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A-o&UST 28, " 1852. THE STAR OF FREEDOM....
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Progress op Cholera in. Poland axd Pruss...
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QUITE THE GENTLEMAN! Pbobably there are ...
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. DEFINITIONS. Slave.—One of God's child...
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Mansion House. Skittle Siiaspim.—Jo/Wz M...
BBovvBow-comtriori . There was blood on the ' prisoner ' s face , arid nnaldialdson wiped it off with his handkerchief . A poliee-conbbb bb was sent for , and Cox , 264 K , soon came to the spot . Cox tt hit him in Picket-street , Limehouse , and , having received a iCicripcription of him , asked him what that was that was lying on ;; gn grass . The prisoner said he knew nothing of him , on which i j poj policeman insisted on his returning to the spot , which he uuseiused to do . Cox took him by the collar and made him return . : soc soon as the prisoner reached the spot where Faul was lyinfj 1 the the grass , he proceeded towards a bank which was bounded
; a f a fence a few yards off , and , under pretence of a pressing 22 e = ce = sity , took from his trousers-pocket a watch , which he let 11 oil on the ground , buried it under the grass , and dragged some kickscks and dirt over it with his feet . A lad named Burgess no ho had watched the prisoner ' s actions , mentioned the circumnnctnee to a man named Walters , who went to the spot and found ce w ? watch . It turned out to be the one which had been taken :: tF the prosecutor ' s neck . On being searched at the station-» i » us * use the prosecutor ' s money was found upon the prisoner . j jr . j . Ingham committed the prisoner for trial at the next Mideeseesex Sessions .
WESTMINSTER . U Unmanly Assault . ™ WilUam Lumh y , described as a smith , rasas charged with being drunk and committing the followin g [ rututai assault upon Mary Wright . The complainant , a re * Meoectable looking girl , about nineteen years of a « -e residing it l King ' s-head-terraee , Westminster , stated that On the pre iioiious evening she went with a jug to fetch her supper beer at pi public house near her own residence and while being served
, Ikehe defendant asked her to treat him to a pot of beer * she of owui'se declined , upon which he struck her a violent blow ererOss the face . She rail out of the house to escape his brutality , vhrhen he followed , struck her three other severe blows , knocked teier down , and then kicked her in the most brutal manner . Mr . 3 r 3 roderip said that the assault was of the most unmanly and unprovoked character , and convicted the defendant in the full icienalty of bl . or two iaontks imprisonment in default .
Brutal Assault .---. Mu Wren , a gigantic labourer , was jluharged with a series of violent assaults upon the police ; John HHillier , 175 B ., stated that about eight o ' clock on the previous r avening he fa-und the prisoner creating a great disturbance in BBroadway , Westminster . He requested him to go away , when hhe declared with a brutal oath that he would " job" a tobacco ppipe he was smoking into the constable ' s eye . Witnesss again rrequestedhmi to go , when he knocked him down , and while in fthat defenceless position kicked him in the most brutal manner iin the face , body ,. and legs , and inflicted such serious injuries as i to render him unfit for the performance of his duty . The pri-• soner , who denied the charges , was committed to trial .
LAMBETH . CRijrrxAL ixuxDATiox . —Mr . Morton , afterihaving been engaged for upwards of three hours in hearing and disposing of nearly 100 charges from Camberwell Fair , said there could be no doubt that this fan- at Camberwell had become the nucleus of all the low characters in the metropolis , arid had it but continued a few days longer , he should have had brought to this court all
the low thieves , the petty gamblers , and vicious characters in the metropolis ; Instead of being , as . it was intended , and as it used to be in former times , a place of enjoyment and relaxation for the pleasure- taking portion of the metropolis , it had becorire the very ceritre of crime ; and it was really very shocking to observe juvenile thieves there , many mere children . The fair had in his opinion now become a public nuisance .
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Progress Op Cholera In. Poland Axd Pruss...
Progress op Cholera in . Poland axd Prussia : — Vie are profoundly distressed ir i announcing that ravages of the most fearful description have been made iri the city of Warsaw by the dreadful scourge Asiatic cholera . The mortality , we understand , has been altogether almost beyond precedent . Out of nearly six thousand stricken with the disease within a moderate interval of time , upwards of four thousand had expired . The Spectacle presented in consequence throughout , the streets is said to be of a most lamentable and heart-rending character . The graveyards were crowded to repletion with the remains of those who had perished—and the burials were , as wholesale as those described in London
by Defoe and in Florence hy Boccaccio . We await most anxiousl y the arrival of further particulars in reference to the progress of the modern plague , desirous , as we cannot fail to be , to leam that these particulars may have been iri some degree exaggerated . Such , however , we fear , cannot possibly be the result of airy additional investigation . The circumstances above referred to—circumstances which we are here the first to make public hy means of the present announcement— must be regarded as altogether : beyond the reach of contradiction . From Posen the returns are to the 20 th ; on that date there were 68 new cases , of which 58
were fatal In Ostrowa , from the 16 th to the 20 thj 21 persons had been attacked hy the disease , of whom 16 died ; in all , up to the latter date , there had been 378 cases , of whom 178 were fatal . The reports still give hopes that the pest is really abating , as the cases' for the last two days had diminished in number , though in those seized it . appeared iri a very maligriant form . It is especially severe iri the villages , where thei proportion of deaths is still greater than iri the towns . In Przygodzice , 70 persons , or full one-eighth of the inhabitants had been earned off . The last returns from Landsberg , iu Silesia , is to the 19 th . The total number of cases to that date had been 267 * of which 117 were fatal ; 84 were cured .
