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ABERXETHY'S PILE OINTMENT . j "TSyHAT a painful and nostous disease is the riles ! ana comparatively how few of the afflicted have been perma-1 \ \ neatly cared by ordinary ojiptials to Medical skill ! jjbi * . no J .. ubt , . irises from tke use of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the Profession ; indeed , strong internal ruedieiue shsuld always be avoided in all ' cases of this complaint . Tbe Proprietor of the above Ointineut , alter years of ac : te suffering , placed himself under i live treatment ot that eminent surgeon , Mr Abcrnciuj , was by him restored to perfect h « alth , and has enjoyed it ever : sir . ee without tne slightest return of the Dit order , over a period « f fifteeu years , during which time the earao Aber-Eetiuaa Prescription kas been tUemeins of healing a vast number of desperate cases , botn in and out of the Proprietor ' s circles of friends , most of which cases had been un ^ ier Medical care , and some of them fer a very considerable time . Abernetliy ' s Pile Ointment was introduced to the Public by the desire of many who had been perfectly ' healed bj its application , and since its introduction , the fame of this ointment ! u 3 spread far and wide even tho ' Medical Profession , always slow and unwilling to acknowledge the virtues of any Medicine not prepared by them , i » elves , donow freely and frankly admit that Abernotbys Pile Ointment , it not only a valuable preparation but a uever-failiac r * medy in every stage and variety of that appalling malady . Sufferers " from the Piles will not repent giving the Ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might be produced , if the natare ef tbe complaint did not render tho ; e nlio have been cared , anwMag to publish their names . I Sold in covered pots , at is . 6 d , or me quantity of three 4 s . Sd . pots in one for 1 is ., with full directions ' OTUse , byC . K ikg ( Agent to the Proprietor ) , No . 3 J , Napitr-street , Hoxton New Town , London , where also can be procured every Patent Medicine oi repute , direct from tbe original raakviB , with an allowance on takiug 6 ix at a time . » , ' Be sure to ask for' ABEP » XETirTS PILE OINTMENT . ' The public are requeued to be on their guard against noxious compositions , sold at low prices , and to observe that none can possibly be genuine , unless the name &f Kisg is printed on the Government Stamp affixed to each p » t , 4 s . 6 d ., which is the lowest price the proprietor is « aab ! ed t « sell it at , owing to the great expense of the ingredients .
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CELE 3 RATED TSSOUGHODT T 3 E 6 L 0 BE . HOLLOW AY'S OINTMENT . CUSE 0 ? FISTCLOUS SORES A >* D PLEURISY . Bstract cf a Letter from Mr Robert Calvert , Chemist , Slekesley , dated , September Srd , 1 S 47 . To Professor Holioway . Su , —Mr Thompson , National Schoolmaster of this town , desires me to send you the particulars of his son who had b ; en bad for tnree years andahalf , and has receiv-. d xhe greatest benefit by the use of your pills and ointment , He is of a scrofulous constitution ; a pleurisy had left a . large collection of matter in tne chest , and this eventually formed a passage through the vrales oi the
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SONG TO TOE MEW OF ENGLAND . Men of Efcgiand , Wh . rcforo plough For the lords who lny je low ? Wberef . re weave , with toll and care , The rich robes jour tyrants wear ? Wherefore fvel , and clothe , and save , Frem the cradlu to the grave , Those ungrateful drones who would Draia your BWtat—nay , drink your blood ! Wherefore , Bees of England , forge Many a wtapon , chain , and scourge , That those atingless drones may spoil The forced pnviuceof your toil ? Have yo leisure , comfort , calm , Shelter , food , love ' s gentle balm ? Or what Is it ye bay so dear , With yourpaia and with youv fear ? The seed ye sow another reaps—The wealth ye find another keeps—The robeB ye weave another wears—The armg jo forge Bnother bears ,
Sow seed , but let no tyrant reap—Find wealth , let no imposter heap—¦ W » ave robes , let not the idle wear—Forge arms , in your defence to bear . Shelley .
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THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY AS DE SIGNSD BY GOD . By Daniel Bibsof London : A . Hall and Company , 25 , Pater , noater-row . [ Second Notice . ) We shall now extract sorna of Me Bishop ' s obser vatioca and quotations on the subject of GOVEBNHENT—HEBEDITABT EDLE AND HE&EDITABY
LEGISLATION . The rights of every man that comss into tho world , thea , are—1 . The inviolable liberty of his ows person , 2 . A property in the land equally with all his fellow members cf tho society or nation to which he belongs . 3 . An equal share with all Jtbeae in the political right 1 An inquiry , ' says Paine , ' into the origin of rights will demonstrate to us that rights are aot gifts from one man to another , nor from one claS 3 of men to another . For who is he who could be the first giver ? Or by what priacipie , or on what authority , could he possess the right Of giving ? Rights appertain to man in right of his existence only , and must therefore be equal to every man . By what principles are we to find out the point to stop at , that shall discriminate between mtn of the eanio country , part of whom aball be free , and the rest not ?'
