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~ BEAUTIES OF BYROX . HO . XXXVIII . . " iHElSLiSD . " for the first time , we hare this week read this ^ # 0 . We had been repelled froai its earlier perusal iyanotion , we cannot say how or why formed , that Hus rjiKm iras prorrad spiritless , or at least greatly deficient in the usual beauties of Byron ' s Terse . Wo are happy to say that we hate found that we were com pletely mi-taken . The "Island" is an exquisitely beautiful production , filled with the loveliest of
images , and the noblest of thoughts . The poem is founded upon Lieutenant Bush ' s celebrated " Narrative of t & e Mutiny and Seizure of the Bounty in the South Seas , in 17 S 9 , " familiar to every reader of natal history . . % Beautifully does the poet describe that longing of the heart felt by all hat-the mentally and morally enslaved for those fondly-imaged scenes of freedom , where Nature ' s laws are the only acknowledged code , Slid the earth and its produce the equal property and finjoyment of all : — -
SAVAGE FREEDOM . The gushing fruits that nature gave untill'd ; The wood without a path but where they will'd ; The field o ' er which promiscuous Plenty pourM Berhorn ; theeqaalland without a lord ; The wish—which ages have not yet subdued In man—to have no master save his mood ; The earth , whose mine was on its face , unsold , The glowing sun , and produce all its gold ; The freedom which can call each grot a home ; The general garden , where all steps may roam . Again : — Nature , and Nature's goddess—woman—woos To lands where , save their conscience , none accuse ; Where aUpartaie the earth without dispute ,
And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit ; Waere KOnecontottAejieufr , Ike woods , the streams ;] Thcgoldlcss age , where gold dislurbsno dreams . ^ -a * 5 The poet clings to this lovely theme , and again , said again , sings of the bliss of perfect freedom : — The chace , she race , the liberty to roam , The soil where every cottage shoWd a home ; The sea-spread net , the lightly-launched canoe , Which stemm'd the studded Archipelago ; O'er whose blue bosom rose the starry isles ; The healthy slasher , earned by sportive toils ; The cava feast , the yam , the cocoa ' s root , "Which Dears at onee the cup , and milk , and fruit ;
The bread-tree , which , without the ploughshare , yields The tmreap'd harvest of nnfnxrow'd fields , And bakes its unadulterated loaves , Without a furnace in unpurchased groves , And flings off famine from its fertile breast , A priceless market for the gathering gnest ;—These , with the luxuries of seas and woods , The airy joys of social solitudes , Tamed each rude wanderer to the sympathies Of those who were more happy , if less wise , Sid more than Europe ' s discipline had done , And civilised Civilisation's son .
Such were the happy isles of the South Seas ; sacli , cursed with civilisation and Christianity , they are no longer . English missionaries and Gallic brigands , British Bibles and French bayonets ( "holy bayonets , " AficHEtEi calls them ' } , have done their wither ing work ; and bow European vices , wants , and miseries , mar those scenes of beauty ,
" Where aU save the spirit of man is divine . ' Tve must pass by many beautiful passages we had marked for extract , regretting that we cannot find room for the portrait of the lovely Nevha— " the gentle savage of the wild ; " the noble description of Torqu . il ; the stern and striking picture of Christian and his comrades , after the fight ; tbte thrilling account of the last straggle and death of Christian , ' and the beautiful narrative of Neulia ' s devotion and heroism . These we must pass by ; but the following additional extracts have , besides their other merits , that of brevity : —
SOXG . Tor onelong-chensh'd ballad ' s simple stave , Bung from the rock , or mingled with the wave , Or from the bubbling streamlets glassy side , Or gathering mountain echoes as they glide , Hath greater power o ' er each true heart and ear , Than all ihe columns Conquest ' s minions rear ; Invites , when hieroglyphics are a theme Por sages'labours or the student ' s dream ; Attracts , when History ' s volumes are a toO , The first , the freshest bud of Feeling ' s soil . Hercis , bravely administered , a . word of
BEPKQOF 70 BIGOTS . 'lis ours to bear , not jadge the dead ; and they Who doom to heB , themselves are on the way , Unless these bullies of eternal pains Are pardon'd their bad hearts for their worse brains . In common with many other writers , Bibos entertained very erroneous notions respecting the characters of GisiB and Brutcs . In his poetry , he ever characterises the former as a tyrant , and the latter as a patriot . The fact is , that Jcucs Cisar was " The greatest , not the worst of men . ' As a military man-slayer he was no worse , though more successful , than the rest of his contemporaries
of " all conquering Rome , " while in all other _ res- ' pects he was decidedly the best man of his time ; and , perhaps , "take him for all in all , " the most extraoriinary niaii that ever lived , Bmmswasapitifill knave , the leader of a gang of aristocraticai usurers . C-Esutwasput to death , not because he was " a tyrant , " hut because he . was thefriendof the people , and their protector against the extortions of the patrician assassins who murdered him . In giving the following extract we , therefore , dissent from the author ' s notions respecting the two Roman woriaies : with this exception , magnificent is the following outburst against
TTSA 5 TS . Had Casar known but Cleopatra ' s kiss , Rome had been free , the world had not been his . And what Iiave Csssar ' s deeds , and Ca ? sar ' s fame Done for the earth ? We feel them in oar shame : The gory sanction of his glory stains The rust which tyrants cherish as our chains . Though glory , nature , reason , freedom , bid Boused millions do what single Brutus did . Sweep these mere mock-birds of the despot ' s song From the taU bongh " where they have perched so long , Still are we hawk'd at by such mousing owls , And take for £ dcons those ignoble fowls , When but a word of freedom would dispel These bugbears , as their terrors show too well .
