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TO THE QUEEN . BT EMEST JOKES . four pn'fties are prancing , your people are pining , The Palace and Bastile in rivalry tower : lemember ! the greatest gold crown « ver shining The ireath of a people can blignt in an hour . Tour sjcopbants ranR ed round the foot of the throne Ma , call you the Queen of the deep ¦«»*•« «• • Ih . Ugh . bounding billows would break at thetone . Yon ar . not _ y <«» «• the Q * ' ° ( U of fat horses and pale star * ing men ! What care we , if Manhd . a-d Prelate , and Peer , Gird vou aroum ! . like a cold , living wall ! If you tell us our cry nerer reacaes your ean , We'll gire jou Eome tkuuder , shall ring through them all !
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UP FOR FREE LAND . " Ob ! God ' s earth is fair ! and a glimpse you may caicb , As you peer o ' er the waU of some neighbouring Park . Of L » wn , Grore . and Paddock;—but lift not a . latch , Or br torn by the Djgs at your footsteps that bark ! Sweet valley and jUde—beauteous lake , stream , and river , Bestud ev ' ry turn in our evergreen isle;—Ye have heard they are lovel y , but glance at them neter , Save y « ked—like scented beasts—tounrecompensed Wit !" " Crawl on , yevfle slaves ! not a sod is jour own , Of the toil where uour / oS&ers coursed fre » as the I
air ; Xot a bird dare you shoot , where their footsteps hare flown , Sot a nth daie yon draw from thestreanE thattotrt thtirsl With your sweat your Land-robbers their ' scutcheons adorn , And would coin your heate' -blood , as your hearts they have rivtn ! If jou ask for iue urd—they refuse it with scorn ;—If yoabow to their will , you deserve it , by Beaten !
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rilE ^ ESTMINSTERSASD FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . January . 1847 , London 6 . Luxford , Whitefriars Street . The only political article contained in this number n { the Westnunaer and Foreign Quarterly Review , is on " the Spanish Marriages , " which has at least one good leatare , its } brevitr , —the briefer the better considering the interminable " leaders , " diplomatic letters and ( now ) speeches on both sides of the channel which have poured upon as and yet continue
to pour . " In one weak , Wksby , everlasting flood . " Another good feature of this article may be named , the spirit in which it is written , that spirit being * der ided anti-Palmerstonian . ; The article exposes the folly of onr government meddling with this marriage affair at all , and the wickedness of any warlike demonstration which might grow out of this absurd meddling . If we have any fault to find with the reviewer , it is that he has dealt too leniently with Louis Philippe . 1 a exposing the meddling of Lord Palmerston the writer in the Westminster has done well , had he added a rastigation of that king of knaves , Louis Piiilippe , he would have done still bettter .
We must express our regret that the confiscation of Cracow has - * ea passed over by the writers in the iVatmniter , which is also , be it remembered , the Foreign Quarterly Review ; such a subject should have found a principal place in such a publication . We earnestly suggest to the able writers in this work to make not merely Cracow , but the whole question of Poland ' s nationality , a leading feature of their next number . This Polish question is a very diff rent affair to that of the Montpensier marriage . ^ Vith the latter , the English-people have no business , with the former they have every business . The Spanish marriages is a question of court-intrigue , and diplomatic thimble-rigging , which it is the interest ot the people of this country
to wash their hands of ; but the existence oi Poland is a question of the utmost importance , not only to the Poles , but to the people of every other land . A nation cannot be blotted out of existence without a deadly injury being inflicted upon other nations . Thetimehasnow come when the whole question of Poland's existence must be revived , and must be settled at any cost . Yes , we say it deliberately , with afull consciousness of the evils ot war . that even war would bejtittifi'ible ; and we must add our belief that ere long that" last argument , " will be seen to be unavoidable , not only for the sake 0 ! Poland , but for the welfare of this country , and tie general interests of humanity . Universal peace fanatics , may preach the speedy coming of their
miUemun , but nothing is surer than this , that the longer the struggle between the nations acd . the tyrants is put off , the bloodier will that struggle be when it does come and the more afflicting to the people of all lands . We are not advocates of war ; rather than a single shot should have been fired in anger , we would have justified the British government in yielding every inch of the Oregon territory , an « l as regards the Montpensier marriage , if Lonis Philippe had a hundred sons he might marry teem to whom he pleased before we would back Lord Paimerston ' s negative by any warlike support ; but a glance at the map of Europe satisfies us that the
time has come when the government of this country Efconld contest the march of absolutism ; ' if ministers will not do their duty the people must do their ? , and this will be . Xotjmmediately perhaps ; but ere !« ig . The land which produced Cromwell will not for ever remain the accomplice of the vile tyrants , Russia , Austria , and Prussia ; it would ba treason to England to believe her capable of a part so vile , so fraught with dishonour and self-destruction . The principal artie ' e in the present number of the WatminsterU on the " Revelations of the Telescope ;" a more lucid , eloquent , and in every respect truly admirable article it lias never been our good fortune to read . We give the following extracts : —
ASTB 0 N 0 MI . Of all the physical sciences , that which investigates ite laws of surrounding planets — which extends the Titws of man to other spheres of existence , those " tnulti-P ' . it-d masses of increased and still increasing light . "Astronomy—unquestionably is the most spiritualising : contemplated as one grand whole as it is the most beau" 2 ! taonament of the human mind , the most noble rectrd of its intelligence . # * ^ , It reveals to us the growth as well as the dtcay of suns i . ! i"i planetary systems ; it carries us into infix ty and r . r etus aorne faint conception of the stupendous magnitade of an universe , where cuns like our own may be ttfko&ed ty millions , and where the planets which roll tojthJ them are beyond all oar po wers of vision ; it shows us that the whole system to which our planet belongs »
ba ! a subsrdina'e unit in a firmament of stars—that " raument but one among many ; which , as vast in size * i ' 3 as glorious as our own , ate scattered indefinitely throug h immensity , forming , doubtless , one stupendous ystem , bound together by fine relationships ; these traianitnti , however , placed so deep in spice that to inferior telescopes they seem like faint streaks or spots of ¦ 3 )» v liquid upon the blue of the sky ; and the aggregate M these not yet the whole , for , beyond the regions that bkie been penetrated by the telescope , there yet may irrttch ao undiscovered infinity . And as we survey tbese marvellous truths , we are lost in the feeling of immensity and of the comparative insignificance of this globe and its millions of inhabitants . But this is soon followed by a sense of gratification , gratitude and » onder , tfcat to us has been permitted such a knowledge of the unbounded system of the universe . * *
The infinite extent of this field , where no bounds can be stt to our t peculations , peculiarly shows the pre-eminence of astronomy among all other pursuits of human wisdom . In metaphysics , in literature , in the arts , ignorant as we !»¦< : , we caa assign limits , and supply , ia imagination at « a * t , all that may be wanting to perfection ; but , in the fjiks of nature , beyond our power of scrutiny , we see » a tad to our inquiries ; we perceive only the littleness « nan , an 1 tiie nothingness and vanity of all his boasted attainments . TLe reviewer traces the history of astronomy from «•<> ancient Chaldeans , Chinese , Egyptians , and Indians , to the present time . Of course , a considerata portion 01 the article is devoted to the sub-LOBD KOSiE ' s TELESCOPE .
