former had much to do with our mental darkness , and the latter most assuredly operated against our physical comfort .
Mr . A ; Stoves said , he would call . their attention to the necessity of adopting and . carrying out that most excellent rule— " Love thy neighbour as thyself . " It unfortunately happened , that our lawmakers left out a great portion of the principle embodied in the scriptural injunction ; but there was one law , namely , "Hume ' s Act , which , if it did not fully enjoin love , yet gave us liberty to fight our emp loyers . By these Taws we are enabled to meet together , and discuss the various matters connected with our earthly welfare , while , at the same time , our employers have the same power to act in what seemed . best for them . Upon this law we must meet our masters , and endeavour to get the best possible price for our labour . All other trades had taken up this matter , and were more or less organised upon its provisions , and why not the yitmen ? Ho was fully persuaded that the moral and intellec-
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tual elevation Of the miners - depended Wry much upon . tne relaxation of itheir-present excessive and severe toil , andto the . diminishing of the lon ^ : and wearisome day ' s , work ., Every colliery ' enjoined the boys , to work tjvelye hours ,, and ' m ' ariy even , at the present time were fourteen hours at work , especially where the men were notunited ; and at the West Moor oho man hadworked so hard and Iong , that he hddlost his eyesi ghts-Let' us imitate the brave men of Broomside Colliery , where if a man is weaker than his neighbour , the ^ latter helps the former ,. and ihus . they work together in harmon y and love . ' ' : ' . ' ' ...
JThe Chairman then introduced M . Jude to speak upon the subject of ventilation , and the necessity of the same being improved . Mr . Jude addressed the audience at considerable length upon this subject , wherein was clearly shown the great necessity for a change in onr present mode of ventilation of the mines of . this coantry . It was . also intimated , that we , at miners , did not desire wry vexatious enactments , but that there existed a necessity fv an inspection ! of mine * , and in a greas degree for ' compulsory irapeetion . ^ The speaker thsft . adduced some practical UlustratiSfie- oi the above-necessity , : wherein it was ' demenstJated , that sometimes the nirof a pit was sa » ventilated f / bata candle mold not bur » , and that in / many coflibries the workmen had i tp' . J / gfl * two or more- candles- at a time ; i <* c ' ean
'their eoals , and fe > ensure She- continuity " ©* ' such jUgJit-saad even thea ; . in many-instances , botlbenn-• dles-hav * ' gone out , andileft tbs'miners in the dfark . ln >'; a . gen <» 3 l way , tha- ; pits-were- worked up to-the verge ; of danger , thusr exposing the lives ¦ of She workmen ,. t & e ah hte 5 fe derangemerit'jj > aijy parM the-machinery ; suchas-atrap-dbnr being left t 30 long onen ,. 0 K-a sudden oi » ng < Hn * flie atmosphere ., broxghc immediate destruction-to * many of thenv-Explosions- ar « often duetoa- parsimonious spiritin laying out the general asr & ngemen * of a colliery : for example ,, when the higlu mainisoaaif was worked out at Walls-end , one shaft only was s » inli > down to the Benehami seam , which was a- much' more fiery seam than the- on « - worked oatj . an d to which there had been , ' two- shafts sunk ; tlloconseqiieBbe was ,
that in a > very short / , time an explbsionbok- place , and killed Hifty-two- persons , afton-which ) another shaft was-sunk * so that tho ecoi » my „ a » it ib-tenmod , exercised in . tho first instance was- of no avaiii , inasmuch as the second : had to be putr down-,, aad that , with all the additional expense engendered : by . the explosion . But this example dMinot mead' the matter , for at the present time there- are- about five pits down to the Bensham seam ib that coH ' ery ; yet each successive pit was put down , after aa explosion bad taken place ; there hawing been at Walls-end four great sacrifices of life , maki n g in the aggregate upwards of 1 C 0 Uvea ; asd it was not until after each explosion that the next pit was sunk ; so that the parsimonious spirit thus displayed , served but to shew the bungling judgment of the manager , who either could , or would not be
guided by experience , in looking a little more beforehand , and adopt the necessary means to prevent these accidents again . The Committee of the House of Commons who sat in examination upon the causes of accidents in coal mines , had their attention drawn to the invention of Mr . Goldsmith Gurney ' s plan of ventilation by hi g h pressure steam ; yet fourteen years have elapsed before a single colliery in this district made the attempt to introduce and make trial of its merits . And even nowwhen by the results of the expeririient , double the quantum of air has been got , and when the evidence of Mr . Foster , tho viewer , ( under whom the invention has been tried ) before the Committee of the House of Lords last year , gave ample details of its superiority , and assisted and corroborated by the evidence of Mr . J . Mather—we cannot hear of
