On this page
- Departments (5)
- Adverts (2)
-
Text (15)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
uewew*
-
pjetrg. 33flf tr» VV lM r
-
!:,..!J,S uOlif §mu0cin^nt#..,. i '¦• ¦ ~^T r V ..- ^ ' " ^" ~ — ".' ' 33ilf»!»!f (2ltt»itar>i«titttA
-
. &RVUiW»> ... ... "'.."'I' < r ,m\ —i-z^±^l a :'''^'"" m ¦'Sl^^;^^ -,^ •*„•«.«•«**
-
Untitled Article
-
„ TUirt . v-1'ifih J&dition, Containing tlie HimeMyfor the Prevention of Disease , -.;¦ . Illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Coloured , . . Encrovuurs on-Steel.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Ad
^ . ¦ "jySICAri PlSQUATiIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE IACAPAClTy , AND IMWJBHtfJBMTS TO 1 IARRIASB . A * ana , > pi-overt Edition , enlarged to 136 pages , price in ' posiASf ° Urom ^¦ B **^™*' . * . « «• T- vV " L E N T F R I E NDi IWm rfth ?!?^ ?* " ) 0 JMmaatton and FhystMl the couwquencM of Infection , « MhB Bhm , «<• Sf ™»
Untitled Ad
CURES FOB THE UKCUKED ! IT OLLO WAY'S OIN T M E _ N T . - * " * - An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or lung ' s Evil . Extract of alettev from Sir . J . II . Alliday , 209 High-slreei , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1 . S 50 . Sir , —My eldest son , when ahou t throe years of ago , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time bvoUeout into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as n very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed fov a considerable time without effect .. Tho disease ; then for ' , years went oh gradually increasing in virulence , whon . besides the ulcer in the neck , another , formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye , besides seven others on the left avm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole oi the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital
Untitled Article
: THE POOR MAN TO HIS SON . Worfc , work , my boy , be not afraid , . Look labour boldly in the facs ; Take up the hammer or the spade , And blusb . not for your humble p lace . Earth-was first conquered by the poxrer Of daUy sweat and peasant toil , , And We would tings hajefonnd Aeirdower , If poor mefl had not trod the soil . ' TToMnDTOnr brow in honest pride , Tffirong hand swarayourmndsmaybe , Sncfafalnds are sap-veins that Provide T hS-blood of the NaUoa ' s tree . There's honour ia the toiling part , That finds ns in the farrowed fields ; It stamps » crest upon the heart Worth more than all your quartered shields .
There's glory in the shuttle ' s song—There ' s triumph in the anvil ' s stroke ; There ' s merit in the brave and strong , Who dig the mine or fell the oak . TTork , work , my boy , and murmur noi , The fustian garb betrays no shame ; Tie grim of forge-soot leaves no blot , And labour gilds the meanest name . There's duty for all things , ray son , TYho act their earthly part aright ; Tbe spider ' s home threads must be spun—The be © suets on ' twixt Ho-jrers and light The hungry bird his food must seek— : The ant must pile his winter fare ; The worm drops not into the beak , The store is only gained by care .
The wind disturbs the sleeping lake , And bids it ripple pure and fresh ; It moves the green boughs till they make Grand mosiein their leafy mesb . And so the aetire breath of life Should stir our dull and sluggard wills , For are we not created rife With health that stagnant torpor tills ? I doubt if he who lolls hk head " Where Idleness and Plenty meet , Enjoys his pillow or his bread , As those who earn the meals they eat . And man is never half so blest
As when the bnsy day is spent , So as to make his evening rest A holiday of glad content . God grant tfcee but a due reward , A guerdon portion fair and just , ¦ And then ne ' er think thy station hard , But wort , my boy , work , hope , and trust Eliza Cook .
Untitled Article
Royalty and Republicanism in Italy s or Notes and ^ Documents relating to the Lombard Insurrection , and the Royal War of 1318 . By Joseph Mazzdji . London : Charles Gilpin . There is a power of reasoning in Mazzini , an unsullied moral purity , a chivalrous veracity and frankness , an utter abnegation of self , and a courage that ' has stood the severest trials , -which command not only respect , but veneration . He belongs to the martyr age of Italian liberalism , ana possesses himself the highest qualities of the martyr .
His declared object in publishing the small volume before us is , to correct public opinion in . England as to the Italian movement , in which he took part . But it is a statement of principles rather than a narrative of details . It is always dignified ia tone , often singularly eloquent , and substantially it contains a little ¦ which ivould be likely to draw forth an expresson of willing disagreement from any welleducated , high-minded , liberal Englishman . M . Mazzini thus declares his reasons ¦ JFHT SHE G 0 TESS 5 IEXT OF ITALY SHOULD BE HEPDB-1 ICAX .
