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_UEAUTIES OF BYRON , so . no . «• «• w n T _° _? ? ? _™ _# _^ M _^^ fcun « . _immediately to follow following his " _hnglisli Bards and Scotch _Iterieirei era" _| era" [ zee the one volume edition ) , a , poem entitled " "Iliu " Hints from Horace , " intended as a sequel io bis _5 Engli English Bards , _Ax . The Hints _wes'e composed at _6 AtUev AtueB 5 , inlSil , andtlie ? . v . _tuoi _' broughtt ; _: emho : ue in tl thes . ' the same desk with the two first cantos of " Chiide _J ? a a oI f" _, Uefn _ldciJ _^ _iave published the hits fi first ; first ; but by aceulent , or nearly so , the Harold first a appe ; appeared . The reception this wonderful _poi-ra met x xvith vith was ; so flattering _totficpoet that Ms bitterness t towa towards JErruEt and oilier * , whom he hail so vJ _« or c ously ously assailed in his « Satire , " and who were the B Bulge _Btibjeets of lus wrath in the Hints _akn . e « ir . _m- ; . tv , l
J and and tbe Ifintsiov the time being vas withheld . Tliis _^ Was : was laosfc fortunate for the poet ; for this production 1 tras tras one of Ms very worst—Jar bdoir his previous 1 Worl Work , "English . Bards and Scotch Reviewers . " . Bnt _Bxaos , however , held a very different opinion of its : _mer merits , and before rfce appearance of Childe Harold , " ¦ looi looked to tbe _Zfafe , ratter than to the Harold , as the _tror _jrork ihst was to make Mm famous . June yeavs _oifc ofter the time the poem was intended to uave ' becn put published , its author again expressed his wish for its _jul _gublic appearance . The advice cf bis friends , howev < ever , prevented its appearance at that time ; and it Wa was not until tho year 1 S 31 , seven years after the p « _poetfs death , that it was first published . Wehavetookcdtliroughthe " _Ernts from Horace , " an and though there are some _vkorous lines where the
So poet praises or vindicates Milios ov Bora , or where { be Jashes high-life -vagabonds , on the -whole tbe piece is isBhwortLycflrispen . Perhaps thc best lines are tl the thirty-eight , _Iwginnirjg— . r _. eboia Mm _Trcsbman 1 forced no more to groan O'er Virgil ' s _dtviiiih verses and—his own ; ti 6 nt we see not anything in thc entire poem we can cst traefcas "Beauties . " HowBrnoxcouldliaveregardcd t this poem wilh the partiality he did is astonishing . I Poets , however , are rarely the best judges of their o own compositions , as , for instance , Micros preferred « "Paradise Regained" over "Paradise Lost . " It is t trell known that ia that opinion Mwros stands alone ; i it is the latter and not thc former of these poems that i & as made Lis name universally , as it will do eternally , i famous . "We conclude these few remarks by quoting JIoore ' s _opvrvioarjf tire " Hints from Horace " : —
In tracing ths fortunes of _mcu , itis uot a little curious lo observe how often the course of a _waols life lias ac-• pended on oae _sfcis-le step . Had Lord Byron persisted in his original purpose of giving this _poain to the press , _in-Btsad of Childe Harold , it is wore than _probablo that he would have Been lo _»^ as a great poet , to iho world . Inferior as tins paraphrase is , ia erery respect , to his former satire , and , in some places , even descending below _tbeJerel of _nnaer-grailuate versifiers , its failure , there can he little doubt , would hare beeu certain and signal ; *—his former assailants would have resumed their advantage over him , and either , iu the bitterness of _hlsmortiacation , he would jiareflung Childe Haroldiutothe fire , or , had he summoned up sufficient confidence to publish that _joem , its reception , even if sufficient to retrieve him in
tha ejes of the public and his own , could never have at all resembled that explosion of _succesv-that _instantaneous aud universal acclaim of aduiijBation , into which , coming , ai it were , fresh from the land of song , lie _surprised ths world , and in the midst of whichhe was borne , buoyant and self-assured , along , through a _suvcession ol new triumph * , each more splendid than the last 1 Happily , the better judgment of his fiieuds averted such a risk . 3 t is now onr happy task to _forthwiih proceed to onr great _poetfs beautiful and axamortai production , ' * _Cjhide _Huioxd . " The extracts from which we purpose to give , will
really be "Beauties of Byron . " We pass by the Dedication to _"Iaxtoe" though its beauty strongly tempts as to copy it : we pass by theopeniagstanzas , almost every line of whicli teems with beauties ; and here commence our extracts : — Childe Haroldhad a mother—not forgot , Though parting from that mother he did jhun ; A sister whom he loved , but saw her not Before his weary pilgrimage begun . If friends he bad , he hade adieu to none . Tet deem not thence his breast a breast of steel : Ye , who have known what ' t is to dote upon A few dear objects , wiil in sadness fed Each partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal .
His bouse , his _Jioinaj his heritage , Sis Janus , The laughing dailies in whom he did delight , "Whose large blue eyes , fair locks , and snowj hands , 2 Iight shake the saiutshipof an anchorite , Aadloag bad fed his youthful appetite ; Bis goblets _bi'imm'd with every costly trine , And all that mote to luxury invite , "Without a sigh lie left to cross the brine , And traverse Paynbn shores , aud pass earth ' s central line . The sails were fili'd , and fair ths light winds blew , As glad to waft him from his native home ; And fast the white rocks faded from Jus view , And soon were lost in circumambient foam ; And than , it may be , ofhis wish to roam _Jtepeutcd he , but in his bosom slept The iHent thought , uor from his lips did come One word of waiL whilst others sate aad wept
A _&& to fhe reckless gules _iiamnnlv moaning kept . But _wlii-a the sun was sinking in the sea 3 Je seized his harp , which be at times could siring , And strike , albeit with untaught melody 1 When deemed lie no strange ear was _listcuiug : And now bis fingers o ' er it he did _fling , And tutted lus tare-well in tbe dim twilight . "While dew the vessel on her snowy wing , And fleeting shores receded from his sight , fhxis to the elements he pour'd his last " Good _Sight * " Adieu , adieu ! my native shore Pades o ' er the waters blue ; The _Xi s bt winds sisli , tlie breakers roar , And shrieks the wild sea-mew . Ton sun that sets upon tlie sea
"We follow in bis flight ; Parcwell awhile to bim and thee , 3 fy native Land—Good Xigbt ! "A few short boors and He wiil rise To give tbe morrow birth ; And I shall hail tbe main and skies , But not my mother earth . _Desertedismy own good hail , Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are _gatliering on tlie wall ; My dog howls at the gate . " Come hither , hither , my little page !* Why dost thon weep and wail ? Or dost thon dread the billow ' s rage , Or tresiMe at tbe _jale ? But dash the tear-drop from thine eye ; Our ship is suift and strong : Our _fieefest falcon scarce can tiy _Jlore merrily along .
'let Avmds be shrill , let waves rolilirgn , I fear not wave nor wind : Yet marvel not , Sir aiilde , that I Am sorrowful in mind ; Tor I have from my father gone , A mother whom 1 love , And have uo friend , save these alone , But thee—and One _a"bove . ' 7 Sy father _bless'd me fervently , Yet did not much complain ; Bat sorely will my mother sigh Till I come back again '" Enough , enough , my little lad ! Such tears become thine eye ; If I thy guileless bosom Lad , Mine own would not be dry . " Come hither , hither , my staunch yeoman , $ _TMiy dost thou look so pale ? Or dost tbou dread a French foemail !