It is net easy to compare Lord Uoese ' s telescopes with ^ se instr « uients , inasmuch as their various relative 'jialities would require to be ascertained by direct ex-^ mintu t ; but if , as seems fully established , his Lord'* * thre « feet speculum is much supcrUr in spacet-a-tratiag p , wer tu the largts disc in possession of his I * t predecessor , we shall be obliged to endow the six j !! Birr ° r with an efficacy to pass without difficult '¦* ' pate at least five hundred time * further than is l ^ iMtiijr unassi-ttd vision : in other oords . it will des-¦ single , star CUUO times more remote than an average k ° « t thfci-rst magnitude ; or , though it were separated " ' our abodes by au interval 10 tremendous that , were tt * " *' M * * al a similar distance created now , ' us light , Ira" | f ! llts velocity be next to inconceivable , would iu ! Ilrws 1 ' tile intervening « paces probably for more ^ alY ' *' " ' ' ' ' tand S tars i ere by reaching this earth , it « " t < rN of a new existence having been Eumtnonedfroin lt void .
J ^ e above is ext racted from Dr . Nichol ' s " Sysk "l the World . " The Reviewer adds :-ts- * ° ''' - auJ' Possibility , form any conception of dis'i . ' ' V ° ' ormoi « la round numbers it may be said , , ^ t •'*¦* navels at the rats of IW . OOO miles i n a second , » d \ ^ "{ ll : rfornii its journey from the sun to the earth , ¦ st ance of m minions of maeS l in about tight minutes
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THE NEW PLANET . L ^ Toi tanCe ' "Pf «« edin common measure , S ^\^' ™' l 8 IW >»« talft «» ^ e sun , and about 8 , 100 , 000 , 000 from the earth . Its distance from uranus , whose motion » its disturbs , is about 140 , 000 , 000 01 miles . Its diameter is estimated at 50 , 000 miles , that of Uranus being 35 , 000 , of Jupiter 86 , 000 , of Saturn 79 , 000 , of the earth 8 , 000 . while the diameters of the other planet * are less than that of tht > earth . Thus , with the exception of Jupiter and Saturn , the new planet is the the largest in our system . Its cubic bulk is to that of the earth as 25 a to 1 . That the planets are inhabited there is every reason to believe , for that they have nights and days , and regulated seasons , with other conditions necessary for the existence of animated creatures , is proved beyond doubt . Of this the most striking illustration is afforded by
THE PLANET MARS . Baer and Maedlcr . two Prussian astronomers , have devoted many years' labour to the examination of Mars , and the result has put us in possession of a map of the geography of that planet , almost as exact and well d » - finsdas that which we possess of our own ; in fact , the geographical outlines of land and water have been made apparent upon it . But a still more extraordinary fact in relation to this planet remains to be considered . Among the sbadid markings which have been noted by the telescopaupon its disc , a remarkable region oi brilliant white light , standing out in boldest relief , has been observed surrounding the visible pole . This highly illuminated spot is to be seen most plainly when it emerges from the long night of the winter seasan ; but when it has passed
slowly beneath the heat of the solar beams , it is found to hare gradually contracted its dimensions , and at last , before it has plunged lato light on the opposite side , to have entirely disappeared . But the opposite pole , then coming into similar relations , is found to be furnished with a like luminous spot , which , in its turn , dissolves as it becomes heated by the summer sun . Now these facts prove to us , incontestibly , that the very geographical regions of Mars are fac-similes of our own . In its long polar winters the snows accumulated in the desolation of its high northern and southern latitudes , until they become visible to us in consequence ot their reflective properties ; and these are slowly melted as the sun ' s rays gather power in the advancing season , ¦ until they cease be to appreciable to terrestrial eyes .
Here is a brief description , as seen through Lord Rosse ' s telescope , of
THE MOOS . It appeared like a glob « of molten silver , and every object of the extent of 100 yards was quite visible . Edifices , therefore , of the size ot York Minster , or even of the ruins of Whitby Abbey , might be easily perceived if they had existed . But there was no appearance of any thing of that nature ; neither was there any indication of the existence of water , or of an atmosphere . There was a vast number of extinct volcanoes , several miles in breadth ; through one of them there was a line , iu continuance of one about 150 miles in Iengtb , which ran in a straight direction like a railway . The general appearance , however , was like one vast ruin of nature ; and many of the pieces of rock , driven out of the volcanoes , appeared to be laid at various distances .
We must forbear to quote further from this delightful article . We pass on to Grote ' s " History of Greece . " In this article , the principal subject discussed is the authorship of "The Homeric Poems , " and strong doubt is expressed of the truth of the popular belief that these poems were exclusivel y the work of Homer , or of any one man . " I ' ve beard , " says Byron , " I ' ve heard Troy doubted , time will doubt of Rome . '' Here we have Homer doubted . Who will say that when Shakespeare ' s dramas have attained the present age of Homer ' s poems , that there will not be critics " argufying" thatflamfo , Othello , Lear , andMackti , were written by different authors ? At least th » t the comedies were not written by the author of the
tragedies . Indeed , without anticipating critical discussions of twe thousand years hence , we may state that an intimate friend of ours gravely assured us not long since , that he was quite prepared to strip the oce Shakespeare oi Ms glory , by proving that the socalled "Shakespeare Plays , " were the production of a number of authors ; and that Shakespeare had monopolised the fame which belongs of right to many . We laughed at onr friend , and advised him to keep his criticisms to himself . Ourtriend has evidently commenced his critical labours some two thousand years too soon ; but let him take consolation , the time will no doubt come , when Shakespeare will be subjected to the dissection now performed en the remains of Homer .
