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' ' The Chinese Mi § _ July291848 The No...
__ July 29 ' 1848 ' THE NORTHERN STAR . 8 I ' . ~~ ~ " " " ~ ' ¦ . _ T _^ .- _^—¦ - ~ _« _. _»_____________________»______ -- — - ———
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TO THE PEOPLE . The wind that shakes the trembling leaf , Gives _fceslth snd vigotrrto the steal ; The reign of tyrants must be brief , And right tbo * crushed , sball come again , The thunder cloud , with darkened look , Msy hang suspended for a time ; The lightning . flash , who would not brook , And after meet the bright sunshine . So freedom ' s onward course may seem To wear the _Iow'ring aspect dim , But be _prepar'd to help the stream _. And on the tide to sink or swim , Tbe glorious day shall soon appear , Wben liberty with magie spell , Shall shake the earth-madi lords with fear , And strike the bloody tyrants' knell . *? _a toiling myriads , know your pow _' r !
Arise from ' neath the oppressors' heel - Assert your birthright from this heur , A __ d labour for the common weal . The spirit of the times with might , Calls on unceasing for each slave , To strike with energy for right , And win the laurels of the brave . K . W . H
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_HEZZl POR THE RULE OP THE WHI 6 S ! Au- — ' Old Rosin the Beau . ' As matters now stand in this ill-fated realm , "When old comrades will give us the sli p , "We ars strangely compelled to put men st the helm , To prevent them from scuttling the ship . Only think , for a moment , if RusseU were out , How wild he'd be running his rigs ! About popular rights he would make tuch a rout—Tis lucky we ' re ruled by the Whigs . Tke Church —can you doubt whit her danger would be "Were the Tories at present in power ! Lord John , or bis -Heeds , we shoald certainly see Attacking her posts every hour . But es long as the Bishops may help out his lease , He won ' t i _ _ju _ a hair of tbeir wigs , Est , __ p even proposes their list to increase—Ss huzza for the rule of tbe Whigs !
If 6 rey were at large , how he'd lay down the law On the cures he for Ireland had found ; And swear that he sever would rest till he saw Her Establishment razid to the ground _. But Grey , while iu ofiie , sits ___ _¦ ____ and mum , Like a small bird asleep in the twigs ; And Ward , in the _Cemmens , is equally dumb—So hun- for the role of ths 'Whi gs ! If any of us had made war on Repeal With the weapons thst Clarendon tries , What shrieks of _indignant _iareetira from Shiel At the wrongs of Old Erin wonld rise . By millions of noisy Milesian , back _ , From the peer to the peasant that digs—How would Monaghan _ anr __ t _ r that juries were pack _ — So _huzra far the rule of the Whi gs ! On AH _ s and Cbartists to hear them declaim ,
roa d think C _. stleresgh come from ths dead . _Theugh tbe mixture of metaphors isn ' t the same , Ani the courage and coolness are -led . But tbe Waigs are becoming respectable men A . any that ever kept gigs Tbey are practising now all they preached against then—So hum fjr the rale sf the 'Whigs ! Go on , my good 1 » -- —never think of retreat , Thongh Rnney'd by a squib or a squirt ; You ' re fulfilling the fats such lmp . stor 3 sheuld meet , And eating jour bushel of dirt . Then _swsllow it fast , for your hoax may aot last , We shall soon , if it pleases the pigi , Give your places to men of a , different cist , And get _ . _ of the rule of the "Whig . ! •—Blachcj _' . _Mooozine .
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PARATlVE SKETCHES OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND . By tho ant-tor of ' Revelations of Russia . ' London : T . G . Newby , 72 , Mortimetstreet , Cavendish-square . We feel great pleasure in welcoming a new work from the author of the ' Revelations of Russia . ' Hi- sound principles , cosmopolitan sympathies , and , above all . his earnest regard for trnth , make him & safe guide , a trusty adviser , and ' best possible instructor . ' This book , which _almest in every page predicts the
Revolution of February last , was , as we " know , in course of preparation many months before that catastrophe . It is tree it needed ' no ghost oome frem the " grave , ' or other extraordinary power , supernatural or natural , to predict that Lonis Philippb ' s system of corruption , craft , and lies , must , some day or other , perish of its own rottenness . Still had this work been published , ss it was ia the press , before the . evolution sf February , it would have been considered 9 remark ible production , and must have excited a degree of interest scarcely inferior to that excited by the author ' s' Revelations of Russia . '
As iti _ , tM- _workpo-iess-snoslight __ e , _Blowing as it does , what was the damnable system of government established by Loots Philippe , and what ts the Condition of the great mass ofthe French people . As the title betokers , a . considerable portion of this work is appropriated to showing the resemblances or contrasts of England and France , in their political institutions , social condition , material and intellectual power , aud national characteristic . ' The points of contrast are pretty generally understood ; but it will astonish many of the English readers of this work to learn how very much their French neighbours resemble themselves , notwithstanding _sgeg of contention acd national [ some have _asserted , natural , ] enmitv . Another portion is devoted to
personal sketches of Louis Philippe , and the celebrities of France , both' dynastic' and revolutionary . The foreign policy of France ( under Louis Philippe ) occupies some chapters , and includes certain striking _ ve . - tio . ns of . tbo Spanish marriages . One object of the author , predominant throughout thia work , is the _pro _ otion of fraternal relations between France and England , _ the great pledge for the advancement of all nation . ; an object which mnst command the gooi wi _? s of all true friends to _progreiB . A theory somewhatnovel , but to our thinking perfectly sound , is broached by our author , to the effect that ths social _comfoit and happiness of the people depends everywhere npon their political freedem ; that men consume more varied and better food , live
lenger , and enjoy iD a hig her degree the advantages of civilisation , in proportion to tfceir command over the government . It has been said , that the vices or virtues of a state are the effects of its legislation ; to the same cause oor author traces the nmerable er comfortable condition ofthe mass of the people , in the several states of Europe and America . We postpone the author ' s * Introduction , ' written since the Revolution of February ; we shall revert to it when we have done with the bulk of the work He is well acquainted with tbe French people , having , both as an equestrian and _pedestrian , travelled _thr-ueb and
i 8 _ the greater part of Francs . He mada one journey , the _length of five hundred miles , on foot . He has heen a traveller by the diligence and other modes of conveyance , and has made not less than _twectv distinct visits to that country . He haa kept eomjany with the aristocrat , the bourgeois , the artisan , the peasant , the Eoidier . the smuggler , and the chamois hunter . He has been favoured with the friendship or acquaintance of the Orleanist , the Legitimi-t , the Republican , the bigot , the infidel , the speculator , and the Com - _nnist . He has b ___ present at marriage ? , christenings , and burials ; he has seen all elasses live , and many Frenchmen die .
