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BEAUTIES OF BYBOS . KO . XXXV . " 1 HB PBISOXEB OP CHOWS . " ThisptHrerfulr ilitwMffi ** ™*™* » «* gISpS . * L ftm otg he wonia not forsake . " Thehero ef the story Is no fictitious character but rmrffho really suffered perhaps all that the poet has Ascribed—perhaps more than even so great a poet crald imagine . This poem will make the name of BossmRD immortal . ¦ . _ .
The story describes threebrothers { BossrfABD was fte duest ) "ina dungeon cast ; " the youngest was a gentle being , the image of lm mother "beautiful as day , " " with eyes as bine as heaven ; " the other traa " as pure in mind , " bnt «« a hunter of the hills , Had followed there the deer ana wolf } To Urn Ms dnngeon -wag a gulf , jlndfetier'd feet ths worst of illi . " This last perishes first , the poet here describes his death and Bohswaed ' s agony : — I said my nearer brother pined , I said his mighty heart declined , He loathed and put away Ms food ; It was not that'twas coarse and rude , For we were used to hunter ' s fare , And for the like had little care :
The milk drawn from the mountain goat Was changed for waterfront the moat , Our bread was such as captive ' s tears Hare moisten'dmanja thousand years , Since man first pent his fellow men Like brutes within an iron den ; But what were these to us or him f These wasted not his heart or limb ; Mj brother ' s soul was of that mould "Which in a palace h ad grown cold , Had his free breathiag been denied The range of the tteep mountain ' s side ; But why delay the truth S—he died . I saw , and could not hold his head , Kor reach his dviog hand—nor dead , —
Though hard I strove , but strove in Tain , To rend and gnash my bonds in twain . He died—and they nnlocVd his chain , And scoop'd for him a shallow grave Even from the cold earth of our cave . I beggM them , as s boon , to lay Bis corsein dust whereon the day JCght shine—it was a foolish thought , But then within my brain it wrought , That even in death Sis free-born breast In such a dnngeon could not rest . I might hare spared my idle prayer—They coldly laugh'd—and laid him there The fiat ' and turfless earth above The being we so muchdid lore ;
His empty chain abore it leant , Such murder ' s fitting moBument Next , the youngest brother died : — He , too , was struck , and dajbj day Was withei * d on the stalk away . Oh , God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape , in any mode : | Pre seen it rushing forth in blood , I * re seen it on the breaking ocean Strive with a swoln convulsive motion , Fre seen the side and ghastly bed Of Sin , delirious with its dread ; Sut these were horrors—this was woe Fnmii'd with such—but sure and slow ;
Hd faded , and so calm and meek , Sosoftiy worn , so sweetly wea ^ So tearless , yet so tender—Hud , And grieveSfor those hr left behind ; While all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb , Whose tintt as gently sunk away As a departing rainbow's raj—An eye of most transparent light That almost made the dungeon bright , And not a word of murmur—not A groan o ' er his nntiSfcly lot , — A little talk of better days , A little hope my own to raise , For I was sunk in silence—lost
In this last loss of all the most ; And then the sighs he would suppress Of fainting nature ' s feebleness , More slowly drawn grew less and less : I listen'd , but I could not hear—I call'd , for I was wild with fear , I knew 'twas hopeless , hut my dread Vould not be ' tins admonished ; I saU ' d , and tnoBght I heard a sound—I burst my chain with one strong bound , And rushed to him : —I found him not , Jonly stirr'd in this black spot , TottJyHrcd—TovUj Orerr The accursed breath of dungeon-dew ; The last the sole—the dearest link
Between me and the eternal brink , Which bound me to my failing race , Was broken in this fatal place . One on the earth , and one beneath—My brother!—both had ceased to breathe I took that hand whieh lay so stffl , Alas ! my own was Ml as chill ; I had not strength to stir , or strive , Bnt felt that I was still alive—A franficfeeling , when we Snow That what welQTe shall ne'er be so . I know not why Iconldnotdie ,. I had no earthly hope—hut faith , And that forbade a selfish death .
Bis feuly remarked by Sir Wameb Scott , that *' it Is not possible to read this poem without a sinking of the heart , corresponding with that which the poet describes the victim to have suffered . " Passages of wonderful power and beauty crowd upon us , but we must forbear to quote further , instead earnestly recommending our readers to read tke poem itself . . One word more— -& word to the coheeited sneerers , and over-righteeus revilers : —Could anv man but a noet of the highest order have written " The Prisoner of Chillon" 1—could such a work be written by a ram possessing a corrupted heart 1 Imbeciles and Maw worms , answer if you can I
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SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . so . xn . THE LAND ! THE LAND FOB 3 fE ! let MoBarchs revel in their might And mighty Empires sway , Let millions robb'd of native right A Lordling ' s whims obey ; They who delight to worship drones Deserve not to be free , Content to live in landless homes , — The Land ! the Land for me ! X envy not a monarch ' s state , I spurn the badge he wears ; Tho' girt with pearls , the thing I hate , lis rear'd on human tears ; X crave bat that which tyrants rift From those whs should be free , Katnre ' s first boon , man ' s dearest gift , The Land' tha Land formal
The pomp of Kings I'd scorn to seek , I wish alone to ton ; Yd while I loll th « right to reap The blessings of the soil . I ask no gold , no dazzling pelf , Tho * bright and fair to see , Let all the world deem lucre wealth . The Land 1 the Land for me 1 Mj wish is not the louBging lot Of Peer or Priestly drone , * f is freedom—peace—a vote—a cot , And plot of ground my own ; Then while I toil the live-long day , This , this my song shall be , _ With pomp and pelf away , away , The Land ! the Land for me . ' John Peacock Greenock .
