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Pgr* ¦ " ¦*- 1846 ' ,_ ¦ __.- The Nor-Tr...
_Pgr * ¦ _" ¦* - 1846 ' _, __ ¦ __ .- THE _NOR-TriEK _' K STAR 3 _^ _•^^ "'* K _~ - ** ¦ _tw _* —— M | u M W | _Hlpia _, | ¦¦¦¦ mlH _"Mllll-Mlll ¦ nilli i _iMii-rr- _, — - ¦ ¦ _ _ _ __ _
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THE SPIRIT OF KONARSEX . <¦> _,. following is an English poem read by Captain -A . j _w Sto lxman , ( at the request of tbe Poel _* , ) atthe _®* L „ tb Anniversary ofthe Polish Revolution or 1830 . "" the 29 th of November , 1846 , at the Bedford Arms _? rem , 21 , Charlotte Street , Bedford Square . ] - yo ** bv God who ruleth earth , andby this earth of his , tlK hi * ' aw _of-uty , by -deed and sacrifice , l flbv our nation ' s martjrdom , our exiled hopes and woes , 0 _^ P oland yet shall rise again and trample down her
fins-Br _tiobi- 'ski ' _s belmeu crown , by Kosciusko ' s sword , Bv the oW Slavonian glory , and by onr proud rec » id nf wart > r- * t _* roes - by the cross , the death we endure , _ffjj 0 a ; h tyranny may seal the tomb , the resurrection ' s sure . Bv Warsaw avid by Wilna , by tbe dungeon and the ' stake . _gT torture , _treason , rsiie , onr spii its cannot quake ; _« jT _folsnd shall be free , be one ; her triumph is not far , _rrjose mother * teach their babes to pray to God against the Tsar .
Bv our deep memories of wrong _. _by all we hope or dare > "Rr fait ' in God incarnated in action everywhere , _pj daily thoughts , and nightly dreams , by lifelong resolute will , And n ever-tired endeavour—God ' s vengeance to fulfil . _jy the holy bond of peoples , by the many ' g-dnst tha fe * , B r humanity and progress , by our trust in God—the true , Bv the thorny wreath , the shame , the scourge , by the hope that understands , By the giant ofthe future , the misgovern _^ of all lauds , By tbe scoundrel Courts of . Europe , diplomatising right , Bt the Austrian Assassin—aye J by the Muscovite ; By France and England ' s _"jugte-mUieu , " and infamy of trade ; "We have sworn onr Poland shaU be free , i t cannot be unsaid .
By _Pragm , and by Spielberg , and the far Siberian graves . By tiie execrable doom "on foot" to the agony that craves Some mitigation , by the flames pourM in the knouted back _. By tbe fierce mental spasms and the corporeal rack . By our _Aposblate of Pain , by the Ashes of tbe Dead , By Poland , and by Sod , —the arrowy doom is sped ; Ayel Sooner shall the shadow on the d _' al trave l back , Than Fate retrace her prophecy of Poland ' s glorytrack I And TVilna was bis altar ; even Russian gaolers there Cors'd the barbarian epaulettes : —O God ! fu _! 61 our
prayer ; 0 Godl to tby martyr's memory upbuild the only tunb—His . K « itMra ' s freedom!— "We await the promise of thy doom . W . Ii .
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.—December. Edi...
TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . —December . Edinburgh : W . Tait , Prince ' s Street . London :. Sirapkins , Marshall , and Co . As usual : the political article _ofthismagariue is the worst in the number ; the other contents are . howewr _, interesting , and some of them more than usually so . Airs . Gore ' s story of " Temptation and Atonement" is concluded . The poems of Franz _Draselstedt , a poet belonging to tbe " Young Germany " party , an exile from Hesse Cassel _, are noticed at considerable length , and rery _favonrably . "
Difficulties ofa Theory of Husband-catching , " is a pleasant article directed against the ambition for display , and the desire of luxury , which so lamcl J enters into the c- _m-io- 'itBm of the modern _En-. _l'ish o : iety . The _concluding Yolnmes of " Lord Nelson's Letters and Despatches" are reviewed at great length . The reviewer trnly describes Nelson as "the greatest of _EHiilaniTs naval commanders , and the only one ofthe number in whom were united tbe bold , chivalrous spirit of the -northern sea-kin ? , with the consummate skill ofthe modern tactician . "
Tbe daysof " political economy" appear to be numbered . The defection of the Jformno * Chronicle , the now great champion-ofthe small farm , or rather , small landed proprietary system , has b-en _fallowed by the desertion of Tait , now ranged on the side « _. f common sense , and common _justiee . Three remarkable articles are contained in this number well deserving the attention of <* ur readers , who we hope will make it their business to peruse them . The first of tbe articles we allude to is entitled •* Letters from the West of Ireland , * ** in which the writer admirably _sh-vws np some ofthe acts of besotted tyranny which have procured for the Irish landlords a world-wide infamy . The mi _** erable poverty too of many of the Iri . _* . b landlords is a curse on tbe land witb wbich
they are connected . Their estates mortgaged , they are mere receivers of rent for absentee usurers , who reside in London or on the continent . These Shylocks ( the _morti-agees , die . ) intent ouly on theiiplundcr , will abate not one jot of their demand , and consequently the unhappy tenantry are subjected to ihe most grinding oppression . The consequence is that" The rights of property in Ireland have not been io greater jeopardy than they are at tbis moment _, since the great Cromwell confiscation . " Somethin" mnst be done at once ( says the writer in Tait ) . " for the people are not just in a humour to see all the corn and the cattle taken oat ofthe country and starve . " More power to them ! The second of these articles is on " Celtic Tenures
and Hig hland Clearings ; " the princLal object of which is to show that , whereas the Highlanders of Scotland are as distinct a race from the Lowlanders , as thc Japanese from _theDotcb , and possess customs having with them all the foree of Jaw , tbey hare , notwithstanding , been subjected to Lowland law , forthe purpose of plundering them of their landed rights , for the advantage of their merciless and infamous landlords . The writer shows that feudalism and danism were two widely different systems , under the former system the Lowland and English tillers of the soil were mere serfs or slaves , who were merely permitted to cultivate the ground as a privilege granted to them bv the baron ; under the system of danism , the chief was regarded not as the proprietor ofthe land , but merely as the leader of the
people . The Highland chief might be a tyrant , despotic and cruel to his followers , but he could not drive them off the land . Within the last fifty years , however the Highland people have been driven from their homes by fire and sword , backed by "the Jaw , and deprived of the land- which themselves and their ancestors had held for centuries ' , and which were theirs , not onlv in every sense which justice can admit of , but also theirs in r ght of law—the law which had governed them for centuries , the custom of their country and race . The great Sutherland dearinos are cited as a signal example ot the outrages to wbich the Hig hlanders bare _bej-n subjected . Tbis article in many respects excellent , is inotbe _** s very faulty ; for instance , the writer asserts , that - 'the sheep-farming system has been _advantageous to the _comtunuity at large , as well as a
great gain to tbe _Hichland landlords . " The direct reverse of this has been proved beyond dispute by the "Times _Comnii"Sioner , " Uis comparisiou of the two counties of Caithness and Sutherland must be fresh in the recollection of our readers , who will remember that he proved tbe immense superiority of the former over the latter , not only as regards the number and condition ofthe _popnlatioi , but also ir every other resp _. et , save one , that Sutherland was naturally the richest county of the two ; in spite ol it had
which , thanks to tbe sheep-farming system , miserably degenerated by the side of the better managed county . The writer ofthe article in Tait says , " that th ough we think a system of adjustment of rights ought to have been adopted before the clearings commenced , we think it would now be too late . " We don ' t , better late than never ; the sooner the " adjustment" begins , the better . The writer 10 Tait thinks that the only remedy for the evil now is a stringent app lication ofthe Poor Law ; _<*/ imru > llino Hit-bland proprietors to provide for the
surplus population . " We think a much hetter remedv wouid be to restore to the people the land ' plundered from them ; and « e are . pert-anted tl * t as soon as a Parliament _assemWes in St . Stephen ' s , faithfully representing the people , such a restoration will be enforced , and Sutherland and his fell .. w robbers will be compelled to disgorge . . We now come to the third , and by far the most remarkable of the ' three articles , " the one on Ihe Law Of _Prhnoi-eniture . " We request the attention of our readers ' to the following _ext-act : —
