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MARCO BQZZABIS . He fell in an attack upon the Tnrkiab . Camp . « t Laspl , fcejate of the ancient Plaisai , Augum 200 ^ . 1823 , and expired in thftgnoment of Tictory . Bis last "worda were , " To die lor Snrty is a pleasure , and not a pain . ''
pie republicatlon of these beautiful Hues -wfflawt be « naiaered inappropriate Trtth the leeent glorious eventa SB Greece frtaa in the memories of our readers . Allusions to-the daughtera of tbe "modem Xesnidaa" wffl be found in our Greek news in another column } . At midnight , in hia guarded tent , — 33 ie Turk -was dreaming of the hoar , When Greece , herinee in anpplisnce bent . ^ houMtremble at bis power ; In dreams through camp and eourt he bore ! Ebe trophies of & conqueror In dreams Ms « mg of triumph heard , Then -wore bis monarch ' s signet zing , Then presseda » menarch * « throne—a king ; As wild his thought * and gay of wing , As Eden ' s garden bird . At midnight in the forest shades ,
B saris rargedhis SnBote band , True as the steel of their tried blades , Heroes in heart and hand . There had the Persian ' * thousands stood . There had the glad earth drnnk their blood On old Pla' e »' a day ; And now they breathed that Tiaanted air , The sons of sires who conquered there , With arm to strike and son ! to dare , As quick , as far as they . An hear passed on—the Turk awoke ! That bright dream was his last ; He . woke—to hear his aentry * 8 shriek ,
"To arms ! theycome ! the Greek ; the Greek !" He woke—io die . 'midst flune and smoke , And about , and groan , acd sabre stroke ; And d-a £ h- * hots falling thick and fast l ^ ka forest pines before the blast , . Or lightnings from the mountain clond ; And heard , with roice as trumpet loud , Bczsarris cheer his bandj " Strike—tin the last arm'd toe expires , " -Strike for your altars and your fires , " Strike for the green graves of your sires , " God ~ and yonr native land !" They f ought , like brave men , long and -well :
They pilad that ground -with Moslem slain : They conquered—but Bcszjxis fell , Bleeding » t every vein . His iew sorriviBg comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah , ' And the red field was won 7 '~ Then saw in death his eylids close Cahnly , as to a nights repose , Like flowers at set of snn . Come to the bridal chamber , Death ! Com * to tbe mother ' s when she feels Pot the first tame , her first-born ' s breath ; Come when the blessed seals Which . cloae-tbepesiileneeare broke , And crowded cities wall it stroke ; Come in consumption ' s ghastly form , Tbe earthquake ' s shock , the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm ,
With banquet-song , and dance , and wine ; And thon art terrible ; the tear , The groan , the knell , the pall , tbe bier , And an we know , or dream , or fear Of agony are thine . Bat to the hero , when his sword Has won the fettle for tbe free , Thy voice sounds like a prophet ' s word , Asd in its hollow ; ones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be . Come , when bb task of fame is wrought ; Come in her crotrniog hour ; and then Tby sunken eyes' nneartby light To him iB welcome as the sight
Of sty and stars to prisen'd men ; Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign-land ; Thy summons welcome as "the cry , Which told tbe Indian isles are nigh , To the world seekinsz Geonese , When the land wind , from woods of the palm , And orange groves , and fields of balm , Blew o ' er the Haytien seas . Borzaris ! with the storied brave , Greece nurtured in her glorys time , Bast thee : there ' s no prouder grave , Even in ner own proud cUme 1 She wore no funeral weeds for thee > Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume , lake a torn branch from death ' s leafless tree , In sorrow ' s pomp and pageantry , —
The heartless luxury of the tomb ; Bat she numbers thee as one long-loved and for a season gone . Por thee her poet's lyrs is wreathed , Her marble wrought , her music breathed , For thee she rings the birth-day bells ; Of thee her babe ' s first lisping tells ; Por thine her evening prayer is said , At pa&ce couch , and cottage bed . Her soldier , closing with the foe , Gipesfor thy sake a deadlier blow ; His plighted rnnirten , when the fears
For him , the joy of htr young years . Thinks of thy fate , and checks her tears ; And she , tbe mother of the boys , Though in her eye and faded ebeek To read the grief she will not speak , The memory of her bmried joys ; And even she who gave him birth , "Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth , Talk of thy doom without a sign ; Por thou art Freedom's now , and Fame ' s ; One of the few , immortal names , That were not born to die .
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THE ERRORS OF EMIGRANTS , &c &e . By Gspbgs Piowra , of Albion . Edward ' s County , Illinois . London : Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleetstreet . The author of this work is a gentleman who , with ihe la ? e Mi . Morris Birkbeck , took the lead in forming an English settlement in the State of Illinois , in the year 1817 . The speculation excited considerable interest at the time in this conntry , from the fact of the leading characters engaged therein being men ¦ who were imbued with the ** Radical" principles of the day , and were conseqnently dissatisfied with the political order of things here ; and migh on the other iand , be snpposfd 10 have expected mnch from the more democratic insutntionB of the country
whither they went p ilgrims , Beeking a home in the * fer West , " where freedom would protect and prosperity reward their labours . Jndging from the work before us , we should say , that whilst -a # the anticipations indulged in by the adventurous " pioneers" may uos have been realized , the greater and more substantial portion have been . Mr . Flower describes tbe settlement as being thoroughly established ; and while some have acquired wealth , the whole have acquired aiid aie enjoying a high degree of substantial comfor t . The toils , disappointments , and difficulties , of the first stages of their location having been surmounted , the . settlers are rapidly progressing , and fast becoming a flourishing community . At
least Ench 13 the picture drawn by Mr . Flower , and apparently . with trnth and sincerity . The objeet of the author is not so mnch to give a history of the settlement , as to warn emigrants against the errers often , —indeed almost invariably , — committed by those who have hitherto left Europe in quest of a home on fiie Columbian shore . Theseerrors are severally enumerated in different chapters , and advice and directions , given on matters of vital importance j which advice , & . C ., so far as we are competent to understand its worth , we consider to be wise and of surpassing importance ) to the adventurer and the exile . Tins little book also affords information of the most valuable description , toncbing the rise and progress of the Western states or the North American Union , statistics of the population , public lauds , mineral and agricultural resources ,
modes and charges of conveyance , description of the different routes to the " far West , " face of the country , climate , general health of the inhabitants , trade r politics , education , religion , &c . &c . &c . The whole Is written in a highly pleasing style , and enlivened with witty anecdotes . As we perused its pages , we marked a number of passages for extract , but on concluding we found we had marked the greater part of the book 1 We perhaps could give our readers no better proof of our opinion Of its jmerits . From chapter 20 we select a few extracts illustrative of the progress" of ihe settlement founded by Messrs . Birkbeck and Flower . After stating that certain circumstances led te an estrangement between himself and Mr . Birkbeck almost si the very " settling , " which resulted in a division of the land they had purchased , - ( a prairie and adjoiniDg woodland ) , Mr . Flower thus proceeds 1—