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SOCIAL ABSURDITIES , OR THE ADVENTURES OF JEAN AUGUSTUS . By J . A . Michelot , professor of French literature , and correspondent of the Journal des Theatres , in Lon don : Four vols . Vincenot , 11 , Rue Childebert , Paris . This is a new romance , from the pen of oui French friend , M . Michelot , which we recommenc to our readers who understand " the French language We subjoin an extract from one of the French papers in which the celebrated J . Ahago expresses himself ii the following terms : —
The romance has in an extraordinary manner developed itself in our days , all ideas of reform and progress are now made to appear under this form , in order to penetrate more easily among even the humblest classes of society . A reproach , made to the writers of tins land of books is thatthey place their heroes in circumstances so exceptional , that among readers it is a common saying , " This happens only in romance . " This is a great fault ; 1 L Michelot has happily avoided it . Indeed , from the beginning , he enters £ 0 thoroughly into the realities of life , that one is tempted to believe he is writing the memoirs of some person and not a romance . In paiuting , for instance , the habits of the sheriff ' s officers , their extortions , the partiality of certain magistrates , the absurdity of imprisonment for debt , the vices of several of our insiitutions , the great number of abuses of which his hero is a victim , he represents his f ersonageB , their actions , their good or had qualities , with
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a colour to local , " with a truth io , striking , that every reader may say , in several instances at least , " That i » what I have seen ; that is what one s » es every day I ' . . This manner , may . scem lew . dramatical to those who likeonly imaginary . regions , ' but ppsiftw ' ariidij [ will prefer it , for they know , " ihnt to make justice triumph , to free society from the 'corruption which is ruining morality , the readers must be able to recognize , in the pictures , which ne has before him , what he must avoid or seek , In short , according ! to M . Hishelot , the principal aim of an author ought to be , to instruct and to reform . The art of amusing and of pleasing must become everywhere an auxiliary of principles . Such is the mission of public writers . _ __ i ___ ' _«¦ i __ . i" : _ Mi . . V ^ wt , . hM-w ^ rt-f - „ . _
The author of the book of "The Social Absurdities , " has chosen a large field ; h « brings his heroin the most opposite positions . "He has been" says M . Michelot , "in contact with the peasant and the nobleman , with the buyer and the merchant , with rural schoolmasters and the chiefs of the university , with prisoners and with policemen , —' Tillages and cities , the metropolis and the provinces , the poor and the rich , the great and the small , he has seen them all from the village mayor up to the ministers of the crown . The vicissitudes of his whimsical fortune , have made him know nearly every social extremity . He hi 6 suffered rude trials and there are few ways of lite , where his wounded feet have not impressed their traces . The slylebftheautharis throughout elegant harmonious , energetic and sometimes of a remarkable elevation .
We have read the first volume of this new romance and we must confe « s that we have been both amused and instructed by the scenes of French lite and the reflections of theauthor . We hope that theaucceeding volumes willspeedily appear .
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THE POLITICAL WORKS OF THOMAS PAINE . ' _ . » „ ' , PnbUshedby the Executive Committee of the National Charter Association . London : T . M . Wheeler , 83 , Dean Street , Soho . DISSERTATION OS IHB FIRST PRINCIPLES OF
GOVERNMENT . A few weeks ago we neticed the publication of the first part of this new and cheap edition of the works of the immortal Thomas Paine ; we then promised to give a more extended notice of these works on a future occasion , and we now . redeem our promise by commencing a series- of short notices of the ' several productions of this great , writer . * We commence with the short , essay entitled , "ADissertation on the First Principles of Government , " which is placed first in the present edition . ' ; - This essay is perhaps the clearest and ablest exposure of the fraud and wrong constituting the " hereditary principle ; " and the most , excellent and unanswerable defence of the " representative principle , " orrignt of self-government , werpenned in the Ensltsh language . How . striking and all-convincing are the following opening remarks on
THE SCIENCE « F GOVERNHEHT . There is no subject more interesting to every man than the subject of government . His security , be he rieh or poor , and in a great measure his prosperity , is connection therewith ; it is , therefore , his interest , as well as his duty , " to make himself acquainted with its principles , and what the practice ought to be . Every art and science , however imperfectly known at first , has been studied , improved , and brought to what we call perfection , by the progressive labours of succeeding ' generation *; but the science of government has
stood still . No improvement has been made in the principle , and scarcely any in the practice , till the . American revolution began . In all the countries of Europe ( exceptin France ) the 6 ame forms and systems that were I erected in the remote ¦ ages' of ignorance still continue , and their antiquity is put in the place of principle : it is forbidden to investigate their origin or by what right they exist . If it be asked how has this happened , the answer is easy ; they are established on a principle that is felse ,. and' they employ their power to prevent detection . ¦ .-. ¦ ' -
• He commences the consideration of the great question by dividing his subject into two parts : — First , Governmentby election and representation . Secondly , ' Government by hereditary succession . Without following Paine ' s argument , which we have not . " room to do , we may illustrate Ms leading ideas by a few extracts : —
HEREDITARY GOVERNMENT . I declare that there is net a problem in Euclid more mathematically true , than that hereditary government has not a right to exist . When , therefore , we take from any man the exercise of hereditary power , we take away that which he never had a right to possess , and which no law or custom could , or ever can , give him a title to . * ¦ ¦? _ •¦ * The moment we begin to reason upon the hereditary system , it falls into derision : let but a single idea begin , and a thousand ' will soon follow . Insignificance , imbecility , childhood , dotage , want of moral character ; in fine , every defect , serious or laughable , unite to hold up the hereditary system as a figure of ridicule . * * * To he satisfied of the rizht of a thing to exist , we must be
satisfied that it had a right to begin ; if it had not a right to begin , is has not a right to continue . * * * The wrong which began a thousand years ago , is as much a vrrong as if it began to-iay ; and the right which originates to-day , is as much a right as if it had the sanction of a thousand years . Time , with respect to principles , is an eternal NOW : it has no operation npon them : it changes nothing of the nature and qualities . But what have we to do with a thousand years ? Our life-time is but a short portion of that-period , and if we find the wrong in existence as soon as we begin to live , this is the point of tune at which it begins to us : and our right to resist it is the same as if it had never existed before . He shows that hereditary succession , as it applies to succeeding generations , is tyranny of the worst kind : — . LEGISLATING FOB VDTUBB GENEBATIOJJS . The English parliament of 1668 imported a man and his wife from Holland , William and Mary , and made them king and queen of England . Having done this , the said parliament made a law to convey the government of the country to the heirs of William and Mary , In the following words : —" ' . We , the lords spiritual and tempsral , and commons , do . in the nameofthe People of England , most humbly and faithfully submit ourselves , our heirs , and posterities , to William and Mary , their heirs and posterities , for ever , " And in a subsequent law , as quoted by Edmund Burke , the said parliament in the name of the people of England then tiring , binds tlie said people ; thdr heirs and posterities , to William and Mary , their fteir * anapotferitki , to the aidoftime .
It is net sufficient that we laugh at the ignorance of such law makers , it la necessary that we reprobate their want of prineiple . The constituent assembly of France ( 1789 ) fell into the same vice as the parliament of England had done , and assumed to establish an hereditary succession in the family of the Capets , as aa act of the constitution of that year . That every nation for the time Jteing has a right to govern itself as it pleases , must always be admitted ; , but government . by hereditary succession is government for another race of people , and not for itself ; and as those on whom it is to operate are not yet in ex istence , or are minors , so neither is therigbt and existence to set it up for them , and to assume snch a right is treason against the right of posterity . *****
A single reflection will teach us that our ancestors , like ourselves , were but tenants for life in the great freehold of rights . The fee absolute was not in them , it is not in ns , it belongs to the whole family of man , through all ages . If we think otherwise than this , we think either as slaves or as tyrants . As slaves , if we think that any former generation had a right to bind us ; as tyrants , if we think that we have authority to bind the generations that are to follow . The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave IB the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies . Man has no property In roan , neither has one generation a property in the generations that are to follow .