Two _na'ions . _ssy s oar author , play in our own times a greater partin tie old world than the Greeks or Rom-ns in the world of antiquity . Page upon page follows in proof of this ___ rtioD . We quote tbe _foliowicg : —
-CODERS F * 0 GB . r _ 3 . From constitution *! forms of government , from the code S _ po '__ . free traie , ani _anti-ikr _. rr agitationfeam tie _extension of the pr » E » , th . establishment of bankF— . ' rom the invention of tbe rail , tbe steam-boat , the cotton . __ 11 , end tha elettric telegraph down to the _dspeiroyp ' , and the patnltg _. operation—nineteen _, twentieths of these discoveries and Institutions which _ODnstitutt _; _thesum cf _setu _. l civilisv . ion , are due to the _Anglo-Saxons or the French . Francs resembles Great Britain in the extent and concentration of its population , and shares with Great Britain ( ia a lesser degree ) the advantage of having ber frontier guarded by natural _defence . In _ttte Old world , France is only second to Great Britain in the extent of i ' _. s commercial navy , of its foreign es _ amerce , of it . manufactures , in the quality of food _csH-um _ by its population , - _ ., & - . Oar author ados - . —
The French is the only extensive race betides the Anglo-Saxon , which has achieve- responsible _gevern-- _ ¦ _ _. . _Tbeca-i _ a ! mis- * of France as evinced in Iti literature—that Decenary result either of its tptltude or of _itscnl ' . _ivB- ' , 0- ofbo . h—can alone compete with that Of Great _Britain . Taken as _ whole—scientific , imari . satire , sr _. d 1 ______ what _1-terature ( setting aside the EngHsh ) e-n b . olactd before it . France , Our . fore , either in intellect or education , and la the _auihor . beHef _in boA , must be ranked witb Great Brume , at the _fccod of ell otber nation * .
EDCCATI X . Though thtre really may . th . & _ereater amount of Utter _ignorance in Franc * than is to bs found in certain absolute statts , the is still , in the _aggregate possession of a higher order of knowledge , far in tbe advance of those countries , which In tte general diffusion of Its medioerlty . may claim over her the same superiority which
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the Chinese might reasonably arrogate aboTa them _, selves . France I * _furthermort distinguished from all other continental states by the Impartial _administratioa ofthe law , which—openly _marketable in the east of Europe is notorlonsly _ lifibl 3 to iEfl-ea . e In its c . ntral states not _exesptin _? Prussia , and _deiplle the _Sklf-laudalory _ ic _ m of Its _sorereiga , _Inhisspeech at the _opsnlair of the Diet . Prance , therefore , taken as a state , and th * Frenob psople as fi-ommuait . T _, can only bs likened to tke _aroplre and pe _. _ple of Great Britain , In the superiority of their position ( relative to the remaindsr of Europe ) In point of wealth , power and _intelligencs . - __ E AFD ESGL-tiD C _ _f 4 B _ D , Fra _. ce exc . e _. _s in meat things all the great European powers combiBed ; but wh _. n we contrast France with Great Britain , we find her as f . r behind Great Britain as she ie la advance of other Continental « tates . «__ _ "i __ r
Thus France exceeds ths three powers in the extent of her trade . Great Britain ia her commerce doubles France . France doubles the three powers in the extent of her navy . Great Britain more than _trebles France . In tbe extent of its middle class , France exceeds the _CoHtinent : Franee has 1 , 134 , 090 subjects enjoying an income absve JE-1 . Grent Britain has more than two millions and a _q-iai ter enjoying upwards of £ 40 . annually . In the quantity of fond comumed by its papulation , France averages double the quantity ot wheat and double the quantity of sugar consumed by _thepopulatioa of the absolutely governed states : io France 351 pounds of wheat , and 6 to 7 i pounds of sugar ara _cunsumed per head . In tbe United Kingdom 336 pounds ( and taking only Great Britain , 446 pounds per head of wheat ) and IS pounds of sugar , are c _ sum _ .
During 1 S 4 T , 468000 . 000 have beea rai _. edin France . The revenue of Russia , Prussia and Austria , whose subjects are still more severely taxed in proportion to their abUitytopay _, Is collectively £ 48 . 000 , 000 . The United _K-ngdom levies only fifty millions of taxes ; but as its income is computed at 550 millions , and that ot France at S 20 millions of pounds sterling , it Is obvious that Great Britain could without greater pressure rai 6 _B double the present rrvenue of France , fit should have been stated , however , that many subjects of local or special tsxation in Englatd are in France discharged by the Government : were everything brought to a compa . rative aceount . it wou'd be found , we think , that England pays the mest . * i
It Is also worthy remark , that in Russia more than a third _ f tbe whole revenue 1 b derived from the brand y farm . ; which , when the low price at which it is sold , the profits of the branfly farmers , and tb _« produce of illicit distillation are tits into account , suppose the consumption of a prodigious quantity of ardent spirits . If we turn next to Prussia , attempted to be Imposed on us es a specimen of _niodvl admlbistration , we fiod twenty-four pints of distilled _Ifquor the share of each individual ; whilst in Ireland , the land of whiskey , the
average—nine before Fstb . r Matthew ' s reign— -Is since only about seven ; and in the United Kingdom , including London with its gin palaces , something nnder six and a h » lf . If we draw a line through Europe , separating the Western and _censtitutioaalfrom the absolutely governed states of the C _.-ntre and of the East , we shall find that cur British _exportB to Holland , Belgium , Spain , Portugal , Bnd France , _notwithstanding the illiberal tariffs of France and Spain , average three _shUlines for each individual , whilst for _Central and Eastern Europe only one shilling and _elghtpence ,
To the _Russisn empire our exports are elghtpence and a fraction for each inhabitant . The distinctions of individual character between the _Englishman and the Frenchman thongh considerable , are yet les . than divide the English from all other continentals .
THE FBEKCH AKB _XKGtISH PEOPIE _. Fire and water—light and darkness—black aud white —bave so _leng been held as less antithetical thaa Frenoh and English character , that we are apt tn allow these profound analogies to escape us , whilst tempted to assi gn an UBdue weight to trivial contradictions . Many foreigners , it is true , are less unlike ns in externals , bnt on mature investigation none will be fennd mare to resemble us in essentials tban the French , The Dutchman s phlegm , tbe German ' s meditativeueBi , tbe Spaniard ' s gravity , the Turk ' s _sedateness , appears at first sight more consonant witb British earnestness than the vivacio _. us levity of tbe Frenchmen ,
Yet is this frivolity of form exponent of more real frivolity ! Far from it . In the _terioas energy of his _pursuits , and In their practical and expressive cbaracter , the Frenchman alone bears any likeness tothe Briton . The German ' s tendency to barren speculation , the Spaniard ' s stolid conceit , the Turk ' s barbaric pride , the Duchman ' * contractive egetism , are more fitted to _denott a want of maturity in lhe national mind , aad to . dicative of less real gravity than the clamorous viva _, city exhibits witb which the French pursue Important objects . Tbe Spaniard and the Mo _. Iemin solemnl y trlfl . away existence over the cigarette- or ehlbouqe _.
The German muses away its most intellectual portion in _gratifying a sensation by tbe cultivation of harmony , or in weaving an entangled web of words in a pedantic attempt to generalise and classify . The more _praC'locJ HoIIaader—covetous of his riches and jealous of his liberties , but regarding wealth as an end and only comprehending freedom in itB personal application—restricts his activity within the most selfiah limits . But ean ll be said—If we judge by results , the truest of all teststhatthe grave demeanour of any of these nations _essentiallyas much assimilates to the _energetic-eriouBnesB of thepopnlation oi these islands , even as tbe volatile enthusiasm and noisy earnestness of tbe French f
The Frsnch aad English people , though in nothing more distinct than ia their religi _ e , are still both alike , inaccessible to plausibility in religion . All the graceB of a Krudentr , and ell the genius of a Mlttkiavitch , would not in this direction be more effective than the valg & r energy of an Illiterate , or tbe vehemence of an iciane impostor ; because the national lucidity of intellect discerns at once tbat no effort of reason can ever solve , or render _throngh any conceivable hypothesis less _atteondlEg , —tbo aivful _myitery of first causes , Hence the resolute rejection of tbat wbicb never can _fca proven from _interc-irtura with facts cf wbich the demonstration lies within banian compass , by both people , and the coincident liability of the few amongst the Anglo-Saxon rae 3 to accept religious theories the most extravagant ,
Our author maintains that the _chivalroas spirit more extensively pervades the French and English than other people , excepting , perhaps , the Swedish and Norwegians ; this spirit—one of the most _pqwerfal levers which ever moved humanity—is inherited in France and England , no less by the lowly than by the exalted .
