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GOD HELP THE POOR . God "help the poor , who on this ¦ wintry mom Come forth of allays dim , and eonrfca- obscure 1 God help yon poor , pale girl , wko droops forlorn , ATtfl paddy Iks afileiion doUb ea&nie ! God Jtelp tee outcast lamb ! Bhe trembling stands , All - # an her lips , and frozsn redier hands ; Her Kmken eyes are modestly downcast ; Her night-black hair stresms on ihe fitfulJ > Iast ; * Her besom , passing fair , is half zeveal'd ; And , 0 ! so cold , the snow liea there confeal'd j Her f eet beimmb'd , her shoes all rent aad worn : God help thee , outcast lamb , "who sland ' et feriorn 3 God help the poor I
God help the poor I An infant ' s feeble frail Comesironi yon narrow gateway ; and , behold , A female crouching there , so deafely pale , Huddling her child , to screen it from the cold ! Her vesture scant , her bonnet croah'd and torn ; A thin jbairl doth her baby dear enfold 1 " And tbere ehe bides ita THtiiless gale 0 ! mom , Tnrieb almost fb her heart hsth sent its cold ] And now she safldfin darts a ravening look , As one with n&w hot bre&d comes past the nook . ' And , as the tempting load is onward borne , She weeps . God help thee , hapless one fotlorn 1 God help the poor I
God help the poor ! Behold yon famish'd lad ; ITo shoes , nor hose his wosnded feet protect ; "With limping gait , and looks so dreamy sad , He -wanders emrard , stopping to inspect Each window EU > rM with articles cf food . He yearns tut to enjoy one cheering mealj O ! to his hnngry palate , viands rude Would yield a zast the famish'd only feel . ' He now devours a crust of mouldy bread ; 'With teeth and hands the precious boon is torn , Unmindful of the storm which round his head Impetuous sweeps . God help thee , child forlorn 1 God help the poor i
wd help the poor i Another have 1 found , A bo-w'd and TeneraNe man is he '; His fikmched hat -srirh laded crape is bound ; His coat is grey , and threadbare , too , I see ; •* The rude winds" seem to " mock his hoary hair His shirtle * s bosom to the blast is bare Anon he turns , and easts a wistful eye , And with scant napkin wipes the blinding spray ; And loeks again , as if he fain -would spy Friends he hatb feasted in his better day ; Ah ! Bomeftee dead , and some have long forborne IToknowilifrpoorj and " he is hdi forlorn ! - God help the poor J
God help the poor , who in lone valleys dwell , Or by far hills , where whin and heather grow ! Theirs is a story sad , indeed , to tell ; Tet little cares the world , and less twould know , About the toQ and want tht-y undergo . The wearying loom must have them up at mom ; They work till worn-ont nature will have sTeep ; They taste , bat are not fed . The snow drift * deep Around the fireless cot , andWoeks the door ; The night-storm howls a dirge across the moor . And shRTi they perish thus , oppress'd and lorn ? KhaM toil and famine hopeless still be borne ? If el God will yet arke , and kelp ihe poor 2 SaJIFEL ~ B £ HT 0 KD
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WHAT AKE REPEALERS ? *• Taps . ' what are Repealers ?"— 2 tlT So * Aia— " Tippcrary , 0 P ' Mnxioss who ' ve given their gage , my boy , Fierce irar with oppression to wage , my boy , Till Erin once more Shall shine as of yore , The land of the hero snd sage , my boy 1 The lsnd was all Europe ' s pride , » y boy , Its glory and fame were wide , my boy ; . A . id Som % a and Dane , Who cBex > d the chain , By &e sword of its jberoes died , my boy !
Her chiefs wax d faithless and proud , my boy , And discord ' s hoarse voice grew lond , sy bay ; And , record of shame , The stranger then came , And liberty laid in her shrond , my boy i That land Ted rapine l « ng swept , my boy , And ^ jercy and truth long slept , my boy ; " OI conld yon bnt know Such tyrants—sach woe , "You ? young eyes with mine had wept , my boy But in the despots' despite , ray boy , The millions arise in their might , my boy ; And Ewear by the tears , And blood of past years , To -wrest from that despot their right , my feoy !
222 sy sib leaded , and firm , anfl true , my DOJt 3 £ e » alY £ -d i-o die or to do , my boy ; The yoiinjj and the eld In the canes are enroU'd , Asd Pve sworn you one of fcem , too , my boy . ' Ere this vow be unsafe in thy keeping , boy , 2 Say jocr fatter bemoac your Bleeping , boy , Where green -willows wave AboTe jour youne grave , And none to console his -weeping , my boy J liation
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r * Por " Paper read Father . Surely the Editor of ihe SaSon wssin a fit cf ihe lacksdasical" when he put such a milksop word into the mouth of his poetic «• Young Hannibal" Q
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A POPTJLAB HISTORY OF PRIESTCRAFT , abridged from Wiuiam Bcvnrfs work , London : Geave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street . This is a new editon of a work which has been some years before the public , and winch , to our certain knowledge has been productive of no small amount of good ia laying bare the enormities of priestly domination and corruption ; and awakening the too long blinded masses to the real nature of & u craft" which for ages upon a ^ es has been employed an ~ d perpetuated to keep mankind in ignorance and slavery .
As is expressed in tbe title page , this wotk is an abridgeceEi of the famed v ' History cfPrieicraft " Written by William Howitt , a name -which , when the history of ihe present times shall come so be written , must shine conspicuous on the historic page , as \ Ya % I of one" of ihe enlighteners and benefactors of the ; human race . . Bu ; though an abridgemcni , the pnb-Jication before us contains the pith and si-irit of the larger work of WIHam * Howitt , "which from the ; eomparath ^ ly high price at wtocli it wa 3 neeessaiily pnblished vras placed beyond the reach of tne working classes , Aii who can afford to purchase the j larger and complete work wiliof coaise do so ; bnt those who cannot , will find in this abridgement an ; excellent substitute . The following extracts will ieU a thousand-fold rcore in favour of the -work \ than anything we conld r-in .