" A History of British Ferns , " is a pleasing and instructive articles . An elaborate review of Carlyle ' s collection of " Oliver Cromwell ' s Letters and Speeches , " follows . The reviewer backs up the biographer in his glorification of the great Commonwealthsman . " lie that can suppose , " says the reviewer , 'Cromwell a hypocr ite , after reading these letters and speeches , could not be persuaded that Charles the First was a lover of his kingly perogatives , or that Falstaff was sincere in his liking for sack . " Acquitting Cromwell
of the charge of hypocrisy , we cannot regard him as a friend to true liberty ; he was too fond of power for that . His persecution of the '' levellers , " whose doctrines the Reviewer christens " premature Chartism , " showed him a thorough despot . His idea of rule seems to have bee . i what is called " a strong government . " With all his psalm-singing bigotry , and Jew-taught recklessness of blood-shedding , he was , however , by far the nob ' est of despots which revolutions have produced . Being a despot , he was no Washington ; bit although a despot , he was far above Napoleon in all that constitutes ? ' greatness . "
In the way he dealt with enemies abroad , we could wish we had his spirit back again to influence the councils of onr foreign office . The question of the liberation of central and Eastern Europe would soon be decided had we a mas of the people instead of a dandy aristocrat to proclaim the , world ' s right through the voice of England ' s might . "Travels in Lycia . " and " Bankruptcy and Insolvency , " are the subjects of interesting articles . Any young fellow inclined to " Risk bis nob , Like Solomon Lob , AU for martial glory . "
will do well to read the excellent review in this publication of the " Camp and Barrack-rooom ; or , the British army as it is . " If " standing armies " are to continue , at least for a time , surely such exposures as those contained in the above-named work will result in an amelioration of the present degraded condition of the soldiery . There is no class of men in the empire more interested in a radical reform of the government of this country than the army—that is , the working portion . Among the reviews of foreign works , we have "' The Countess Hahn Hahn ' s Last Novels ; " Gutzkow ' s ' Letters from Paris" and " Impressiens of
, Paris ; " " Von Littrow ' s Miscellaneous Writings , " fee-, < tc . Finally , a host of brief critical notices of new publications concludes the number . Some very infrresting extracts are tuvenfrom Gutzkow ' s works , which describe the hollowness and instability of the present oider of things in France . The monarchy , the chambers , in short the whole framework of political society in trance , is represented in the light oi an " organised hypocrisy , " and it is clear cannot for long continue . Being in Paris at the time of Lecomte ' s attempt on the King ' s life , Uutzkow ' . was astonished to see the apathy manifested by the public . Here is a ludicrous exhibition ot
tons phiupk ' s porniAKiTi ! People say that the king ie much beloved in Paris . I wilt not contest the point , 1 will not discuss the opinion of UU political oppomnts , who call him a traitor to the maxims and men who put him on the throne ; and I will even say that it is not to be expected of a man of bis years , and whose course of life has been such as his , that he should wear the poetic , grand , and genial physiognomy which unhappily we so sorely miss in almost all living sovereigns . I repeat . that all P . irisans who live iu dread of iivtvXei , of the breaking of their shop-windows , and of the reduction of the rate oi interest , behold in the king their staunchest support . He is liked , therefore ; but this I can aver , that the expression of that liking is the coldest and tamest that ever was witnessed .
It was the first of May , the king ' s / ete day ; tho weather beautiful . A heavy rain had quickened the vegetation in the garden of the Tulleries , and filled the air with the fragrant * of the blossoming trees . A soft moonlight evening fullowed ; the king was to appear in the balcony of the chateau , and more than ten thousand persons had been admitted by special tickets into the smaller garden . The regimental bands played under the balcony . At last appealed tha king , who so recently had had another escape from assassination . With him were his two grandsons , theComte de Paris and the Due de Ghartres , aud the Duchess of Orleans now and then joined the party . In the miuiuerial papers appeared the following statement : — " Immense acclamations filled the air . Never was the 1 oyal family so received ; never were the cries of >« ce le It <>\ : si prolonged and vehement . Enthusiasm was carried to ih « highest pitch . "
Jiot one word of this U true . The vast crowd was silent f-ir a whul « hour . The kiu appeared iu military uniform , with a thre ,--e « cked hat . a talllgaUnt figure , altogether unlike the usual stout , plump , portraits of him , with white nhiskcrs , and the infirm carriage of a very old man , for whom we felt twofold compassion in presence of that cold iHsensible crowd . Not a man of them raised bis hat , whilst th § king was incessantly taking his off and boning . Three or four persons , commissioned for the purpose , nhouted Vitele Rol ! No oue responded to the cry ; the kiug sat down . Sentinels were pasted , of courte with loaded weapons , on all the adjacant roofs and galuries , for it was a daring act of the kiug ' a to ex
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l " " lff / ose himself so openly . His little grandsons , desigaated , in the official newspaper style , Vavenir de la France , beat time to the music . The king encouraged them to do so ; it gave them a gay , saucy , perhaps martial , appearance , lt lasted much too long for a spontaneous impulse , this time-beating ; children soon tire of such sports , but the Comtede Paris durst not cease , he was obliged to work on unceasingly at his enforced musical programme . The Duchess of Orleans , who has learnt , what is called in France i ' effacer , to make herself tmnll , did not remain long on the balcony , but slipped away as soon as she could . But the "immutable thought " Ipensee immualle ) held on Tha daqueurt of the police again shouted Vive le Boil Again he stood up , took off his hat , and bowed smilingly . Dead silence as before , no response . Vive la Rtinel some one shouted , nnd still there was silence , and when at last the ery was given out of VweU Comte de Paritl the farce was dissolved in laughter . And this was the scene ef which the Journal eta Debate said , " Immense acclamations filled theair , "&c . . .. . _ ~
So much of Paris as was not present , the provinces , the electors , foreign nations and foreign courts believe these words . When I recounted what I b « d seen to a banker , he answered coolly " People do not shout in France . When there is no hissing , it is just the same as if every one had shouted . " This , I own , astouuded me . Our warm , strongboating German heart ! Our enthusiasm for all we love and reverence ! The b&we Frenchman lets the claqueur shout , and joins tacitly in the applause , inasmuch as he does nut hiss . I should like to know -whether Louis Philippe views the matter in the saraa li ght as does his banker . Would not a little more love and affection be welcome to him after another attempt on his life ? Or do we Oarmans take too sentimental a view of such matters ? It may be so ; for , while we were thus reflecting , one of our party had bis pocket picked .
