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THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA. A Tale of Iri...
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Lord IAndsay, a Poem, by Ernest Jones, E...
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Radicalism, an Esimhtd Doctrine of Chris...
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The Patriot's Test . Bt . Wkbst Joki8, C...
THE PATRIOT'S TEST . BT . WKBST JOKI 8 , Come hither ! come hither ! from broad England , Te men of South , North , East , and ffest ! Come hither , whoever feels courage to stand The truth of the Patriot ' * te » t ¦ We * ik aai . tha wealth of bis torsi broad , Kor tbe sum ef hit ibocssdds won : But we ask of him how he hm served his Sod , And the worth / of the work he ' s dene .
We ask him nst , what his fathers have been In the ages of war ' s iroa rotb : But the ' ancestry brave that we reckon with him Are the ehivalreus deed * of hii youth . ¦ Wo sat him sot , how . he ' s grovelled low To worship at altar and crown : But how he has struck at the betrt of the foe , And how he has spared him when down . We ask him not , how he ' s paid tithe and tax , And settled tell , impost , and rate : Eat whether he ' s ready to Ity the ax * At the roet of * rotten state . We « . » k hiea not , what his creed may be , Or what wss the form it gave : Bat whether he ' s prayed to tbe God of ths rise To strengths * the heart of the slave .
And whether he ' s willing with , heart and hand - To march to ths field of fight , And scourge from the depth of & ioffering land The foes of a People ' s right : " To face their steel and their cannon flame , And the mesh of tieir greedv laws ; And not ashamed to avow his name , Shenld he stand aloseln the eausB . Aad whether he'd spara the silken band , That offers a haltreform " ; Oh I The fool who wsuld bind with a gossamer band The bolt of a people ' s $ torsi 1 And whether he trusts in . the strength of his right , And sever a doubt within : If bo , hs ' g a man wio is fit for the fight , Par such tre the men that win !
Then altber—cime hither , 'from broad England , Te men of South , Sforta . East , and Westt Corns hither , whoever U able to stand The troth of tho Patriot ' s test !
Songs For The People. Otjr Katite Land. ...
SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . OTJR KATITE LAND . ST / JOHH kXTHSOXX . The Land , tbe Land , sur native Land ] forthcoming years will ice , Thick scattered o ' er yonr fertile bretat , the dwellings of the free . Front hill , from mine , from workshop crowd , tbe . hardy f om of toil . To rear a bom e in freedom ' s name , and till the bounteous tall .:
By gentle stream , by mountain side , in valley and in glen , Ti « re vnll be fesa the tomes ef free and stalwart Engliihmenl Who'll speak not then , as they fio now , the language of ¦ despair , Sot rtisfl the song of cheerfulness , and breathe tbe grate ! fbl prayer . ! We nftsdno food from foreign shores , - while we hare land to grow It , Kor send for corn some thousand miles , while wa have hands to sow it ; Kor send onr goods to every clime , to clothe and deck each nation , Whils millions'bscks are bare athome , and thousands is . starvation .
If ill oar land were well employed , ' twould yield oa bounteous iters , And each succeeding yearbecomemorericber than before . Each plot of Land a peasaat tb . es might dare to csQ bis own , It equal - laws were framed for all—for cottage and for throne . Ibo lmd their on they'd dread no foe , no ruthless fierce larader ; If England ' s sons own'd England's soil , ne tyrants could degrade her :
Bach eot would be a cistle then , no nation could enslave thera . Jor l 0 U . d would rinj their rsllyinp cry—* Tae land their birthright gave then . * let those who vrishand wonld be free , stand by not tame . and coldly , Sat give their help to those who ' vefonght the poor msnY causs so boldly ; But 'bove t & em all to him bs praise—all glory and all hononr—The people ' s friend aad champion , onr patriot chief O'Connor .
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The Emigrants Of Ahadarra. A Tale Of Iri...
THE EMIGRANTS OF AHADARRA . A Tale of Irish Ufe . By W . Carieton , Esq . Sims iand M'Intyre , London and Belfast . In the modest aad unpretending preface to this admirable volume the author disclaims having written * a political work , * or one encumbered with a superabundance of political reflection ; on the . contrary , he says he has only introduced such short and plain statements , affecting the condition ot the Irish people , as were necessary to elucidate the characters Of tbe actors—and this is true , but the legal assertion , tie greater the truth the greater the ^ libel , is here most evidently borne out . What fietion could avail to describe Ii eland ' s distresses so forcibly as does the narrative of plain , unvarnished truth ? " vYhat daring dealer ia the marreUous and the improbable would venture to describe , from nig luxuriant imagination , tbeawful . the heartrending scenes of oppression and despotism which , daily occur in the asterisk ?
T 7 e confidently assert that , as respects the woes of Ireland , Tratn leaves Fiction lingering far behind ; and be who would describe them must trust _ to simple fact , as offering scenes of horror , of atrocity of legal assassination , such as no imagination , whatever , has been powerful enonpb . to coin . In this well-planned , well-written , and thoroughly well principled tale , Mr Carleton has , then , availed himself of facts—and of facts alone—and it tells all the mora powerfully on the mind from the . circumstance of its uuexaegerated veracity . The evils of the ' no tease system—and of priestly denunciation are especially jonrtrayed . Thecharacters _ are numerous and perfectly consistent—the tale itself one
of every-day-life—» at least in unhappy Ireland , where every violent passion Eeems to bare dominion , and religion is too often prostituted to tie basest and most murderous purposes . Cavkton , always an excellent pourtrayer of the characters and manners of his own countrymen , has been peculiarly happy in this novel . Inspired bv the patriotic desire to mafce the true canges of Ireland ' s misery nore generally known among English bodies , he has , in this work , exceeded bis former self—may he live to see his country ia a position which shall allow of a _ very much happier , yet an equally trnthfnl exposition of its state . May tie see the day when that lien , and fertile , and lovely land , shall no longer drive forth its cbildrea from its bosom as starving , homeless , fever-stricken
Emigrants . But whatever thanks may be doe to Mr CarietoDj ¦ w e owe an equal meed of praise to the enterprising publishers who have presented the public with this original book for the price of a shitting . We thought that bibliopolic liberality could scarcely be exceeded when a reprint of an entire popular work was offered for that sum , but here we have a new novel , such as Host publishers would sell at a guinea and half , inferior to none in point of merit , —printed far more accurately too , than the volumes of ggme of our London men , —for a sum tbat many , even among the working classes , expend weekly ia useless and injurious luxuries . Ought not such liberality in a publisher meet with some reward from the public ? It certainly ought . —and we feel sure tbat no man who can spare a shilling will grudge the bestowal of it on ' The Emigrants of Ahadarra . '
That the novelty of tbe book may not be worn off before it is purchased , we will give no extracts whatever , —it would be unjust alike to author , publisher , and public .
Lord Iandsay, A Poem, By Ernest Jones, E...