PiGAS PiUESTCHAPT . " When we recollect over -what an immense extent ol country , and thronfls -what a number of ages , idolatry extended itself , -nbat a terrible Eum . of miseries must we see to have been iiflicted on our raee , by the diabolieal 22 a ! and cupidity of priestcraft 1 Prom the temple of Bnadh asd Jaggczaath is India , to the stony circles of DmidiEm in Europe ; from the snowy wastes of Siberia asd Scandinavia in the north , to the most southern lands in Africa and America , the fires of Moody deities have rejoiced the demoniac priests , and consumed the people . '
"The Hnhridled sensnslity ci the p = gan -worship added greatly ID ila attractions and power of mischief The Assyrian Baal tras jnsse ihs scape-goat of the Benmality of the priests , w " :. o , under the pretext of providing a sacrifice of beamy to the deity , selected the most lovely women rf the nation for themselves 5 a species of detestable deception which seems to have been carried on to an tuonnous extern in ancient times , as the Grecian stories teiti / y . When the Assyrian was merged in th 9 Babylonitn empire , the ergies of the temple of ilylitta , the Bibylonian Tenns , were infamous above bII others . Every iroman was bound to present herself before the temple once in her life , and there submit to prostitution -with whoever firet chose ier . Tee price of her Bhsme was paid into " the ireasury , to . swell the revenues of the priests . "
" If we tnm to Europe , we fhaHfind that whatever -was the name , the language , or the government of the different countries , the religion tna essentially the Bme . Thpro w&s , first , an -order cf priests ; secondly , an OTdEI of miliisiy noble * j thirdly , s subjugated multitude ; and institnfc ' ens , the spirit of which , is lhat of thruEting the lower orders from all place and authority , and systematically dooming them to an unaiterable 2 state of servile depression . * 11 priests often united the sacerdotal and sovereign power in their own persons ; and where this was not the case , they exercised a power superior to that of kings . They inflicted pains and penalties , exacted the most abject submission , and as the pretended inlerpsetsni df the divine will , dared even to demand , in the same of heaven , the blood of kings . ThiB they obiaiEed .- " - . -
" Thegreat m& long-hidden , continent of America was , when discovered , found to have been subjected to the" same aaperstitions , ttie same dominant spirit of priesthood , atd the same terrible systems of worship . " M Of their iaoody sacrifices the Spanish writers are full Fear is desciibed to have been the soul of the Mexican worship . They never approached their altars » ithont blood , drawn from their own bodies . Df all their offerings , and they were numerous , human sac- j Jiflcea were deemed to be the most acceptable . Every , captive t *>< -n in -war was sacrificed , with horrid cruelties , at the temple ; the head and heart being de- ; » oted to the gods , and the body appropriated to the ] yrsniot iff whom &b capUre bad frien token , to imtl
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himself and his friends . The prevalence of these horrid rites counteracted all the humanizing and softening effects of all their social institutions , an < i their progress is the arts . Their manners toecime moie ferocious U tfe . 67 ad-raaced , Tmtil xbe b 3 Tl > arity ot tbeil actions greatly exceeded those of the savage state . " Tbeprieet-ridden condition of Enypt is known to all readers of history . Lord Shaf tesbury calls it , the motherland ot superstitions . * So completely had the priesthood here contrived to fix themselves on the shoulders of the people , so completely to debase and stnpify them with an abundance of foolish veneration , that the country swarmed with temples , gods , and creatures , which in themselves most noxious or loathsome , were objects of adoration . "
" The papular theology of Greece , though it had the same origin as other mythologies , assumed , by passing through the glorious minds of Hesiod and Homer , all these characters of grace and beauty which they conferred on their literature , their philosophy , and all the arts and embellishments of life . u But beautiful as the system -was made to appear by the embellishments of their immortal' poets , the Gredans celebrated the same niyBterieB , offered thB same bumau sacrifices , and were contaminated by the same Phallic abominations , as all the other pagan nations . "
" In India , priestcraft assumed its most determined and fearlf sa air . In other lauds , it placed itself in the first rank of horror and power . In this it went a step further . Its chains appear to be indiss ulubly rivet ted on the mind of this mighty empire . The perfection of its craft and the selfishness of its spirit are exhibited in millions on millions bound in chains of the most slavish and soul-qnelliBg castes , and the servility of a snbtile religious creed . India has its triad of gods , its doctrine of metempsychosis , ita practice of the Phallic licentiousness , its horrors of human sacrifice and
selfimmolation . We need not specify the bloody rites of Jaggemath , the barbarous burning of widows , or the unnatural immolation of children . Throughout continental India , we have an example of prietscraft in its most decided , undisguised , snbtle , and triumphant character , at once in full flower and full fruit ; in that state at which it has alwayB and every where aimed , bnt never attained elsewhere . It . has here stamped itself on the heart of a great nation , in its feroadest mid most imperishable style ; in all its a-rowed despotism , its selfishness , imperturbable pride , asd cool arrogance of fanatical power . "
"The avarice of the sacerdotal tribe in India kept pace with the same passion in the prie&thood of otber parts of the world . Immense quantities of wealth were made to flow ii » to their -coffers . Their pagodas were adorned with the richest metals ; the altar * and sacred vessels of the temples were of massy gold ; and their statues , numerous and huge , were made of the same material ; or that next to it in valne , silver . " '" Mr . Ormetin his History of Hindostan ) tells us : — that the Brahmins slumbered in the most luxurious repose in their splendid pagodas , where the numbers accommodated wete astonishing ; that pilgrims cime from all parts of the Peninsula to worship at that of Seriugham , but rone without an offering of money ; that a large part of the revenue of the island is allotted for the maintenance of the Brahmins who inhabit it ; and that these , with their families , formerly composed a multitude , not less in number than forty thoupaad bouIb , supported without labour , by the liberality of superstition .
" Having thus seizsd the reins of unlimited power , the Priests had snly to command and make an empire of sla-ws . And snch was their course . Tne Brahmin wielded both the empire and the monarch . He stood in the place of deity ; the will of heaven was thought to israe from his IipB , and bis decision was reverenced as the fiat of destiny . In fact , the Indian Government is justly considered as a theecacy—a theocracy the more terrible , because the name of God was perverted to sanction and support the most dreadful species of despotism—a despotism which , not content with subjugating the body , tyrannised over the prostrate faculties of the enslaved mind . " A short chapter on " The Jewish Priesthood " follows , and then , under the head of " The Popish Priesthood , " ie given a capital unmasking of
CHS 1 ST 1 AM PBIKTCRAJT . from which , "sre can only fina room ior the following extracts : — "Having thus prostrated the hnman mind , they lorded it over the people with iciolent impunity . The Bann was adopted , and its terrors became felt throughout Christendom . Was a king refractory—did he refuse the pontificial demand of money—had be an opinion of his own—a repugnance to coBply with papal influence in his affairs ? The thunders of the "Vatican were launched against him ; his kingdom was laid under the bann ; all people were forbidden , on pain of eternal damnation , tt > tra a with his subjects ; all churches . were shut ; the nation was on a sudden deprived of all exterior exercises of its religion ; the altirs were despoiled of their GrcsmeuU ; the crosses , the