_CHIV-LBT OF THE FBEKrCH-EAH . However rude , vicious and feratalieed that ' proletafre ' may seem wfeoee vindictive envy of all above him is 6 tamped in th . habitual expression of lis countenance , he is still capable , if you appeal to his honour , of the utmost magnanimity . In tfee very midst of riot and excitement , when compensating himself—armed , triumphant and ia rags , — by a day of anarch y for years of undoubted misery and supposed oppression , not one but a hundred instances are on record of bis generosity to a fallen foe and bis abstinence from tempticg appropriation . Tbat soldier whose tempera _, ment tbe strife heats into blood . tb _. rstine 5 s , in wbom the traditions of French _Brmtesinspire the thirst for plunder , an _< whose natural Impetuosity unfits him for prolonged
endurance or exertion , is yet seen mereiful in the batde ani on the breach , strictly honest in his charge , and patient when suffering privation and fatigue . But with both tbe soldier and the artisan these qualities are elicited by an _appesl to his chivalric or patriotic feeling . Tbree times ont of five your life and property is safe if you have tbe presence of mind to place It under the safeguard of bis _honour . When meditating violence or spoliation address him in bis cbaracter of Frenchman and the chances are that he will forego h _' u purpose to act as he conceives a Frenchman ought to aet . Amidst the weariness and hunger of the march , in tha winter ' s snow or the desert ' s _sasd , the in vocation of honour , of patriotism and glory , arrests bis nmrmurs and supplies tbe plaoe of
warmth , shade , water , bread and sinew . The very expression of the drunken operative or soldier , when reel ' ing In the kenael he strikes bis breast and hiccups out _« J . _ t- Fr . r __„ _* - '' is but the grotetq _. e _expressloa Of a characteristic which universally pervades and elevates bis people . Even in the prison and tbe bagnio , amongst those whose hand is against society , and whom society has stricken , crime and its consequent disgrace have rarely wholly smothered the feeliDg _vthicfe redeems this degradation . The convict boasts of his nationality , be shows a rough good faith to his comrades , and thongh he is insensible ts the mark ofthe _hot-iron wbicb brands bim witb bis shame , be feels and _rtsentB BB an indignity the accusation of being a ' moachard ' or spy upoa bis fellows .
X VEHDEAN _STOB-. « It was tbree days after the destruction of tbe Chateau o _!« Vs . _Pcniincre , said the _Inf _. rman- ot the writer . ' that » fter being eighteen hours on foot , I crept into the oven ofa _metairie ( farm house ) in wbich the farmer ' s wife concealed me , as a picket of gendarmerie and a detachment of the line were in th . « _- _<* jioent village . Wfcllstl was asleep two soldiers came down to the farm house , and it so happened that the farmer's sister seeking a dry faggot from tbe oven , and not feeing aware tbat I was in it , screamed so loud on perceiving me as to attract their attention . Before I knew where I was I felt myself dragged out by tbe legs , disarmed and bound . There were but tiro woaen and a boy npon the farm , and mj case seemed hopeless as the soldiers drove me before them with fixed bayonets towards the village-. ' ' Brigand ! ' said one a corporal— ' not 60 fast ; If you attempt to swerve rig ht or left , I'll send a charge of lead
through yon . 'Blanc bee . ( greenhorn ) ' I replied , * I am no more a brigan- thaa yourself . I was a soldier and I saw blood drawn before you e ver handled a _muske _* . Tou would no * , botb _leather bave mastered me now , tf it had not been for that woman's treachery , —for bo at that moment I believed . ' , < _ t „ Tou are a braggart _. ' replled tbe corporal , and I have a great miad if you repeat your words to put a sword Into your hand , and take you orer again or run you throug h the body . Trv'saidl . « No sooner said tban done . Taking his companion's sword , be warned him to shoot mo
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through tbe head if I attempted to escape , and then handing it to me , he drew bis own and loosed the well _ropa with which he had bound my arms . You know , sir , that « n the royal guard I had learned the uso of the steel . We did not fight long I promise you . Oaoe , twice , _ibrice _, and i . ran Wm . through . _to-arm .-- _^ Tbe other levelled his musket , but the wounded man called shame upon bim—that it was an affair of honour . Tbcn he shall fi ght me now . ' Pooh I' said the corporal , he would spit you like a quail , let him give back your sword and be off with him . Ona half hoar ha shall have , ar _ then we'll hunt him to the death . ' ' Bon voyage , my friends , ' said T . « an * ten minutes after I was safe in the tall broom . ' v ? r _£ _$ , gives 80 me amusing , illustrations of _i-nghsh Chivalry , as illustrated by the deeds of cab men and other _eimilar characters , for which we must refer the reader tothe work itself
Commenting on the abominations of the passport system , onr author tells a story of a traveller sent sixteen miles , on foot , in the custody of a corporal ' s guard , because his eyebrows were not as described in the passport-blue . Passing over the particulars of this story we eeleofc another equally good .
_P-8 SPOET 8 . A spinster lad y , applying for her pasport , and disposed to be facetious , remarks aloud to her companion that the functionary before them reminded her of the apothecary in Romeo and Juliet . This observation , if apt , Is in this respect inopportune that it is perfectly understood hy tha employe who not only bas studied the English _langusge , but being a zealous _partizsn of the romantic ( as distinguished from tbe classic ) drama is deeply read in Shakespeare , and feels in no wise flattered bythe comparison the fair stranger has instituted . But the means of retribution are in his hands , in the shape of a pen and a printed form , which , after polite inquiries as tothe lady ' s name age , destination , & c , he proceeds to fi'l ap un ' . il he comes to the sf _ aTement or personal _dencriptlon , often consideratel y left in blank In a female ' s passport . Here , In characters as dark as _ _ J _* . cnere de la petite _verttt could make them , be inscribes bis _raveuee _.
To tbe horror of tbo lady who had been so satirical on tbe outraged empleye , she found when tbe document was banded to her , that he had thus depicted h 6 r . Hair , false ; forehead , low j eyebrows , dyed ; eyes , small , greenish ; nose , flat ( nee epatc ) and _completion tanned ( feint basane ) _. Her age , wbich bad been set down as sbe bad given it , at thirty-five years , was accompanied by the remark ' looks _fifty-thrfle . ' And worse than all , tbis libel which the victim was bound herself to exhibit throughout Prince—like all libels ( at least according to the view taken by the British law ef these matters ) wss heightened in malignity by the faot that Ub truth wae undeniable .