' Those who oppose an equality of rights , never mean the exclusion shall take place on themselves . The right of voting fer 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 . It is posiible to exclude menfroui voting ; but it la impossible to exclude them from the right of robelllng against that exclusion . ' ' As to usurpation , no man , ' ssya Paine , ' will be so bardj as to defend it ; and that William the Conqueror waa a warper , is a fact not to be contradicted , A Freuoh bastard , landing with an armed banditti , and establish , ing himself king of England against the consent of the natives , is in plain terms a very paltry , rascally , original .
Tho groat landed estates now held in descent , were plundered from the qalet inhabitants at tho conquest . When they [ tbe Conqueror and his followers ] had committed the robbery , they endeavoured to lose the dig . gfcea of it by sinking their real names under fictitious onns , which they called titles . As property honestly obtained is beat secured bj an equality of lights , so 111-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights : when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himielf secure . That part of the government of EDgland tbatis called the House of Lords , was originally composed of persons who had committed tho robberies of which I hare been speaking . It was ea association for tho protection of the property they had stolen . '
The existence of an exclusive military clasa is anquestionable evidence of a government wbioh exist ! only to oppress ; dad of a people who ara fit only to be Blares . Bow highly a standing force is estimated by oppressors , appears from the numerical amount of tho different armies of Earop ? . It is not conotivable , but for the general poTerty , that mm would inliBt themselves to tho trade of murder for a shilling per day . In case of war , ' sal 3 a French weaver , ' all our youth would bo disposed to take up arms , and leave a trade * [ tbe sill : ] which gives them no b pP 9 i ' Tnus , whilst aa arrav ) 8 the greet instrument of the oppressor , oppression ( one of the principal causes of poverty ) fillR its ranks . 1
< The right , Bays Paine , ' to 66 t up and establish hereditary government never did , and never can exist in any generation , at any time whatever ... It le of the nature oi treasoB ; because it is an attempt to take away the rights of all tbe ...... living at that time , and of all suoceediBg generations . Tho equal righls of generations is a right find in the nature of things . It belongs to the son when of age , ns It did ts the father before him . '—( ieiter ( 0 TPasliingtoti , 1797 . ) 1 There is not , ' tajB Faine , ' a problem in Euclid more mathematically tine , than that hereditary government has not a right to exist . Wtiea , therefore , we taka from any man the exercise of hereditary power , we take &wsy that which ho never had the right to possess ; and which na law or custom could or ever can give him a
title to . To be satisfied of a right of o thing to exist , we must be satisfied ( hat it had a right to begin . If it bad net a right to begin , it has not a ri ght to oontisue . By what right , then , did the hereditary system begin t Let any man but ask h ' raeelf this question , and he will find that he casnot satisfy himself with an answer . The generatien which first selects a person , and puts him at the head of its government , either with the tltlo of king or any other nominal distinction , acta its own choice , as a free agent for itself , be that choice wise or foolish . The person so set up is not hereditary , but selected and appointed ; and the generatioa which sets him up does not live under an hereditary government , but under a government of its own choice . As , therefore , hereditary succession ie out of tbe question nith respect to the first generation , we havo nsxt to coa 3 &der the character in which that generation acta towards the commencing generation , and to all succeeding on ? g . It assumes a character to which it has neither right nor title , for It
changes itself from a legislator to a testator , and affects to make a will and testament which is to have operation after the demise of the makers , to bequeath tbe governmont , and it not only attempts to bequeath , but to « ata . blieh on the iHcoeeding generation tt iiew and different form of government under which itself lived . In [ tbt-J ever-running flood of generations tkero is no part superior in authority to another . Could we eoncelve an idea of superiority ia any , at what point of time , or in what century of tho world , are we ton ' s it ? To what cause are wo to ascribe it ? By what evidence are we to prove it ! By what criterion are we to keo » it ? A ringle re . flection will taacfe ub , that our ancestors , like ourselrce wire bat tenants for life in the great freehold of rights ' The fee absolute was not in them . It is not in u « . It be ' onuB to the whole family of man throughout all ago * . Erviy age and generation is and must bo , as a matter oi ' right , us free to act for ltstlf in all cases , as tho are and generation that preceded it . ' — [ Prinolp . of Oqv , )
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The proun- state of .-uci ' . ' -iy , urging in a { 'rsa . ' i" ^ from 111 " IUII ( . 1 tieing engrossed , io a full , a ptrfact , and thureforo ; iu unanswerable argument ugainBt it , Wu mar , then , again fearlessly challenge tho whole world to produce a single sentence that can successfully be urgod in ita defence , —or again&t the doctrine of the property in the land belonging to society at large , or to all the people of every country , in every age ! Emperor comes from the Latin imperator , in its primary signification , commander of an army . Diike 1 b also a general or loader in tho primitive sense . Among the Romans , dukes were such aa led their armieB , nnd they wero appointed governors of provinces , Marquis , introduced in later timeB , signifies a governor of tho marahes or frontier provinces . Earl . —ThoBe who bore tho title of earlo , wero anciently attendants of their sovereigns in their councils and mariiil expeditions . They governed shires .