A word of advice to Karl Gutzkow and his reviewer . Both these gentlemen write very flippantly concerning " Communism , " ab&ut which it is evident they know little er nothing , unless , indeed , what we are unwilling to believe , they wilfully misrepresent the " faith" of the Social Reformers of France . Karl Gutzkow may be a very " sober , sagacious , practical" man , and "the most remarkable of living German authors (?) " but he does not give the best evidence of deserving these eulogiums , when we find him denouncing Communism as a " craving for enjoyment without labour . " It certainly is the height of shallow impudence to attempt to affix to Communism the odium which justly attaches to the present social system . It is under the present system that hordes of idlers reap enjoyments without labour ; and this evil—the cause of the misery of the many—has called forth Cimraunisra , which aims not at securing for its votiriea enjoyments without
labour , but enforcing labour upon all , and securing enjoy meats for all . That labour and rewards should be as near as possible equalised , is the creed of the Communists . It is not necessary for us , now , to express our views as to the practicability or desireability of-Communism , it is enough for us that , seeing a noble-minded body of men calumniated , we offer this passing remark in their defence . Very clever writers and reviewers may , I be ignorant of somethings ; and the most charitable construction we can put upon the misrepresentations put forth by Gutzkow and the Westmtuter Reviewer is , to suppose thai" they know not what they do . " On the whole , we have read this number of the Westminster and Foreign Review with much pleasure , and shall best express our sense of its merits by declaring the truth—that arrived at the last page , we regret that there is not more of a work which , in a single number contains some three hundred and twenty pages .
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TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . January . Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox . London : Simplun , Marshall , and Co . This long-established and popular magazine has changed hands . Mr . Tait ' s name no longer appears on the cover as proprietor and publisher , but in nil other respects we note no change . The principal articles are " A Visit to Auch Melvich , " Lhe and Correspondence of John Foster , " "Notes on Walter Savage l > andor , " and some articles on Ireland . The " Notes" on Landor are by that odd fish of a writer , De Quincey , who surely must have returned to opium eatin ? , in no other way can we account for his outrageous " funnincs . " Of course there is a
pretty considerable quantity of good sense associated with his nonsense , and from the sensible portion of his Notes we select the only extract for which we can afford room . Savage Landor in his " imaginary dialogues " introduces " Marshal Bugeaud and an Arab Chieftain , " and the subject of their discourse is that infernal and ever-to-be-execrated atrocity the roasting and suffocating of the unhappy Arabs in the caves of Dahra . After properly denouncing that horrible act , De Quincey reminds his readers of an act , tosay the least , equally deserving of being held in eternal abhorrence , perpetrated by command of Buonaparte , the account of which we shall here introduce as
ONE OF THE BLOODI DEIDB OF THE TIHANT NAPBLEOW . Just forty-seven years ago , on the shores of Syria , was celebrated by Napoleon Bonapart , the most damnable carnival of murder that romance has fabled , or that history has recorded . Rather m « re than four thousand men—not ( like Tsrolese or Spanish guerrillas ) even in pretence " insurgent rustics , " but regular troops , serving the Pacha and the Ottoman Sultan , not old men that might by odd fractions have been thankfulfor dismissal from a life of care or sorrow , but all young Albanians , in the early morning of manhood , the oldest not twenty , four—were exterminated by successive rolts of musketry , when helpless as infants , having their arms pinioned behind their backs like felons on the scaffold , and having surrendered their muskets ( which else would have made
so desperate a resistance ) on the faith that they were dealing with soldiers and men of honour . I have elsewhere examined , as a question in casuistry , the frivolous pretences for this infamous carnage , but that examination 1 have here no wish to repeat ; for it would draw off the attention from one feature of the case , which I desire to bring before the reader , giving to this Jaffa tragedy a depth of atrocity wanting in that of Dahra . The four thousand and odd young Albanians had been seduced , trepanned , fraudulently decoyed , from a post of considerable strength , in which they could and would have sold their lives at a bloody rate , by a solemn promise of safety from authorized French officers . "But , " saidNapoleon , injpart of excuse , "these men , myaides-decatnp . were poltroons : to save their own lives , they made promises winch they ought not to have made . " Suppose it so ; and suppose the case one in which the supreme au . thority has a right to disavow his agents ; what then ? This entitles that authority to refuse his ratification to
the terms agreed on ; but this , at the came time , obliges him to replace the hostile parties tn the advantages from which his agents had wiled them by these terms . A robber , who even owns himself such , will not pretend that he may refute the price of the jewel as exorbitant , and yet keep possession of the jewel . And next comes a fraudulent advantage , nut obtained by a knavery in the aids . de . camp , but in the leader himself . The surrender of the weapons , and the submission to the fettering of the arms , were not concessions from the Albanians , filched by the representatives af Napoleon , acting ( hs he says ) without orders , but by express falsehoods , emanating from himself . The officer commanding at Dahra could not have reached his enemy without the shocking resource which he employed : Napoleon could . The officer at Dahra violated no covenant : Napoleon did . The officer at Dihra had Rot by lies seduced bis victims from their natural advantages : Napoleon had . Such was the atrocity of Jaffa in the year 1799 .
Aware of the blind and brutal prejudice which in other countries , besides France , has invested the name of Napoleon with' a popularity which that tyrant never deserved ; we consider it a ! duty , when opportunity offers , to expose his real character . The horrible atrocity above described stamps his name with eternal infamy . This number of Tait ' s Magazine commences a new volume and affords a favourable opportunity to new subscribers to inform themselves of its merits .
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LOUIS PHILIPPE'S SPEECH . ( From The Domestic Monitor , published by E . Muckenzies , 111 , Fleet-street . ) Infatuated kiug!—great is his powar , now ! immense his wealth ! greater his cunning ! Yet all his schemes are doomed to vanish like glittering metors ! To fix the destiny of a nation is not in the power of man ; nor is Louis Philippe the man capable of carrying out such plans , llu is too old and cautious ; and when his hsur iscome , —when the part which Providence has allowed him to play is at an end , the liberty of the press will once more call into action the generous feeling of those among the French nation whom his gold has nut corrupted ; and the cordial understanding which under Louis Philippe had existed for a few moments onl y , as a diplomatic fiction , will be renewed for ever , as a sacred alliance of two nations , whose mission is to destroy , at home and abroad , absolute despotism ; and to establish all over the world the rights and privileges of the many .
The subject , however upon which 1 must principally fix the attention of our readers , is the manner in which hi expresses himself concerning the annexation of Cra cow . He mentions the occurrence in his speech , and calls it " an uiu-xjiected event . "Unexpected , " indeed , wheu he—Louis Philippe—was one of the partus secrctl ; engaged in sanctioning it ! * # * LuuU . l ' liilippe alt ' octs to have been cut to the quick when the ' ' unexpected" event was announced to him , he—the gallant king—protested ! " Protested ! " Yes , and he " protests" again in his royal speech . The Austrian laughs at his protest , ( iHd keeps Cracow ! Nicholas turns Poland into a Russian province ! Louis-Phili ppe makes a new alliance with the one , aud protests against the other . What a comedy I What duplicity ! what cowardice !