Ecoxc-MY ; in Koyal Salutes . — " Scientific Punch , —Great objection is made to the waste of gunpowder which is made filing salutes . To save this expense * and at the same 11 erve rsonages the honour of being stunned , let me recommend to the notice of the Lords of the Admiralty the . substance called Quadrpehloride of Nitrogen , which is one of- the most explosive compounds known . - You make ; it ' by simi 5 lt § etting . a'jar of . chlomie . to ; stand inverted
nva solution of sal-ammoniac ; inaterials cheap enoug h ' . A drop of it ho bigger than a pea goes off with a loud bang , and a very small quantity of it would make a greater noise than a forty-pounder ; besides which , it has the advantage of being extremely dangerous , ar id much more likely than gunpowder to hlow himJs off ; moreover , of smelling perhaps worse . Of the truth of these statements I am ready " to take my—Davy . — -The Laboratory , August , 1852 . "—Punch .
Child Murder . —On Wednesday night the body of an inant supposed to have been murdered ,. was found on the roof of a stable in the neighbourhood of the Adelphi .
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Miss Martin ' eau in Belfast . —This eminent authoress visited Belfast last week , and , on Thursday , proceeded to Dublin on her way to the west of Ireland . Death ix a Police Ci ^ l . —On Wednesday , 2 h . Waklcy hcki an inquest at the College Arms , College-street , Camden-town , on the body of a man unknown , about 45 years of age . H . Hall , police-constable , 264 , S , stated that at six o ' clock on Monday evening he found deceased lying apparently drunk on the pavement in Little Druminond Street . Witness had hirii conveyed on a stretcher to the station-housewhere he was laid upon his
, back in the cell . He was then unconscious . Mr . Smelley , the police-surgeon , was sent for . Dr . Smelley said that as soon as he was sent for on Monday evening he attended deceased , who had been twenty minutes dead when he arrived . Upon a post mortem examination he found that death resulted from extravasation of blood on the brain , produced by the rupture of a blood vessel ; but he could not say whether the rupture was caused by violence , drink , or natural causes . The jury returning a verdict iu accordance with the circumstances , and animadverted severely on the negligence of the police .
_ I HE KlNG ' s-CROSS TeKMIXUS OF THE GREAT NORTHERS .-- "The directors of the Great Northern Railway Company have appointed Monday the 20 th of September , for the public opening of this station , which is now rapidly drawing near completion . Asiatic Cholera . —A correspondent of the Korth British Daily Mail writes as follows : — " Reasoning from what happened in 1835 and 1847 , Asiatic Cholera will , in the course of a few months , perhaps weeks , visit Glasgow forthe third time , to sweep into the grave thousands of its citizens . Arrival op Cabet in America . —Citizen Cabet arrived at Neauvoo , Illinois , on thee 23 rd of July .
The New Florin . —The new florin is now current . It is a larger , or rather broader , piece than the former one . The obverse preserds the crowned bust of the Queen , with the legend in Gothic characters—Victoria d . o . brit . keg . f . d . mdccclii ; the reverse—one florin—one-tenth op a pound . The Last or > the Crystal Palace . —The Palace is now a desolate blank , and in a few days every portion of the upper part will be taken away , hundreds of Vans being engaged daily
m the transfer of the materials to Sydenham . At the close of the week will come the "diggings ; " and here unthought-of treasures are expected to be found . The flooring will have last to be taken up , and the most extraordinory prices have been offered for the privilege of searching the ground underneath , where it is expected many valuables will be found , as great room was afforded in the flooring of the Great Exhibition for valuables to pass through .