Or shiver at tlie gale ? * _Deem'st thou I tremble for my life ! Sir Childe , I ' m not so weak ; But thinking oaau abscntwife Will blanch a faithM cheek . * My spouse and boys dwell near thy ball Along tbe uotdeting \ ake , _J And when they on their father call , What answer shall she make V _"XiiDugb , enough , my yeoman good , Thy grief let none gainsay ; But i who am of lighter mood , Will laugh to dee sway . "Por who would trust the seeming sighs
< 3 f wife or paramour ! Fresh feres will dry the bright blue eyes We late saw streaming o ' er . For pleasures past I do not grieve , i ' or perils gathering near ; My greatest grief is thatl leave So thing that claims a tear . "And no w rim in the world alone , Upon the wide , wide sea -. But why should I for others groan , When none will sigh for me ! Perchance my dog will whine in vain , Till fed by stranger bands ; Bnt long ere I come back again He'd tear me where bestands . _| " _\ fvm ftee , my bark , 111 smfdy go Athwart _fiie foaming brine ; Kor care what land thou _bear'st me to ,
So not again to mine . Welcome , welcome , ye dark- blue wives And when you fail my right , welcome , ye deserts , and ye cavest % natjre land—Good Sight . "
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ra » _^ _"Etfle page" _wasEobertBushton , the son of V ° « Lord BjroVs tenants . " Seeing that the boy was ¦ on Si _^ i ? _tbeseparatioufronihis parents , Lord Byron , he _MTl _?? . GltaaltaF » senthimbacfeto England , 'ftay / _*« says to his mother , ' show the lad erery kindness , as _& _a _^? >' sw , ritfc' He _ako wrote a letter to the "mer ofthe boy , in whicli he said— _« I have sent _Booert _wasei _because the country whicli I am about to travel _wough is io a state which renders it unsafe , particularly ** «*; so young . Iallow yon to deduct from yonr rent _. eand twenty pounds a-year for his education , for three ivm _, pronded I do uot _retora before that lane , and I
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desire he may be considered as in my service . '" [ See tho ' A ' o / _tictv . •? fcroflI . _-iylciJi _, f < _irsouieiuti . _'n'stingpsrticuhvs concerning . Sir . _Jlushtuo . and his _prnist * of his trul v _* w > V _* maste _:-, copied from _Widc ' _sUndi-n Fcvkv :. f « r . \ l . iv , " iSl 5 ] _ t William Fletcher , ti _* i ' u ' : ln " ui v : ; _k-t ; who , lifter a _fervicc of twenty years ( . _iurii : ? which . " he . _v-. v _.-3 , "his lord ship was mora to _hl-. n v _.-. an -. _» fadier" ) , received ihe _Tilgriui ' i- _iiut words at _2 : i . « si ; i . -i : i £ lii . _tusd did not _' [» it his remains until lie had seen them _denosttcd iu fhe famil y vault at _Huckimll . In a letter to * his mother , tho poet says . - — _"PJctcIior is not valiant ; he reouires comforts _Jiat I cau _dispcuse with , and sighs for beer , and beef , mul tea , and his wife , aud the _dsrii knows what _brides . We were one uigbtlost ia a thunder storm , aad since nearly wrecked . In both eases he was eorelv bewildered ; from a ? j , _rc-i : ca « ior . s of _fonilutj -ml banditti in ilia first , _si-, 1 wttwinng in the second instance . " liis eves were : i liitlo hurt by the lightning , or crying , 1 don ' t know which . I did wZiatlcou _. d to console him , hut round him incorrigible . lie _sa- Mi six sighs t _» Sally , i simil settle him in : i _fas-m ; for be has served me _faitiiiuJly _, ;; :-. d Saiiv is U Kood woman . '" '
J Kewstead Abbey . J Here follows in the original JIS . : — _Melhinks it would my bosom glad , To change my proud estate , Aud be again a laughing lad With cue beloved plavmate . Since youth I scarce hive passed _unhout i . _i & ouc disgust or pain , Except sometimes in Ifuiv's bower Or wheu thc bowl I drain .
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_TOOD _TOU THE POOH . SOSG OF 715 E _ASDGVB 3 C . _\| 02 _T Grind ! Griud - —the air is musical With nature's voices uow , The breeze amid the wavy wheat of Tbe bird upon thc bough ! The rivers Hon ; the cattle low With music in their tones , Grind owl grind on 1 the pauper plays The music of _theiioncs 1 Not as wheu gamblers stake tlieir souls On basard of the dice , Not like _Iheitudnight melody Of passion aud of vice . 2 _! ot amid storm and strife—Not amid tears and groans , Not like the butcher when his knife Sings slaughter to the bones 1 Xo , but when butcher-work
ll as dead and done aud past , And men had feasted far and wide , And hemes had ceased to fast ; And fat and torpid things Were sleeping like the drones , The meet was eaten all away 5 The paupers crushed tha bouts ' . ' . Yes , in the soft sweet air , Under the summer sun , Thc paupers _group'd around Gieir feast— - Erery—every one !
The shreds and patches of putrid ncsh Clung to their whitening thrones , And the marrow oozed with a sickening breath Up from tho tainted boues I The paupers sat like a ghastly crew After a starving wreck , And they saw the black flesh quiver and reck And the boues wear _apiftgue-Vdie speck . But as famine thrilled forth its deadly shriek They leaped to its _eihciug tones ; And they seratch'd for tbe carrion brought fov the flesb Aud howPd fov the marrowy boues !
Then on—then on they _crusU'd , And on , and on they ground ; As the putrid tones were picked and _slcancd , Oh ! for the feast they found ! But the pauper-things were glad , And made no mawkish moans ; For like Prira ' s treat , was tlie rotting meat , And the marrow of the bones t And the stench that rose from the _pauper-fcast Grew fearful in ths _suuj You coulu ' nt scent the air , the field , The crops , thc flowers—not one . But the paupers feasted on , On one of charity ' s loans ; Finite nml Sowers were nothing to tbt-m , Only meat and bones ! Tbe feast is orcr aud past ,
The Stan-fir ' s battle is o ' er , The terrible bones are _crush'd at last , But hunger haunts their door . Sow with fainting of heart , Uow with breaking ot ' stone 3 ; Till the pauper cannot bear to part With the bad meat and the bones ' . —Joe 3 / iifer .
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_TRADE'S _LONDON 11 EVIEW—Avovst . London . G . B . Christian , Whitcfriais _^ treet , Fleet-street . ' "We have ia ihia number a continuation of the poetical Greek talc , " Ambition . " We say " poetical , " for , although , the tale Ls in prose , the luxuriance of the writer ' s imagination and language leaves hut little to be desired to make this story a truly poetical production of no mean order . " Leaves torn from a record of Life , " introduce us to " Thc Rival _Lorcva ; a talc of Hindostan ; " apparently the first of a series of similar , contributions . This first illustrates the old and universally acknowledged troth that " the course of true love never does run smooth . " This intimation will be quite suuicient to recommend the story at least to the young . The remaining contents are mostly " reviews" of new
v ; _orls , the most _vmpoi'taivt oi which is an analyzation and critique of Dr . _PiuTcnAnp ' s " _Natural History of Man . " The article is written with great ability _^ and will be found very interesting . "While , however , we admit the ability of the writer , we cannot acknowledge onrselves a disciple of his views , as to the " Adam and Evo" origin of mankind . True , tbe reviewer does not argue or insist upon this , but be admits it ; not so much , we fancy , in . obedience to his own convictions , as because the admission is a sop to the tender stomach of alarmed orthodoxy . Reallv there is something exquisitely ridiculous—we had almost said _discustine—in these silly attempts
of clever writers to make their researches and theories harmonise with exploded fables . When will tbe day come when men of mind will be " bold enough tobe honest , andhoncstenough to be bold" ? The other " reviews" are much shorter , but all _impwYtialiy and ably written . The concluding article has "the Drama" for its subject : the praise therein bestowed on the management of the Haymarket aud Sadler ' s "Wells Theatres is well deserved , and is as worthilv g iven . As a cleverly-conducted periodical , in which able criticism is judiciously combined with a due admixture of light and entertaining reading , we cordially recommend Wade ' s London He _wa ' to our readers .