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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE , so . xvi . THE BEAUTY OF LIBEKIT . When the dance of the shadows At day-break is done , And the cheeks of the morning Are red with the sun : When he sinks in his glory At eve from the view , And calls up the planet To blaze in the blue : Tfhere is beauty . But where is the beauty to see Afore proud than the sight of a nation when free I When the beautiful bend Of the bo w is above , Like a collar of light
On the bosom of love ; When the moon in her . mildness Is floating on high , like a tanner of silver Hong eut in the sky ;—There is beauty . But earth has no beauty to see Hore proud than the front of a nation waea free . In the depths of the darkness , Unvaried inhue , "When shadows are veiling The breast of the blue ; When the voice of the tempest At midnight is still , And the spirit of solitude Sits on the hill;—There is beauty . But where is ' the beauty to see lake the broad-beaming brow of a nation when free
In the breath of the morning , " When nature's awake , And calls up the chorus To chaunt in the brake ; In the voice of the echo , Unbound in the woods ; In the warbling of streams , And the foaming of flood * ;—There is beauty . But where is the beauty to see like the thrice-haUowed sight of a nation thaf s free ! "When the striving- of surges Is mad on the main , Like the charge of a column Of plumes on the plain ; When the thunder is up
Pram his cloud-cradled sleep , And-the tempest is treading The path of the deep 5—There is beauty . But where is the beauty to see Ijke the sua-brilliant brow of a nation when free f
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THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL . London : J . Bennett , GO , Fleet-street . TVe observe with pleasure that ^ Ir . Howitt has become one of the proprietors of this publication , and from an editorial notice we learn that both " Mr . and . Mrs . Jlowitt will use every exertion to aid the Editor in placing the People s Journal among the first periodicals of the age for beauty of appearance , excellence Of Artlstical Designs and Engravings , variety of Information an d Entertainment , earnest enunciation of great Principles , and a genial and ge-
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nerous tone ; of Criticism . " The people's Journal already numbew amonpt its contributors' names of the highest eminence ; and several additions are anneunced including Miss Mitfqrd . Mrs . Loudon , Charles Mackay , & c . . Specimens of some of the best works of the best hv , P aiBters including Machse , Undseer , and Creswick , find a pj ace in tlus publication ; whilst among those who are regularly engaged m preparing designs for the People ' s Journal , ™ may mention the names of Miss Gillies Kenny Meadows , John Franklin , Edward IWn and P . W . Topham . Such a combination of literary and artistic talent supplied to the people at the charge of Three Half . pence weekly , is an enterprise deserving universal support , and , we think , cannot fail to command it .
Some weeks ago , we briefly noticed Part III . ; 1 art IV . we received in the early part of this month , but have had not an opportunity of noticing it before the present week . These Parts contain Lectures by J . W . Fox on " Living Poets ; and their services to the cause of Political Freedom , ( including « Jr £% re ' - Adams , and Barry Cornwall );" Ihe Study of History ; " and on "The Common Interests ot Great Britain and America . " These Lectures contain much valuable information , embellished with eloquence of a very high order : the believers in " the good old times" will do well to read the Lectures on " History . " Amongst the most striking articles in these Parts we may notice , one of the series on "Holidays for the People" entitled " Mothering Sunday , " by William Howitt . A noble and eloquent appeal for " Peland , " by Joseph
Mazzini , extracts from which appeared in the Aorthern Star some weeks ago . A very interesting account ( with portraits ) of the amiable and talented Hutchinson Family ;' " ' and some beautiful poetry on this family by Mary Howitt . A charming description of ' Christmas in Sweden , " from the pen of the celebrated Fredrika Bremer , in a letter to a friend in England , translated by Mary Howitt . The most interesting of the contents , to us , are "Some Account of a French Theory of Association , " by Tito Pa ^ liardini ; " and " Letters on Labour , " by William Howitt . The first of these is a brief exposition , or outline of the theory of the celebrated Fourier ,
and we vcature to predict that not a few will be found , who having read the Outline in the People's Journal , will be induced thereby to prosecute their inquiries till fully masters of the ideas oftuePhalansterian philosopher . The " Letters on Labour , " so far asthe author has yet proceeded , are admirable , and greatly exalt our opinion of Mr . Howitt . Never have we read more eloquent vindications of the true dignity and rights o f Labour , and rarely have the working classes found an advocate , not belonging to their order , so capable of painting their wrongs , and , we venture to anticipate , so capable and earnest in pointing out the remedies for those wrongs The following extracts will afibrd such of our readers as have not already read the letters an idea of their
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IHE POWERS AND WRONGS OF LABOUR . The enormous powers which felled the forests , drained the morasses , built the cities , founded the empires ( hoivevergreat , or however ancient , ) are the powers of labour . That which raised the eternal py ramids , which reared Stonehenge , which pUed up St . Paul ' s and St . Peter's , which built Babylon and Rome , London and Paris ; which in the hands of the Greeks reared the most glorious fabrics —temples and palaces ; struck out the fairist forms of imitative art , and quelled the million invaders from Persia ; that which in the hands of the Romans cut its way through mountains ; opened all Europe and most of Asia by roads ; left the stupenduous aqueducts of the
Campagna as the wonder of all generations—was the power of labour , organised and directed . That which has carried cultivation in China , and in many parts of Europe , up to the pinnacles of the loftiest and sterilest rocks , and made vineyards where there was desolation ; that which has made all our ingenious manufactures , and thebusymanufacturing system ; that which has created millions of towns , palaces , and churches , and thousands of spinning and weaving mills ; and made capital like an overflowing of the Hue in the Egypt of modern toil—this is the simple power of labour in active organisation . Where new towns are rising out of the earth , and where enormous columns lie stretched in the desert sands
without name , date or history , you see alike the evidences of this greatest of earthly powers , We often say—did the horse or the elephant know his own powers , would he be the slave of man ? But if man knew his own powers , would he be the slave of his brethren ? If there be anything , my countrymen , on which yon gaze with wonder in the works of art ; if there beanything vast , massive , magnificent , cunning in iu construction , terrible in its strengh , glorious ia its usesremember!—it is you who have created that wonder by the powers of labour . Ton read of great empires founded —it nas by the combined labour of thousands . Without this agency where were the greatest king , or the greatest conqueror * Where were the triumphs of Napoleon ? What were Wellington at Waterloo ?
The eastern nations overran Europe as Goths , Vandals , Teutons , and Sclaves—it was by the labour of multitudes . They founded the present great nations of Europe—it was by the labour of . these multitudes . They built up laws , customs , and institutions ; these were introduced , earned out , and established by armies , by multitudes , by the force of organised labour . The Spaniards , English and other Enrpoeans have discovered and planted new worlds—America ( Xorth and South ) Australia , India ; they have there subdued swarming and powerful nations ; in India alone they have bent to the British yoke a hundred millions of people . How ! By the organised exertions , courage , and lives of you , my labouring countrymen . Without your labours and invincible energies aU these conquests , and this imposing dominion , were a dream and a nonentity .
At home the mass of wealth which has been created by labour surpasses in its astonishing amount anything which has ever been known iu any other country , ancient or modern . Asproofeof it , look at the splendour of the houses , equipages , and Style of living Of tllC Upper ClaSSCS , Look at the style of living and the amount of the value of mere rental and furniture , in ail classes , except the actually labouring one . look at the enormous sums invested in railways alone ; no less than a hundred millions I look at a quarter of a mUlion ready to be raised at one time amongst the manufacturers and free-traders
for the working of one political question ; a question which , from first to last , is expected to consume little less than half a million . Look at the inconceivable amount of wealth lying in our ships , our factories , our warehouses , our banks , and on our richly cultivated land . Spackman , in IS 43 , calculated the amount of British capital alone invested in foreign loans and public companies , both at home and abroad , to be £ 315 , 701 , 174 . And the total of British capital , including the fee simple of the land , at no less than £ 5 , 612 , 360 , 4271 producing an annual income of £ 897 , 813 , 345 !