Our author maintains , that though modern Gaul scarcely deserves the title of' Belle , ranee' it ia atill the finest eonntry ofthe European continent . In the conditien of its people a striking inequality exists _betwesn its town and rural population . The real French people—the people which thinks , feels , and acts , is confined to tbe cities . In the fol owing extract we are made to comprehend why universal _suffra _. e has resulted in the election of t > . e present rascally Assembly . It must be borne in mind thatthe following passages were written some months before the late revolution . Mr Smyths , in bis historic sketches , gives a characteristic dialogue between an ultra-liberal deputy and an English Radical , in whicb tke former is utterly astounded to hear his English host advocating universal suffrage , vote b y ballot , aad liberty of instruction , which in France , the most thorough-going partisan , of the old Bourbon monarchy would so eagerly accept .
Ia point offset , the legitimists , who In the columns of the Gazetm de Feance and the _Quotidienme ( before the fusion of the royalist organs ) called with apparent inconsistency for measures seemingly so literal—and the liberals of all _Bhadee of opinion _repudiating tbem—acted ou an identical conviction , that ofthe ignorance and unfitness of tba majority to preserve even the liberties it had acquired . Universal _seffrage , It Is believed by tbe Intelligent of all pMties , would even now In France rapidly conduce to ths restoration of absolutism and of _church-domlnatlon . The poor and ignorant cultivator furnished with a vote weuld resign it through bigotry or _indiff-rence directly ,
or by tha Intermedium of his wife , iato the hands of the curate , government functionary , mayor , or of the wealthiest man in his village . For one vote gained to the liberal cauBe in the towns , three might bs lost In the country ; and when it is considered t _ t the two succeB . Five constitutional governments which France bas h _. d , have found means ( by the application to its forms of that system of centralisation bequeathed to tbem by tbe Empire , ) not only to arrest iu a great measure the progress of r . form , but often to encroach upon its conquests ; it may be judged in how far tbe national liberties would be at the mercy ofthe crown when armed with such an accession of its strength _.
According to our anthor _. _the natives of Britanny are renowned for tbeir stupidity . A sergeant of the French Army thus _degoribes them . — ' When these Bretons arrive as conscripts the first thing done is to burn tbeir _olothes _, cut close their hair , and soak them fur whole hours in soap and water ; after some w _^ eks wo succeed in teaching tbem to distinguish the right leg from the left , and by dint of caro , we de . velope their intelligence at leagth to the level of tbat of an average trooper ' s horse , yet with time , eir . these very men make the best , steadiest , and _stanchest men in tbe whole army , excepting the inhabitants of tho Ardech . This review will be continued in the Star of Saturday next .
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Sketches of Her Majesty ' s _Household . London : W , Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row . Thia elegant li'tle book contain , full particulars of the _oSices which constitute the royal establishment , the salaries attached to the various appointments , the amount of pensions upon retirement , t > r superannuation , tfee ., _r _ . Professedly this book forms , and , indeed , is— ' A Guide to Situations in the Sovereign's Domestic Establishment ; ' but is also something more—a guide to the people in their search after the truth respecting the fripperies and follies of monarchy , and the cost cf those trappings to the community . Monarchy is no doubt a very wise and excellent institution . 7 f any one doubts tbe ' wisdom' or the ' excellence , ' _hiatery will dispel those
doubts . From the time of _Nurcon to Saul ( appointed King of the Jews under rather peculiar circumstances , — videl Samuel , chaps , _viii-, ix ., s ., ) from the time cf Sam . to _Debod , from the time of Timmms to the bastard _Nobman William , and from his time to that of the bastard-begetter , ' Fum the Fourth , ' all history proclaims the wisdom and the virtue of kings . The _humaoity _, _chastil y , sagacity , and moderation of kings all men acknowledge ; and the happiness of the nations over wbich they have ruled , never knowing want , war or slavery , sufficiently testifies to the wisdom' of those remote ' ancestors ' who first abdicated tbeir own sovereignty to make way for tha majesty of kings ! Still , with all our admir _ 'on for royalty , and our speoial veneration for
tbe Queen of these realms , it strikes us that monarchy would lose nothing of veritable majesty , and our veneration would not be at all weakened , if instead of nearly _ 400 , 000 being yearly expended Hp _. n the sovereign ; a decent allowance—say something like the American President ' s salary—were voted annually by the Parliament , and what is now lavished upon the drones of the court employed in raising the people from Equalid misery , to comfortable , welt-re quited labour . We cannot see that ' Bedchamber Women . ' ' Lords in Waiting , ' ' Gentlemen of tbe Privy Chamber , ' ' Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber , ' ' Grooms of the Privy Chamber , ' ' King ' t < of Arms and Heralds , '' Pages of the Back Stairs ,
' The Gentlemen of the Wine Cellar , ' ' The Hereditary Grand Falconer , ' and some scores of similar officials are necessary for the comfort or dignity of the monarch , or at ail calculated to strengthen that attachment to tha monarchy which , un Joubtedly—we have the declaration of noble lords and M . P . ' _b for it —throbs in the breast of every' free-born Briton !' The court jester has been long banished from the presence of royelty , why should tho Poet Laureate remain ? Or if _WoRDswimin is a necessary appendage why should S ******** * be defrauded cf his due ? A shocking bad Parliamentary buffoon , mig ht make a very respectable court fool !