The Italian tradition is eminently republican . In England , the aristocratic element has a powerfal influence , because it has a history ; well or ill , it las organised society ; it has created a power , snatched Jroni royalty , by conquering gnaraniees for the rights of the subjects it has founded in part the wealth and the influence of England abroad . The monarchial element has st iU great inflnence over the tendencies of France , becaasa it also claim * an important page in the national history ; it has produced a Charlemange , a Louis 3 X » a Napoleon ; it has contributed to found the unity of fiance ; it has shared with the communes the lists and the honoura of the straggle against feudaligm j it has surrounded the national
banner with a halo of military glory . "What is the history of the monarchy and of the aristocracy of Italy ? What prominent part hare they played in the rational development ? "What vital element have they supplied to Italian strength , or to the UHificatioH of the future existence of Italy ? The history o ! our rovalty , in fact , commences with the dominion of Charles V-, with the downfall of our last liberties —it is identified with servitude ami dismemberment —it i 3 written on a foreign page , in the cabinets of Prance , of Austria , nnd of Spain . Nearly all of them the issue of fereign families , viceroys of one or other of the great poarers , our kings do not offer the example of a single Individual redeeming bj brilliant to
personal qnalities the vice of snftaltcrmty , wmen hi 3 position condemned him—not a single one who Las ever evinced any grand national aspiration . Aronnd them in the cbscarity of their courts , gather Idle or retrogade comHera , men who call themselres noble , but who have never been able to constitute an aristocracy . An aristocracy is a compact independent body , representing in itself an idea , and from one extremity of the country to another , governed , more or less , by one and the same inspiration . Our nobles Isre lived upon the crumbs of royal favour , and if , on Bome rare occasions , they have ventored to place themselves in opposition to the monarch , at has not been in the cause of the nation , but of the foreigner ,
or of clerical absolution . The nobility can never be regarded as an historical element : it has furnished somefortunate Cmdotieri , powerful even to tyranny , in some isolated town ; it has knelt at the feet of the foreign empsrers who have passed the Alps , or crossed the sea . The original stock being nearly everywhere extinct , the races baye become degenerated amidst corrnptioo and ignorance , lne dssesnSants of our noble families at Genoa , at Mapta , at Venice , and at Rome , are , for themostpart specimens of absolute intellectual nullity . Almost CTeryiling that has worked its difficult way in art , in Menture , or in political activity , i 9 plebian , Iflltalvthe initiative of progress has always
belonged to the people-to the democratic element , it is through her communes that she has acquired all she has ever had oZ liberty . Through her workmen in wool or silk , through her merchants of Genoa , Florence , Venice , and Pisa , that she has acquired her wealth ; through her artists , plebian and republican , from Giotto to Michael Angelo , that she has acquired her renown ; through her navigators—plebian—that sh has given a world to her humanity ; through her PoVs—sons of the people , even they—that until the twelfth century she aided in the emancipation of the weak , and sent forth ' a word of unity to humanity . AllhermeiaorieBofinsurrectionagainsttheforeigner are memories of the people : all that has made the
greatness of our towni , dates alm 03 talwaysfrom arenunlican epoch : the educational book , the only book ttad by the inhabitants cf ths Alps , or the Transteyena , who ean read , » an abridgment of the Ancient fioman Bepublie . This is the reason why the same men who Lave eohng been accused of coldness ^ and had , in fact witnessed , with indifference , the aristocratic and royal revolutions of 1820 and 1821 , arose with enthusiasm , and with a trne power of self-sacn-&e , at the cry of St . Mark and the Repulhc ! God and the People / These words contained for them a guarantee . They awoke in them , even unconsciously to themselves , we all-powerful echo of a living past , a confused recollection of glory , of strength , of con-Ecience , and of dignity .
"With such elements , how would it be possible to found a monarchy , surrounded with an aristocracy ? How can one speak of a balance of powers , where there are but two forces—foreign absolutism , and the people ? How could one organise a constitutional monarchy where the aristocracy ia without a past , aad where royalty inspires neither affection nor respect ? M . Mazzini repeatedly declares that the republican—or , as he calls it , the national party are not responsible for the disunion -which , at a time when the whole nation was armed against the foreigners , and might have
driven them from the country , turned its forces againEl its own citizens . He gives proof that his own advice was for . timon till the day of victory , and nift till then for discussion as to what party should reap its fruits . " Whether to monarch , or to people , he affirms that he was ready to submit : he asserts repeatedl y that it was onl y after having been hetrayed , that the national party sot upforthemselves ; and be expresses his telief that even now , when a union of princes has been seen to be impossible , the leadership of a single prince would be accepted by all , supposing such a fitting leader cxraJcj &e found . He thus Scribes
Untitled Article
THE REPUBLICAN PARTX AND THEIR DETRACTORS . They have said , and they say again , without taking advantage of the favourable position in which events have placed them : —rLet ¦ the . nation arise ; let her make herself mistress of her ojro territory- ; then , tho victory once gairied , let be ^ freely decide who shall reap the fruits . ' Monarch-or people , we will , submit ourselves to the power she herself shall organise . Is it possible that so . moderate and rational a proposition should be the object of such false interpretations , in a country which' reveres the idea of right and of self-government ? Is it possible that its leaders should be the object of so much calumny ? THE MFUnLlCAN PARTI AND THEIR detractors . Thflv have said , and thev savmmm . nnthnnf fai , f «»
It is time that these calumnies should cease . . It matters little to us , who . act as our conscience dictates , without troubling tmrsel ' ves as to the personal result ; and to whom faith and exile have given the habit of looking higher than the praise or blame of this earth . But it should be recognised as most im > portant , by all who believe that political questions agitated by whole nations , are questions eminently religious . For religion , to all those who see more in it than the mere materialism of forms and formulae , is not only a thought of Heaven , but the impulse which seeks to apply that thought , as far as possible to government on earth , onr role of action for the good of all ,. and for the moral development of humanity . Politics then are like religion—sacred ; and all gooi men are bound to see them morally respected . Every question has a right to serious , calm , and honest discussion . Calumny should be the weapon of those only who have to defend not ideas , but
. It is immoral to say to men who have preached clemency throughout the whole of their political career ^ who have initiated their rule by the abolition of capital punishment , who , when in power , never sighed a single sentence of exile against those who had persecuted them , nor even against the known enerdea of their principles : — "You are the sangninary organisers of terror , men of vengeance and of cruelty . " It is immoral to ascribe to them views which they never had , and to choose to forget that they have , through tbe medium of the Press here and elsewhere , attacked and refuted those communistic systems and exclusive solutions which tend to suppress rather than to transform the elements of society , and to say to them , " You arc Communists , you
desire to alolUh property . " It is immoral to accuse of uteligion and impiety , men who have devoted their whololiyes to the endeavour to reconcile the religious idea , betrayed and disjnheritsd by the very men who pretend to be its official defenders , with the national movement . It is immoral to insinuate accusations of personal interest and of pillage , against men who have serenly endured the sufferings of poverty , and whose life—accessible to all—has-never betrayed either cupidity or the desire of luxury . It is immoral continually to proclaim—as the act of a whole party—the death of a statesman killed by an unknown hand , under the influence of . the irritation produced by his own acts , and by the attacks of another political party , many months before the Republican party recommenced its activity in Italy .
