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THE SONG OF HATRED . _BT _HERWEGH . [ _I-r-anslated by Claresce Masgax . ] Yes , Freedom's war!—though the deadly strife Makes earth one cbarnel bone-yard \ The last kiss now to tbe child and wife , And the first firm grasp ofthe poniard ! Blood soon shall run in rivers above The _bright flowers we to-day tread ; Wc have all had more than enough of lore , So now for a spcU of Hatred ! We have all had more than enough of love , So now for a spell of Hatred !
How long shall the hideous ogre , Power , Rear column of skulls on column ? Ob , Justice ! hasten thy judgment-hour , And open thy doomsday volume ! So more oiled speech!—it is time the drove Of despots should hear their fate read—We have all had quite enough of love , Be our watchword " aenceferth natred ! We have aU had quite enough of love , Be our watchword henceforth Hatred ! Cold steel ! To that it must come at length Ifor quake to hear it spoken !
By the blows alone we strike in our strength Can the chains ofthe world be broken ! Up , then ! No more in city or grove Let Slavery and Dismay tread ! We have all had more than enough of love , Let us now fail back upon Hatred ! We Lave aU had more than enough of love , Let us now faR back upon Hatred ! My friends ! the trememdous time at hand WiU show itself truly in earnest ! Bo you tbe like!—and take your stand Where its aspect frowns the sternest ! Strive now as Tell and Korner strove !
Be your sharp swords early and late red ! You have all had more than enough of love-Test now the talisman , Hatred I You have all had more than enough of love , Test now the _talisman , Hatred !
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THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLL TICS , HISTORY , and LITERATURE . Edited by G . Julun Harney . No . 4 . September . London : E . Mackenzie , 5 , "Wine Office Court , Fleet-street . TmnTEEX distinct articles attest the variety of tlie contents of this well-filled three-pamyicortk of politics and literature . "The Editor ' s Letter to the Working Classes" is
de-Toted to a commentary on tlie new Reform Movement—a commentary likely to attract thc attention of both "Reformers" and Chartists . The "Letter from Paris" lias but one fault—it is too brief . ' _Terrigenous " continues his examination of thc all-important land question ; and under the head of " Social Reform" is continued the very interesting account of the principles and projects of Louis Blaxc , from which we select the following extract : —
EVILS OF THE EXISTING SVSTEM . Science is _incessantly developing new means of replacing , by the powers of nature , the painful toil of
man . The division of labour multiplies a hundredfold our productive forces . The commercial barriers thatseparate nations tend constantly to disappear . Production is daily concentrating more and more its _resources and its action . Industrial relations are continually extended by the development of credit . Now , of all these facts , each stamped with the _character of progress , each susceptible , under a less deplorable regime than ours of being turned to the advantage of all , there is not one which , for a time at least , does not tend to aggravate the sufferings of a great number of workmen .
Each new machine is a source of profit to its possessor ; but it expels from the workshop a multitude of artisans , whose sole property it destroys , in superseding their labour . The unfortunates thus displaced knock at the doors of the workshops in which their comrades are emjd < _-yed ; they offer their labour at a discount ; their eagerness far work brings about a -reduction of wages ; and until the disturbed equilibrium is entirely restored , until the influence ofthe new invention has become beneficent in becoming -universal , the weak bear all the burden of tbe innovation , which has mad j the fortune of oneorof a few . The division ol labonr in a well-regulated society , would be of incontestable _advantage . Under the present r _«* _fi "* ae , what is its effect on the operative ? It tends to degrade and brutalise his nature , by concentrating his whole powers on the turning of a handle , or the fabrication of a pin .
As commercial barriers fall before the ( development of free trade , each in succession determines a sudden influx of foreign produce , and an equivalent depression of the home market . On whom does the momentary crisis press ? Almost invariably on the artisan . Do wc not sec unscrupulous speculators turning to their personal profit , with only too much succ- ss , these periods of -cnc-ral misfortune ? They reduce wages on the plea of diminished profits , they warehouse instead of selling tlieir products , and on disposin _**; of them at the end of the crisis , they are enriched by what should have been their loss by what _/•«<* been tbe Lss of their unfortunate workpeople . These are historic . d facts ; con any . Ling more heartrending bc cited ?