Viscount , from ¦ fflceeomes , or earl ' a deputy , waa anciently the name of him who held tke chief office under an earl . The earl being oftentimes at court , the viscount was deputed to look after the affairs of tbe county . Baron . —This word , Menage derives as a term of ml . litary dignity . King , U a contraction of the TeutoDlo ouning or cyning . In the primitive tonguo it signifies stout or va " llant ; kings having been anciently chosen by their subjec ts on account of their valour and strtngth .
As to the nobility of Europe , ' What , ' Bays Mirabeau , 1 were thoy ia their oiijjin ! Tbe chiefs of ferocloue warriors , who united barbarity of conquest with barbarity of manners ; whose first rights wero those , of usurpation and p lunder , and who founded their pre-eminence merely oa the command which they exercised 1 b war , ThuB was tbe field of battle the aursery of this nobility . They Inid tte foundation of that barbarous feudal system , which converted whole nations into herds of slaves , and a f w individuals into broods of tyrants . '—( Considerations on the Order of Cineinnatus . )
Titles of honour , or rather dishonour , —orders of knighthood , —armorial bearing * , —nnd every thing of Q similar kind , aro but contrivances for asoisting to support tbe sacrificing system . They are disgraceful alike to the few who adopt them , and to the many that tolerate them . However highly they may be esteemed by the former , —in the sight of Heaven thoy are but abominations !—' There ia not , say » Fainc , ' any description of men that despise monarchy so much as courtiers , They aro in tho condition of men who get their living by a show , and to whom the folly of that thow ia bo familiar , that they ridicule it . But were the audience to bo made as wise in this rtspect as themselves , there would bo an end to tho show and the profits , ' — ( Bights of Man , ) Let us assume , that the British hereditary legislative
and tho heirs of tbe members wore all assembled together , and that on earthquake were to swallow up the whole aggregate . It can scarcely he imagined this country would bo bo miserably infatuated bb to deeire to sea established a second time , the most anomalous body the whole annals of legiolation contain ! But supposing thtB country would have another hereditary legislative , N ) thiqg could be more easy than to collect a number of law-mak e ™ , equal to that of which the House of Lores is composed ; for example 500 . With a very little training , S 00 of those Bhopkeeptrs that livs the nearest to tk * houseB of parliament , -would assuredly be competent to perform the vocation ef tfco present house , namely , to assist in sacrificing the many . Or thb 500 might thus be found , —say 100 each , drapers , grocers , tailors , butch . rs ,
and bakers , ot the first names in the London Directory . A few newly made lords are commonly men of ability . The groat body of ths peers are assuredly not above tbe level of the generality of men . AH that this body us . u&ll } - do-s is to follow its leaders . This may be affirmed of an hcredlttry legislative in every age . ' In all govern . muntB , ' saya Adam Smith , ' the highest offices are fienerally possessed , and the whole detail of the administration conducted , by mo a who wero educated iu the middle and inferior ranks of life ,,,,... to whom the great , uftir having regarded them first tvlt'i contempt , and afterwards with envy , are at last contented to truckle with the same abject meanness , they deBiie that the rest of
mankind should behave to themselves . ' —( Moral Sentimmtt . ) If aa hereditary legislative Is necessary , why have a co-exlstant elected legislative ? If the latter is sufficient , wby have the formir ? Surely no oco ( udIbss dosirous of proving himself a fit inraato for n lunatic asylum . ) will bo found to affirm that a country cannot find among all its people suitable persons to legislato , with , out having recourse to hereditary legislators . The Idea , ' &ays Paine , ' ' of hereditar y legislators , is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges , or hereditary juries ; nnd as absurd aa an hereditary mathematician , or as hereditary wise man ,, Ih short , we cannot conceive a more ridiculous fi gore of government , than hereditary succession in all its cases presents . '— ( Eights of Man )
' Let us , ' aaye Paine , suppose that government was now to begin in England ; and that the plan of government offered to tho nntlon , for its approbation or rejeotion , consisted of the following parts : —1 . That some individual should be taken from all the reBt of the na-Mob , and to whom all the re&t should swear obedience , and never be permitted to sit down in his presence , and that th « y should give to him one million sterling a ytar . That the nation should never after have power or nuthority to make laws , but with his express consent , And that his sons , and his sons' sonn , whether wise or foolish , good men or bad , fit or unfit , should have the same power . And also the same money annually paii to them for ever . 2 . That there should be two houses