M . Mazzini charges no direct treachery against Carlo Alberto . He declares him to have been himself the victim of the weakness which caused others as well as himself so much loss and misery . For the impossible political project of a Kingdom of tbe North he was content to surrender the grand reality of a "United People which fate had placed ¦ within his hands .
CHARLES ALBERT . Geniuftlove , and faith were wanting in Charles -Albert . Of the first , which reveals itself by a life entirely , logically , and resolutely . devoted to a great idea , the career of Charles Albert does not offer the Iea 9 t trace ; the second was stifled in him by the continual mistrust of men and things , which was awakened by the remembrance of an unhappy past ; the last was denied him by his uncertain character , wavering always between good and evil , between to do and not to do , between daring and not daring . In his youth , a thonght , not of virtue , but of Italian ambition—the ambition , however , which may be profitablo to nations—had passed through his soul like lightning ; but he recoiled in affright , and the remembrance of this one brilliant moment of his youth presented Hselt hourly to him , and tortured him like the incessant throbbing of an old wound , instead of acting upon him as an excitement to a
new life . Between the risk of losing , if he failed , the crown of his little kingdom , and the fear of the liberty which the people , after having fought for him , would claim for themselves , he went hesitating on , with this spectre before his eyes , stumbling at every step , without energy to confront these dangers , without the will or power to comprehend that to become Kins : of Italy , he must first of all forget that he was King of Piedmont . Despotic from rooted instinct , liberal from self-love , and from a presentiment of the future , he submitted alternately to the government of Jesuits , and to that of men of progress . A fatal disunion between thought and action , between conception and the faculty of execution , showed itself in every act . Most of those who endeavoured to place him at the head of the enterprise , wereforce ' d to agree to this view 6 f his character ; Some of those intimate "with him- " 5 re . nt so far as to whisper that he was threatened with lunacy . He was the Hamlet of Monarchy .
A characteristic passage of the volume has relation to ¦
LAMABIINE ' s VIEWS OF IIAZIAN INDEPENDENCE , The war between the two principles w . 13 general in Europe—the enthusiasm excited by the movements in Italy , especially the Lombard insurrection and tho prodigies of the five days , was immense ; and Italy could , had she willed it and known how , havo drawn thence sufficient force to counterbalance all the strength of hostile reaction . But to do this , ifc was necessary , whatever the mean policy of the Moderates might fear , to give to tbe movement a « haracter so audaeionsly national as io alarm our enemies , and to offer the most powerfal element of support to our friends . Both felt the time was ripe , and began to oelieve that Italy would be but Italy , and not ths JSnqdm of ike North . I remember the
consoling words Lamarbne addressed to me , at Ins house on the eve of my departure for Italy , and in presence , amongst others , of Alfred deTigny , and of the same Tor Din Janson whom I was afterwards to meet preaching the papal restoration , and getting up various petty conspiracies and ridiculous intrigues at Rome . , ' ..., ... ' ¦ " The hour has struck for you , " said the minister , " and I am so firmly convinced of it , that the first wqrd 3 with which I have charged Monsieur d'Harcourt for the Pope are these ; Holy Fatftcr , you know that wow ougte to le the President of the Italian liepublic . " But Monsieur d'Harcourt had quite other things to say to the Pope , oh the part of that faction which involved Luoarfcine in its snares whilst ho imagined that he could control it . ? or myself I
attached bo importance , except as a symptom , to these words of lamartine , a man of impulse and of noble instincts , hut unstable in belief , without enenry idr a fixed purpose , and without real knowledge of men and things . He was indeed tho echo of a tendency all powerful , in those moments of excitement , upon the French mind ; and every reawakening nationality , every political programme , which , if not absolutely republican , was like that , at least , of the Italian constituent , would have compelled the support of the most hesitating government in France . . From great thing * great ihings are born . The Moderates froze all
dwarfish conception of the up souls , and imposed an utter change of politics upon France . The Itauas FEorts was an ally more than sufficiently powerful to preserve the Republic from all danger of a foreign war ; a Kingdom of the North , in the hands of princes little to be relied upon , and hostilo , by long tradition , to the Republicans of France , did but add a dangerous element to the league of kings . The French nation became silent , and left its government free to exist without any foreign policy , and to loavo the destinies of tne republic to the impenetrable future . The incidents described in most detail are
those immediately preceding and following the fatal surrender of Milan ; and it is impossible not to be struck by the contrast of the Royal and the Republican party . But passing this ignominious period , there ought to be small difference of opinion in a free and educated country as to where the right lay in the subsequent Eoman strugg le . 3 Yhat sensible or honest Protestant would not sympathise with the indignant eloquence of this earnest Italian protesting against tbe flimsy oratory of a Jesuit Frenchman ?