Tiie Orphan ; Or, Memoirs Of Matilda —Br...
TIIE ORPHAN ; or , MEMOIRS OF MATILDA —Br Ecgese Sue . PauT X . London : I ' . C . Kcwby , 12 , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . The part for August of this singularaud wonderful work contains two terrifically interesting' _chapter , beautifully illustrated by _Robem _CitiJiKsnAXK . We would gladlv have given an extract , but that to do justice to th _' e author we must have talcea at least one of his " scenes" entire , and thatwould occupy more space than we can spare . Besides , the work must be read from the beginning to be properly appreciated .
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CASES A 1 _ST ) OBSERVATIONS ON SPINAL DEFORMITY —Br Samuel Hake , Surgeon . London : John Churchill , Princes-street , Solio . This is a cheap aud abridged edition of Mr . Hake ' s valuable work on spinal diseases , which wo have twice before noticed in this paper . This cheaper edithm contains , too , some more recent cases which have been entrusted to the author ' s hands with signal success . The various disorders of the spine , whether "lateral curvature" " _excurvation , " il incurvation , " or angidarprojection" are each explained , and cases illustrative of each are described , and
their progress to complete ami happy cures narrated . Eighteen engravings on wood illustrate the work , and add to its value . _TVe believe Mr . Hare has been highly successful in his efforts to relieve the afflicted from the distressing diseases and malformations , to the causes and cure of which he has mainly directed his attention , and we shall be glad to know that the wide sale of this work has helped to make him still better known to the public at large , that therebv the afflicted may come to learn that their sufferings are ( in all probability ) not "Without a remedy .
The Life, Writings, And Prktciples Of Th...
THE LIFE , WRITINGS , AND PRKTCIPLES OF THOMAS SPENCE , Author of the Spencam System , or , Agrarian Equality . By Aues _VatJpobt . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleetstreet . At the present time , when the subject of the Land is occupying so much the attention of tho _wording classes both in Europe and America , it must be interesting to learn _something of the man , _wtw , ia England , was the first to proclaim , the revolutionary doctrine that "the Land is the People ' s Farm . " _Thosias _Spexce was a natwe of JNewcastle- -Tynea town which has produced many
upon , eminent men , and whose inhabitants generally have ever been famous for their patriotism and love ot libertv . Sfexce was bom a short time before tne Amefiean revolutionary war ; Ms father was a suoemaker . _-who , though poor , gave his son » farr education . In the early part of his life , and during his stay at Newcastle , he kept a school , and it was while thus occupied a remarkable circumstance _^ _" > described in Mr . _DavekjoRx ' s pamphlet , which nrM drewhis ( _Spescb _' _s _) attention to tbe question of property in land . A short time after , as a member of the Newcastle Philosophical Society , he delivered a lecture to that body " On the Mode of _AdnunistenBg
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the Landed Estate of the' Nation as a Joint-Stock Property , in Pavuebial Partnerships , by _dividing the Rent . " This lecture w _;> . s at iirst warmly applauded ; hut its _puUication wa 3 speedily followed by the persecution of tiie author . First his enemies procured his _oxpubion from the _i'ljiioaophictil Society ; tlit'U means were _enip . ' uyod to break up bis school , by representing him as ' " a teacher of strango _doctriiies . " The piottings of liis enemies were hut too successful , and he was compelled to retire from Newcastle . _Tiams Si'EScr . next repaired ta Loudon , where he commenced employing himself as a bookseller . lie was too poor to rent a shop , and began by keeping a book-stall at the comer of Ciiancery-lano , Hoiborn . lie afterwards removed to a , small siiop in Little Turnstile , Hoiborn , where he published his celebrated "Figs' Meat , " which had a groat sale . In _lfiH _, during the suspension ofthe Habeas Corpus Act , he was arrested , aud was cotifiucd in Newgate
for some time . On his liberation begot _asmallsnop , No . 9 , . Oxford-street , where he continued publishing his plan in a variety of ways , one being the striking of copper _medate containing inscri ptions embodying his principles . In l _^ OS he was again arrested , under the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act , and confined iu tbe Houseof Correction , _Coldiath-ticlds . In 1 S 01 he was prosecuted for a political libel by the Attorney-General . _Hs defended himself , but was found guilty , and sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve months iu Shrewsbury gaol , to pay a line of £ 20 to tho King , and to be further imprisoned in dcfault thereof . He was released from the operation of the line br a subscription amongst his friends . He died suddenly in September , ISM , at liis lodgings m Castle-street , _Oxford-street , somewhat- _nwre tliau sixty years of age . He was faithful to the end . Ilis disciples buried his remains ia the burial ground , _Tottcnltum-eourt-road .
These leading _facte of Thomas SrKVes ' _s career will _Ije found more fully detailed-in the pamphlet before us . At the top of Grey-street , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , there stands a monument , erected while yet the Reform Bill fever wa 3 not _altogether extinct ; ou the top of that monument is perched a figure ofthe recently deceased aristocrat Earl Guet , Ilia haughty lordship declared upon a memorable occasion that he Would " stand by his order . " Now , aa that" order " is desti _netl to fall—as its destruction is as sure as
time an d as certain as death , we may reasonably expect that Lord Gkev will fall with his " order , " and the democratic earthquake topple his lordship ' s _> tatuc over . Of course the column may stand . 1 _< or tliat a use can be found . It will form a capital support for the statue o f ran ms who ttood lyfo ' s " order _"TiroJi-is _SruNCE . The Grey monument is at present an eye-sore to every trite patriot ; but let our Newcastle friends not _despair ; a us « will yet bc _lound for it , when the sr . t . v shall take thc place of thc " Lord , " and Spbxck be honoured in the place of _Girev .
Wc shall say nothing here of _Spejcce ' s _^ land system . We hope to have an opportunity of calling attention to his plan shortly ; in the meantime we hope our readers wilt purchase what few copies of this pamphlet are to be had , and learn ( herefrom the princi ples therein advocated . It is now some years since this little pamphlet ( which we believe may be had for sixpence ) was published ; but being informed that some faw copies remain unsold , wo havo thought it right to give it this notice . _^ We should bc glad to learn that the demand for this little work was such as to warrant Mr . DAre . YPonr publishing a revised and larger edition _. It would be a concluding act every way worthy of his political life , and wo are sure would be undertaken by him as " a labour of love . " It appears to us that _theprcsent time is mostpropitious for such an undertaking ; and wc shall be glad to leam that our Chartist friends show that they arc of the same opinion by immediately buying up tho copic 3 remaining ol this " Lifo of Spence , "
Outlines Of Natural Theology; Or, Eviden...