The coucentrat ' oii of productive to _. I economises manual labour ; baton the other baud , it imposes on tbe manufacturer an excessive extension ofhis trade , obliging hira lo seek distant consumers , wh--. se number he cninoi ascertain , and whose varying wauts escape his -i-.-. _p-remtion . Au i is it not obvious that , in tbis _per-: e * im ! el tsli if interests , impelled by competition to v _.-i-. e mutual war , commercial catastrophe- * mustbec'iuc more ireq _* : eutand _fornii- _' _-ible in proportion as the * tl'eafre of commercial operations becomes more * v _;* st ? Cou-1 , cow , the vic'ims that our vast factories , as they fall , bury beneath their ruins . The extension of cre ' _ri ? . in itself , an excellent thing , and yet in ours ) - _* _- ' _.-. ¦ ' _m-L' _-i ' - - _*! = m . what disasters does it i _; ot e _* _- _* -e : _* _'k-v ' ¦ Ai > - _*;' . !' . . * . _f-. innate enough to have _gsi : ! : c _*' - in the **»• . - .--it ' . * f ' i- brow , bread enou-Ji for him : *•!{ * an- ' hi . * f-m _* i _* _'*/? _«¦!* :-self sudderdv tlnown . _*" . _* ¦ tn : -treat . Yv ! - , _v " ' . : '\
in whose fault ? _llisei-jdoycvs . ' N-i ! 'J '• _.- ? fr _.-: ' . ' _-r > _> u which the workman earned his iivciibi c- * ¦ - -. - _';>** ] _- ,-no fault of its proprietor . The stoppage of a factory in France may be ocensioaed by the bankruptcy of an English firm , which may itself nave been determined by an analagous failure _i- * America . In a pru'lently organised associative system , the influence of such disasters would be limited , and over a whole community , its effects would scarcely be _appreciable ; and we should be spated the scandalous spectacle of thousands of honest and industrious workmen involved in min by the distant operation of a few fraudulent or foolhardy mil ionaires .
As for the cheapness said to arise from competition , what after all dues it represent ? Economies resulting from a saving of human labour , or from the employment of improved machinery . Cheapness , then ,. does but give to the affluent consumer what it has taken from the penniless producer . Under the competitive regime , which employs cheapness as a means o conflict , every diminution of prices corresponds either to a general reduction of wages , or to the exercise of a homicidal monopoly . So that what is a progress and a profit to some , involves for others an aggravation of suffering . And thus , alas ! do the fortunate unconsciously construct their happiness with the augmenting miseries of the poor .
Competition , it is true , does not always prove disadvantageous to the ar & an . "When commodities are in demand , and workmen few , the relative positions we have described are reversed . The master has to submit to conditions dictated by the workman , and the oppressed of yesterday becomes the oppress , r ofthe morrow . Here we might remark that such cases as these are exceptional ; and that the rich have resources , denied to the poor , enabling them to evade the pressure of a momentarv despotism . But no ; I prefer to let the obiection stand in its full force—to admit
the fact alleged into my chain of reasoning . For to ¦ sne it matters not whether tyranny proceeded from above or below ; in either case it is abhorrent to me . Champion , not flatterer of the people , I denounce alike the disorders by which workmen exceptionally profit , and those under which _theyhabitaalfy groan : and I proclaim doubly fatal every _systdm which , to the trampled workmen , leaves no reparation but vengeance—no fetes but tbesaturndliaot Industry . Mr . SamcelKtdd contributes an ably written axticleon " _TheQueen'sVisittoIreland . " We subjoin the following specimen : —
THE PHESE 5 T _JOD THE * FUTCBE . Oh ! Irishmen ! was it you who two years ago cheered Meagher for his denunciations of Whig misrale— * who read John Mitchel's famou 3 sentiment , " The life ofa peasant is as dear as that of a noble " —who echoed Smith O'Brien ' s words , and sung the heroic songs of the ** ' Nation ? " Is it you who have licked the dust from the feet of Royalty , and kissed the hem of the "Whig garment ? I say to you , Eng lishmcn , take warning . Look to your sister isle , rich in all thc resources of wealth , yet r prey to every evil . Her fate threatens to be yours . Already Irish niiscrv , like the Asiatic cholera , paralyzes or kills all it touches : it has seated itself in _fcieniidstofvou , and will soon _enyclope you ia Us
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gulf . Tour every city and town has its "Little Ireland , -- as a portion of Manchester is so significantly called . Do not deceive yourselves , and sav «• England will never bc like Ireland . England has capital , skill , industry , and intelligence " Did all these save you in 1 S 42 , 1847 , and 1848 ? England hath capital , and it is at the command of those who never toil . She has skill ; it is a source of gain to the few , and misery to the many . She has industry ; and , like fever in the veins of the invalid it maddens activity to ensure exhaustion . Intelli . 1 gence she has not , or she would proclaim death to a system—industrial , judicial , and legislative—that injures the masses and must lead to certain ruin Be not too proud to listen tothe voice of warnine ' _-