Th . first glance at tbe composition of society in England discovers a f . _aTfnl inequality of conditions . The mort sumptuous luxury and the most squalid _miswy miet the eve at every step in our great cities . In no Eur . _pian countrv , MCepting Russia , ia there to be seen w r . ! 0 cb wealth in the vicinity of such wretched poverty It was this alarming aspect of our society that led _Ani .. w to despair ofthe future destimes of England . It is an _tril that » increasing day by day , as _manufac tur « are developed and small farms amalgamated togtOicr . Capitalists are numerous , aud money is often a drug in the market ; yet pauperism -bounds and the _laWerc-. n _barelv obtain the _necessaries of Me . in _« -ry _profusion , trade , or occupation , there is an over . wUluiii'g pressure of competit ion . The supp ly of labour , _-flHliw menial or phytical , manifestly is greater than the _fli-mand _.
_iV-liti . _al _tconoajists profess to point out the sources of - _"'vi-al _* e « ltb , the accumulation of which is their test of "he lrcfperitv ofa nation . The _Imi-p h-ess of * people , WiMivg frun their social well-being , enters not into thur _cowtuipiation . Tried by the former standard , Ei gland lands pre-eminent ; but if by the latt < r , she rank * be-] _** - nwnj of the continental slate * . If happineHiS thv "im and olject of nations , as it ia of _individoals , then « w sjttenu are the best adapted to obtain that result .
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The want of free Irate could not account for this . " for trade on the Continent h mow , restricted than ithas av _« r been witb us . ¦ , _* . _^^' ¦ £ ! _% - 8 hit " -rillgreatly . _wiUnotpei _nanenrlg benefit the ma » of the labouring _populatiC _; because the suppl y of labour will speedHy _e-Lod the increased demand , whatever that may be assumed to be , and reduce wages in proportion to the reduction of the _yanou _, articles of s _, hsistPnce . We , however , conceive tt to he a Kreat boon to the wenltby classes , and capable of ,. ..- '
becoming one to the whole nation , if connected with a distribution of _landed property , which would inevitahly follow from a repeal of the lawg relating to entail . Population , under the most favourable circumstances , will _doubtless pre ** upon the means of subsistence ; but the operation of this law of nature may be ameliorated by provident -irrangements . Toin _' uce habits of forethoughtand a high standing of living amongst tb _<* _pi-ople , is . we maintain , the only mode of permanently securing their temporal _iiappinets and well-being , as it is the only practical method of checking their too rapid
increase . It is a great and vulgar error to confound national prosperity and national happiness . The distribution rather than the amount of wealth among a people , contributes principally to _geneanl happiness . There can be no doubt that our country has added to its riches during the present century ; but it is very clear ttiatt ' : c well-being of the bulk of tlie community has not iner .-ased in a corresponding ratio . The returns of the Income Tax prove an immense advance in the national wealth since the conclusion of the war . Nevertheless , the condition of the _labourer has deteriorated ; while that of the capitalist has improved . Between capital and labour there is a great gulf fixed , and while the one ascends in the _social scale , the coarse of the other is one continued descent .
Reader , mark this : —Luxury and misery are increasing day by day , ' -as manufactures are developed and small farms amalgamate _le _* -etlier . " " Ths want of Free Trade could not account for this . " " Free Trade alone , although it will greatly , will not permanently benefit the most of the _labouring population ; because the supply of labour will speedily exceed the demand , and reduce _waues in proportion to the reduction oftlie various articles of subsistence . " Very true friend Tait ; as Southey says ' * these are troths and weighty ones ; " but why . wiien for seven
years the Chartists advanced snch _arguments against the f . tllsciesof the free-traders , why had tbey not then the support of Tait ? Why did Tait then month after month denounce ihe Chartists as " _impracticables , " "' public disturbers . " and "Tory tools V The writer in rati * says " In producing the present state of tilings , we , without hesitation , declare the law of Primogeniture to be the principal _asent . " He contends for its repeal and predicts the _COid that must follow ; in support of his argument he r _.-fera to the past and present condition of France : —
Look at France , at the period of the Revolution , and at the present day . In 178 ? France was rotten to tbe core . Governed by the creatures of an imbecile monarch , the nation groaned under the despotism , without the glory , of former reign . The _arisiocratical principle of _primogenitme was in full force , and the land was consequently in the _possession of a small section of the people . Large farms were the result ; and under that boasted system , tbe soil of France , barely maintained her population , amounting at that time to
twenty-five millions . By the last returns the French _people exceed thirty- _'hree millions , and , nevertheless , the supply of food is fully equal to the demand . France is . beyond all question , more prosperoHS at this moment than at any former period of her history . The imports published by official authority show how superior is the present to the former state of her people , two-thirds of whom are now _en-p ' oved in the cultivation of the laml . This happy result has been chiefly obtained by the subdivision of the large estates , and the greater attention shown to the culture cf the small farms in wbich
they are now divided . The serf has become in many instances the owner of tbe soil , for tilling which he formerly was hired . His own personal interests are now affected by the produce of the land . Re no longer toils for wages and the profit of another man , but for bis own direct and immediate advantage . The following shonld be read and reiterated whereever the people assemble in workshops , or public meetings : — Our present agricultural and manufacturing systems are Tapidly driving all competence , or , in other words , all small capitals Dot of tbe _field ; and , in tlie process of time , we shall have no middle class , properly so called , nothing bnt lords and serfs , great capitalists and paupers . This is an evil that seems to belong to the
_manufacturing system , and for that reason we should guard a _; . _; inst becoming mere manufacturers—the journeymen of Europe . With all our love of free trade , we cannot disguise from ourselves tbe conviction , that society , iu au exclusively manufacturing people , is liable to subdivision into masters and woikmen , cotton lords and operatives . We cannot easily reach tbe seat of this social evil ; because tbe rich man , who can afford to wait for his profits , must always overcome the competition of the comparatively _smill capitalists , whose wants are urgent , und admit of no delay . But , in agriculture , the ca = e is widely different . The small landed proprietor can successfully compete with the capitalist , because his returns are immediate . _Neither in Franc ? nor in Tuscany , Switzerland , or Belgium , do we find lar * e _farmers driving sma . ll ones out of the market . By a sys . 'em of
_cooperation , the humble proprietors of land can purchase or hire any expensive machinery for the proper culture and draining of tbeir farms . In Tuscany onehalf of the population consists of the families of landed proprietors , living on their own agr icultural produce . Tn France two-third » of the nation are employed on the soil : and the owners and cultivators of land being nearly equal in social position , and frequently identical , the necessary result is , that society presents no immense chasms as In England . Tou rarely see there , or in any country where the land is subdivided by the equal succession of children to the properly of their parents , one many rolling in luxury and surrounded by a swarm of labourers , who have nothing but their daily bread , and little of that . An estated gentleman is a rarity in France or Switzerland , but , on tbe other band , deep , degrading poverty is still more rare .