Lord IAndsay , a Poem , by Ernest Jones , E ? q ., Barrlstcr-at-Lav ? . London : Southern Siah office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket . This poem is a reprint from the Labourer , aiid has attracted considerable attention , and very favourable notices on the part of several journals since its republication . Our opinion of Mr Jokes ' s poetry is too well-known to need repeating . Though no admirers of aristocracy , we recommend our readers io make personal acquaintance with Lord Lindsay .
The Charter, The I/Xnd Company, And Ike ...
The Charter , the I / xnd Company , and ike Land and Labour Bank . By B . W . Robinson , Manchester . Tiiis pamphlet is , as deicribed en the title-page , a letter addressed to the Trades , Orders , and the Public , on the principles of the Charter , the Nstional Land Company , and tho National Laud aud Labour Bank , with remarks oa the character and objects of the * Whistler . ' It appears that the author is but a new convert to Chartism and tbe Land Plan ; aud curious enough , although we believe he is not a rare instance , he was made
a convert through the instrumentality of the Maschesiee Examiser ! Mr Robinson was a constant reader of that paper , and his acquaintance with the Lmd Plan was first brought about by the Exiiiisrs ' s abu ? c of that plan . De ' . ermined to hear both sides , he commenced reading the Siau , and after well weighing tbe evidence on both sides , he abandoned ? the Whistler , ' and joined the banner of MrO'Connor . Almost immediately , afterwards be wrote this pamphlet , which has been published by-the Council of the Manchester Locality . Its circulation ia calculated to effect considerable good .
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Letters to Ae Toiling . By W . W . Broom . FugfU for the Curious : By YV .. W ; Broom . London . W . Jenkinson , 91 , Leather-lane , Holborn . *¦; ¦ - Wefear that Mr Broom has mistaken oddity fdrork ginality . If Carlyle would write plain , understandable English , he would be none the less thought of . Bat what the public excuse in him , they will net tolerate in his imitators , who adopt His form of expregsion without being .. able to enunciate the great thoughts—( because not possessing th ^ mj ^ rwhich go far to redeem his barbarous jargon , ' As ' a writer , Carlyleis the worst of models . Mr ; Broomisaytfung man , and means well ; two sufficient reasons why we should restrain our pen .
Radicalism, An Esimhtd Doctrine Of Chris...
Radicalism , an Esimhtd Doctrine of Christianity . By the Rev . B . Parsons , of Ebley . Stroud : B . Bucknail ; London : J . Snow , Paternoster-row . This is No ; 5 , of' Tracts for tha Fustian Jackets and Smock Frocks , ' the three first numbers of which we noticed some time ago , The present < tract ia a racily written and well reasoned production , devoted to showing that' the gospel is Radicalism , and real Radicalism is the gospel . * Mr Parsons defends the name of * Chartist . ' * Every person , ' says he , ' who reflects , or has studied the British Constitution , knows that the Eixpaiats of the Chatter contain in them the gem of social , political , andeven religious roform . 'but , then , who can bear the insufferable name of Cnarftst f Only think of a Doctor of Divinity , or a Squire , being called a Chartist ! Audjet a better name , asexpressive of a constitutionallprineip le , waa
never invented . ' Mr Parsons shows that the name ef Christian was once even more despised than that of Chartist is now . Manfully defending the real di gnity of the . people , Mr Parsons says , 'The Saviour himself was an operative ; . the Apostle Paul would an these days have warn a ' fiutian jatltti ;' . several of the prophets were . ' smocifwh . ' and those desperate Radicals / James , Peter , and John ; were Gallilean fishermen . ' We'heartily agree with the rev . gentleman ; when he sayg , ' Appeals to the rich-respecting Radical reform are , generally y & in . In all ag . es the Fustian Jackets . and Smock Frocks . have been tho most efficient ' RadiCal . reformers , and , therefore , the most enlightene'd ' and practical gospellers ; and our own day tells us that wo mast look to the working men and working women for the emancipation and salvation of the world . ' We hope that this tract will have an extensive circulation .
The Stformtfs Companion To Tit Almanacs,...
The Stformtfs Companion to tit Almanacs , A correspondent has sent us a copy ef this publication , which is certainly a political curiosity . The Reformer's Companion is published by the well-known preacher , Joseph Barker .. Its spirit will be understood by the extracts we select . . , . " We give the following from a .
1 ETTES TO THE QOBBB . . Amongthe measures which we would recommend for the relief and lasting benefit of the country , ate the following , 1 , . The immediate and entire abolition of . the law of entail and primogeniture , and the establiihment of absolute freetrade inland ; 2 . The abolition of the Stamp daties , and the removal of all obstructions to the transfer ef estates , and tbe general distribution" of-a landed propcr'y . S . A . tax on land and home * , - in the- placa ct every other tar bs & rlngnpsn other Industry , Wefeeuld eitend the tax to uncultivated lend . And in all cases maka it so heavy as to oblige the holders of land , either to bring it into cultivation , or part with'it to those who will da it . 4 . The abolition of the Navigation laws .
5 . The abolition of the Church ¦ EitahlUB . OientS of Great Britain and Ireland , and the appropriation of all church property to tbe support of the poor , and to purposes of general education . 6 . Retrenchment in every department ef government , whether civil or military . 7 . A law securing the right of tenants to compensation for all improvements made by them upon their farms . 8 , Another Reform Bill , giving to every man of age , through tbe ceoatry , who is not convicted of crime , the right of voting for : memb « rs'of Parliament , —establishing equal electors ! district * , —directing votes in the election ot members of Parliament to be taken , by ballot . —making Parliaments ausual , —and requiring no qualifications of members of Parliament , but . such as may be required by tbe persons electing them .
You may think what you will , and . those that are around you may tay -what they will , but these are the things which are wanted to relieve the distress of ¦ the country , , to prevent the recurrence ef similar distreta for the future , and to secure peace and prosperity to the population of this empire generally . Yoa hare , O Qaeen , amongst many of your subjects , a reputation for shrewdness and humanity , Feople Bay , you are bstbinrelligentand well-disposed . I beseech yoa , prove thatthe good opinion which they have formed ef you , is correct . I beseech you , give , a proof that you really know something . about the interests of nations . and thatyou are really desirous to promote the welfare of your tried and suffering people .
Ton cannot but know , Q Queehi that you are greatly indebted to the people . You are deriving , for yourself and yonr household , little less than a . million a year from tbepeople ; and jour husband and children are deriving , I suppose , above a hundred thousand more . Of those vast sums , a very considerable portion is taken from the poor ; from persons who bare not sufficient to clothe themselves in decent garments , to rent a decent house , to procure comfortable furniture , to obtain s supply ofgooi and wholesome food ; or to secure for their children the baaefits of a tolerable education . Yoa must be aware , 0 Queen , that the only ground on which you can injustice or in reason receive those sums of money
from tka people , is , tbat you are the servant of tbe people . Toucan , in reason or justice , hare no title to them whatever , except as the servant of the psople . You are bound , therefore , 0 Queen , as an honest woman , either to give np yonr income , or to do your best to , render the people , from whom you receive it , service equal in value toils vast amount . Year situation , therefore , as ( Jaeen of these realms , binds yon to do your utmost to secure the people their rights . And one of the rights of the people is , the opportunity , by moderate labour , of obtaining sufficient to maintain themselves and their families ia comfort ; and another of their rights is , a share in the power of the government .