of legislators , to assist In making laws ; one of which should , in the first Instance , be entirely appointed by the aforesaid person . And that their eons , and their sons ' sons , whetbcr wige or foolish , good in < m or bad , fit or uufit , should for tver after be hereditary legislators . 3 . That the other house should he chosen in the same manner as the house now called the house of commons is cboBsn ; and should be suVJect to tha control of the two aforesaid hereditary powers in all things . It would be impossible to cram such a farrago of imposition and absurdity down the throat of this or any other nation , that
wero capable of reasoning upon its rights and Its Interost [ The governed would perceive ] that in tho oppration of it—it would be two ts one egainst them . Be . CauBe the trro parts that wero to be made hereditary , would form a common interest , and stick to each other ! And that themselves ... would become no better thnn hewers of wood and drawers of water ... Yet call one of tbeno powira—king—the other , lords—and tbe third , the comm > ti 6—and it gives tbe modei of what is oailed the Engli-h governmest . '— ( Letter to the Addressort on the late Proclamation , 1792 . )
Our vi > m uning extracts shall be on tha all impor tant subject of
THE LAND . &OBBEE . T or THE LAND BT THE A&I 8 TOCHACT . THE USD THE PBOPSBTT CF THE JJHTIRE TEMPLE , Wera it possible far tho whole human race , throughout its generations ( with tbe exception of ono member ) , te combine for the purpoao of injuring a hair of the head of that ono , this would be unlawful in the sight of Heaven , How , then , can it be imagined , that A Few , fey approprl atlng to themselves tho land , may cause tho necessity for living in society to be ( Instead of the greatest blessing ) tho greatest curse to The Many ? Tbe simple enunciation
ought to satisfy every odo of its unnpeakablo iniquity . Not only those who engross the ltnd , i . e . The F < u > , are curses tu sooioty ; but , necessarily , those from whout it is abstracted , i , o . The Many , are curses to ono another , From tho competition that must , in coneequence , exist among theso for employment , they lower the value of oach othei ' b labour , and thus impoverish and otherwise demoralise ono another . It it aoy thing but blasphemy , to imagine that everything that haa the remotest approximation to such a state of things , is sot utterly opposed to the Divine will ?
Whence we may peroeivo that , as human nature Is the same in all placea nnd at all times , and as the constitution of society and of government ehould bIbo be the ssme , the right to the land must always be everywhere in society , and , through it , in oil its members , E'l-ry one of lnoB 6 has , the , l ? ef 6 H > , a tight 16 fin tqtlal participation in common with every other member . But no part of the members of society has lawfull y an exclusive tttle , 1 The whole system of lasded property , ' « ayg Burke , ' is feudal , It is the distribution of the poaeeBaion of tho ordinal proprietors , made by a barbarous conquoror to his barbarous instruments . ' Under an unlawful government , when any party , native or foreign , or a combination uf these , nrlaes without rlg h * , in any country at any time , and overturns the government—the lawless titles of the possessors of the land are thereby abrogated . But some man In any country or age may Bay—I bought ray eBtate , and paid for it with gold , Two things have here to be
considered—1 . The thing sold , —and , 2 . The meanB of puroiiBBO , 1 , The thing sold . It mu « t be remombcred , that thoso who engross the land deprive thoBe without a property in it of their birthright . Suppose A to sell to B a certain quantity when it is tho birthright of othersfpr the transfer to ba valid these must be the partioo to the contract of sale . Fromthis even a lawful government has bo power of granting a dispensation . If what has just bean stated cannot be impugned , namely that a government con , prop-rly , only grant to any individual or company nny portion of the land but for a limited timo , and without absolute liberty ef transfer landholders would have nothing they could positively sell . 2 . The means of purchase . To this the reply ia—You
wero enabled to enrloh jourBelf in consequence of aooiety being unlawfully coRotituted . Your gold was obtained only by tho gacrifleo of The Maty , doprlved of tha land . By their slavery , The Few were and aro anabled to buy It . The meanB of purohane waa thus unlawfull y obtained . The land , therefore , belongs not to the purehasero of it , but to tho real creators of oil wealth . Tho industrious members of society , in every oountry aad every age , then , may say to thoso who deilre to engrosB the land—Suppose yon had bought our bodfeu and our aouh , should we be obliged to mign oufeeWes to your disposal , for no other reaaon than that you and others , by an unlawful compact , want to moke merchandise of
us 1 Thus both the title and the means of parobase fail . To any man that affirms bo dsrives his title from hi * ancentors , the question obviously is—What right had they » What right had the first holder ? That which was originally unlawfully attained , ennnot bo lawfull y assigned . The psssesBion of a given portion of land nu . y la any coantry be lawful , or it may be unlawful ; but ujithcr the ono nor the otbor can righteously h = ir , auenced by tho mere maintenance of posBseislsn , Simple possession , bowever long maintained , has nothing what ovtr to do with right or flr ^ ng . if a title la in the sight of Heaven valid , though the professor mBy havohtld land but for a day , —his claim cannot be impuimsd , If q title .
