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0 J THE DAYS OF BOMAK CE ABE NOT OVER . ©! the days of romance are not over : Though the knight may no mote 1 » the lover , "" There are bosoms that bea > With as iervent a heat As the shield or the corslet could corer . Though the banner , all t&tter'd and gory , Bnt -waves o'er tbs host of » story , There are fields -where the prowess Of strength may endow na With prondei and holier glory } Though the sullen and savage retainer May not mount with the lord of the manor , There are lands -we may whet , There are foes to be met In the cause of the helpless complainer .
Where jn death the -wan father is sleeping , And the yonng -widow'd mother is -weeping , . As her infants look np , When they empty the cup , "Where their fMrrUrnng pittance -was steeping © 3 who wonld sot rouse into valour , When he sees them decline in their squalor , Till the infant -will £ ie , And the young mother ' s eye Glares wild o'er the wees thai befal her I For where is the heart that is laden With the love of some gentle-eyed maiden , Cin forget that that mother Was the bride of his brother ; Per the bloom of htr fair cheek -was fading l
Then awake . ' O , awake bom your slumber . ' Thou host -whom the eya cannot number ; And let the bold brands Flash bright in your hands , And shake off the dust of their liftnber ! We -will turn from the lies that confound us—We will -wrench off the chains that have bound ns—We -will up to the battle Where the -war-missiles rattle , And the death hail comes tn »« iT > g around us J * * * ? Then ihe cbivalronB knight -with his pages Shall step from the tinsel of stages , And his arms shall be strong lo rescue from -wrong , And his fame shall be treasured for ages . Cork Examiner .
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TAIPS MAGAZINE . "We have here the number for October of the above popnlar periodical , and a very good number it is . The Srs ! article is—what 13 now nnnsnal with Taitpolitical , entitled " The Close of Many Sessions . " It contains some good matter , reminding ns of the time wsen , with ihe erratic Harry Brougham ' s head upon its cover , it did good service in the " cause of Iteform , ' *' in our young days , when WilL the Fourth was King . " The writer hits hard at' poor Sir Bobert ; yet confesses that the " do nothing policy , " zf by him adopted , was tot by him originated ; bnt btfore his return to power wa 3 faithfully acted np 10 by the Whigs : umil at last— " it is every day more evident , thai nt > on tha present system
the people cannot long be kep' quiet , altbongh contentment under legiskure n . jo > iice , under selfish , da . s Government , conla be a desirable state for any people calling themselves free . A dreadful social crisis , or prompt measures of reform , too bold and sweeping to be seriously entertained either by the present administration or its predecessor , appears tne only alternative before the country . Public confiaVnc ? is for the 'time completely destroyed . ETery cla-sis uneasy , and eiiher suffering from the actual pressure of poierty , or from vague tears of coming dangers and changes . " Speaking of ihe Premier , the writer .-ays : " he has fritterea sway the opportunity ( of doing the work of reformation ) * xact ] y as the Whigs did one more golden ; and with it any reputation for great slatesmanscip which he ever ecjojed . It is now evident
that he is no : the ' Coming Man f and as no one can tell where ibat plceois is to he looked for , it 13 full time tiat tee people set about working out their deliverance by their own earn- st and unaed tfTons . " The wrier ai the same lime dees justice to the "Whig fack-n . "It wa =, with a few exceptions , from no abstract love 01 a free and broadly-based leprescttaiioii of the people that the Whigs became all at once violent reformers . They longed for power and i ^ lace , tailed their hook with Parliamentary Reform , and-havinj ? caught their gudgeon , soon showed how very small was the final measure of reform which they deemed stfetient , and how identical is the policy of Whigs and Tories when in power , and their selfish intere-ts and elementary feelings of caste at all times . " The writer adds that u Peel ias sunk , Russell has noi _ risen in pnblic estimation ; the country is sick of Whi ^ gery . "