Had Louis-lhili ppe possessed a spark of generous royal feeling , instoad of causing his scribblers to draw up a contemptible protest , he would have signified to Austria , that , since it thought proper to seize Cracow , in spite of the treaty of Vienna , a French army would be ordered t « cross the Alps , and take possession of the provinces
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which formed part of the kingdom of Ital y , and were taken from Prance by the same treaty . Austria would have no other alternative but to give up Cracow , or to engage in a contest which would have deprived it oV most valuable possessions . But the King of the French has made himself an Austrian and Bu « sia « tributary . You might take him for a Russian or Austrian police officer in royal disguise . However , Louis-Philippe is not immortal . ' Mors acquo pulsatpede . " " Pauperum tabernus regumque turreB . " Land of Sobieski and Koidusco , mourn not . Fragrant garden of Europe , birthplace of Dante and Uicbael Angelo , do not despair , the day of your liberation is not far . When France , once more free from the eneroachments with which cunning corruption has retarded the development of its liberties , shall have joined iu friend ship with the freeborn ehlldren of England . The day will dawn for the emancipation of alt white slaves in Europe , and you will be rescued aho from Austrian and Russian slavery . J U
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TIIE WAR IN MEXICO . ( Extract from Young America . ) LACKL 4 NDEBS WANTED—SECOND CAU . Another regiment is called for from Pennsylvania , and it is said-that some companies h » ve volunteered ! The lacklanders of P ennsylvania want light . The regiment from this state ( New York ) is not more than two . thirds full , if it » that , nnd they can ' t get a regiment for the purpose intended , from the old Teapot State ! Spread tho doctrine that no lacklander should fight except for his right to the land !
LET THE LANDLORDS ENLIST . A Washington correspondent of the Evening Past &aya that in consequence of the difficulty of getting from some of the States their quota of the nine regiments of volunteers callsd for , it is cantemplated to call for another regiment from New York . This is glorious news , because it is but a short time since they were boasting in the papers that 300 , 000 men bad volunteered for the war , and the indication is that the lacklanders arc getting their eyes open . Of course in communities where there are people actually starving to death , as in New York , there will always bo necessitous men who will enlist ai mercenaries ; but if all men had their right in the soil , none would be in this condition ; therefore no landless man who could keep life in him by any other meant ought to enlist in any war , except Mich as would tend to secure the equal right to the soil ; the Mexican war is clearly not one of this kind , but the reverse .
The managers of this war ( many of them slaveholders and land speculators ) want the landless penple of the United States to go and kill more of the landless people of Mexico men women , and children ; and if they don ' t want them to commit worse crimes than murder , why have they bought 65 , 000 gallons of whiskey for the army " ? Much more sensible would it be fur the landless people of both countries to unit e and kill off land speculators ! I do not propose this , mind , by any means ; there is a much better way to get rid of land speculators than to kill them , which is to vote away their powers of mischief ; but I say it would be more rationil and humane for landess people to unite in killing off those who have usurped their birthri ght than to kill each other for even dollars a month .
" BBFUDl A T 1 ON . " TO THE BOT 8 . My Lads , —If you have read the President ' s Message yeu will see that he makes some calculations respecting the expeuses of the war now going on with Mexico , and proposes to Congress to borrow twenty-three millions « f dollars for 20 years . If he should succeed in this , as 20 years is more than the average life of voters , many of you would be taxed " your whole lifgtime " to pay the interest of a debt contracted for an unjust purpose , without having a word to say in the matter ; that is , if you
acknowledge the debt when you come to vote . But '• taxation without representation " was one of the causes of the revolution , and a just one ; and it will be your right and duty to " repudiate " such a debt as soon as you vote for representatives . I should like to write you more at length on the subject of public debt asd interest , but have not room . Think of it . Those who make wars should take their own property , not yours , to pay the expense . Just calculate haw many tax-eaters the interest of 23 , 000 , 000 dollars , at 6 per cent , would fasten upon you , at working men ' s wages , say 300 dollars a year . G . H . Evans .
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THE TEN HOURS' BILL . MEETING AT MANCHESTER . On Thursday evenin . !? a crowded meeting was held at the Town Hall , Kingstree :, for the purpose of promoting the passing of a Ten Hours' Bill . The Right Hon . Lord Ashley ( with his son ) was present . The Rev . G . D . Wait , one of the canons of Manchester , presided . The Rev . W . Blcaadale , and Messrs . Greene , Lear , and Marsden , having addressed the meeting , and the usual resolutions having been passed , The Right Hob . Lord Ashlsi then addressed the meeting at great length . He said : Gentlemen , we are again , they say , ¦ upon the threshold of a conflict , and your enemies would tell you that you are upon the threshold of defeat ; but , whatever may be your
po&i-tion , whether you are on the threehald of success or defeat , I come here to exhort you to und ying perseverance— ( ch « erg )—and , whatever may bo the result of this struggle , 'o appeal to you by every sentiment which you owe ^ to your families , by every sentiment you owe to yourselve and your country , to maintain this cause . ' a cause whi ch you all know and ever have known to be ' a cause which < s the most just , the most righteous , and the ' most honourable . ( Applause . ) My business is to urge ' upon you the necessity of perseverance , to point out ' : the degree and the mode of that perseverance , whereby we may be able to obtain the great obje ; t we have in view . Now , as to the degree of perseverance , let me exhort that that perseverance be absolute and without limit . Now , as to the mode of perseverance , you cannot do better than go on in the way in which you
have begun . The mode in which you have begun has obtained for you the approbation evsn of your enemies . Go ou as you have begun : but in this one point let me give you my earnest counsel ; never be turned aside by any seduction or sophism from pursuing this object by the assistance of the statutes of the realm . Look to Parliament ; conciliate the Legislature ; conciliate as you can , and make as many private arrangements as you can , towards the attainment of the objects in view with the master millowuers ; but having made those private arrangements , go with them to the Legislature . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) Without a law there is no security , ( Hear , hear . ) I cannot believe those who wish you to mt upon private arrangement—I cannot believe thtty are seriout in their arguments . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) And if they were serious , surely late events must make us cautious , when we read that several weeks ago , a number of matter raillowners had met to consider the desirableness of
putting their mills upon short time , and that even in the present state of difficulty they had separated without coming to a conclusion on the subject on which they were assembled . If they will not do that which is necessary for their own good in a period of difficulty like the present , you may be assured they never will be agreed in a period of prosperity upon that which is for your good . ( Hear , hear . ) If they will not do this thing at a period when there is no temptation to go wrong , do you think , fallible creatures as they are and as we all are , that in a period of prosperity they will put their limit on their machinery , which limit they tell you will be injurious to your own interests ! ( Hear , hear . ) Depend upon it you have no resource but the law . ( Cheers . ) The law is your right ; to your right , therefore , make the appeal , and never rest till you have not only got an affirmatien of the Ten Hours principle , but t ill you shm ll have received the sanction and the countenance of thi