Here is an answer to the knaves and fools , who _pointing to Ireland , confound the small tenant with the small _proprietor—two very different classes : — The positions of tbe small tenant , and small proprietor , are totally different ; and yet it has been too much the custom to confound these two classes . The unhappycondition of tbe Irish people is often referred to the subdivision of farms , which , for political and other purposes has taken place here . Now the truth is , that in Ireland there are only nine thousand landed proprietors in a population exceeding eight millions , Frotestant ascendency bas there co-operated with tbe law of primogeniture , in throwing tiie land into the hands of , comparatively speaking , a few individuals . Here is a silencer" forthe * over-population *' mouthers : —
We are gravely told , tbat one source of our distress arises from over-population . No doubt the people are too nuserous under the present feudal system ; but how wonld the case stand , if , by the abolition of the law ol primogeniture , the land of the country was gradually subdivided into small properties ? Have we not a right to conclude that here , as in France , the soil , by more careful husbandry , and more general culture , would produce sufficient to maintain a population far more numerous than ours is at present ? If France now supports in comfort and plenty , a population exceeding by one-third the number of her people in 1789 , by means of the equal division of the land , why should not our country be rendered capable of maintaining a similar ratio of numerical increase ! Until wehave imitated the French in this respect , itis somewhat premature to talk of emigration on a large scale , of sending our people by thousands to Canada or Kew _Zealand . Lei them go when there is a real necessity , not a factitious one , as at the present time . Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof .
Of course Chartism is noticed : — The _disturbances in the manufacturing districts in 1842 may be traced , in a great degree , to the general sentiment than prevalent , —tbat the labour of the working man is not sufficiently remunerated , ia a system which labour has accumulated for the b _.-nefit of capitalists . Chartism is but the expression of the growing discontent among tbe masses , . it the indifference entertained by the higher classes for the welfare ofthe lower . Chartism is a higher manifestation of the mind of the **¦ million" than the writer in Tait imagines ; but let chat pass . The article on the whole is excellent . Reprinted as a tract , with a few 'J notes " fromaChartut pen _, the article in Tait might be circulated _amonust the people , and , we are confident , would be productive of tbe best possible results . For this an ti-Primogeniture article we will wish Tait a happy new year . "
Stmmond's Colonial Macazine. Dbceubeb. L...
_STMMOND'S COLONIAL MACAZINE . _Dbceubeb . London ; Simmends and Ward , Barge Yard , Bucklersbury . . _, L . . ., , . This number contains several articles worthy the attentive perusal , and _serieus consideration ot the statesman , the merchant , and the emigrant . Amongst 22 principal articles are "On the necessity for _kttzm communication between the West Indies and _S ! n _^ d States - " "The _WhaleFisheriesof Great MtSn and _^ he ' United States ; " _"Posi . ion a « d _Prospect the Cape Colony ; " "Notes for Em ,-« _rSrt _^ toNew Brunswick ; " and a "Visit to the _SzeSand chiefs _Heki and ** % _**> Wh , ch we give the following notice of Mrs . Held - : and h brother she
I went to see Harriet , his wife , er - -.. _. mdpreoine thc operation of having htr chin _tat-SmSC withe operator . He _isweening . kilful nVhis way . She to a woman of excellent proportions , afcou two or three aud twenty ; her manners exceedingly _S eeable . wi . h a qui , t pleasing smile in the expression of her lips . She has lost one tooth onto ** , upper jaw and her clothing was _^ glish print with a native mat _aroir * loosely over her shoulders . When a girl she is , _aidtobave ben wry _* - _^" S ' _""^ _. _SU captain ofa merchant offered iitrrelat . cn .. _A-O _^* _"" _** tobe allowed . _« marry her . fhe has been well educated £ tlie mi ; S . on .. ritg , she is h er husband ' s secretary _, _writea all _bishuers-in _foct she is , there can be no _nuestioB , a superior woman for a native . I met hi-r re-ESom church on a Sunday , . her dress was plain ,
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but her _'out-ensemole the picture of neatness . She had a Testament in _oae hand , while tbe other held an umbrella _, with which she sheltered herself from the heat of the sun . At tbe time of my visit to her house she was bath ing her swollen chin with rum . 1 asked her if she drank i t ; she said no , she did not , but that it relieved the pain of her chin , though she much disliked the smell of it . Stranee it is tbat although the writer tells us manv _tlnns-8 of what Heki said and did , he gives not a word describing this formidable chief—the Wallace of Ins country ; with whom we unhesitatingly express our sympathy , although we must deplore the sacrifice of life in what must prove a vain struggle for tbe natives , and which , while it lasts , inflicts much
suffering en our own countrymen . Mr . Hooten concluaes in this number his very interesting " Rides , Rambles , and Sketches in Texas . " The great object of Mr . II . ' s articles has been "by the detail of abundant facts , gafc ' iercd from a woful experience in the persons of tbe dyine ; , tbe dead , the shattered in constitution , the ruined , and the disappointed , " to warn thc English people against being misled by shameless writers and unprincipled agents into leaving their native country for that " burning wild , " that den oi" lurking savages , reckless outcasts , and fell diseases "—Texas . Mr . Ilooten has well proved hi * , case , and for tho signal service he has donobv exposing the truth where so much falsehood _prevfouslj abounded , we thank him .
Tne Almanack Of The Montii-Nos. 11 And 1...
TnE ALMANACK OF THE MONTII-Nos . 11 and 12 . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleetstreet . We are sorry to announce the conclusion of tbis publication . The reason assigned is , that the editor ( G- A . aBecket ) is connected with as many other works as he can devote time to . The editor adds , " Thepain of _partintr is considerably alleviated by the kuowledge , that if we do not meet our readers in this shape , we do in some two or three others ; and we may , perhaps , have more time to spend with them altogether , by not having to run away , as it were , to change our dress so frequently . " the two numbers before us are as full of fun as " an egg ' s full of meat . "
Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Nov...