OUTLINES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY ; or , Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of thc Deity , Deduced from Nature . London : B . D . Cousins , 18 , Duke-strect , Lincohi ' _s-inu-fields . We can recommend this little work to our readers i ' or the pleasing information it contains . In this pamphlet , divested of all scientific jargon , tho young and uninformed may learn much of the wonders of their own frames , and not a lew of the mysterious and beautiful formation of tho animal world at large . As regards the theological argument and intent ot tho work , the reader thereof must judge for himself . The author , or compiler—for the work is avowedly a compilation from other writers—uses the old argument of the " watch , " which most of eav readers
must bc conversant with . The admirable mechanism of thc watch proves that it had an intelligent designer : therefore the still more admirable and wonderful mechanism , of man , and thc universe at large , proves thc same . It may be ; hut thc question will force itself : "If , granting that the watch must have had a maker , and hy the same rule of reasoning that the _iratcji-njafcov had a maker , who then made the maker of thc watch-maker ; or how came that maker to exist ? " Thc argument employed naturally gives uii'tu , to this question , which only the more involves us in inextricable , confusion . The fact is , the subj eet is beyond man ' s comprehension ; and such 'inquiries and speculations are , ami must be , fruitless and useless . As Btrox has it : —
Socrates said , our only _knoiwedg'e was " To know that uothimr could be known ; " a pleasant Science enough , _vrliich levels to au ass Each man of wisdom , future , past , or present . Newton ( that proverb of Iho mind ) , alas 1 Declarer } , with all his grand discoveries recent , That l : _o himself felt only " like a youth Picking up shells hy the groat ocean—Truth . " As we have before said , the anatomical and physiological information contained in this pamphlet constitutes its worth , and , we may add , entitles it to an extensive circulation .
Disturbances In Piebshibe. Kibsamy, Augu...
DISTURBANCES IN PIEBSHIBE . _Kibsamy , August 21 . On tlie night between "Wednesday and Thursday List the town of Dunfermline and neighbourhood were the scene of outrages indicating the most deliberate conspiracy and the roost murderous purpose . Ever since the _diBsrncelUl riots of 1 S 42 , a company of soldiers had been stationed iu Dunfermline till about four weeks ago , when tlicy were removed by orders from head-quarters , in opposition , we believe , to tho earnest and reasonable remonstrances of the local aathoritie ? . Ihose who were best acquainted with tlie reckless and desperate character of some of thc inhabitants , looked on this removal as the signal for an outbreak of flie most terrible kind in Dunfermline , and people not destitute of sufficient courage
bccauic alarmed ; while the fear of being marked out as victims , perhaps , prevented them from communicatingin-& i » iatton on the subject to the public authorities . Towards nightfall on Wednesday the streets of _Dnnfcnsline prescuted the usual sight of a great number of working people walking and standing in groups , but there was nothing to put the police on thc alert , and far less to suggest thc calling in of any extra farce to keep the peace . About nine o'clock , however , a person in disguise began Seating a dram atthe west end of Golfdrum-street , aud soon collected a large crowd about him—the beating of the drum being evidently a signal thatbad been expected and agreed on .
The drummer and the crowd , which increased prodigiously as they went along , proceeded around by Balridge Burr , back of tho Dam , aud through Foundry-street , Campbell-street , down 3 ftW-row _, along _J ' etheivrow , and up tiie New-road , to the premises of Jlr . Thomas Alexander , manufacturer , in Canmore-strect , where they stopped , and with slabs and stones _huocliedin or smashed to pieces all the windows in tho house , the frames as ( veil aa tl \ e glass , The magistrates and town police were soon ouflie spot , but there was no adequate force at hand capablo of dispersing the mob . In these alarming circumstances , Provost Eonaldson , with the most commendable courage , awl perhaps , trusting to the universal respect and esteem in which he and his friends had reason to believe that he
was held by all classes , and by none more than the working aud lower classes , went forward with lUiilie BivrcU aud Mr . JIacdonald , thc fiscal , and attempted to seize the drummer , whtn a ruffian , with a stick , came behind him and felled liim to the ground . On _YiOYOst Honaldson being raised up his bead was found to be severely rat , and he was otherwise so much injured that it was not till _Friday that bis medical attendants could report that he was doing well . As soon as the tumultuous assembly seemed satisfied with the work of demolition on Jfr . Alexander ' s property in Canmore-street , the crowd , which might now consist of 2 , 000 persons , proceeded about seven abreast to the dwellbg-bouse of Mr . James Alexander , ou his estate at
Balmule , about three and a half miles from Dunfermline . On passing tVellwood Colliery , we learn that a collier standing iu a group that had turned out on the occasion , encouraged thc hearts of the rascals by calling out to them , "Noo , lads , see and do youf wark right at once , an'no need to be gaunback again . " On leaving Dunfermline the drummer ceased his beating , and the mob moved on in great _silence—scorcdya word being spoken _. It was about eleven o'clock when tbe crowd , in quiet _, _fless and in order , reached _Balmule-hoase , havingcrossed tbe fields to it , in order to come all atonce in abody upon it , .. instead of walking up the avenue m a line . No voice or sound gave intimation to tho inmates till a shower of stones demolished the window panes . The inmates , however , succeeded in closing the shutters within ..
At this time Jfr . and Mrs . Alexander were asleep in bed , as well as their five children , the oldest only seven years of age . The other inmates were four women . The crowd , after literally demolishing every pane of glass in all the four sides of the house , _andJaboYe the front door , besides breaking the window-frames , and in some places the panneling of . the iuu _« shutters , and three of the iron rails at the front of the door , now burst into the lobby by smashing tbe door with a large stone , and thus _breaking open the lock . The servants flew up stairs to save themselves , and tbe rioters now set atoni their murderous work with all deliberation and quietness . There waaa & nwfcw before the telthen fire with clothes upon it , and to these clothes _thtiuiaans set fire , and at the same time brought in the _fcats _, cloaks , and other articles in the lobby , and tore , them to pieces , and added them as fuel to tbeflamesv One oithe women , hoping to divert
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the fury of _tha-mob from _tftrfnnreuuVd victim , said , that int was . Mr . Alexander they waulcJ , they could not _Uml Wm , ns he had ) _t-ft : ? tnt lnorr . iiv ; i ' nr _^ tiihiiurgh ; on which wm of the rhiglcadersi _, with n horrid oath , called bur ; i liar , and _s _«; d that he had ami iir . Alcsnnuer that _dtiy , nnd Unit he knew liu was iheu in the hausc _Tlierl-ad t . vu watchivords— "fire , " _ivliiclt seemed to mean , " There is danger ; " and " Wiute _, " which seemed to mean , " There is no danger , " When ll few scrvaiiU appeared from ; v _ueuvAimiving f ; _U-ni , the word " Tire " was given by the scout about the lodge . Y . 'licn l ! : ey were J . _noini to _hc only servants , " \ Vhiie" was vociferated . It is now heliered that there were , tho _sti- ;< _-t .. u injunctions given to utter uo _imuius , under Ilia penally of death .
lie . Alexander escaped to the roof of his house , when he hid _UimseU ' , having wrapped himself in a _hl . _- inket , am ! there lie rcmaiucd till after ilie crowd dispersed , in which state ho was nearly sulibvaied % thc smofce . In tin _iRMii lime _tliiJservaiit-t'ii-5 , by dircctionof Mi's . _Alcv- _'tudcr _, toW tlie mob tlicy wire at liberty to take uh : ; t thev _jdeaspd from thc house , if tlicy would grant her and liei family their lives . Hut anything so imwecut as house . breaking and robbery seemed far from their heavts , Mrs . Alexander , in her nighrgown _, and her children in
the same condition , _liaunowdcsccmlt'd , am ! were making their escape . About the door she lost Hie slippers she bad on her feet , and some of tiio rioters drugged her across the gravcl-waife , now thielily strewed wilh the ivitidoiv . _ghiss of Ihe house . One or two of the crowd , it _irf said , used her roughly . Will _U be believed Uvat in the present rfciy , iua highly civilised country , a mother and Hcv five children had to cross iho fields at midnight in a State of nakedness , to save ii > . _vwseWi-s from being muvtiered by a bloodthirsty mob of _riiiiians ? Mrs . Alexander and her children tuuh rel ' _uvro at J . ' _aJmuh' -farm .