I say you ha ve it in your power to do much towards securing to the people their rights . Were yeu to explain yourself plainly and decisively in favour of popular measures the men that are around yon would feel themselves obliged either to propose such measures to the Parliament , or te give up their places and maka way for others t-j approach you better disposed , or more able , to help you ia the good work : This is " plain speaking with a vengeance . The misfortune is tbat Victoria will never see Mr Barker ' s letter . The knaves surrounding her will take good care to prevent that . A singular feature of this publication is tbe author ' s ' prophecies . ' These predictions are curious and startling , as the following specimens will testify : —
Mirch 1 . —Uany meetings will be held about this season , which will inspire the supporters ofrel'gious and political corruption with serious alarm . Tbe human Inventions which have been mixed up with divine revelations , and the wicked laws and mischievous institutions which have been enacted iu the name of justice and government , will meet wish some tremendous . as-83 Ult 9 , A set of men who care more for the interests of truth and suffering humanity , than they do for kings and priests , may be expected to canse ' considerable excitement In different parts of the country , and the result will probably be , to make priestly deceit and govern . xaent in ^ ufitice more € i £ acult matters than tney have been for many generations past .
—2 , —A great many falsehoods will this day be uttered in the name ef Christ , and a great deal of hypo , critical villany will be practised under the nameof religion . We are also greatlv mistakes , if the people will not be made , by some horrible system of injustice ,. to pay a great price for the lies which will be told them , and for the hypocritical villanies wMch will be practised in their midst . —S . —Long before this there will have been a great deal of talk in the House of Commons , but no great abundance of honest , straightforward , beneficent legislatien . The Radical members will have uttered several speeches , but it is questionable whether many of them will have come out fully in favour of the rights of the people at lar ^ e , and in opposition to the long-continued and unblushing iniquities of aristocratical legit . Infion .
—4 . —A certain man , whose name shall not be mentioned for the present , will be very greatly and very agreeably disappeinted , if he should find that either of the members hr Leeds has , up to this time , done any thing in the House of Commons , worth doing ; he will also be disappointed if the one called a Whig , should not prove as useless or as mischievous as ths one called a Tory . Here is something racy : —
A WONBEEFDL ASSOCIATION AT LEEDS . The Leeds Tihes of December 18 th , states that the Committee of the Leeds Association for improving the breed of piga sn 4 poultry , received last week the < 7 nodouspermission of Prince Albert , eipreBBefl in a letter to Mr Purchon ^ to present bim with a pig of the large Yorkshire breed , intended for the farm at Windsor . The silly creatures ! to ask of a man permission to pre . sent him with a pi ? . Had he not pigs enough ! Was there nobody elsein the country tbat needed pigs more than he ? Might they not have dispoasd ef their pi g nearer home , without the wretched humiliation of writing to obtain permission to present it . l ^ The simpletons ! It is grievous to think that thsre should be such wretched , crouching sycophants so near one ' s dwelling . A committee at Leeds , for improving the breed of p igs and
poultrv , obtained the gracious permissi-m of P . inee Albert to present him with a pig ! A comanttee at L ; cds , in the midst of a vast population , many thousands of which arc starving at this hour for want of a little bread , pass by their famishing neighbours , snd leave thorn to perish for want of food , and ask permission of a man , a foreigner , who has forty thousand a yrar to lire upon , besides half a million for his wife , and those vast sums of m > ney taken partly from , the pockets of their star . ing , famishing neighbour ? , —yes , this com . mittee ask permission to present Prince Albert with a pi *! 1 wish this committee of the . Leeds Association for improving the breed of pigs and poultry , would just form thcnselves into an Association for improving tbeJr own understandings and thtir own hearu . I also wish thc-y would form themselves into an Association for im-
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proving the cireumstaaees sf their wretched and famishing neighbours ^ .. X . wish that the y wonW form themselves into , an Association for improving . the ,. breed of princes and , ' aristoerats ( aad , instead of helping , to perpstuatetheli ^ ; blindness and nardi ' eaftedhg ' ss by sycophancy andcrquchrofr , endeavour to opeu ' thelreyei to tholrduty , andto touch their hearts with sympathy for the millions whom they oppress , and plunder , and destroy ,. . J » e > . * * . And all this at Loads ! " I am ashamed of Leeds . A large manufacturing place , with one Tory Member , and another Member e ' s bad' as a Tory , and an Association for improving the breed of pigs and poultry , tfequestidg permission ; of Prince . Albert , to present him with a pig . Pshaw !
. There are many more , goocj ; things , in , this ' CoBd panion , ' . and amongst others a quotation from 'liowitt ' s'History of Priestcraft , ' exhibiting the humbug and plunder carried on under pretence of consecrating church yards . Mr Barker appends some comments : from which we quote the conclusion : — . , Leave the ungodly and plundering church to itself , until it be abolished . Let me bo buried in wiconsecrated ground . And let no priest corns near me at my burial . Away with the hypocrites . The world has been postered with them too long , I would have no fellowship with them , either while Hive ,, or when I die . We hope that taiapublication will be to every poor man a'Companion . '
Winter Wanderings Ten Years Since; Being...
WINTER WANDERINGS Ten years since ; being a narrative of remarkable adventures during a five days'journey between the cities of Toronto and Buffalo ; undertaken under peculiar circumstances in the month of December , , 1637 , by ; ,. .
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE , THE CANADIAN ' HBBEL , ' Formerly mayor of Toronto , and member of the Legislature of Upper Canada . . ( From the Toronto ( Canada ) Globe , ) The Earl of Barbara , in one of his famous proclamations from Qiobee , in Octobar , 1838 , frankl y ascribed the intuMeetiona In Canada to 'Ions ; misgoveinmtnt and sad misrule . ' Assuredly , a more busy , moddllHff , yet provokingly inbompstent governor than Sir Fruucis Head was never dispatched across the Atlantic , to try the tern . p » r ef any psonle .
; Although the expediency of a violent revolution bad been publicl y discussed in both provinces for yeuw , the more immediate cause of the civil war was the deliberate destruction , en the fifh . of November , 1887 , lathe open day , and in the presence Of the constituted authorities . of Montreal , ( then bristling with British bsyonsts , ) of the whole of the types , presses , end printing and publishing materials of tho TiHDiciToa newspaper there , which had long been the acknowledged organ ef the great body of the Liberals of . Lower Canada . That popular joarnal was " tHen edited , with great success , skill ,-and ability by Dr E . B ; O ^ Cillagban , a member of the Colo , nial Legislature , and well known in this city as the erudite historian of the New Netherlands .