"A crowd of emigrants Immediately followed , in » constant stream of succession . Murmurs of discontent circulated through the Ill-assorted and ill-accommodated * ttltntfflrfn The inconveniences of a population in ad-Taoee of necessary shelter and sometimes of sufficient food , were . then experienced . ' Provisions had to be dealt oat by those who had them to those who wanted ; Adding , coveting of every description , cooking utenifls , bridles , saddles , even from the necessity of the ease , were almost common property ; Bnd this state of difficulty and confusion was doubtless augmented by tbe fact , that every individual there assembled was utterly ignorant and inexperienced in t- he business of settling in a new country—ignorant not o ^ J of the difficulties of anew country , but destitute of ex ^ oerience in country life in any country whatever ; for ont'third at least of that motley population had never bfc en out of a town Pi city in England . Common to the occa . ti . on were va-
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rious strange scenes of sadden and conflicting emotions . Anger , joy , vexation , mirth , and imprecations of ten succeeded each other in quick and ludicrous succession It may well be imagined that those who were the original cause of this congregation of the people in the wilderness , came in occasionally for a share of reproach and abuse . I must now bear testimony that there was much less-of this feeling lhan might have been expected ; and a spirit of energy and action prevailed that overcame every obstacle . This elementary confusion soon gave place to comparative order , and very Boon every man went his way , and did that which was light in the aight of his own eyes . Those that had money soon sought and selected lands for themselves in prairies adjacent te the one in which we had settled ; these collected about them a portion of the labourers , some with families and some without Thus was the incongruous
mass divided , and each man with money was then at the head of a little community , aiding him in his schemes of improvement with their labour , who in turn received from him their support One of the first things most needed and difficult speedily to obtain near every man ' s door was a well In digging a well in the village prairie during the first months of our settlement , a most fatal and melancholy accident occurred . One morning , upon descending tbe yet unfinished well , tbe first man fell senseless , and the second , hastening to his relief , fell also . Not suspecting the cause , two others in succession descended , and in a few minutes the corpses were all that remainded of four robust and healthy men . The noxious damps had killed themalL They were the first deaths in our settlement The bodies were interred with the usual ceremonies of the Church of England . The origin of the town of Albion .
"The inconvenience of living in detached settlements , without any common centre for artificers and mechanics necessary to the most common husbandry , was soon discovered . " A neighbour living in the village prairie , six miles north of me , agreed that each of us should start from our dwelling at a given hour , and guided by tbe compass ; one going South , and the other North , proceed onward through the woods until we met Through the tangled vines , and brushwood of the forest , the unerring needle guided us to a meeting . There was nothing objectionable in the spot Here , said we , let us raise oar blacksmith's shop for mutual accommodation . " The evening , after the day ' s excursion , was spent at my cabin ; as we lay on our beds on the floor , we extended our projects , we built mere cabins , raised a town , and peopled it with various trades ! We discussed , proposed , decided on a name . It was Albion .
" Our American neighbours twenty miles off were the architects , who raised the first cabin , and a blacksmith was duly installed in his trade . Soon after this , five or six other persona clubbed five hundred dollars each , for building cabins , and other public purposes . A section of ground was secured for tbe scite of the town . House after house was soon raised ; mechanics came in . A tavern , and a grog shop were established . The scattered backwoodsmen from a distance gathered round tbe whiskey-bottle , like bees attracted by the sweets of a favourite flower ; and scenes of brawl and drunkenness , usual in tbe young towns of 'Western America , heralded the birth of the infant town of Albion . Emigrants continued to arrive and settle themselves according to their tastes and means , on many of tha beautiful scites afforded by the eminences on the skirts of the woods .
" In two or three years after our first settlement , many of the labonrera that bad first come out , rented th » se farms which they bad been previonsly employed to fence and prepare fur cultivation . Many more made purchases of small tracts of land , from their earnings during the two or three previous years , and commenced farming on their own account "This was the first step of independence , and one which has ever since been pursned with unvarying success by this class of settlers . They have ever progressively advanced in property , comfort , and-attainments . " Many a poor lad who then came with nothing , is now the father of a large family , living in his own comfortable house , on his own well-filled farm !
•• This process has been constantly going on ever since the commencement of tbe settlement The labourers are continually advancing to the condition of independent farmers . Their place is fiilsd up by others that arrive , who also become independent farmers , and in their turn hire the newly arrived labourers . " Absut four years after our first settlement the county seat , heretofore located at Pal » yra , an unhealthy spot on the Wabash , was removed to Albion . " The introduction of the curse of slavery was bravely and successfully opposed by the settlers ; and Illinois preserved fr <* m its withering contamination .
" A great question now agitated our whole state , and our settlement particularly ; and so wonder , for it is a subject which agitates the whole union when it is in active controversy . Many of the settlers in Illinois were from ihe Southern slave states , and as they thought , in sufficient numbers to induce a change in the constitution , for the introduction of slavery . Ihe time arrived for tbe popular vote of the state to be cast for or against an amendment of its already newly formed constitution . That is , so to amend it , as to allow of the introduction of slavery .
" We had just removed from the most free country in Europe , because it was not free mongb ; and had selected the most pleasant and free state in the union for our future residence . We had invested in it our fortunes , and brought to it our families . Just at tbe period when we had proved this land of our choice , to be entrapped as it were , IdU ) the very jaws ot slavery , excited our apprehension , and aroused our indignation . We spoke perhaps too rashly , for we felt deeply . The vote of our state by a small majority was cast for freedom . But tbe excitement of the contest separated for a time the harmonious intercourse of man ; worthy friends . " Since that time the vast increase of population from tbe I * erthern and Eastern States , and the drawing off of those attached to tbe institutions ot the Sjuth , leave not the slightest expectation that slavery can ever be introduced into Illinois . '
Here is a description of the present state of Albion and the neighbourhood ;—" Albion is situated in a high-rolling country , between the Little and Great Wabash , ( ten miles from each ) at an elevation of 140 feet above both . It is far distant from tbe stagnant water and low land , those sources of ill health , in a new and unimproved country . The town itself is not in a prairie , but is surrounded at a short distance with prairies of every six ^ , and well adapted to every description of cultivation . " Society in and around the place has been in progressive improvement . Tbe few lawless rovers , ever to be -found in a new country , have long sioce moved away . A large and respectable class have supplied their place . The spirit of temperance prevails , quietude , industry , and sobriety are tbe strong characteristics of the neighbourhood . The absence of speculation is another feature in the aspect of our somewhat peculiar settlement .