On the ( _ihu-m Uew & _Wnvo Vn Dunfermline , Mr . Sheriff _Shlrt-n ; Mr . Macdomild , procurator fiscal , aud Mr . Hull , Inspector of Comity 1 _' _oiice , drove oil' in a droshy for 15 : _ilmule-house , but th i mob had left and dispersed , and aU was quiet before they could reach the place . A despatch was immediately sent _ujT to Edinburgh to Mr . Sheriff Mouteith , and to _I'k-i-.- ! iall barracks for _miliu « y , and \\\* _sVicthi arrived on 'fbms / _biy with a troop of thc * th Dragoon Guards ( Irish ) , commanded by Captain Arkwvjghr , who were soon landed at _Queensfeiry _, and rode into _J . _'mifci'mliiieat a sharp trot by ten or eleven o ' _clo ' - 'k in the forenoon . _'i'iio cause of this _ihv . idful riot appears to he an alleged breach of faith of the 3 . ' essrs . Alexander with the oilier manufacturers in not adhering to the table of prices agreed on by tbe tua « ufnc ' _nrt-rs in 1813 or _ISl-i . It is rcnovicd , however , tha t ihe Messrs . Alexander never signed that agreement with the vest of Ihe manufacturers .
Numerous partieKimve beeu ( Wednesday ) apprehended , and arc _bcinj ; examined b y Sheriffs _MotueitU and _Shh'tlV , and the oilier authorities . The _Uragoou Guards are to leave _Daufenvdine this day _( TlmvBdny , Aug . 21 ) , being , nt thc same time , replaced by . 1 detachment of infantry _. On Monday the justices uf the Dunfermline district met in thc town-house , and resolved to memorialise Government on the-necessity of making Dunfermline a permanent military station , imd having _barrnclts built for the accommodation ofthe men . —Times , KlJlKClLDT _, _Aveusr 23 .
Daring Thursday a proclamation was issued from the Provost and magistrates of . Dunfermline and the Sheriffs , intimating , that if tho ecil-disposed inhabitants of the town nnd neighbourhood sliould again assemble after nightfall in a lawless and tumultuous manner , the civil authorities are prepared to suppress such an attempt , ana , if need bc , with the aid of tha military ; requesting alt the respectable iv \ w \ bivem _\ s of Dunfermline to slop within doors after nightfall , aud not to assemble iii groups in the street ; mid intimating that if they fail to giro heed to this warning , they will havu themselves to blame for the eousenucuccs _.
Since Thursday morning- 3 [ r . Sheriff Monrcitli _, j fr . Sheriff Slnrcfl _* , and tho other authorities , have been _constantly engaged in examinations connected witli these outrages . Since Mv . Honteith left , Mr . _SUeviii" S' uvroft nnd Mr . JIacdonald , the fiscal , have been inilcfatigably employed from morning to night iu examining Ihe parties brought iu by the police , and at the time we write these labours are still continued . "Wc are glad to believe that the result of these laborious investigations will bo the conviction of some of tho leaders , notwithstanding the secresy and mystery in which their crimes are involved , and the evident fear of being inniked out for vengeance felt by those who may know tho circumstances .
On _fharsday evening great numbers of persons wero seen in the streets , but they were soon dispersed by the police . It was rumoured that an attack was meditated on the property of some individuals in the employment of tho Messrs . Alexander . However , the cm turns of the police were such as to prevent any assembling , and Dunfermline since the riot has remained perfectly tranquil . On . visiting _Bnlmule-housc on Saturday morning , we found that every particle of wood in tha kitchen had been deliberately and separately set lire to , _inclinling tho least bar or stick . A salt-box placed in a niche in the wall is reduced to a box of charcoal . An old clock , of very hard wood , is charred from top to bottom , the dial-plate and hours being blistered with the _llmncs . The kitchen , however , is a chamber of solid stone , though the painting had
concealed tins from the uiccudiarics , imd to this circumstance it is owing t ' _eat Hie bouse of Daimule is not now ; i heap of ushes , mingled , it might havo been , with the romaiiis af the unfortunate inmates . To prevent even the possibility of deliverance , tbe rioters tore down iho two water casks at the back of thc house from the stones on which they were placed , ami rolled thein .-may in the shrubbery , breaking t )> e _lioop . s and the leaden pipes . The work tnat wo have described was tbe woric of half an hour , and about this time the mob , as cowardly as they were cruel , were alarmed at the appearance of some servants coming from Civiigduckic . Tiie watch-words "Fire" and "Home , home , " were given , _.-nid the whole body took to flight , one of them , it is said , being heard to exclaim that it was beyond the power of man to _tave tho house from the llames .
On Thursday forenoon Jlr . and Mrs . James Alexander , who were so barbarously maltreated on the night in question , and their family , crossed to Edinburgh . Xor is it wondered nt that a mother who htwl witnessed the deeds of that night should resolve for the vest of her life to keep the waters of the Frith of _Eorth between her children and a district whore _sucCi atrocities were committed . Prom the details whicli wchavc given , it is impossible to come to any other conclusion than Hint tlwrc is in the town of Dunfermline a regular band of conspirators , organised and disciplined with watchwords and signals , bound together under obligations of secrecy , and with hearts to conceive and heads to execute any crimes , however atrocious . "We need not say that such a fearful state of things must be met by the authorities with the utmost vigilance , and that Dunfermline requires the constant protection of ihe military .
There arc other circumstances which will iu future make this protection still move indispensably necessary tlian it is at present . In- addition to the unquiet population of Dunfermline , and ofthe disorderly inhabitants of Crossgatcs , Halucath , and Dell's Kitchen , and thc numerous collieries around Dunfermline , wc have now hefore us the prospect of a new village of 2000 or 3000 inhabitants , arising at once at the groat iron-woi-fts _.-iboufc to be opened at _OaWcs -, aud between tins new population and the strangers whom tbe demand for railway labourers will bring into Fife , it is to be feared that tho prevalence of peaceful and moral habits , and of good order and security to person and property , will uot be iu proportion to tho increase ofthe census . —Times .