In this book , John Bull may learn how the money goes . Take a few items : —The Baroness _Lebzen , £ 400 a year . Lady Wilde £ 1 , 000 a year . This lady ia ths wi / e of tba merciful and impartial Lord Chief Justice WiU )* -, v ? ho enjoys a salary of £ 8 000 yearly , and who is also enjoying tho prayers of the wives and _children of certain victims of Whiggery , at present located in WeBtmimt . r Bridewell and elsewhere . _EarlSPKKCBR , Lord Chamberlain , £ 2 . 000 yearly . Lord Edwabd George Fitzillan Howard , Vice Chamberlain , £ 924 yearly . We pass by the _Mistress of the Robe ., tbe Ladies of the Bedchamber , the Maids of Honour , the Bed chamber Women , & e ., dse . Eight Lords in Waiting inckldiDg a Lord Byron !] £ 702 per
an-. num each . Eight Grooms in Waitin ? , consis ting oi Baronets ' and ' Honourable ., ' (!) £ 33512 s . 6 d . per annum each . The Master of the _Ceremomea AJU » per annum . Four _Gentlemea Ushers of the Privy Chamber , each £ 200 yearly . Passing over a host oi Gentlemen Ushers . Daily Waiters , Grooms of the Privy Chamber , Quarterly Waiters in Ord inary _, and Groomrjof the Great Chamber , we notice ' Eight _Sereeants-at-Arni-, vbose dutie ., at the time of tbeir in _t-iution bv Richard I ., were to ' capture any t a i ; tors about the Court , and other great offenders _, and to hold watch outside tho King ' s tent , dressed in complete armour , and armed with a bow and arrows , a sword , and tbe mace ef office' We have no room _ nntine tha Faces of the Back _Staiis , the Pages oi
1 Pre-ene _., the State Pages , Page of the Chanibere , the Poet Laureate , __ _... We may state that tne Examiner of Plays , that is , the Censor ef the Stage , who holds 1 . 1 _. appointment in the gift of tbe _t-oru Chamberlain , enjoys a ealary of £ 400 per _annumi The situation is , at present , held by Mr John mit-1 chell Kh-blb . However poorly her _Majestv a _suniectss-ay re attended to by the medical officers or Poor Law U _* -ionB _, it will be some satisfaction to buch
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parties to learn that , in that respect , her Majesty iB pretty well attended to . The Roval Medical Esta oiisnment consists of Two _Physiciana in Ordinary , nve _Physicians Extraordinary , two Physioian-accoucneurs , a Ph ysician to the Household , two Sargeant _^ ttrgepn _srftrSurgeon . accou-heur , ' arSurgeon to the Household , four Surgeons Extraordinary , two Apothecaries to the Person , three Apothecaries to the Household , two Apothecaries Extraordinary , two burgeon Dentists , a Dentist to the Household , an Aunst , an Oculist , and Surgeon-Chiropodist ; _be-BjdeBtwo Apothecaries to her Majesty in the Isle of Wight ! We shall leave tha Master of . h « Tennis Lourt , the Keeper of the Swans , and her Majesty ' s Bands of Music , and come at once to tho Lord bteward _' s Department . The present Lord Stevard , Earl Forte . coe , receives £ 2 . 000 nor annum . ] . n _
Abthur Marcus Hill , _Treasurer of the Household , £ 904 per annum . The Comptroller of tbe Household , £ 904 yearly . Colonel Bowles , Master of the Household , £ 1 . 158 per annum . There are a host of C _. erks of tbe Kitchen ; the present Clerk Comptrol ' er , who was formerly a f ' o . man to Lord Uxbriogb , receives £ 700 ayear . The number of cooks , and , as Jaek would call them , ' cook ' smates , ' almost _dely enumeration . The Chief Cook receives £ 700 a-year . The Gentleman of the Wine and Beer Cellars ( say . nc nothing about Y . omen (!) and _Groomf !) receives £ 500 a-year . _Leaving unnoticed a host ot subordinates , we come to the Master of the Horse iae present ' Master' is the Duke of Norfolk , who enjoys a salary of £ 2 , 500 a-year . ' The privilege of having the use of a Coachman , four Footmen , and ha t a-dcz _ Grooms , _belonging to the _Sovereign , anrl
paid lor out ofthe Civil List , ha 8 always _beenenjoyed , and never waived by a Master ofthe Horse . When _theDuke of Montagu held the appointment be rather exceeded the prescribed number . He had tour footmen , whose salaries were £ 53 per annum each ; one Coachman at £ 65 ; one Stable-helper at A . O _; and bix Grooms , at £ 60 a year each ' . thus saving , in wages to his servants , no less than between £ 600 and _A 700 a-year / ' The salary of Chief Equerry and Clerk-Marshal , is £ 1 , 000 a-year . The four Equerries in Ordinary receiva £ 750 a-year each . Earl _ _¦ : _! _ . tE the Ma-terof . be Buck Hounds , receives £ 1 700 a-year . The office of Hereditary Grand Fal-° _^ ner filled by the Duke of St Al _oan _. at a Balary of £ 1 . 200 a-year ; ' but , as her Majesty po . gessos not a single hawk , tbe Duko ' _s knowledge oi falconry has never yet been called into requisition . We may , therefore , term the appointment a perfect ainecure . ' We roust refer the reader to the work itself for information respecting the Gentleraen-at-Arn * B . the
Yeomen oi the Queen ' s Guard , die . Prince Aibertis Governor and _Constable of Windsor Castle . ' There are no duties to be performed , an i the office is , _consequeatl y , a sinecure , withasalary of £ 1 , 120 a-year . ' Prince Albbrt is also _Raneer of the Home Park at Windsor , with a salary of £ 500 a-year , and the privilege of turning out _tograzsin tho Park , a certain number of sheep and cattle , which is a source of considerable profit . His Royal Highnessis also Ranger of the Great Park , with _extenuive and profitable privileges . It is generally known thit the sum allowed to her Majesty for her private use ( ' Privy Purse , ' ) is £ 60 , 000 a _venr . The Keeper of Her Majesty ' s Privy Purse ( whose duties comprise little more than signing a few checks , _occasionally , upon Messrs Coutts , her Majesty ' s bankers , ) is Mr _Gkorgb Edward Anson , _io-cracrly private secretary to Piuncb Albbrt ; he ban a ealary of £ 2 000 a with
year , lodgings in Windsor _Casfe ; and holds , in addition , the situation of Treasurer to his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; Treasurer and Cofferer to the Prince of Wales - , and is also one of the youthful Prince ' s Council of the Duchy ef Cornwall . The Hon . Mrs _Aason is one of the Bedchamber Women , a sinecure office , with a salary of £ 300 a year . It is only fair to _stace , that the extravagant salaries we have _enumerated , attached to offices which , in many instances , are perfeot sinecures , _strikiugly contrast with the Bhabby salaries paid to the footmen , coachmen , and ' inferior servants' ef the Royal Household , who , sinoa the present sovereign ascended the throne , have been subjected to a system of cheese-paring , candle . _ oiap . Bg , _pincb-guteeonomy , which if not inspired by brown bread Joseph , musttaking into account the ' totlle of the whole '—have afforded great satisfaction to tkat warm-hearted philanthropist , and _eigantio reformer !
Our readers will now have an idea of the contents of this book , bnt the book itself must be read by ail who wish to know how the money goes ; how it is that the English people pay £ 385 , 000 yearly for the support of their Chief Magistrate , whilst the Americans only pay £ 6 , 000 a year for theirs ! The monarchy ia no doubt the most valuable of our institutions , and her present _Majcsly the beat pos sible sovereign ; still there are few who reading this work will hesitate to come to the conclusion with BosKE
that' We have expensive formalities—solemn plausibilities—which tend rather to the disgrace than the ornament of the State and the Court . '
On The Best Form Of Relief To The Able-B...
On the best form of Relief to the Able-bodied Poor . By G . _Poulett Scrope , M . P , F . R . S . London : J . Ridgway . Piccadilly . Mr _Scbope professes to be an advocate of the ' Rig hts of Industry , ' but of these rights he has but very crude acd imperfeot notions . His ' best form of Relief ia but a tinkering of the present system , and contemplates no method of abolishing pauperism . It is true he advocates the cultivation of waste lands , but only a 3 a means of obtaining some return for the outlay in the shape of relief . He seems to hav- i no idea of transforming wretched pauper , into independent yeomen ; yet , with tbe command ofthe poor
rates , toe would undertake that transformation . We agree with Mr Scrope as to the folly of putting _unemployed m n into uniforms , or setting them to work at the unproductive labour of which we have recently seen examples in France , Prussia , and Ireland ; and we also agree with him , tbat it will be time enough to think of colonisation after we have fully developed the resources of the national territory , but not belore . But we respectfully submit to Mr Scro e that he has not solved the problem of how to reconcile the rights of industry with the claim , of capital , the stability of government , and the order of society . Mr Scropi * must try again .
Signs Of The Times, Or The Signal Rocket...
Signs of the Times , or the Signal Rocket ; dedicated to Lord John RusseU . By a Poor Shoemaker . Hammersmith : W . Tuck , Dorville ' s row . A Christian _addreae , wbich we are afraid Lord John Rosbell is not Christian enough to profit by .
The English Patriot And Irish Repealer. ...