MAZZ 1 SI 10 MOSXAUMBERX . You base your argument upon the void ; you discuss that which was , not that which is . The P . v mcy is dead , choked in blood and mire ; dead , becS it has betrayed its own mission of protection to the weak against ihe oppressor ; dead , because for thrl ! cen&s and a naif it has prostituted telf with Sees ; dead because m tte name of egotism anl before the palaces of * M £ *™™ % > iYDOcritical and scept cal go vernments , rt has roi fhTsecondimf crucified Christ ; dead , tecnae it has uttered words of faith which it did no itself believe ; dead , because it has denied ««« yjf e 1 and the dmnitv of our immortal sou s ; dead ,.
because it has condemned scienco in Galileo , P . dijosv-Phy in Giordano Bruno " , religious aBpjrationin Jo ^ n Huss and Jerome of Prague , political life by an anath ema against tho rights of the people , cm we oy Jesuitism , the terrors of the In quisition , and the example of corruption , tho . life of the family by confession converted into a system of espionage , and by division introduced between father and son , brother and brother , husband and wife ; dead , for tbo . pnnces , by the treaty of Westphalia ; dead , for 4 h 2 £ e ! L pIes ' ^ « g « y XI . , in 1373 , and with I iW ? i , 0 f Schism ; dead , for Italy , smee ip . 30 , whea Clement YU , and Charks Y ., tfe
Untitled Article
Pope and the Emperor , signed an ' infamous . compact , and extinguished , at Florenee , ihe .. dying liberties , as to-day yon have attempted to extinguish her rising liberties in Rome ; doady . because the people has riBen , because Pius IX . lias-fled , because the multitude curses him , because those 'very men who for fifteen years have made war upon ' the priests , m the name of Voltaire , now hypocritically defend them , bucause you and yours defend them , with intolerance and by force of arms , and declare that the Papacy and " liberty cannot live side by side ? You ask Victor Hugo to point out to you , an idea which has been worshipped f 6 r ' . eighteen cen-Pope and the Emperor , signed au > infamous com nn-Tf n , wi „„* : __ .. ? . ! i '"»" ™ au iu T , ' , l-i'
turies . It is that idea which you have declared irreconcilable with the Papacy , and which ' was breathed into humanity by God ; the idea which has . withdrawn from Catholicism the half of the Christian world—the idea which lias snatched from you Lnmmenais and' the flower of the intellects of Europe—the idea of Christ—that pure , holy , and sacred liberty which you invoked for Poland some years back , which Italy invokes for herself to-day , under the form , and with the guarantee of nationality , and which you cannot pretend to be good for one country and bad for another , unless you believe it a part of religion to create a pariah people in the bosom of humanity .
Very admirably and nobly written are M . Mazzini's later remarks on the Republican and anti-papal administratian of Rome , and the coldness it met with in England and elsewhere , It is hard for a people to struggle , suffer , and bleed alone , yet hold themselves in this temperate attitude . It is not generous , as M . Mazziui too truly complains , in anation having the enjoyment and the consciousness of liberty herself , to wait until the hour of victory has sounded for another nation before she stretches out a sister ' s hand towards her . WHAI THE BErUBLlCANS BID AND ENGLAND MIGHT HAVE DOXE .
I affirm that with tho exception of Ancona , where , the triumvirate were obliged energetically to repress , certain criminal acts of political vengeance , the republican cause was never sullied by the slightest excess ; that no censorship was assumed over the press before the siege , and that no occasion arose for exercising it during tho siege . Not a single condemnation to death or exile boro witness to a severity which it would have been our right to have exercised , but which the perfect unanimity which reigned amongst all the elements of the state rendered useless . I affirm that , except in the case of three or four priests , who had been guilty of firing upon our combatants , and who were killed by the people during the last days of the siege , not a
single act of personal violence was committed by any fraction of the population against another , and that if ever there was a city presenting the spectacle of a band of brothers pursuing a common end , and bound together by the same faith , it was Rome under the republican rule . The city was inhabited by foreigners from all parts of the world , by the consular agents , by many of your countrymen ; let any one of them arise , and under tho guarantee of his own signature , deny , if he can , the truth of what I say . Terror now reigns in Rome ; the prisons are choked with men who have been arrested and detained without trial ; fifty priests are confined in the castle ' of St . Angelo , whose only crime consists in their having lent their services in our
hospitals ; the citizens , the best known for their moderation , are exiled ; the army is almost entirely dissolved , the city disarmed , and the "factious " sent away even to the last man ; and yet Franco dares not consult in a legal manner tho will of the populations , but re-establishes the papal authority by military deoree . I do not believe that since tho dismemberment of Poland there has been committed a more atrocious injustice , a more gross violation of the eternal right which God has implanted in the peoples , that of appreciating and denning for themselves their own life , and governing themselves in accordance with their own appreciation of it . And I cannot believe that ifc is well for you or for Europe that such things can be accomplished in the eyes of tbe world , without one nation arising out of its immobility to protest in the name of universal justice .