Sow , almost every class of British subjects has united its efforts for the creation of this unexampled wealth . Merchants , manufacturers , agriculturists , artisans , all have thrown in the share of those energies , that enterprise , ihatindomitable perseverance , for which the people of this country are renowned above all others . But the far greater amount of the labour which has produced and accumulated this astounding mass of affluence , and no small share of the skill and tact too , have been those of the working classes . The grand question then is , has this great class , has the million , whose labours lie at the foundation of this wealth , benefitted in anything like an equal degree with the other classes * As this tide of wealth has continued to rise , has it flowed in any fair proportion into the houses of the
workers' So ! On the contrary , as this wealth has advanced , the condition of the labouring class has retrograded . Capital has continued to run more and more into heaps , and into the hands of the few . There has been an unhealthy tendency , sen apoplectic tendency , towards the head in our system . There has been a plethora in the head , while the extremities have grown lean and attenuated . As the system of society has become more artificial , as our manufacturing schemes have been extended , as the capitalist has learned to organise labour in new modes , and to marshal greater and greater numbers of workers in bands under him , he has become wealthy , and they have grown poor . If any one were inclined to deny this , the very fact of the enormous masses of capital continually protruded on the public notice ; of
capital seeking investment ; the continual complaints that capital is SO abundant that its holders cannot tell how to dispose of it to profit ; that capital in fact , is a drug , while the working classes are in distress , would sufficiently answer him . We have five or six millions of peop le in Ireland actually suffermgfamine , while nine and ten pounds per acre are extorted by the landowners for potato-ground , from those very people . I speak of what I know and have seen . In England , the rate of wages Seems to desend in proportion to the numbers of people employed under one master , especially when they workin conjunction with machinery . This is not the place in which Iintend to go at large into this particular question . It may be here , therefore , enough to state , that such men as carpenters , masons , bricklayers , painters , and the like ,
generally get their three and four shillings per day , where the worker in a large factory gets his one or two . There has been now for some time an unusual degree of prosperity in the manufacturing districts , and therefore the disproportion is just bow notso great in many of them ; bnt still there are Immense masses in Spitalfields , Nottingham , Leicester , Coventry , Paisley , and Glasgow , who while they see large fortunes making by their employers , are not getting their ten shillings per week . Where such trades as tailors , stockingers , and shoemakers , are carried on by large numbars working for one master , tu 6 WagCS are wretchedly low . I have known in Nottingham hundreds of stockingers working sixteen hours a-day for six shillings a-week ; and thousands oft & n having no work at all .
Thus , my friends , we behold how magnificent are the Powers of labour : what wonders of wealth it has created in this country ; what princely fortunes it has pUed up ; what national pride and glory it has conferred upon Great Britain ; yet—and that is the misfortune—it has not created this for you . Weave truly "the envy and admiration of the world ; ' * but that envy and admiration are not excited by your condition . "Kick ! " exclaims llichelet , in his new work , The People , " come , confess , this is the secret motive of the universal admiration : England is the rich nation : never mind her millions of b' ggM-s . For any one who does not investigate mankind , shepresentfl to the world an unparalleled spectacle , that of the most enormous accumulation of wealth that ever
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« ??» M-. A tnamphant agricultur e , ¦ o . niuch machinery , so many vessels , so many warehouses all choke-full , that Exchange , the mistress of tho world—gold flows there like water . " True , but this golden water , my friends , does not , as the Frenchman well observes flow for you . For yon , it is the old son ? of Virgil : Sic vos hon vobis nidificatis aves '"' •' Sic vos non vobis vellera fertig oves Sic vos non vobis mirilificatis apes ' Sic vos non vobis fertis aratra boves . Meaning' , Thus , but , ye birds , not for yourselves , jour nests build je ; Thus , but , y « sheep , not for yourselves , bear ye fleeces ; Thus , but , ye bees , not for yourselves , make ye honey ; Thus , but ; ye oxen , not for yourselves , , 'drag ye ploughshares ; Thus , but not for yourselves , do you labour , Men of England .
Well , does Mr . Howitt say "There ia something wrong here , dreadfully wrong ; and which ought to be set right . " But how ? Mr . H . reserves the full answer for another letter , but indicates that his remedy is the adoption of th e co-operative principle ; the combining of labour , skill , and capital , by the working men for themselves . We anxiously look for the next letter detailing the " plan " We should like to havefinished this notice without one word of complaint , but owing to the unfairness of one of the contributors to the People's Journal , we are denied that pleasure . Dr . Smiles , wellknown to onr Leeds readers , has been writing a series of articles , under the head "What is doing for the People in Leeds ? " In the course of these articles , he describes the self-educating efforts of the
Leeds people , and speaking of the circulation of newspapers and cheap periodicals in that town , he states the number of copies sold of the Leeds and London papers . He professes to be very accurate and very impartial , so much so that he even specifies those contemptible rags Lloyd ' s Three-Penny Trash and the Penny Sunday Times ; but although he professes to give the names of all the papers sold in Leeds , he omits the Northern Star , as though he did not know that paper was sold there , nor even that such a paper existed ! Now , this impartial writer well knows that the Northern Star was printed and published for seven years in Leeds , he knows that
it circulates in that town , he knows that of all the Journals sold in Leeds , it pre-eminently represents the party of progress ; but , because the Star is , a Chartist paper , and because it has on some occasions administered to him that correction which his subserviency to the Milloracy during the time he . was editor of the leeds Tims , bo well entitled him to , therefore he knows nothing about the Northern Star . We advise this impartial gentleman to learn honesty before he next dabbles in social statistics . We have nothing further to complain of , much more we might single out for praise ; but enough , the best praise is the reiteration of our good wishes for the success of the People ' s Journal .
Birth Of Another Royal Tax-Eater. We Fin...
BIRTH OF ANOTHER ROYAL TAX-EATER . We find tHe following rubbish in all the daily papers : —
BUCKINGHAM PALACE , Mat 25 , 1846 . This afternoon , at five minutes before three o ' clock , the Queen was safely delivered of a Princess . In the room with her Majesty were his Royal Highness Prince Albert , Dr . Locock , and Mrs . Lilly , the monthly nurse . And in the rooms adjoining were the other medical attendants , Sir James Clark and Dr . Ferguson , and also her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent , the Lady in waiting on the Queen , and the Ministers and Officers of State summoned on the occasion . The Privy Councillors present were the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop , of London , the Lord Chancellor , the Duke of Buccleuch , the Earl of Haddington , the Duke of Wellington , Sir Robert Peel , Sir James Graham , Mr . Secretary Gladstone , the Earl of Liverpool , the Earl Delawarr , and the Earl of Jersey .