"The increase of the numerous large farms around Albion , and of the various trades within tbe town are all from the same source . They are tbe fruits of constant industry ar . d patient labour . The town itself is yet smsi ; , but many of the booses built of brick and stone give it a more substantial appearance than is common toyonng towns in the West "We were not worldly wise ( as the Americans are ) in tbe settlement of our town . We did not at flr&t settle in it , but each person pitched his residence on some of those beauti ' ul scites en the prairies around , and left the town to take care of itself .
" It contains three taverns , eight stores , two mannfactorieB of castor oil , and all tbe mechanical trades necessary to an agricultural population are carried on with great spirit and perfection . In the character and cenduet cf tbe business of onr stores , we too , have something to commend . The regular and stated prices at which goods are sold renders the business of shoping . simple , and agreeable . One price asked , and another taken , is a practice that does not exist here . A child is as fairly dealt with as the principal . It should seem that our storekeepers are as regular and moderate in their family concerns as in their stores , for the five principal storekeepers have each seven children ; this is " regular and moderate too , in a country where thirteen to the dtzsn is by nomeans nncemmon . " Tbe aspect of the country has changed Blnce we first settled . It was then rich in the wild luxuriance of
vegetable life . When driving through the prairie , a pair of full-sized horses in a carriage , tbe tall prairie grass waved high above their backs . In tbe su weeding year , sixty fnll-8 iZ 9 dt > Xen were completely hidden in the grass ata hundred paces distant Now from repeated cropping , that grass is not more than eighteen inches high . Then a newly-erected cabin on the margin of the wood , was a sight of some interest Now numerous farms , large cabins , and many good houses are scattered all around , on tbe skirts of every prairie in tbe neighbourhood . Every gradation of cultivation may now be seen in the close proximity from the first breaking np of the prairie sod , to the well-tilled field , and well-grown orchard , and a dwelling surrounded with all tbe appendages of rural plenty and rustic enjoyment
" Then a single trace from a remote settlement was the only path to guide ihe traveller through an interminable wilderness . Now a daily mail -stage , and a daily post unites us in travel and correspondence with the whole world . During tee few years of our settlement , nope , exertion , aDd entbnsiaBm surmounted all obstacles . Tbe next period was distinguished by dulland general stagnation . The produce of our land exceeded our-wants , no purchasers came in to buy . We had no roads on land , no steam-boats plied our watera Produce wasat italodreat price . I wen remember selling a lot of fine fat graas-fed cattle , to the first drover that ever came in to purchase , at theirate of about one cent per pound . A neighbour delivered ; to me a lot of fine hams lor two cents per pound . Although the article of com lias never been so abundant , or at a price so extremely lew as in . some districts , yet I have bonght and sold large quantities at ten cents per bushel .
" That time is passed . A market at improved prices is now at our doors for produce of all kinds . The merchants in our small towns purchase with considerable competition . AlthotJgb the prices of meat and bread stugs are comparatively high , they must yet strike persons from ttie Old Country as extremely low .
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The beef that was one cent is now three , the pork that was two cents is now fout , JBut goods of every kind , for the farmer ' s consnmptiajH | kbundantly lower is price than formerly . By jre&qHpb Mr . Birkbeck ' s letters , sugar was then twenty-ftn ^ Snta pet pound , and coffee , forty ; sugar is now ten . cents , and coffee , sixteen . These changes both in the price of articles of production , and consumption are greatly in favour of the emigrant of tbe present day , when compared with the circumstance * , of hia predecessors thirty years back . " " Although we have been more than twenty years settled , we may be considered in the light of pioneers for others . We--nave but opened the resources of the country , and thousands may now find employment in
various branches of industry , where hundreds would have found it difficult to establish themselves without the preparation and conveniences afforded by the settlement already made . The rich resources of tbe country we have opened are reserved in their full abundance for those who yet may come . Without one brilliant attraction to offar to the ambitious , the gay , or the wealthy , the prevalence of general good health , the absence of great mortality or sickness for twenty years , the presence of a quiet content and gradual improvement in the situation of the inhabitants , are circumstances that will be appreciated by all who have experienced the cares and vicissitudes of life . "
We should state that the price of the work , consisting of 64 pageB of closely printed matter , is One Shilling . We can conscientiously recommend it as a highly useful and most important work .
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handfnl of men . commftnded |> y "Strougbow" and hfs lieutenantB . B t we must dose our remarks for the . Resent , gw , ng & &w extracts , to enable the reader , in Borne wise , to judge for himself : — i 4 NCIENT HISTORt OF IRELAND . " The 1 early history ef Ireland , like the early history of all other countries , is involved in obscurity . Poetry and romance have indeed told us of the early glories of Ireland-of the wisdom and wealth of her people , and ? v wl * ¦ and » oweir of he * kingdoms . Viewed 1 l . ^ IS ^ Kytog lens of tradition , the " Bright Isle of the West" has thus been made to shine resplendent' ia ancient glory and grandeur . But , alas ! the vision fastripl ofits most gorgeous hues , when examined by . the sober light of reason and judgment ; and we find that the early glory of Ireland , like the boasted early glory of all other countries , exists rather in the mind of the poet , than in the veritable records of the past . ¦¦
The early history of all European countries is very nearly the same . The great mass of the people were Pagans intheir religion , the worshippers of : stocks and " I ???*" ' ¦ , IhZ 7 weire G 0 T ? raed by chiefs , who were d stingttiahed by a restless thirst for aggression and plunder , and were generally at war with each other . The sword was then the only law ? and might constiu ¦ # "J , " * right to govern . / The state ripened Into the . feudal system , durlDg which a race of chiefs grew partially civilised , and from them spread downwards among the followers a partial refinement and civilization . Then coalitions of chiefs took place , who recognised some or other of their order as a king . This king was gene rally their creature : if he refuged to