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is in sighs ot Heaven iiJfaiV ' . "' a t" u"d ma * havi ! continued fora hundred gcner& . ' iOUB in tho SaffiO family , —the claim is nothing worth iHJppose the Jfind Of a nation to bo held by a few , to the prejudice of the many , for « thousand years ; the length of timb during : which the wrong has baen dono ,- ~ and the numbers " >»* have thereby suffered , —so far from its bjing a reason for , is a most powerful argument against , Its continuance . 'I have , ' says a late lawyer , 'heard , in my youth , a naked savage surrounded by his subjects , addressing the governor ot a British colony , holding a bundle
of stlckB , as the noterof his unlettered eloquence , — 'Who is it ? ' said the jealous ruler over the desert , encroached Upon by tho restless foot of English adventurers , — Who is it that caUBCB this river to rise in the high mountains , and to empty lteelf into tho ocean Who i « It that canees to blow the loud wlads of . winter , and that calmB them again In the cummer f Who is it that reaM op the shade of these lofty forests , end blasts them with the quick lig htning at Hie pleasure ? The same Being who gave to you a country on the other side of the waters , gave ours to us . And by this title we will defend
it . — Erskine . Tfce engrossing tha land , and the establishment of a military despotism , aro necessarily coincident . la tho east , the dependence on the rulers for the possession of the land , ie , nert to the general demoralization , the real foundation of the unbroken despotism that prevailed for so many ages . Next to a high d « grea of morality , — equality ef property Is undoubtedly the best security againgt political violence and commercial injustice . The restoration of the land to the whole people is , then , in any country , one of the earlieat . ateps . to their regeneration , . Were tbe land of a nation lawfully asiigced , ani the people to become aad continue in a high state of morality , it could never again be engrossed ,
The present atoto of society , arising in a great degree from the land being engrossid , ie a fall , a perfect , and therefore on unanswerable argument against It . We may , then , again fearlessly challenge the whole world to produce a elngle Bentence that cm successfully be arged in . its defend * , —or against the doctrine of the property in the land belonging to society at large , or to all tho people of every country , in every age ! If the reader fjas read the above extracts in addition to those given in our last , he will hare a tolerably good idea of Mr Bishop ' s book , which we earnestly recommend to tbe friends of progress . The advocates of democrats and aooial reform will find this a perfect armoury of great thoughts and sound principles , from which may be drawn no end ot mental and moral weapons for the combat oi truth = » gain 8 t falsehood , and justice against inequality .
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A Peerage for the People . By W . Carpenter . London : W . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row . The revival of ' Black Book' exposures of the evils inflicted upon society by Royalty and Aristocracy is a sign of the times—a sign that the poor portion of the bourgeoisie are growing restive under their share of the burden which has transformed John Bull into Jack-Ass . Not one out of a thousand of the shopocracy have any sympathy with Chartism , or any desire to see the ascendancy of veritahle Democracy ; ' but finding themselves rapidly descending that' slidlnp : scale' at the battom of which is the
poor law hastile , they are fast becoming clamorous for ' Reform . ' Hence the revived outcry against the Aristocracy . Our readers do not need to be told that the worst enemies of Labour ' s rights are to be found in the ranks of those bastard aristocrats whose wealth constitutes their only claim to superioiity . Those are the working men ' s worst , deadliest enemies . At the same time we bave no objection to see the old brigand aristocracy brought to the dust ; therefore , we are glad to help the circulation of such publications as the Black Book ; and , therefore , we notice this work , and commend it to our readers .
• A Peerage for the People' is the work of a man to whom we owe no deed or word of kindness or goodwill ; but we can afford to be just even to an unscrupulous enemy . For the man we entertain sentiment the reverse of respect , but regarding him now in his character of author , we cannot hesitate to wish his book an extensive circulation . Prefacing the 'Introduction , ' the author ha 3 inserted' An Appeal from the Critics to Ihe Public , ' in which Jie has with good reason complained of unjust Criticism , or rather misrepresentation on the part of t ' je Literary Gazette . It is a pity that the author of' A Peerage , &c , ' has been too guilty of the conduct he loo properly blames in another . Lloyd ' s Threepenny Trash contains , almost weekly , the evidences of a spirit of brutal enmity towards trie Chartist body , far exceeding the worst offences imputed to the Literary Gazette , by the author of the work under notice .
This work contains an alphabetical list of the entire peerage—with the exception of some very recent creations . First is given the title of each peer , then the name , then the motto , then the relations , then the places and emoluments , and then a sketch of the family history ; the whole terminating with a biographical account of the living peer . In many cases to the possessor of a high sounding title is only allotted a few lines , personal or family insignificance , or both , rendering any lengthier notice unnecessary ; but the Broughams , Beres-F 0 RD 9 , BEDFORDS , WELLINGTONS , ASHBURTONS , &c , &c ., have several pages devoted to the publication of their illustrious (?) history . We give the following extracts : — PRIVILEGES Or THE FEEBS .