BIGHT OF SELF-COVEBNHENT . Man is himself the origin and the evidence of his right . It appertains to him in the right of his existenca , and his person is the title-cleed .
UNIVERSAL BBFFBAGE . The true , and only true basis of representative government is equality of right . Everyman basa right to one vote , and no more , iu the choice of representatives . * * # * # Personal rights , of which the right of voting representatives is one , are a 6 pecies of property of the most sacred kind ; and he that would employ his pecuniary property , or presume upon the influence it gives him , to dispossess or rob another of his property of rights , uses that pecuniary property as he would use fire ^ anni , and merits to have it taken from him .
The only ground upon which exclusion from the right of voting is consistent with justice , would be to inflict it as a punishment for a certain time upon those who should propose to take away the right from others , Th » right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected . To take away this right is to reduce a man to a state of slavery , for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another , and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case .
ABSDBD 1 TX OP PBOPEB . TT O . OALIFICAT 10 XS . When a brood mare shall fortunately produce a foal or a mule , that by being worth the sum in question shall convey to its ovrner the right of voting , or by its death take it from him , in whom does the origin of eueh a righ texist ? Is it in the man , or in the mule ? When we consider in how many ways property may be acquired without merit , and lost without a crime , we ought to spurn the ideaof making it a cr iterion of rights .
AEI 5 T 0 CEACT . This wax-work order has assumed the name of aristocracy ; and the disgrace of it would be lessened if it could be considered as only childish imbecility . We pardon foppery because of its insi gnificance , and on the same ground we might pardon the foppery of titles . But the origin of aristocracy was worse than foppery . It was robbtry . The first aristocrats in all countries were brigands . Those of later times sycophant s * - * ? # It is very well known that in England ( and the same will be found in othtr eountrifee ) , tUe great landed estattes now held in descent were plundered from the quiet iKhabitants a £ the conquest . The possibility did not exist
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of icquWngnucli estaUs honestly , if ft be asked how they could have been acquired , -rio * an « wer hut that of robbery can be given . ; Thatthey . were net acquired by trade , by commerce , hy manufacture , by agriculture , or by ' any reputable employment , is' certain . ' How then were they acquired ? Blush , " Aristoc raey , to near your origin , for your progenitors were thieves . ; . * * That part of the government ef England that is called the House of lords was originally composed of persons Who had committed ths robberies Of which I have been speaking . It was an association for the protection of the property stolen . These extracts will suffice to show the excellencies of this ' . 'Dissertation : " the man , who has not read it ia y « t ignorant of the A . B . C . of politics . -., ^ .-..--..- ' ^ ....... y ,.. ; - — «> .--,,, Wno- « iich ' egtattg honestly . t > i * v , Vo . L- ' oii"Unm
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THE PICTORIAL SHAKESPEARE . Parts V . VI VII PICTORIAL BALLADIST . Parts V . VI . VII . London : J . C . Moore ,, 137 , Strand . We have before noticed and recommended both these excellent works . ^ The first volume of The Pictorial Shakespeare is now complete , containing the . whole of the Comedies , and may be had , neatly bound , for the small sum of 4 s . 6 d . ! . In this volume we find the " Tempest ; Two Gentlemen of Verona ; Merry Wives of WindBor ; Measure for Measure ;
Comedy of Errors ; Much Ado About Milling ; Love ' s Labeur' 8 Lost ; Midsummer Night's Dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As You Like it ; Taming of the Shrew ; and All ' s Well that End ' s well ; " with seventy-six illustrations , and two plates of the Biography , —namely , " All the known portrajte of Shakespeare , and two views of the house in which he was born . " This is by far the eheapest edition of Shakespeare ' s works yet published , and the price places these immortal productions of the chief of Englishmen within the reach of the poorest in the land . ' ' .
The Pictorial Salladistvie have on former occasions warmly and justly eulogised . The three parts before us are rich in ballad lore , both English and trans lations from the foreign . Several of the ballads are of a somewhat sombre character , dealing much in war , necromancy , and death , but these are relieved by the hearty , and purely English ballads descriptive of the feats of glorious Robin Hood and his . " merry men . " In part VI . there is a humorous quizzical ballad by Robert Southey , entitled " Roprecht the Robber . " Part VII . contains the celebrated HardyfojK-te , well styled by Dr . Percy , a "fine morsel of heroic poetry . " The illustrations to this work ave
very commendable . . Both these works were commenced in the shape of penny weekly numbers , but in compliance with the wishes of many subscribers , anxious for their completion ; each number now published contains double the quantity of matter formerly given , and is of course charged two-pence . We trust that both these publications are well supported by , the . public . The publisher has given evidence of his desire to place the best description of literature in the hands of the people , it will be the people who will lose the most if they do not respond to this noble attempt to add to their education and enjoyments .
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THE LONDON PIONEER—No . 1 . London B . D . CouBins , 18 , Duke-street , Lincoln ' a-inn-, Fields . ; . This is the successor of the long-lived and popular Penny Satirist , the first of the cheap publications following the fall of the .. " unstamped press / V Mr . Cousins' has long catered for the instruction and amusement of the people , and his new publication bids fair to be not the least successful of his ventures . The Loixdon Pimter is a aiscellany of original and selected matter in prose and poetry , published in the same form sad size , and at the same price as the Family Herald , What is not very usual with us in dealing with publications of this kind , we have read nearly the whole of the contents of this first number , and must pronounce the " several articles " good . "
People must be amused as well as instructed ; and it is a matter of great importance that the mental entertainment supplied for the public , be , at least , of a harmless character . This is is not the case with too many of the penny publications ; there are some we could name that are moral pests ; diffusing mental and moral , degradation amongst . thousands . The men who grow rich by manufacturing these trashy and abominable publications , are enemies to the public weal , and deserve the execration of all honest men . But mere execration will not abate the nuisance ; the bane will be swallowed unless the antidote be provided—and the best antidote we know of are such harmless and healthy publications as the London [ Pixmetr , the Family Herald , and People ' s Journal . We wish this new candidate for public patronage suocess , and recommend it to our readers .