reliqnes , the images , acd the : tatuea of the saints were laid on the ground ; and , as if tb& air itself might pollute them by its contact , the priests carefully covered them np , even from tbeir own approsctand -rentration . The use of btlls entirely ceased in the cturches ; the bells them ! elves were ytmortd from the steeples , ana laid on the ground , with tbo ether sacred utensils . Mass was celebrated with shut doors , and none but the priests were admitted to the holy institution . The clergy refused to marry , bapt z ? , orbnry ; the dbad were csst into ditches , or Jay i ^ uzrefying on the sround ; till the superstitious people , looking on tbeir children who died without baptism , as g' -se to perdition , and those dead -without Christian burial , as seized on by the devil , rose in rebellious fury , and obliged the prince to submit and humble himttif before the proud priest of Rome . "
• ' But the most potent and friphlfnl engine of the papacy , was the Inguisition . Its history is one of the most awful horror that can affright the human soul . Its holy office— itscflicesof mercy , as they were called in that spirit of devilkh abuse of Christianity in which they were conceived , were j < peedily to be found in various countries of Europe , Asia , and America , but distinguished most fearfuily in Spain ; . Their horrors have bean made familiar to the publie mind by the writers of romance , especially by Mrs . Batciiffe ; bnt all the powers of romance have not "been able to overcome tho reality . Spain has sl-ways gloried In the supremacy of her inigniiltion . She has siremiOBsly contended with the Pope fer it ; and has deemed it so great an hononr , as to parade the avto-do-Je , as one of the most fascinating sptctaclea . Her kings , her queens , her princes ,
aBd heT cobles , have assembled with enthusiasm to witness them . So great a treat di * J the Spaniards formerly consider them , thst Llorente states , that on February 25-h , 1560 , cne was celebrated by the inquisitors of Toledo , in which Beveral perasns were burnt with some effiges , and a great nnmber subjected to penances ; and this was performed to entert in the new queen Elisabeth , daughter of Henry 1 L of France , a girl of thirteen years of age , accustomed in htr own country \ o brillian-. festivals suited * o her rank and age . So completeJy may priestcraft brntal *" z- * a nation , and so completely has this devilish i £ * t : tntie > n stamped the Spanish character , naturally ardent and chivalric , with gloomy horror , that both Llorente and Limborch represent ladies -witnessing the agoniz ' ng tortures of men and -women expiring in flames , with transports of delight "
" "We have not space to detail the atrocities committed by this odicuB institution . Limborch has given the following vivid . summary of its operations : — ' In countries where tfca irqsiation has existed , the bare idea of its prepress damped the most ardent mind . Formidable and ferocious as the rapacious tiger , who from the gloomy thicket surveys his unstrepectfDg prey , until the favoured moment arrives in which he rcay plunge forward and consummate its destruction , Ifaeinquuition meditates insecretand in Bilence ita horriSc projects . In thedeepest seclusion the calumniatorpropounds his charge ; with snxiuns vigilance the creatures of its power regard its unhappy victim . Not a whisper is heard , or the least hint of insecurity given , until at
the dead of night a band of savage monsters surronnd tbe dwelling . They demand an entrance . Upon the inquiry , by whom is that requited ? the answer is the 'holy < rffice . " In an instant all tbe ties of nature appear b& if dissolved ; and either through tbe complete dominion of superstition , or tbe conviction that resistance -wonlcl be Tain , the master , parent , husband , is resigned , ^ rom the imsom of his family , and bereft of all domestic comforts , he enters tbe inquisition house ; its ponderous doors are closed , and hoped excludedperhaps for ever . Immured in a noisome vault , snrrounded by impenetrable -walls , he is left alone ; a prey to all the sad r . flection 3 of a miserable outcast . If be Tenture to inquire the reason of his fate , be is told , that silence and secresy are here inviolable . '"
" Let every man who heiitmes to set bis hand to the destruction cf state religions , Icoi on this picture of all enormities that can discrace our nature , and reflect that such is the inevitable tendency of all priestcraft . Is it said we see noQring so bad now ! And why ? Because man has got the upper hana cf his tyrant , and keeps him in awe—not because the nature of priestcraft is altered ; *» Tifi yet * Jet us torn fcns our eyes to Catholic countries , Spain , Pcrtegsl , Italy , and the scene Is lamentable ; and even ia onr o . n country , where free institutions check presumption , and the press terrifies many a monster from the light of day—we behold things which make our hearts throb with indignation . "
The Second Part , " and by far the larger portion of tie work is taken np with an exposure of the " English Church" and the "Church of Ireland . " This most important portion is far too lengthy for ¦ as to dip into ; we must refer tfee reader to the work itself / promising him that he will find such reveala tions tnerein as wiU exhibit in its true , Ugh * *« wal character of the self-Btyled " Poor Man ' s Church" (!) We may observe , th > t At the commencement tbe writer denounces all priests because tAey are vri'ils : whereas at fl > e close he appears to denounce tne state
priests only when they are connected with To us this appears inconsistent . Waving all questions as to the truths of particular creeds , we proclaim it asonr convictioD that any body of men Eet apart for the offices of a priesthood , whether paid by the state or by the voluntary offerings of their "flocks" ( fit victims for shearers \ is an « ii —a enrse . If men convinced of the truth of their respective ereedBwould pay tbeir adoration as each thought proper , each for himself , not imerfering with his neighbour , it wonld be well : but allow of the exigence of a priesthood , no matter whether
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voluntary or state paidj and yon have the cockatrice s egg , which , iadue season will produce - its terrible brood of giant crimes against humanity . All priests must have been originally supported by the voluntary contributions of their dupes ; and man ' s history tells the hideous result . The author appears too to be greatly in love with American Christianity" where the voluntary system" flourishes ; bnt , what is the truth 1 Why that there is more priestcraft in the Uaited States ; that is , that the priests of the several sects have a . greater influence over the minds of their followers than even in this conntry . Even in that land of " civil aod religious liberty , " there have been " prosecutions for
blasphemy" ! And it is a well known fact that no priests are more venal than those of the States , prostituting their powers of mind , and the mighty influence they wield through their " ortft" to the upholding of that accursed system of Blavery , by which the American atmosphere is poisoned , and her boasted liberty rendered a cruel and disgusting mockery in the eyes of all rational men and true democrats . That " American churches" are " the bulwarks of American slavery" is " as notorious as tho sun at noon-day . " What do we infer fron ^ this ! That priestcraft is now what it was in the days of Socrates : and that to destroy
the power of the priest you must annihilate his " craft . " Still , despite these objections we can most cordially recomisend this work aB an excellent one for young beginners . " Having read it , the reader will be nearly sure to ask as we have done , when closing the volume : " how is it that the priests of ail ages have been enabled to acquire and maiutais their tembly-nsed power ! " Such question can only be solved by inquiring into the systems of belie ] which under so many names they havo expounded . If the reader gets so far , there is no . fear but that ho will " progress , " until be understands fully " the History of Priestcraft" with all its fraudB and falsehoods , horrors and crimes .
