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flow gain'd thy wealth , But by the stealth , 4 ) 1 industry and labour ' s right ? -What makes the titled marquis , duke , Or higher still , your Queen , your crown ? 'lis labour ' s arm , —• Ay , e ' en its charm ,, And vet ' tis welcomed by a frown . This in a country ( mis ) -called free , The pride of nations (?) happy isle (?) All at the name Should blush with shame , The tear bedeck the place of smile .
" What form that hath a heart within , That would not aid in freedom ' s cause , To gain the name , ' If ay , more—the fame , Of " Equal rigfats and equal laws . " TJpronse ye , then , the time has come Por labour ' s just reward to gain ; Try first the need , And soon the deed "Will follow' in the train .
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TO MAZZIXI AND KOSSUTH . BI W ILLIAM WH 1 IMORB . 'Twas the old story ! Liberty . uprose And gloriously her world-wide march hegun-Sat t o be crushed again by bandied foes . Yet though now baffled , seemingly undone , Ye have " transcendant heroes , our age won From tame degeneracy ; your life deeds give Assurance that the hopes of ages gone—Bienzi ' s , Koscuisko ' s souls—yet live ; And with them are your names , though now malisned , , ., In man's deep heart of hearts , fame s noblest temple ; shrined ! Av , and vour cause its faUure ^ Tian retrieve ! Xbssuth . * droop not , the Magyar s strength
matures : Mazzini , to thv life ' s Idea still cleave I Triumph for Bight the coming time assures ; The patriot flame , ye kindled , yet endures ; And though awhile it smoulder , soon elate—Consuming all Time ' s rubbish , pomps , thron'd powers , Corruptions— 'twill the nations renovate . The phosnix . Freedom , ay , will spring replete With fresh life-vigour from the ashes of defeat ! Leicester . Copper ' s Journal
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Declaration of Citizen A . L . Jules Lechevalier , ex-member of the Committee of the Public Pr ess , laid of the Socialist Committee , Sfc . § c . CmzES Jules Lechevaiier is one of the condemned of the " IStfa of Jane . " The pamp hlet before us is a translation of the "Declaration he sent to the High Court of Versailles , explaining his non-appearance on the occasion of his trial before that court , and further , the motives which influenced him to join in the protest of the " 13 th of June . '' Citizen Lechevalier enjoys a high reputation as a man of talent , and his name is honourably associated with those who have struggled to break the chains of the negro . To his credit it should
he added that , in his efforts during the reign of Louis Philippe , to accomplish negro emancipation m the French colonies , he desired " to lead the black and coloured people from the state of slavery to that of association , hy suppressing the intermediate period of pauperism and of proletariat , which forms , in the present day , the condition of the great hulk of the people in European societies . " Saying this much in . justice to . Citizen Lechevalier , we must add , that we find little in his connexion with French politics—until sharing in the protest of the " 13 th of June "—which we can approve of . Although a Socialist from the year 1829—when he became a convert to the
doctrines of St . Simon—he seems to have ieen anti-republican and anti-revolutionary throughout the reign of Louis Philippe . He speaks of his "fruitless efforts and sacrifices to consolidate the Government of 1830 ¦ " and avows that he laboured "to prevent the toolegitimate explosion of 1848 . " He adds : — "I was not present at the banquets organised ly M . M . Odilon Barrot , de Alalleville , Leon laucher , Thiers , and Duvergier deHauranne I neither cried ' Vice la Jtifbrme' before , nor daring the days of February . " Most of the English . Socialists have played a similar part in politics ; but the days of that " old school' ' . are past .
Though not a Republican de la veille , Citizen Lechevalier seems to have honestly accepted the Republic , which he declares to he the only Government henceforth possible in France . " Connected with the Tribune des fe uples , he published in that journal the documents which , emanating from the Mountain , the Socialist Committee , and the Committee of the Republican Press , formed part of the groundwork for the accusations directed against the proscribed of the " 13 th of June . " Having escaped to England , he very wisely refused to obey the summons to appear before the High Court of Versailles , and was condemned , hy default , ; te "transportation for life . " We extract , a few paragraphs from this pamphlet : — -. '
SCEOrs BETRAYED BT THE rBEXCH COVERSMEaT . j The French Republic of 1848 has remained deaf , blind , and paralytic , vjhen the cry of the -peoples Called for its active intervention at Milan , at Berlin , at Naples , at "Vienna ! Under the presidency of the Mr of the name of Napoleon , who appears to have also inherited his love for papal restorations and alliances of dynasties , the-Preach Bepnblie has gone forth , in company with four monarchical powers , to restore the throne of the successor of Gregory TIL ! I dare to predict to the faithless conservative ? , -who , for the sake of their own maferial interests alone , hare imposed this egotistical prudence on the government of their country , that they-will ere long repent of it , and that they will fee punished by the very thing in which they hare Sinned .
THE J-SlHOF 3 USE . m Principle , the fiwutrafton was legitimate accord-* yj ° - te , ms ° f m Cwtitotion of 1848 . The institutions on which France is settled are not the worfe of ages . The origin of most governments is violence and usurpation , brought about by might and craning . But with us , this ' rocky substratum l » s nolbeen concealed b y the alluvium of centuries beneath the fertile soil of a legitimate arid le « al « wer , to which the free assent of the citizens , and « je regularexereise of all the powers , have given a J ? gular . consecration , The . foundations of our noliacalitote are still laid hate , and every one can con"Dee himself that the insurrectional principle prevailed in the formation of all the fmwprs whii . h Ka ™
destroyed each other since 1789 . Among rill the jadges ^ acUve magistrates , and-the jury forming the Bigh-CW of . Versailles , there are very few who hare not recognised and practised , directly or indirectly , the right of insurrection , and who in particular have not profitted by the exercise that has been made of it by the peopled Kobody . not « ren the first magistrate of theBepublie , has , therefore , the right to he scandalised when , considering 1 ?» MTeetion ; as the ; last extremity . to which the Citizens are used , to have recourse in extreme cireoaistanees , I declare that if ever insurrectibn has ** en legitimated and authorised by the flagrant vh > "koa of the social compact , it was that which would *^„ f fe & ea placeron the 13 th of June , had we been * g . to call it forth . -
¦ nn THE TrgHT . TRAITORS . W ho has betrayed this revolution ? * Who has promised'it ? Who has caused it to go the tin »\ * ay ? - Wflo , sometimes by stratagem , some-^ P ™ by violence , but always by an obstinate denial e ^^ jal reform , and by indifference for the prinj ^ - w traternity , and of the solidarity of nations , unseaS ! ! - " P ° P nlap energy to overflow , so « T 7 rf"aUy , in the ever to be deplored events of % g % and 23 rd June , 1848 ? ' feon , a b reaction , that is to say , a new eoaliof all ft ^ aspraoy / a new plot , a new attentat > eprt eA « f ^ oisma , of aU the superstitions ,, all the toaStS *??? 6 ** le " disguised , of clerical , ^ r' ^ toteBt '' - - '• ¦ , - lllar ^ r TIIK i ) E , i 0 CBA * ij * S 00 " HKPCBUC . ^ i kri j & e victorious people magnani-^/^ 2 « own their arms , forgetting all , for-^ ** humbl y waiting wMIafc ft devtted
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three months of misery , to the service of the Bepnblie , the concession of alL those rightswhich it might then hare oeired ,-and which DQ one at that time would hare dared to dispute . The people desire the Republic , with all tho consequences of the social dogriva , Liberty , Equality , Fraternity , in the workshop , as in the city and tho state . The Socialists teach the ' way and the means of organising definitively , society , for the successful carrying out of these principles . The Republic , organised by the people , and for the people , with Universal Suffrage as the means , and Socialism as the dogma and aim , the Democratic and Social Republic , as the only government henceforth possible and lawful in France . . Such has been , such is still , for me , the historical logic , the straight line in the march of the ' revolution of February , and of OOT OWX XATIOXAL PROGRESS .