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SHAKSPEARE'S BIRTHDAY . The usual festival in commemoration of the birth of Shakspeare took place on the 23 rd of April , in his native town , Stratford-on-Avon . The weather was fortunately extremely fine , and this , combined with the ringing of bells , the gaiety of the inhabitants , and the arrival of company from all parts of tUe midland districts , rendered the otherwise quiet town of Stratford-on-Avon lively , if not unusually bustling . At ten o ' clock the members of the Shakspeare Club held their annual meeting at the Town-hall , when Dr . Thomson presided . The musical performances at the church which followed the annual meeting were well attended . They were , for the most part , admirably executed under the management of Mr . Adams , the precenter , assisted by Mr . Read , the organist of the church , who officiated as conductor . At the close of the music , the tomb of Shakspeare , situated in the chancel , was visited by some hundreds ef the iiudience .
At five o ' clock , a party consisting of from eighty to a hundred gentlemen sat down to dinner in the Shakspeare Hall , under the able presidency of Chandos WrenHoskyns , Esq ., of Wroxhall Abbey ; and amongst the company were 0 . T . Warde , Esq ., the late high-sheriff of the county ; the Rev . J . Clayton , vicar ; E . F . Flower , Esq . ; Dr . Thompson , several of the leading county gentlemen , and most of the principal inhabitants of the borough . After the customary leyal toasts , The Shaksperian toast of England , "St . George , " having been drank , The Chairman proceeded to introduce the toast ot the evening— " The immortal memory of William Shakspeare . " He addressed the company in an clonnent Rneech . in which he naid the greatest homage
to the memory and genius of Shakspeare . This oration was received with enthusiastic cheers . At the conclusion of an acknowledgment of the toast to the " Chairman ' s good health , " the hon . gentleman read a letter from Mr . Serjeant Talfourd , in which the learned scrjeant expressed his regret at not being able to attend , in consequence of a prior engagement to dine with the Garrick Club , in London , the same day . Mr . Serjeant Talfourd ' s health was drank with great applause . The health of - the Vice- President , " "the Warwickshire lasses , " succeeded . "The Rev . Mr . Harness and the Shaksperian Society of London , " was responded to with , three times three .
"The Press , " "the County and Borough MilglS trates , " "Mr . Read and the choir , " followed in sue . cession , and the party—as enthusiastic an one as evei assembled in the Town-liall of Stratford-on-Avonseparated shortly before eleven o ' clock . Thus ended the Shaksperian festivities of 1810 . It is hoped on the next occasion to render the oelebration one of national attraction .
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o ' clock , Ann Davis , aged fifty-nine , the wife ot a labouring man , living in one of Csirter ' s Cottages , East-hill , Wandsworth , set her clothes on fire accidentally , and , before she obtained assistance , was burnt in a frightful manner . The poor creat ure ^ Tas taken to the Union , a distance of a few yards , with her clothes still smoukiering , where she expired yesterday morning .
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DEATH PUNISHMENTS . Mr . Edmund Stallwood delivered a public lecture on the above subject to a very numerous , highly respectable and intelligent audience at the Sonth London Chartist Hall , on Sunday evening , April 26 . Mr . B . Rogers was unanimously called to the chair , and briefly introduced the lecturer , who \ in the forcible and beautiful language of the Rev . G . N . Watson , of Cork , refuted the fallacy that "Death punishments are in accordance with Holy Writ , " and showed from instances in various countries , and from twenty-one murders , or attempts at murder , since the execution of ( Juenuell , in January last , that death punishments are worse than useless as an example , and that from its peculiar brutalising and immoral tendencies , the present criminal code is not entitled to public
respect . The lecturer proceeded to recommend banishment and solitary labnur in mines , &c , as a substitute for capital punishment , and as a much fitter means to induce sincere repentance on the part of the criminal , whilst he supported himself and slightly compensated his injured victims . In conclusion , he said he was fully aware that those who wished to see those brutalising scenes—public executions—abolished , and death punishments swept from the face of the earth , were sometimes taunted with being possessed with morbid feelings ; but let not the . philanthropist despair , if the advocacy of these principles was a " weakness , " it was the " weakness" of bur " State Societies" in America ; namely , New York , Pennsylvania , Maryland and Massachusetts , - it was the weakness of an American Convention , with Dallas , the American Vice-President at its head ; the weakness of a Dr . Johnson , of a Blackstone , a
Beccaria , an Erasmus , a Sir Thomas More , a Chilling worth , a Goldsmith , a Franklin , a Rush , a Howard , a Fox , a Pitt , a Wilberforce , a Romilly , of a Mrs . Fry , of a Basil Montague , of John Sidney Taylor , ef William Ewart and a host of other eminent philanthropists , of a large portion of the newspaper presa in America , of a considerable portion of the "fourth estate" in England , including the the Morning Advertiser , the Morning Herald , and last not least the Northern Star . ( Loud cheers . ) The lecturer then traced the effect to cause , namely , blighting class-made laws , and clearly showed to demonstration that there was no hope for an effective remedy until such time as the laws were made by the people , for the people ; once let political equality prevail , i peace , prosperity and contentment must and would . ensue , and then and not till then will "loving-kindness wed eternal peace . " Mr . Hallwood resumed his seat admidst much applause .
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Tna Cashei , Catastrophe!—Two ^ of the ^ . sufferers by the iallofihe CasheT Town-liall have diod from the t'ffccts of their injuries . Their names are Themas Gleeson and Jolin D wyer ; Two more are considered to be in a'hopeless state ; Shocking Murder at ' Skipion . —On M ° <» ay an inquest was held at Skipton , on view of the body ot Mary Rodda , about a year and-a-half old , the aaugli ' terofJohnRodda , a labourer , it appears that the latter is a member of a burial club , and that he would have been entitled to 21 . 10 a . on the death of . a child . Un < Jer pretence of killine vermin , he purchased some
oil of vitriol , which he pourud down the throat of his child while she was asleep in the cradle , which caused her death . Thejury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against the father , who was taken to York Castle on Tuesday , to abide his trial for tke horrid offence , at the ensuing assizes . Theatre at Algiers . —The Minister of War has just accorded the privilege of a royal theatre at Algiers , in the Place Royale , opposite the Djenina . There already exists a small theatre at Algiers , but it is of no importance , . 'i he new establishment will have permission' to play tragedy , comedy and opera . The person to whom the privilege is granted is con > nected with the French opera at Paris .
, The late Murder at Bkrkeswell , near Covkntry . —James Read ,, who was acquitted at the late Warwick assizes on the charge of murdering an old roan named Tranter , in the parish of Berke&well , has been again committed for trial-on the charge of robbing the old man ' s house : a handkerchief , a hat , and other articles were pawned in Birmingham , a day or two after the murder , in the prisoner ' s name . Viscount Hardinok . —The inhabitants of the borough of Launceston , lately represented by Viscount Hardinge , agreed unanimously at a public meeting convened by the Mayor en Friday , to present an address of congratulation to the noble Viscount on his recent victories in India .