The English Patriot and Irish Repealer . No . I . Manchester : J . Leach , 73 , Rschdale-road . This is the first number of a new weekly penny political paper , edifed _. _as we understand , byouroldand staunch democratic friends , _Gao White , John Wust , and Jambs Leach , assisted by the well known Irish Repoller-, Geo , Archdeacon . Any publication edited by working men , and devoted to the interests of their order , always bas our best wishes . It , however , too often happens that the conductors of such publications fall into one of two errors ; they either mistake coarseness and violence for strength , or fall into the still worse delusion of attempting by maudlin wordmongering to imitate the' refinement' of the ' higher
orders- ' We are happy to say that both these faults have been avoided in the publication before us , in which strength of argument is combined with eloquence of language—not wanting a spice of witwhilst certainly there is no approach to that maudl < n balderdash in wbich certain would-be ' respectable ' politicians are apt to _indulge . The ' O pening Address , ' and tbe articles on the ' Rights ot Labour , ' ' The Reign of Terror , ' ' The Mysteries of Government , ' ' Organisation , ' & c , < fec , are worthy of the editors , and promise well for the future of this periodical . We wish ' The English Patriot and Irish Repealer ' every success . It ought to sell Sity thousand copies in Lancashire _alena . More power to ye , boys !
Whigs In Office And Out Of Office. To Jo...
WHIGS IN OFFICE AND OUT OF OFFICE . TO JOHN BULL , Sir , —It is I believe the general opinion of Conservatives , that in the present state of Ireland , it is fortunate the Whigs are in power ; because , had they been in opposition , they would most probably have acted as they did in 1844 , when the trial of the late Daniel O'Connell was the subject of their violent declamation against Ministers . I happened yesterday to meet with the Times of 20 th Feb ., 1844 , in which there is a full report of the speech of Mr Macaulay on the state of Ireland , and a more mis _. hiev & _ua one was never uttered in Parliament . It well deserves perusal , a ? it shows in what manner Whigs will sacrifice everything to party spirit and it is curious , in so far as many of bis strongest censures are directed against measures which are imitated by a Whig Government .
I -hall conclude with a single quotation of a passage applied to O'Connell ' s trial . Mr M . asks— ' Was it possible on this trial between re-Iig ions ; was it possible in this trial between races , to have a fair trial by a Jury which it is admitted was exclusively Protestant ?' I am Sir , your most obedient servant , C .
Royal Arsenal Woolwich.— Daily Comp Lain...
Royal Arsenal Woolwich . — Daily comp laints are made hy visitors , who wend their way from the great metropolis to Woolwich to visit the Royal Arsenal , but which , owing to the order of the authorities of the Royal Artillery , is kept closed against them . The Royal arsenal was closed during tbe late Chartist riots ostensibly to prevent any coup de main on the part of those ag itators , and since that time has been kept closed . Hundreds of persons are dail y refused admittance—Sunday Paper . inLubin , Poland , 150 villages have had all their growing crops destroyed by a recent hurricane . A great number of cattle and horaeB wero also destroyed .
The Unopposed Incapables. (From The John...
THE UNOPPOSED _INCAPABLES . ( From the John Bull . ) If au Ethiopian had been dropped in the House _ i _? „ n _ . . on M ° n * % last , and informed that English Ministers cou _' . d not get ; on for want of a vigorous opposition , the gentleman in black would , in all probability , have asked if all the crumbling _l __?_? i amt 6 W . chhe _•*»"<* on all Bides _wereeo many evidences of approval and support . _Theraome - _ S „/ 0 hn . . ' eU ? tha day _"ferred to , aoquamted hon . gentlemen with hia intentions forthe ohort remainder ofthe session he certainly received
, opposition enough to make a government for life , if opposition be indaed essential to ministerial stability and strength . The plain truth is , that your incompetent and slothful boy gets on neither with flossing nor by gentle _pattings on the head . Force has no more effect upon him than upon the donkey ; _persuation not half so much . The sight of a carrot has been known to work wonders upon the brute . No prosoect of provender , however extensive and _tempting , has ever been known to put elasticity into the heels , or practical ability into the head , ofa thoroughgoing Whig .
There is a vague but a very amusing belief afloat , that it is _impossible to do without the present government , because , if you upset it , there ara no set of men able to take the vacant places . Before suoh a conviction takes permanent hold of the public mind , we should like to know if any dozen average olerks hare beon tried ; if tho man who pulls the wires of tho faatoccini has been applied to ; if the beat patients of any lunatic asylum have had a fair chance of competition ? We undertake that the hon . member for Macclesfield ehall furnish uf , at an hour ' s notice , witb a Chancellor of tbe Exchequer , able , at least , to propose an increase of the Incometax to meet a fearful deficiency , and to withdraw his
proposition immediately afterwards , upon the ground that no deficiency _exiBts at all . We are ourselves prepared to make puppets whicii shall answer the string as efff dually aa Lord Morpeth replied to the demands made upon bim from all quarters in the matter of the Sanitory Bill ; and we will back , at any odds , the sojourner at flan well against the Minister , who , only a day or two ago , authorised the Custom House , without knowing it , to admit Dutch _relined _eugar at 24 a . 81 . per cwt . instead of at 03 _ and British West Indian Muscovado at 13 s . per cwt ., instead of at 153 . t _ . Will any bedy take the bet ? Will her gracious Majesty suffer the experiment to bo tried ?
One thing is very evident—at least to ua , and it cannot fail in time to become clear enough to the public at large . If the affairs of the country can be satisfactorily managed by the present administration , then Mr Cobden and Mr Hume are not so wrong after all when they complain of the heavy salaries of our numerous officials . Take the Chancellor of the Exchequer from D . _wning-street - . deposit him in _Coruhill , and see if you can get- a guinea a-week for him at any respectable retail house , supposing that he ' finds himself . ' Is Lord Morpeth ao knowing in his sanitary doings that any nightman would be disposed
to take him on even at a gift ? It is rather hard to make tbe country pay so dearly for its luxuries . Men of great families and of hieh descent become frightfully expensive commodities , if we are to pay them six or seven thousand a-year only to laugh at them . There is not a man , be he of what party he may , in the House of Commons , who is not , at this moment , chuckling or sighing at tbe incapacity of our rulers . If incapacity in these piping trmes is all we need for carrying on the government , then , in the name of free trade , get it at the _lowest figure , buy it , as you do your corn and sugar , ia the very cheapest market ;
Tbat we shall do any better next session than we have done this , it is ridiculous to suppose . Ministers aro not going to school in the interim . Sir Charles Wood does not meditate a course of lessons on the rule of three direct ; Lord Grey and Mr Hawes have no intention of devoting themselves to moral p hilosophy and the science of ethics . Lord Palmerston is proverbially ineorrigible , and tbe Premier , of course , thinks he has nothing to learn . But what study and what improvement oould alter the cruel necessities of the case ? What instruction can avail a set of men playing at legislation , and proving at every turn tbat they are not in earnest ? Had Lord John Russell meant at the commencement of the sessi _& e to bring the Navigation Laws to the test , he had ample opportunity for his purpose . He withdraws the consideration of this question at tho last hour , not because tbere has been no time for discussion , but because be has a painful consciousness that a settlement of the business would in some _Bort be a
settlement of the Ministry , including himself . To do anything that may weaken the divisions of tbe Conservative party—that may possibly take former friends and present foes back from antagonism to close alliance is to risk place and power , loved and cherished by the spirit of WM _^ geiy beyond all qualities , human or divine . The rule applies to every ministerial movement . The question is not what will serve the country ! not what is it right between man and man to do , but what will serve tho government , and what it is expedient botween that government and its miserable necessities to attempt to carry out .