any gcnerel attempts on the part of other proprietors to follow the example . Many such omissions can bo adduced , which fully prore that all is not done that can be done to prevent such calamities , and hence the necessity of parliamentary interference . Mr . Jude then read several letters received from various members of Parliament , promising to aid the miners in their desired object , and also letters from parties eminent for their scientific atainments , all breathing a spirit of humanity for the miner ; likewise a very humane and philanthropic note from his Royal Hi g hness Prince Albert , expressive of his sincere desire that something- may
shortly be done tOmeet the desired purpose . After a few more remarks relative to the necessity of being prepared with the outward pressure by our fie tition , « fcc , and the utility of apprising the Pariarrtentarjr'and Financial ~ Reformers that ¦• more than 20 , 000 miners in this district are without the vote , and are likely to continue so if any rate paying clause is retained , inasmuch as the houses are made to form part of their wages , and thus they pay ho rent , and . therefore cannot be put upon the rate book , The proceedings were brought to a close by a vote of thanks to the parties who presided , and with three times three cheers for tire union , & c , die .
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Heuoh Hall , Durham . —The men of this colliery met on Saturday last to celebrate the anniversary of the present organisation of labour amongst the Miners of the north . They met at eleven a . m ., and heard a public lecture from Ilichard Ilodgim , one of their own order , and one against whom the master party have taken a spite on account of his union principles . Besides the lecture , we had some recitations , amongst which were " Tell ' s Soliloquy , " and a portion of " The Doom of Toil . " Atone o ' clock we sat down to a good and excellent dinner , which the host of the house provided for us , After dinner we had more recitations , and several excellent songs were sung . Wo continued together till five o clock , when the meetin g broke up satisfied with the day ' s proceedings .
The Weavers Strike at Wilsdex . —This strike has at length terminated . The weavers have nobl y fought the battle , and won the victory . At a public meeting on the oth of November last , they passed a resolution not to work for Mr . Richardson any more , at any price whatsoever . They have stood to that resolution like men , determined to conquer , and the consequence has been that Mr . Richardson has been compelled to shut up his mills . When he gave them a statement of the wages he was about to give , he repeatedly told them that they were not bound to take his offers , but that if they did not comply with them , he would shut up his mills , and take his machinery to Manchester , and in order that he mi g ht do so without fail , the weavers
determined not to work for him . Although Mr . Richardson spoke as if he would rather shut up the mill than not , yet he sent one of his men to Manchester to inquire for weavers , telling them that there were plenty of work , and plenty of wages ; and that they might do very well and save money , if they were steady and willing to work . Wilsden was represented as a paradise . When the people inquired if it was a strike , the man replied , " No , there was nothing the matter in that respect ; " the people here were all to idle to work , and that was the only failing there was . Mr . Richardson would pay the faro of all married people ,, and their families , and their goods , if they would come to the promised land , but he would not pay the fare of single
persons , nor would he pay the fare of a father to come and see tho work , and then if ho found things as represented , to take his family . No , those that intended to have their fare paid must first break up their homes , and g ive up their work , —if they had any—and depend upon his word , for the glorious fare they would meet with ; through such means as these he succeeded in decoying a few families to this place . They were destitute of house or habitation , excepting such as Mr . Richardson had provided for them , and these were of a sorry kind . Ten had to be crammed into an old hay chamber ; they had no food , but what Mr . Richardson provided for them , nor had they any money , and thus they were at his mercy . When the weavers' committee learnt their case , they kindly offered to pay
their fare back , and if they had nothing to go back to they would support them until they could get work elsewhere . Some twenty were sent back at the expense of tho committee , and Manchester was placarded , warning the people of the strike at Wilsden . The weavers here were determined that not a tittle of Mr . Richardson ' s threat , that he would take his machinery to Manchester , should pass away unfulfilled . They have been fulfilled to the very letter . Mr . Richardson is gone , and this is a proof of those valuable words , " Union is Strength , " The weavers have found it so . May the working classes of every trade in England begin to value this motto , and their freedom is secure . On behalf of the weavers , A . Robinson , Hallasbridge , Wilsden .