This is to enthrone brute force , where , by the power of reason , God alone should reign ; it is to substitute the sword and poniard for law—to decree a ferocious war without limit of time or means between oppressors rendered suspioious by their fears , and the oppressed abandoned to the instincts of reaction and isolation . Let Europe ponder upon these things . For if the light of human morality becomes but a little more obscured , in that darkness there will arise a strife that will make those who come after us shudder with dread . The balance of power in Europe is dostroyed . Ifc consisted formerly in the support given to tho smaller states by the great powers ; now they are abandoned . France in Italy , Russia in Hungary , Prussia in Germany , a little later perhaps in Switzerland : these are now the masters , of the
continent . England is thus made a nullity ; the " eclsa sedet Eolus in arce , " which panning delighted to quote , to express the moderating function which he wished to reserve for his country , ia now a meaningless phrase . Let not your preachers of the theory of material interests , your speculators upon extended mnrketa deceive themselves ; there is history to teach them that political influence and commercial influence are closely bound together . Political sympathies hold the key of the markets ; the tariff of the Roman Republic will appear to you , if you study it , to be a declaration of sympathy towards England to which your government did not thin K it necessary to respond . And yet , above the question of right , above the
question of political interest , both of which were of a nature to excite early the attention of England , there is , as I havo said , another question being agitated at Rome of a very different Kind of importance , and which ought io have aroused all those who believe in the vital principle of religious reformationit is that of liberty of conscience . The religious question which broods at the root of all political questions showed itself there great and visible in all its European importance . The Pope at Gaeta was the theory of absolute infallible authority exiled from Homo for ever ; and exiled from Kbme was to be exiled from the world . The abolition of the temporal power evidently drew with it , in the minds , of all those who understood the secret of the paoal
authority , the emancipation of men's minds from the spiritual authority . The principle of liberty and of free consent , elevated by the Constituent Assembly into a living active right , tended rapidly to destroy the absolutist dogma which from ltome aims more than ever to enchain the universe . The high aristocracy of the Roman Catholic clergy well know the impossibility of retaining the soul in darkness , in the midst of light inundating the intelligences of men ; for this reason they carried off their Pope to Gaeta ; for this reason they now refuse all compromise . They know that any compromise would be fatal to them ; that they must re-enter as conquerors , or not at all . And in the same way that the aristocracy of the clergy felt this
inseparability of the two powers , the French government in its present reactionary march , has felt that the keystone of despotism is at Rome—that the ruin of the spiritual authority of the middle ages would bo the ruin of its own projects—and that the only method of securing to it a few more years of existence was to rebuild for it a temporal domination . England has understood nothing of this . She has not understood what there was of sublime and prophetic in this cry of emancipation , in this protestation in favour of human liberty , issuing from the very heart of ancient Rome , in the face of the Vatican . She has not felt that the struggle in Rome was to cut the Gordian knot of moral servitude against which she has long and vainly opposed
her Bible Sooieties , her Christian and Evangelical Alliances ; and that there was being opened , had she but extended a sisterly hand to the movement , a mighty pathway for the human mind . Sho has not understood that one hold word , " respect for the liberty of thought , " opposed to the hypocritical language of the French government , would have been sufficient to have inaugurated the era of a new religious policy , and to havo conquered for herself a decisive ascendancy upon the continent . The writer of such passages as these may nevertheless be of good heart . Like Knox and "Wickliffe , Husa and Luther , M . Mazzini is no maker of ephemeral arrangements and compromises ; but , like them , lie is the uncompromising asserter of principles , and the creator of a national sentiment , that will in time give law to the makers of such
arrangements . ~ Looking to the yet weak and timid condition of public opinion ia Italy—looking to the narrow provincical views which still hamper general society—above all , looking to the limited power of its princes and prelates , and to the imbecile and demoralised characters of its Tio Nonoa and Antonellia , there ia no hope of anyimmediatepolitical settlement , tbeattainment of which need make it worth while for M . Mazzini to compromise or abandon for a moment liis most extreme political opinions . Nothing is to bo accomplished at present ; and he is therefore more usefully employed in rallying his party by fervent reiteration of his principles , and in forming a pure and elevated public sentiment alike by his precepts and his example , a 9 one of those iron men who . are able to . beard tyranny and profligacy even while tbey stand alone , the apostles of reformation , tha originators and heralds of after change .
Untitled Article
AMfirJloN is -like a wild horie , which prances unceasin gly until it has thrown off its rider .
Untitled Article
. SADLER'S ; WELLS THEATBE . „* Tl - - ?^^ of Measure for Measure has been revive d atuiis hou 8 e ,, and , ilissGlyn ,. in the character of moeua , has an opportunity of displaying hev power of sustained and impressiyo declamation , wnuetue few bursts of grief which interrupt the generally even deportment of the ' stately maiden are given with great ; force . Mr . Marston , as the jj uke , glyea a . very urbane and sensible interpretation ol the character , which contrasts well frita tne rugged-Angelo played by Mr . George Bennett . Mr . A . Younge , an effective Dogberry , ia well placed m the part , of . Elbow , a weaker edition of the samo character , and Mr . F . Youngo exhibits mu ; < lul ? t humour as the Clown . -The afterpieces at Sadler 3 Wells seldom form a main feature in an evening s entertainment , but a new petite comedy , oy Mr . E . Stirling , entitled tho Teacher Taught , is worthy of mention . A staid youth with a dissipated
latner proposes to reform the latter by marrying him to a young lady , whilo he consents to take to nimscit tho young lady ' s aunt as a means , of assisting tbe match . In the progress of the scheme the young man falls in love with the juvenile , arid is converted from pedantry to , animation , and the elderly maiden is consigned to the parent . The delineation of a- classical scholar is not very accurate , inasmuch as the youth is made to talk of bocratesasan " ancientfather , " but tho intrigue is pleasantl y conducted , and the piece has the advantage of very lively and spirited acting . Mr . Hoskins , who plays tlie young pedant , is one of tho most useful performers of the establishment . Here his quiet assumption of gravity is highly ludicrous , but generally his line-is . the rapid and eccentric , to which he always gives effect by his unceasing flow of spirits . As a Shakspqarian fop ho is also valuable , and of his talent in this way his Lu . cio in Measure for Measure is n good specimen .
Untitled Article
** . ' —¦ ¦ ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Mr . George Barker has commenced hi 3 second lecture on the subject of " Tho Ballad Music of Great Britain . " The subject is treated by the lecturer in a popular and agreeable manner , and gives an outline of the many advantages to be obtained by the cultivation of this charming soience to all classes of society , and being the most rational way of spending the leisuro hours . The illustrations given in the course of his lecture were well selected and highly appropriate , and was received at the termination of his labours by the unanimous applauso of his audience . Among the ballads which appeared to attract greatest attention we noticed tho following—" JPriends of my Youth , " "The Eose of Cashmere , " " Wreck of tho Emigrant Ship , " &c .