portions of your population have ere now be _^ ed for a crumb from " royal - favour . " The Spitalfields ' weavers ( at one time the most independent and spirited of your workmen ) have before now humbly petitioned for the patronage of even a marchioness . The " magnificent charities" ofthe benevolent rich , cannot approach the real necessities ofthe working poor . In times of commercial depression , your workhouses are filled , and you are clamorous with your misery ; in times of prosperity , you forget bygone sufferings , and toil like oxen , performing the ' ir task without thought . I know there are many exceptions , noble , honourable , exceptions . These exceptions serve to prove the rule , and are often
persecuted and destroyed , because of thc ignorance and apathy of the multitude . Ireland had , and has still , many noble exceptions ; but have they saved , or can they save , the ignorant and apathetic from destruction , and their struggling country from decay ? So , countrymen ; _themanymust save themselves or they must perish , as the punishment of their sins , if the vessel be not sea-worthy , she must sink in the storm : no life-boat can save her crew , if her crew will not strive to save themselves . Feeling for Ireland , and not forgetting her occasional efforts to obtain redress , I must write of her , as of England , " A small number of lobbers devour the multitude , and themultitude suffer themselves to he devoured I "
A strong effusion entitled " Democratic Progress , " is followed by " The Hungarian Struggle—Part 2 " in which is narrated the killing of Count Lamberg—the defeat and flight of Jellachich—the insurrection in Vienna—the battle of Schwechat and fall of Vienna—the abdication of Ferdinand—thc concentrical invasion of Hungary—thc wonderful labours of Kossuth aud his generals in organising the forces of Hungary , & c ., & c . An account of the principal " Places of note in Hungary'' is succeeded by that curious and important document , the " Will of the Tsar Peter , Emperor of Russia . " "Poetry ; " a neatly written article on the late " If enry Hetherington , " and a "Political Postcript , " conclude the contents of this number . In the last-named article the Editor observes : —
Thc prediction of Napoleon is being vapidly fulfilled , not as wc had hoped by the triumph of Democracy , but by the victory of Despotism . The reaction is , everywhere triumphant . Thc bourgeois terrorists reign in France , the monkish terrorists rule in Home , the royal terrorists arc masters of Germany ; and now Hungary lies writhing , bleeding at every pore , crushed under thc heel of the Cossack . In France dungeons , in Home the Inquisition , in Germanv murders by martial law , in
Hungary desolation and massacre , menace the defenders of Democracy with universal destruction . But defeat _^ ruin , despair , lends new force to our hatred of the tyrants , against whom wc invoke the vengeance of the human race , By ourfrustrated hopes , by our proscribed and slaughtered brethren , and by the hatred we cherish towards their destroyers , we cry ONWARDS ! There aro wrongs to avenge as well as rights to win , therefore ON"WABDS !—and remember that—Freedom's battle once begun , Bequeath * d by bleeding sire to son , Though baffled _noio shall yet be won .
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SUNSHINE AXD SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE "NINETEENTH CENTURY . BT THOMAS MAKTIX _WnEELER , Late Secretary to th » National Charter Association and National Land Company . Cnafter XXII . " A hundred fathers would in my situation tell you , that as you are of noble extraction you should marry a nobleman . But I do not say so ; I will not sacrifice my child to any prejudice . " —Kotzcbne ' s "Lover ' s Vows . " Lord Fitzherbert was the eldest son of the Earl of Altringham , a peer whose ancestors came over with the conquering Norman , and whose possessions are recorded in the Doomsday Book of the succeeding reign ; his progenitors arc also honourably mentioned in the records of tho battles of Cressy
and Agincourt . Lord Fitzherbert was now in his 45 th year , and the father of as fine a girl as ever Dame Nature nursed in her fruitful bosom ; left a widower at the age of twenty-seven , when his daughter was only a few months old , he devoted his whole time to the education of his only child , and to the imnrovement of his estate . To say that she was beautiful would be too common-place an expression to do justice to her charms . Her form was fall for her sex—features almost eastern , in the rich olive of their complexioa , and in the majestic style of their outline , her dark hair flowed in luxuriant curls over her ample shoulders , and her figure rather inclined to cnbonpoint , but exquisitely moulded , was in perfect keeping with her large and
oval countenance , and her full dark eye of sparkling brilliancy ; a more gorgeous being pencil never painted , " nor poet imagined , than Clarence Filzhcrbevt , how at the period of our tale in her nineteenth year . Brought , up in retirement with her father , she possessed but few of the courtly graces of the fashionable lady , but in all the charms of unsophisticated loveliness she abounded . Pure and simple in her manners , as the sylvan tribes by whicli she was surrounded , she lived the life of a flower , glowing in the light but closing to the shade , ' _ilGui-y-i-i :- * a ] - _* _je an _.-id sunshine " and darkness , drawin _? the sweet elements of her beauty alike from both , and both seemed to disrobcthcmselvcs of their iiarshess , and mingle their purest influences in