Summonses were immediately issued for a Privy Council , to be held at four o ' clock , at the Council Office , Whitehall . The following assembled at that hour : —His Royal Highness Prince Albert , the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , the Duke of Succleucb , the Duke of Wellington , Sir Robert Peel , Sir James Graham , Mr . Secretary Gladstone , the Earl of Ellenborough , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Lord Granville Somerset , Mr . Sidney Herbert , the Earl of Liverpool , and the Earl of Jersey . Mr . C . Greville and the Hon . William Bathurst , the Clerks of the Council , were in waiting . At the Council the Archbishop of Canterbury was desired to prepare a Form of Thanksgiving for the Queen ' s safe delivery of a Princess , to be used in the Churches and Chapels throughout England and Wales .
The Council then broke up . During the afternoon the Nobility and Gentry called at Buckingham Palace , and entered their names in the visiting-book of his Royal Highness Prince Albert . The following official " bulletin was exhibited at the Palace : — "Buckingham Palace , May 25 , lSiS , Four , p . m . " The Queen was safely delivered of a Princess at five minutes before three o'clock this afternoon . " Her Majesty and the Infant Princess are well . " James Clark , M . D . " Charles Locock , M . D . " Robt . Ferguson , M . D .
The beastly Court Journal says , "this great and important news was immediately made known to the town by the firing of the Park and Tower guns . " The Times ( base sycophant !) calls this birth an " auspicous occurrence . " From the above it will be seen that that sanctified old humbug , the Archbishop of Canterbury is preparing a " form-of Tlianfeagiving , " with which to pester the " powers above " next Sunday in all Churches and Chapels . The people , the royalty-ridden , tax-cursed people , have more need to howl hymns of despair for their misfortune in being saddled with another addition to the brood of Royal cormorants . Our readers will observe that the Queen is delivered not of a " daughter . " but
ofa " princess I" The outrageous absurdity of manufacturing children into princes and princesses was disgusting enough , but in this age of refinement the squalling lumps of Royal clay are , forsooth , lorn princes and princesses . 'We suppose the next thing will be to announce that the Duchess of Dunderhead was " safely delivered ot a marquess , " the " Lady of Sir Slipper Peel was safely delivered of a cabinet minister , " Mrs . Figgs was " safely delivered of a grocer , " Mrs . Suns was " safely delivered of a laundress , " Mrs . Cadger was " safely de'ivered of a beggar ' . " Verily John Bull , with all thy boasted wisdom , thou art but a stupid ass to bear these tomf ooleries , and worse—pay for them .
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GOVERNMENT GRATUITY TO JOSEPH MASON , THE INNOCENT CONVICT . A letter has been received from Lord Morpeth by the friends of Mason , in which his Lordship advises them not further to press for an inquiry into the circumstances of his conviction , which beyond doubt , arose entirely from misapprehension , and not from any intention to deceive . The character of Mason has been re-established , and a gratuity from Government of 251 . has been ordered as some compensation . The following is his Lordship ' s letter to Mason's brother-in-law : — " London , May 1 G , 1 S 10 .
"Sir , —Sir James Graham informs me that he cannot direct any commission to be instituted in the matters complained of with respect to the case of Joseph Mason . The complaint should more properly be addressed to the visiting justices of York Castle ; but now that Mason hasheen returned to his house , with his character completely cleared and acknowledged , I cannot advise any proceedings which now might bear the appearance of a vindictive character . " Sir James , at the same time , authorised me to state that he will confer a gratuity of twenty-five pounds upon Mason , as a small token of the unfortunate missapprebension under which be suffered . I cannot help thinking that Mason would do well to avail himself of Mr . Hudson ' s offer . Your humble servant , "MOKPETH . "
A letter has also been received from Mrs . Hudson , dated ; Albcrt-gate , Hyde Park , 5 th of May , and addressed to Mason ' s wife , in which that lady congratulates her on the return of her husband , and states that Mr . Hudson had given instructions that suitable employment should be provided for him at the earliest opportunity .
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AND SOCIALLY CONSIDERED . Mr . Stallwood delivered a lecture on the above subject , to a highly respectable and numerous audience , at the True Temperance Hall , Waterloo road , on Sunday evening , May the 24 th . He advocated the putting of the money spent in worse than useless drink and smoke , to the purposes of educating the rising generation in the principles of true political economy , the ' * Science of Government . " lie ur ^ ed the morality of well training , clothing , and feeding the human race ; and said , if the sons of labour performed this duty to their children , he could not conceive that they would have anything to throw aivay
on either gin or beer , and that were men teetotallers , they might so apply the means now spent to their own detriment and degradation . At a moderate calculation , the money now spent in drinking amounts to £ 1512 s . per annum per family . With this sum they could buy 40 s . freeb' Ids in counties , and better residences in boroughs , Ac , and thereby munh extend the franchise . They " might obtain i ' or each family with this sum , six shares in the Chartist Co ' operative Land Society , making themselves and fami lies perfectly contended and happy , and free from tin fears of a Union Bastile . l'hcy might at the same time realize Johnson's definition of" Social , " namely , Fit for Society , " Companionable , " " Fraternal . "
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, ^ , . - — -Jbis-wouklindeed -. be true social equality ,, aperfeet brotherhood , all working " for each , and each for f tll * Mr . Stallwood invoked the aid of all in carrying into practice the principles he had that nieht go feebly advocated and sat down loudly applauded . No questions being asked « f the lecturer , Mr . Stallwood rose and introduced Mr . Whitehorne and his sons , when this musieal family astonished and electrified the audience by their masterly execution of that beautiful composition , " We ' re all born equal . " At the conclusion , the audience testified their delight by their enthusiastic approbation . A vote of thanks on the motion of Mr . Andrews , was awarded by acclamation to the Lecturer , and to Mr . Whitehorne and his talented children for their services , and the meeting was dissolved .