Untitled Article
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM MEETING AT THE LONDON TAVERN .
National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association Rooms , 11 , Poultry . Sin , —My attention has been called to a leading article in tlie Northern Star of this day ' s date , in which the writer , whilst commenting on the meeting on Monday last , at the London Tavern , makes the following statement : — " Tho Chairman , so Far from rebuking such unmanly Jnterruption , tock part with those ivlio gave it . " If , by this , it is meant to insinuate that I took any part in tho interruption , I beg to eay the statement is totally untrue . I am , sir , your obedient servant , To the Editor of tho Northern Joshua Wawislet , Star , Oct . 10 th .
[ The meaning of the passage which has drawn forth this note is . perfecfcly clear . It is not stated that Sir Joshua Walmsley took part in the interruption , but that , so far from rebuking the interruptors , and as chairman , exerting himself to procure a fair and uninterrupted hearing for Mr . O'Connor ; he " took part-witft those who gave it . " Wo refer to tuo report of the Daily News for proof of that fact . At the conclusion of Mv . O'Connor's speech , Sir Joshua rose and , in a very , warm manner , expressed his disapproval of the views of that gentleman . If this was not taking part with the interrupters , we do not inow tho meaning" of words . At all events , wo beg to assure Sir Joshua that wo faithfully expressed the conviction made upon our own mind at the time of the occurrence , " and , as journalists , " Nothing extenuate nor sefc down aught in malice . " -Ed . iV . SA
Untitled Article
SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS .
The adjourned quarter sessions for the county of Surrey commenced on Monday at the Court House , Newington Causeway , before Thomas Puckle , Esq ., and a full bench of magistrates . The calendar contained the names of forty-eight prisoners . Robbeky . —James Stroud , 23 ,. was indicted for Btealingf , at Bermondsey , a watch , a pair of stockines , and other property , belonging to William
Parning . —The proseoutor , a young man in the employ of a butcher at Bermondsey , said that the . prisoner was also in the same service prior to the 17 th of September , and slept in the same room with him , On that day he absconded , when witness found that his box had been broken open , and that his watch and other articles had been stolen . —Mary Feurcn , a lodging-house keeper in the Qity-road , said the prisoner formerly lodged at her house , and on the night of the 17 th ult . lie came to her and handed her an old-fashioned silver watch to take care of .
He slept there that night , arid on the following morning he -went away , but returned shortly afterwards for the watch . A few days after that she received information of the robbery , and as soon as the prisoner camo to her again she sent fov a polioQman and gave him into custody . Witness produced a pair of stockings which he left with her , and which the prosecutor identified . —In defence , the prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery , and said what the female stated wo 3 false , —The jury found him Guilty , and the Court sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour .
Two Old Offenders . —W . Bramley , 10 , and T . Mitcham , 1 C , were indicted- for stealing 150 yards ot cotton print from tho shop door of Mr . Henry Hayman , a linendraper , at Clapham , his property . — Alfred Spier , a constable of the V division , deposed that on the evening of the Gth iust . he saw the prisoners in the ' Wanaswortli-road , and , knowing them to be old thieves , ho followed them to Clapham , where he saw Bramloy approach the prosecutor's door , when he snatched the piece of print from the door way , and joined the other prisoner , -who took it from him , ' They both ran away , but witness pursued them , and after a smart ohase secured hem . — Prosecutor identified the printed cotton as his property . —The jury found them Guilty . Sentence three months ' each at Brixton , and to be privately whipped . Railway Robberies , —George Rees , a carman in the employ of 31 r . Henry Smithers , town carman ,
was indicted for stealing twenty eggs , the property of the Brighton and South Coast Railway Company . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , but strongly recommended him to mercy on account of his previous good character . —The Chairman ordered him to be confined in the county gaol twenty one days , with solitary confinement . William Humphreys , 22 , and George Butler , 31 , were indicted for stealing a purse containing five shillings and sixpence from the person of'Frances Greenwood , in the booking-office of the London and South Western Railway Station , in the * Waterlooroad . —The Chairman said that such robberies had become very frequent , and some examplo must be made to put a stop to them at railway stations , no should sentence Humphroys to nine months hard labour at Brixton , and Butler to six months at ¦ Quildford ; and should they be ever convicted before him again , lie should certainly transport them ,
Untitled Article
Snip on Fme at Mama . —We regret to state that early on the morning of the 8 th of October the line new barque Seeundus , belonging to the " Societa di Navigazione Maltese , " was aiscovered to be on fire in Valletta Harbour , Malta . "We observe by the official statement of the secretary to the company , Mr . Luigi P . Volla , that tho vessel was ready to leave for Constantinople , when on the morning of the above day the persons in charjro on board were alarmed by the appearance of smoke , and on calling for help it was promptly rendered by Captain Olivari , and the crow of the Sardinian schooner Zenobia . The officers ' and seamen of the French steamer Sesostris arrived soon after , with fire engines and ntokets , followed by Lieut . Harvey and a party of
seamen from her Majesty ' s ship Ceylon . Mr . Napier , tho master-attendant of Malta Dockyard , also came with an cngino . "Water by these means was introduced into the vessel , but finding that , after two hours of continual exertion , the fire could not be effectually overcome , it was determined upon to take the vessel into shallow water , and boro her , which was soon done by a great number of boats , towing her to a proper place . Tho vessel was then bored in several parts , and the iire extinguished by the water let in . Tho damago ia spoken of aa not being of much consequence , and that the repairs wore already begun ,. which it was hoped would be finished in ten days . Much praise and many thanks are due to tho parties who rendered their assistance
on this disastrous occasion , among whom the names ' of Mr . Gacaco and Mr . G . . Darmanin , and the shipbuilders , German and Mirabitur , ought not to bo omitted , sinco they , by their advico and co-operation , contributed materially to the saying of the barque Seeundug . Rear-Admiral Harvey was alongside the vessel , and staying some hours watching all the operations . Various are the surmises as to the causo of the firo . The cargo was partly composed of Malta flag-stones , but some iron bedsteads havo been consumed by the burning of tho straw in wmen they were bound , besides the destruction of several sofas and chairs . The vessel was not insured , out wo hoar the cargo was , to a limited extent , at Mai » . The number of attorneys and solicitors at present in London , Westminster , and SoutuwaiK , and their eijTiroBB i is 3 , 209 only . . . ; .