accede to their demands , he waB at once dethroned or assassinated . * Feuds became perpemal ' between kingdoms . Turbulence pervaded the entire frame of society . Aims was the only noble profession ; and the most successful dtstroyer of his fellow-creatures was lauded as a hero , and almost worshipped as a god . fierce and ruling animal will was the great characteristic of this period . The mass of the people remained sunk to a great depth Id civilization . Whilst the kings and chiefs of the time occupied the page of history , we find that the people who fought and bled for them passed away unnoticed . But thus has it ever been . The nnlts have si trays monopolised the ear of society . While they ha ^ e made the world clamorous with their
deeds , their achievements , their joys , and their sufferings , the " dumb millions , " doomed to pine on in thick obscuration , have toiled , suffered , bled , and died for others , and then passed away into silent oblivion , without a record . "
SAINT PATBICK . " Saint Patrick is said to have laboured for thirty yeaia with immense success among the Irish , demolishing Druidiam , and establishing in its place the . religion which Ireland fervently cherishes down to tbe present day . After him , a succession of pious and faithful men arose , who , ere long , made Ireland famous for Its learning throughout the civilised world . Civil communities were formed in various parts of the country by the ; monks , which in course of time became
wellpolished cities ; and thither youths , not only of the island , but of tbe neighbouring nations came to be educated . From these seats of learning emanated the men who founded most of the celebrated monasteries and colleges of the time , in France , Swi-Ziriand , Italy , and ; England ; many of which flourish down to tbe ¦ present day . And thus did the priesthood continue to exercise an increasing influence , until they became the arbiters and almost the lawgivers of the people , down to the period of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the twelfth century . "
ANCIENT DIVISIONS OF IRELAND . —DEFECTS O » G 0 VEBNM . ENT . '' At an early period , Ireland was divided into the five kingdoms of Ulster ; Letnster , Conasaght , and Meath . The four kingdoms first named were each ruled over by their independent king , and the whole were governed by one paramount sovereign , who , while he reigned , claimed the smaller but more central and abundantly fertile kingdom of Meatb as his peculiar property . These kingdoms wete again subdivided into principalities , which were inhabited by district clans or septs , each ruled by its own chieftain ( or carfinny ) . Each chieftain was independent in his own denmin , administering justice , and exercising the right of making war and peace with his neighbour , at hia
own ; pleasure . The power and government of each provincial king were thus similar to those of tbe monarch himself : be also received tributes from inferior chiefs , paid for their services when he wanted their aid in war , and was entertained by them in his progress throughout the country . The same system extended downwards among all the ranks of society . " " This was regulated by what was called tbe law of Tanistry , which confined hereditary right to certain families , bnt not to individuals . Thus Ihe chiefs and kings could only be elected from royal houses ; but there was not individual of a royal or noble family , no matter bow numerous it might be . who might not become a candidate for the office of tanist , or
chluftainelect The custom was to elect this tunist immediately after the accession of the chief , and to assign to him a portion of the mesnal land . When the chief died , the tanist succeeded him , and another was immediately elected in bis room , This practice was found productive of the greatest mischief . The accession of a chief or a king was generally the signal for party feuds , aud often pitched battles , to determine who should be the tanist to succeed him . The chiefs also looked with suspicion on the person thus elected , who often eagerly longed for their death , to attain the rank of prince ; and the tanists too often g 3 ve them room for this suspicion , by openly making war on them , or secretly assassinating them . "
DISTRACTED STATE 0 F IRELAND PJlEVIaUS TO THE
: ENGLISH INVASION . "So distracted and torn to pieces was Ireland , from these' and other causes , for a long time previous to tbe Anglo-Norman invasion that the couutry might have fallen easy prey to any foreign invader disposed to make the experiment . It seems to have been tha fate ot this noble country , from the first , to be tbe prey of social discord , convulsion , and strife . Tbe cause of the common welfare of all , has almost throughout been sacrificed in selfish struggles between rival factions ; and while the people have been tearing each other to pieces at the bidding of their respective chiefs , the common enemy has been enabled to forge the chains ef their national coercion and enslavement . "
Here , for the present , we conclude . So far as we are yet able to judge , we consider this " History of Ireland" to be well worthy the support of the public . We shall return to the subject again , and give further extracts from its interesting pages . Of oonrao the publishers will supply the " parts , " as fast as they appear .
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• In' the list of one hundred and seventy-eight raonarchs of the Milesian line enumerated by the Irish historians , only forty-sevendied natural deaths , seventyseven were slain in battle , and sixty murd « red . —Taylor ' s History of the Civil Wars of Ireland . Vol . 1 , p . 19 .
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tical minds of the : community . It is in fact a vivid picture and transcript of any , and of every , language spoken on the earth , having as universal an application as notation of musical signs , with this superiority , that it represents not only sounds like musical notation , but sounds which are [ the images and signs of' thoughts that breaths and words that burn . '"
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Light Sovereigns . —Bt ; Punch ! A PROctvMAxion : —Whereas it has been represented to Us ^ that certain Sovereigns are very light , and not of the value that they ought to be ; and whereas such a Sovereign was lately current in the neighbourhood of Kew , but has since been withdrawn from circulation : We do hereby command all people to cat such Sovereigns , and have nothing whatever to do with them . —Given at Our Office , in the Strand , this twenty-first day of October , one thousand eight handled and forty-three . —Punch . .
The City Election . —Official Declaration op the Poll . —The Hall was opened at eight a ' elDck oq Moftdiy morning , when the poll-bookB were unsealed , and the Secondaries and their offiisers proceeded to oast up the poll . Shortly before one o ' clock the hall began gradually to . fill , and by halfpast one it was crowdedi At five minutes before two Mr . Sheriff Musgrove come forward and announced the numbers to be—James Pattison ,- Esq 6532
Thomas Baring , Esq 6367 Majority for J . Pattison , Esq ... 165 Whereupon he declared that James Pattison , Esq ., was duly elected to serve in Parliament for the City of London . This announcement was received with tremendous cheering . The return was then made out officially and signed by the Sheriffs ,- a 8 the returning officers . Mr . Travers addressed the tr . eeting for Mr . Pattison . Mr- Baring also spoke amidst great uproar . The usual vote of thanks to the Sheriffs closed the proceedings .