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PROGRESS OF 80 CIAL REFORM ON THE CONTINENT—No . n . GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND . [ The following txtracts are from a continuation of this interesting subject , in the New Moral World of Nov . 18 th , 1843 1
LVTHER AND THE MONSTER ANABAPTISTS . Germany had her Social Reformers as early as the Reformation . Soon after Luther had begun to procJafm church reform and to agitate tbe people against spiritnal authority , the peasantry of Southern and Middle Gdrmany rose in a general insurrection against their temporal lords . Luthtr always stated his object to be to return to original Christianity in doctrine and practice ; the peasantry took exactly the same standing , and demanded , therefore , not only the ecclesiastical , but also the social practice of primitive Christianity . They conceived a Btate of villainy and servitude , such as they lived under , to b » Inconsistent with tha doctrines of the Bible . They were oppressed by a set of haugbty barons and earls ; robbed and treated like their cattle
every day . They had no law to protect them , and if they had they found nobody to enforce it Such a state contrasted very much wiih the communities of early Christians , and tho doctrines of Christ aB laid down in the Bible . Therefore they arose and began a war against their lords , which could only be a war of extermination . Thomas Mur / zer , a preacher , whom they placed at their head , issued a proclamation , full , of course , of the religious and superstitious nonsense of the aga ; but containing also among others , principles like these : That according to tbe Bible , no Christian is entitled t » hold any property whatever exclusively for himself ; that community of property is the only proper state for a society of Christians ; that it is not allowed to any good Christian , to have authority or
command over other Christians , nor to hold any office of Government or hereditary power , bnt on the / contrary that , as all men are equal before God , bo they ought to be on earth also . These doctrines were nothing bir . conclusions drawn from tbe Bible and from Luther ' s own writings ; but tbe Reformer was not prepared to go as far as the people did . Notwithstanding the courage he displayed against the spiritual authorities , be had not freed himself from the political and social preju . dices of his age . He believed as firmly in the right divine of princes and landlords , to trample upon tbe people , as he did in the Bible . Besides this , he wanted the protection of tbe aristocracy and the
proteBtant princes ; and tbua he wrote a tract against the rioters , disclaiming not only every connectisn "Witb tbem , out also txhorting ths aristocracy to put them < Jown with the utmost severity , as rebels agaiust the lews of God . " Eil ) rkem like do ^ s . '" he exclaimed . Tbe whole tract is written with such an animosity , nay , fury and fanaticism against the people , that it will ever funn a blot -upon LuUmaV ol ) uut « r s it mhuwa that , if he began his career as a roan of the people , he was now entirely iii the service of their oppressors . Tbe inearr * ction , after a most bloody civil war , was suppressed , aud the peasants reduced to their former servitude .
MjDERN COMMUNISTS . — WEITLIKQ . It was among the working class of Germany that Social Reform has been of late ma < ie again a topic of discussion . Germany having comparative . y little manufacturing industry , the mass of the working classes is made np by handicraftsmen , who previous to their establishing themselves as little masters , travel for s me years over Germany , Switzerland , and vety often over France also . A great number of German workmen ia thus continually going to and from Paris , and nm&t of course , there beeome acquainted witb the political and social movements of tbe French working classes . One of these men , William Weitling , a native of Madgeburg in Prussia , and a slmpk journeymen tailor , resolved to establish communities in his own cenntry .
This man , who is to be considered as the founder of German Communism , after a few years' Btay in Paris , went to Switzerland ; and , whilst he wn . 8 working in Bome tailor ' s shop in Geneva , preached his new gospel to his fellow-workmen . He formed Communist Associations in all the towns aud cities on tbe Swiss side of the lake of Geneva , most « f the Germans who worked there becoming favourable to his views . Having thus prepared z public mind , be issued a periodical , tbe Young General ion , for a more extensive agitation of the country . This paper , although written for working man only , and by a working man , has from its beginning been superior to roost of tba French
Cc&j-munist publications , feven to Father Cabet ' s Popmuire It shows that its editor must fcava worked very hard , to obtain iha . t knowSedgc of history and politics , "Which a public writer cannot do -without , and which a ntplected edneatioc had left him deprived of . It shows , ot the same time , that Woitling was always struggling to unite bis various ideas and thoughts on society into a complete system of Communism . The Young Genera iion was first published in 1841 ; in the following year Weitling published a work : Guarantees of Harmony and Liberty , in which he gave a review of the old social system and the outlines of a new one . I shall , perhaps , some time give a few extracts from this b-ok .
Raving thus established the nucleus of a Communist party in Geneva and its neighbourhood , he went to Zurich , where , as in other towns of Northern Swltzsr-Jaad , some of his friends had already commenced to operate upon tbe minds of the working men . He now began toorgan-. zj his party in these towns . Under the name of Sieging Clubs , associations were formed for the discussion of Social re-organization . At the same time Weitlinz advertised his intention to publish a book , — The Gospel of th& Poor Sinners . Bat here the police inteiftred with the proceedings .
ARREST OF WEITLING—PERSECUTION AND FHOGRESS . In June last , Weitling was taken into custody , his papers and his book were seized , before it left the press . Tlie Executive of the Republic appointed a committee to investigate the matter , and to report to the Grand Council , the representativea of the people . Tbis report has been printed a f « w months since , it appears from it , that a great ruauy Communist associations existed in tvery part of Switzerland , consisting mostly of Gertnnn working men ; that Wfeitliutf was considered as the leader of ihe party , and received from time to time reports of progress ; that he waa in correspondence with similar associations . of Germans in Paris and London ; and that all thesesocittiea , being composed of men who - very often , changed their residence , ware bo many seminaries of ' ^ aaugerons and . Utopian doctrines , "
sending eut their elder members to Germany , Hungsria , and Italy , ana imbuing with their spirit every workman who cama within their reach . The report was drawn up by Dr . JBlnntschli , a man of aristocratic and fanatically Christian opinions ; and the whole of it therefore is written more like a party denunciation , than like a calm , official report . CmunuDism is denounced as a doctrine dangerous in the extreme , subversive of all existing order , and destroying all the sacred bonds of society . The pious doctor besides , is at & loss for words sufficientJy strong to express his feelings as to the frivolous blasphemy with which these infamous and Ignorant people try to justify their wicked and revolutionary doctrines , by passages from the Holy scriptares . Weitling aad hU party are , is thia respect , just like the Icarians in France , and contend that Christianity is Communism .
The result of Weitling ' a trial did very little to satisfy the anticipations © f the Zurich Government . Although Weitling and his friends were sometimes very iecautious in their expressions , yet the charge of high treason and censpiiacy against him could not be maintained ; the criminal eourt sentenced him te six months' imprisonment , and eternal banishment from Switzerland ; the n > emb&r 8 of the Zarich associations were expel ! od the Canton ; the report was communicated to the Governments of the other Cantons and to tbe foreign ambasnes ; but the Cemmunlfljfl ia other parts of Swit-
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zerland wero very little Interfered with . She prosecution came too late , and was too little assisted by the other Cantons ; it did nothing at all for the destruction of Communism , aad waa even favourable to it , by the great interest it produced in all conntries of the German tongue . Communism was almost unknown in Germany , but became by this an object of general attention . PHILOSOPHICAL eOMKINrSM . Besides this party there exists another in Germany , which ; advocates Communism . The former , being thoroughly a popular ivartyi will bo doubt very soon uniteall the working claaaea ot Geimany . The patty which I now refer to , is a philosophical one , nnconnected in its origin with either French or English Cominunists , and arising from that philosophy which , for the last fifty years , Germany has been so proud of .