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THE BURY MANSLAUGHTER . Liverpool , ' _fnunsmr , Am , 21 . ( Before Mr . Baron Ilolfe . J _Fmnrr-mCK ILumis was indicted for having at Bury , on the 26 th of May last , killed and slain one John Sugdcn . Mr . _Gkmsgeu avid Mv . Fny conducted the prosecution ; thc prisoner was defended by Mr . Wiuuxs . Mr . _Roheuts , known as "the Miners' Attorney-General , " was attorney for the prosecution , A great number of witnesses were called to establish _, the ease against the prisoner . Their statements varied in somo minute respects , though detailing generally pretty much tho _salno facts . In substance the account which they gave of the matter
was as fellows : —In the month of May the town of Bury was in a state of excitement , ami some alarm was felt in consequence of a very extensive turn-out among the sawyers , spinners , and those of other occupations . In some of these trades a number of persons not connected with the union , had taken the places of those who had abandoned their work , and wece inconsequence the object of great dislike among the turn-outs , being followed in the streets when going to and from their work , called "black sheep " and " knobsticks , " and threatened with violence ; so much so that it became necessary to havo the police to escort them to nnd from their work . The town of Bury was '' picketed , " that is , posts of the turn-outs were established in the outskirts , whose object was to prevent any persons coming into the town to take work at the various factories where the turn-outs had been employed . Several of the
witnesses called for tho _prosecution had been employed on this service ; and they alleged that tho sole object of these " pickets" was to Ibok out for "tramps , " who were taken to the " club-houses " of the union , received some food and money , and were sent on their way ; and they denied that violence was used to any who might refuse to accede to this arrangement Among the works at which " knobsticks had been employed was the foundry of the Messrs . Walker , and the prisoner was in their cmploy . _Ontheevoring of the _56 th of May he , with several otherssimilarly circumstanced , was at a . beerhouse kept by a person , of the name of Charleston , in Rochdale New-rOad , nearly _opposite the Messrs . Walkers works . A crowd was assembled beforb the door , consisting m a considerable proportion of women and ebddnm , but uieludkg a great number of _joung men . They were hooting at tho " knobsticks . " A
person oiticno . ruu f » _rj _^ Ashworth Radcliffe who was called as a witness , stated , while this was going op he saw thc prisonef in tiie yard of the public-house in company with the others , and that at that time he had m his hand a thick yellow swordstick . He partl y drew tie swdrd from the stick , and said he would take some one ' s life before he slept . No Other person , Iwmwr . though many were said
to have been present , on tho occasion , was called ( o corroborate this fact , or the _expression said to have accompanied it . _Shii _.-ily after , according _( o UadelilTe _' s statement , tlie _prisoner ami hb _eoMjiiauimis came mil of lbefront _dosr , a :: d _proea'ded cut- of lloelnl _.-ilu iV . m-ro .-u ! into _Clmpel-strcot , whore thoy lodged lit the house of ft pevsroi of the name of _Turtou . Thoy woe received with boatings , and Die crowd followed ami pressed upon them _: _is they went down iho street . _Radcliit ' e followed , and on coming near to Turtoii _' s door , where the prisoner and liis companions had arrived immeil ' _micly _tufuro , he saw the prisoner beating swim bins with ihe same yellow stick which he had had in liis hand in Ihe yard of the becr-liouse . Another _witnew , Uo . _'h _' _. _vcli , stated that he we : ;! up
a _: ; d took the prisoner by ihe eolisr , desiring him tu giro over , and go into the honcc . Thc prisoner Td rack over the witness ' s shoulder twice or thrice , and some ono cried out th « t the prisoner bad stabbed two men . He iilierwards went up ( he steps in 'i _' nrton ' s house . 1 _'Vor . ; the testimony of other witnesses , it would appear tliat . the deceased had received the injury which resulted iu his death before Uolliwell came up . It wa _.-jsaid thatisi coming down the streetthe prisoner was waving to tlie crowd which followed , as if culling them to come on . lie was at that time apparently in good humour . The crowd was pushing the little boys against bim . Ou reaching ' lurtoii ' s Ucor he went up two of the steps , and then cither came down again or was pulled down , and a cry was _rjii-icd _ihafc there was a dagger in tiie stick , and that it should be taken from him . Uo then . struck abfliit
him several tunes with ihi ; stick , and in a lew seeuuds thoswwuit contained was seen to be out of the scabbard ;; but us to w _^ _clker- thc prisoner drew it , or whether it Hew off while striking , or was pulled offhy Ihe crowd in tho struggle , did not exactly appear . The deceased was iu the crowd at some little distance from the prisoner when _holii-.-t cumo up to _Tnrton _' sdoor , and was leaping up _tolooit over thc heads of those in front , and sou what was going on . While the . struggle for tho stick was proceeding ihe prisoner was forced some yards _liflm the daov towards ihe corner of Chapel-street and _Butclier s ' trcct , and in the change which , tcok place in thc position _ofi'lio crowd the deceased came opposite to iiiin ami received a thrust from the sword in tlie pit of tlie stomach . There was , ; is was to be anticipated , some little confusion as to what took phce at the
time tho wound was inflicted . Some said the deceased was close to liim , and that he merely _thnai ouU _' . _is aviu _tiUha mcviYcYvl - , others , that he rushed some steps towards tlie deceased nnd stabbed him . lie then struck at another , who alleged that his waistcoat was cut by the stroke , and in making a further thrust the sword came in conflict with the wall and was broken . Tim prisoner then retreated into thc house , taking with him the remains of the swordcane , the scabbard portion being loft in the street . The deceased wa . _* taken to seek medical aid , and the prisoner was shortly after apprehended hy the police . On being pointed out to the ollieer , who asked him if he was the person , ho said , "I am theman they say has stabbed liim . " The remains of the sword-cane which tho prisoner took with him into the , house have . not been found . The prisoner said he had left it in tbe street .
These were the main facts of tho occurrence , but the witnesses varied in many imninto particulars , whicli it would be unintei'CStingto detail . They all , or nearly all , were either of tiic turn-out party , or connected with it , and their evidence generally seemed to be more ov less coloured in consequence . On the deceased being taken to a doctor , it was found lie bad received u wound in front near the pit of tho stomach , which was bleeding a little . There wasa swelling near the part , for which tiie medical man could not account , aud shortly after he vomited
a great quantity of blood , showing that some of the blood-vessels of the stomach were wounded . Ho sank vapidly , and died from loss of blood . Oa a jwst mortem examination , the surgeon found in the body a largo portion of thc sword-cane , which had broken off . It had transfixed thc stomach , ami penetrated nearly an inch into the cartilage between two of tho bones of the soine . The other extremity produced the apparent swelling for which the medical man had been unable to Recount . This being ihecaso for the prosecution ,
Mr . Wh . ki . ys addressed tiie jury lor the defence _, lie said it most clearly appeared that Bury was , for some time before this occurrence , in a state of groat disturbance , calculated to produce the greatest alarm iu the minds of the peaceably disposed , who , by taking service at the works which tho turn-outs had lei ' t had rendered themselves obnoxious to that party _, lie , the learned counsel , trusted that the working classes , availing themselves of thc increased means of knowledge within tlieir reach , would eve long learn to have moro regard for their own welfare , and a better appreciation of their real interests , than to be led into such courses by the advice and at the instigation of interested men , who made . them the instrument of their own sordid ends . He , thc
learned counsel , had inquired into many particulars apparently not very closely connected witli thc transaction , but which would bo found not to be unimportant or irrelevant . He had inquired into the wages which had been paid to the several witnesses who had been called , and _ivho belonged to the party of tho turnouts , that the jury might see the animus with which these parties came into the box , Thoy were getting good wages , they had no ground of complaint _Jigainsfc their masters , and yet they threw themselves but of employment , and exposed themselves to poverty and privation , to further the great tnvn-oat , from which they expected some extraordinary benefit . When tlicy made such sacrifices for thc cause ,. it was not to bc expected they would bo unbiassed witnesses against
one who had _eaiuuutted the crime ot claiming in this free country the liberty of disposing ofhis labour as he pleased , and who , in consequence , had come within the ban of those who attend public meetings i ' or the _purpose of organising these unions , and throw up their caps in honour of those who preach to them of liberty , while they themselves arc acting as the most _vecktess of tyrants . Thc learned counsel then went minutely through tho details of the evidence , contending that the whole of it , so far as they could sec through thc contradictions by which it was surrounded , and thc evident bias on the part of the witnesses _, was consistent with the case , that the prisoner was set upon by the mob , and pulled down the stops ofhis house ; that he struck- with thc stick to defend himself ; that the sheath was pulled from thc sword in thc scuffle ; and that while he was holding the
sword to keep oil the crowd , from whoso violence no might well suppose his life was in danger , the deceased was pushed upon it by the crowd behind , and tluiscamc by his death , lie complained that a great number o _' f the witnesses called before thc coroner had not been examined on this trial ; and contended , that though then called hy the prisoner , the prosecutor should have them called ou this occasion , the object of the coroner ' s inquest being , for the sake of the public , lo ascertain the cause of the death of ono of her Majesty's subjects . After some further observations , the learned counsel concluded with a strong appeal on behalf of the prisoner , a _poov man , and without thc means of procuring tho attendance of witnesses to meet the statements of those whom he had made his enemies merely by seeking honestly to earn his daily bread .