Kendal Election . —The Kendal " Liberals -have at length selected Mr . Malthusian Dead-Bobt-Biix Warburton , as their candidate at the ensuing election for that borough 2 A Letter from Graetz ( Styria ) , states that a vulture lately pounced down on an infant , ten months old , which , a . woman had left for a moment on the grass , in a field near Waiz . It carried up its prey , and alighting fifty yards off began to devour it . Some farmer ' s men ran up , and frightened it away , bu ' , the child was so dreadfully torn that it died immediately . Coal King ' s Foutunes—Mr . Buddie , the agent of the Marquis of Londonderry , has died lately worth the enormous sum of £ 150 , 000 ,- from having been a mere pit lad —[ flow much of thia has been plundered from the poor Miners 1 ]
We eveb doat most on things when they abe wanting . —Before we possess them , we chase them with eagerness ; when we have them , we slight them ; when they are gone , wesinkander the wing of sorrow for their loss . Infatuated estate of man ! that the enjoyment of a pleasure must diminish it ; that perpetual use must make it like a pyramid , lessening itself by degrees till it grows at last to a punotum , to a nothing ! Scalded to Death—A most distressing accident
befel a young man named Edward Brown , a native of Monmouth , iu the employ of the Messrs . Hall , of Red brook Brewery . On Monday Brown Wd » employed washing bottles , and had heated water in the large copper for that purpose , and haying got on the top of the furnaoe he fell backwards into it , and was completely immersed ia the scalding water . He got out himself , and exclaimed " It is a bad job . " He remained perfectly sensible and conversed with his frionds to within a few minutes of his death , which took place a few hours afterwards . —Bart Journal .
First Importation of Tea into Hull . —The cargo of tea which we announced last week , as be ; ng daily expected , being the first direot from China , arrived as this port , on Saturday last , in the finedhip Raymond , M'Kay , master , the property of Thomas Ward , Esq . The Raymond was towed up by a steamer , and but few persons were assembled on tha pier to witness her arrival . We understand the cargo consista of 4 , 897 chests , 2 , 530 half-che 3 tg f 300 lOlbs . catty-boxoa , and 600 131 bs . boxes , and weighs in all about G 07 , 000 ibs . —Hull Advertiser .
The Peers and the Pledge . —The Marquis of Waterford ,. Lord Wa / erpark , Lord Rivers , Lord Brook , Lord Lake , the Marquis of Bath , and the Duke of WW / ington , are meditating the propriety of " taking the pledge . " The Eari of FitstwY / iam , Lords Portland , Portman , and Perfarlington , Viscount Beerhwen , and Lord Jfcsbury , shake their heads , and won't have anything to do with Fathei * Mathew . - - Irish Wretchedness —From Eden vale to Lilrush is a distance of somewhere about Bixteen English miles ; yet along this whole country , although the eastern main road of the county passed through it , I did not pass one single village , nay , not even a single , I will not say regular , bat even tolerable
human habitation . The landscape was every where bare and unvaried by trees- - , the colour of ; he land , as far as tbe eye could reach , most melancholy , that is to say , a brown or dirty red or black , the surface of the whole country , even of thehilik and rook ^ being covered with peat ; no alternation of greea meadows , and purling streams , and wooded hills , but all one mass of peat and moot ; and even when , an elevation in the road presented to the eye a more extended view , stilt nothing was to be seen but a greater extent of peat and moor , of bleak rock * , desolate hills , and mined huts . It made me melancholy to travel through this country ; but how far
more melancholy must it be to dwell here &B&glebte ascriptus a eetvaat of eome hard master , and , withal , a father of a host of . ragged and hungry children . I have seen , in Hungary , Lithunani , and the neighbouring countries , dwellings wretched enough , but scarcely in any land have I beheld such miserable hovels as are to be seen here , and , sad to say , in many other parts of Ireland . It is fortunate that the sky is generally dull , and the air bo full of mist and turf smoke , that all this wretchedness is not dearly visible . Were we able to see every thing plainly and thoroughly brought out , it would scarcely be possible to endure it . —Kohl .
A Nice Fit . —The Echo Rachelais relates that a man , nearly eighty-five years of age , residing at Tangon la Ronde , near La Rochelte , having felt that his end was rapidly approaching , and being anxious about the case that was to enclose his mortal remains , ordered a coffin to be made according to his own directions , and a few days ago conceivedihe fancy of trying -whether it would fit . The old man ,. who was of large bulk , lay down in it with apparent ease ; but when he attempted to rise from it , he did not find that so easy to do . All his efforts were vain , and he was nearly rendered a fit subject to remain there for ever by his exhaustion . At length , when the old man was almost dead with exenioa and fear , a person happened by chance to enter the room , and released him from the singular position in which his folly bad placed him .
Saunders , the Foboeb . —This unfortunate youth , who committed adroit torgerieB on several of our city banks in the name of his emyloyers , Austin &nd Wilmerdingof this city , to the amount of 29 , 000 , dols . and who waa taken in Boston last week , has been brought to this city and committed to the city prison . He acknowledgeshavinghadanaccomplice , oneRage , a Frenchman , as it is said , who has also been lodged in prison . —New York Freeman ' s Journal .
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Richmond Cobn Makket , Satpbdav , Oct . 21 . — The supply of Grain in our market today was very limited , and in consequence , was soon bought up , at an advaaoe on last week ' s prices . —Wheat from 6 * 6 dto 83 . Oats 2 a 9 d to 3 s 6 d . Barley 4 s to 4 a 4 d Beans 5 s to 5 s 3 d per bushel . London Corn Exchange , Mond ay , Oct , 23 rd . — For fresh Wheat up to-day the demand ruled active , at an a'dvanoe on last Monday ' s quotations of from Is to 2 s per qr . There was a , good show of fine Foreign Wheat . The finest Dantzic parcels were the turn higher , but in other kinds no alteration occurred . Tiie best Malting Barley at a trifling rise in value . Grinding and Distilling sorts were a heavy sale . In Malt last week ' s quotations were with difficulty supported . Oats at an improvement in the rates of 6 d to Is per qr . Beans and Peas were taken at onr quotations . Flour may be considered the turn higher .
Smithfield Cattce Market , Monday , Oct . 23 —The Beef trade was in a very depressed state , and prices were again ou the decline . The primest Scots at from 33 8 d to 3 * . 1-Od per 81 bs ; Devons , runta , Herofords , &c , were 2 d per 81 bs lower . The Mutton trade ruled heavy . Prime old Down from 4 s to ' 4 s 4 d per 8 ibs ; all other kinds kinds at a depression of 2 d per 8 lbs . Calves 43 4 d per 8 lbs . For . Pigs no alteration to notice in their value . The imports of foreign stook , since our last , have been , confined to 30 beasts from Spain , and 20 ditte from Hambnrgh . Borough and Spitalbielib . —Potatoes about late rates . York reds , 65 $ to 70 s ; Scotch ditto , 55 s to 62 s ; Devons , 50 a to 60 s ; Kent whites , 40 a to 50 s ; Jersey and Guernsey , 36 " b to 44 s per ton .