Good . —In one of the p ieces performed at the French plays on the occasion of a recent visit of the Queen and Prince Albert , the following line occurred , ' The wife should reign but not govern . ' This seemed to create a good deal of merriment in the royal box . Fatal Accident on the Western Railway . —An accident which shortly afterwards terminated fatally , occurred on Saturday morning to a workman on the line , at Bull ' s-bridge , between the West Drayton and Southall stations , who was knocked down by the buffer of the engine attached to the seven o ' clock train from Bristol to Paddington . The train was stopped as soon as possible after the accident , and returned to the scene of the unfortunate calamity , when it was discovered that the poor man must have been killed almost instantaneously .
' A Terrible Army . —The following summary shows the strength , in numbers , of individuals occupied in England , &c ., in a judicial or other administrative or legal professional character , in April , 1846 . We have , then , in England 5 equity judges , arid 15 common law judges of the superior courts at Westminster , 1 judge in civil law , 1 admiralty , judge , 2 judges in bankruptcy , 12 masters in chancery , 2 masters in lunacy , 5 visitors in lunacy , 11 commissioners in lunacy , 6 commissioners in bankruptcy , 12 country commissioners in do ., 96 recorders , 21 metropolitan and suburban magistrates , 24 clerks of the High Court
ef Chancery , 10 registers of the Court of ChaRcery , 25 Lord Chancellor ' s officers , and 3 legion of other officers attached to the equity and common law public offices .. The bar is composed of 3 , 080 barristers , exclusive of 28 serjeants-at-law . There are . 11 Queen ' s counsel , including the attorney and solicitor general ; 23 advocates , members of the College of Doctors of Law ; 122 certified special pleaders and conveyancers , not at the bar ; above 2 , 800 metropolitan attorneys , upwards of 4000 country attorneys , 106 prectora and notaries , 34 notaries public , 55 parliamentary agents , 31 Scotch law agents in London , 51 Irish law agents , 14 patent agents .
The Victor of Auwal . — -It is said in military circles that the colonelcy of one of the . regiments now vacant will be conferred on Sir H . G . Smith , the victor of Aliwal . The emoluments of the colonel of a regiment arc estimated at 1 , O ( MH . a year , but should the regiment be serving in India , above double that amount whilst so serving . Elopement . —Oxford , —On Friday morning the family of Lord Valentia , of Bletchington-park , was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement by the discovery of the elopement of his Lordship ' s daughter , the Hon . Nea Ada Arthur Rose d'Amour Annesley . The only circumstances relative to this affair known here are these : —That a gentleman arrived at the Angel Inn yesterday , who turns sut to
be Hercules G . R . Robinson , Esq ., of the 8 ? th FubIliers , second son of Captain H . Robinson , R . N . of Rosewood , county of Meath , Ireland ; that he ordered a chaise and pair to go to a village a few miles on the Bambury-road , when he met the lady on the road without any attendant . . He immediately alighted and handed the lady in , and ordered the postboy to retrace his steps to Oxford , and drive as fast as possible to the Great Western Railway-station , where , on their arrival a special train was found awaiting them . They were soon whisked away to London , and before 12 o ' clock were united in the holy bands of wedlock , at St . James ' s Church , Westminster . The happy couple left London immediately after the ceremony , en route for Ireland .
The Crops . —The state of the spring wheat begins to excite some alarm ; the long continued cold and bleak weather , with rain and easterly winds , having not only checked vegetation in general , but caused a great breadth of wheat in the midland div tricts to turn yellow , and set . We hope a change for the betteris at hand . " The Best Place . " —A Dutchman and his wife were travelling , and they sat down by the road exceedingly fatigued . The wife sighed— "I wish I wa 9 in Heaven ! " The husband replied— "Iwish I was at the tavern ! " " Oh , you old rogue , " said she , " you always want to get the best place . " Pardoned , and again Condbmned . — -Mr . Serjeant ,
who was convicted at Dublin of having forged » bill of exchange , was last week sentenced to seven years ' transportation . When George IV . was quitting Ireland , in 1821 , this individual was under a similar sentence for a similar charge . His wife rushed into the water after the King ' s barge , with a petition in her band praying for pardon , which his Majesty granted . Ubparallelbd Performance . — Jackson , the champion of Transatlantic pedestrians , ran ten miles in 58 minutes and 9 seconds ! on the 11 th ult ., at the Oglethorpe Ciours , Seadvannah . The contest was between him and Gelrsleeve , for a purse of 300 dollars . His opponent ran seven miles in 42 minutes , and then gave up the match .
The Murder in Jersey . —The grand jury , before whom the appeal of Mary Lc Gendre , was tried , has confirmed the verdict of the petty jury of "Wilful Murder , " whereupon ths court condemned the prisoner to transportation for life , with confiscation of all her personal and real property . Cost op the Fortications op Paris . —The account rendered to the King of the works of the fortiticationsofParishavejust been distributed to thechambers . The grants accorded in virtue of the bill of the 3 rd of April , 1841 , amount , up to 1845 , to the sum of 128 million francs ( £ 5 , 120 , 000 . ) The actual expenses amount to 127 , 26 G , 238 francs , leaving a balance of 783 , 762 francs , or £ 31 , 350 . The sum total estimated for the fortifications of Paris was 140 millions , or £ 6 , 600 , 000 , which leaves in hand the sum of 12 , 783 , 762 francs ( £ 511 , 350 , ) which is sufficient to complete the works . The expenses are stated as follows : —Exterior walls , 54 , 361 , 950 fr . 22 c . ; forts and stratecic roads . 69 . 033 . 163 fr . 69 c . ; purchase of lands ,
17 , 47 l , 638 fr . 54 c . ; general expences , 8 , 533 , 238 fr . 65 c . ; total , 140 , 000 , 000 fr . The folkwing additional statements are not void of interest . The ground occupied by the forticationg is 782 hectares , or about 1 , 560 acres . 770 hectares have already been taken possession of ; 12 hectares have still to be acquired ; 657 hectares were obtained by private contract . The 113 hectares which it was necessary to obtain by expropriation , coat 27 per cent , more than they were Valued at . The state offered 2 , 410 , 587 fr . ; but the jury al-Iotted 3 , 054 , 519 f r . The extent ( developement ) of the enclosure is 3 S . 6 C 1 metres ; that of the forts , 22 , 648 metres ; a total amount of 61 , 309 metres or nearly fifteen leagues and a quarter for forming the most collossal defensive works that ever were executed . Robert Owen . —This venerable philanthropist arrived in London on Monday last from a visit of some months duration in the United States . The benevolent philosopher is as busy and as hopeful as ever with his schemes for the reconstruction of
society . A Gallant Act . —On the night of the 10 th inst ., at half-past twelve , when relieving sentinels on board the Raleigh , fitly , lying in Pinop Reach , the sentinel in the forechannel foil into the water . The alarm "A man overboard ' was immediately given , and reached the ears of the first lieutenant of the Raleigh , Mr . Tatbam , in bed at the time , who instantly sprung on deck in his night-shirt and preci . pated himself off the gangway into the river Although an intense . fog prevailed at the same time * and the weather was very cold , at tlie peril of hi ? own life he succeeded in saving the marine , but was much exhausted when he got on board . The sentinel was very nearly drowned when Mr . Tatbam saved him . —Hampshire Telegraph .