If the people of _Euglasd are satisfied with these most inefficient gentlemen , we have ne right to complain , but , being taxpayers as well aa our neighbours , it is undoubtedly competent for us to protest against a wAiton waete of publio money . If noodles am > wer the country ' s purpose , let us pay noodle price . It is monstrous to be told in the same breath that men are fit to govern the empire who are not qualified to keep a chandler ' s shop ; and that men not qualified to keep a chandler ' s shop , are to be remunerated most munificently fov their flagrant inability .
The Irish People Versus The English Pres...
THE IRISH PEOPLE versus THE ENGLISH PRESS-GANG . In an article in the Atl _ of Sunday last , on Ireland , there is quoted , from a publication entitled ' The Irish Movements ; or Hints to Patriots and Pikemen , ' the following extract , with the additional comment . Whether extract or eomment exhibits the greatest atrooity we leave our readers to determine : — Does England imagine that an integrity of the king _, dom ie necessary f She can effect it , _sbo sbould effect It , and sbe must effect It . Has sbe the means to _maintain the union and suppress sedition ? Ay ; and _abund _ nt ones , If she only _pleaEe to employ them . A ton or
two of gunpowder and a coll of ropo will do the job . All required Is to take tbe boll by lhe born . No more temporising ; and whether the delinquent append to his _patronymlos an _Sf . P ., wear a surplice , or swagger Jn a barrister ' s _gown—whether he bo a cue-log traitor , or a matured remnant of ' 38—deal with bim & nd tbem with stern impartiality . If a clerical example must be made , halt not between the ' tbe lion ol the fold of Juda _ ' or the holy man of Strobestown , wbo complimented poor Major Mabon from the altar . If a _brieflass member of tbe bar , liko Mr _D-hency , one whose forensic existence was unknown to Justice Lefroy—should he still oonttnue troublesome , send bim to join Mr Mitchel in _Bermuda , It Is marvollous bow pleasant it is for old acquaintances
to meet in a notv country . If a patriotic rifle olub wish to try their hands , let them , In heaven ' s name have a _sb ; with a company of the Hue , or a troop of cavalry . Practloal instruction is worth a thousand _theories , Shoot half-a-hundred of the fools wbo Hand , and hang _balf-a-dozinof the ka _ -es—the leaders , of course—who will run away . Confidence will return ; _landownsrG will come back ; elderly gentlemen and ladies slumber without the apparition of Meagher of tbo sword standing at t _ lr bed-sides , with Old BelUhe . Cat's two-handed _weapon , and giving a short _natico for eternity to these unfortunate unionists ; tr _ e In Ireland ( almost now a forlorn hope ) map revive a little , homicide will decrease , and cursing from the altar must decline .
Tbere is , in faot , nothing else for us . We have tbe army and the law—we have the muaket and the rope . We have tried long enough the soothing system . It won ' t do . We may appeal to Irish reason . There ia no such thing . We may appeal to Irish gratitude . There is no suoh thing . There is nothing intelligible and there is nothing respectable to bs found in Irish' patriotism . ' It means nothing but violence ; it feels nothing but lury . It has no brain to reason with ; it haa no heart to touch . Wc may talk oi good sense and good feeling ; but if they ever existed in Ireland they are new utterly extinct , like * Erin' 3 honour and Erin ' s pride , ' which have a poetioal leputation , but which , in reality , hava long bince b _. _ buried : unless it be honour to shoot men in the dark , and pride to receive all possible obligations from another and then forthwith to blackguard him without stint and without remorse .
( From the Examiner . ) Tho Timbs well describes the present posture of Young Ireland as * rebellion well in hand , ' rebellion on its haunches , rebellion gathered up , and ready for a spring . Hamstring it . Disable it in its sinews . Cripple it for ever . The leaders are few—leave them less . Their purposes are avowed—the alternative is the field or the gaol ; and committed a . they are , they must be driven to the one unless the government mercifully bands them to the other .
' It Is Marvellous,' Remarks The Medical...
' It is marvellous , ' remarks the Medical Times , 'to what extent thomaniao will remain in a waking State without any apparent injury . A man never _Blepfc , and yet he enjoyed good health , living till his 73 rd year . Ho had a kind of dc zing for about a quarter of an hour once a day , which was all tbe slumber he was ever known to take . ' The Leigh Peera _ Ca ? e . _~ Barnett , the _priE _. cipal _witness in the late charge of murder against Lord Leigh , at Warwick , died about fifteen miles from Manchester , on Sunday . The cause of death waa inflammation , produced by drinking intoxicating An elderly woman has lost her life at Bradfield St George , in Suffolk , from the sting of a bee in her thumb . The medical witnesses at the inquest were of opinion thatthe sting had caused death by producing such a shook on tke nervous _sy-tem aa to stop the action of the heart .
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Db Potism.—The World Is Now Old, And May...
Db _potism . —The world is now old , and may profit bv tho lessons of experience . She has decisively de . clared , that despotism is tha grand source of human misfortune , the Pandora's box , oat of which every ourso has issued , and _^ _oarcely loft hope behind . Des . potisio , in its extreme , is fatal to human happiness ; and , in all itB modifications , injurious . The spirit oi It ought therefore to be _eUBpresaed on the first and slightest appearance . It should be the endeavour of e' _-ery good roan , as far as his abilities will extend , to extirpate all arbitrary government from the globe . It should ba swept from the earth , or trampled under foot from China to Peru . But no power _h capable of crushing „ 6 Hydra , less than the herculean arm of a whole people . —Knox ,
. Wealth of a State—Th 9 true wealth of a state is in a numerou ? , free , hardy , high-minded , active and virtuous people , in easy _circumstaeces , without an extreme inequality of property ; a people , having means and leisure for mixing with labour , pleasurable recreation ; and with private industry , Olympic _celob""atio _ _, exciting all the qualities that dignify and adorn humanity , and that eltvate the character ot a nation . _Oa-Gi _ H . _v —If we study great , men we Bball find they were net so much distinguished b y or _ginality aB by range or extent of thought . If we require of them that absolute originality which _consiats in weaving , like the spider , their web from their own bowels , we shall not succeed in obtaining it . No great man was original . Least of all do . s originality constat in _un'ikeneBS lo other men . A ereat man is
a centre of things—seeing the wants of other men , and sharing their desires—adds also strength of arm to come at their point . The greatest genius is tbe moat indebted man—the greatest poet is a raan in unison with his time and country . The _grrat man does not wake up and ssy , I will square the circleransack botany and discover another lood for man—I hava a new architecture in my mind—I will foresee a new organic power . No ! He is forced on by the genius of his contemporaries . He stand- where all tbe eyes of man lock , and their hands all point in the _direction in which he Bhould go . He finds the materials ready to bis hand—they have sunk tho hills and bridged the rivers for his road . Men , poets , women , have all woiked for him , and he has entered into their _lab-urs . Great gcuor _. l p . - . ; - , - , mi _^ b _^ i almost say , consists in cot being _original v . i vli . !; ' . > .. _' . tothe greatest extent _rccep' ; _iv-, > -. _ . . « -,
A SUMMER'S _EVEMSO SHOW-Jh . Br j . c , _i'hince ; It was a summer ' , v . f . r ' . i _ , Soft , sweet , and _= i't-: i < _-. _« rnrm __ __ _?> . _- . And all the glorlo-- _.-ndsca _^ i- - . ; Ue _, The lowly thorn , the tree of pride , Tbe graeB blades mar . _ball'd side by sido _, Wore , _tblcksr than the fluids of night , Innumerable drvps of light , Shed from a passing cloud and dun , That jjurney'd towards the sinking sun , On the upper wind ' s Impatient wing , Aud blush'd as it drew near the presence of Its king . Tbat _brllllantbaptism and brief ,
flung from the font of summer skies , Came with a fresh and full relief To all the countless shapes and dyes That sprang from enrth ' s prolific veins , And drank the rich congenial rains . For all the languid leaves and flowers , Iu tanglsd brakes and cultured _howtrs , In level fields and hollow dells , By wood-side walks and mossy wells ;—The fair and many . folded rose _Recliaing in a proud repose , The limber bine and stubborn brier , The wallflower ' s mass of cloudy fire ; The clover _fill'd with honey dew—Things of familiar farm and hue-Sent such a gust of incense up From bell and boss , from crown and cup , As aeem'd to burden all the air
With nature ' s breath of silent prayer , And sent that joyous draught of rain In sublimated sweets back to the skies again ! A Word to thr Rulers of Irklanb . — The whole art of preventing a revolution , consists simply in rendering the people happy . A happy people will never rebel , even if millions of authors endeavour to excite them . I challenge any per _. ou to show me a single example in history , of a happy people rebelling . — Kotzelue ' s ' Travels in Italy . ' Union , our onlt _RBseuncn . —Let the oppressed
become as united and intelligent as taeir oppressors are , and they will receive their redemption without erime or bloodshed ; but if they will be such fools as to imagine tbat kings or individual rulers are the cause of their slavery , there is no salvation for them . The real tyrants of all countries are those who would live without work , and aocumulat _. fortunes out of other people ' s labour . The only remedy against them is to substitute for the present institutions others of a just and beneficent cbaracter . It is plain that such institutions mu _. t emanate from the whole people .