THE HEGEtUKS . The political revolution of France was accompanied by a philosophical revolution in Garmany . Kant began it by overthrowing the system of Leibnitzian metaphysics , ¦ which at the end Of last century was introduced in all UnivetaitfeB of the Continent . Plchte and Schelling commenced rebuilding , and Hegel completed the new system ; * * The Young Hegelians of 1842 , were declared AtheiBts and Republicans ; the periodical © f the party , the "German Annals , " was more radical and open than before ; a political paper was established , and very soon the whole of the German liberal press was entirely in our hands . We had friends in almost every considerable town of Germany , we provided all the liberal , papers with the necessary matter , ai » d by this means made them out organs ; we inundated the country with pamphlets , and soon governed public opinion upon every question . A temporavy relaxation of thi ? censorship of the press
added a great deal to the energy of the movement , quite novel to a considerable part of the German public . Papers , published under the authorization of a government censor , contained things which , even in France , would have been punished as high treason ; and other ,. things which could not have been pronounced in - England , without a trial for blasphemy being the cornstquence of it , The movement WM 80 gudddn , bo rapid , so energetically pnraued , that the government as well as the public were dragged along with it for eome time . But , this violent character of the agitation proved that it was not founded upon a strong party among the public , aud that its power was produced by the surprise and consternation only of its opponent ? . The governments , recovering their senses , put a stop to it by a most despotic oppression of the liberty of speech . Pamphlets , newspapers , periodicals , scientific works were suppressed by dozens , aud the auitated state of the-country soon subsided .
THE COMMUNISTS . The princes and rulers of Germany , at the very moment when they believed to have put down for ever , Republicanism , saw tbo rise of Communism from the ashes of political agitation ; and this new doctrine appears to them even more , dangerous and formidable than that in whose apparent destruction they rejoiced . As early as autumn . 1842 , some of the party contended for the insufficiency of political change , and declared their opinion ro be , that a Social revolution based upon common property , was the only state of mankind agreeing with their abstract principles . But even the leaders of tho party , such as Dc . Btu&o Bauwr , Dr . Feuerbach , and Dr . Huge , were not then prepartd for this decided step . Tn < s political paper of the party , the Rhenish Gazette , published some pupirs
advocating Communism , but without tbe wished-for effect . Communism , hewever , was such a necessary consequence of New Hegelian philosophy , that no opposition could keep it down ; and , in the course ot this present year , the originators of it had tha satisfaction of seeing one republican after the other join their ranks . Besides Dr . Htss , one of the editors of the now suppressed Rhenish Gazette , and who was , in fact , the first Communist of tbe party , there are now a great many others ; as Dr . Ruge , editor of German Annals , the scientific periodical of the Youug He « euans , which has been suppressed by resolution of the German Diet ; Dr . Marx , another of tha editors of the Rhenish Ga-/ Kite ; Qforge Herwegh , the poet , whose letter to tbe King of Prussia was translated , last winter , by most of the Eugliab p apers , and others : ami we hope that the remainder of the Republican petty will , by-and-by , come over too .
CHARACTER OF THE GERMANS . The G-ermaus are ; i very diainteresttjd nation . If in Germany , principle cornea into collision with interest , principle will almost always silence the claims of interest . The same love of abstract principle , the same disregard of reality and Sblf-interest , which have brought the Germans to a state ot political nonentity ; these very same qualities guarantee the success of pbilosophic&l Communism in that country . It will appear very singular to Englishmen , that a party which aims at tbe destruction of private property , is chiefly mads up by those who have property ; and yet this is the caao in Germany .
PROGRESS OF GOHMUNISM . Thus , philo 9 opbical Communism may bv considered for ever established in Germany , notwithstanding the efforts of the governments to keep it down . They have annihilated the press in their dominions , but to no effect ; the progress party profit by the free press of Switzerland anrt France , and tbeir publications are oa < rx * avxlyv \ j viruwJnb ^ d in Gormat » y , as if . they Were printed in that country itself . All persecutions ami prohibitions have proved ineffectual , and will ever do so ; tbe Germans are a philosophical nation , and will not , can&ot abandon Communism , as soon as it Is founded upon sound philosophical principles ; chiefly if it fa deprived aa an unavoidable conclusion from their own philosophy .
Notwithstanding the persecutions of the Garmaa governments ( I understand that , in Berlin , Mr . E tgar Rauor is prosecuted for a Communist publication ; and in Suttgait another gentleman has been committed for the novel crime of " CoHununist correspondence !") notwithstanding this , I say , every necessary Btep is taken to bring about a successful agitation for Social Reform ; to establish a new periodical ; and to secure the circulation of all publications advocating Communism .
"A NIGHT WITH BURNS . " The following under the above head ia from Ainswoi'th ' s Magazine . A certain Andrew Horoer of Carlisle , took it into his head that ho was a poet . He wrote , and he would print : To carry his lauda . ble design into execution , he took a journey to Glasgow , and agreed with a printer and publisher . In returning from Glasgow ho found himself upon an evening in the ancient town of Ayr , and in the common room of the inn he forgathered with some halfdozen " . ranting , roaring , dashing young follows , foud of their glass and their joke . " " The night drave on ; with song and clatt < -r ; " and at last Andrew waa induced to lay a wager that he would beat a " poet lad" who lived near by . The poet lad was introduced , and—but wo will lot tho writer tell the rest : —
11 An epigram was tho subject chosen , because , as Andrew internally argued , ' it ' , is the shortest of all poems . ' In compUmi . nt to him , tha company resolved that his own merits should supply the theme . " * He commenced—* In seventeen hunder thretty- nine' — and ho paused . Ho chon said , ' Yo soe , I was horn in 1735 , [ the real date was some years earlier ] so 1 mak' that the commencemenV tie then took pen in hand , folded his paper wiih a conscious air of authorshjpi squared himself to the table , like one who considered it no trifle even to write a letter , and tlowly put down in good round hand , as if he had been making out a bill of parcels , the line—* In seventeen hunder fchretty-nine ;' but beyond this , after repeated attempts , he was unable to advance . The second line was the Rubicon he could not pass . ' f _ ...
" At last , when Andrew Horner reluotautly admitted that he was not quito in tho vein , tho pon , ink , and paperi were handed to his aatagonist- By him they were rejeoted , for he instantly gave the following , viva voce . — ' Ia seventeen hunder thretty-oine , The Deil gat stuff to mak' a swine , And pit it in a corner ; But , shortly after , changed his plan , Made it to something like a man , And called it Andrew Horner . '
•¦ Tne subject of this stinging stanza , had the good sense not to be offeudod with its satire , cheerfully paid the wager , set to for a night ' s revelry with his new friends , and thrust his poems between the bars of tho grace , when the sma' hours' came ou to four in the morning . As his poetic rival then kindly rolled np the hearthrug , in a quiet cotnerof the room , to serve as a pillow for the vanquished rhymester—then literally a carpet knigUt—the old man , better prophofc tbau poet , exclaimed , 'Hoot , mon , but ye'll be a greater poet yet !'