Retirkmknt for a Diplomatist . —Mr , Everett , says the L ' oston Courier , lias taken up his residence in Cambridge , and entered upon the duties of the Presidency on Monday morning . He attended the customary religious services that morning , and made an affectionate address to the under gnuluatt-s . Mr . Everett ' s _ accession to this office — the highest literary distinction in the country—will he an auspicious era in the history of Harvard University . Tiik Floods in the United States . —Every mail , for the last three weeks or more , has come to us freighted with tho intelligence oi'disastcrs by 1 ' rcshets . Bridges without number have been swept awayhouses carried off—railroads submerged—embankments overthrown—thousands of acres of land deluged , and property of all kinds destroyed to an imraenseamount . In fact such injury by Hoods has iwt occurred in this country for tbo last fifty yeara . We
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had hoip , ed ,. a few days " since , that . the Melancholy progress 'of these di ' sastrbud outbreaks of nature wa » about to be stopped ,- bui ' the last Eastern mail ha « brought us the details -of-an overwhelming fleoo 'in Maine , by whieh atjeast 1 . 000 , 000 dollars worth of property has been destroyed ; and the probability is that in all parts of the , Union upwards of 2 , 000 , 008 dollars worth of property has' been swept away by these dreadful . floods . Against such disasters as thestt no provision can-possibly be made '; ^ t-he resistless tide sweeps away every defence that the arm of man'can erect . Thousands have probably been ruined , but it is a great source of satisfaction that go few lives have been lost . The awful loss of life occasioned by the dreadful galfs upon our coast has been sufficient to cast a pall of gloom over , a great portion of the community without any addition from the freshets . — New YorkHerold . .. . . _ . .,, ..: ^ H ^ ^ - . ^ ^ .. , ^ ' ^^ ., i l V V had honed .. a few dovs . since , that thciiielancnoif
Offences in Ibhlahd . —Three returns respecting offences in Ireland were printed on Monday . Mr . Charles Buller ( Liskeard ) obtained a return of outrages committed , to which reference was made in the House of Commons on Monday niKlit . Mr . Gregory ( Dublin ) moved for a return ef nil murders that might have been committed in . Irelcnd since the 1 st of Janunry , 1842 , specifying the county and barony where such murders had been committed , the name and condition of the person so murdered , dec . This return extends to thirteen pages , but its value as a document of reference is diminished by tho absence of a summary , which observation does not apply to the other return . From an examination of tho second return , it appears that from the 1 st of January , 1842 , there were no fewer than 561 "h ' micules" to the 24 th of February last ; there were 180 attempts to murder , attended with bodily injury , and 308 attempts to murder not attended with bodily injury . The third return , procured by Mr . Caleb Powell ( Limerick ) .
shows that thirteen persons were committed from the petty sessions a' Munoe , in the barony of Oweybeg from , the 1 st January , 1845 , to the termination of the Spring Assizes , 1846 , and fifty-six outrages reported to the Constabulary-office in the same period . Street Robbirt . —On Tuesday , at Marlboroughstreet , a woman who refused to disclose her name , was brought , before Mr . Maltby , charged by Mr . Charles Grogan , No . 2 , Bryanstone-square , with having robbed him of his gold watch , value £ 15 . The complainantjsaid , he was walking with his friend in Oxford-street , about twelve o ' clock the previous night , when the prisoner came up and impeded his way , He pushed her off , and she then seized his watch-guard . He felt at his waistcoat pocket , and finding his gold watch gone he caught hold of the prisoner to detain her . The prisoner tried to make her escape , and bit his finger severely . Several , persons came up and tried to get the prisoner away , but did not succeed . She was committed .
The Cholera . —This destructive scourge of humanity seems once more on its way to ravage the continent of Europe , originating , as before , in the heart of Asia , Northern Persia being the first quarter in which it was noticed ; it is gradually approaching the confines of Europe . The chief cities of Persia already count by thousands the number of their dead who have fallen victims -to Asiatic cholera . Ths line of route taken by it appears to be almost due west , for it attacked in regular succession the cities of Bokhara , Herat , Meshed , Teheran , and Ispahan , while recent accounts from Odessa state that two or three cases of Asiatic cholera had been observed at
Tiflis . Should it continue to advance at its present rate , it may be lroked for in Eastern Europe in s very short time . Indeed it is stated from Riga that it has already broken out at Orenburg and Kasan , and that several persons at St . Petersburg }! hare been attacked by the influenza , a disease that usually precedes the cholera ; proper precautionary measures ought , therefore , t& be taken to cheek the progress of the cholera in due time , for arriving as it will in the middle of summer , the season most favourable to its developement and propagation , the consequences in the densely crowded cities of the Continent will be awful . —German Paper .
A Descendant of thb Stuarts . —Mary Stnarfc was irought before Mr . Hardwick , charged with breaking Sir James Graham ' s windows , and that with no more ceremony than Sir James broke the seals ef Mazzini ' s letters . Mary Stuart ' s object , by this destruction , was to touch the heart of the Home Secretary . Thinking that statesmen had their feelings framed and glazed , she sought to appeal to them with congenial stone . In fine , she broke two squares of glass , because Sir James would not believe that she was " really thefgrand-daaghtcr of Charles Stuart , but out of her senses . " Foi' ourselves , we think the poor woman under a delusion , and this is our reason : — she said , "As to my birth , I do not think anything of that . I only want to get my living . " Now , in our opinion , this is by far too sensible an observation to
be made by any descendant of the Stunrts . The poor woman has no doubt been imposed upon ; the rationality of her word ?—the independence of her spirit- —entirely falsifies her assumed origin . — Punch . Backward Ireland . —At Conciliation Hall , the Lord Mayor of Dublin "believed in his heart that Ireland would fall back 300 years , if O'Connell was lost to her sons . " And what more would Irishmen wish ? The Union is the blight of Ireland : now , put Ireland back even [ a hundred years , and no Union ¦ would exist . However , Tils i , orusnip turtlier observed that" O'Connell ' s precious life would be protracted until justice was obtained ; and nothing was justice but Repeal . " If O'Connell is really to live to see Repeal , he would be a profitable assurance ( and Daniel himself knows what profitable assurance is )—to any Life Office . —Punch .