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DREADFUL COAL PIT EXPLOSION . A dreadful explosion took place on Tuesday the I 9 th inst . at Myreydduewidd Colliery , three miles from Swansea . On Tuesday morning the men were told that" all was right , " except one portion , which they had barricaded up with timber so that it should be known ; but ere an hour had elapsed a tremendous explosion shocked the entire pit , causing the instant death of five men , and several others much burnt . The first body found was that of David Jones . It presented an awful aspect , the whole of his intestines having [ alien out , shewing the violence with which he had been driven against parts of the colliery by the violent concussion . The remainder were also
shockingly disfigured , and were blown some 200 yards from where the explosion happened . At the Coroner ' s inquest on the bodies it was clearly proved to have resulted by the imprudence of one of the miners , who , notwithstanding the caution he had received , went into the dangerous part before spoken of with a nakedlit candle . The Jury , after a very lengthened investigation , returned a verdict of "Accidental Death . " We also regret to mention two other fatal explosions , one at Pwllygraig , near Merthyr , and the other at the Mountain Pitts , Pennydarren . Four person lost their lives at them , which appeared to have resulted under the same circumstances . The greater portion of the unfortunate sufferers have left large families utterly destitute .
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Heroic Gallantry . —Mr . Hughes , the eldest son of Mr . Hughes , saddler , of the CowhilJ , on Friday last , performed an act of heroic humanity which merits recording . The young man , it seems , was travelling from Lincoln by one of the Gainsborough coaches . On arriving at Saxilby , he perceived a girl in the river Witham , and saw her sink for the third time , though there were several person who observed the accident , and yet did not attempt to save the life of the girl ; lie unhesitatingly leaped from the coach , and , encumbered as he was with his great
coat , plunged into the river , dived to the bottom , succeeded in bringing up the exhausted girl , and with great difficulty got her safely landed . We arc informed that influential parties , having been made acquainted with the facts of the case , purpose laying thern before the Humane Society ; whether any token of commemoration be granted from that quarter or not , there can be no doubt that the generous feeling which prompted so perilous an act in the service of huiftanity will gain the young man the warm respect o all whose opinion is worth possessing . — Stamford Mercury .
Extensive Robbkrt of Bank or Encland Notks , die—AfcUxbrid » e Petty Sessions on Tuesday , Henry and MargaretBarnaby , two persons ef respectable appearance , brother and sister , the former living at Hareficld , and the latter at Kensington , were committed for having been concerned in stealing , in the month of January last , a wooden cash-box , containing Bank of England and other notes , with title-deeds , leases , and other securities , to a very large amount , from the King ' s Arms Inn , in the village of Harefield , about two miles from Uxbridge , the property of Mr . John Ratcliffe , the landlord .
Robueribs of Platb . —Information of the following robberies of plate were on Wednesday received by the police- . —From No . 9 , Cavendish-square ^ the property of the Hon . Mr . Dawson Darner , four silver candlesticks—they are of massive make ; also , from a cart last week , between Reigate and East' Grimstead , a box , the propety of the Rev . S . M . Neate , of Sackville Cottage , East Grimstead , containing four silver table-spo ins , four tea and four desert ditto , and a butter knife , each marked " W . " a wine strainer , marked "TV A . W . M . " six table spoons , five desert , two tea , one gravy , and two salt ditto , marked , twenty-four forks , six old-fashioned fillagree teaspoons , marked " T . M . N . " a datete , and moist sugar-bason , marked " A , N . " an inkstand , and a variety of other articles of silver plate .
Dissolving the Parliament . —It is generally believed if the Corn Bill does not pass that the Queen will , dissolve the Parliament ! ! What a blessing to the nation ! f Will any respectable washerwoman have the kindness to oblige Her Majesty with a copper and liot tvater for the purpose of effecting a sure dissolution ? The Kino and Queen or the French are expected to visit this country about the latter end of June , or early in July . Death of Viscount Dowse . —We have to record the demise of another British peer , Viscount Downe , of the county of Downe , in the peerage of Ireland , who expired on the 23 rd instant , at Beningborough Hall , his seat in Yorkshire ; at the advanced age of 74 . His Lordship , who was in Holy Orders , was born August 20 , 1772 , and succeeded to the title in
1 S 32 . African Travels . —The News from Malta , of the 14 th , notices the safe return of Mr . James Richardson from the interior of Africa , Fezsan , and Tripoli , having accomplished his perilous journey in a manner the most extraordinary and satisfactory , by a new route . He travelled the country without arms to defend himself against the attacks of his enemies , or presents to conciliate the good opinion of the chiefs he visited . He has not , hewever , fully accomplished the object he had in view on starting , owing to the wars which raged in different , parts , occupied by different tribes , through which he would have hail to pass .
A Desperate Leap from a WiNDOw . —On Tuesday morning , between one and two o ' clock , groat excitement prevailed in the vicinity of Kent-street , Southwark , in consequence of a female named Johanna HefFeran , aged twenty-eight years , the wife of a labourer , jumping from the second floor Window ol her residence in a court inhabited by a number of Irish people . It seems that her husband had been leading a very dissipated life for several weeks past , anil had treated her in a very harsh and cruel manner . He returned in a state of drunkenness , and when he entered the apartment he seized her by the throat , and threatened to murder her . She , however , escaped from him , and to evade his brutal treatment she threw up the window and jumped out'into the
street . A policeman who was on duty near tne spot ran to her , and when he raised her up he found that she had received some injury to the legs and other parts of her person . She was taken to Guy ' s Hospital , where she was found to have sustained extensive injuries , which , it is feared , will cause her death . Fire at a Card Manufactory . —On Wednesday afternoon , shortly after three o ' clock , a fire broke out in the drying room of the extensive playingcard manufactory , belonging to Messrs . Josh . Reynolds and Son , card-makers , & c , 28 , 29 , and 30 . Vere-street , Clare-market . The fire originated from the overheating of the steam-boiler flue , anil before sufficient assistance could be produced it had
obtained considerable hold . The Holborn engine of the London Fire Engine Establishment , having got to work , the firemen succeeded in staying the further progress of the flames in a short time . Dreadful Wagook- Accident . —On Wednesday , as a waggon belonging to tho Eastern Counties Railway , heavily laden with oats , was going down Milford-lane , Strand , the horse stumbled , and the heavy vehicle caught the driver between the wheels and the kerb-stone adjoining the Bull public-house . The wretched sufferer , whose ribs were frightfully lacerated , was conveyed to the King ' s College Hospital , where he lies in a precarious state .
Accident on the Stamford and Peterborough Railway . —As a number of navigators and other workmen were leaving their employment on Saturday evening last , between six arid seven o ' clock , when near the village of Bainton , the ballast waggons on which they were riding , were suddenly thrown off the rails , by which twelve of the men were thrown out and seriously injured . Six of the sufferers were taken to the Stamford Infirmary severely hurt , one having both his legs broken ; the five ^ others , some with their arms broken , others witli their shoulders dislocated , & e . It is not expected three of the six can recover . It is reported this accident arose from carelessness ; others affirm that some of the party unhooked one of the waggons for a "lark , " which jerked the waggon in which they were , causing it to tip up and throw the others into confusion .