" Answer , O nations , whether the prediction was fulfilled ? In a few months after , a volume of poems was published from tho press of John Wilson , of Kilmarnock—the autbor " was a peasant by birih , a poet by inspiration . Coarse was the paper on which these poems were printed , and worn wa 3 the type . But the poems themselves were of that fare class which the world does not willingly let die . The fame of . their author has flown , far and wide , throughout the worid . His genius and his fate have become ' at once the glory and the reproach of bcotlanc . ' That author was the same who , in a sportive mood , made an epigram upon poer Andrew Horner . His flame was ROBERT BVRtiS . "
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i ifoaRAiN . —In the northern circuits a virulent and fatal disease exists &int > ag the cattle . One fanner has lost nicetesn milch cows and a Sue bull . The disease ia inflammation of the heart , of which the cattle die within eight hours after they are attacked . THE chimes of horse and sheep stealing have been considerably on the increase lately in Sussex , and several farmers have been great sufferers . ] Chinese Language is France—With a prompt ! wisdom and ready foresight a royal or * 1 onnance hae bean I issued in France , establishing a professorship of" tbe Chinese language in ! the school of the living oriental i tongues , and appointing M . Bazin to the chair . Sur&Iy ' the etudy of the Chinese ought to ba sedulously pursued in England . Young men intended for mercantile pursuits would do well to think of ifc I
KNJTtlNG AKD SHIBTlMG—It is in contemplation ' to establish societies for the distribution of pns ° s to ' farmers' wives and daughters , for proficiency in shirt making and stocking knitting , and other aceompMahoaeats more useful than prizsd in those degungiate day * . I Horse MAKXTRB . 4-Mr . Whitley , a writer on the application of geology to agriculture , states that a caro&se of a horse is equal to at least ten times ita weight of farmyard manure , and would prove much more valuable to the farmer , if converted into a compost , than if sold for the kennel . RaTaFI a—derived from res raki fiat : let the matter ba ratified . When the ancients concluded a bargain , they wore in tbe habit of opening the best wine in the cellar , and as they qiiaffed the nectar , ot pronouncing the words ; the last ;! two of which , with s tr fltng change , are now used jto designate a liqucure composed of brandy , augar , and Jf raits .
Lead Mine . —A valuable lead mine has lately been . discovered on the estate of Mr . Cole Hamilton , couniy Tyrone . We have seen a specimen of the ore , which is the sulphuretof lead , and may produce , perhaj-s , seventy per cent of tn ! e pure » etal . This is much iibova the usual average , and we hope that it may provo a mine ef wealth to tfeje country as well as to the possessor . — Dublin Literary Journal . Mothers . —How little do we appreciate a mother ' s teuderness while living f How heedless are we , ia childhood of vA \ her anxieties and kindness . BiU when she is dead and gone ; ' when tbe cares and coldness of tho world come withering on our hearts ; when we learn how hard it is to find tiue sympathy , Low fu « v love OB for ourselves '; how few will beWsad ua in our misfortune ; then it is we think of the mother we have lost !
Glasgow University . —The election otLoMReclor for the Glasgow University took place on Wednesday * Lord Eg'inton and Mr . Fox Mauie were the candidates . The latter Was elected by a large majority . Tue American Navy consists of ten ships of the line , all built and nearly finished , fourteen frigates of the first-class , two of the second , seventeen sloops , eight brigs , nine schooners , ; and Biz steamers of war carrying immensely long guns . ¦ " Jacks the Lad )"—I left' my old friend twisting his hemp ( who made me a bow at parting that would have done no discredit ! to the Court of Lmis le Grand , )
and strolled again to ! the harbour , where I saw La F ^ ine Amelia—the pleasure yacht of the < Jue ; en of France—a beautiful little schooner of most elegant Biiape , all satinwood arid gilding , manned by some of the finest and most Biiilor-iike looking feliows I ever aaw . Oae of her ctewl called out to an English Bailor , on the quay , who was ] eyeing the enffc with a critical and somewhat contemjptuous air . * ' I say , meesta : re , you Quin , has shea ship ' s likesees ? " "MyQiesu ?" sa'd Jack , " Vy , I shid be ashamed of hez M Jeaty if shed spit in such n thing . "—A Trip to Havre de Grace —Illuminated Mtioazine .
To Prevent Beeh from being Turned b . i Thunder , —Having ascertained tn-it it ia perfectly good , draw off entirely in pint pots . Then having collected an equal number of railway navigators , distribute accordingly . This will answer in the hottest summer . —Pwich . } War , —In a speech ; of a Eecbuano chief , he says—What is war ? War builds no towns—plauta no gardens— raiaea no children—haB no joys . What is war f it ib ( be world ' s destruction—it breaks in pieces the hearts of motherB , and causes fcho orphan to mourn .
Prejudice—I remember a man coratnjf to me with a doleful countenance , putting himself into many lamentable postures , gaping ns wide as he could , and pointing to his mouth , aa though he would say he couM cot speak . I enquired jof his companion vrhat was the matter ? And was informed , " he had fallen into tbe bands of the Turks , who had used him in a barbarous manner , and cut out ! his tongue by tb 8 rootf . ' I believed him . But when the man had had a cheerful cup , he could find hi « tongue as well m another . I rt&Vcttd , bow is it I co \« ld so readily believe that tale ? The answer was easy—V because it was told of a Turk . " — John Wesley . I
Two Children Burnt to Death . —Mr . Payne , City Coroner , held two ! iuqueats on Saturday , in the baaril-room of St . Bartholomew ' s HospitRl , on the bodies of two children , Of tbe respective ages of three and four years , -wfao tniofc their deaths by accidental burning , during the temporary absence of thtir parei 2 t 8 frcn home . Verdict , " | Accidental deuth . " Nunnery . —The Catholics are about to establish a nunnery in Nottingham , and have taken epacious premises in P-irlHment-street for the purpose . The nuns are to b » of tho order of ; t ' ao " Sisters of Charity , " and several of them ata BhoHVy expected from the neig ' abourtioocl of Birmingham . > J II BOROUGH TRIILOE , THB M VRDKS . ESS . —This unhappy woman , on whom sentence of death was passed by M > . Justice Etskine , at tbe Heieforrt Summer Asstzas , 1842 for the murder of her infant uas had her sentence cjninuibd to transportation for lfe .