vameties of complexion in the human races . Southern Africa _preseniB us with many Btriking illustrations of the fallacy of tbe theery of climate . We shall content ourselves with citing two of tho most remark _, able , viz . —those presented by the physical peculiarities of the Hottentots and Bosje _. _mons . These two races have been considered as one but only by those who believe In the great modifying power of circumstances , They arc evldemlj distinct . Tfee _Bojjtsmans are pig . _mies ; the Hottentots , where pure , tall aod large . Persons rf intermediate Btature are , of course met witb , because two rac-B so much aliks in most respects , residing near each other , must necessarily have intermar . ried in tbo course of ages ; bnt there is no conceivable reason why , except as distinct ranos , the one should be
active , _resiless , comparative ! / bravo , and of a stature _seUom exceeding four feet nine inches , whib the other is tall , large , timid , and excessively Blngglsb . In most other respects their organisation is similar , and they differ from all other portions of mankind in the nature of the hair , and In two remarkable peculiarities in the fa . mala structure . They are in the midst of races widely differing from them : Negroes on the one band , and Caf . _fres on the other—bo ; h black , while the Hottentete and _Bos-jesmans are simply of a light yellowish brown . How can tbese facts be accounted for except as differ _, _encss of race ? In central Africa , we find a further re . markable illustration , in tho case of the pigmy tribe called Dol-o _. _lately ma _. _e known to Euiope by tb . travels of Major Harris . This tribe is living to the south-west
of Abyssinia , Bbout three degrees north ofthe iquator , They do not exceed feur faet in height , thtir complexion is a dark olive , their hair is not woolly , aud in the females reachea to tha shoulderB . They have thick poutiag lip ., dlminutlvo cyeB , and flat noses ; tho men have no "beards , and they _tto perf . ctly naked , Their nails never pared , grow on their hands and feet like eagle ' s talons and aro employed in digging for _antB . « Th _ have no kings , no laws , _noartB , nor arms ; possess nehher flocks nor herds , are not huoter ., do not cultivate tho soil , but subsist entirely upon fruits , roots , mice , serpents , r . ptilee _, anls _, ond boney . ' All these things they eat raw , for they aro ignorant of tbe _ubb of fire . Now , wby are these peop le so different from all other races of men ? Why are they not as black as tho Negroes % V < by have
ihey uot woolly hair i Why are they pigmies , while all the races around them are tall and strong ? They are not a mere collection of outcasts , reduced thus low in the scale of humanity by disease or other _accidcnts _. but a numerous people Qi one distinct type , perfectly hcilthy , and 09 complete and consistent in thoir ra ~ e as any other race whatever . If they were onco otbernlac , what circumstances can have reduced them thus low ? Their climate _bliB no conceivable disadvantage which is not Shared by ft _theusaad other climates , yet they stand _olono and _distinot from all "ther _racos of men . Let us now return to tho continent of Asia . In India we find t , very mixed population , and eolour varies greatly , even from an European fairness to tho jet black of the Negro , for this region haa repeatedly been thetheatre of northern Invasions . There arc the strongest reasons for believing that most , at least , of its aboriginal races wire perfectly
black , but of Caucasian _lorms , and _inaivWunlB bo distinguished may still be met wiih , especially in the southe .-n provinces . Tho fact that the natives of the south are gonerally the darkest , has betn assumed as an evldenco of the _tft'tcts of temperature ; but ft glance atthe map will show thatthe northern provinces must have been infinitely mote exposed to tbe incursions of the fair races than tho southern extremity , ana tbeir population IB , of course , far more mixed . We have alroady alluded to the _Ro-illas , an Afghan tribe , settled during tho long period of 600 years In one of tho hottest regions of _Iadla , and which , nevertheless , still preserve their anoicnt p eculiarities of fall' _h-lr and fflir Complexion , simply because tbey take a price In marrying within their own race . If this bo matter of fact , it is vain to talk of tbe effects of tho climate . And , after all , what is 606 years when comp ar . d to the period during which the Moors have maintained their fair complexion
In Africa . — __* ino ' _Officol Journal . Libbrty in R . s _. iA . « -It is not unusual for the Emperor to stop and address a person in tbe street . _*; but the luckless individual haB little to _!»¦¦»««» » _flattorine a distinction ; ma momen t . _^»™? J by one Of tbo ubiquitous agents of the' P _«*« f . Mj charg 6 d with the offence of having Mr * aad thj Emperor . He is author itatively required to repeat the substance of what he had said , and a confinement of some days inevitably follows : which the adminiHtrationofabribe , or the extortion of aome powerful influence can alone terminate . This occurred to a _celebrated French actor who , having been ill , and unable to perform some time in consequence , waa nnnnotori hv thn EmDeror _, who inouived after hia
health , and urged hira to resume bia theatrical functions as soon as possible . The unfortunate actor was immediately arrested , and hid some trouble in getting liberated . The circumstance reached the ears of the Emperor , who , wishing to make him some reparation , desired to know in what manner he could oblige him . ' In nothing . Sue . wphe _^ the comedian , * but that your Majesty will MW _gmlg _scend to speak to me in the street again . -X- . w » Russia , by 23 . P . Thompson .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 29, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_29071848/page/3/
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