It is the privilege of a peer not to be arrestable for debt ; a privl . ege which had Us origin In no legislative enaotnaent , but which cams to be a custom from the practice of those Norman conquerors , who would consider it on act of ludicrous folly to submit to imprisonment for a debt to one of the Saxons they had subdued . Another privilege of tbe peers , is tbe protection of a stricter libel lair than that ia ordinary practice . To say anything to the prejudice of a peer , whether true or false , is the offenoo tarmed itmdahm magnatum , and ia-punishable with fine and imprisonment . To as&ault . a peer , or » pssr ' s servant , is aa offence punishable mere stvertly than a similar assault oa another description ef penon :
( X tending the protection to the mtnlal is a characteristic feature of aristocratic insjeloDcc . The peers have still tbe old esemption called tha ' be icfit of clergy' by which 1 clerks' Vfho could read aud write were exempt from the punishment oi death tor certain crimes , on tbe first offence . When extended to peers , the privilege wa » very oonsldorutciy unrestricted as to literary qualifications ; so that any peer may commit a first aot of house-breaking or robbery wiih impunity , This privilege has s ridlculoui appearance . Peers aro not now in a situation in which they would benefit by euch crimes : but at one psriod , as we have already said , the i ight to commit robbery without danger , waBa material valuable privilege , and , being valuable , teey seized it .
HANOFACTDBE OF M 0 DE . EN PEEKS , At the accession of tbo present family , Sir Robert Wslpolo encouraged a corruption he turned to good account , but it remained for hia successors in office , to carry the oystom to perftatlon , till the buxter of a few votes in tbe Lower House was secure of his seat in the otber t Pitt Qeema to have used a coronet as the choapost bribe . Hig own ambition was of a loftier kind ; and he must have despised many of the men his politics condemned him to ennoble ; or he must have smiled in sscret , as he mado a lord , wboro he could not havo a gentleman . * * In the palaces of the cast , adulation may have been carried to a greater height ; but never was on English court more disgraced than by ( he tilled nreichea who pandered to the ijjJng- lasts of George the Fourth . Dissipated and eittavg » nt in bin youih , there were nevertheless some redeeming gracPB to be found in , hla character ; but his manhood paetod away unadorned by a single virtue , and his old age ws » dishonoured with almost every vice .
ABI 3 T 0 CBACT AT PBESENT . Aristocracy did at ono time tihibit qualities , which , if they could not commtLnd reiiptotof esteem , did not tail to excite wondtr and admiration . But its high chivalry is degenerated into pure chicanery ; ite loftj courage is suck iuto low cunning , ite disregard of mere noElthhnsgivon way to a hiutorlng spirit of monoy . getting and money . kueping Us ambition for personal prowess has bom transmitted Into a peddling nnd petti . fogging appetite for tho vulgar means and materials by which to maintain its mischievous eminence . Its external aspect andbearlrg have undertones correR . ponding change ; and a lord , as such , is growing nahamed to show his face out of his own circle of foot . niea . follofrm and fellow lords .
LOBDS A 3 TQET ABB . If we follow the modern peer into private life , the scene is not more creditable to his character . Obaervo how he dispense tbe hoepHallty which his station 1 m . poses upon him , no Iobb as 6 matter of state and ex . « emal splendour , that of polioy and personal interest His entertainments are furnished at bo much a head by Mr Gunter j his servants are fcept on'board wages- ' his equipages 'j ^ bbad' by the year ; hie hunters are borrowed for tho season from Mr Tilbury ; hig plate for the eight from Mr Rundell ; and his anoestral halls and oaatl ^ s are exhibited to tke public curiosity at BO much a head [ -Finall y , ho palms bis cast-off mistresses upon theputjicpurae , and exohai ges wives with hia friend on the principle of bb ' equitable adjustment ; ' giving or receiving tho estimated differences in the value of the articles recpeciively .
we regret that we have not room to quote one or two of the sketches of our ' very worthy and approved good masters . ' Here we must remark , that the motto , ' of a peer is often singularly appropriate , and illustrative of the abominable pretensions of the aristocracy ; for instance : —Baron Abercromby — 'Hive , and will live ,- ' Baron Abinger— ' /? ortunefavours the shameless , ' Marquis of Anglesey - 'I am the reverse of what I seemed to be ; ' The Duke of Argylk- ' / can scarce call these ihhos my own ; ' Baron Barham- '^// or nothing ; Duke of liEAUFORT— ' / care nothing about reputation •' Baron Ashburton— « We must put lie rich before we think of being virtuous ; ' &c , &c . Rich the oarings notoriously are , and has not Cobbett imro . ortalis . ed their ( Uninterested and patriotic virtues ?