Foreign Potatoes and Grain . — -The supplies of potatoes from abroad continue to form a very important item in the general list of imports from foreign countries . They arc principally from France , Belgium , and Holland ; and in many instances comprise in a day several entire cargoes containing more than a hundred tons weight of the vegetable , the produce of those countries . Several vessels have also arrived from Dunkirk and other French ports laden with grain and flour . The Poisoning in Pahis . —Aymet , the man in custody for sending poisoning pastry to two women , stated that he had bought the basket and box in which tho pastry was placed from a hawker on the Boulevard Montmartre . He was accordingly on
Saturday week taken by tho police to tho Boulevard , to point out , if possible , the person who had sold them . Be indicated a wiman , named Triboulet ; but this woman refused to answer the questions of the police , and heaped insults upon thorn . Her husband having comenp at tho time , likewise began abusing them , and refused to sell them articles similar to those sold by Aymet . The other hawkers gathered round , and also insulted the police , and at one moment a serious conflict was feared . One of the hawkers raised , a hammer over the 'head of one of tho police , and was about to strike , - but was prevented . A crowd having assembled , the police feared they might lose their prisoner , and they re » tired ; but subsequently Triboulot and his wife were arrested , — Qali gwnu
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¦ _ A / Vaoaboxd!—When Prince Gpnzaga de Castig . hone was in England lie dined ; in company with Dr . Johnson , at the house of a common friend , and thinking ' if was a polite as well as gay thing to drink the doctor ' s health with some proof that he had read his works , called out from the top of tha table to the bottom-that table being filled with company- « At your good health , Mr . Vagabond , " instead of Mr . Rambler . Got of tour iN 3 mE . ~ A little boy who was playing with money swallowed a small piece by accident . All the neighbourhood was raised ; tho aunts and cousins ^ ,, about in consternation / for nobody conld tell how it was to be got again Pre * SCTtly . Jue selioolmaatoi' camo hurrying up "Don't you know bow to get at tho money V' said he . Send for the tax-gatherer ; he ' s the man to manage it , for be can get money from anywhereout of your verv inside 1 "
* A ViiB Pu ^ . —' Fray , Mrs , Zabriska , why do jyoii vfhip jour children so often ? " "La J Mr , ( Worthy , J do it for their enlkhtenment ; I never ( whip one of them in my We that they didn't f acknowledge it made Sliem smart I " PitAcricAt . 33 Fen are apt to snserat poets as befag eusertaining perhaps , but i < J 3 e dreamers . They forget that ev * ry great ftmth in life has ori ginated not with the Men of action ; hut with the men of thought . A MiNiSTKBiAS-MANCEUvaB;—Sir Robert Walpole ; . : once -wanting to « awy a question in the House off | Lords , and not being quits- sure of some of the * fbishopsvprevaiiedaponhis friend , the Archbishopof Canterbury , to stay at Borne for two or throedays . Itp the meartirne , Sir Rbbert circulated areport thr * 'his grace-was dangerously ill . On th » - idsy of meeting the hcase was . Wmight be expected , jremarkably crowded witrHawn sleeves , not one of ! whbm voteolagainst tha ministeir ! - '