statute law of the realm . ( Applause . ) The speaker went on to show that the late measure of Cera Law repeal had given the Ten Hours advocate undeniable claims on the Free Traders . I recollect , said Lord Ashley , one of your present members saying , " If I vote with the Noble Lord upon the present measure , will he follow me into the lobby on the corn measure ? " and he stated that his opinions were in favour of a relaxation of the hours of labour , I hare followed him into the lobby for the repeal of the Corn Law ; will he now follow—not mo , because I am no longer a member of the House of Commons—but ' will he follow your present leader , Mr . John Fielden , when he calls for the redemption of his pledges ? I should have felt a double pang in resigning my seat in
Parliament , as I did in February last jear—I should have felt a double pang in retiring from that honourable post of your representative ia the House of Commons had I Hot felt that in so doing , although I retired from the leadership , I was , so far as a single effort could avail , advancing your cause by removing that which so many had said was a great aud leading obstacle to the final relaxation of the long hour system . He introduced their Bill last session into Parliament , but the Introduction and the management of that Bill must hereafter be confided to other hands—hands which he knew to be most faithful and trustworth y ; and his sincere and heartfult supplication was , that they would give to that good man all the support in their power , ( His Lordship resumed his seat amidst loud cheere . )
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Oldiiam—Tue Ten Howbs' Facto ** Bill . — On Saturday evening last , a meeting of managers and overlookers of cotton mills in the borough of Oldham , was held at the Albion Inn , for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament in support of the Ten Hours' Bill . Mr . Jumes Conlon , mill manager , was elected chairman . Several speeches were delivered , and the pttition was agreed to . Blackburn . —Oa Friday , Lord Astley visited this town and addressed a meeting in the Theatre , which was tilled to overflowing . The greatest enthusistr prevailed . Meetings have been also held at Bolton and other places ,
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Ah Old Book . —Some years ago , an old book which was sold to a druggist at Gainsborough as waste paper , and he subsequently sold it to a boukseller in tho same town . The title was "The Bokeof St . Albans . " of the Lady Juliana barneu , or Bernera , printed at St . Albsns , in M 86 . and it was one ot the most perfect e'ipies . This book was afterwards purchased by Mr . Grenville , who has bequeathed it to the British Museum . Asti-Bardbk-ors . —According to the correspondent of a Scotch paper , shaved faces are now a rarity in Paris , for thoss who do not wear the full beard , wear the moustache . Gun Cotton—The Austrian government has prohioited the use of Gun cotton , till official ruler snail have been laid down for its manufacture and sale .
" Cold Without . "—A correspondent of the ' Gardener ' s Chronicle mentions , as a proof of the hardiness of gold fish , that while the whole number of frogs and toods perished during the late severe ! ro 9 ts , eome gold tish , which were kept in the same pond , remained in good health . Representation of Lincoln . —Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton baa intimated to his friends in Lincoln his intention of again presenting himself as a candidate lor the representation of their crty at the next general election . Still too many of the Brood . —Of forty-six European reigning sovereigns , married or widowed , thirteen have no children . Machinkry . —Picture frames are now made by machinery , at a price much lower than that at wbiuli they were formerly sold .
Rumour of an Increase of Bishops . —It is said that a measure is intended to be submitted to the leg islature for the creation of five or six new bishoprics in the established church , with seats in the bouse of lords . The Evanqelicai Alliance has been holding a session at Leeds . Correction . —A gentleman who has received the appointment of stipendiary magistrate in Australia , is not the ex-magistrate of Hatton-garden , but Mr . Williom Laing , who , five yearsago , we are told ; filled a similar . situation in ~ Van Diemen ' sLand . A " Great Fact . "—It is rumoured that a loan of twenty millions of dollars , or four millions sterling , has been negotiated for the United States by a wellknown City firm .
Dbstitution in Ireland and Scotland . — A subscription is about to be immediately commenced throughout her Majesty ' s and his Royal Highness Prince Albert ' s households , in aid of tho fund fur the relief of the distress in Ireland and Scotland . Death of Admiral D'Arcy Pke 6 ton . —This distinguished officer , whose latter years have been tievoted in his capacity of Deputy Lieutenant , dw ., in the fvortli and West ; Ridings of Yorkshire , [ died on the 21 st instant , at , Askar , in that county , aged eighty-two .
Name tub Robbers . —We have heard it said that certain influential persons in the City , of enormous wealth , are buying up every quarter of corn they can get , for the purpose of holding it for higher prices ; and , at the same time , are running about talking of the famine in Ireland , and the propriety of large subscriptions ! Two names we have heard specially adverted to . One is that ef hereditary money-jobbers , whose race , whose habits , whose character , lead us to expect nothing else but unbounded avarice , and the shabbiest duplicity ; but the other is that of eminent English merchants — an honourable name throughout the world—and of that name we have heard the rumour with surprise and regret . —Post . Legacies to publicI Charities . —The late Miss
Primer , ot New street , Birmingham , has bequeathed legacies , in addition to £ 100 to each of our hospitals , to the under-mentioned charities , free of duty : —the General Dispensary , £ 100 ; the Blue Coat " School , £ 100 ; the Deaf and Dumb Asylum , Edgbaston , £ 100 : the Eye Infirmary , £ 50 ; and to the Institution for the Relief of Deafness in Cherry-street , £ 50 . A Guarmas of thr FooK ' . —We understand that the poor-law commissioners have addressed a communication to Mr . Daniel Turner , of this town , requiring him to forward to them any explanatien he may have to give respecting the charges preferred against him as a guardian of the poor , of misappropriating property belonging to the parish of Birming ham . —Birmingham Advertise r .
iOBAcco . —The cultivation of tobacco is increasing immensely in Cuba , in consequence of the great demand for llavannah cigars . Things is Hamburgh . —Provisions are exceedingly dear , and work very scarce at Hamburgh . Population of Vienna . —According to the recent census taken at Vienna , the population of the capital of Austria , is 410 , 047 souls . French Eggs . —In 1845 , France exported eightyeight million two hundred thousand eggs , of which Great Britain received eighty-two millions . About nine millions were consumed by the French people . Another Mozart . —There is a boy pianist at Paris , named St . Seans , and only ten and a half years old , who plays the music of Handel , Sebastian , Bach , Mozart , Beethoven , and the more modern masters , without any book before him . The Streets of Liverpool . —There arc about one
hundred miles of streets in the old borough of Liverpool , Chapping of tub Hands . —A drop or two of honey well rubbed on the hands while wet , after washing with soap , prevents chapping , and removes the roughness ot the skin ; it is particularly pleasent for children ' s hands and face in cold weather . More Theatres . —Two new theatres a e intended to be built in London . A Bishop ' s Sunday School . —The Bishop of Ripon has established a Sunday school in his palace , tor the neighbouring cottagers . A Weather Glass for the People . —At the corner ot Moor-street , Birmingham , a public barometer has lately been suspended . On market day .-many persons from tue country take a peep at what they . eall ' 'Nelson ' s weather-glass , " and walk away wondering what " old Brummagem" will produce next .