Suffocation in an Epileptic Fir . —An inquest was held on Wednesday at tho White Hart , Berwickstreet , Oxford-street , before Mr . Bedford , on the bodv of Mr . George Augustus Farques , aged twentyseven , a copper-plate printer , of Berwick-street . It appeared that the deceased enjoyed good health , with the exception of being attacked at long intervals with epileptic fits . He was quite well on Friday night last , when he went to the Princess ' s Theatre , and at twelve o ' clock went to bed , much in his usual state . The next morning ho was found dead
in his bed , with his face downwards between the two pillars . Mr . Po ; e , surgeon , of No . 3 , Manchester-square , said that the deceased died from suffocation . In reply to questions from a Juror , the surgeon said , that in the course of the night the deceased had no doubt been seized with a fit of epilepsy , and his head sinking between the pillows , he was unable to rise , and so was suffocated . Had any one slept with him who was able to render assistance , his life in all probability would have been saved , a verdict in accordance with the medical testimeny was * returned .
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Emigration to im ' tfmw * SiAMs—TheTidaof emigration still flows ; n ^ les s than 6 , 3 m persons of all sizes ; sexes , 'and denominations , arrived at this port during the month of -April ; this being an increase of 2 , 055 over the month of March . Great Britain sent 4 , 986 ; France , 1 , 078 , chiefly Germans ; Bremen and Hamburg , 116 . —New /<»* Bgraia . A Woman Chokbd bt a Piece of - * S 4 S :- "" iV Saturday an inquest was held at "th « ' » William the Fourth , Wandsworth-road , before Mr . Carter , on the body of Mary Anne Cooke , the wife Of a sweep , living at Howard-street . A few days previously the deceased was at tea , when a piece of crus t of bread lodged in the larynx , and before a surgeon . could be procured , she was dead . Verdict , " Diedfro . 'o » uffocation . " \
Revjcrse of Fortune . —One of the men now engaged as conductor to an omnibus plying betwsen the railway station at Leamington and Warwrehv was , m ISSi mayor of Stratford . upon-Avon . A Curious- Bird's Nest , —A few days since Mk-John Hubbard , landlord of the Wheats heaf , Burton Joyce , found a torn tit ' s nest , containing several young ones , in an old hat placed on a stick in his garden . —iybMingtoi Journal , Death at thk Liverpool and Manchester Railway Station . —On Thursday evening , a little before
nine o ' clock , a man , who was sitting on a form in the second class waiting-room of the Victoria Railway station , Hunt ' s Bank , was found dead ; and a surgeon , having been promptly ealled thither , was unable to restore animation . The deceased had been sitting there a short time previously , without exhibiting any signs of indisposition . He was apparently about sixty-five years of age , respectably attired in black . He- wore a plain neckcloth , white stockings , shoes with four button holes , and a cap upon his head . He had ; not paid his fare for any p lace , and no money except Is . 3 d , was found upon him .
Fatal Accident durihg the Thunder Storm . — About half-past four o ' clock on Thursday evening , an accident occurred in St . George ' s-road , Manchester , in consequence of a horse becoming frightened by the lightning , by which a main named James Wild was killed . It appeard that Wild was going along St . George ' s or Rochdale-road , with an empty cart drawn by two spirited horses , and having hold of the reins of the shaft horse ; when suddenly , as if frightened by a flash of lightning or the thunder which followed , the leader started of at a furious pace . Wild kept hold of the bridle for about ten yards , when , losing his hold , he was kicked by the shaft horse , and tell , one of the wheels going over his back . The horses proceeded onward at a gallop , and Wild with difficulty rose , and cried " Wheigh , " as if to stop them , but he was very much exhausted , and had to be sustained by some persons who came up at the time . Ho was conveyed to the shoo of Mr .
M'Gill , druggist , St . George ' s-road , where , in the space of ton minutes he died . Lusus Nature . —Last Saturday , a hen , belonging to William Bamsby , oi Bunkers' Hill , hatched a chicken with four perfect eggs . The little monster is alive , and likely enough to be reared . The Whip and thb "ScHXAeuB" is Hanover . — The Second Chamber of the States of Hanover , has at present under discussion the criminal code , comprising offences against the laws of the press . At one of the late sittings M . Lehzen , an enlightened and influential member , proposed that the punishment o f the whip and the sehlague should be suppressed ; but , although supported by several deputies of weight , he did not succeed in carrying his motion . According to the law presented by the Government the whip is , f or the future , to be applied only to lads under sixteen years of age , and to vagabonds . Whipping is no longer in any case to be applied to
women . Fatal Accident off Lambeth Palace . —On Sunday morning , about a quarter past seven o'clock , an accident happened on the river , which was attended by the loss of one out of two of the persons who fell out ofa boat off Lambeth Stairs , it appears that the boat was engaged for an excursion on the river by a party of six persons , consisting of males and females . By some indiscretion on the part of those who undertook the management of the boat two of the party , a man and woman , fell into the river ; the man was picked up and taken , in an exhausted state to a tavern near Westminster-bridge , when , after some time he was conveyed home in a cab .