, . It appears thatithe , government of the day were tin . able to find anything illegal in the columns of the Vihdi . CATOB ; ' that it told , the people most unpalatable truths , and had an extensive circulation ; and that therefore , the . Loyalists , ( aad they ill-deserved tbe name , ) had concluded that it was expedient to go a step beyond tbe example set by Charles X . of Prance , in 18 S 0 , to get rid of it . Of course , no one was . punished for this unprovoked outrage , nor were the injured parties ever remunerated , the whole affair was premeditated ; Governor Gosford , being at the very same time , employed in writing secret dispatches from Quebec , advising the Queen to recall himself , send out a military rnler , and abolish tbe established Constitution '
Many Upper Canadians , justly indignant at the passage ef Lord John Russell's resolutions of that year , for thefleJzoxeof the Canadian revenue , iu defiance of the Legislature , had solemnly pledged themselves to make common came with Lower Canada , in htr resistance to that most reprehensible proceeding ; and although it was known that her people bad been routed by the regulars , and her leaders either imprisoned or compelled to , fly , before , any . attempt at resittance Has made ; in Decernber , at Toronto , I was among those who steadily adhered to our pledgee , and acted , to the best of my humble abilities , up to their letter and spirit . The circumstances which attended my successful effort tp ; escape from the neighbourhood of Toronto to Buffalo , in December , 1837 , through a thickly settled country , tie people of which were , generally speaking , long and well acquainted with me , as will be seen by the following narrative , are truly remarkable .
The conduct . of the Canadians , under the temptation of a large pecuniary reward , and the prejudices engendered b civil strife and differences in religion and race , was mnsthonoursbla and praiseworthy , When vexed ana disappointed with some apparent inconsistency in the masses , on various occasions since , I have fallen bach upon the noble traits of character that were developed daring my eventful journey of five days , and felt constrained to blame the few who lead in society , rather than the millions who are led astray b y their plausible deception ? . 1 would have published this narrative at the time the events occurred , had I not been apprehensive that its details might injure several very worthy individuals ,
On the forenoon on which the p ^ rty in opposition to Governor Head were worsted , near Toronto—Thursday , December 7 , 1837—and while tbe light artillery and small arms , from Tonge-etreet , were supplying the rebels ( . so called ) with musket balls and grape shot , in superabundance , and the bojs on our side returning the compliment with the few available rifles in their possession , a ball struck my worthy friend , Captain Wideman , in tbe head , killing him on the spot ; and a person from the city brought intelligence to Col . Lo \* nt , who Stood ClOSB by , that the two wings of tbe Tories , armed with several additional pieces of artillery , were hemming us in , and had been ordered to cut off our retreat .
It evidently . appearing that success for the insurgents was , at tbat time , impossible , the Colonel and many others gave way , and crossed the field to the parallel line ef road , west of Yonge-street . I endeavoured to get my cloak , which I had left at my hotel , through which Captain Fitzgibbon ' a men were just then sending their six .. pound shots with giod effect , but wag too late . Strange to tell , that clonk was sent to me years alterward , while in prison , but by whom I know not . Perceiving that we were not yet pursued I passed on to Yonge-street , beyond Lawyer Price ' s , and the first
ftsrmer I met being a friend , readily gave me his horsea trusty sure-footed creature , which tbat day did me good service . B . fore I had ridden a mile , the smoke rose in clouds behind me , and tbe flames of tbe extensive hotel and outbuildings arrested my attention , as also another cloud of smoke . wMch I then suppoatd . to he from the Don Bridge , in tbe city , which bridge we had sent a party to destroy or take posseision of . Colonel Fletcher , now of Chatauque county , handed me an overcoat , and told me tbat he would make for the States , but not by ths bead of Lake Ontario .
Although it was known we bad been worsted , no © ne interrupted us , save in" friendship , Dr — -, from above Newm-rket , informed me tbat sixty armed friends were on their way close by . I assured him it was too late to retrieve onrloBB in that way , and bade bim ttll them to scatter—same , however , went on aa volunteers for Sir Francis Head , tbe rest returned to their homes . At the Golden Lane , ten miles from the city , I overtook Colonel Anthony Yun Egmond , a Dutch officer , of many years' experience under Napoleon . He agreed with me that we should at once make for the Niagara frentier , but was taken almost immediately after by n party who had set out from Governor Head ' s camp to gain the rewards then offered there . The Colonel was a man of large property , old , and known to be opposed toHead ' a party . Though not found in arms , be was p laced in a cell , so cold that thty had very soon to take him to tbe hospital—on his way to the grave .
Immediately after tbe skirmish , his Excellency bad appointed Mr Boulton , the Newfoundland Judge's brother , his herald , to make proclamation , tbat tho Queen ' s government would pay from the Exchequer , one thousand pounds for my apprehension , and half as much per man for that of several other persons then there named . Couriers were sent off forthwith , in every direction , with tidings to the like effect , and a gazette was circulated , minutely describing those persons whose apprehension was specially desired . Finding myself closely pursued and repeatedly fired at , I left the high road with one friend , ( Mr J . R . ) and made for Shepaid's mills . The fleetest horsemen of the official party wore so close upon ue that I bad only time to jump off ray horse , airi ask the miller ( himself a Tory ) whether a large body ef men , then on the heights , ware friends or foes , before our pursuers were climbing up the steep ascent almost beside me .
When I overlook Col . Loune , he had , I think , about 90 men nithbitn , who were partly armed . We tooksomerefreshments at a friendly farmer ' s near by—Lonnt was for dispersing—I proposed that we should keep in a body , and make for the United States viz . the head of Lake Ontario , as our opponents had the steamers ; but only sixteen persons went with me . I had no other arms than a single-barrelled pistol , taken ftom Captain Duggan during Tuesday ' s scuffle , and wc wire all on foot . Some of my companions had no weapons at all . We made for tbe Humber bridge , through VaUghftD , but found it strongly guarded—went up the river a long way , got some supper at the hous .: of a farmer , crossed the siream on a foot-bridge , and early next morning rode to the hospitable mansion of a settler on Dundas , thoroujjlil ^ exhausted with cold and fatigue .