Salmon Fishing . —One gentleman , Captain Martinus Bowie , killed 200 salmon this season at Killarney . Registration op Voters . —Mr . Christie , the revising barrister has given notice that he will commence his registration this year of voters for members to serve in Parliament for the city of London on Thursday , the 16 th of next month . Swindling . —At the Middlesex Sessions , Wm . Rose , was convicted of committing frauds by falsely representing that he was
an officer of the Court of Chancery , and that the persons he defrauded were entitled to property which ho could recover for them . The sentence was that he be transported for seven years . Tea was first imported from Holland by the Earls of Arlington and Ossoiy , in 1666 ; from their ladies the women of quality learned its use . Its price was then £ 3 a pound , and continued the- same till 1707 . , In 1715 we began to use green tea , and the practice of drinking it descended to the lower classes of the people .
The Language of Hats . —I found my black European hat very corispiceous here ( Debreczin ) . 'At . last I said something about it to a friend , a preacher , with a somewhat humorous turn . " Yon are very unfortunate , " said he ; you have an Austrian ofneial hat . Now this , " tnking up a low-crowned , broad-brimmed hat , like one of the English " wideawakes , " the American " Californias , " " is ' durchaus socialistischer and democratischer , ' a thoroughly socialist and democratic hat , and would send me to the Austrian guardhouse if I should wear i , iu the streets . This however , " and he raised another with a more pointed crown and a narrower brim , "is merely a 4
schlechtr-gesinute hut , '—an evil-disposed hat" This word " evil-disposed " has almost passed into a phrase in Hungary to mean anything which is opposed to the government , and of course , in consequence anything which the Hungarians like . " This again , " he continued , taking up a black hat , like the Kossuth hats in vogue here , "is a purely neutral hat ; Hungarian , but not revolutionary . And this , " handing me mine , " is a thoroughly Austrian , well-disposed reactionnain ( reactionary hat ) . " This analysis ot hats was amusing enough though it all speaks strongly , much lhore than more important facts , of the present condition of ExmgMy . --Brace ' s Hungary
in 18 ol . A French Bandit in London , —We understand that De Persigny , one of the most infamous tools of the infamous Louis Buonaparte , is at present in London , holding suspicious intercourse with the Government . A Town Killed with Kindess . —Drolly enough Bedford is an example of a town killed with kindness . It has been pauperised by the number and wealth of its charities . ^ A mechanic or small tradesman can send his child , if it bo sick ,
to a free hospital ; when older ,. to a free school , where even books are provided ; when the boy is apprenticed , a fee may be obtained from a charity ; at half-time of apprenticeship , a second fee ; on the expiration , a third ; oh going to service , a fourth ; if he marries , he expects to obtain from a charity , fund a u portion" with his wife , also educated at a charity , and if he has not sufficient industry or prudence to hvy by for old age—and those arc virtues which he is not likely to practise—he looks forward with confidence at being boarded and lodged at one of " Bedford ' s fifty-nine almshouses ;
Diet of Napoleon . —The frugality of Napoleon was such , that his taste gave the preference to the most simple and the least-seasoned dishes ; as rmfs au iniroir and havisots en salade . His breakfast was almost always composed of one oftliese dishes and a . little . Parmesan cheese . At dinner he ate little , rarely of ragauts , and always of wholesome ' things t have ' often- hearer him say , " that- ' however' little _; Document people took at' dinner , they always Cook tcr much . " labour
Thus his head was always clear , and his easy , even when he rose from table . Gifted by nature with a healthy stomach , liis nights were as calm as those of an infant ; nature , also , had bestowed on him a constitution so admirably suited to his station , that a single hour of sleep would restore him after twenty-four hours' fatigue . In the midst ot the most serious and urgent events , he had tlie power of resigning himself to sleep at leisure , and his mind enjoyed the most psrfect calm , as . soon as directions were given for the necessary arrangements .
Quite The Gentleman! Pbobably There Are ...
QUITE THE GENTLEMAN ! Pbobably there are not two persons to be found who will ; ive rh" <• - >••••> f ] r- ' ^ : < . „ .. , - * a . (> -, ? ntlcm ? i - ' i . Each has his own individual notion of tue qualities which ought to belong to that character . One thinks it consists in wealth , another in fine dress and easy manners , a third in a certain station in society , and a fourth in politeness , suavity , and honourable bearing . The dictionary definition is , "Everyman above the rank of a yeoman , bearing a coat of arms . " Another description is , u Every man whose occupation or income raises him above nienial service or an ordimuy trade ; " and so on . These are , indeed , very loose and unsatisfactory definitions .
The waiter at an inn calls him " quite the gentleman , " who adds a liberal douceur to the bill , and forgets neither boots , hostler , nor chamber-maid . Imt at the Herald ' s office , there is many a gentleman registered , many a real esquire , whom waiters without hesitation would pronounce to be " no gentleman , " and this is the waiter standard . \ jO to tho shopkeeper , and you will find his definition of " the gentleman" to he , one who . buys largely , and pays his way ; not being over critical as to prices charged or bills rendered .