The Progressionist. London: Collins, 39,...
The Progressionist . London : Collins , 39 , Holy well-street , Strand . This cheap and good publication should be better supported than it appears to be . In the twenty-third number , at present before us , we observe a number of excellent articles , from one of which , headed "What do tho People require to obtain their Freedom ? " we give the following extract : — '
GET KNOWLEDGE . "What do we want my brothers in order that we may obtain our freedom ? I reply knowledge , KNOWLEDGE IS POWER . Brother proletarians , we complain , and justly , that we , the enrichers and benefactors of our country , should be without those rights which appertain to man . But what is it that enables tho ruling classes to ' refuse all concessions ? The want of knowledge by the people . We complain , and justly , of the immense power of the clergy , the superstition which they breed , the bigotry which they engender , the errors which they accumulate , the truths which they darken , the liberty which they crush , and the happiness which they destroy . But what is it that gives the clergy
such a frightful power ? The ignorance of ' our order . We complain , -and justly , of the baleful influence of an aristocracy . But what , I ask , led to the formation of such a body in the first instance , and to its toleration afterwards ? The want of knowledge by the people . We complain , and justly , of the horrors of our social system—that the lives of the people should be abridged by excessive toil to produce a few useless baubles for the gratification of a horde of aristocratic and royal thieves in court and mansion—that hundreds of men should be necessitated to labour sixteen or eighteen hours a-day , in erder that one man may have the splendours of furniture , equipage , and " dress—that thousands of men should be obliged to plough the earth ,
to sow and reap , that one woman may have grand palaces , and a large establishment—that one class should have a thousand times more house ' -accomodations than its members can occupy , a thousand times more land than they can cultivate , coats which they can ' never wear , meat and bread which they can never eat , and furniture altogether unrequired ; while there are millions of another class who are completely landless , houseless , clofhless , arid foodless . And what enables the idle few thus to prey npon the vitals of the toilinj many ? The want of knowledge by the people . The people of England and Ireland are unhappily acquainted with suffering and want , and they have as unhappily been taught by a base and lying priesthood , to believe
that God is the author of their privations—that he mercifully chastens his poor one on earth to prepare them for heaven . And millions of our brethren believe this devilish device of the parsons . Now we require a counteracting influence to operate on the minds of our countrymen . I am glad to believe that we have many men , such as Barker , who are scattering these grey errors of old orthodoxy like chaff before the wind . " And we have Howitt exposing the villany and greedy neediness of our vile state church clergy , and dissecting tho Machiavellian aristocracy of England ; and we have Reynolds laying bare the infernal monstrosity and horrible injustice of the system of aristoemtical legislation under which we live ; and we have Kydd ably
advocating the claims of labour , and familiarising the minds of the people with great principles ; and we have T . Cooper powerfully aiding the good work of enlightenment ; and we have Julian Harney illuminating the minds of the mass on the Foreign questions , and enlisting the sympathies of the people in favour of the oppressed of every clime ; but the influence of our friends is but limited , in consequence of tho comparative few to whom they write . Their writings do not reach the great mass for whom they are intended . I believe that much might be done by active young men , combining their brethren in their localities , forming committees for the express purpose of extending the sale of our Democratic Reviews , Journals , Instructors , Peoples , Progressionists ,
and Spirits . As democrats , we may well be ashamed of the comparitively scanty number of our organs , and the poor circulation which they receive . We have to enlighten the minds of the people before we can hope for any permanent improvement in onr condition , or reform in our institutions . To enlighten the minds of the people we must have an enlarged number of organs , and an increased number of readers . Ignorance has forged the chains of slavery , and manacled the limbs of the people , but intelligence will snap them asunder , unlock the gyves of the slave , bid the oppressed go free , and light up the world with the ambient rays of liberty and truth . The rail and the mighty steam ship is
bridging the vasty deed , bringing the ends of the earth together , mind in contact with mind , patriot with patriot , extending wondrous influences for the good of humanity . And we must by means of the press scatter millions of facts among the people—we must teach the cause of their suffering , and point put the remedy for the disease . B : we can but succeed in uprooting the infernal lies instilled in their minds by an hireling priesthood , we- shall have done something—when we shall have taught the cause of their condition , we shall have done more—and when they shall see clearly the remedy to be applied , one part of the work will have been done .
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Cabthagekian Antiquities , —A collection of antique marbles , the most curious ever offered for sale not only in Liverpool , but in England , was brought to the hammer on Monday , at Messrs . Win-Stanleys' rooms . The collection embraced almos * every variety of antique sculpture ; but the most interesting of the entire collection were seven or eight stone tablets , from a Carthagenian sepulchre ; they were elaborately carved in bas relief , presenting figures in different attitudes , and surrounded by mythological ornaments , The whole of these valuable relics was bought by a gentleman from the British Museum ; tho prices varied from £ 2 10 s to four guineas each . Several fragments of statues , presenting specimens of the most consummate art , were disposed of at prices considerably below their value , as were also most of the lots offered for sale . A splendid Winged Head of Mercury , for instance , was sold for a guinea . Mr . Winstanley , in reference to a
couple of porphyry columns which formed part of the collection , said that being upwards of seven feet long they were too ponderous to admit of being removed . He should , therefore , proceed to offer them , on the presumption that the parties present had seen . them , at the dock warehouse , where they lay for public inspection . ' £ 280 had been refused for them since their arrival in this country ; he should , however , put them up at £ 100 . . As there was no bid in advance made , they . were withdrawn . to be soli by private contract . There was one . very singular lot , viz .. a long crowbar , enclosed in a case of woed , it was presumed to have been used by the workmen at the building of the temple ; among the nuns of which it was found , the extent of the corrosion showing it to belong to a remote period of antiquity . It was remarked as a circumstance much to be regretted that these rare specimens were not secured by the people of Liverpool to form the nucleus of a museum in thlstown .