Blankets were hung over the windows to avoid suspicion , food and beds prepared , and while the Tcries were csrefully ? earching for us wc were sleeping soundly . Nrxt mbrning ( Friday ) , those who had arms buried them , and after sending to inquire whether a friend a mile below had been dangerously wounded , we agreed to separate and maku for the frontier , two and two together . ' A lad in his nineteenth or twentieth year accompanied me , and such was my confidence in the honesty and friendship of the country folks , Protestant and Catholic , Europea ? . and American , that I went undifguised , my only weapon at the time being Duggan ' s pistol , and it nut leaded . Address was now wanted much more than brute faros . We followed the concession , parallel and heit to the great Western-road , saw and talked wilh numbers of
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people , hot with none who wanted the government re . ward . ^ Abaut three in the afternoon , we reached Comn i Wu . u » near 8 tre * MHe ; we were there teldthat Col . Chisholtn : and 300 of the hottest Orangemen , and other xaoMr violent partisans , were divided into pnrties searching for tie . Even from some of . these there was no real danger . They were at heart friendly . Mr Coafwiwas ah American by birth , but a citizen ef Canada . - " ked h '" wife for some bread and cheese , while a young Irishman In his employ was harnessing up W 6 waggon for our me . ' . She maistad on ouv slaying to dinner wh | ch w 6 < na , Mr Comfort know nothi of the intended revolt , nrid had taken no part in it , but he asflared me that no fear ' of consequences should prevent him from being a friend iu the hour of danger . After 6 onv «» iugwith : fe nuinberef people there , not one of whom said an unkind word to us , my oompamow and I got into the waggon , and the young Emeralder drove us down the StreetsvUle-road , through the Credit villJe ( Springfield ) , in broad daylightand alon * Dundas
, . street , bills beingtben duly pogted fur my apprehension and I not jet out of the county which Ihad been seven limes chosen by its freeholders to represent . Yet though known to everybedy , we proceeded a long w » y west before danger approached . At length , however we Were hetl ypurswed by a purtyof mounted troops ; our driver became alarmed , and with rea . on , and I took the reins , Bnd pushed onward at full speed over a rough , hard-frozeri road , without snow . Onr pursuers , nevertbeJsM , gained on us , and wain near the Sixteen Mile Creek , we ascertained that my countryman , Cel . Chalmers bad a party guarding the bridge . The creek swells up at times Into a rapid river—it was now swollen by the November rains . What was to be done ? Young W . and 1 jumped from tho waggon , made toward the foresVnaked a labourer tht road to Esqueaing to put our pursuers off our track , and were soon in the thickest of the patch of woods nearjhe deep ravine , in which flows tbe creek naraed and numbered arithmetically as the Bbtteen . ; ! ,: ¦ ... - ¦
The men in chase oarae up with our driver almost immediately after we left ; took him prisoner , seized his team , gave the alarm to all the Tori e and Orangemen in thalparUf Trafalgar , and in an hour or thereabouts , we were annoyed by the reports of rifles and the barking of dogs near by the place where we were hidden . Bome who saw me at Comfort ' s Mills went and told tho armed Tories of Streetsvillo , who instantly went to the ' worthy mnn ' o house , whero they Insulted and threatened his intrepid and true-hearted wife , proposed to make a bonfire of his premises , handcuffed and chained him , threw bim into a waggon , and dragged him oS to Toranto Jail , and , as' they said , to tbe gallows . Eo lay long in prison untikd , and was only re . leased to find his excellent wife ( Who' had been In the
family way ) in her grave , the victim of tbat system of persecution and terrer which often classes men in America , as lu Europe , not accordim ? to their personal deserts , but With reference to their politics , birth-place , faction , or religious profession . Netivelsm in Canada , in'those days ' , was the Nativelam of 1843 , with tbe boot on the other leg . ' Americans were insulted there , as I have seen us Europeans treated here . Friends of peace and human progress ought to eschew all such illiberal and invidious preferences , and learn to consider manhind as a btro 4 of brothers . Our Irish driver had a kind heart . When I was exhibited by authority at the prison at Rochester / became across to see me . He had been in the service of Judge Jones and others . I was ill of the intermittent at the time , owing to close confinement and the swamp around me ,. and could only express the gratltnde I felt for pant acts of good will . ' ' .
As far down as 1825 , Orangeman and Catholic had lived together iii harmony and peace near me , but a Mr ftowan , who had . been a leading functionary in . the Irish lodges , came over to Canada , was openly aided and encouraged by the government , and organised extensively the Orange system , which soon occasioned useless , and seemingly , endless dissensions among as . Trafalgar was a" bobbed of this sort of work , and as I bad always set my face' against It , and British nativeism , I could hope for no friendship or favour , if here apprehended . There was but one chance for eseape , < however ,
surrounded as we were—for the young man had refused to leave roe—and that was to stem the stream , and cross this swolltn cresk . We according y stripped ourselves naked , and with tbe surface ice beating against us , and holding our garments over our heads , in a bitter cold December night bnffetted the current ) and were soon up to our necks . I bit my foot against a stone , let fall some of my clothes ( which my companion enngbt ) , and cried aloud with pain . The cold in that stream caused me the most crael and intense sensation of pain I ever endured , but we got through , thongh with a better chance for drowning , and the frozan eand on the banks seemed
warm to our f « et when wo once more trod on it . In an hour and a half we were under tbe hospitable roof of one of the innumerable agricultural friends I could then count In the country , I bad a supply of dry flannels , and food , and an hour's rest , and have often wished since ( not to embark again on the terapestu . oub ocean of" polWcs ); but that I might have an opportunity to express my grateful feelings to those who proved my most faithful friends in the hour when most required . Amnesties , and a batter system in England and
Canada , may or may not nave removed all personal danger , tit this interval of time , yet I chooso to withhold the names of many who then rendered me essential aid , because I am not thoroughly aware of their peculiar position , and present circumstances . Ihad risked much for Canadians , and served them long , and as faithfully as I could—and now , when a fugitive , 1 found them ready to risk life and property to aid me—far more read y to risk the dungeon , by harbouring me . than to accept Sir Francis Head ' s thousand pounds . The sons and daughters of the Nelson farmer kept a silent watcb outside , in the cold , while 1 and my companion slept .
We crossed Dnndas . street , about eleven i . m ., and the twelve mile creek . Ithink , on a fallen tree , about midnieht . By four on Saturday morning we had reached Wellington-sqaare , by the middle road . Tho farmers ' dogs began te bark loudly , the heavy tramp of a party of horsemen was heard behind ns—we retired a little way into the woods—saw that the men wero armed—entered the road again—and half an hour before twilight reached the door of an upright magistrate , which an English boy at once opened to us , I sent np my name , was requested to walk np stairs ( in the dark ) , and told that the house , barno , and every part of the premises , had been twice searched for me tbat morning , and that M'N ob ' s ' raen , from Hamilton , were scouring the country in all directions , in the hope of taking me . I asked if I had tho leant chance to pass downward by the way of Burlington Deacb , but was answered that both roads were guarded , and that Dr Rolph was , by that time , safe in Lewis ' ton .
Believingit safest , wc went behind our friend ' s bouse , to a thicket—he dressed himself , followed us gave a shrill whistle , which was answered , and all three of us were greatlj puzzled ns to what safe course I could possibly take , 'As my companion was not known , and felt the chill of tho water and the fatigue , he was strongly advised to seek shelter in a certain house not far off . He did so , and reached the frontier safely , and continued for four months thereafter very sick , At dawn of day it began to snow and show footmarks , ond'I concluded to goto a farm near by . Its owner thought I would be quite safe in his barn , bat I thought not . A peas-rich , which the pigs had undermined all
round , stood on a high knoll , and I chose it for a hidfng . plflcs . For ten « r twelve hours I slept , when 1 could got any sleep , in my clothes , and my limbs had swelled So that I had to leave my boots and wear a pair of slippers ; my feet were wet , I was very weary , and the cold and drift annoyed me much . Breakfast I had none , and in due time Colonel M'Donnell , the High Sheriff , and his posse , stood before me . House , barns , cellars , and garret were searched , and I the while quietly looking on . The Colonel was afterward second in command to Sir Allan M'Nab , opposite Navy Island ; and when I lived in William-street some years ago , he called on mo , and we had a hearty lauijh ever his ineffectual osertions to catch n rebel in 1837 .