Borough Hop Mabket . —Nearly the whole of the present year ' s growth of Hops having been on Bale , a pretty accurate estimate can now be formed of it . That it is not less than last year , is without doubt , as the duty is estimated no higher than £ 130 , 000 . The results , however , of Weyhill and other large hop fairs has not come up to the expectations of the growers . This afternoon the demand is by o » means active , yet last week ' s quotations are generally
supported . Tallow . —There is no new feature in this market - since our last statement ; prices are" about the same , with but little inclination to do businesa-either on the part of speculators or the tr ^^ the latter , having generally bought some months since for arrival ; are not in a position to speculate :: beyond . their necessities . There arei about 15 , 000 casks be tween Lsadon and St . Petersbnrgh . The home produce is very good . Town Tallow , 42 s 6 d to 43 s net cash .
Wool Markets . —So far as auctions have progressed full prices have keen readily paid , wfliJe it- . w ; he general opinion an advance will be establisnea . ere they are brought to * close . Privately aex * to nothing is doing . 1
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THE MINERS' JOURNAL . No . I . Newcaatleupon-Tyne : T . Dodds , No . 77 , Side . This , as its title bespeaks , is a publication devoted to the interests of the Miners , price One Penny , conducted by a -well-known advocate of the democratic principle , Mr . William Beesley , late of North Lancashire . Mr . B . ' s sterling honesty , and notorious sturdiness of character , are sufficient guarantees for the uncompromising spirit ia which this publication will be conducted ; and the speoimen we give below is proof of this . Like most " - •* first numbers , " it is deficient in many respectp . It ia too small j its contents are not so judiciously selected as they might be , and the arrangement of publishing fortnightly is not generally a good one . We can understand a
local reason for this last arrangement , which may or may not exist . Instead of attempting to give "news , " which , to say nothing of a more serious objection , must necessarily , from the limits of the paper , be very imperfect , and consequently next to useless , we would strongly urge the propriety of giving original and selected matter : the former expository of the wrongs of the Miners and the means by which they may be remedied ; and the latter devoted to the intellectual culture of the Miners , gathered from the inexhaustible stores of knowledge which abound on every side . But to affect these improvements ( inoluding the suggested enlargement ) , it is absolutely necessary
that the conductors should be heartily supported in their praiseworthy undertaking . We therefore appeai to the Miners , not only of the Tyne and Wear , bat also to those of Lancashire , Yorkshire . Scotland , and all other places , to give their support to the Miners' Journal . We hail its appearance as » useful and necessary auxiliary to us in our labours to make known the wrongs and assert the rights of the oppressed class whose cause it advocates . Its support by that class will go far far to assure us that the Miners are really in earnest , aud resolved by every legitimate means to work out their emancipation . The following are extracts from the opening address : —
" The miners can now boast that their union to them is a tower of strength ; that it baa enabled them to accomplish much already ; and that there is a bright prospect of accomplishing much . mare . In eleven months not less than 40 , 000 of the hardy sons of toil have enrolled themselves under its banners , determined to obtain a fair remuneration for their labour , and no longer to remain the terfs of a class who nave hitherto treated them worse than beasts of burden ; they bave sent their lecturers throughout the length and breadth of our oppressed country ; who bave already given such instruction as bas convinced them that a working miner u of more value than all the coal-pit kings in Christendom . They shall now bo taught to tbe utmost of our humble abilities that labour is of more value taan gold j and that without labour mankind could not exist ; and that tbe splendid carriages in which are drawn the bodies of tbe owners ; tbe magnificent pala tea that are built npoa our green bills and in our
fertile plains ; tbe superb furniture with which , they are adorned ; the gardens and pleasure grounds by which they are surrounded , and in which are set steel traps andspriog guns j the green-bouses and fish-ponds , have mostly been filched from the earnings of tbe working miners . As a proof that this is the case , we will in some of oar future numbers point out individuals whoa few yean ago were penniless , but , after obtaining situations as viewers , and receiving salaries of from three to five hundred pounds per yeas , have accumulated fortunes of ten or twelve thousand pounds , and have Become coal , masters themselves , exercising their despotic tyramy - over those from whose ranks they bave sprung , and whose money the-y bave cribbed , in thesbape of flues , " set out , " aud " laid out" tubs or corves in cheating the poor miners in the weighing and measuring of those coals that bave cost them bo much sweat and toil to produce from the dark caverns of tbe earth ; amidst tbe unhealthy gases and at the risk of their lives .
" The Pitmen ' s Union will enable us to do this . It has called into existence a paper that shall , whilst we have control over it , advocate their rights , and fearlessly defend their interests ; and we eatnetlly request our friends to mate us acquainted with every act of tyranny that it may be exposed . What can we not do ? backed and supported in the counties of Durham and Northumberland alone , by 26 , 000 generous and warm-hearted sons of tbe mine . Have we not a preof of what they can do when united J Have they not given to the world not only a proof of their Btrengtb . but of their wisdom , in the establishment of a paper to make known their grievances , and to give them every useful information and instruction , and in their selection and
employment of W . P . Roberta , Esq ., the people ' s Attorney-General ? We can with pride defy tbe intelligent coal owners , amidst all their wealth andwilball their learning , to produce the same amount of talent ) wisdom , firmness , and discretion that has already been displayed by the coal miners' executive ; and again , with delight , we can point to their lecturers who are now travelling England , ScotlBnd , and Walvs , diffusing abroad a spirit . of union , which , ere long , will teach the coal owners , to their aorxoyr , that lhey h ; ive used the whip with too much severity . This is our first number ; but we confidently believe tb . it we shall receive that support from our friends , that we shall ia a few weeks circnlate it throughout every part of the empire . "
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A HISTORY OF IRELAND AND THE IRISH PEOPLE UNDER THE GUVERiNMENT OF ENGLxVND . Part 1 . London : Strange , Paternoster-row . At the present time , when " Ireland and the Irish" is the all-absorbing thtme , an anxiety is naturally exhibted on the part of the inquiring and liberal-minded portion of the people of Engl and , to know something more than they have hitherto kuorrn of the history and condition o- their Irish brethen . The work before us is produced to supply this desideratum . The supposition that "the English people wish to remain ignorant of the history of Irelai d" as stated by the author or compiler ot this work , is as absurd as it 13 false . The very production of this work is a proof of both ; for wo presume it is to English and not Irish readers that the publisher will look for purchasers .