Untitled Article
¦ An EyBBGUEEN-r-a manwko does not learn by experience . A BAND ! is a chap that , would be a lady if he covdd ; but as he can't does all ho can to show the world that he is not a man . . Be not affronted at a jest . If one throw salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm , unless thou liastsore places . . What is k that moat bothers a cabinet maker ? —Putting a leg to the multiplication table .. ; ... . What kimd of essence does a young man like when he pops the question ?—Acqui-escence . . - A restorative . —The ladies who faint on . being " proposed to , can bo restored to consciousness by just whispering in their ears that you were only joking . ' '
A Yankee editor says he "like to died a larfin ' to see a dnnkm' chap tryin' to pocket the shadow of a swinging sign for a pocket handkerchief . " Church Flunkettism , and Patronage . —Seven hundred pound 3 a-year are paid to tho vice-chancellor's mace-bearer , and M 0 to tho Greek professor at Oxford . SrsTEM . — " What is system ? " asked a young lady of a man of letters . "It is , " replied the scholar , " a i ' aggot of ideas , well arranged , and neatly bound together . " Law , like a razor , requires a " strong back , " keenness , and an excellent temper . —N . B . Many of those who get once " shaved with ease and expedition , " seldom risk a second operation .
A DIFFICULTY . — " Mike , why don't you fire at those ducks , boy—don't you see you have got the whole flock before your gun ? " — " I know 1 have ; but when I get good aim at one , two or three others will swim right up betwixt it and me . " Dead , and a live . —a . Jady of rank complaining that her husband was dead to fashionable amusements he ' replied , " But then , my dear , you make me alive to the expense . " , Titled ARisiocttATS . -It is surprising what an influence titles have upon the mind , even though these titles be of our own making . Like children , we dress up puppets in finery , sand then stand iu astonishment at the plastic wonder . —Goldsmith Oh ! there ' s not in the wide world a pleasure no sweet
As to > it near the window and tilt up youv feet ; Pull away ' at the " Cuba , " whose flavour just suits , And gaze at' the world 'twixt the toes of your boots —Yankee Made . . Algernon Sidney , in a letter to his son , says , " That in the whole of his life he never knew one man , of what condition soever , arrive at any degree of reputation in the world , who made choice of , or delighted in , the company or conversation of those who in their qualities were inferior , or in their parts not much superior to himself . " ;
" Shabb y Gentility is to the social life what "Brummagem " . wares are to the things they imitate . In both cases there is elaborate workmanship bestowed on a worthless material , to produce the result . which the honest Jew desired , when he directed that his mock silver . spoons should be stamped with a . " dog , which is to be made as much like a lion as possible , " : At a debating club the question was discussed , whether , there is more pleasure in the possession or the pursuit of an object . "Mr . president , ' said an orator , " suppose I was courting a gal , and she was to run away , and Iwas to run after hgr , wouldn't I be happier when I catcli'd her , than when I was running . aftei'her . "
Patents!—The cost in France is . £ 12 and upwards ; in Spain , £ 10 , & 30 , and £ 60 ; in the Netherlands and Belgium £ 6 to £ 30 ; in Austria , £ 5 lGs . 8 d , with 11 s . 8 d . a year additional ; and in . America , ^ 6 s . 1 0 s ; ; while , in the United Kingdom Of Great Britain and Ireland , it is no less than £ 300 ! " ' Everyman 13 a volume , if you know how to read him . " True ; but some can claim to be such only upon the principle that" a book's a book , although there is nothing in it . " A negro may be considered a black-letter volume , we suppose , and a rogue in irons a . well bound one . . Teeth Shaiipening ;—A housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner , found him engaged in vising his tooth-brush ' . "Well , is he coining ? " said the lady of thelhouse , as the servant returned . " Yes , - ma ' am , directly , " was the reply , " he ' s just sharpening his teeth . '
• An inebriate Irishman , on being kindly questioned in a very narrow lane across which he was reeling , as to the length of the road he had travelled , replied : "Faith ! it ' s not so much the length of it as the breadth of it that ' s tired me . " Two little girls , one . the daughter of a wealthy brewer , the other of a gentleman of small fortune , were disputing for proceilency . " You are to consider , miss , " saidthebrewer's daughter , " thatmy papa keeps a coach . " '' Very true miss , ' was the other ' s reply , " and you are to consider , likewise ,- that he also keeps a dray . "
London Wells . —In reply to an inquirer , the deepest well in London is that sunk by Messrs . Combe and Co ., the brewers , which measures 522 feet .. The next is at the Excise Office , 500 feet . The well at Meux ' s brewery is 425 feet deep ; that at Messrs . Elliott ' s , Pimlico , 398 feet . The Trafalgar-square well is 385 feet deep , and the well at Kensington new workhouse , 370 feet . —Builder . Good Advice . —Judge Burnet being applied to by an old faimer for his advice -in a law-suit , heard his case with great patience , and then asked him if he had ever put into a lottery ? "No , sir , " said the farmer , " I hope I have too much prudence to run such risks . " " Then take my advice , my good friend , a « d suffer any inconvenience rather than go to law , as the chances arc more against you there than in any lotterv . " -
. Past axd Present . —In the ninth century it was an established custom in the north , that all the sons of a king , except the eldest , and the chief nobility , should be furnished with ships properly equipped , in order to carry on the profession of piracy , which in those days was held in high admiration . — Smollett . [ The princes and the aristocrary of the nineteenth century have an easier and less hazardous mode of plundering . ] As Affectionate Son . — A country bumpkin , whose habitation is not far from this immediate locality , was called upon a short time ago by a . neighbour , to inform him of ii domestic calamity—tho loss of his mother . The bereaved son was found at his breakfast ; when the following dialogue took place : — " Hai bin thee , Jim , oive gotten sad news for thee — thee mother ' s jed . " " Jed , mon didst say ? well , wait a bit , till I finish my porriteh , and I'll mak tho a pretty blaat . "— ' Macelesfield Courier .