BbroRE ABij- After MAniiiAaiK . —A man named ® namberlandiwns-broug ^ t before tho Correctional oftP & lice for thrashing bis- wife . "Did you beat your wife ? " asked the President . "I did , sir , oa thy- Place Msubert . " " There ia * nothing to b » proud ! of . It is ^ a shameful 1 thing to strike a woman . "' ' . ' Olij . but'President , Pm en regie , look ; at that !? '' and trie-accused handed up * a- dirty maririage certificate . ' "Well ! : It gives yoa : no right to bent your wife IT *« . Oh , stop'a- bit , . President ! I ; lived with her some- time . and she had me sent to jprisoBifop thrashing : her .. When : I oamo out she said-taat if TJ would' marry her-she- would let me beat herasmuchas ^ lllikedi Idid ' marry her , and I have a rigiifc to bear ; her ! "" ' . ' -What ; you say is absurd , " ' said the President . "POrhaps-you think so ,, but ask my wife- .. Eevo ,. ElizabcthY tell these gentlemen whether 5 have the right to . thrash you
or not ? " r promised- ' you that you ; should beat me when I wanted to > get married-,. "' answered the wife . " People always promise many tilings when they want to- get married ! , but after marriage it isn ' t tho same thing " " For you . perhaps , Elizabeth , said the loving husband ,, ' ¦ ' but I have your promise , and am satisfied . " Police agents having proved that the accused not oaly beat his wife cruelly , but smashed the furniture , and throw it out of the window , whereby a paggar-hy wag seriously injured , the Tribunal condemned him to a month ' s imprisonment . "No matter T * said he , as he walked away ,. " my right to beat her is there !" and he held up his marriage certificate . —Farispaper . Cbimk is madness ; madness is disease . —Shelley . Whenever you doubt whether an intended action he good or bad , abstain from it . —Zoroaster .
BATES AND TAXES . I envy you , sweet butterfly , So sportive on the spray ; Your life ' s a short and sunny one , You hare no Quarter Day . You live but in the noontide glow , All happy is your fato ; You die before the rain comes on—You have no "Pater Rate . From flower to flower you idly rove , In industry so lax ; But then they cannot call on you ; ' For any Income Tax . A rose or violet your home , No family—you ' re blessed ; No carriage need you for a ride , You cannot be Assess'd .
You only-rise up from your grub To spend a pleasant day , Then in the evening settle—but , . You ' ve not a Dump to Pay . A Grand Truth . —The constitutional guarantees of | the operative hare yet to be settled : his bill of rights lics ' yet unwritten . —Fraser s Magazine . Hiott Wages . —If it were possible fof the working classes by combining among themselves , to raise or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said that this would be a thing not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rcioiced at . —Mil .