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE , _November , December , London : Par . eh Office , 85 , FJeet Street . As Gilbert a Beckett confesses it has been with him , so we fear it is with Douglas Jerrold , he _hai-**¦ too many irons in the fire ; " and hence is not fully aware of the contents of his magazine previous to its publication . Surely the _Editor would not have allowed the article , "Time versus Labour , " in th * November number to _have'disgraced his magazine , had he seen it in manuscript . The thing pretenns t . be an argument against the Ten Hours' Bill , theagi . tation for which is represented as enmity against tlie ministry and manufacturers . The miserable " argument " is that * ' we must first have cheap bread ami
commerce free ; tbe market , of the world for our woollens and our cottons , and then Ac , < fcc , < tc . Why , the fool , have wc not " cheap bread" and " commerce free , " as much as " we ever shall have ? But it is a mere waste of ink to answer an _ignor-unm * who represents a body of wretched weavers makini ' speeches and petitioning against a Ten Hours' Bill We hope that , for the sake of his own character , Douglas Jerrold will look sharp after his contributors , and allow no more rubbish of E , M . ' s to be published under the sanction of his name .. Angus Reach terribly cutsjup the old feudal freebooters . "It is a pretty patent fact , tbat not a few of the ' great old families ' of England would be , at this present moment , ' great old families' in Norfolk Island , had an effective system nf metropolitan and detective police existed in the times of their founders—the Biirkelamented days of chivalry . " Very true , but Angus
Reach pn ceeds to laud the profitmongers ofthe present day atthe expense of their aristocratic predecessors ; thus " The merchant , now-a- days , enters upon a speculation — the feudal gentleman rode a foray : he of the counting-house has dealings with of er counting-houses— he of the castle had dealings ' with other castles i but they were confined in most cases to tbe p illaging line of business . The man ofthe ledger collects his debts—the man ofthe lance gathered in his black mail . " All this is mighty fine , but the difference between the two is more seeming than real . A . Reach quotes approvingly the profit-monger's motto , "Buy in the cheapest market , sell in the dearest ; " but * ' buy in the cheapest market , " means ro 6 the producer of his wages ; " sell in the dearest market , " means cheat the consumer of his money . Really it appears to us ' that it may be truly said of both classes— " tanta-ra-rara , rogues all !"
In these numbers we have continuations of the Editor ' s story of " St . Giles and St . James , " containing many Jerrold gems . " The advance of the Masses ; " " Social Barbarisms ; " "Night Fair in Alexandria ; " and some other articles are worthy ot commendation . On the other hand , there arc some _srjecimi ns of philanthropic twaddle , of which " Divinity . "from Rags " . may betaken as a sample , not worth the room tbey occupy . We give the _following lines from the December number , not very confident that tbey will be found readable in the sou th , although they cannot fail to be appreciated in the far north : —
JUSTICE . —A REVERIE . BT WlttlAH THOM . Ance wild in woods wi" brither brute , . Men hunted day by day : An' reive , wi" fell and fierce dispute , The wolf's half-worried prey . Then roughest ruggers ruled the fray , Fouk _awn'd nae ither micht ; An' Justice daur'd nocbt word to say , But noo and than "Guid nicht !" An' sleepit syne . Bauld man grew bigger and got breeks _,
_An'hauld their huts thegither ; Syne cultivated hail and leeks , An' ate nae ane anither . The heart leant brither-Iike to brither—Love ruled wi' little fjke ; An' _lassea ' auchiu ' , tauld their mtther That thev " be ' t do the like , " An'buckled syne . Aye , lighter , aye—ilk glimmer threw A britcher gleam heyon * it ; Frae holes to huts , huts houses grew , Han shaved an' wore a bonnet ; The gudewife wi' sic power entnronat , An' _biirnie on ber knee ; Wliilk she could cither Beau ' , or scone it , Just as the case micht be , An' daut it syne .
Ane hunder years , an' mair than that ; Had drouey Justice snor'd ; Till fouk in very peace grew fat , In very easdom sraor'd . At last an' lang , wi' ae accord , Upon a summer night , They loudly on the lady roar _* d , * W ha _wauken'd in a fright , An' wonnert rfyne . Thu dosen'd goddess e ' ed the fouk , An' fuirlied at their fury ; Glour _' d wi' a face as braid ' s our clock At bonnie Inverury . " What would ye n « o , ye son ? o' muck Wha reive me o' my sle « pi » ' ! May na'f the _warl's unholy luck Fast haud ye in its keepin _' _,
An' rotye syne ! ' A stark auld man , toom , dour , an' thin , Stood talesman by the " vote , " Bis banes stared ' neath his withet'd skin , An' time bad bored his coat . ** Our kirk , " quoth he , " endures a spot Upon her fair repute , An' water winna wash the blot , Nor Gospel wring it out , Its sickar _sjne . " Our fa ' en guides bae rackt an' rung An' pouch' . i the _slnve-won pluck ; In very kernal Conscience flung , An'wail'J , "Fie ! send it back " We'll gie on earth our wealth—our wrack , We'll gar our bairns gang duddy ; Ere wo connive wi' heathen Bluck , 2 God send ilk wight a wuddy 1 An' hang 'im syne .
Nov / merry Justice held her sides To keep ljer ribs frae rackin '; She _leucli until her e ' en ran tides , Her very saul was _ahakin ' . Sae funny were tbe thoughts that wauken To hear the duddy crew"What slave , " _quo ' _sbe _; " tholes ha'fsic whackin * As whacks dealt down on vou , Aye silent syne 1 " " 0 seek nae sair for siller ' s birth ,
Aye pouch—but binnr . speerin _'; There's nae ae bodle tracks the earth That has nae brought a tear in—Think ye yon holy house ye ' r rearin ' Will spotless pennies pay it ! j When some are sawin '—some are _shearin 'Some are makin' hay yet , To sell it syne 1 "
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PUNCH—Parts LXIV . LXV . London : Punch Office , 85 , Fleet-street . The Snobs of England , " the ' * Spanish Ballads , " and an immense variety of satirical hits at til offenders , from Loui * . Philippe down to Grantlef * Berkeley , combine to fill these parts with matter rich and racy for the laughter-loving public . In the ; illustrations _, the "King ofthe _Barricaden" _figuros largely and beautifully ! R < ally , we tremble for lunch lest the artful dodger of the Tuilleries _shoule , in hitwrath , inflict upon our hump-backed frfend that worst punishment—the decoration of the " Legion of Honour .