Mv . Baron _Rolfb summed up , leaving it to thc jury to say whether the prisoner took away the life ofthe deceased by his intentional act . If it was a mere accident , he would , of course bc entitled to be acquitted , though for that hypothesis he ( the learned Judge ) did not sec any reasonable ground . If it was intentional , the act would be manslaughter " , unless done in self-defence—in defence of Jii ' e or limb . A party , there is no doubt , may , when assailed , repel force by force ; hit there must be some proportion between the force offered nnd the force used hi resisting it . A good deal of ' inquiry bad been made into the state
ofthe town oi jjury at this period , with a view to show tliat the party might reasonably apprehend such violence as to bo justified jn supposing that lifo or limb was in danger when so assailed ; but it would fa a dangerous thing , without tho strongest evidence , to come to thc conclusion that the state of society at that time was such as to justify a nufii iu using a sword-stick and running through _thclodyany one who might attempt to take it from him . His lordship then minutely recapitulated tho evidence . Tho Jury , after a few minutes' deliberation , returned a verdict of Guilty , hut with a recommendation to mercy . Sentence deferred till the next morning .
On the following morning Frederick Karris was brought up to receive sentence . His lordship remembered that he had delayed sentencing the prisoner in order to consider whether the recommendation of the jury to mercy could be attended to ; hit the circumstance of tlie prisoner being armed with d deadly _icconon ivas wholly inconsistent with Quit _reconunentfation . Us _mvjsi be ? nAXsx _> o . iiTEB son _IWESI 3 _T _VEAK 3 _.,
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Tnfi _FiCTECcaitb Convicts . —Active measures ar _" e now in progress in the town of Neath , for the purpose of petitioning her Majesty , praying for a remission , or at least an amelioration , of tl \ c _puwisuTneut now being undergone by the individuals who were engaged in the Reboccaite disturbances . —WeUiimcm A pAiPABiiE Reason . — -Is the Duke of Richmond president of the Agricultural Association and a feeder of fat cattle ? Yeg .--Tb . ca why does be allow 1 ) I « brother , Lord Arthur , to take office under a Free Trade Government ? Because Lord Arthur is a lean-ox , and place is very likely to fatten ban , —Jot
MUer . A ' _T _^ MflQ Cl « t 6 BV _HOLMWAV ' S PlUS AA > Ocstwent !—Jane _Forsjtb , residing in { be ( Mofc \ Glasgow , havj been ft _uopple from her youth With a contraction . In the k » ee , occasioned by a fall , which produced fifteen _abeeesSes in different parts of the leg and tbi , * it need scarcely ( bo said that She had had the advice of medical men' of the greatest eminence , but failed to afford the least relief , but sWmay now be seen walking about Glasgow , perfectly , cured , the abscesses healed , and the limb quite souud . and this after every other _uieans had failed , byonlyusing these _vonderfulmedicmea ,
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Sir James to shoot ho _-ywrats . The _QiK-tiu and all tin Co ire are uiit in _la-Hiwi' . y and _I- 'h nil M , And , happy m ' idit bis i at : ve _l-nutt , My i iir . ee ! y Albert vsi idcvs . No move tiie dumpy V : 1 , 1 ' « _aicil Tlie royal standard y . r ices ; Alone , iipti _;; his low ) , liiivch , The yawning sent :- ; p _ccs . " _Deiu- ; ith an elm-tree , n it b : ui _!; . 1 mused , ( .-in- tired my himcli « _' . i ? .-J And therein ( _dumberud't i -. _::-. ii !; , And this the dream of _itav ' t was .
the _Dsr . _AJi . 1 _dreonud it was a chair oi' gtd . 1 , Tiie ; . -i-. t . w : y ban ' : i sat o : ; I dreamed Saint _l-Mward ' s _stejiU'S old 1 wielded for _al-wton , -lien crowded Ut my throne , the elm , In vc , vuvv . v » d _vdligianee ; Anil . ' ' tinA was _jmulishM thrcusU the realm , Tlie jolliest of _Uogenvs . _Baclf fame ilie uiiiiisteri . il roi : 6 From t »> i > vin ; . ' and _earmtstng ; U _.-tc-k came Sit- Hob from Tvnw . hout . And hack Sir James iiom _grousing . 1 Jtll'iul ilium a scornful ! : e . ! , "When Graham c . sU'd my favour ; I sternly tomb'h'd ] _h-l _.-ly TcA 'Co Turnabout i ' or oxer .
To courtly Aberdeen , 1 Svivi A mission _iviuncntfi . 5 , To servo tbe _Yaulc . e President _, \ s Flunky _Coiitidctit'al . Lord . i ; roii ;; liam and Wux in _banishment _Iordt-AltoOidUi-ehic , Ami _Sta . _'ili-y to Jew £ eai . 'iud wiut Ambas ' sndor tu Held . And _Kcll _. v , whom the world . _'i ? sai' !* , _iSut whom the bar tubes i ' . imo iVmn , I math * Lord Viscount _Jfcw . South V . ' _tdvn Where _jioor John _Tawell came from . And then I ashed His Grace , _llic Duke , What ministers to _£ _« lo , On which he gcercusiy took Tho Cabinet iii ta ' o .
O fhcfj ! nil _tdiitu' _ri-igHs _trbicb smr . e 1 ' iion onr _paic ; _dctncstU ' _, Were mean aad dim comoar _^ d to : u : « c , Tliat _licgciicy _liiajcsit ' c . And ages hence Hie _Ft-j »! ish realm Shall tell thc won- r _« rl legend Of Fimeli , when at ll _. _c _nation ' s _holai , Hit Jiajcsty ' s lli _^ li _Uegmt . Around my empire ' s wide frontier So greedy bu'dv swaggered , Kor swindling Ytmkce buccaucer , _A ' or savage ( jallic braggart . For _Uirciits and _i-. _i'ms _uews _tl-. su « _nsidc , And w : _ir-s ! u _)>! _im-m-d to iraCev . * , _Aiul all onr purls v . vrc _ojn-ned wide To welcome thv i » Viiilc _» .