The Coal Trade is said to be very brisk in the Forest of Dean . Effects of Frost in Building . —The late severe frost , did great injury to many buildings in London . Spirits and Malt . —It appears from returns just laid before Parliament , [ that in 1 . 800 there were 0 , 906 , 984 gallons of British spirits , 3 , 049 , 590 of Colonial , and 1 , 980 , 927 gallons of foreign spirits charged with duty for consumption in the United Kingdom . In 1845 , the quantities bo charged were 23 , 122 , 588 gallons of British , 2 , 409 , 135 of Colonial , and 1 , 080 , 754 of foreign spirits , in the former year the population was 15 , 506 , * J 94 , and in 1841 it was 26 , 715 , 920 . In 1826 the number of bushels of malt charged with duty in the United Kingdom was , 32 , 468 , 778 , the total amount of duty paid being £ 4 , 177 , 277 . In the last year the dotal number of bu * hels , of malt was 41 , 979 000 , and the amount of duty £ 5 , 865 , 200 .
Oaths in Prussia . — Prussia has substituted a brief oath in her courts for the long formula hitherto in use . The reason for this is obvious : —Prussia , with a keen recollection of Cracow , wishes to make as little of an oath as possible . —Punch . Reduction in thb Price of Bread . —On Saturday , for the first time during the past eight or ten weeks , the price of bread underwent a general and considerable reduction , with , however , some variations in different districts of the metropolis . Foundling Hospital . —The Rev . Dr . Crolyiias been elected to the office of afternoon preacher at the Foundling Hospital . Mademoiselle Rose Cueri . —Mdlle . Rose Cheri , who was such a favourite at the French l'lays in London , is about to be married to M . Leruoine Montigny , dirccteur of the Theatre du Gymnase , Paris .
Noiile Conduct of a Bkloian Priest . —We read in a Belgium journal : "The curfi of one of the pooreHt parishes of Bruges , having exhausted all his own means , as well as the arms given to him , in relief of the distressed , has sold his plate anil every article of his furniture that ho could possibly dispense with , and distributed the products as he had done before . Roman Coins . —An inhabitant of la Gangnerie de Quijicrc ( Maine-et-Loire ) , whilst digging a few-days ago , in a field belonging to him , turned up i \ vase containing 457 Hold coins worth in mere weight as gold 10 , 225 f . They are all Roman coins ol various reigns . A Professorship of Chinese ia about to be establisliod in King ' s College , London .
Death op an Eccentuiu . — The eccentric and benevolent Miss Catherine Lee , late of Kensington House , and of Knightsbridge , has left to the Hospital for Curing Diseases of the Chest , lately built near her former residence at Old Brompton , £ 200 ; to Charing-cross Hospital , the chariry Schools of St . Gilcs-in-the-Fields ami St . Georges , Bloomsbury , the National Bcnovolcnt Institution , and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals , nineteen guineas each , She has left numerous other bequests
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iind made ample provision for her favourite > . ud . spaniel and parrot . Mr Gullv , late M . P . for Pontefaot , is spoken of * s tho second Liberal candidate for Andover . Distribution of above £ 700 amo . xost Distukssbd Jews . —Ou Sunday evening a meeting of the llabbis nd other officials connected with the various metropolitan Synagogues , was held at the Jewish Free Schools , situate in Bell-lane , Splta'fielus , fov vho purpose of distributing relief to the poor memhei-g of the different Synagogues , great numbers of whum , ia consequence of the severity of the weather ami the clearness of provisions , have been reduced to great distre s . Above seven hundred pounds sterling ' . vero distributed . A Wholksome Battub . —At the festival of B ; uram tho Malioiiitfdans sacrificed 75 . 000 lambs .
Dublling . —A very good blow has been stnwk at duelling in Mississippi , by a case of enforcement ui ' a law of the state , which requires that tho survivor shall be responsible for the debts of a man he kiiis in a duel . Poets . —The Chinese have a notion that the soul « t' a poet passes into a grasshopper because it ^ injja still it starves . |( Smuoolhr woRTn Four Millions of Monky!—i here lives in Sile > ia , a peasnnt , named Gtulalla , He was formerly a smuggler . One day the Customhouse officer was in pursuit of him , and twviug
hrcil , the ball passed through his right arm , ' *« hicn was obliged to be amputated . Gudalla , forced to r esort to another calling , established himself in a village called Rka . hc hiulonly been there : ifew days belore his fortune turned , and he had tli « - « ood luck of discovering a valuable zinc mine , m led Mary s Mine , and it has now become one of the most profitable zmo mines of any in Europe . Gudalla , having asked and obtained permission to wink his discovery , this peasant , who can neither rend not write , is now in possession of a fortune estimated at 30 , 000 , 000 of thalers ,. or about four millionsof pounds sterling !
Stkam . —The " New York Sun" mentions the invention of a steam type setter , which , by the aid of two men and three boys , can put a- * much printed matter as ten compositors can do by the present system . The Conde de Montbmolin attended on Monday night at the House of Commons to hear Lord John Russell ' s ( speech . Imports from the United States . —The Dalmatin from New York , Columbia from Philadelphia , and John P . Harward from New Orleans , which were reported at Liverpool on the 23 rd inst ., bring 10 , 451 Uarrels flour , 2 , 124 bags and 8 , 552 bushels irmtan corn , 3 , 939 barrels Indian corn meal , and 2 , 600 packages lard .
Representation of Bath . —The committee for supporting Lord Ashley have resolved to accept his Lordship ' s conditions , that he shall be nsturne ' . i free of all expense , and subscriptions have been commenced for raising a fund for that purpose . Curious Circumstance . —A few days ago Mr . A . Oliver , tin plate worker and brass founder , & « ., in Coldstream , was called to Carham Hall , in order to put a pump in proper working condition . The pump is a small one , brings tho water from the
Tweed , and is fitted with very small brass valves . After Mr . Oliver had done the needful repairs , he was surprised to find the pump still defective , and whilst wurking the lever in order to remove any internal obstruction , a living eel , eighteen inches itt length , and of proportionate thickness , was discharged , alter which the pump worked well . Traobdians . —The Widow and step-daughter o £ George Frederick Cook , now residing at St . Louis , U . b ., have presented the groat tragedian ' s gold watch to Mr . Charles Kean .