her creation . She was truly Nature ' s child ; she had no desires that the quiet retirement of Newland Hall would not gratify—no wishes which strayed beyond their domestic ' circle . Never was tliere a greater contrast than between the appearance and in . manners of the wealthy heiress ; her queenly brow _*;;• ¦'* _iustrt-i * ' * _ye would seem to speak of liom-;• . _" *•* ivi ; . " ' ••¦ . ail * . ! . _» _-Ir ,-j _* ! r _* -1 : " _-otj _drnianded , whilst her vtilitpruous _Kiir . i _iv-enied i . ior . _l-h . _** : _toer . acta v . _' orld ' s . * "or " . _U'i-. i ' . isit _*;* _- ! <¦ - Uidina ¦ ' . _* ¦¦ b ' _.- _!* _- l , . U ' . e _*'" _- * . iu a small vi !! - * . •• : in l . » _ci'by-- _* iire . " Fine-:- tlio b ' ttli of her _jiK-ri-l' _' , lit-- father could never be * _pnrtnik-d upon to quit the _ltiiu'iiient nf _Nuwiau-i Dab , which wv . _-i endeared to him by many iecs / : " ' _:- ; _tu- ' _- !* U
vathere his childhood had been passed , ere bis father inherited the family property , and tliere too he spent the short but happy period of his wedded days . Time had not dulled his passion , nor satiety effaced her charms , when the hand of Death removed its object ; he was indeed a real mourner . His sole amusement was the infant Clarence ; years passed on , and the lovely child unfolded new attractions to the doating sire—he was her nurse , her playfellow , her tutor and her physician ; and beneatb these united cares she gradusdly developed a form as perfect as it was enchanting , and by degrees the parent felt consoled for the loss ofthe mother in the charms of tbe treasure she had with her dying words bequeathed to his care . Until her fourteenth year
her father washer sole tutor , and a more docile or affectionate pupil heart could not wish for ; and it was only in comp liance with the positive request of his parents , the Earl and Countess of Altringham , that he was induced to ace _' ede to the engagement ofa governess for his youthful charge . Under her ciresne acquired the accomplishments thought essential to her future position in society , and rapidly matured from the gay and mirthtut child to the gorgeous woman , who won an admiring ga 2 e from every passing observer ; fortunate was it for the purity of her character that the complete retirement in which she lived rendered her inaccessible to the flattery and adulation that the world would have heaped partly on the handsome woman but
chiefly on the wealthy heiress . In thc world she must have learned that painful lesson to the young and pure girl—the language of deception ; teaching her to hide her heart ' s feelings beneath the cloak of hypocrisy—to throw the mantle of pride over the features of Love—to burn with false shame if a tone of fondness or a glance of free delight escaped her bosom in the very artlessness of youthful feeling . But upon the world ' s teaching , rendering the fairest forms in creation the most deceptive and unreal . What can we expect ' in after-life from those who , almost from infancy , are taught to cloak and disguise their feelings , and to smother feelings alike natural and honourable ? Away with such deceit and double dealing ! the pure love of a pure heart lis' naught to be ashamed of ; if girlhood ' s bosom flutter at the name of her lover , it is a feeling as
natural in her as in the opposite sex ; and why should its expression be smothered to make it burn more intensely within , giving fresh fuel to that destroyer of her hapniness—yclept , " womanly pride ? " The daughters of poverty are exempt in a great degree from this false delicacy , and their social homes arc far happier for this exemption . But wc must cease moralising , and proceed with our story . The Earl of Altringham was one of the few old "Whig peers who supported the Free Trade policy . Walter North , prior to his becoming a candidate for Parliamentary honours , had been slighted acquainted with the Earl , owing to the similarity of their politics bringing them into contact in the county in which they wwe both resident , but it was that event which particularly introduced him to the Earl's notice . The borough he * ffag canvassing was near
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the seat of that nobleman , and the property he had purchased was the adjoining estate , and in fact had once formed a portion of the Altringham poperty ; it was owing , in a great measure , to the Earl ' s influence that his election was secured , and the connexion thus established between them soon ripened into something approaching to intimacy . It was during a casual visit at the Earl ' s that he first saw Clarence Fitzherbert—a brighter vision could not possibly have opened upon him ; beauty , wealth , and titles were combined in the lovely being he now for the first time beheld . To say his was love at first sight would he a perversion of the term ; it was ambition , avarice and lust combined into one passion , _developing all the power and