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This - . York was lirol pi . UUhfin ' !» 1835 ' lml a . Subsequent edition , with two appendices was published in 1841 ; the copy before us appears to belong to the last named edition . It strikes us th ' at SJiolher edition is now necessary to note the changes occasioned by death , and the recent elevations to the Upper House . As the days of the Whigs are evidently numbered , we may expect to hear shortly ot Palmerston and others being ' raised' to the Upper House , when tbe following quotation from Moore will doubtless console those who have alread y figured , or may hereafter figure , in the Gazette , in a less-fortunate character than that of newly-created lords . "Ti » pleasant—while no'hlog but moreantilo fractures , Some simple , tome eompdund , is dleu'J in our £ nrs— . To think that , though robb'd of slice arseznanafaCTS We still k « ep our nae manufacture of Peers . '
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PERIODICALS . Tail ' s Edinburgh Magazine . July . Edinburgh ; Sutherland and Knox . London ; Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . Amongst the articles in this number of Tait not calling : for particular notice , are : — ' Miranda : a tale of the French Revolution ; ' ' A Night on Arthur ' s Seat ; ' ' An Old Woman ' s Tale ; ' and a review of a recently published ' Memoir of William Ellerly Channing . ' In the tale entitled ' Miranda we
notice a passing and indirect testimony to Robespierre ' s worship of virtue . The author of the tale is speaking of the dens of vice situated in the Palais Royal previous to , and for some time during , the drst revolution , and says;—' Under the Republic they all disappeared before the unmerciful war made upon every haunt of crime by Maximilian Robespierre and the Convention , which , though rilled by many individually bad men , was pure and generous in most of its collective aspirations . ' An article entitled ' Our Debt—our Colonies—and their Owners '
—is well deserving of perusal by the gentlemen who constitute the ' collective wisdom' of the land . The writer of the article advocates a federal union of the colonies with jthe mother country , placing them in all respects upon an equality with England . That any such sensible course will be adopted and pursued by our imbecile and insolent rulers , we have no hope of seeing . Were the Charter law , such a federal union would be highly probable ; but , under present circumstances , we can only look ferward to & series of struggles , disgraceful and ruinous to this country , for the end must be the rending away of colony after colony , until the whole of ' our colonial empire' shall have become , like the United States , independent , and imbued with a deadly hatred towards this nation . Sach , we repeat , must
be the certain effect of a continuance of the aristocratic and bourgeois rule . A large portion of this number is occupied by Mr St John's contributions ; the tale noticed above is from his pen , and he also contributes a series of interesting papers on ' The Revolutions in Europe . ' Included in these articles thers is a minute account of the French tariff ; and a very readable sketch of Parisian journalism , as existing prior to the revolt of June . ' Previous to the revolution , there were twenty-six daily papers ia Paris—at present there are about one hundred and fifty ? ' Since this was written , the best of the new journals have been suppressed by Dictator Cavaignac . 'The Battle of Paris' is but an imperfect commencement of a description of the late insurrection . Mr St John accounts for the insurrection
thus : — Tho Ateliers Nationaux were informed that they were going to be marched out of Parla . Te mnny , tbia was a frightful prospect . Bcsidts , there vrae a general feeling abroad tbat the National Assembl y had not done its dutj , iHStead of discussing tbo one urgent question of labour , and its righto ; capital , property , and its duties , they occupied themselves with divorce bills , details of fiuaneo , of costume , of rules , < fee ., while all those who epoke for the workmen were treated with contempt . Pierre Leroux is wild enough in his notion ' , bat the National Aasemkly might bave treated him with common decency , Instead of booting him down , A general
complaint . waa abroad . The shopkeepera did little or aa buBiaesi , and they intemperately urged that the werklng classes had no right to their tenpence a day when the ; did not « rork for it , They forgot tbat there was no work for taem , that many a family was semi-starved on this pittance , that the state is bound te see that no man Btaivea bb long bb tbera is a pennj-pieco to bo fonnd to bay him a l- > nf . The more sacredl y property is protected , thj moro Bacredly is it bound to provide , in momenta of stagnation , a bit of bread lor the hungry . When property does not do this , men naturall y inquire into its rights , wuicb tx ' stoalyas it performs ita duties . At length , the emouldering file came to a flame . The insurrection began .
In the teeth of this statement the editor of Tait ' s Magazine has the assurance to assert that the ' Red Republicans have destroyed freedom ; ' and add 3 that the Socialists and Communists ' have dyed red The streets of Paris , as never streets of any city were reddened before . ' This is a calumny . The imbeciles and traitors included in the provisional government , the scoundrel majority in the Assembly , and the entire mass of the blood-thirsty bourgeoisie , are the parties responsible for these torrents of blood . If the editor of Tait will turn back to his June number , page 389 , he will find the following confirmation of our assertions as regards the blood-thirstiness of the bourgeoisie , supplied by his own Paris conespondent , who is describing the events of the loth of May , and the anxious desire of the shopocracy to shed the blood of Barbes and his friends . /'
The Civic Guard smral times thrust at thorn nith eworsis end bayonets ; nobo d y being more savage and sanguinary , I must say , than the shopocraoy of Paris when victorious . Lambs when the people triumph , the French bourgeoisie are perfectly feroee when they are ia ar >« on a day of victory . They showed this In 1830 and 1831 ; and any one who had beard them talk on Monisy would soon have Been that they were animated by none of the generous sentiments of tho working men on tho 24 : h and 25 tii of February . ' Shoot them without trial —pour grape shot on tbe ruffians ' . —kill them ; ' was the general cry I heard from the groups of armed citizsns . The presence ef large bodies of workmen in the ranks alone prevented tho day belnjr terrible .