TbeObgaxisatioit of Labour ik Manchester . — A public meeting was held on Monday evening , to take into consideration the necessity of a general organisation of labour in Manchester . Mr . Lindsay , a journeyman tailor , moved , and Mr . McNamara seconded a resolution condemning competition , as " unjnst in principle , immoral in its tendencies , and calculated to deprive the poor man of a fair remuneration for his labour" Mr . Lloyd Jones , supported the resolution , and attacked Mr . Macaulay , charging him with various mis-statements concerning the working classes'iu his . recently published history . The speaker compared the present state of the working classes , with their condition in : the reign of Henry TIL ; and concluded : by regretting that in a time of such boasted civilisation as the present , the working men of England were so
degraded and oppressed . The resolution was carried unanimously . Another resolution was carried , proposing as a remedy for the existing evils , " the adoption of a system of trade organisation on the co-operatire system ; " and a plan was proposed whereby such a system might be carried into effect in Manchester . The meeting was also addressed by M . D . St . BUairey who detailed the success of the co-operative system adopted by the ; working classes in Paris . Specimens ot the manufacture of a similar association in Salford , were produced by a Mr . Stork ; after which the meeting terminated . The Times states that in 1813 , out of 5 , 000 loads of cotton sent down from PanwelT to Bombay by an eminent firm , 2 , 000 were dropped on -the road , and the remainder arrived too late for shipping ; while , in the same year , 20 , 000 loads were left behind between one single market of the Nagpore district and the sea . - ' .. . .-. ' - :
, _ . . Beciobship ' or Maeisckai . College , Aberdeen . —The students are already astir regarding the election of Lord Hector . The names of four nominees have been mentioned . —the Duke . of Argyle , bur Robert Peel , J . G . Lockhart , Esq ,., and Thomas Carlyle . -
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THE CgOTEHDiff OFENCrLAWD , " ' ; ' ;;' . wr v . ijci ^ raas ^ apN . j , V ; -s ' . .. ; . ' , ; - ;; ' ^ - ^ *¦ ( Condeased . froHJ ^ e-iftTOHiy . Cbnmtk , } ¦ THE CLOTH-W 6 itS ^ V ( # SADbLWORTH , The name of Saddleworth-is-applied to a range of wild and hilly country ^ about seven miles long arid five , broad , lying on the western confines of Yorkshir ^ and including one spot from which a walk of ten minutes will carry the visitor across the ^ bouiw daries of four counties , 'into Lancashire , Cheshire , Derbyshire , and Yorkshire . Teat } intents and purposes , however , Saddlewbrth lies in the latter countyrrits heathery hills and deep valleys dividing the woollen from the cotton cities , and being themselves peopled by , a hardy , industrious , and
primitive race , engaged m too manufacture of flannel and cloth—sometimes in ' mills , arid sometimes by their own hearths , in which latter case the business of a dairy farmer is often added to that of a manufacturer , and the same hands : ply the shuttle and milk the cows . Saddleworth is now intersected ; by the Leeds and HuddersfieW Railway , and , as a consequence , is beginning to lose much of those primitive characteristics for which it was long renowned . Until recently , there was no regular means of transit from many of its valleys . to the . more open parts of the conntry . Goods were conveyed by the Manchester and Huddersfield' Canal ;" and' many a small manufacturer and comfortable farmer grew irrev
amid the hills , without having ever journeyed further than Oldham and Staleybridge on the one hand , and perhaps Huddersfield , or at furthest Leeds upon the other . . The rail has , however , thrown open the wilds of Saddleworth to the world . Mills , driven by water and steam , are rising on every hand , and the old-fashioned domestic industry carried on in the field and the loom-shop is gradually dying away . I entered Yorkshire by way of Oldham . To some extent the domain of cotton seems to be invading that of wool , for , asmy ' vehiclo slowly toiled up the steep ascents of the many ribs which' branch from the " backbone of England ^ " the driver pointed out to me several old woollen-mills which are now cotton factories .
Saddleworth would appear to bo tho paradise of the manufacturing districts . After describing the general process of the woollen manufacture , ' and a visit to one of the mills , the writer reports what he witnessed in the homes of the workers . Without a single exception , . ! found them neat , warm , comfortable , and clean . They consisted almost universally of a common room , serving as parlour and kitchen ; a scullery behind it , and two or more bed rooms . up-stairs . The main rooms were ; I think , as a general rule , larger than those I have lately been accustomed to see . The floors were stone flagged , aicely sanded . Samplers and pictures uniformly ornamented the' walls , and the furniture was . massire and old-fashioned ; the chairs
with rush bottoms and high well-polished backs . The characteristic feature of these cottages was universal . It consisted of a sort of net stretched under the ceiling , and filled with crisp oat cakes . These formerly constituted , almost the only bread consumed in the district , but home-baked wheaten loaves are now coming into general use . Indeed almost every family in Saddleworth bakes its own bread and brews its own ale—a capital nutty flavoured beverage it is . The composition of the oat cakes is however , held to require a peculiar genius , and when a matron gets a reputation in that way , she frequently bakes for half a village . .. '• . At _ Sa'ddleworth-fold , the houses are occupied by families who are at once spinners , weavers , and
farmers . The hamlet was a curious irregular clump of old-fashioned houses , looking as if they had been flung accidentally together up and down a little group , of knolls . Over tho small latticed windows were carved mullions of stone , and in a little garden grew a few box-wood trees , dipt into the quaint shapes which we associate with French and Dutch gardening . The man whose establishment we had come to see , was a splendid specimen of humanity—tall , stalwart , with a gripe like a vice and a back as upright as a pump-bolt , although he was between seventy and eighty years of age . We entered the principal room of his house ; it was a chamber which a novelist would love to pitint—so kuuruu oiuiasnionenwitn its
guiy , yei , uumiuriauiy , - , nice-sanded floor , its great rough beams , hung with goodly flitches of bacon , its quaint latticed windows , its high mantel-piece , reaching almost to the roof , over the roaring coal-fire , its ancient , yet strong and substantial furniture , the chest of drawers and cupboards of polished oak , and the chairs so low-seated and so high-backed . An old woman , the wife of the proprietor , sat by the chimney-corner , with a grandchild in her lap . Her daughter was engaged in some household work beside her . In this room the whole family , journeymen and all , took their meals together . Porridge and milk was the usual breakfast . For dinner they had potatoes and bacon , and sometimes beef , with
plenty of oat bread ; and for supper , " buttercake , " or porridge again . The old man had never travelled further than Derby . He had thought of foing to London once , but his heart failed him and e had given up the idea . He did not at all approve of the new-fangled mill-system , and liked the oldfashioned way of joining weaving and farming much better . He could just remember the building of the newest house in Saddleworth-fold . He thought the seasons had somehow changed in Saddleworth , for snow never lay upon the ground as it used to do , and the scanty crops of oats here and there sown did not ripen so well . The daughter having in . the meantime placed oat cake and milk before me , the patriarch observed that until he was twenty , ho had
never tasted wheaten bread , until . his mother lay in . In the room above iis were two or three looms , and as many spinning jennies . They produced flannel and doeskin . "Weaving and spinning formed the chief occupation Of his family—they attended to the cows , of which he had four , and to the dairy , in their leisure time . He paid his sons no regular wages , but gave them board , lodging , and clothing , and " anything reasonable" if they wanted to go toa hunt or a fair or " sooch-loike . " I may as well state here that the country weavers of Saddleworth are , like Niuirod , mighty hunters . Every third or fourth man keeps his beagle or his brace of beagles , and the gentlemen who subscribe to the district . hunt pay the . taxes on the dogs .