An Irish Similitude . — " lla , ha , and afther all now , Oonah , a pipe is like a Christian in many ways ; sure it ' s made o' clay , like a Christian , and has the spark o' life in it ; and while the breath is in it the spark is alive ; but when the breath is out of it the spark dies , and then it grows cowld like a Christian ! " " Faix , some Christians isn't pleasant companions at all ; " chimed in Mrs . Rooney , sententiously . " Well , but they ought to be , said Larry , " and isn't a pipe sometimes cracked like a Christian , and isn ' t it sometimes choked like a Christian ? " The most improvonist thing in the world is— " ( pangh !) and a parenthetical whiff of tobacco smoke curled out of the corner of Larry ' s mouth— " is smokin ' , for the smoke shows you , as it were , the life o' man passin' like a
puff—( paugh !)—just like that , and the tabbakky turns to ashes like his poor perishable body !"—Lever . Balance of Bbautt . —A man of fashion , who was remarkably ill-looking but very vain , kept a valet , whoso countenance was not much more amiable than his own . One day the servant , while dressing his master , offended him . and he exclaimed , " What an ugly dog 1 " Tho fellow , who observed his master at the same time very attentive at his glass , said , "Which of us do you mean , sir ?" Innocence . —Innocence is simply ignorance . Such is not desirable ; but virtue which has known evil successfull y to resist it . We shouldnot look back with regret upon our childhood ' s innocence . To the christian there is a . second youth as pure as the first . It is vain to attempt to keep the young- in
ignorance of vice . This is but to send them forth into the world a ready prey to temptation . Evil will come sooner or later ; and it is host to forewarn that tho man may be forearmed . A true picture of despair is a pig reaching through a hole in the fence to get a cabbage that lies a few inches beyond his reach . A Drummer ' s Pe nance . —The drum is of great importance in orchestral music . Its measured beat gives clearness and distinctiveness to every speciesof rhymical movement—imparting lightness and spirit to the dance , firmness to the ma ? ch , and solemnity to the funeral procession . In Handel ' s chorus in Joshua , " Glory to God , " wherethe walls of Jericho . ire ' represented as levelled with the ground at the sound of the Israelites' trumpets , the sudden burst of tho drum is terrific , and , to the
excited imagination of the listener , appears to bo in the very crash of the fallen ruins mingted with the trumpets ; and exciting shouts of tha besiegers . Notwithstanding tho extreme simplicity of this instrument ,, to play it well is no easy matter . Ifrrequires boldness and decision , a thorough knowledge of effect , and a mind capable c # entering into tho grandest conceptions of genius .. It is told of the late Mr . Jenkinson that during ihe performanceof the chorus in Joshua at a great music meeting ,, he , bj some inadvertence , burst in with his drumsa bar too soon , and marred the sublime effect in- * tended to be produced ; on whish , mortified and enraged at his own blunder , he- applied his drumsticks in good carnest ' tolusheaiJ , and inflicted summary punishment on . himself , to the astonishraanfc of tho audience .
ThbNavata Forctj ot Eno & and . —The following is a statemeat of the naval f esce afloat of this country , iri ; ships , guns , and men , at the present moment : — . Stations . Stops . Guns . lifea . Portsraouth v .... 1 G 17 G 32 G 7 Devoiiport ^ 8 163 ?< il 2 Falmouth packets .... <^ .. 7 41 2 ( Ji ShpsrnesB . ...... 5 108 933 Woalwich 8 Gl C 33 Peptford 1 1 J ? 302
Chatham . .:. „ ... 2 H Pembroke ,..,.., 2 W « Queenstonn 8 JU " £ * Lisbon 8 JJ & 3095 Mediterranean 28 8 » ^ 23 Bc * -:::::: 8 S iffi Co ^ tof Africa .. . .. 25 1 *» 2152 South-east coast ol America 11 lw lbJi Cape of Good Hope . 6 68 82 , Discovery and surveying .. 1 \ SO 1213 Store and troop-ship * 4 ; x „ . AtSniiralty packet * 13 16 2 ti
Total ....... ^ . ' 199 2718 29 , 217 , There are about 1 , 00 ft supernumeraries not included hem and thisnismber is exclusive of marines ashore at their respective divisions . John Wxslet used , to say , '' No man can rid © to Heaven in a coach asd four . " Mon , kt—the largest shareholder in the worl & Bachelor— a target for fair hands to shoot at . Box—the first volume of au interesting work . Jralovsy—one of the sours arising irwn having a sweetheart , or a spark thrown by Suspicion into the magazine of Lovo .: ,, v Thk DtiWfa Commercial Journal admonishes . Young Ireland orators : "We will listen to them , certainly , with the attention due to men of imagination , who understand Eng lish ; but , if they expect us to believe that there is a ' moanmg to tl »* t »« " " or a substance to their shadows , they are . wotoUJ disappointed . Wo are qu ite up to the m ^ jj ™; know right well that there are not . " t ^ JTw " monfJlfy caparisoned , to follow &*» to «» fiQltL -
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