The Horrible Rape Cases in Westmorkiasd . — The four railway labourers ( two Smiths , Gloucester , and Gunner ) who in so diabolical a manner , on Sunday evening week , violated the persona of Miss Elizabeth and Jane Dover , on Knipe Scar Moor , Westmoreland , and who absconded early on the following morning , on : Wednesday night Jast were apprehended at Hartlepool , in the eounty of Durham , by Charnockand Stevenwn , the two railway police stationed at Hackthorpe , after a chase of nearly 100 miles . On Friday last the prisoners were brought up before Mr . Richard Tinkler and J . W . Ward , clerk , at the Lowther Castle Inn , Hackthorpe , when the Misses Dover identified them , and they were committed to Applebv Gaol to take their trial at the next
assizes . . Workhouse Refuge Refused to the Insane . — At the Clerkenwell Police-court on Tuesday Mrs . Fraser , a nurse in the Royal Free Hospital , Gray's Inn-road , brought a poor demented looking girl , named Higginbotham , before the Biagistrnte under these circumstances : —It appeared , from the statement of Mrs . Fraser , that the poor girl on behalf of whom she applied had been received into the Royal Free Hospital a few weeks ago , in consequence of an illness which affected her mmd . From the physical malady she recovered , but the lig ht of reason seemed to have departed for ever . Previously to admission the girl had been in the service of respectable families , and there was no stain upon her moral character . She was now , however , wholly destitute , and as her
friends declined interfering on her behalf , they knew not what to do with her . They applied to St . Paneras workhouse , but the functionaries there refused to receive her without the certificate of a medical gentleman as to her insanity . That certificate had been procured , and Mrs . Fraser hired a cab and conveyed the poor eirl from the hospital to the workhAuse on that day ( Monday ) , thinking no difficulty would be experienced regarding her admission upon presenting the certificate . The officers , however , refused to receive her , on the ground that the magistrates had made no order on the subject , and one ot the overseers told her that unless one of the magistrates of this court made an order for her admission they could not receive her . Mrs . Fraser added that the unhappy being had made two determined attempts to destroy herself , and that casting her upon
the streets would be certain destruction . Mr . Heseltine , overseer to St . Pancras parish , said , that tho board tad d ^ oldid upon not receiving the girl bocauge they would be overburdened with destitute persons from the University and the Royal Free Hospital , both which institutions were in their parish . Mr . Combe said , the overseer would refuse to receive her at his tofcfil . It was evident to anybody that the poor girl was insane , and to suffer so helpless a creature to roam about the streets would be an outrage upon humanity and decency . He told Mr . Ileseltine very plainly that if the overseer persisted in his refusal he would be indicted for such refusal , and the Attorney-General would prosecute him . Mr . Ileseltine promised to communicate the magistrate ' s opinion to the overseers ; and since it was so strong he felt no doubt tkat the girl would be admitted .
Horrible Murder ' of a Police Officer . —On Saturday evening last , William Sommcrvillc , one of the policeman on the Caledonian Railway , was killed in the most barbarous manner , near Lockerbie , by tho labourers . It appears that the monthly payment of the raen working on that part of the lice took place on Saturday evening last , and a disturbance having occurred amongst fclie " navvys , " deceased and other officers were called upon to quell the uproar , who , in attempting to do so , were kicked and beaten in the most violent and brutal manner , by the mcb , who were mostly Irishmen . The treatment which Sommerville received from three of them was most savage . He was stabbed on his body with some sharp-edged instrument , his nose was split ia two , and so was one of his cheeks , whilst one of his eyes were burst , and rolled out of its socket . He expired soon afterwards . The three ' murderers effected their escape , but the police are in pursuit ot' llicili ill all directions .
Dkatii Accelerated by Excitement . — On Tuesday evening an inquest was held before Mr . » v , Payne , City coronet ' , at the Hand and Shears , Gloth . fair , SmithnVld , respecting the death of Elinor Shove , aged lifiy-one years , of Long-lane , Bavbk ™ . Tho deceased generally enjoyed good health , but during t ho last three months had laboured under groat excitement in consequence of her daghter , who had been decoyed away by a young man with whom illG had formed an attachment . On Sunday wM last the deceased retired to rest , and the following corning was discovered in a dying state , foamingat the month . A surgeon w ; vs sent for , but the deceased wcpiml oeiove his arrival . The jury returned a Tcriiict or "Natural death . "
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THE SCHOOL AND FAMILY ENGLISH DICTIONARY . No . I . London : Dyson , Paul ' s Alley . This is intended for a School and Family Dictionary , to be published ih weekly penny numbers . The Editor hopes that it will be considered "aUseful Educational Book for the Rising Generation / ' It has one great fault—it is not a pronouncing dictionary . The proper pronunciation of each word is , we submit , a matter of primary iraportance . in any dictionary intended for the instruction of youth .
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A LETTER ON NATIONAL EDUCATION , ADDRESSED TO THE LEGISLATORS OF ENGLAND . London : B . D . Cousins , 18 , Dukestreet , Lincoln ' s Inn-fields . This "letter" is the production of a ladjr moved by the kindliest sympathies and most liberal ideas to advocate the cause of the neglected millions . The writer ' s views are good , but too briefly expressed ; at least six times the quantity of matter contained in this pamphlet ) would have been necessary to do justice to the subjects . treated of , and indeed such a quantity of matter should have . been given for the price marked on the title-page . We wish "Emiline " all due encouragement to pursue her arduous and generous labours .
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THE PEOPLE . Translated from the French of M . Micbelet , Professor of History in the College of France , by Dr . P . M . M'Douall . London : A . Dyson , Paul ' s Alley , Paternoster Row . This is the first nnmber of a weekly penny issue of » work by the celebrated author of " Priests , Women , and Families . " It would be ridiculous for us to " review" these eight page 3 , which contain only a part of the " Dedication" ( to M . Quinet ) ; we might as well pretend to judge of a house by a solitary brick . AH we can do is to notice the publication of what promises to be a very cheap edition of " The People ; " on some future occasion we may introduce the work entire to our readers .