There are no foxes m Saddleworth—the country , indeed , is too bare for them to pick up a living ; but hares abound , and occasionally the people have ' . ' trail" hunts—the quarry being a herring or . a bit of rag dipped in oil dragged across the country by an active runner , with an hours' law . A few , but only a very few , pursue the sport on horsebackthe weavers , who form the great majority of the hunt , trusting to their own sound lungs and well strung sinews to keep within sight of the dogs . Even the discipline of the mills is as . yet in many instances insufficient to check this inherent passion for the chase . My informant , himself a millowner , told me that he had recently arranged a hunt to try the mettle of some dogs from another part of York
shire against'the native breed . He had tried to keep the matter as quiet as he could , but it somehow leaked out , and the result was , that several mills were left standing and that five hundreds carders , slubbers , spinners , and weavers formed the field . The masters , however , are often too keen sportsmen themselves . to grudge their hands an occasional holiday of the sort . The Saddleworth weavers must be excellent fellows to run . A year or two ago , a gentlemab , resident , there , purchased a fox at Huddersfield , and turned him loose at Upper Mill , a spot almost in the centre of the hills .
There started on . the trail upwards of 300 sportsmen on ; foot . l Reynard led the chace : nearly to Manchester , a distance of about twenty miles , and then doubled back almost to the place where he was untagged , favouring his pursuers with an additional score of miles * amusement . Of the 300 starters ,, upwards - of twenty-five were in at the death , i My informant had reason to remember the chace , for it cost him the bursting of a blood-vessel . In passing through the little * village of Dubcross I observed a quaint tavern ' sign , illuatrative of the ruling passion . On the hoard was inscribed " Hark to Bounty—hark . " ; " called
From Upper Mill I proceeded to a village Delph , where there are only a very few mills , and round which is scattered a thick population of small farmers and hand-loom weavers . The cottages . of many of these people are perched far upamong the hills , on the very edge of the moors . As a general rule , the houses . are , inferior , both m construction and cleanliness , to , those nearer the mills ; and should say , although the accounts I received were often most puxilihgly contradictory , and the run of wages is decidedly lower . In several of the remote dwellings I found beds of no inviting appearance ra - the loom room ; and broken windows- were often patched with old -hats and dirty clothes . The hand-ienny spinners ; when in employment , earn as a pretty general rule , about 8 s . a = week . The weavers , as I havesaid . ' . may , and often do make 15 s . and 17 s . per week ; but , taking the year round , and the good webs with the bad ones , 10 s . in many parts of Yorkshire would be , too high an average . Saddleworth to
As a general rulo , the weavers seem be-better off than ' those upon the lower grounds round Huddersfield and Halifax . ' :, Even in this favoured' district the comparitively prosperous and comfortable'condition of the people is steadily on the . declino . ;; The factory system bids fair . to work all the evils in Saddleworth , it-has worked in other , parts . . On the hQl-side above Delph i a weaver ; a . very ' intelligent taan-much more so irideed than most of his class , ; for he hau travelled much ; and been twice in America—gave me some curious information . Ho confirmed what the old man at Saddlowerth-fold had stated ,, as to the non-ripening of the oats sown now-a-days , ana spoke sensibly enough about machinery . "Machinery , " he said ; '«'• bad been a great advantage to theweaverasi long as it was pretty simple andeneap , for then he could use it for his' own behoof . m & mother had told him thatiin her younger , days the , distaff was the only drawing implement m Sadoie
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worth . The carding was performed by the women ' with a-radem 8 trmnent placed Upon their knee , Vf * the Old fashioned wheel , with itssingle spindle , \' J «* the only spinning apparatus known ? "Lobk , ' a \ r , . he continued ; " at that yarn . ' It was stretched ^ by the road side , to-day ... In -those days ; , ' . it would : ^ - *^' - » * » w » of people , with , a ! dozen of wheels , more than , a-week , to spin it . STow my mistress can make it with the hand-jenny in two days and a half , and a- power mule could spin'it : in a forenoon . Iie feared that it was but natural that the power mule wonk * supplant the hand mule , just as the band mule had supplanted the spinning wheel . It was during the time-that machinery was in the medium state , when any industrious man could oh- ' tarn it , that the weavers ^ of Saddle worth flourished roost . At one time he bad . paid a journeyman £ 35 HZ * S \ " ^ j ^ lodging , clothing , and washing , and they ( did nofe u «« in thi ™ timm . tJ
work more than five or six hours a day . They were too often out following the hounds . Now his average wages were not above ten shillings a week , although he cpuld sometimes Make nearer twenty shillings . Hia wife worked ; the hand-jenny , and could make , when in full work , about fifteen pence a day . thirty years ago she could have easily earned eighteen shillings a week . He kept a cow , andpaid seven pounds ten shillings of rents for the requisite land . Wis famil y consumed most of the dairy produce , selling very little . The ordinary price oi buttermilk was about , one penny for three quarts ; of blue , or skim-milk , one penny for three pints ; and of new milk , about two-pence a quart ! Milt of all kinds was sent down during the summer-time , in great quantities , by many of his neighbours , who kept donkeys to carry it , to Staleybridge , Oldham , and other cotton towns , where the factory hands consumed it as fast as it could be sent in
. Comfort such as this must , however , by no means betaken as the rule . The weavers in the upland districts who have farms / and those in the lower grounds who , although they possess no land , have got advantages of a particulaar class from the vicinity of the country mills—these two classes arc generally decently off , and live wholesome and tolerably agreeable lives . But there are districts , principally in the neighbourhood of the largo towns , wjiere competition keeps the wages miserably low , and whore hard labour brings in but a hard and scanty subsistence . From the letters of the Metropolitan Commissioners we continue the account of-