When the coast seemed clear , my terrified host , a wealthy Canadian , came up the hill as if to feed the pigs , brought two bottles of hot water for my feet , a bottle of tea , and several slices of bread and butter ; told mo that the neighbourhood was literally harassed with bodies of armed men in search of me , After I left his premises he was wrested ; but had powerful friends , gave bail , and the matter ended there . When night had set in I knocked at the next farmer ' s door , a small boy who lived , I think , with one of the brothers Chisbolm ( strong government men , collectors , colonels , Ac ) , or who was their nephew or other relative , came to me . I sent in a private raensage by him but the house had been searched so often for rno that
the m-dwellera dreaded consequences , and would not see me . Tho boy , however , volunteered to go with me , and we proceeded by a by-path to Mr King ' s , who lived on tho next farm to Col . Jdin Chisholm ' s , which was then head-quarters for our Tory militia . The boy kept my secret ; I had supper with Mr King ' s famil y , rested for an hour , and then walked with him toward my early n-sldoheo , Dundus village , at the head of Lake Ontario . We saw a ' small party of armed men on the road , near the mills of an Englishman , but they did not perceive us . Mr K . is now dead , but tha bind attention I met with under his hospitable roof I shall not forget . Why should such a people as I tried and proved in those daja ever know hardship , or suffer from foreign or domestic misrnlef
We went to tho dwelling of nn old friend , to whom I stated that 1 thought I would now make a more speedy , yet equally sure progress , on horseback . He risked at once , and that tao most willingly , not only his horse , but ttlso the knowledge it might convey that ho had aided me . Mr King returned home , and I entered the village alone in the ni ght , and was hailed by some person who apscdily passed on . I wanted to take a friend with me , hut durst not go to wako him up ; there was a guard on duty at tho hotel , and I had to cross the creek close by a house I had built in the public square ; I then mads for the mountain country above Hamilton , called at Lawis Horning ' s , but found a stranger there , pftesed on to the dwellings of some old Dutch friends , who told me that all tho passes wero guardcd—Terrjbcrry ' s A - bion Mills , every place . (! fb he concluded in our next . )
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The A uosBuuon Gazette states , that the Fellcnberg family intend closing their celebrated establishment at Uoffwyl , in the spring , ' as the pupils of the upper class have long been decreasing in number .
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OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES . —THE RATS IN , rilE . STACK . BT WMXUU HOWiyr . An old farmer , one John Bull , talking over the hedge of his rick-yard to his neighbour , expressed great alarm at a rumour which had reached him , through an old soldier who lived on his pension in the village , that incendiaries were meaning to come and burn down his corn-stacks . He declared that he must apply to the . magistrates to i have tho
yeomanry ready to keep the rogues in awe , and to send him a detachment of police to guard his rick-yard . Make yourself easy on . that account , ' replied bis neighbour over the hedge , himself also a farmer , « for the yeomanry and the police would saddle tbe parish with a heavy debt , and , to say the truth , the danger to your stacks is of another kind .. The rats are in them'by hundreds , and if jou don't thrash ' em out , it will be of little . cohaefiuence howsoon they may be burnt downl . "Thrash out your ricks , . neighrour , and then you'll save your corn both from rata asd Incendiaries . '
John Bull took the advice , found a legion of rats that had already made dreadful havoc in the heart of his stacks , and conveying his corn to market , heard no more of the incendiaries , who were believed to have existed nowhere but in the old soldier ' s brain , who waa getting superannuated , and talked in his sleep . - ......... •¦¦ The war-cry of tho last few weeks raised by a certain old soldier , who lives on his pension at Hydepark Corner , has every day reminded us ' of the village John Bull . Let the John BullJook to it , and de like the honest farmer , for the danger , is tho same , and the remedy is the same . The folly at theory of invasion has been sufficiently : shown by a ^ ariety of the ablest journals in the country ; we , need not , therefore ; go far into that part Of the , questwn , but the roguery of the or ? wants yei ' more . fully demonstratine . We are now quite satisfied of the self-evident truth of the fact that our alarmist is like the old
woman in the nursery song-There was on old vroman ^ © od help her J Wholived In above ! of dirt , She dreamed that thieves c < met © rob her and skslp her , And sbo cried out before the was hurt . Poor old woman . God holpher . ' Every man is quite satisfied that while we have been accusing . the French of designs npon us , they have been thinkins more of what they shall do with Abd-el-Kader , and busying themselves with plans of reform of theirown grievances . We have been reckoning without onr hpst ; counting our Gallic chickens before they are hatched ; begging the French to come and invade us , whether they are inclined for it
or not , and poor old Wellington—there could be no utronger proof of his superannuation , of his being no longer the prudent general that he was—has been obligingly informing them of all pur weak points , and of the best way of getting to London with the least loss of time and labour . Everybody is quite' satisfied too , with the plain fact , that before the French invade us they most pat their army in motion ; that this will not be done withonr a gcofi deal of stir and observation in France —and that all this stir and observation is not likely quite to escape the vigilance of our Government , or our journals . We have such things as a numerous embassage , consuls , aaenta .: correspondents of newspapers daily on the alert for news , and , daily writing
thence ; besides merchants and proprietors of railway shares and their employes and agents , all on the qui viva abMifc their interests , besides hundreds and thousands of English subjects living in the chief cities of France , who , in case of a war , must cut and run . Out of all these sources it is rather likely tbat we should hear something of any preliminary preparations for bo important a thing aa theinvasion of Eng . land , a thing not attempted for these ages past , and which Buonaparte with all his talent , power , almost universal victory , and with the most horning , desire to conquer us—dared not undertake . It is rather likely that before such an army invaded our coast we should find an army somewhere , and a aavy toe , to receive it . It is scarcely probable that our . men of
war would all contrive to get out of the way at such a crisis , and like ordinary police , not to be able to be found when they were wanted . . Let ua see the French once Oil the water before we . are , seriously alarmed , and before we accuse our navy , and oUr army , to whom we pay twenty millions a year ; of doing what they never yet did on any far bass emergency than the invasion ot their native land , —deserting their posts , and showing tbe white feather . . The French once on land ! Could such a thing bo —why the poorold soldier at Hyde-paik Corner must have no knowledge ef Englishmen if he does not know that every man in the country would spring up a soldier ; every gun , pike , pitch-fork and polcer wo-. ild be converted into . a weapon ; from behind everv hedce and out of every window , would peur