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T . _eASONEK-P « tb V .-Vl . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternosterrow . These two parts , containing much valuable matter , close the first volume of the Reasoner . " A new series commenced on the 2 nd inst . On the new plan , the Reasoner is to consist ol one carefully written article each week ; each number will aim at exhausting its particular subject , thus presenting a weekly series of essays which may be consulted Jong after their publication . The last leaf of each number is to be devoted , like the " Annals of Industry , " in the . People ' s Journal , to the _proceedincs of
Communist and other societies , and may be separated when the volume is to be bound . Tbe first number of the new scries is a neat , eight-paged pamphlet , the appearance of which prepossesses us with the belief that the new series will he more successful than the old . The subject is * ' The Society of Theological Utilitarians ; " the princip l es , aims , and constituion of which are set before the public . We * hall not meddle with tbis society beyond extracting the following paragraph from the account before us , which treats in a common-sense liko manner , _asub' cct on which , of late , many conceited men have talked and written a frightful amount of nonsense :-
—The parts of Wat Tyler , of Tell , and of the _Amerionn Revolution , under similar circumstances may be played again . ¦ This much must be premised to anticipate the charge of want of _manlinoss and _si-lf _reppect which must lie at the dpor of all Ethics wi : hout such provision . It is clearl y understood that no intellectual progress can come of force—that mm are not improved by the sword , ana that the sole advantage to be gained b y this course is the " removal of an obstruction" to the operation of reason , and then it must , have this absolute justification —the utter self-evident impossibility of removing the obstruction by moral means . In some countries of Europe , where tyrants rule aud espionage prevails , it is as fatal to liberty to avow it , as in Great Brhnin it is to draw the sword for . it . Under » ome circumstances moral force is as suicidal of liberty as physical force under others . , The'title of the essay in the second number , issued this week , is , " Communities without cost . "
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Rkal _Tautan Toddy . —The Highlanders , from habit , invariabl y mix their toddy twice aa strong as the Lowlnndere . I _wasouce _sittingon the box of the Aberdeen and Banff coach , one very cold morning , when wc stopped at a small inn to change horses , and Charley informed me we could get a " drap o ' ' cal gude whiskey there , " wishing to knew whether I would prefer it " heeland or lowland fashion ;" " for ye ken , " continued tbe smiling Jehu , the _Icelander says , a glass o' whisky and a glass o ' water makes very good lawland toddy—but a glass o' whisky and a _jlass o' whisky dings a' for making it real tartan toddy . " Wood fok Coffins . —Old maids should be buried
in crab tree ; old bachelors , in elder tree ; married _oeoplc , in pear tree ; chronologists , in date tree : bricklayers and plasterers , in lime tree ; pugilists , in ! 'ox-wood ; Bchool- masters , in birch ; cowards , in trembling aspen ; and the honest tar , in sturdy oak . A Grkat Manager op Children . — ** This celebrated Mrs . Pipebin was a marvellous ill-favoured , ill-conditioned old lady , of astosping figure , with a mottled face , like bad marble , a hook nose , and a hard grey eye , that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury . Forty years at least had _elasped since the Peruvian mines had been the death of Mr . Pipchin ; but his relict still wore black bombtizeen , of such a lustreless , deep , dead , sombre shade , that gas itself could ' nt light her up after dark , and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles . She was generally spoken of as " a great manager" of children ; and the secret of her management was , to give
them everything that they didn't like , and nothirg that they did—which was found to sweeten their dispositions very much . She was such a bitter old lady , that one was tempted to believe there had been si . me mistake in the application of the Peruvian machinery , and that all her waters of gladness and milk of human kindness had beeti puiuped out dry , instead ol ' the mines . The castle of this ogress and chiidqueller was in a steep bye-street- in Brighton ; where the soil was more than usually chalky , flinty , and sterile , and the houses were more than usually brittle and thin ; where the small front-gardens had the unaccountable property of producing nothing but marigolds , whatever was sown in them ; and where snails were constantly discovered holding on to the street doors , and other public places they were not expected to ' ornament , with the tenacity of cuppingulasses . In the winter time the air could ' nt be got out of the castle , and in the summertime it could ' nt be not in . There was such a continual reverberation
of wind in it , that it sounded like a great shell , which the inhabitants were obliged to hold to tbeir ears ni ght and day , whether they liked it or not . It was not , naturally , a fresh-smelling-house ; and in the window ofthe front parlour , which was never opened , Mrs . Pipchin kept a collection of p lants in pots , winch imparted an earthy flavour of tneir own to the establishment . However choice examples ol their kind , too , these plants were of a kind peculiarly adapted to the _empowerment of Mrs . Pipchin . There were half-a-dozen specimens of the cactus ,
writhing round bits of lath , like hairy serpents ; another specimen shooting out broad claws , like a preen lobster ; several creeping vegetables , _posse-scl of sticky and adhesive leaves ; and one uncomfortable flower-pot _bamiing to the ceiling , which appeared ro bave boiled over , and tickling people underneath with its long green ends , reminded them of spidersiu which Mrs . Pipchin ' s dwelling was uncommonly prolific , though perhaps it challenged competition _< till more proudly , inthe season , in point of earwins . "—Dombeyand Son .
The _Lkiter W . —A cockney philologist says that the letter w enters into the composition of a woman in all the relations of her life , —e . g _., wife , widow , wirgin . and u / ixen .
WILLIAM COBBETT AND SIR WALTER RALEIGH . _Mcemb—The other World , ( From Punch . ) Cobbett . Oh ! There you are , ' Sir Walter . Come , shake hands . My crow ' s plucked at last . I will speak to you , now . Raleigh . And right welcome , Master Cobbett . You have been wont hitherto to use scurvy _language of me ; why ,. I know not ; and civilities have been scant between u . _** . I rejoice to think they shall be frequent henceforth _.
Cobbktt . Yes , yes . To tell you the plain truth , I could not bear the sight of you . Don't look so black ; but it was you who colonised Virginia , and introduced into Ireland that vile , watery , rotgut thing , the potato . _Raieigh Nay , these be strange reasons for sulky looks . Did 1 not , by the one act , add to our empire a fair territory , fertile in all manner of grain , well watered , and as Master Uariot doth still opine , rich in precious metals ; and by the other , bring into our Britain a delicate fruit , right rlavourous and whole-Some for confections and sweetmeats ? Cobbktt . _Fiddle-de-diddle !
RALEion . Truly you trouble me much , Master Cohbet . But why your wrath against that wholesome root , tho openawk , as the savages called it , but which we named after the Spaniard , ' potato' ? Corbbtt . Wholesome root ! Don't put me in a passion . Do you know that your precious wholesome root' has become the food of two-thirds of England , Ireland , and Scotland ? It ia _piga' meat , and has made pins of the poor people who use it . I did all I could , I told all sensible Englishmen , those who took in my Register , what it would come to . It ' s true I didn't use the gallipot phrases that these Oxford and Cambridge doctors , in their black gowns and conjuring caps , have dosed people with till their stomachs mi » Iit have turned at the gibberish if not
at tbe thing itself—your precious potato I mean . I didn ' t write such nonsensical words as your solatium and tubors , and al 6 umen , and protein , and fibrine , but I said in plain Hampshire English , that potatoes were rubbish , that living on them would turn our apple-cheeked , big-boned , farming men and women into windy , herrihg-gutt'd , lantern-jawed sneaks . ' I said it , aud it has come to pass . RALEion . But I looked not on them save as a thing good for confections , to be baked in pics , as quinces and such fruit ; and tho' you speak but _scurvily of them , let me tell you that they be marvellous , refreshing and pleasant , eaten sopped in wine , which doth take off a coldness belonging to them when raw . Nay , they may , to give them . a better grace , be stewed with prunes .