THE FEMALE SLOP WORKERS OF LONDON . . The next party I visited was one who worked at waistcoats , and here I found the keenest misery of alh Tho house was unlike any that 1 had seen in the same trade ; all was scrupulously clean and neat .: The old brass fender was as bright as gold , and worn with continued rubbing . The grate , in which there was barely a handful of coals , had been newly black-leaded ; and there was not a' cinder littering the hearth . Indeed , everything in the place ¦ evinced the greatest order and cleanliness . Nor was the suffering self-evident . On the contrary , a stranger , at first sight , would have believed the occupant to have been-rather ' well to-do in the world . A few minutes conversation with the poor
creature , however , soon told you that the neatness was partly the effect of habits acquired in domestic service , " and partly the result of a Struggle to hide her extreme poverty from the world . Her story was the most pathetic of all I had yet heard : — " I work for a slop-house—waistcoat work . " She said— "I don't make sleeve waistcoats , but body waistcoats , and the lowest price I get is AA . ; I have have 'em as high as Is . 3 d . I take the run , such as they have got to give me—sometimes one thing and sometimes another in the waistcoat way . Some had better work than others , but my eyesight won't
admit of my doing the best work . Some waistcoats are as much as Is . 9 d ., some 2 s . Ihave worked twenty-six years at the same warehouse . The general price for the waistcoats I have now is 6 d ., 8 d ., and lOd . I can make one . a day sometimes , and sometimes three in two days , just as it happens , for my health is very bad . Sometimes I don ' t cam more than 2 s . 6 d . a week , and sometimes I have earned 3 s , 6 d , and 4 s . That ' s the most I have earned for this several years . I must work very close from about nine in the morning to eleven at night to earn that . Prices have come down-very much indeed since I first worked for the warehouse
—very much . The prices when I was first employed there was as much as Is . 9 d . for what I now get Is . Id . for . Every week they have reduced something within these last few years . Work ' s falling very much . The work has not riz , no ! never since I worked at it . It ' s lower'd , hut it's not riz . The masters seem to say that the work is lowered to them—that they . can ' t afford to pay a better price , or else they would . The parlies for whom I work lay it to the large slop -houses . They say its through them that the work has lowered so . I find it ! very difficult to get sufficient to nourish me out of my work . I can't have what I ought to ' have . I think my illness at present is from overexertion . ' I want more air than I can get . I am
wholly dependent on myself for my living , and never made more than 4 s . a week . Several times I hare had my work thrown back upon my hands , and that has perhaps made me ill , so that I ' ve not been able to do . any thing . lam obliged to work long and always—sick or well—I must do it for my living to make any appearance at all . My sight is very bad now from over-work , and perhaps other difficulties as well—I suffer so bad with my head . My greatest earnings are 4 s . per week , my lowest 2 s . Gd ., and I generally average about 3 s . Many weeks I have Been wholly without working—not able to do it . Young people that have got good health and good work might , perhaps , earn more than I do ; but at the common work I should think they can't make more than I can . I never was married . I went
out to service when I was younger , and to waistcoating after quitting service , so that I might'be at home with mother and father , and take care of them in their old age . I rent the house . It's where I buried mother and father from ; and as such , I ' ve kept it on since they ' ve been dead . . I let the two rooms , but I don ' t gain anything by it . I stand at about lOd . a week rent when I live in the top room and let the others ; but sometimes its empty , and I lose by it . Some time ago , too , a party ran away , and left £ 3 10 s . in my debt . That nearly ruined me . I've not got the better of it yet . I ' ve been very short—very short , indeed , sir ; in want of common necessaries to keep my strength and life together . I don'tfind what 1 get by my labour
sufficient to keep me . I ve no money anywhere , not a farthing in the house ; yes , I tell a story , I've got a penny . If I were to be taken ill I don't know what I should do . But I should be obliged to do as I've often done before . The Almighty is my only support . For my old age there is nothing but the workhouse . - After six-and-twenty years hard work I've not a penny ; to the fore—nothing to depend upon for an hour . If I could have saved , I should have been very glad to have done so . ' Take orie week with another , I have earned 3 s ., and that has been barely sufficient tokeep mo ; I ' ve sold several things to make up , when I ' ve come short . The things here belonged to father ' and mother , I've sold a great many that they left mo . Many people
who follow the same business I think are worse off , if anything ^ thari' I am ; ' because rvegotahome , and I strive to keep it together , and" they ' ve not . " It seemed difficult to believe that there could be found , women suffering more . keenly-than this poor creature ; and yet the ; gentleman who had kindly undertaken' to . introduce me to the better class of workpeople in the trade , led me to a young woman , ' almost lady-like in her appearance and' mariners , from whom I gathered the following pitiable tale : — She . works ; at ! waistcoat , business ; at the best kind of work . Gets lOd . each waistcoat , sometimes 8 d ., and sometimes Gd . ( some she has heard of being as low as 2 * d . ) . - There are snillinjr 6 ries , 'but there's a great deal of work in them . Black satin