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. i * IOGRESSipN ; " '~ LZ Not anything in preatiotf is ' stationary . Every atom is changing . The iurfaco of tha earth—the sea and the laml —are : in a . contin ' nal state <> f transition ,-. ^ commonest observer is conversant with this fact . By the aid ot science , wckHow , toe , that the , sun , moon , and stars are in perpetual motion—that theiV aspects varyi' Mind is no more stationary ' than matter . The history of man—iot arts , science , literature , commerce , politics , and reli gion , a DH ? -- }? . P ! 5 ve' ^ Uii 8 ' . a 8 . serHpn . ' And yet —¦' strange anomaly—the rulers of the world have hitherto framed laws for the guidance of men osif jthojr were non-progressive beings . ' In tiiigparticular inan has fallen into error —afatal error , pregnant with dire ilUto the humaimce . Alas ! the shades . of the ' victims of inquisitions Innume-~ - —~" . —« , , „ .. „ , ^ ..,. » r _^^ ... ,. ; . ^ . » ,.,... ; ^ ¦ , . ^ V ,,..-..-, ; ,., P ~ lTfiiiTDTrcctKKr '"' ~ "
rable—ancient und modern—private and public—pass in mournful review before our mental vision , and indeed afford us a sorrowful testimony in blood and tears , in tortured bodies , broken hoarts , jand wrecked minds ,, of the error of attempting to perpetuate the doctrine of Finality ! The men who have pretended to guard the portals of Paradise and the gates of Pandemonium , aided bj the vast and mystic paraphernalia of their craft , with their dazzling promises and awful anathemas to boot , have never been able to give permanency to any one creed erroneously declared eternal . The attentive observer of humanity at once discovers that our spiritual guides afford in this particular a complete satire on themselves . These ghostly counsellors say , and have ever said to the people , "Standstill ! stand still ! " but man , in spita of awful , but empty anathemas against Progression , arid
disregarding the dnzzling but hollow promises for standing still , has ev « r moved , and will continue to move , forward in accordance with the eternal progressive laws of his nature . How benighted is man on this subject ! : He sees everything b y which he is surrounded governed by the spirit of advancement ; he beholds , in legible characters , the word " forward" prefixed to every one of the circle of the sciences ; yet in the most important of all mattersreligien—he holds up his hands in terror and exclaims , " Stand still ! thus far shalt tliou go and no farther !" The pigmy mind of the day presumes to legislate for . futurity . Of course , man must frame laws for his future guidance ; but he . falls into error when he says or supposes those laws are irrevocable . But a certain class of men have presumed to legislate for all futurity . What has been the result of this false ' system of law-giving 1 The fate attendant on all decrees founded in error iwaited it . The hand of time , guided by the light of science , has annihilated fahe doctrines held sacred hj our fathers ; even as the same hand and the same light
will expose to the minds of our sons and daughters the errors of many opinions now held sacred by our very opinionated but comparatively know-nothing selves . What human being who lived iu the year 1741 could have enaetedwise political and religious creeds for the people of this generation ! Thousands made the vain attempt , but the altered state of mind , morals , politics , and religien of the present day form a monument of tho futility of the past century attempting to legislate for that which is to come . The Solons of 1845 legislate as they suppose for what will be the sons of the earth in 1945 ; but the advanced state of our sons' sous in 1945 , will probably l 3 ugh to scorn the idea of a present generation attempting to legislate for a future century . As , in the natural course of things , we are in advance of our forefathers , so will future generations be superior to ' ourselves ! ' Thus , " according to the sublime doctrine of progression , will the mind of man go onward—onward—onward , t ill at last ( he . mental -eye becomes dazzled in contemplating the gkoriouB destiny that in all probability awaits the human family— The Limdon Pioneer . ¦'
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Dreadful Accident . —Bristol , Tuesday , April 28 . —Yesterday afternoon a very severe accident , by which five men were most seriously injured , occurred at the New Church , Kingswood . The interior of the church has for some time been undergoing extensive repairs , and was being entirelyrepainted , and the unfortunate sufferers by this lamentable accident were painters engaged at the time in painting the ceiling of the church . For this purpose , as is usual , a plank was placed for the men to work uvon , having each end laid upon a scaffold , erected for its support . Upon this plank four men , Thomas Nash , William Kent , William Lambert , and James Morgan , very incautiously went to work ; it having been intended by the employers that only one man , or at the most two , should work upon it at the same time . Tke motions
and weight of the four men wlulo at work upon the plank so increased its vibration that one end of it was gradually drawn oft' the scoffold that supported it , and it fell . with a loud crash , precipitating the four unfortunate men into the body of the church , a depth of about fifty feet , and in the progress of its all striking down another man at work in the church . The utmostconsternation immediately prevailed , and the five sufferers were picked up in a dreadfully mangled condition . James Morgan having a severe fracture of his right thigh , ' a compound fracture of his lower jaw and an extensive contusion of his spine . William Lambert also had his left thigh fractured .
and received several severe injuries of the right ankle and right shoulder . Tltomas Nash fractured his anklejointseverely , and had besidessomei very severe contusions of the face and body ; and William Kent received some abdominal injuries of a most dangerous character , but had no bones fractured . The inhabitants of tbe neighbourhord immediately came to the assistance of the unfortunate sufferers , and tkey were removed to the Bristol Infirmary , where they are now lying in a very precarious state . The man who was struok by the falling plank was also severely , but not dangerously injured , and was removed to tho house of some of his relatives .
Three Fatal Accidents . —On Tuesday , Mr . Bedford , Coroner for Westminster , held three inquests at the Black Horse , Bedfordbury , Covent-garden . The first was upon the body of William Austin , aged two years , the son ot a compositor , residing at 16 , Crowncourt , Drury-lane . From the evidence of a Mr . Todd , it appeared that on the morning of Sunday last , his attention was directed to the house opposite his own , in Crown-court , by perceiving smoke issuing through the iron gratings . He immediately went to ascertain the cause , when he found the deceased running to and _ fro in the front kitchen area , with the whole of his wearing apparel in a blaze . The . lames were extinguished as soon as possible , and the deceased was removed first to King ' s College Hospital , but there being no vacant beds in that
institution , he was taken to the Charing-cross Hospital , where he died on Monday from the effects of the burns . It appears that the child , during the temporary absence of his mother , commenced playing with the fire , and his clothes in consequence became ignited . Verdict " Accidental death . "—The second inquest was concerning the death of John Woodman , aged forty-eight . The deceased on the Cth of the present month was engaged with several other men , removing an entablature from the shop front of a house wider repair in Lonj ; Aci' 6 . The decoasGd was holding the fascia up by muans of a rope from tuc first flooi , when the weight of it pulled him out of the window , and falling upon his head he fractured
his skull . He was taken to Chaving-cross Hospital , where he died on Monday . Verdict , "Accidental dcaUi . "—The third inquiry was on tho body of Thomas Ireland , aged sixty-five . The deceased , on Sunday last , was cleaning some windows for Mr . Sawyer , fin engineer , of Frith-street , Soho , when it is supposed that he missed his footing , for he was found lying on the pavement under the house ; the blood at the time was issuing from his mouth , ears , and nose . He was also removed to the Cliaringcross Hospital , where lie died immediately after bis admission . Verdict , " That lie died from a fracture of the base of the skull , but how caused there was tot sullicieut evidence to prove . "
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