intensity , but destitute of thc softness and purity of genuine love . Exerting his every effort to please , he speedily wormed himself into the good graces ofthe calm and melancholy Lord Fitzherbert , and could not possibly have obtained a better passport to the good graces of the daughter , who loved her father with affection almost as great as his filial cares deserved . . During the fortnight to whicli Lord Fitzherhcrt ' _s stay was limited , Walter North was a constant attendant at the Earl ' s mansion , and so well did he improve this opportunity , that at the expiration of this period it would have been difficult to say in whose estimation he stood highest , that ofthe father or the daughter ; unaccustomed to society , her father beim _** her sole male friend , the
handsome person , and the bland language of the young member of parliament , had an undue influence on her imagination . Love of homage and admiration , though hitherto undeveloped , could not fail to be latent in a frame like hers . Artfully did he raise these feelings within her , and minister to their gratification , whilst praise of the daughter was music to tho father ' s ear ; thus his suit prospered to his heart ' s content ; and cro the visit expired he was formally invited to be their guest at Newland House , a favour denied to all save near relatives , since the death of Lady Fitzherbert . The Earl of Altringham , proud of his ancestral honours , would willingly have chosen a more exalted match for his loved grandchild , but gavo way before
the expressed wishes of thc lovely Clarence , and Walter North was his neighbour and friend ; his settlements were as liberal as could he desired , and his property combined with the Altringham estate , would re-establish the old family domains of the Fitzherberts , and repair the ravages whicli time and the extravagance of his immediate ancestor had effected upon the property ; his consent was therefore speedily obtained , and ere a twelvemonth had elapsed from his first introduction , Walter North led to the hymeneal altar the beauteous Clarence Fitzherbert—a pvizo which greater and richer men might have strove for in vain , but which without trouble , almost without exertion , fell into the hands of the lucky bviil « - groom . Fortunate man ! thou hast won a prize in the matrimonial lottery wortlMhthy heart ' s true
devotion—mayest thou prove thyjgratitudc by rendering her after years as peaceful and happy as those that have flown , ere she became thy bride ! The cup of Walter's felicity was now filled to tho brimthc stake for which he played was nearly gained ; tho lowly born publican ' s son was the son-in-law oi an earl , and nobility to himself was a result almost within his grasp ; he had but to throw off his allegiance to his League friends , and prove himself a devoted supporter of tho Whig administration , and his ambitious projects would speedily bc realised . Truly is Dame Fortune represented to be blind ; her favours arc showered indiscriminately around , worth is no criterion of posterity ; industry cannot secure success ; talent oft times is only a burthen to its possessor , whilst cringing mediocrity mounts the ladder of fame , and bland assurance reaps the harvest of undeserved promotion . ( 2 b be continued . )
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THE FUNERAL OF THE LA . TE HENRY UETHERINGTOX . Th s ceremony was , in accordance with his last " will and testament" conducted without the least show of mourning , pomp , or ornament . Tho procession started from Judd-stroet , Brunswick-square , about half-past two o ' clock on Sunday , August 20 ; it consisted of a hearse bearing tho body , tho two sides hung with blue silk , on which were silver letters bearing the following inscription , quoted from his last will and testament : "'Tis our duty to leave the world better than we found it ; " and on the back ofthe hearse was inscribed in a similar manner the name of the deceased . The procession consisted of about thirty carriages , cabriolets , & c , and a walking procession four a-breast , of from four to five hundred persons , and on thc arrival of the procession at the cemetery there could not be _loss-thau two thousand persons present . At the gates the coffin was lifted from the hearse and borne on men ' s
shoulders to tho grave , followed by the numerous friends of the deceased . The grave is situated next to the one in wliich the remains of " Fublicola " are interred , in a piece of unconsecratcd ground , the property of W . D . Saul , Esq ., around wliich the friends congregated . The body was lowered into the grave , and " Publicola ' s" tomb formed an appropriate pedestal from which Mr . E . J . Holyoake delivered thc following very appropriate oration : — " It seems to me that he who is appointed to speak on an occasion like this should prepare what he will say , that no effort of memory or art , in _recalling a fact or turning a sentence , should interrupt that simple expression of feeling which alone is suitable in this spot—and that no inapt word should occur to mar the unity of that regret , which is the only tribute left us to offer at the grave of our common friend . t
" The usual church service on these occasion is omitted , out of obedience to the wishes of the friend whom we lament—aud its omission also meets with our own approbation , as that service is little instructivc , thro \ vs no light on personal character , and is , in some respects , a libel both on the dead and the living , And to say this much is in accordance with the wishes of Henry Hetherington , whom wc inter here , and whose indomitable opposition to clerical error he desired to hc perpetuated after bis death .