Cobbktt . What is the man talking of ? I spoke about potatoes , and not apples . I tell you , people have sunk and sunk since potatoes were first planted in Lancashire in 1720 . And now , instead of food wheaten bread and wholesome streaky bacon , they taste nothing but your cursed root from year ' s end to year ' s end . But the uiischief ' _s done , and at an end . The potatoes are ruined , stock and seed ! I won't tell you in the outlandish gallimaufry what has done it ; but it ' s done , and my corn Cobbett ' scorn , Indian corn—Raleigh , I know it well . Lane brought me sundry plants thereof from the colony , which I planted side by side with my first potatoes , in my garden at Youghall , in Ireland .
Cobbett , Did you ? Well then , I almost forgive you the potatoes . But my corn is coming over by ship-loads , to drive the beggarly , watery , waxy potato ut of the fields , where , please the pigs , they'll never be seen again ; or , if seen , it will be only _toplease _ihepigs—for the labourers won't touch ' em when they learn what's good for them . So , here ' s my hand , Sir William Raleigh , and I forgive you the potatoes . Tub Irishman and me Sun-dial . —A gentleman , indisposed and confined to his bed , sent his servant to see what hour it was b y a sun-dial which was fastened in his garden . The servant was an Irishman , and being at a loss how to Und the time , carried the * un-dialto his master , saying . " Here , sir , now look at it yourself , it is a perfect mystery to me all over . "
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How io obtain Sirap at Win . —The following is the grand secret which has been prescribed at a guinea to each patient : —You are to shut your eyes , and endeavour to fancy a column of imoke rising from the nostril . The attention being diverted to this , breaks off the current of-thought , and you are asleep . —Library of Secrets and Wrinkles . Rights of Women . —Mrs . Acton , the ( German ) wife of an Englishman resident at Berlin , and whu was lately expelled from that city , has just pubihhed a work , entitled '' M y Emancipation and Expulsion from Berlin . "
Aob of thh Earth —Tho Rev . Dr . Burton lecturing at _Leedm , on "The wonderful Antiquity ot the Earth . " stated , that lit first the revelations of _geology were considered to be inconsistent with the Mosaic account of the creation , but it should be remembered that the first verse of Genesis contained an independent proposition , having no relation to time , but merely asserting that God was the creator of all things . He observed that we must believe that _, before the creation of Adam millions of ages had elapsed . Thk Command of the Armv in India . —It is understood that Lieutcuant-General Sir William Gomme , Governor and Comniander-in chief at , thc Mauritius , will succeed to the command of the Army in India , on the retirement of Lord Gough .
First English _Nk-vspapbr . — The Morning Chronicle mentions a recent discovery by Mr . Watts , of the British Museum , thatthe celebrated English Mercuric , of 1538 , is a forgery , and that consequently the origin of newspapers in this country is still involved in ob-curity . Pouckman ' s Hkligion . —An official inquiry has been made to amoBgstjthe- police force of Liverpool as the religious tenets held by each member of it respectively . Good . —The directors of the Eastern Counties Railways bave issued an order , that all shipwrecked mariners ( duly identified as such ) shall have a free pass along the line .
Ragged Schools . —The number of Ragged Schools in the metropolis is rapidly increasing . Another establishment has just been added in King Edward-Street , Mile-end , New Town . _Earlx _LuAnNiRs . —A number of young men in Glasgow meet at an early hour in the morning , foi the purpose of improving their minds . Those lati pay a fine , which goes to the purchase of books . I' Morning Post" Criticism . _—Dombki and Son . —Three parts of Mr . Charles Dickens ' s new work have appeared . As yet there is nothing in it either novel or _interesting . It is a _reclmffk o : some of hiformer garbage , and has neitner salt nor pepper to make palatable . What has as yet been doled out is stale aud insipid .
Overflowing of tue Nile . _—Information has just been received from Egypt , by a respectable mercantile house in Belfast , tbat the overflowing of the Nile has carried 93 villages in Lower Egypt , with all the produce they contained , including a large quantity of flax . Mo _.-bgibl Copper Oue . — The workmea at the tunnel at Mossgiel , near Mauchiine , have , within the last few days , discovered a rich vein of copper ore . — Ayr Advertiser , , A Young Criminal . — -The youth named Seddon , or Siddons , who was tried at thc last Liverpool Assizes , on a charge of murdering a blacking boy at Manchester , and acquitted , was tried at the Munchester Borough Sessious on Wednesday for theft , and found guilty on two indictments . The Recorder sent- need him to ten years' transportation for each offence .
Blair , thk Author of *' Tub Gravb . " —Better late than never : Robert Blair , the author of " The Grave , " died exactly one hundred years ago , and it is now proposed to erect a monument to him in thc churchyard uf Atlielstane-ford , East Lothian , of which he was parish minister , and in which capacityhe was succeeded by the celebrated John Home , author or "Dougla > s . " Rough and Ready . —In speaking of General Taylor ' s cognomen of " Rough and Ready , " the Mor ning Advertiser says that while the General very sufficiently bears out the first epithet , he seem * * to find some difficulty iu justifying the second . _Punkv _Omnibusi-s and a Cheap Parcel Delivery Company are about to bo established in Liverpool . X ho latter companv _states in its prospectus that it _willjdeliver parcels weighing from 31 bs . to _IStUa any where within four miles of their offices for from Id . tn 4 il .
Victory op Factoby Girls . —Most of the factory ladies as Sam Slick calls them , at Nostau , U . S ., have objected to work by candle light . The agent- * . retU : ed to let them out ofthe yard till bell-time , b ui the girls eventually triumphed . A Whalb , —A very large whale ran ashore near l _' uolewe . _gu'ue ) days ago , aud fell an easy prey to the villagers . It was upwards of sixty feet in length , aud yielded several tons of oil . —Inverness Courier . Funs I ' uAOk _inDl- . vmark —The King of Denmark has _publisbod un edict , declaring the trade between _iiisduniiniuns . - . nd China to be free . This abolishes uie monopoly of the Danish Asiatic Company , which has hitherto paid large sums to the King for the privilege . Verv _Paowsa . —The Duke of Lucca has suppressed all games of hazard in his dukedom ; and has directed that the casino erected at tbe baths ot Lucca , for the convenience of strangers , be eonveitt . into a reading-room _&(* ., as well as that at Vi ' aicg gio .