waistcoats are 10 d „ stitched all round ; arid out of the lOd . trimmings are to be found . The : trimmings for each waistcoat cost Id ., sometimes ljd ., and occasionally ' 2 d . " ' . ' ' Those I am making now at 10 d ., " she said , " have a ' qtiantity of work in them . They would take me the whole day , even if I was well enough to sit so long at ' em . Besides this , there ' s half a day lost each time you take your work in . And sometimes . every other day-r-and often every day—they'll drag you up to the warehouse for the little bit of work . ' They give out four at a time mostly . We have to give Housekeepers security for £ 5 before we can get work ;> Some weeks : I don't do more than four . Some weeks I don ' t do that . Last week I had a hard matter , to do four , but then I wasn't well . When I was apprentice wo used to
have as . for making the very same as those that I new get lOd . for . At 2 s . a piece one might live , but as it is now , lam starving j if it wasn't for my friends helping me a little ,. I don't know what would become of me , I ' m sure . Frequently the work is returned upon our hands , and recently I have had 9 s . to pay out of my earnings for some waistcoats that ' were sent back tome because they were kept out too long . They wore kept out longer than they , should have been , because T was ill ; I wasn't ablo to make them . I sat up in my bed , ill as I was , and basted them myself , and then a girl that I got did what she could to them , and 1 finished them ; but owing to the delay the foreman 1
grewspiteful and returned them on my hands . I nave been suffering for this ever since , and I couldn't subsist upon what . I get now , where it not for , some kind . friends . ; I ' ve got a spirit , and wouldn't like tjo bo under ah obligation , but I am forced to-live as I do . ' While I was ill my rent went back , and I've left part of ray things whore I was living before ! came here , because I couldn't pay up what I owed for . my-lodging . There is my doctor ' s bill to be paid—for Ihav- ' nt paid it yet , and I have been . obliged tbget rid of the waistcoats that were' returned to me ; I' sold them for a trifle , as 1 could , with the exception of one that ' I've pledged . . I . got Is . upon that , and I-sold the others atlai'Odi each , though they charged me at the shop 3 s . 3 d . a E iece for them . I wa . 9 ; glad to get rid of . , tiwm . any * ow , just then , '
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\ i j " The waistcoats tbat ' tfiey pay , . a . shilling . ffer-to j W * dde hkejackrt ^ the ^ have sl eeves and flaps ¦ to pockets like coats . I don't know what they are [ like . Iticwotild take any one two days to make them . It takes me two days . My average earnings aire- from 3 s . to" 4 s . a week , and out of that I have to pay 2 s . for the waistcoats returned on my hands a . no » b 6 iit 6 d ; for trimmings , per week , leaving me ab . ? w * Js . 6 d . to live . upon ., Some ; persons say they can ^' * waistcoating 14 s . to 15 s . per week , and they ' iri / T the master so ; but then they have people to hei ' p them— shla who probably pay them soriiething rtflhara the business , " or who are very young , andha \ ' * f about' Ikt . per week for doing , the . inferior pivfisi ; I o ' sh'fe know why . . the prices / are so Inw . I hwe'foucd ! prices continually going down
since I oai / wffom-t & e- . wesfS end of the town . I never knew an advance ; . 1 $ they took off 2 d , or Id . I never heard of thoii'putting ' iton agaitiv 'The prices have fallen more within' the- ; last two or three years ~ much more thaiicthey ererdid bsftre . I don't think i they can get . ye ^' muoh 1 lower . Jfthey do > persons « h » ii starve . ; It"is-alhio 8 & as-bao \ a » the workhouse now . I was apprenticed io'the' waatebatihgat the west-end , _ and-. was :. paid . : alittle different then .. -1 could . earn .. 15 s . a-woek-at tSat time . The- business has ' materially injured'my health ; : yes that it has . My eyesight and health . have both- suffered : from / it .. It has produced general ; debiiitj ?; : the doctor says it ' s sitting so long irpthehouse ; . Sometimes all night I used to sit up to work-.. Fve- known maayipeople that have , had strong eoristitutious .-and aftey they ' ve at i
worKea it many years-they ' ve gone like I * have . There are persons who-get even , lower prices-than I do —• Oh , yes , sir , & great deal lower ; seme I know get threepence , and . even fturpence for-a waistcoat . I asked whether she kept any account of her earnings , and she immediately , produced the book in which her work was entwed'by' Ker employers . On one side was a statement of the-work given'but to her , and on the other that of therwoEk Brought home , together with the price paid for it , and th * amount deducted from the earnings for the waistcoats which had been returned upon thepoor girl ' s hands .- The following is the account , of the / prices paid to , and the sums received by , the waistcoat maker!— * '
Tour vests returned , ' 9 s . to pay . s . 4 Sept . 12 . Four at lOd . .. .. .. 34 „ 13 . Ona at 10 d . .. .. .. 0 10
4 2 To pay for waistcoats returned .. .. 20 Paid .. .. ..- 2 2 Sept 28 . FlveatlOd . .. . ' . .. ~ 2 To pay for waistcoats returned .. 20 Paid .... .... .... 2 2 Oct 10 . Twoatls 2 9 „ 17 . ThreeatSd . .. .. .. 16 „ 18 . One at Is . .. .. .. 10 4 ~ 6 To pay for waistcoats returned ' .. .. 1 G Paid 3 0 Oct 22 . Four .. . ' . .. .. 3 2 ,, 26 . TwoatlOd . .. .. ..
4 To pay for waistcoats returned .. .. 16 Paid .. " .. .. .. 3 4 Oft . 30 . Three at lOd 2 6 „ 81 . OneatlOd . 0 10
3 4 To pay for waistcoats returned .. .. 1 0 . Paid .. 2 4 Total receipts from September 13 th to October 31 st ( seven weeks ) , 13 s ., averaging Is . 10 id . per week . ( To be Continued . )
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THE ADELPHI .: "My Precious Betsy " is the title of a " . new and original farce produced here on Monday night last . It was full of the broad humour and pantomimic fun which usually enters so largely into the composition of Adelphi pieces . Mr . Wright was to be seen now dancing about the stage in postures not unlike those assumed by certain wooden toys made to jerk by means of mysterious strings pulled up and down , greatly to the delight of their possessors , and now "bonnetting" Mr . Paul Bedford with a band-box , or whatever else came . to hand . Messrs , Wright and Bedford ' s object being to amuse the audience , and most of those present seeming to . be highly gratified , it must he allowed that "My Precious Betsy " -was successful .