Dreadful Acciden , t . —On Biitv . iday evening on inquust was bold at the sign of tbo Green G ite , in the Ctty-road , before Mr- B irkor and a jury from the neighbourhood , on the body of James Hurren , ugea 67 , who carried on business as a wholesale clotliiur in VVormwood-street , BiahopgRute , As JV . mes Harroii , porter to Me .-srs , C . itor aud VvWds , Iinendrapers oa Finsbury pavement , waa standing at his employers' dwr , at half-past eight o ' clock ou Friday ev ^ miuj , be saw a cart laden with tw « tuns ! of brewer ' s grains , and drawn by wo horses , who were' in a gallop , cainuij ; at aTapid . pace from tbo City-roadj t wards Coiewell-atreet , fallowed in the rear , at tbeklieUngo of fight OT ten yards , by tha driver , who was endeavouring to overtake it . At rais moment tho rti-ceastd was crossing the end of Cbisvwil-stniet fur Fitwbury-square , wiien the horses turned snji-p ' y into th . i street ; the deceased , seeing , tbx-m coming aiuinst hint , hesitatod , as if abou' to tata back , and htld up his h Jiris to stjp tbe horses ; but he
whs instantly knocked down , and the near waesl went over the ininaie of his bodj \ crui-bing in his riba . Re was raisad from the griuud by the witness aad othui persens and carried into the shop of Mr . Alfred Middleton , a surgeon in Finsbui-y-phce , on his passage to which he moved slightly , ' But expired the moment he got there . Kictiarci Gobby , the driver , in the service of ivlr . Divis , a cowfceeper iii Hosier-Iaue , Smitbdeld , now came up . and was taken into custody , by policeman Haines , 155 G , the horaea and cart bding stopped and token to tbe greeayard . j Q-. ) bby aubaiquontly underwont an examination at Worship-street PoHce-court , on tbe charge of manslaughter , but an inquest not having been held on the body , and tho ttVidentM not being complete against him , he w < S'reman
put iu motion . " } Civilisation of the { Greeks . —The Times be ring assured that " the Greeks ha < i made more rapid progress in education , oivihsstuoa , and wealth , tnan could have beeu reasonably expected " a corre&-poniient , who spent the muuius of February and March last in that country , confirms -the assertion : — " I can especially beat ; witness to their progress in education , and their exlriovdiaatj love of learning . I hh&il nave * forget hearvngjPiofessor O 30 piua ' s lecture on Grecian antiquities , in G-ieek . ami to Greek 3 , in the university of Athenn . Not tiiaj I understood much of what &o « aid ; but it was tha d ^ eo and eaqur atteution of the immense audience of all eges and classes , old aud young , from the veteran warrior with bis white
moustache , down to mere ] boys—rich an 1 poor ; from gentlemen of the modern school , aud chieftains iu their pictureaqna dresses , down : to the bare-footed peasantmany tuking notes , and M intelligently listening— it waa that whicb . summed and delighted ma . And I vias told that this " was the case with all the public lectures , which are open : to every body gratuitouoly . If it be a G stman ptofckaor lecturing , of cduvsa ia Gceek , en German metcyhyaics , it is just tue sametberu thby all are taking i » w , aad doing tbeir utra > st to get boraething from it i I venture to say , that tiisy will soon be one of the best educatad p ? opie iv Europe taking them as a body . Taere ara s&veral boukselleis ' ahops in Athens , full of . the cli »* U » aud a riair . g mcKSaro literature . Tbay have i&ag-uz . aes and several
newspapers admirably conducted . " The Dcc-The dogs ) by the Nil ; drink while running , to escape the crocodiles When those ot New Orleans wish to cross the Mississippi , they bark at the river ' s edge to attract the alligators , who are no sooner drawn from their scattered haunts ai . u concentrated on the spot , 'than the dogs set off at mil speed , and plunge in the water higher up the stream . An Esquimaux dog , thatiwas brought to this country wasgivsnto artifices which are rarely seen in the native Europeans , whoBe subsistence dees not depend on their own resources—strewing his food round him , and feigning sleep , in order to allure fowls and rats , which he ] never failed to add to his sior& . ~ Blair ' s History of . the Dog .
MARATHON . " Great king remember Athens ! " From this day Thy crouching slaves , each morn , shail need so more To bii thee think of fieri By the seashore Of Marathon the flashing sunbeams play On golden arms , the poujp of thy array , The gorgeous ranks that ? Datia leads to war . Hark 1 drowning in tlieit battle shout the toas Of the M ^ Wia , fiercely to the hay , With fiery speed , rush , t'wards their glittering foe , The iron ranks of Athens : on they pour Like ocean's billows when the north winds blow .
Tay Persians , like their foam , are swept before The charge . Rejoice , thou everlasting sea , Ye heavens lift up your voice , the earth . Is fte ?
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A Whai , b in the povnts , —During the foal mek one ot these monsters of tbe deep has been visiting one coast in search of herrings , its favourite food , and waa distinctly seen on Suuday morning in the Downs , sending up its natural fuontaina . Yesterday if ; was » eaa off Daver from the shore , and same fliea who were in a boat , just as it was approaching , had a namm escape of an upset ; but they luckily got on board a galiiot , whicb was passing at tho time , and saved themselves from a watery grave . The finny giant is snppnswi to bs upwards of sixty feet in length . The herring fl-iiery ia progressing very slowly on this part of the coaat . — Dover Telegraph .
Instant Deaih from Swallowing a Pea . — On Tuesday last , the inhabitants of Kitkalady were thrown fcito a state of extreme excitement by a report that Anne Henderson , a flue girl of about six years of age , was suffocated by swallowing a psa- It appsara that she was playing with her class-mates , and whilst running somewhat smartly bad thrown a pea into he * mouth , which unfortunately entered the wiciptpSi Every assistance was rendered , but it became too evident that tbe tide of life wag ebbing fast , and that lha fn > sigciacanfc pea waa not top iasiKUiacautta prove the Itistrumenfcof death . Her distracted patents were Bcarssljr on the spot ere she who was only five murares before all life and harmless glee was numbered with the dead . Drs . Smith aud Young arrived oa the scot not long after the occurrence , but could do nothing . Tho tetter gentleman yesterday made an incision in the windpipe , and found the fatal pea had lodged there ; it ha < i not descended very daep . It was a boiled one , an > i of a very small size . —Scotsman .
Economy . —Economy should be practised ia all thirds , bur . more particularly in matters of meciuine ,, The restoration to health has generally bten purchased at a costly price ; and certainly if Lj » lth could not bo procured at any other rate , a costly price should not be an obj . ot of scrupta . But where is the wisdom , where is the economy in spending vast 6 um 3 on a physician ' s attendance , when sound health and long life may be ensured by the cheap , safe , and simple remedy of Parr's Life Pills . Rcbbkbt at Haistead Chuhch , —On Thursday morning some persons broke into Halstead Church , and broke open several boxes containing small sums of money , which th «? y took away . A panel at cb © back of the altar was also forced down by rhem « their search being evidently for the communion plate .
Keal Heroism . —An extraordinary instance of presence of mind , Jately occurred a : tiia qaarrkv in the Ross of Mull , Argylesiiire , now wrought for the pier in connexion with the Skerryyore lighthouse by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses . On the 17 th ult as Mr . Charles Barclay , the foreman of tlie quarries , was engaged ia removing a splinter of stone from the face of a block of ten tons wi-t ^ ht , which lay on aa isclined ledge above him , the block slid forward and enclosed his left hand , which s ? as bruised in such a manner that two of' his miJdle fingers were destroyed , and the sharp points of rock cam- - in contact at tha palm of the hand , so tha-t it was ftcld completely fast , as in a vice . In ibia dreadful situation , Mr . Barclay ' s great presence of
jnind and strength of nerves proved th © means of saving his life aud those of the men that were along with him . The first impulse of tho men was to fetch a lever to raise tho s . ono and liberate the prisoner ; and had Mr . Barclay ' s presence of rmnd des-rted him , or bud he fainted under the rxeruciating torture he endured , this rasb . purpose would have bo ' n executed , and the stone would Lava launched him forward and crushed him aad his com rades beneath its mass . He , however , was enabled to direct their proceedings with a wonderful degree of composure , and , after fruitless attempts to raise the block . Mr . Barclay resolved to cut ont the stone of
ro ' un ^ his hand as the only means escape . This painful operation occupied about twenty minutes , during which time the tortures he endared did not prevent his working with the remaining hand ia efrecchig bis liberation from his exraor « inary captivity . Mr . Barclay afterwardp walked without assistance to the neighbouring village of Banessan , two miles off , where Dr . Diarmid , a gentleman who had lately returned from the Arctic expedition under Ross , removed the shattered bones . Next day Dr . Campbell , who acts aa surgeon to the Serryvore works , arrived from Tyree , an ^ conveyed his pationt to the barracks at Hynish Workyard , where he is fast recovering .