The truth is * that the working classes of England and Scotland , whether we view them a 8 BtruRglina for political or social reforms , are tar in advance ot the same class of any other country on the facer ot the globe . They could not now be tricked as they were in the matter of the Reform Bill . Their continued aud unfaltering opposition to the anti-Corn-Law jugglers is proof of this . They could not now be deceived , as the people of France have twice been . They could not be made the dupes the people of Spain have been made repeatedly . They could not make the miserable use of political rights , were
they invested with them , that the Americans have done . Nor , lastly , could they bo bought and sold , used and trafficked with , as is the casein Ireland , where the masees are blindfolded by man-worship . No : they have progressed beyond all these follies , and most certainly beyond the felly—the most contemptible of all absurdities , that of regarding with prejudice men of another clime or creed . To charge them with anything of the son is to libel them ; and however much such libels may be in vogue with the " patriots" (!) of the O'Connell and Nation school , they are altogethet unworthy of the talented author whose vrork we have under
consideration . : This work is published ia weekly numbers at threepence , and monthly parts at One : Shilling 5 six of which will render it complete . It is printed octavo size , in clear bold type , eighty pages to the part . Want of time has compelled us for the present to be content with only dipping into the introductory matter and two or three of the earlier chapters . The work is written in . a vigorous , pleasing , and often eloquent Btyle . We should have liked to have Been a brief detail of the ** ancient" history of Ireland under its Milesian monarchs , which might have been prefixed without adding materially to the bulk of volume . In the few general remarks civen instead ,
we are glad to find that the author has not committed the folly of some of the Hibernian historians who being " more Irish and less nice " , have represented Ireland as being a land of saints , eases , and heroes , —an elysina of freedom , philosophy , and morality , before the invasion of tbe English . What may have been the actual state of things immediately following the time of St . Patrick ; we believe there is not very clear evidence to shew ; but certainly the very reverse of the above must bave been the case at the period of the English invasion . That the country must have been , in a wretchedly divided and demoralized state , is sufficiently proven by the fact of its comparaiively easy conquest by the
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A MANUAL OF PHONOGRAPHY , OR WRITING BY SOUND : a natural method of writing all languages by one alphabet , composed of signs that represent the human voice ; adapted also to the English Language as a complete system of Short-Hand . By Isaac Pitman . Fifth Edition .
IHE PHONOGRAPHIC CLASS BCOK . THE PHONOtYPlC , AND PHONOGRAPHIC JOURNAL : London Bagster and Sous , Paternoster row . These are works , introducing to the attention of the public a new method of writing by Sound . If we may judge from the Reports of th « Public Meetings and Festivals , holden in different large towns in the kingdom , to commemorate the introduction of Phonography , the system is at least deserving of examination . When we find assemblies numbering " 600 sitting down to tea" to do honour ^ to the disoovurer of the science , and his enthusiastic brothers who are aiding him ia its practical application ; and when we find one single class of learners numbering 800 , as is the case in Manchester at the present , we are constrained to say that there must be something in the system to commend it to public attention .
We learn that in a short time the good folks of Leeds will have an opportunity of hearing the system explained and expounded . , In a few weeks a course of Lectures will be commenced , to be followed by the formation of classes , for the study of the science . One feature connected with the labours of the Pitmans we must not overlook : they do not confine their teachings to those who are able to pay ; but they frekly instruot those who are poor . We do not pretend to understand the system of Phonography . Indeed , we know nothing of it , except what a hurried and ; cursory glance at the above-enumerated works has imparted . We cannot , therefore , say anything in , its favour , further than that it appears to us to be deservint » of consideration and examination . But we oan give the Opinions of others ; and shall close this present notice by the following from the Manchester Guardian of August 23 rd , 1843 : —
" We believe this science to be the only mode , at once philosophical and practical , of wilting language by signs , accurately representing tbe simple articulate sounds ; or elements of which all language is composed . In these days of general acceleration , ita universal use would be a great benefit to the civilized world , however chimerical the anticipation * of such an extension may and do appear . It has hitherto received far too little attention from thosa philosophical inquirers , whose dicta have bo much weight with the more piac-
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March of RElFtNEMKNT . — \ well-kuown confeotioner of Cambridge was lately requested by an equally well-known bootmaker in the same town to send him some ice , as be was going to give a party . The confectioner returned the following laconic reply : — " Mr . L \ never freezes for snobB . " Active Habits ! op Great Men . —We have read lately in the papers a paragraph on the subject of tbe active habits of his Grace t « 9 Duke of Wellington , who , it is said , cuts about from place to place with of
an agihty that for a tn ^ n his years is truly wonderful . There is another great man , whose moves are no less rapid than those of the hero of Waterloo . We allude , of course , to Lord Brougham , who left the extreme of popularity by the down-train , and arrived at the terminus of popular contempt in something next to no time . L » rd Stanley is another public character whose rapidity of movement is astonishing . His Lordship left Whiggery at such a rate as to lose sight of the station he started from , and was put dows at Toryism within an incredibly short period . —Punch .
Smuggling . —Smuggling , we are told , is , notwithstanding the recent disclosures , almost as brisk a trade as before , and at least one extensive "operation" has been jrecently eff < sted in tobacco . A sailor , it is stated , sauntering up the Commercialroad a week or [ two ago , was overtaken by a , car carrying from the docks apparently some old ship's ropes ; amongst them was a hawser , of unusual size . Jack , recognising in it an old ship acquaintance , hailed the car , which having brought to , he jumped in , and forthwith oommuncdd cutting off about eighteen inches of the hawser . The carman remonstrated ; Jack laughed , and letting him hub the secret , showed him that the old hawser was capital negro-head tobacco . It is needless to say the hawser was delivered a few fe «* i short , but all at events duty free . —Morning Harald .
Head-dress of the Ieish Peasant . —The cover ing of his . head harmonizes wuh his coat , for instead of a useful , light } waterproof cap , he wears a . quizzical , shapeless felt or silk hat , which may have been soaked a hundred tim ^ s in th » j rain and dried again . That the higher and unoccupied clasps should encumber themselves with to uncomfortable aud inappropriate covering as our hats , and keep to them because they have been once the fashion , is intelligible enough ; but how such an absurd article of dress could have been kept up for years among millions of people of the labouring classes is to me incomprehensible . —Kohl .