THE OLYMPIC . A tragedy , in three acts , entitled " The Noble Heart , " by Mr . G . H . Lewes , was produced , for the first time in London , on Monday night last at this theatre , with complete success . The scene is laid in Spain , during the period of the , wars with the Moors . Don Gomez do la Vega , a Spanish noble of the highest class , and one of tha most valiant warriors in support of the monarchy , bas received some injuries from , the sovereign , in consequence of which he refuses to obey the royal summons to take the field in the approaching campaign , bnt sends his son . Don Leon , a gallant young ksight , to join the army at the head of his vassals . Leon loves Joanna , the daughter of a merchant , and in the character of an adventurer of humble rank has
obtained from her a return of affection . Before his departure the lovers meet and exchange vows of constancy . Don Gomez , having accidentally seen this young lady , becomes , notwithstanding his age , passionately enamoured of her . He discovers . her family and residence , and , notwithstanding his pride of birth , resolves to offer his hand-in honourable marriage to the daughter of the obscure merchant . Reinaldos , the merchant , is ruined by commercial calamities , and is about to be torn from his daughter ' s arms by officers of the law , when Don Gomez comes to urge his suit . The usual consequence of this stage situation ensues , " Joanna , after a struggle with her feelings , sacrifices herself on the altar of filial duty by accepting the hand of her rich and powerful
lover . The marriage takes place , and the ceremony is hardly concluded when Leon returns from the army , where he has won honour and renown . Scenes of passion , such as might be expected , take place , till at length the old man , who at first hns given way to paroxysms of fury against the supposed treacherous pair , discovers-the truth—that his son has long loved Joanna , and that she has sacrificed her love to save her father from destruction . His noble nature gains the ascendancy ;; his tenderness ; revives ; he resolves to sacrifice his own happiness to theirs , by obtaining a dispensation annulling his own marriage , and to seek consolation for his bereavement in the tranquillity of the cloister . —Mrs . Mowatt's Joanna
was a charming piece of acting ; truly feminine , full of , tenderness and , often highly impassioned . Mr . Davenport looked the youthful knight extremely well , and performed the part with manliness and feeling . Mr . Brooke , as Don Gomez , was often excellent , especially in the softer passages : but , in the scenes of strong passion , his violence was extravagant , and his declamation frequently to the last degree harsh and . grating . This last besetting sin , we conceive , he might avoid , for the tones of his voice , when not overstrained , are far from unmusical . The reception of the . play was most favourable ; the applause was constant during the performance , and its close was followed by all the usual marks of approbations
SURREY THEATRE . On Monday night- last a new five-act play , by Mr . Chorley , entitled "Old Love and New Fortune . " was produced at this theatre , It is written with true poetic fervour , and has many scenes of extreme beauty , although it must be confessed that the story is worked out by a . series of dialogues rather than by any continuity of action ,. At the f & tt of th » curtain tho principalperformerswerecalled . for , and a loud demand was made for the author , but he did not come forward
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION , Sib John Frankun .- —Mr . Stothard . F . N . S ., medal engraver to the Queen , has just completed a most' spirited medal of the above named distinguished individual ; It baa been engraved from a medallion , by M . David , in the possession of Lady Fsanklin , and is the same size of the celebrated Kisk series , and forms the fifth of the Royal Polytechnic series , which is now in the course of . publication , by the artist in the establishment . Doubtless , manj' who take an interest in the fate of this talented officer , feel some desire to be possessed of this portrait ; and if anything Is likely to add to the desire , it is perhaps the fact of viewing that portrait produced . This , however , is one of the maiijr advantages which the Polytechnic confers upon its visitors . The likeness has been ' pronounced , by numerous individuals well acquainted with this distinguished naval officer , most excellent .
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Mr . Josbto H * MBRO , head of an extensive bankine house of London , who lately died , left by his wiu 100 , 000 rix dollars ( 570 , 000 f . ) to the city of . Copenhagen , . his native place , for the establishment of charitable institutiang ,. but subject to tho condition that his son , Mr . ' Charles Hambror-at present , chief of the bank , should enjoy the . interest of the capital" during his life . ' Mr . Charles llambro ,. a short time ago , proposed fothe municipality ol . vopenha ' gen togive iipthe . life interest provided that it would undortako ' to build two baths and washhouses for the" poor , as iH England . The mumpipaMy . has just accepted the generous offer ,
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TALKBns . rrTho lips , of . talkers will be telling such things . as pertain not unto them . ' ; but the words of such as have , understanding are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but W [ - tongue of the wise is in their heart . A . v unpleasant Sbn ' sAtIon . —If some men could come out of their graves and read the inscriptions ' on their tombstones , , they would think they had got into tie wrong graves ; f ¦ n ™ - « 7 ™ ^? BBEMBR . _ The iRw York Mirror III iw % i VI 1 - Fretferika Bremer we , can only ZSS , pm * ** $ ><* stout , rather . ? fKi \ thergrey - She is a ° <» t flftysix , and all her beauty seems to havo struck in " Translation of a Ttro . -A little follow , whd S , feS ^ ^ un to learn Latin , '' occasionally ^ mixed , his mother-tonguo with a ' spice of the language It thus
aeaa . chanced , as one aay h « was reading aloud to his master , that he astounded him by . the translation , " -yir , a man ; gin , a trat >« vir-gm , a man-trap . " : » You young rogue-, " exclaimed tho pedagogue , " your father ha * been : helping you with your lesson . " ; " Spartss ; Black Broth . —Mr , W . C . ' . Travelyan remarks , in Notes ,-and Quaies , concerning the old j Lacedemonian black broth : "It has occurred tome [ that it was probable that it was the same black broth which r * now cooked in Greece , where I have oaten- ef' it ,, and fotmd . it very good , although it Hooked as if ' a bottle of ink had been poured into tfhe-; mess .. The disk is composed of small cuttle-fish ( with their ink-bags ) - boiled with rice and other vegetables- " ' : A : Lib . ?—He who-tells a lie is not sensible how great a tasfc he undertakes , for he must be forced 1 'to invent twenty mere to maintain that one .
SitAsotfiiBLE , —Bury berries ; be chary of cherries ; suspend the currency of currants ; appeaseyour hunger without peas ; do not bay shell-fish of those who are selfish enough to sell fish ; don't bo among those who , at night , are out in the night air ; and drink from the well if you wish to be among the well : Well !— Springfield Republican . The . most uncommon quality in nature is styled " common sense ; " a paper half » mile long is a " brief ,- " and a melancholy ditty , devoid of sense or meaning , is a " glee . "
0 Poland ! Poland !—Yes there was a time when the friends of liberty might flatter themselves with hope , that not the - General of the ^ Poles , but the despot of Prussia ( for it is now no longer treason to speak of him as he deserves , ) would have felt the galling of chains . But , alas ! the gold of Britain enabled him to hold out till the Russian barbarians were ready to take the field . —From the Tribune ef 1796 . J The Lav op a Lost Bachelor . —A poor American bachelor , having rashly sacrificed himself on the altar of Hymen , exclaims : — Oh . ' when I think of what I ar , And what I used to was , I find I ' ve flung myself away "Without sufficient cos . .