Go to the livery stable , and you will there find " the gentleman" is one who rides a good horse , follows the hounds occasionally , and " tips" the groom and the
huntsman . Go to the race-course , and "the gentleman" there is one who bets fearlessly and largely , taking the odds or giving them , and never found in the list of defaulters . ^ Go lower still , and you willalway * find " the gentleman " of sortie kind or other—the hero oi a class—the man looked up to , quoted , perhaps admired . The clansman sees in his chief the head gentleman of his sept . He boasts , " If you could see Vich Ian Vohr with his tail on !" The exclusive classes have another test . What is his family ? Is he of tlie blue blood ? If the common puddle runs in his veins , he is " no gentleman . "
Our opinion is , that the only true definition of a gentleman is— A man of true and noble character . " When you adopt this definition , you at once strip the designation of all that is adventitious . You make the title rest on true merit , not on accident ; on personal qualities , not on possessions ; on the inner man , and not on his outer trappings .
. Definitions. Slave.—One Of God's Child...
. DEFINITIONS . Slave . —One of God ' s children , kept out of his property by a brother . Love . —The sun of life ; moat beautiful in morning and in evening , biit warmest and steadiest at noon . Bank—A gilt barge on the river Credut in which gandees are carried forward by the labour of the horses on the towing-paths . Sincerity . —An ill-used child of humanity , continually flogged , and kept in a dark cellar on bread and water . Wine . —The solvent in which minds effervesce and melt
down . Faith . —A strong arm to work for us in health and youth ; a firm shoulder to lean upon in sickness and ago . Lawyer . —A brass-headed nail to keep things together . Power . —A wild horse ; difficult to seize , but more difficult to ride . Music—The winds caught and tamed .
Patronage . —Ass ' s milk to nourish sickly genius . Labour . —The wooing by which nature is won . Bee . —A stinging satire on human " civilisation . " Revenge . —Quenching your thirst with brandy . Fame . —A coquette adored by inferior minds and endured by superior . Letter . —A messenger whom we never wish to see return . Malice . —The dirty road on -which revenge travels . Money . —An alter on which . self sacrifices to self .
Dreams . —Dreams usually tatcc place m a single instant , notwithstanding the length of time ' they seem to occupy . They are , in fact , slight mental sensations , unregulated by consciousness ; these sensations being less or more intense , painful or agreeable , according to certain physical conditions . On this subject , tlie following observations occur in Doctor Winslow ' s Psychological Journal : — "We have in dreams no true perception of the lapse of time—a strange property of mind ! for if such be also its property when entered into the eternal disembodied state , time will appear to us eternity . The relations of space , as well as of time , are also annihilated : so that while almost an eternity is
compressed into a moment , infinite space is traversed more swiftly than by real thought . There arc numerous illustrations of this ' principle on record . A gentleman dreamed that he had enlisted as a soldier , joined his regiment , deserted , was apprehended , carried back , tried , condemned to be shot , and at last led out for execution . —After all the usual preparations , a gun was fired ; he awoke with the report , and found that a noise in the adjoining room had , at the same moment , produced the dream , and awakened him . ¦ A friend of'Dr . Abererombio dreamed that he had crossed the Atlantic , arid spent a fortnight in America . In embarking , on his return , he fell into the sea , and awakening in tho fright , found that he . had not been asleep ten minutes . "
Cork as it is . —But with all this undoubted talent , and despite the uncommon intellectual activity at Cork , the city , wb grieve to say , is decidedly retrograde in point of property , even when compared with its own past standard . It ' is stated by Dr . Lyons , the loading man of the Liberal interest at Cork , that the present valuation of the city of Cork is between £ 48 , 000 and £ 40 , 000 . It is contended that the valuators have assessed the houses too lev /; but even allowing a margi % of 25 per cent , on that score , there is still a vast positive decrease in the valuation of Cork as measured by its own standard . But take a proportion between the
valuations of Cork and Belfast in . 1845 and what they are now , and the relatively retrograde character of Cork is very serious to-contemplate . . It has produced one of the-first of modern English' dramatists- ' -- *• feheridan-Knowles . It-has reared artists like Barry , Maclise , ¦ Hogan , ' Fisher , Grogari ; ' literary men , like Arthur O'Leary and John OVDriscoll ; lawyers and advocates , like Willes , Waggett , Goold ,
Bennett , and Jackson . It contributes to the Fellows of Trinity College such scholars and men of science as Butcher , Salmon , Tolekin , and Malet . It ha : * a literature-loving population , aud keen and intellectual middle class , and tlie professions have numbers of its sons ; but these results will not keep thousands at work , like spinning yarn or bleaching linen . For one witty thing said at Bolfesfc , there arc twenty . said at Cork , and with the earning of guineas the proportion is x'ice versdi—Dublin 'University Magazine for July .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_28081852/page/7/
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