" Henry Hetherington , around whoso grave we stand , was the well known publisher lately residing at 57 , Judd-sti-cct , Brunswick-square . He was a native of London , and was one of the early members of the London "Mechanics' Institution , founded by Dr . Birkbeck , to wliich he owed many advantages . Henry Hetherington first became known to the public by thc stand ' which ho took when he thought that institution was about to be perverted from the designs of its founders . A printer by trade , hc became afterwards a publisher , and during the struggle for the emancipation of the press from the fetters of the Newspaper Stamp , he became an accredited leader . He published the Poor Man ' s Guardian , to try , as he said , the strength of * Right '
_ji-dri-vl' Might . ' and he continued it in defiance of pro _* - _** ci" . ioi _* - ? whish extended over three years and a bait—i ! _tiring which time five hundred persons v .-ore imprisoned if * tl _.-o struggle ; at lrisi a special jury _mule'i I . _urd Lyndhi'rsc auulared i , _* . ' astric . iy ' _!* - ' - ' _>! _pubiu- ' _- ' ion . ' ' They onght to _1-avii _licchivod that tiie brave and resolute c ! ifor was _f-tricrly- invincible , and that hU ( Vi !< _ircii " .: i became legal _i-ccause it could not he put down—for Hethcrineioa continued to conduct it , in gaol and out , anu no accumulation of imprisonment , nor amount of loss , intimidated him . It was he who was appointed to d aw up that' Circular' which was the foundation ofthe ' National Union of the Working Classes . ' The Charter Newspaper , of 1839 , gave his portrait
asoneof the delegates tothe 'National Convention . ' And since he has constantly been—when not in prison for the people—working for them through the press and in connexion with public institutions . "In conjunction with his valued friends and old coadjutors , Watson and Lovett , he exerted himself forthe establishment ofthe National Hall , Holborn . For the last few years his ardent services have been given to the Literary and Scientific Institution , John-street , Fitzroy-square , which has embodied in its management the developement of his most cherished ideas of religious liherty , political enfranchisement , and social reformation . How
profoundly he was esteeme in that institution the arrangements of this day , and the presence of the John-street friends testify . In the parish of St . Pancras , of which he was a Director ofthe poor , he has commanded , even amid those who dissented from him , esteem for his benevolent views , his practical ability , and good sense . And it is not a little gratifying , that the last public body wbich enjoyed the honour of his co-operation was the Newspaper Stamp Abolition Committee , who are associated to acomphsh that reformation with which the name of Henry Hetherington is so honourably and so indissolubly connected .
"Whatever may be useful to others , Hetherington would desire to be said of him ; hence it may be remarked , that though he has fallen a victim to the prevailing epidemic , it is highly probable he might havo lived had not a fixed aversion to medicine prevented him seeking proper aid in time . Hc calculated , as he had a right to do , on a life of temperance as a great safeguard . But though a . wise temperance will save us from half the maladies of thc day , it does not supersede the necessity—when really in danger—for that help whicli tho observaafford
tion and experience of the physician can us . As respects our friend ' s death , lean bear personal testimony how much it became his life . As soon as he found ' himself in danger , I was summoned to his bed side , and , with few interruptions , I was with him till his decease . Having always believed to the best of his understanding , and acted to the best of his ability , he had no reason for fear , and he manifested none . Hc alluded to his probable death with so much good sense , and his bearing to the last hour was so quiet and so full of equanimity , that I could discern no difference between his death and
his life , save in his failing strength . As sickness could not alter tho evidence on which his principles rested , they underwent no change . Ho died
The Funeral Of The La. Te Henry Uetherin...