Opposite Characters . — Some mon are eminent in blessing their fellow creatures , and some in cursing . Some have devoted their lives to pursuits of bloodshed and death—and some in communicating the means of comfort and prolonging life . To the latter class Old Parr mo ' st undoubtedly belongs ; and the seed which he sowed will « erminae and nourish in future ages , and yield the happy fruits ot'iuuumerable blessings to thousands aud lens of thousands of his fellow-men . ¦ j " Tongues yet unformed shall spread his name afar , And future ages bless the name ot Parr . "
Abominable W , obki . vg of the New Poor Law . —Our readers are probably aware that the late Mr . Day , the blacking inainifdeturer , bequeathed the interest of £ 100 , 000 , to be applied by his executors in annuities of not more than £ 20 a year each to poor men and wonvn . Some time ago a young woman totllay blind , who w < h lmug with her parents at South Ptthevtou , in Sutnoraetshire , and receiving 5 * a-week from the Yuovil Utnon , applied to this Charity for assistance , and the Executors , finding that she was a deserving obi jot , felt disposed
to allow her to become an annuitant , but as some Poor Law Guardians had taken off the weekly allowance to poor families to whom Mr . Day ' s executors had granted relief , they resolved in this case to ascertain , before granting the annuity , whether they might be assured that such a disgraceful proceeding would not be followed in this case ; aud according , ; Mr . Croft , the acting executor , wrote to the Rev . Mr . Bond , who had interested himseU ' for the young woman , for the purpo . se of inquiring whether the Guardians of the iYeovil Uuiou would still continue
the same allowance to thu family , if the blind girl became a pensioner on Mr . Day ' s charity ; and Mr . Croft , having , iu reply , received a written assurance that the allowance by the Union would continue , granted the young ; woman au anuuity of £ 20 a-year ; but , to tbe artfat surpri . se of Mr . DayV executors , the Yeovil Union , ' not loug after , stopped their allowance altogether . Mr . Croft wrote to the Guardians to remind them of their written guarantee , but they coolly replied , that ttiey were a changeable body , and the then guardians were not bound-by the acts of their predecessors ; and notwithstanding the remonstrances of the . Rev , Mr . Bond and Mr . Croft against this breach of faith , they would not alter
their determination , and the effuat , therefore , in reality , is , that the ' parish id recuiviag the benefit of Mr . Day's bounty ; Mr . Croft applied to the Poor Law Commissioners on ihe subject , but could get no redress , their antiwar being— " that the guardians must exercise ihfir own discretion in the matter . " Another case of nearly biniilar . shabby conduot on the part of one of the Guy of London Livery Companies has also bfen brought under our notice . The Paper Stainers' Company have funds to distribute to their poor freemen ; aud a poor blind man , who was a yearly pensioner of their .-, 10 tti . j amount , of £ 10 , on becoming an annuitant of Mr . D ty ' s charity for £ 16 , had the whole of his Company ' s allowance withdrawn . Weekly Dispatch . 1
The Irish compared with Foreign Nations . —I remember that 1 ofloe pitied the poor Lithuanians in Liyjna , when I found th * w dwelling in houses fornsd merely of stumps of trees , the insterstices filled up with moss . I pitied them , especially on account of the lowl entrances to their dwellings and the smallness of their window * , and gladly should . ! have seen their chimney better arranged . I remember , too , what melanoholy r flections rose in my mind when I beheld the simple , rude , ana wretched arrangements of their hou « ehoi-t . Njw , may God forgive me for my ignorance ! I mig'it have spared all this , for I did not know that ii had pleased God to lay such priva . ipns and worse upon another people . After I had seen Ireland I found that even the
poorest among the Jjthuaniaus , hjthenians , and Finlanders live decently ; and that m ninety-nine cases out of one hundred , Paddy would bo delighted if he could be housed , clothed , and fed as any of those people . Whoever has seen Ireland will no longer think any other part of Europe miserable . He will even consider the position ot i-avsg . is preferable . A log hut lined with moss—wna :. a luxury I The Irishman ' s dwelhng-plaou is usuuhy built of mud , and how ! one . shovelful piled upou another , intermixed with a few rough stones , picked up in the fidlus , till the walla are sufficiently hign . . A house regularly thatched , or covered with bark wonld be indeed admirable ; the Irishman often covers his with the turf taken from ! his bogs . Small wiudotvs filled
up with panes of glass , or half-irausparent bladders , or talc , as here and there in Walachia and some parts of Russia—such luxuries are unkuown to an Irish peasant . Herp most of tb « huts are without windows ; one square hole in front serving at ouco for window , chimney , house-door and stabie-doorfor light , smoke , men , and pigs to pass through . * Russians , it is true , are often \ a harder boud * ge than the Irish , but their habitations ami food aro as good as they desire ; there is no traoe of Irish beggary among them . Moreover , they are happy in their slavery , and do not , like the Irish , bite their chains and endeavour to break chem . Tiie Hungarians , too , are not , as a people , very well off ; but even the lowest among them get excellent wneaten
bread to eat , and tolerable wine to drink . Coald a Hungarian believe that there are many people in a Christian land who can only afford to eat potatoes ou alternate days t , Tne Servians and Bosnians are reckoned among the inost miserable people in Europe and indeed the sight of their villages ia not very invitiug—but how well these people are clothed I If the Irish peasant could peep into a Servian cottage and see a Servian woman sitting therein in her full dress , the men standing by her wittt their weapons , i think he would be inclined to tell his couutrymen that the " good people" had taken him to a land where all the women looked like Q'leena and the men like princes . Among the Tartars of the Crimea few luxuries and comforts are found ; this
they seem to know j themselves , as they emigrate in great numbers to I Asia Minor : they are called poor and barbarous , but after all they look like men ; they have a regular national dress ; neat , clean cottages , in good repair ! How neat are their orchards . ' How well kept are their horses a , id harness ! But the Irish have neither form nor shape : they look all edge and trimming ; except their rags , they have no national dress ; their dwellings have no national form , but are built bap-hazard ; their whole household seems without rule or law . Among the Tar tars and other euch nations , the saddles , travelling bags , carpets , divans , dishes , spoons , even the smallest
articles are made after a custom * ry aud ancient pattern , being well-adapted to tneir several purposes j the Irishman has nothing of the kind . As tie dresses himself with rags gathered up here and there , his seat is at one time a chair , at another a block of wood , or a barrel , and a dwh a broken vessel of one shape or another . We have also onr beggars and poor , who cannot keep pace with the . national manners , yet lawless beggary forms with us and other nations the exception but with the Irish it ^ is the rule . Here is a people of beggars , among whom the wealthy form the ' exception . It is this which makes Ireland unique amoug the nations of the world . -Kohl . 1
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PcbucatiOns bfCeived . — The Grave of Genius ;" "The Walional Temperance Advocate : " and " Ireland before and after ihe Union "
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A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY ; from the Frenoh of M . Do Voltaire , London : Holy wellstreet . This is the cheap edition of a most celebrated work of ihe most celebrated author that ever took pen in hand . Here we have the entire work , unabridged , in two portable volumes , neatly got up , " and embellished with excellent steel-engraved portraits of Voltaire ; , and all for the " low charge of " 12 s ! There is beside , a lengthy memoir of the Author . If the " reading public" do not buy this cheap edition , it will be much to blame ; at least , those portions of it who have any desire to know of Voltaire's philosophy .
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