forth the hail of death upon the invader . We- »? ould not give a pinch of snuff for the ten hours ' lease of any Frenchman ' s life belonging to such an invading army . Let any one recollect the natural furor on the threat of Boonapartels invasion . The enrolling of volunteers , the spirit that burned and boiled in every bosom , from Land'send to-John O'Groat ' s ! But enough ! Punch has sufficiently shown up the turnip-lantern scarecrow of invasion , and has called nut all the defensive force that is necessary , —the Brook-green volunteer . The French are dreaming of very different things to an English invasion . — Louis Philippe knows it—the meetines all over the country for Radical Reform tell it Mm , ' he has too much at stake to risk any such foolish speculation , and shnnld be dip , France will find enough to do at home in the unusual ferment and commotion that
will follow as an immediate consequence . Besides this , the merchants , manufacturers , and proprietors of railways and other public works in France , would do on such an occasion , as they did on the very last menace of a breach with England , hurry to the capital with rjetitions and memorials against so preposterous , wicked , and suicidal a thing as war with Great Britain- ^ the certain ruin of them and of millions of their fellow-subjects . What then is the real cause of this war-cry in England ? The matter is no mystery—it lies plain and open to the day-light ; no child can be so childish , no fool so foolish , as not to observe it . It is simply this : —There are at the War-office some twenty thousand applications for commissions that no commissions can be found for . Luckily for ua , the love of peace has been a growing feeling in Europe . We have not
sent out our snldiers to butcher onr continental neighbours and get butcheredthemselves . The breed of butchers , therefore , has grown excessively , and they long to be at work . The old butchers sit idle at home , except such . as we send out to butcher the East Indians and Chinese , and the sucking butchers are growing numerous . All over the country the aristocracy , who used to find a fine vent for their surplus progeny in the ercat'European slaughterhouse , don ' t know what to do with their children . All civil offices , commifsionerships , and what not , all peaceable professions are full , the church has more parsons than preachers , more expectants than livings—and therefore , the only chance is . to raise the cry of wolf , and get a railitia and eet other soldiery on foot , in short , the Rate are in ths Starts , and ranch ag they get to devour , cry' more \ . more ! ' find their numbers rapidlv increasing , and want to extend their ravages .
There lies the r- ? al danger ! that is the real cause of this outcry ! We agree' with tbe old Duke so far , that there is imminent danger , and more—that there is need of war : but the danger is not from without , but from within—not from the French but the Normans . There is need of war , but war of another kind and directed into a different quarter . The enemy is already in the camp—the plunder is going on . The rats are in tbe stacks—the old Aristoc-Rats who , since the Norman invasion , in increasing numbers and ever growing audacity , have been tugging at the vitals of John Bull .:
We are tempted here , like Abernethy , to sny to all those credulous pntien ' s who can imagine th ^ t their disease is the fear of invasion— ' Read my Book *—Read' John Hampden ' s . History of the Aris tncracy ; * and learn what it is that ails you . See there the fearful expos 6 of the English Aristocracy , which from age to age has been extending its palaces and its power till it has swallowed up your whole constitution , Crown , Church , State , Colonies , Offices , and Taxes ; has swamped your commerce , ruined your manufacturing system , reduced your population to beggary , overwhelmed you with a debt which is sinking you in national perdition , and raising all other Rations on your ruins .
That is what you should look at : that is what you have to fear . With such stagnation in your trade , such distress'in your mahufacturine districts ; such bankruptcy amongst your ¦ merchants , and starvation amongst your people ; as never were known before , you are ' coolly asked to plunge yourselves once more into war that your vultures may flesh their beaks . There are so many younger sons unprovided for in that class that' eannot die , and who to beg are ashamed , ' that your property and persons are to be still further invaded . They ask you to revive
that war-spirit that you are every day so wisely , so religiously , growing out of , to renew all these jealousies with France which have carased a rain of blood from age to age , and cursed you with the heaviest debt and proudest aristocracy which ever cursed any nation . They ask you to give up your person ? and your purses , your businesses , and your fire-sidi .-. o , the society of your wives and children , to becom ? once more the mechanical marching machines of despotism—the green geese driven to market by those who never even reared , lodged , or fed you .
My good fellow countrymen ,, I think you are grown somewhat more rational than that—I think you have something better to de . Do you want a balloting for the militia again ? Po you want to be marched offrom your homes , your looms , your spades , or your shops , to lounge in barracks and polish belts with pipe-clay , or to have your money taken for substitutes . Now that is precisely what th ' s poor old Duke is asking for . This poor old man is either a wil'injr
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tool or an unhippy dupe for ihe aristocracy . H « knows as well as we do that we already pay Twknit MlLLIOKS FOR OUB MlLIIABT AVD NiVAL ESTABLISHmeht , while ihe whole civil government of the country costs but Six Millions ! If Twentt Millio > s a teas is not enough to defend this counwy , in the name of common sense what will be ? If we pay moro than , tkree times the amount ot all our civil goverament for soldiers and sailor * , and they are not enough to defend ns , it is hinh time that we adopted Ct » bden ' 8 liotion , and reduced our establishments and expenses altogether , and trusted to God , and the common interests ' of mankind .
; But let it bs remembered that it is in the midst of unexampled distress scarcity of money , and with & revenue showing a deficiency for the past year ot ' up * wards of Tito Mulwkb , and for toe past quarter , of nearly a million ahd a Q > Ah . T £ R , that we are asked to burden ourselves , with at least half a million a year for National Defences J Yihy , tbe poorold Dak © must be haunted with all the apparitions of ' the armies that be has slain in former days , and fanoiea that they are arising to invade oa . We shall hare to publish the account of another Haunted House , that at Hyde Park Cornet and ite aged and afflicted occupant .
Now , does it never occur to you , that there is' still another object in this cry of invasion ? If you look at the condition of both England and Ireland , if yoa see the imperative necessity of immediate and able measures for domestic relief and retrenchment , doea it not ' strike you that the alarm is one of those delusipBB which are employed . to divert your attention from the real evil and the demand of a remedy , to au imaginary one ? Is not this cry of invasion merely , a riw « to get over the session and tha winter once more . with empty talk instead of wise , prompt , and statt smansliko measure ' s ?
But let us at length answer to the war-cry ! IJet us have war , hut not with the French . Let us thrasa eutour slacks , and squander the rats while we have any corn left ' . In other words , let us put a stop by one . bold , prompt , and universal movement to tho sjatcm of pri'fliKatfl waste and corruption that to going . on at home , Sixteen yewaof the Reform Bill , which was to have done such wonders , which was to hare originated such sweeping retrenchments , snch , active measures for trade—ana whatis our condition ^ Every year our distress deepening , our trade perishing , our workhouses full , our ledgers loaded with catalogues of bankruptcy : and our . government standing stock-still , in the possession of all the unabated places , pensions and sinecures , which they denounced as ao atrocious when in the hands « others .