the avowed , the explicit , the unchanging foo of _triestcraft , Superstition , and Oppression ; and he strongl y and rightly concluded tbat a life devoted to the welfare of humanity in this world , was no unsuitable preparation for any other . v 10 vred in his public relations , Hetherington was an exemplar of tho school of politicians amid which he was reared . We are now verging on a phase in winch we chiefly affirm positive principles . Tho sciiool of politicians ( to which , indeed , we owe our present liberty )_ now going a little out of fashion ., _waI t _^ t wlrich asserted a right and antagonised it . Ut this sohool Hetherington was thc most pertecuypc which remained amongst us . He did not look upon a political victorv as something to bo
won by exposition so much as ' bv assault . Hence he was mow , soldier than advocate ; and it must be admitted that political corruption never had a more cham j Pponent * n 01 ' popularrighUiuorc doughty ¦ wi au ? m _?« tsmy admiration of my friend to know tnat ue desired no blind eulogist to illustrate his cu . uacter . In a document which he put into my hams shortly before his * decease , he expressed a miVhf i VISa th , afc his _filu"s as well as his virtues X _* mf- t 0 _minister to tho instruction of , « . _«? ' - ? . nable 8 me t 0 _Mpbun the two-fold _K ,- r f ! , w _olwracter . ne had a two-fold chan _^ . _fis „ i oUy ? , \ vkcd- M : iny i" the ranks above "' f ! num' fuII > ' un _* leV 3 tood him . To them he Sir ' , i _^ uUlvo aip IIe S _* v ° _«» t _" ffiEpI ° th : it , ° '' of Party politics , in _nirrt m ! ln vegards an opponent as an oppo-1
than _tLS iT ° Pe _^ onaI inte _«» 8 t . _™* ficr _tte _^^ T , ' _undewtanding ; and _Kft _^ _i'M from tho rich - _***• - _WanJ . ad wrapped himself up in the integrity , and po ' _ISSi'W * _"* ffS ° ! , n 0 SS _ofhw _owaorrfiS ? . _Koseomed « n « f _« * i ! _"" _Pi-owto blandishments with wealth c uied plane , polished as marble but slippery as glass upon which , if the foot of the patriot was once placod , he would inevitably slip down to political corruption . Yet ho had an integrity which could stand alone , which was as proof against smiles as against frowns ; but it was not his temper to trust it . Those , however , who approached him on his own ground , who had the honour of working or suffermg . with him , never knew a more genial nature allied to so stout a spirit . He was a personification of good-humoured Democracy . Tho very tones of
_lus voice bespoke the fulness of honesty and pleasantry . And beneath his uncompromising exterior and jocular speech , lay tho diamond ore of _courage , and truth , and toil , lie had a hand as true as ever friendship grasped . In the hour of political daiifcr every coadjutor know that the secrets of life _-fnd liberty could be entrusted into Hetherington ' s keeping . __ As for toil , he was unwearying . He worked till Ins last days , lie earned out in practice _tli .-i 1 * exalted creed of duty , of which Home ' s great Triumvir , Mazzini , is the exponent and highest type ; With him _Hethoriiigtoii seemed to hold that ' ca s e is the death of the soul , ' and when hc enlisted in the army of pi-ogress he enlisted fov life ; muI , as he never faltered , though he served without pay or pension , let it be remembered to his honour , ' For to side with truth is noble , when we shave her wretched crust
Before hoc cause brings fame ov profit , and 'tis prosperous to be just . ' "The publications which hc edited , _an-1 pamphlets wliich hc wrote , attest his great industryand something more : for , when he was an author , it required not only ability to write , but courage to defend it . And he not only defended tho liberty of the press , ho defended the liberty of conscience and tho liberty of speech . When tried on an indictment for blasphemy , in 18 i 0 , his defence was so well conceived that Lord Demnan paid him tho compliment of saying that' he had listcucd to it with feelings of interest and with sentiments of respect , ' and this tribute he won , no less by his unassuming but firm bearing , than by his judicious address .