The blood-reeking despotism now established in France , is the natural result of the half measures of February . Lamartine ' s philanthropic humbug has ruined the Republic . May this be an enduring lesson to the working men of every land . The great truth cannot be too often repeated , that' Those who make half revolutions , but dig graves for themselves . ' '
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The Ethnological Journal . Edited by Luke Burke . July . London : 12 , Red Lion Court , Fleetstreet . We learn with pleasure that the first number of the Ethnological Journal has received the wellraerited applause of a considerable number of the daily and weekly members otthepresa . The present number is certainl y not inferior to its predecessor in exciting a desire to know more of the treasures of knowledge which the Editor avers—and as already given some proofs that he possesses . The ' Critical Analysis of the Hebrew Chronology ' is continued , and we think every careful and impartial reader will come to the conclusion that , thus farMr
, BunKE has proved the antediluvian chronology , as commonl y received , to be utterly worthless . The article on ' Varieties of Complexion in the Human Races' is a continuation of Mr Burke ' s inquiry in . to the nature and causes of the physical differences of mankind . The belief generally entertained that the colour of the human skin is the effect of climate , is proved to be thoroughly erroneous ; and ' race' is shown to be the predominating influence by which the varieties of human complexion arc regulated . But the most interesting article in this number is decidedly that entitled ' The Destruction of Atlantis i '—a translation and comment upon two
fragments of antique historv in the Dialogues of Plato . If these ' fragments' tre not the mere figments of Plato ' s brain , as they have been generally held to be , then indeed they are wondrous revelations of the golden days of old . At present we must confess our scepticism , but as we have not studied the subject we make no pretension to set up our opinion against the better-informed judgment of Mr Burke . When he has developed the whole of his theory—for the subject is to be . continued—we shall be better able to give reasons for the belief or disbelief we may have arrived at . We look forward with impatience for a further elucidation of this very interesting question . )
We believe Mr Bubkb to be a man capable of doing the state some service ; we . therefore cordially wish him success , and earnestly recooimand tbe-Ethnological Journal to our reading friands , assuring them that they will find it the most original , and , to say the least , one of tke most v&lu&ble publications of the day .
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Food v . Pinrsie . —The medical mea in London are more numerous thaa the butchew , and nearly as many as the bskorB * vT The VoLUKiiM Principle . —In New 1 ork tnere are 21 / j churchy or chapols , whilst about the same pnpuKtioaiaMandheatcr and iwneig hbourhood haa only 189 . Not so bad ! th ? fc for voluntaryism . ¦ l . aifisle pk « ° of chins , before it is finished , em-Pi' . ya forty hands , from the man who pounds «« 9 . ai ta . tbua . d ^ Rigae if and oolourer .
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TO THE MART YR S O P FREEDOM . BT ELIZA LEE FOLLEN . Still tni 9 t , all ye who are oppressed ! Though hoponoraj of light ma ; shed , Garhads of sacrifice will rest On dying Virtue ' s martyr head : Though Glory ' s tinsel crown may be Awhilothe lucky villain's prize , Yet , springing ftoji your graves , we see Tho amaranth nrcatu that never dies , Ye who in evil timeB were born ! Ye who have dared to strive with power ! Ye shall be heralds of the dawn , But ye must know tbe darkest hoar . Ye who your lives have nobly spent , From Bin and wee yeur race to eavo , Tho Ruin you could not provent
Shall shed a g ! ory round your grave . Thon do we feel Fate's iron might , Who ? , the blasphemous plet eucceeda ; When on pure honour , simple right , Thebrood of human vipers feeds : O , still serenely trust—e ' en theD , Though reptiles bise , foal vapours rise , The light that rises from the fen D . ceitfal shines , and quickly dies . In tho c ! oud-ttnt of distant BkieB , Truth calmly waits , with balance true , Casts off traditionary lies , And gives to Justice homage due . Reason proclaims eternal laws ; Mad mobs and tyrants , in their hour—May , for whole ageB , hurt her cause , But neva-can deBtroy her power . When for th » rights of man you fight ,
And all setmg lost and frienda have fled , Remember , in misfortune ' s night , New glories rest oa Virtue's head ; Duty remains , though joy is gono ; On final good then fix thlna ejea ; Disdain all f « ar , and though alone , Stand ready for tbe sacrifice . Though every bark of promise sink , Aud Hopb ' d last broken fragments fall , And you that myBtic cup must drink , Wulch cures all pain , which comes to oil ; Yat JuUlco , banished , hated , slain , Is with you in the Loly strife—SajB ta your soul , Wo meet again , ' And promises eternal life . Freed from its dust , from that great hour Your spirit on the n"ble band , Aota with a new , immortal potver ,
Inspires each heart , and nerves each hand , For Time nnd Truth , then calmly wait , Yo who forhumnn lights contond ; Oppression has a transient date , E : ernal Justice has no end .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 15, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1479/page/2/
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