, . We want a militia , indeed ! It should be a moral force militia balloted out of every class , grade , and school of reformers , to march down on this citadel of domestic corruption , and throw it open to the light of . day . Englishmen should cure themselves of this dreadful eacoe « . n € « loqiiendi ; which has got such hold on them . They . have talked Ipng enough of their arievanees , they should come to action—they should show the same front that they did for the Reform Bill , now for & better cause—for a thorough Parliamentary and Government Reform , —a complete sweeping out of the Augean stable of corruption . If that be not soon done , the mass of the Deooie
reduced to wretchedness and despair , will be like the assin the fable . They will , when told of invasion , ask whether the enemv can iaorease their buf . 3 > .: ns ^ or diminish their fo » d any more than their present masters , and will bo indifferent to whom rules th » m . Till this is done , till Reformers really unite ani ' ..-ice on retrenchment , and the entire freedom of trade till parliamentarians shorten their speeches and lengthen their demands—till we thrash out our stacks and squander the rats , we shall never be free from fresh demands upon our purses and patieucernor from danger of real war , that onr anthoritio leeches and vampires may live .
We are glad to see the Peace Society taking the field against this artful and interested cry of invasion —we give their address in the Record . But let every real Reformer take the field too . Let there be meetings in every town and village to remonstrate against any increase of ou / snilitary . expenditure , and demand the fulSln ? " * J the pledges of the Whigs for retrenchment in every department of the state . Te that we must come , and the sooner the better . The truth can ba no longer concealed , that there ia no remedy for thedistrm and ruin that every year sink the nation deeper and ^ deeper , buia prompt , sweeping , and unflinching reform in our taxation , representation , and commercial code . We must take off tho restrictions from our tradeand put
, them upon our rulers . Let those who wi'l not work , be they of what class they may , be refused relief either from the parish or the nation . Let all bloodthirstiness nurtured in idleness be cured by the reduction to low diet , and the offer of a spade and mattock to win honest bread with . The moat dangerous cnemiee are notoriously of a man ' a orn honac . All we want is union and resistance to them . Till thaa we are every day and every hour suffering from invasion—invasion of our rights , of our property , of our profits , and our persons ; and the real object of a militia , which can be of ne use against the French , may , in the moment that we mav be roused to s . > ek redress from our own misrulers , be [ only discovered too well . —Howixi ' s Jouknal .
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* A Popular History of the English Aristocrasy . fcj John Hampden , jv \ n . Published by EtEnghum Wilson , Ro « al Exchange .
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The Central Gaol op I ' oissy broken ivto a . vo noDBED . — Poissy , near Paris , has lately bocn the scene ef three curious adventures . In the month of November last a young man , wearing the costumo of a priest , took up his residence in a chateau near the town , lie made a display of the most fervent pietv , and so godly was he that be actually turned the si Joboard of the dining-room into an altar , and everv day celebrated mass before it , clothed in the most splendid robes of the Catholic church . He made frequent visits to Paris , and on each occasion returned with valuable articles used in the celebration of worship . It turned out that he bought these things on credit , and that he then sold them for whatever thay would fetch . _ The duped tradesmen , on finding that they were swindled , got a warrant against him .
On eeing to the chateau to execute it , the officers of justice were told by the concierge that tbe abbe had gone to Paris , and taken all his keys with him . But the officers forced their way in , and broke open all the doors that were fastened . At length they arrived at a room which was supplied with a formidable lock , but after some difficulty they contrived to effect an entrance . They then found a table covered with the remains of an excellent breakfast , and several bottles of excellent wine . The pretended abbe , who is only about twenty-five years of age , was crouched in the corner of the room . He gave himself up to the riflicers . and in reply to the questions put to him , pretended that he should be able to confound his accusers . —The next adventure is still more remarkable—the gaol broken into and robbed 1 The money
chest of the prison generally contains a considerable sum together with the jewel ? , watches , and other objects of value taken from the prisoners . A few nichta ago , a man , taking advantage of the weather being dark and rainy , placed a ladder against the outer wall . He then let his ladder down on tbe other side , and quietly descended . The audacity of this exploit will bo conceived , when it is stated that the wall is watched by sentinels placed only a few yards from each other . Once within the yard , the fellow made his way to the offices , wh ' ich he opened by means of skeleton keys . He then broke open the mouay chest , took out SOOf ., re-ascended the wall by means of his ladder , attached a rope to the ladder , aud lot himself down on the other side , getting clear off with his booty . —The third adventure consisted in an escape from tho prison . A prisoner named Duval was , about a week ago , occupied , with some nineteen
other prisoners , in washing linen . The plaoo in which the washing is carried on ia surr . / unded bjhigh walls . It is entered from a courtyard , and the entry is secured by a solid fo . ding-door , which is fastened by an immense lock , and further protected be an enormous iron bar . Whilst the turnkey to whom the superintendence of tho prisoners was committed was engaged in making an entry in a hook , Duval slipped tothedoor , pushed up the iron bw , and by a sudden jerk forced the lock . _ Ho then ran town rds the outer wall , ahd on reaching it , leaped with extraordinary ability the top of a railing two yards high , which was fastened to it . From the railing be , in the twinkling ef an eye , got to tbe top of the wall , from which he dropped into a br-street , and before he coukl lie pursued was clear off . A sentinel was placed within half a d > 'Z ? n yards of that part of the wall ovi r which he escaped :
A Boy Lost . —On the 26 th of November last , Walter Wallford , the son of John Wallford , was missed from his home , in Bow . street , at Oldham , in Lancashire , and is supposed to have beenstoitn . We understand that when lie Jel't home , he had en a dark cord jacket and trousers , a coarse pinafore , a cap without a tip , and clogs . The poor boy was , we believe , between eight and nine years of age , and of a Htlht complexion . Now and then gives a squint with one eye , is weak in the back , and rather bends the knees when walking as though they wero weak . He is a native of Mansfield . Any information will be g ladly received by bis father , at Mr W . Thaeker ' s , rinter and bookbinder , Cbureb-strcef , Mansfield . From the 1 st of January , 1817 , to the 1 st of October last , 233 , 798 European emigrants armed at Boston , New York , Philadelphia , New Orleans , and Baltimore , while for the preceding year the number was only 151 M 2 .
The Swiss Diet has voted a sword of honour ard a mntof 40 . 000 SwLjs francs to Gencrnl Diii ' cnr _ for his conduct in the recent campaign against tin . Sonde round . A paragraph has been added , it ? the French Chamber of Peer ? , " to the answer to tho speech fom the Grown , expressing approbation of the Pope ' s reforms . M . Giu ' zot consented lo it very reluctantly . The number of steamers that entered the port of Hamburgh in 1 S 13 was 332 , in 1 S 15 it was only 293 , and in 1847 the number hail increased to 410 . During a lalo storm , 180 bottle-nosed whales were driven on shore at Ilaroldswick Island , in the Orkneys . The supply of soles in . the Leeds and other inland markets has for some months been unusually abi > i < Jj : i : t .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 29, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29011848/page/3/
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