At home the cottier conrsed his hare , _Kerfdc the Duke- his ucighbeur ; The weaver got his _livi _. _ig iair i'or bis ten lmurs _ot'Jalour . And every man without I'mplny Cot beef—not _bosn-s—lo Stud on , And every little _worhinft boy His page _ofi- _' micA cuuld road on . And Irishmen learned _comukoh sprsp , And _jiriuhmve _bvouglit tlicm ri ' _.-Ucs ; Repeal _ecaStd pilfering for pence In l _' _.-iddy ' _s mended breeches . Old 3 ) . _i : _i n hs grown too rich io beg , And in a 1 _'iiion jolly I linked Mac Hale with Tresbam Crc _^ _j Aud _llcvesiuid with Crolly .
Then genlli _.-mcn miglit earn their wcad , Aud thiv . U tfwve . was no s _' . v . _' . mo in' t ; And at my court might hold their J . _eatl Like any Duke or L ' ame iu 't . A Duchess nnd a governess The same _ijuadrille I _elantiu ; I asked old Wellington to mess , And meet a half-pay Citpinin . The Bar ami Vrcss 1 recouciicd ( They thanked mo one and all _lev ' t ) , Senigimntly the Ihaudeivr f . nd ' . ed On Mr . Serjeant _U'aifourd » » » I know not where my fancy Hvaycd , 3 Iy _drcani grew wiMev—bolder—When suddenly a hand was laid _l- ' ul ! rousidy on my shoulder .
It was the Cur . rm . nn of the rr . vl ; , — The sun was pen ! -: in Heaven ; "Cit up , " says he , " it ' s nfrcr darlt , AVeshuts at hali-jiast seven . " And so I rose and shook myself , And , sniiatus lud ' t _, Kesigncd the crown to Royal _Guc-ljli , And went to tea to Judy . —i'micft , _KIimtak Justick . —There have _bee-i _.-rorcral revolting cases of military flogging at Vv " _incher-lor . Vfo proposo thai ; Hie ehm _tad _Sgiu'c of Justice be altered liu' tlie especial use of the army . Tbe s > v , ovd _should Ix taken from her , as an ins ' _tvKiu-nt r . otcuttitig deep enough , and the eat-o ' -niiic-taiis put _inlo lice hand _instead . The banda . te over her eyes sliould remain the same ; for it would never do " for Justice lo _sco tho cruelties that are practised in the army under her sacred name . —Ibid .
PnocKF . ss os ScVKsCE . — -Science is genera Jy represented with a lighted torch in her hand . Tliis will account for some of the atrocities that havo lately followed from the so-called scientific expedition of tile French info thc interior of Algiers . —Ibid , _lYjiMi worth ' run Moxf . y . —Vfc learn iVcm tho late debate on thc Estimates , limtsoineof tho _doovkcepera of tke House of Commons _receive aa _ttiucli as £ -500 a year . Far from thinking this salary too much , we consider the functionaries are underpaid , if tiicy liave to remove all the dirty things , both real and imaginary , that people lay at the door of the House of Oiiiuniuiis . —ioiii .
"The _TnuAseiiBS or Tim J ) kki \"— I he voiiownfg intelligence—quoted from tho Hampshire Telegraphcomes from fret-hearted , liberty-loving America : — "By a private letter which has reached us from Gibraltar , wc arc informed , upon good authority , that 30 , 000 slave shackles , for w _, women and children _^ —in all fourteen cart-loads—have been fished up f rom thc wreck of the American war-stcamcr Missouri , lately burnt at that port . " Now , as the timbers and other relics of our Foyal George have been worked into boxes and nick-nacks , we propose to Americans —the traders of the human shambles , the moneyscckimr breeders of "God ' s likeness in ebony "—that
they should turn the penny with these 2 _d , _() _W sJaro slia ' ckles : If wrought into utensils for domestic use , of what vrouM still be better , turned into ornaments for the women of America , they would endear to thom that sweet principle which coins money from thc " marrow and the bones of man . " Souioofthcsp shackles might also bc manufactured into steel _clasps for the bibles of the very religious breeders of the black . —Ibid . A _Yiinv Goon Excuse . —\ Yc have been assured , on thc best authority , that the absence of the Sim is attributable solely to the fact , that since lie has acquired so much fame by his photogenic pictures , he has been keeping out of the way for fear he should bo made President of the Iloml Academy . —Ibid .
Railway Returns . —Tlie profits annually returned on railways arc something enormous ; but the _largest ; item in railway returns bids i ' nir to be the list if the killed and wounded . —Ibid . Tim Moors , —Tho members are on the Moon , and it may be said that the Heme has gone to the Grouse . The season began well , or , as the Times has it , was J ushered in "by a , lino dry bracing morning . "—The J fact of its being a bracing morning accounts perhaps i for the bagging of Fox Manic of J GO brace ! That t _fo-m knows how to maul 'cm is the natural ejaculation , a of our sporting readers . —Odd , _ArTREHENSlOX 01 ? TUB _FlUME MINISTER . —Pcd > l _' , tin * other wight in the liouse , said he was anxious tho to country should _appichend him . 'Wo hope the couh- ii ? try wiil take the hint . —Ibid .
Efi'ioACt of Absolution . —When the infamous us Toutzel , a Dominican Monk , and the Pope ' s agent ) it ) was retailing indulgences in Germany ( a , d . 1518 ) , 8 ) , and had collected a great sum of money by the sale ale of thero at Leipsic , a gentleman of that city applied led to him for an indulgence to commit a certain crime me without specifying what it was . Teutzel consented-, _ed-, _ueceived his fee , and granted the indulgence in due due forni . Soon after , tho gentleman waylaid _Teufael tsel on hisdepartweiVomtbe city , cudgelled him soundly , dly , and robbed him of all his _menov , telling him , at , at parting , tliat _tfa was tho crime fov which lw had had purchased absolution . _Get-rgo _, Duke . of Saxony , a y , a zealous friend to the see of Birao , when ho heard of- d o £
tuetobhery , was highly indignant at first , but when , _rhea he loavned all the circumstances , he laughed heartil y , rtily , _, aad pardoned the offender . _—Jortiris Life of Erasmus , _imws . . _BiBUCAt _, Comwekt . —At the commencement of the if the j lifte war , an hon est former , vho read hifl Bible every every f Sunday , went to his rector and asked him whether letter r he did not think the contest would go very hard with 1 with , k the Efench ? The rector replied that , if it pleased leased i X 5 od , ho hoped it would . " Nay , " said the farmer ; _irmer ; ?; " I am sore it will then \ for He says by tho _wopheli _rophet _Jt _EzckieZ ( xxsv . 1 , 2 , 3 ) , ' Son of man , set thy facaiy faca _» _: against Mount Seir . ' Now my wife , who ia » bettei _Tbettei k _Seholav than I am , says this can bo nothing bafcng bat at _Mowueer , the Freachman . ; and in almost the nexfcie nexfexfe versa it is still stronger , Tor there the prophet _adtab adds , la , ' 0 , Mount Seir , Ism _against theo , and 1 wiU _matollinatete I thee modi desolate "' _^^
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 30, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30081845/page/3/
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