"Oh it is Love . ' "—Breaking into a Prison . — On Saturday , as Alderton and Clarke were watching at our gaol , about one o ' clock in the morning , they heard some one get over the top of the door of the garden wall , and make his way into the garden at the hack of the House of Correction . He had with him a ladder , and went up as far as the roof . They then saw it was Robert Berry , alius ' Bob the Cooper , " and ran towards the ladder , on which lie descended as fast as he could , ran across the garden and escaped over the wall . They were in watch for
him , as it was believed that he had on . the previous night been in communication with one of the prisoners , named Emma Weavers . On being taken before II . Braddock , Esq ., he said he was only going to take some tea and sugar to Emma Weavers , lie was committed for tiro months as a rogue and vagabond . Slkkpino in Tim Craw Am jui Orrisavic . "— "At the Ilfbrd petty sessions , on Saturday , Zachariah Lee , a gipsey , was charged with sleeping in the open air at Epping Forest . The excuse made by the prisoner was , that he was sleeping out because he had had a row with his wife . It was ascertained that lie
had a house . at Clunglord-hatch . The Magistrate sa d that the gipsies generally rented houses in some of the villages near the forest during the winter ; but the moment the fine weather set in they betook themselves to the forest . If they v / ere able to rent for a house during the winter months they certainly could do the same in summer , and he should order the police to take into custody all persons found sleeping in the forest . As the prUottei ' , hOWfiVQr , Was ROt kllOffll at that Court , he should discharge him this time , but should deal severely with him if brought up
again . ItAPID iNCnRASE OP Manchester . —From a report j prepared by the Chief Constable , and read by Alderman Key , at a recent meeting of the Town Council , it appears that since the census was taken in ISil , there has been a clear addition of 59 , 770 souls to the population of the borough , being more than the increase from 1 S 3 I to 1811 , which was 53 , 373 . The ontire population is now reckoned at 295 , 277 . Berne . —Since the census o f 1837 , the population of the city and circle of Berne has been increased from 22 , 422 souls to 25 , 158 , of which 7 . 3 S 2 arc married , 1 , 743 widowers , 125 divorced , 15 , 903 unmarried . Of the Reformed religion , 23 , 778 ; Catholic , 1 , 218 ; Jews , 162 . The number of civic citizens is 2 , 977 ; cantonal citixens , 19 , 579 ; Switzer citizens , 4 , 147 ; aliens , 1 , 432 . Railroad between Auosnuna and Ulm . —The
Augsburg Gazette mentions a report that the Austrian Government intends to form a military railroad between Augsburg and UJm , so that , in case of any threatened invasion , Ulm may be immediately supplied with troops . More Poison for the Chinese . —The Ami de la Religion ( Paris paper ) states that Father Ambrosio , and ' Procurator of Missions in China , and live other missionaries of the of order of Jesus , had embarked at Naples for the Celestial Empire . Nineteen brothers of the order are at present in Nanking
occupied in spreading the Catholic faith . Not less satisfactory is their zeal in England , where , as stated in this journal from authentic sources , within the last two years , 275 Protestants had been converted to Catholicism . [ The unhappy Chinese appear to be the doomed recipients of civilised poison , first opium , then gospel . We would recommend tho good people of the " llowery laud , " to cling to the morals taught theni by Confucius , rather than listen to the corrupting absurdities of European creeds . They w ill find gospel-intoxication more enervating than a von opium-chewing . ]
A Tumel iwdeb Gbbekwicii Park . —It has been determined by the Directors of the South-eastern Railway Company to pull down the Greenwich terminus , the Railway Tavern known as the Prince of Orange , together with several shopa and newly-erected dwelling-houses adjoining , and to erect a splendid terminus on Crooin ' s-hill in its stead , alongside one of the smaller entrances ; into the park . The new tunnel will commence at the Creek-brdge , which separates Greenwich from Deptford , and continue under the town of Greenwich , the lower part of the
Park , next Greenwich Naval School , Maze-hill , onward by the back of the union workhouse in the Woolwich ro » d . Here the tunnel is to cud , and the line continue forward to Woolwich , Hartford , Gravesend , & e . From the estimates made by the surveyors the Directors consider that they shall lie able to complete the works to Gravesend , and open it for public traffic , in the course of the next twelve months . The tunnelling is intended to obviate the vibration complained oi as likely to arise , and which the Astronomer Royal considored | would affect the scientific studies atKhe Royal Observatory .
A Wealthy Settler Mcrderkd by the Blacks . — The Moreton Bay community ( New South Wales ) has been thrown into great consternation at the commencement of the year by the murder of Mr . « John Uhr , the brother of C . B . Uhr , Esq ., Justice of the Peace . This gentleman was at an out-station , when the ^ blacks came i nto his hut , and commenced helping themselves . This was resisted by Mr . Uhr , when lie was attacked by the whole bod y and murdered . After treating the body with the greatest indignity , the savages threw itinto the river Brisbane , on whose
banks the occurrence took place . They then made off after plundering the place of sugar , flour , tea , tobacco , & c Lieut . Seymour , and nine men of the party stationed at Moreton Bay , had gone up the Brisbane in pursuit of the murderers . A party of civilians had also started on the same errand . Mr . Uhr ' s body had been found , and handed over to his . relatives . The blacks had been committing great depredations on the cattle . They often killed beast * to get at the inside fat . After spearing and hamstringing them , they merely made an incision in the ribs to get at the kidney fat , leaving the carcass to rot .
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"John" HAMPBBN ^ We * hear inat there is to be a public meeting and dinner at Chalgrove-fleld , on the 18 fch of June ; oeinglhe anniversary of the death- of this distinguished patriot . . < Thb Nblson Column . —The publie will be gratified by learning-that hopes may be entertained of the speedy disappearance of the unsightly timber barrio cade which has so long aurroiindea the base of , the Nelson column , and deformed Trafalgar-square . During the last week a considerable . auinber of workmen have been employed in dressing the briefer , and making preparations for tha foundations of the pedestals of tha recumbent iioiui which are . fo ornam ? % ?" B 2 ihe basemen *; andfor the reception of the flights ot granite step * which will complete the original plan . /' Mourn Hbcla . ~ Cops « haobn , May 16 . —We have letters from Iceland , - of the beginning of April .
which state that the eruption of Mount Hecla had ceased for about a fortnight . The fishing was so productive that it had been been necessary to send ships to England for salt . VAlVhZUB Plscov * Br of Lead nr thb Islb of Man !—In ejseavating the rock opposite tho courthouse , jfor the purpose ot deepening our harbour , the work' men hare-come open a small vein of lead ore , and not less than feur cwts of excellent ore has been raised , containing a-proportion , it is supposed , of about 90 oz . of silver per ton .-- ^ fo »»'» Herald . Thb Corn" Bine—Earl Delawarr , having declared his intention to oppose the Corn Bill in the House of Lords , has resigned the situation of Lord Chamber lain ef the Queen ' s Hotsehold .
Tna FactokjbsH Bill . —Si * Hesketh Fleetwood paired * off on F » day night in iavottr of the Short Time Bill with Mr .. Mackinnen . ' AsrcranT Art . —It is a singular fact , that the pattern now most common upon paistey shawls ,, and which has always been a favourite , was in use among the Hindoos three or four thousand years ago . Thk Soiobious Joseph ; Ab # was committed fron * the Thames-street Office , on Thursday , to take hi » trial on s > charge of fraud ; : in- obtaining 60 ' postage * stamps from a gentleman named Hill on the pretence of giving him useful information .