A Murrain . —As a proof of the alarming nature of the disease among cattle and of its extent in out neighbourhood , we may state—and we have the statement on unquestionable authority—that , in a district of eight or ten miles round Derby * the loss of cattle from this cause has been something like £ 2 , 000 within the last year or fifteen months . Of course , the whole loss cannot be ascertained ; bufc we have seen a list of 227 head of cattle lost by the disease during this time , belonging to farmers residing near as , which , valued at £ 8 each , is pretty neatly this BUDS . — Derby Mercury .
Wonderful Delivext . —A man , named Mitchell , who resides at llmiascer , having been suspected of stealing some geese , at Chiilington , the constables were despatched to search his house , having gained admittance , they found Mrs . Mitchell , according to her own account , in a very delicate condition , in fact , on the eve of confinement . Medical assistance in this «* bo , aa i » . all similar pases , was inquired and , of course , soon obtained . Oa the arrival of the doctor the good lady was assisted to burn oat and stand up , when , as if by magic * and to tbo astouishwiut of all present , not excepting the doctor , she was delivered of two very clean picked geese . The business was soon over , and the patient immediately became convalescent , and was enabled on Monday , ( prepared , we presume , for another confinement though of a very different nature , in company with her husband ) , to pay a visit to the honourable bench of magiscrates at Chard , to reoeive their congratulations on this wonderful delivery . —Sherborne Journal .
War Against Knowledge !—Serial publications of a iiteiary and scientific nature cannot now be sent by post , without the full charge , even , if stamped . Au experiment was recently made which sets the question at rest . A new literary periodical , printed on a scamped ' sheet , similar to the regular newspapers , passed through the post office for two buccessiy <; weeks , wImh its transmission was interdicted , the Postmaster-General conceiving that the privilege derivable from the stamp is to bo coasidered as applicable only to newspapers . " —[ A . wise ami jasfc Government would aid the circulation of knowledge , and the consequent mentsl culture of the people by every means at its command . Our Government ia neither '» hence it trasimeis by stamp acts , po 3 t-offioe regulations , fcc , the circulation of mind ' s productions . But we " Will war
With all who war with , thought ;" and to the best of our power aid in the annihilating of a " system" which " loveHi darkness rather than li tfht , " aud keeps in ignorance the enslaved ' many , " as the only means of upholding the " privileges" of the tyrans" few . " - £ ? . If , S . ] The Queen ' s Visit to Sib R . Peel . —Ik is her Majesty ' s intention to honour Sir Robert Peel witb a visit &k his residence at Drayton Manor on Tuesday , the 28 ; b insi . Her Majesty will proceed from Windsor Castle to Watford , and thence by railway to Drayton Manor , to ramain till Friday , the 1 st of December ,, when her Majesty will go on a visit ;
to his Grace the Duke of Devonshire . On Monday , the 4 ih of December , the Queen will honour the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir CasUe , and return to Windsor Castie on the 7 th . H < . r Majesty will be accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; and we learn that her Majesty the Queen Dowager has signified to Sir Robert Peel her intention to join the RoysJ party at Drayton Manor on the 29 ih inst . ; so that the Premier will have the distinguished honour of receivifig in his house at the Bame time his Sovereign and her illustrious Consort , and her M .-jdSty the Queen Dowager , with their respective puiios and attendants . — Standard .
. A Bbace ov Fools —Duel . —A hostile meeting took place on the sand near Haverfordwest , on Tuesday se ' nnight between Captain B- y , an officer vvho very gallantly distinguished himself in the wars in Aaghanistau and Soinde , and a Mr . T . j -8 , in consequence of some language spoken by the latter highly derogatory to the most ilinstriou 3 parsonage in the realm , in the presence of the captain , who resented it by a personal attack upon the disloyal subject , and a meeting ensued , ia which 2 vir . J s was very severely injured , so much so , trial kar life is dispaired of . .
Melakcholy Affair . —On Tuesday , a rumour obtained extensive circulation in Marjlebona that Mr . Joseph flume , M . P ,, had oa Monday made an . aioempt to commit suioids , by precipitating himself from one of ihe windowB of his residence , BryanstoG-&quare . During the latter part of that day and the . whole of yesterday the house of the Honourable Member was literally besieged by the calls . ' of his political as well as personal friends . The rumour , as regards Mr . flume himself , proved erroneous ; but an occurrence had taken place of an equally serious and afflicting character to the Honourable Geatleman's son-in-law , Mr . Charles Gubbins , who is the brother of her Grace the present Duchess of St . Alban ' s . Oa Monday morning , shortly before
five o ' clock ^ the screams '' of- Mrsi Gubbins awoke Mr . Joseph'Hume and his family , sjadifc waa then discovered that the unfortunate gentleman aad thrown himself from his bed-tooiij window , oh the third floor , on to the pavement . Haying been conveyed into the house in an insensible atate » , Dr . ArootS , of Bedford-square , Mr . Listpn , and several other omiaeut members of ihe medical profession , were sent for , and promptly arrived , vrhea it was discovered that Mr . Giibbms has sustained a corapouad fracture of one of his thighs in two places , and chat his other kg was broken * Mr , Gnbbina was vieiteti two or three times throughout yesterday by hia medical attendants , and but very faint hopes are entertained of hia ultimate recovery . The sad event has thrown the family ; of Mr . Hume and his Grace tbe Duke of St . Aiban'd into a state of great affliction , j
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Progress of Literature ik .. Italy . —Dunne the year 1842 there have been printed in Italy 3 , 042 books ( the number printed in 1841 was 2 999 ) : of these 3 » 042 1769 , or about three-fifths , were published in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom ; of the remainder , 508 appeared in Piedmont ; 23 o in the grand duchy of Tuscany ; 216 in the papal states ; 174 in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies ; 19 in the duchy of Modena , and 11 in the state ot Lucca . Of thesa works a considerable portion were translations *
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ggp'Owrag to a press of engagements we have been unable even to look at the works noticed last week as received fox Koview . We will bring up arrears nest week . Publications Received— "An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamtet ; " Temperance Herald , " § c , &c .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 25, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct509/page/3/
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