General Tom Thumb is about to visit Halifax He his announced his intention of holding t » o levees in the New Assembly Room , Ilarrison-road . To Smokers . —A Knight of tbe plough , not fifty miles from the farm of lugliston , after receiving hi * " dear won penny fee" at last term , resolved on having a spree with his comrades , in thc height of hi .-iiicrrimcnt , sorrow took the place of joy , when h > discovered that he had lighted his pipe with a £ 5-noK The Floods in Fbakcb . —No fewer than 1 , 500 _ca-ks of wine have been picked up Vlong the bani _*** of the Suane , which had been carried away by the lace inunditiei . _s in France . Electric _Tbli-gbapiis —It is _snid that Government will probably cause the exten-ion of the electric telegraph communication to the royal palace and government offices .
_PoLicu .--ln London there are 3 , 000 policemen , or 110 constables to one magistrate : in Liverpool 700 policemen to one magistrate , Use of Tobacco . — 1 find that a sure mode ol _drivm- i all animals out of a bole is to smoke tobacco into it . They appear quite unable to stand the smell , and bolt out immediately in the face of dog or man , rather than put up with it . Tobacco smoke will also bring a ferret out of a rabbit hole , when everything else fails to do so _.-St , John ' s Wild Sports ofthe Highlands . Inpamt ScnooL 8 . —At a public meeting in Birmingham , on Friday last , steps were taken towards establishing thirty infant schools in the borough . _Parliamentary Expenses The Parliamentary expenses alone in establishing the Loudon and Birmingham Railway were ; £ 650 per mile ; those of the Great Western £ 1000 per mile .
, , _Kai-lwat Noiicbs . —A daily issue of the London Gazette was ucceasary , in order to enable _taiiway _companies to comply with the terms ofthe stand iuj _- oi ders directing the publication of their respective parliamentary notices therein . Improvement op French Sheep . —¦ Some sheep have been purchased in Monmouthshire for shipment to France , where attempts are being made to improve the native breeds by crossing ; with the _Eiwlitsh _long-woolled _oliecp . Malt Tax . —If all the taxes on beer were repealed , tbe snme ale now purchased for Cd . per quart _wnuxt be 2 d . ; and porter , now id . per quart would be lid . Mr . W . B . Snee , on tlie Repeal of the Malt Tax .
To Make a Cheap Stew of Soles and Eels . — Some of our secrets ibr cheap cookery having met witb unbounded applause , we add to them tbe following : — Take an old pair of boots , and put them in a fryiug-pan _witK lard , and stew them till the " uppers" come off ; add pepper and salt , and you will have some fine sole and ( h ) eel soup . —Library of Secrets and Wrinkles , _Iaisu Lord _Mayoh . —Sir George Carroll , thc new Lord Mayor of L-ndon , is by birth an Irishman . J kwish | Sheriff . — Baron Meyer de Rothschild has been appointed High Sheriff for Buckinghamshire .
_JosfcPH Ady . —" Thine respectfully" still continues to send his epistles into Otley and that neighbourhood , purporting to _j-ive information " to your advantage , on the receipt of 20 s . " The Otley " calves" however are wide awake , and Joseph will receive no orders on " Whitechapel . " Finding this to be the ease with some whom he has several times addressed , he has taken up a new style , and says , it he does hot receive the twenty shillings , he will furnish information to their " disadvantage . '' _Forbiun Bricks . —A parcel of 30000 bricks has
, arrived by a vessel from Hamburgh , aud another ol 40 , 000 , by the Catalina , from Antwerp , both cargoes being destined for re-exportation . Goethe . —The German diet proposes purchasing the house of Goethe at Weimar , that it may be picserved for the gratification of posterity . Scolds Beware !—The ducking stool , a relic of by-gone times , and dread of all shrews , has , by direction of tiie mayor of Ipswich , been painted , _renovated , and suspended over the staircase of the Town Hall of that town .
• Decisive Verdict against thb Arch-duke . —In acknowledging receipt of the unanimous report of the institute of Architects , against placing tbe Wellington statue on the triumphal arch , Lord Morpeth ex ressed his gratification in finding that the opinion of the institute agreed with that entertained by the government . The Robbhry or Cracow . —It is asserted that yount Kollowrath , one of tho Austrian ministers , was so strongly opposed to the recent incorporation of L racow with the Austrian dominions , that he h _;* - - * tendered his resignation in consequence of the adoyuon of that measure . A _Shikld you the Prikok of Walbb . —Tho _munificent shield which the King of _Prussia has des _^
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tined as a present _for-hia . godson , thet' Prince of Wales , is now __ almost completed , and will be soon forwarded to its destination . The design is after a drawing of Cornelius ; the model was made by the sculptor Fischer ; and the whole has been chiselled with great _ski'l by M _.-Mertens . Diabolical Attempt to Blow up a House , — About five o ' clock on Sunday morning last , a most diabolical attempt was mnde to blow up with gunpowder the _hom-e of Mr . Thomas Bortwistle , carpenter and heuse builder . Boltun-street , Bury , and also a cottage at the back . It appears , that a lew minutes previous to the explosionMrs . Bertwistle
, , hearing some persons under the window , awoke her husband , who immediatel y got out of bed , and throwing np the slide , saw three men run from near tLa window ; in a short time afterwards the explosion took place . On Monday , the magistrates went j _* o view the premises ,.-which are in a dreadfully shattered condition , the back nnd front windows hems : blown out ; the _parlour floor and flags in the lobb y were also blown up , together with all the furniture . Providentially no lives were lost , although there were fifteen persons in tho two houses . A reward of £ 100 has been offered by tho inhabitants of Bury for the apprehension of the offenders .
_Westminsti-r Bridge—The relaying of the foot pavement on this bn . Ige and the wooden i _"!^ . - _! _- _!!! proceeding very rapidly , and itis expected thatthe _l-ridge will be re-opened to the public in _afortnigh * . The Cholera has been raging in Bagdad sirce tbe _commencement of the Ramazan . It broke out with creat violence at the very outset , and the popular festivals caused it t o spread in such a manner that in less than a fortnight LfSOO persons had fallen victims , though a third part of the inhabitants had fled . Atrocious Act of Cruelty . —An act of the most / _liabolical cruelty was perpetrated on the niabt of Friday or Saturday moriiins : list , in a stable
belonging to Mr . White , of the Anchor Inn , Combehay , by which a valuable horse was destroyed , under horrible suffering . The malicious perpetrator of the deed inflicted a wound on the animal ' s head with an instrument supposed to be a pickaxe , of which the animal died . On _beina dissected , a spike-nail , seven _, inches in lensth , was found in it * stomach . A large reward is announced for information leading to a discovery of the barbarous offender . Canada . — Lieutenant General Sir Benjamin D'Urhan has received the appointment of _Commanner of the Forces in Canada , and proceeds there with his excellency the Earl of Elgin , the Governor-General .