J HB REOBKT INDIAN IfroTORIES-, —B « ATn OS" ElEUT .. Colonel B ; iwHi . -We have to rectnxl . tho death of Lieut . Coldeel Barr , one of the horses-of Hurreekea Ghat , who , received a musket-ball in the left ann in the final victory which crowned the British arm » in India . It appears that the gallant officewas-very anxioustthat the limb should be saved if possible , and it was hoped that by skilful treatment the-injury ( compound'fracture ) might ; be reduced .. It would seem , however , that the climate wasaverse to his-recovery , and he sank under his-sufferings , Yidocq , denieathat he is either dead ; or , what perhaps is better , that he is "in a- state of poverty , " and in a letter tp > the Sun invites- the editor of that , paper to dine withhira , as a proof , we suppose , ef his
veracity . Gkorgb Frederick , Cooke ' s- Monument .. —When Edmund Kean was last in this-country lie erected a monument , in St .. Paul ' s- Chureh-yaril , to the memory of the lamented' George Frederick Cooke . When Charles ICean arrived here , upon goi » g to see the monument , he found it in a dilapidated condition . With a commendable liberality and reverenc for the great actor whose memory the monument was intended to honour ,, and ; for his- father who had erected it , he determined , to have it repaired . When he left this city on his southern tour he left orderswith John Povey to expend four of five hundred dollars upon its repairs . This has been done , and the
monument is now restored to its original place , in as good condition as when erected by the-actor Kean , and likely to stand many years , to remind the passerby of the great actor * The body of Cooke ,, who died while in this city , is buried , not under the monument , but in the vestry of the church . It is rather a remarkable coincidence , that the monument was ready and re-elected on the anniversary of the birth of Siiakspeare . It is a handsome marble monument , bearing upon one side the original inscription — " Erected to the memory of George Frederick Cooke , by Edmund Rea ^ of the Theatre Royal , Drury-lane . Loudon , 1821 . Three kingdoms claim his birth ;
Both hemispheres pronounce his wo * th . " Upon the other side is the inscription" Repaired by Charles Kean , 1846 . * New York Paper . Fatal Accident —On Sunday last a fine boy , 12 years of age , named David Horbury , son of Charles Horbury , shareholder in the Chartist Co-operative Land Society , Bhicher Street , Barnsley , lost his life under the following circumstances : —The little fellow was playing by the canal side when he fell in , a parcel ef cowardly scoundrels were rowing up and down the canal in a boat and contented themselves by merely putting the oar to the canal side , when finding it did not bring him up they with the most perfect coolness left him , the consequence was the poor little fellow was taken out a lifeless corpse . —• Correspondent .
Electio . v Contest jn Avhshibe . —We learn that it is all but arranged , in Protection circles , that in the event of a dissolution of Parliament , which is expected in a few weeks , our county member , Alex . Oswald , Esq ., will be opposed by Lord G . Bentinck , son of the Duke of Portland , and the leader of the Prftt . PPt w >»» o * o ... . tL © Iltwov vl' VVllillWllS . ' Obstruction of the Anciest Chapel at . Kingsland . —The picturesque little chapel opposite the tollbar at Kingsland , is n » w being unroofed , preparatory to its destruction , by the sanction of the governors of
Bartholomew ' s Hospital . It is of diminutive size , but it posses-es , independent of its claims as a consecrated building , architectural and antiquarian features o f interest . It is said that a strong remonstrance has been sent to the governors of Uarlllolomew ' s Hospital by the central committee of the Arcf-njologit ' iil Association , with a view to obtain ab least a respite for the chapel , until proper inquiry lias been instituted into the alleged ground for its destruction , which Is generally supposed to be quite uncalled for .
Thunder Stokm . — During the thunder storm , on Wednesday week , a sergeant of the 43 rd regiment , whowas travelling near Barnard Castle , took refuge under a tree ; and wliile tlitre the tree was struck by the lightning and completely rent . The soldier was alse struck to the ground , but fortunately was uninjured . Cav-ture of a Whale in * the River Mkdwat . — Chatham , May 26 . —Yesterday afternoon this fish was secured by Henry Ilickson , a waterman , at Upnor , who found it floating dead in the river , below Upnor Castlo . Having secured it he towed it to Upnor , and the difficulty then was how to set it to a place of
security , when between 50 and 60 united to remove it to a building at the rear of the Jolly Sailors . The fish was then opened , and the inside taken out and cleaned . The liver was a very extraordinary size . Before it was touched , the fish measuri d 1 feet round the body , and 13 feet in length ; the breadth of the tail is 2 feet 6 inches . This fish is to be brought to Chatham for public exhibition . It afforded for the last week much sport to the watermen of the river ia their endeavours to catch it . The cause of its death is supposed to be the difference of the water to that of the north seas .
Husgaut . —It is stated that between 25 and 30 districts with a population of 2 , 500 or 3 , 000 souls of the ( united ) Greek religion , have gone over to , the non-united ( tho Russian } reJhjion , Queen ' s Musicians . —It is somewhat remarkable that the favourite musicians of three Queens fell a sacrifice to suspicion and vengeance within a space of thirty years in this country—namely Mark Smeaton , in the service of Anne Boleyn , was executed in 1530 ; Thomas Abel , who taught music and grammar to Queen Catherine , wife of Henry VIII ., who wss hanged and quartered in 1540 ; and David ltizzio , secretary to Mary Quceii of . Scots , who . was murdered in 1556 .
Vaccwatio . v . —Vaccination has been highly satisfactory for the past year , ending on the 29 th Septcni * bar last , according to the opinion of the Poor Law Commissioners ; there having been 317 , 765 persons vaccinated , and the successful cases having been equal to ninety-six per cent , on the number vaccinated . A Gentleman Mistakes fou a Pickpocket . — A policeman , named Richard-, and Henry Kirby . money taker to the London and Westminster Steamboat Company , were charged at the Mansion-bouse , on Tuesday , with abusive and insolent conduct to Mr .
Charles Funge , an officer of the Vice-Chancellors Court , whom they called a pickpocket , ami a member of the swell mob , because he remained on the liuhter after having landed from one of the boats . It appeared that a well-known member of the swell-mob was on the lighter at the time , and because he was standing near Mr . Funge , probably trying to pick his pocket , tho policeman considered them to be friends , and so ordered Mr . Funge to walk off . The Lord Mayor fined the policeman twenty shillings , but dismissed Kirby , as he had acted on information given him by Richards .
Darisii Succession . — The attention of political circles is attracted to the difficulties which will one day arise relative to the succession of Denmark , and the Duchess of Ilolstein and Sohleswig . The Prince Royal of Denmark has no children ; he is now suing tor a divorceso as to be able to contract a third m . -. rriage . Prince Frederick of Hesse is the next heir to the throne after tho Prince Royal ; but he is a young widower , and had no children ' by his wife , a Grand Duchess of Russia . A Hamburgh paper publishes the following , which might pu & an eml to ihesc difficulties : — " Tho yhitof the Royal Family of Sweden to the Court of Copenhagen has been much talked of . This visit is not looked upon as a mere visit of ceremony . A marriage between Prince Frederick of Hesse and the young daughter of the King of Sweden may probably result from the interview between the two sovereigns . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 30, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30051846/page/3/
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