Snow as it falls , is twenty-four times lighter than water , which may be proved by melting twenty-four measures of snow , and they will be found to produce but one of water . An inconstant woman is one who is no longer in loye ,- a false woman is one who is already in lovo with another person ; a fickle woman is she who neither knows whom she loves , nor whether she loves or no ; and the indifferent woman ono who does not love at all . Trust him little who praises all ; him less who censures all ; and him least who is indifferent about all . —Lavater . " 1 wish , " says Lord Bacon , " every man knew as much law as would enable him to keep himself out of it . " To civb tone to the stomach—get it lined with bell metal .
The ancients were of opinion that Echo was a maiden who had pined away for love , till nothing but her voice was left . Coquettes . —When the general attention towards coquettes grows languid , they will regain it by often flirting out or in , or not staying so long in a place as to tire their company . Many persons among the gentry have such a taste for foreign diversions that they think not tolerably of those of their own country however preferable . Socthbt os the 3 > EVii < . — You ask me why the devil rides on . horseback I The prince of darkness is a . gentleman , and-that would be reason enough ; but , moreover , the history doth aver , and that he came on horseback for the old woman , and rode
before her , and that the colour of the horse was black . Should I falsify tho history , and make Appollyon a pedestrian ? Besides , Grosvenor , Appollyon is cloven-footed ; and I humbl y conceive that a biped ^—and I neveriunderstood his dark majesty to beother wise—that a biped , I say , would walk clumsily upon cloven feet . Neither hath Apbllyon wings , according to the best representations ; and ; indeed , how should he ? For were they of feathers like the angels' they would be burned in the everlasting fire ; and-were they of leather , like the bat ' s , they would be shrivelled . I conclude , therefore , that wings he hath not ; Yet do we find , from sundry reputable authors and divers histories , that he transported himself from place to place with exceeding rapidity . . Now , as he . cannot walk fast or fly , he
must have some conveyance . Stage-coaches to the infernal regions there are none ,. thou « h the road be much frequented .. Balloons would burst at setting out , the air would be so raiiSed with the heat ; but horses he may have of a particular breed . — Soitthey ' s Life and Correspondence . A glass of soda water was offered the other day to an Irishman , who rejected it with the greatest indignation . " Do you think 5 am a Salamander , " said he , " to drink water biling hot ?" During a consultation of physicians , on the character of a Bacchanalian patient , how to cure his fever , and abate his thirst ,, the sick man observed , " Gentlemen , if you will cure the fever , 1 will take half the trouble off your hands , and abate the thirst myself . " Tub editor of the Methmn Gazette make the
following sweeping assertion t— " What ? a man , and never in love ! Psha ! : Such a man must have a heart of ice , a soul as lifeless as a corn cob , the gizzard of a goose > and a head as sappy as a cocoa nut . " The Washington correspondent of tho Niw York Evening Fojt remarks on the largeness of tlie members' heads in the House of Representatives , while the Boston CAronotj ^ e-thinks them less remarkable for largeness than ion thickness .
Some would bethought to do great-things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the- fool who fancied he played upoa the organ , whoa he only blew tho bellows ,. Two Irishmen , meetbg one day , ono of them inquired of the other if he had seen his-friend Pat Murphy lately ,, for ,, said he , he has gaown so thin you would net know him at all . You ajte thin , and I am thin , hut , by the powers , he is , thinner tluxn both of us together-, ' ¦¦¦ - Poison Piu > oF ; r- © ied lately in the Heaby Churchyard Almshouses ,, Sarah Chance , who * to assuage mins from sore legs , took since Juauary , 1838 , fifty-one gallons , two pints , and five ounces of laudanum , which cost her £ 110 Ss . 4 * 1 .. ' Quick Passage . —The clipper Beindeer , Enright , arrived in the Mersey last week froai China , with a cargo oftca , & c , after having , been absent only eight months .
. , „ „ , ¦ A . - Corrbseondknt , who signs himself ' An Australian , " says that the- Lea from Plymouth ,, with immigrants , made the-passago out to Sydney in eighty-four days , the quickest passage sine ® Mil .- - . . . He who in the same given time-can produce mow than many others , has vigour ., Ue who can produce more and better , has . talents . He who can produse what none else can , has genius . _ Thr QazettcdesPontes says ' * lt is quite certain that the Emperor of Russia will undertake m . the spring his great expedition against Turkey .. All the greeks in Balkan are reajiy to join him . ' Fi > owEns or Itusmmic in sermons or seriom discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn , pleasing to those who come only for amusement , bat prejudicial to him : k 1 iq » would reap th « profit .
" I AM INCUNED TO DO SO AND SOvl' ^ BOplo frequently use this expression , not considering that they then ai ; c speaking the most literal ofaU ' truths . Dr . FrajnklinJ talking of a friend of * his , who had been a Manchester dealer , said , " 3 \ h « t . h & never sold a piece of tape narrower than hts , o , wn mind . Thees is a man at Gravesend so . mean , that he wishes , his landlord ! to reduce the price of his board because he has hatlirwo of his teeth extracted . A yor , iust returned to-England froai acontiruins ot
nental tour , was . asked how ho-liked the Psmpeii , '' Noi very well , " , was the reply ; they aVo' so dreadfully out of repaid ! " _ . ' A writer ftw thecontment ^ ys- " People who expect anyplace and quietness in E ^ ope , ^ during the remaining half-cent ^ , aro *« $ £ ammg £ temporary j ' ost to be stMtled out of-ihcir sleep hy a 8 t ^? LLVSTaATED witjs cuts , " said a y ?« ng urchin , ashe L SfJs 1 aok-S ife across the le ^ es of hia SI > wSSVEh , rAsTKsr , m * o- coLDl-Heat d ^„ r b S ^ SSM 5 o SD ? -. Be 0 iV } 5 eit is a dear little ^ ang .
-MIS SOW . ' » , Tho Poet ' s oye , in a fino freu zy rolling , Doth glance from Heav ' u , to earth frcja earth to Heav ' n ; V t . , . ,. > ., ' ' A lid as Imagin ation bodies forth , The form of things unknown , the Peet s pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing . A local habitation and a name .-i / S 7 iat < pflr « .- ^ - ¦ Queen Anne ' s" BbuNir .--The total of sums received by the Governors q ? Q » een A ^ esBounty during the year , ending' December , 1 » 4 » , was £ 183 , 134 4 s . id . The . total amount disbursed was £ 178 . 767 Us . Gd .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 23, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_23021850/page/3/
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