" Those who know what political trials and imprisonments are , at tho hands _' of an oppressive government and vindict've priesthood , know that language is inadequate to express the losses and sufferings which are included in those familiar but frightful words . But Hetherington know not onlv how to work , but how to suffer—nor bas it been in vain : — "' Careless seems the Avenger ; history ' s pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness ' twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth for over on the scaffold , Wrong for ever on the throne—Yet that scaffold sways the future , and , behind tho dim unknown , Standcth Pi-ogress in tho shadow , keeping watch above its own . '
_"Aoless remarkable than his political consistency was tlie fervour with wliich our friend embraced and advocated the views of Robert Owen . They fell on his paths like a stream of light ; they mellowed his manners ; they interested his practical understanding ; they gratified his humanity , and hlled hun with hope . "' Tlie old world is effete : there man with man Jostles , and in the brawl for means to live , Life is trod under foot . ' Hetherington felt this deeply , and lie never ceased to reverence Mr . Owen for his benevolent and ceaseless labours and his remedial proposals . "My co-operation with my friend has extended over many years . But now , as at the first hour of
our acquaintance , thero aro two qualities of his which I have been struck with moro than with others—his utility and his bravery . Ha was decielcdly the most useful public man I ever met with . At a public meeting he was of unexampled service . Ho would do a man ' s duty at a moment ' s notice . He would take the chair or speak . He never hesitated to do what everybody else declined to do . He had no vanity to be consulted—no egotism stood in the way of liis co-operation witli othershe had no ambition but to bc useful . And lie was ¦ is brave as he was devoted . Ue never shrunk from danger . To the hist day of his life he would have
sulicrei ) Ins homo to ba broken up , and himself dragged to prison , to champion an important principle . Many men can be patriots in the fervour of youth and in the presence of applause . Hetherington bad a spirit wliich was neithcrchilled bv : vc nor damped by neglect . But we have the satisfaction of observing , tliat the respect paid to his memory by the public , tho press , aud his coadjutors , early and late , is a pruof that private worth and public service bring with them individual esteem and general honour . A life spent like his ' Will rear A monument in Fate ' s despite , Whose epitaph will grow more clear
As truth shall rise and scatter light Full and more full from Freedom ' s height , "' Lot it be graven on his tomb : — ' He came and left more smiles behind , One ray he shot athwart the gloom , He helped ono fetter to unbind ; Men think of him and grow more kind . ' " _, Iu Henry Hetherington the people have lost an ad _vacate ami truth a resolute partisan . Every honest politician has lost an able coadjhtor , every •¦¦ _i-riot ; an exemplar , and every ** i' _« te man among us a friend . ! _'i ( fAi : ; ' ; <« _-v las !* Karowid ! rtfbim _nt-. ' _fliie a I ' _riond . _I'l twkv . _i" onv las '* _l-arcwell . of him at this
grave , wc should t ' . * il i . ir _*( _eoi _*> . t h . * hour our voic : ' that wc do it with mini-ted feelings of joy and sorrow . We even feel a triumph i _* rhis \ _if-rT while we part with profound _ziidnm at the losv of so nohk a friend . In those social reunions , where ha ha * been so great a charm , we shall be ail the _nierri r as we remember his unclouded humour : and as we continue that struggle , to which bis life has been devoted , -we ' shall take new courage from his example—we shall inspire new confidence in what ono man can do , as we remember what one man has done ; and when in future times tho pilgrims of Industry shall visit this shrine , they will
exclaim' HERE LIES A _POOK MAN ' , 5 GUARDIAN ; ' and poor men will drop tributary tears over his grave . " He was followed briefly hy Mr . James Watson , in a most feeling address , during whicli many were affected to tears ; after which the numerous assemblage departed , pleased with tho moral greatness of their deceased friend , and rogretting thc loss of a consistent advocate . We understand that" The Will and Testament " of Mr . Hetherington will be published by Air . Wa tson ; and bis " Cheap Salvation" is also on sale . Wc-would recommend a perusal of these works to all -inquirers after truth . " The Will and Testament" is the best test that Henry Hetherington died as he had lived—a lover of truth and hatcv of falsehood , the friend of the millions , and thc determined foe of the oppressor , be he king , lord , oi priest . All honour to his memory , and may his many manly virtues prove bright examples .
Stueet Railwavs.—A New Invention Is Abou...
_Stueet _Railwavs . —A new invention is about being brought forward ( in Now York ) for railways in the streets of cities , which will here very nearly do away with tho present stylo of omnibus ; and while it will be applicable to all usual purposes as a railroad , will not interfere with the passing of other carriages . It will also cause a great saving of expense to the paving commissioners . The peculiarity consists of there being but one rail , which , instead of bemg laid on the ground , is placed at the extremity of upright stanchions , curved at tho top like tho letter f ; the wheels of the carriages arc to be
on thc top ; and tho carriages being suspended from their axles , will hang near the ground , and be drawn by horses , as they now are , when the roads pass through tho streets of cities . —New York Paper . IIer Majesty may be expected to return to Osborne Houso from Scotland about the 20 th of September . Lord John Russell will remain at Balmoral for a fortnight . Sir George Grey will remain at his seat , . Falloden , until his return to Scotland , whence ho will probably accompany her Majesty on her homeward journev . Her Majesty and suite will return by land ' to London , travelling as last yearby the Caledonian Railway .
Ruptures Effectually Cured Without A Truss!! '.-Dr. Guthttey Havhij I
RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A TRUSS !! ' .-Dr . GUTHttEY _havhij i
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 1, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_01091849/page/3/
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