Schools of Design . —It is stated that schools of design will probably be established at Dublin and Relfast . Greek _Cvruastb —The crop of currants grown this year in the Morea and Ionian Islands , is said to he the largest ever known . Life , —It appears , that amone 3 , 125 persons deceased , an average of onl y one is found to attain the age of 100 years . Jenny Li . vd is said to have been engaged at Vienna for four months , at the salary of 100 , 0001 _' r . ( £ 1000 ) The Pope has offered n gold medal , value , 1 , 600 dollars , for the beRt plan of crossing the great Appen . nine , barrier between Ancona and Rome . Railways . —There are no fewer than fifty-six applications to Parliament for new railways , and extensions of existing lines , in Norfolk and Suffolk .
. The Pope Agaim . —Since the accession of the present pope , the Jews of Rome have bren allowed to open shops and reside in other places _besid- _'S the Ghetto or Jewry . Monster Traffick . —An order has been given by the York and Newcastle Railway Company , within the Inst few days , for three miles of trucks ! Wonderful—if true .-On the night of the ith ultimo , when near Girgenti and _Si-iacca ( Sicily ) , the master of a merchant vessel saw issuing from tbe sea an immense flam ' , with a large quantity of smoke in the midst of which _wen- _ globes of fire , whieh fell at a great distance , and with considerab ' enoise . The flames appeared to be a mile in circumference .
Gossip in " High Life . "—It is said that the validity of the marriage of the Marquis of Tweedald , lather of the Marchioness of Douro nnd tbe Countess of Dalhousie , is disputed by a lady who claims to have been previously married to tlie MaHJUiS by the law of Scotland . Should this claim be established , it is understood that the succession of the title would lie altered , as the legitimacy of an elder brother would be established . A Ma y or s Tithb Pig . —In Bridgewater , his _worshi p the mayor has nothing but the tithe " _o all the pigs born within the borough . " This impost is paid in kind .
The Quakers . —The society of friends has entered into a subscription of £ 2 . 000 in Dublin to relieve the wimtsof the poor , and the same body in England have also subscribed £ 20 , 000 for the like purpose . Vienna , Nov . 19 . —The assassin Reinell _, who for iiis attempt to murder the Emperor , was sentenced to . twenty years' imprisonment in the celebrated 'brtress of Munkats _, in Hungary , died there a month _ngo . Increase of the Armv . —On dit _, and very _confidently too , in certain military circles , and there is to he a very considerable increase in the Army Estimates—fifteen regiments it is said , or twelve _thousand men .
Gratuitous Marriages at St . John s , _Clt-rki-nwell . —On Monday morning , pursuant to a notice , ¦ « ome weeks since issued by the Rev . Hugh Hughes , the rector of St . John ' s , Clerkenwell . that marriages would be celebrated by him gratuitously between • _artios who were too poor to pay the marriage fees , r he Rev . Gentleman _attended to perform the ceremony , Only two couples availed thems .-lves of the enefit thus offered .
DKATH OF TnE WIFE OF THE LATE THOMAS HOOD . — We regret that we have to announce the decease of he widow of tho late Thomas Hood , the celebrated humourist and poet . The public are aware that Mr . Hood ' s life was closed in the midst of much physical _suffering and much mental anxiety ; and there is little doubl that the unwearied exertions of Mrs , Hood , her unceasing attendance on her husband ' s 'eath bed , and the _grief and trial which preceded and followed her breavement . have been the immediate cause of the disease which has thus prematurely terminated her existence . She expired on thc morning of Friday , the 4 . th of December . _Catchino a Tartar . —Wehave heard the following _iieeount as current in Bradford . A Methodist local •• readier , residing in or near Horton . on returning
home one night during tho week -ftas attacked by a _uiief , when , after a desperate struggle , tbe thief rifled his pockets of some pence . The preacher , in the struggle , tore away thc coai-lap ofthe highwayman , and , taking it home , found on inspection that there was in the pocket a purse with £ 3 10 s . in it . The Prussian Police . —A Brussels journal publishes a letter from Coblentz . dated the 29 th ult ,, announcing that the Prussian police , not being _disposed to allow Mr . d'ltzstein , an opposition member of the Chamber of Deputies in Baden , to travel in the territories of Prussia , has given orders to al keepers of inns and other houses of public entertainl ment , to announce immediately his arrival , whether h y night or by day . Every contravention of this "rdcr will cause the keeper the loss of his licence .
Shocking _Accidtcst . _** -Last week by the bursting of a cannon at Runcorn a boy named John Jieaton had his head nearly severed from his bedy . The cannon was fired on the occasiou of his employer ' s nuptials . The _Enclosure in St . JamrVs Parr . —On Saturday , in consequence of repeated complaints to the _Commissioners of Woods and Forests , and the collisions * between _individon _!* ' and the gatekeepers ofthe ornamental pleasure grounds in St . Jnmes ' H Park , respecting the richt of admission , instructions were _aiven them that they were only to prevent persons _inavagj-ed or very dirty condition from entering , or who are not _decent in _sppearance or behaviour ; they are also not to allow beggars , or persons with loads on their heads , or with parcels or packages of an inconvenient size , such as would obstruct the publie walks , to enter the enclosure .
Birmingham Musical Festival . —We understand that the net proceeds of the late Musical Festival amount to tlie sum of £ 5 , 508 5 s . lid ., a result most gratifying as regards the interests ofa valuable institution . Mr . Macr . ea . dy has been performing some of bin most popular characters at Plymouth to crowded audiences . Improvements in tub Post-Office . —In the course of a few days considerable alterations will take _plase in St . Martin ' s-le-Grand _, and which , though chiefly preliminary , will tend materially to facilitate theilailyduty .
DlSTRKSS OF MB _LabOUBING ClASSES AT BERLIN . — The _Aix-la-ChapeUe Gazette ,. of the 30 th ult ., states that so great is the distress of the labouring classes at Berlin , that they are compelled to pawn almost everything they possess to procure bread . A Steamer on Fins . —Plymouth , Dec . 5 . —A very disastrous fire occurred this morning in _Catwafer , Plymouth , on board the fine steamer Shannon . Commander I . Moffatt , ! be ! onging to the British and Irish and City of Dublin Steam Company . The steamer was greatly damaged , and a large quantity ot the goods on board was destroyed . The vessel had tp be scuttled to put out the flames .
Lord Ddndoxald _' s War Plan . —We understand that the Scientific Commission , appointed to examine and decide on the merits of his Lordship _' fl discovery , is occupied with the investigation of its rinciple ; whieh neither trenches on Captain Warner , uor on the ingenious invention termed gun ctton , but is , in regard to the latter , of _atotally different nature . Cotton explodes instantaneouBly , like the galvanic spark , whereas his Lordship ' s discovery effects a continuous evolution of intensely powerful elastic products—like the unremittinff generation of steam from _boilinu water , the effect of which has been rendered familiar to the public by tbe steam gun ( or tube of the ingenious Mr . Perkin _* _- ) i from which a stream of shot , followed each _, other in close succession , pass through the atmosphere with less opposition , and consequently trans * port their overwhelming effect to a greater distance than shells , or shot propelled singly from artillery .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 12, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_12121846/page/3/
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