Middlesex Election . —The eloction of a member for Middle-ex , in the room of the late Mr . Byng , wiil take place at Brentford , on the 3 vd of February . Repkksentatio . n of Tamworth . —It ib currently reported in this locality , that Mr . William Peel , on the part of the Protectionists , had determined to op . pose his brother , Sir Robert Pee ! , at the next election . Reported Death of Donizetti . —The " Roman Advertiser , " of the 2 nd of January , in a note to an article on &n opera of this eminent composer , states , " we have just learned that DonizHti is no more . " Riuht . —The Pope has prohibited dog fighting ia R > mn .
A Mother of Six Soldiers . —Died at Kilburn , on Sunday last , in her 76 ih year , Amelia Barber . bhe . had six sons in the Grenadier Guards , who . served together in the Peninsular war . Four of these veterans survive their mother . The Duke of York granted her a pension of 3 . < . a week , which was continued by the Duke of Wellington up to the time of her decease . The National Club , which was first formed after the passing ot the Maynootn . Endowment Bill as a rallying point for the Protestant party , have taken the houses , No . 2 and 3 , Old Palace-yard , between tne House ot Commons and the House of Lords which will open asaclub-house ia the course of a few days .
Singular Circumstance— On Thursday afternoon last a partidge supposed to ba pursued by a hawk iIjw into the bed-room window of W . Hawkins Fbq * ot Martmstown , pitching into a band-box that lav open in the room at the time , and which by the Hitting ot the timid bird , breughtthe cover to a close , at once making him a captive . Brasied . —Poetical Sheepstealkrs . —A fewdava ago the carcass of a sheep was stok-n from the farm oi a widow lady at Toy ' s Hole . The party by whom the robbery was effected left the following poetical SeKh l ' - IplOit au P ended » o the skin , whioh Petatoes are scarce , and turnips are thin , We take the carcass , aud leave you the akin . Iub Palatinate of HuNOARr .-A letter from \ lenna , of the 17 th , in the Augsburah Gazette , aajT . - ilie Lmperor has appointed the Archduke Stei phen to the post ot Palatine of linn ™™ n * s « , / JZ
in place of his father , lately deceased ' 'Catch a Weazkl AsLEEP . " _ The Emancipation ot ioulouse says , that for several davs the gendarraery oi Fangeaux have been in active motion , and the people ot the country imagined that it was on aocount ot seme apprehended corn riots , but it appears tuat the Car hit chief , Cabrera , is the sole object of their researches there being strong reasons for suspecting that he had slept during the night of the 18 th at a chateau near Fangeaux . Munich , Jan . 19 .-A few days past the celebrated artist , bigismund fcrank , a painter on glass , died at the age ot seventy-seven . He was born at Num . nun ; , and made himself famous by his indefatigable researches on tho art of the aucient muthod of glasspaintmg , which was almost lost to the present eeneration . r 8
Deatu ofS . Mackenzie , Esq ., R . S . A .-We learn , that tins veteran artist breathed his last on Wednesday , nt his residence , in Edinburgh . The Use of Ethkr in Sukoical Operations . — Medical men employing tho agency of ether to effect surgical operations without paining the patient , should be reminded that the vapour constantly given forth by this body is highly inflatable , and if brought into contact with flame , while being inhaled , will be productive of very dangerous effects to the patient .
The Dock-yards . —The system at present pursued in II . M . Dockyards with regard to the enonomy of labour and materials , as well as the general principles of efficient superintendence and accountancy , is now undergoing a thorough investigation . Irish Distress . —The Pope . —A private letter from Paris , dated the 19 th instant , states that it is there rumoured that his Holiness is about to address an encyclical letter , calling on all the faithful in Europe to come to the assistance of Ireland . —Ztoifcn Freeman ' t Journal .
Death of Rear-Admiral Edward Elliot —We have to announce the demise of the above officer , who expired on Sunday , at Alcombe , near Minehead . Somerset , in the 79 th year of his age . The deceased eirered the navy in 1781 , at a comparatively early age , and saw considerable service during the war under Admirals 3 . Muchbridge , Sir Richard Strachan , G . Palmer , F . Cole , Lord Bridport , and the immortal Nelson , Failure of tun New Potato Crop . —The Gardner ' s Chronicle states , the disease has appeared in potatoes which have been recently grown by artificial heat .
Suicide of the Hon . II . E . Addinqton . —On Wed . nesday last the lion . Henry Estcourt Addington , soh of Lord sidraouth , committed suicide at Ins father ' s residence , at Albury , near Guilford . Wilful Damage . —On Tuesday evening , between the hours of 7 and 8 o ' clock , a man , having thcap . pearance of a well-dressed mechanic , was observed by some passers-by to walk deliberatel y to the shop front of Messrs . Brown , 47 , St . Martin ' s-lane , Charing , cross , and force his arm through the window , throwing down various articles of expensive cut glass , and otherwise damaging many services of china to a considcral extent , lie then effected his escape by a rapid llight , the object being evidently to commit the greatest amount of damage in the smallest possible time .
Luckv Fellows . —The grand prize of 100 , 000 dollars in the Ruyal Lottery at llavanoah , has been drawn by fiity negroes , most of them slaves , who clubbed a dollar each for the purpose of three whole tickets . An Artful Dodok . —A few days ago , the officers of excise suizod the swap manufactory of Messrs . Allan , of Newcastle , in consequence of discovering seven soaplraraes ingeniously inserted into a wall , ami faced with mock brickwork , in sueb . a manner as to be ordinarily invisible . They contained more than ten tons of soap-liquor . Startling . —The bilk of mortality for Newcastleupon-Tyne , exhibit the extraordinary increase oi I ' 239 deaths durin g the last year , as compared witb , 1845 .
Rather Dear . —The celebrated mare Alice Haw- . ,, thorn was sold on Friday week , at York , lor 800 M •' * guineas . / V ^ -V En!—It is stated that the wealthiest widow in , < '• - Ireland is about to bring an action for breach / of i ¦• promise of marriage against a duke lately wedded /; , - to " lore without money . " 1 \ ,: ; V V *
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IHeb at Bristol , on the 18 th » st ., after a protracted illness , in his 39 th year , John Bowscy . lie was for many years Secretary , to the Bristol Lodge of the General Union of House carpenters and Joiners . Ills remains were followed to the grave on Sunday last , by a large number of his brother unionists attd associates , by whom he was universally beloved and reipccted , he was a firm unionist to the l& 6 t , and a Radical in politico ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1403/page/3/
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