WANTED TO KNOW . If steam ships are used in navigating the " sea of troubles . " If ships in " stays" are addicted to "tight lacing . " If it is owing to tho rate of intc-raent being cheap that so many are buried '' in oblivion . ' . ' Whether the sun shone during the " dark ages . " ¦ Wheth er tbe " tale" which the ghost of Hamlet ' s father cou ! d unfold , was " founded on fact . " The elevation of the •' pinnacle oi' fame , " above the ocean . The extreme length of the " Long Parliament . " If hydropatie treatment wouldbo likely to cure the " eruptions" of Mount Etna .
A Hint , to Household ers . —An experienced burglar once confessed that , for the street door , a chain is a more perplexing obstruction than , locks bolts , or bars ; both at windows and doors , bells are a serious disturbance ; but worst of all is a little yapping dog , that does not attack intruders ,-but runs away barking . Intelligence : op the Dog asd Eitsphant . —Ihe dog is the only brute animal that dresms , and he and the elephant are the only quadrupeds that understand looks ; they are the only animals that—besides man—feel sorrow j the dog the only quadruped that lias been brought to speak . Leibivta ; bears witness to a hound in Saxony that could speak distinctly thirty words .
Tear-Botti / s . —It is a custom among tho Chinese to have a tear-bottle . When two Jadies or females of tho lower rank . quarrel , they go before a magistrate . A tear-bottle is given to the individual who says she is aggrieved , and if she can fill it with tears , the magistrate says , " I perceive you have been harshly treated , I shall award a great punishment to the one by whom you have beenuppreEsed . " 11 ' she can . only half fill it , the punishment is reduced one half , but if she cannot shed one tear , there is no punishment at all . , ,.,, The . Eleventh Commandment . — Archbishop Usliei ? was wrecked on the coast of Ireland , in a wild
aud desert place . In his distress , ho went to the house of an ccolesiastic—a raaureserved and prudent almost to distrust—and to conciliate "his feelings , alleged his snered character . The ecclesiastic , in a tone hardly civil ,, refused to believe him , and said he would answer for it he had never known how many commandments there were . '' I can prove to you , " said the archbishop , with mildness , " tlsufc 1 am not go ignorant as you think ; ( hero aro eleven . " Elevon 1 " answered the ecclesiastic ; " very well , tell mo the eleventh , aud . l will give you all the help you need . " " Hereit is / ' replied the archbishop : " A new commandment give I unto you , that yc love onoonother . " -Jolm « li . 8 d ; - ¦
Rejoice not at Misfortune . —Never rejoice at another ' s misfortuebecause it niay turn out to your advantage . In some parts of Germany they niake use . oi the following sayiug , " My corn is ripening , " which a person will repeat who has the prospect of something profitable occurring to him .. . Once while a surgeon and a carpenter were tali ing a walk together , they observed at some distance a small village , 1 mown to them both , on fire . The carpenter pointed to it , and said to his companion , " My corn is riponing , " for he concluded that if the old houses were burned , new , ones would require to be built ; but ; as he looked intently at the conflagration and not at the road , immediately after this he fell into a ditch and broke his arm , " Ah ! " said the surgeoni : " it Bppears . to me that my cwn is already ripe . " -
Uewew*
uewew *
Pjetrg. 33flf Tr» Vv Lm R
pjetrg . 33 flf tr » VV r
!:,..!J,S Uolif §Mu0cin^Nt#..,. I '¦• ¦ ~^T R V ..- ^ ' " ^" ~ — ".' ' 33ilf»!»!F (2ltt»Itar≫I«Tittta
! :,.. ! J , S uOlif § mu 0 cin ^ nt # ..,. i '¦• ¦ ~^ T V ..- ^ ' " ^" ~ — " . ' ' 33 ilf »!»! f ( 2 ltt » itar > i « titttA
. &Rvuiw»≫ ... ... "'.."'I' ≪ R ,M\ —I-Z^±^L A :'''^'"" M ¦'Sl^^;^^ -,^ •*„•«.«•«**
. &RVUiW »> ... ... "' .. "' I' < r , \ —i-z ^ ± ^ l a : '' ' ^'"" ¦' Sl ^^;^^ -, ^ •*„•« . «•«**
Untitled Article
October 26 , 1850 . . THE NORTHERN STAR . ~ LJi . " . ^^ ! " . ^^ ^^ ^^
„ Tuirt . V-1'Ifih J&Dition, Containing Tlie Himemyfor The Prevention Of Disease , -.;¦ . Illustrated With Twenty-Six Anatomical Coloured , . . Encrovuurs On-Steel.
„ TUirt . v-1 'ifih J&dition , Containing tlie HimeMyfor the Prevention of Disease , -. ;¦ . Illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Coloured , . . Encrovuurs on-Steel .
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1597/page/3/
-