** The Queen ' s visit to Frace , " is a bit of gc-ssip , which , however , well shews up the coin , h ^ ariiess , ignorant , exclusive Epirit of the Brhish Court . " On a rectc : occa _ -ion , ibr instance , Gudin , a master and commzrdirbi the French rsvy , as well as eae of the first famil-es in the world , was refused access to the feres of Buckingham Palace , after ecjoyine as an honrn' -t d j . Bfil , those o / Lonia Philippe , and Nicholas L . on ihe grounds flint lie urns an -artist !! : " We ar ^ to : d 100 , ** that LaBC > eer , who has enriched the Rojal Gallery with some of his choicest picture .-, p 2--5 c > weeks together at -Windsor Castle , without further notice vouchsafed 1 dm than to a corporal of Life Guards f' We suppose the Queen is too busy with her pet monkeys , and the Prince with th ? inmates of hi 3 kennels to pay attention to ffien oj s-u'as . Well does Beranger sicg : —
* " Yes make a king , O make a king I " Mrs . lore's tale of " The Smuggling Dogs of th « Belgian frontier" is brought to a coiidnsion . It wffl repay perusal . "We have read -with mnch pleasure " The Roman Lyrists , 2 * o . 1 , " in which is given a short biographical sketch of Catullns , accompanied by translations of several of fais poems . The working man Who has a taste for " immortal verse , " but to whom circumstances has denied the education which would allow him to read the bards of " other days" in their name language , will find in these translations a rich treat , second only to that of reading the poet in his ** classic" costume . Horr-son continues his " Reminiscences of Sir Walter Scott , " the principal part of which is taken Dp with a gossip aboui ghos ^ F . Passing over these u shadows" we quote painfnl " realities . "
" This -was the year of the mock rebellion in the West , snd the ririnnlEh ofBonnymuir . Sir Walter was BeriocilT alarmtd .
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" Although in the confidence of the Tory faction , I cannot think that he was in the secret ; for be believed the business real His heart would have revolted at tho base plot-of getting up a mock rebellion in order to support a corrupt ministry at the expense of blood . He lamented the fate of the sufferers ; for in such cases , he foresaw that much Innocent as well u guilty blood would be shed ; nor did he approve of the execntionof Hardie and Baird at Stirling . ' But the law could not save them , ' said he ; ' they were taken with arms in their hands , fighting against the king ' s forces . ' " There is at present a monument akcut to be built by subscription to their memories / as having died martyrs in the cause of freedom .
" I mentioned th « horror which was felt by the people at the execution of the poor , old , half-witted man Wilson , in Glasgow , who was incapable of forming any plot ; that , when apprehended , Wilson was found thatching a house ; and that the only crime laid to bis charge was carrying bread and cheese to seme meeting of weavers on the C&thkin MHr , in his own neighbourhood . At his execution , he wore the same wooden clogs in -which he -was apprebendod . When the hangman was about to fasten the rope round bis neck , poor Wilson said ' It is impossible : ye can never be in earnest to hang ma that never did ill to ony body V After having hung some time , a person in a mask sprung on the scaffold , and cut off the head , in order that nothing might be wanting to complete the horrible farce . It was / said Sir Walter , ' a fearful business , and carried Biucb too far . "
It was indeed a "fearful business ! " but , Eternal Jnstice ' be praised , never be it forgotten that a righteons retribution fell upon at least one of the ** corrupt ministry , " the Jf ever ( eneughj lamented Castlpreagh , Whose pen-knife slit a goose quill to'ther day ;" the conscience-haunted wretch , wlo cut his own tkroat at North Cray in Kent . May the only good deed of his whole life be imitated by all like him ! From a very excellent review of u De Custine's Empire of the Czar , " we shall hereafter give a few exf-acts illustrative of life in Rns .-ia . The hideous despotism of the Autocrat is exhibited in vivid colours by one who is no friend to democracy . " Puffs and Poetry" is rich and racy . We would fain have transferred the whole article to our columns , but this would be unjust ; we must , as Tail says , ? whet enriosity , " not attempt to " satisfy it . " Take the following specimens : —
" Some people are fond of excursions into the realms of old romance , with their I » auncelots and Guenevers ; their enchanted castles , their bearded wizards , ' and such odd branches of learning . -There needs a winged griffin , at the very least , to carry them out of the every tiay six-and-eightpenny world , or the whiza of an Excalibur to startle their drowsy imaginations into life . The beauties and the wonders of the universe died for them Borne centuries ago : they -went out with Friar Bacon and the invention ef gunpowder . Praised be Apollo !
this is not our case . There ia a smatch of poetry , to our apprehension , in almost everything . We have detected it pushing its petals forth from the cusIb of a barrister ' s wig , and scented its fragrance even in the columns of the London Gazelle . The deep poetic voice That hourly speaks -within as * is never silent . lake Signor Benedick , it ' will still be talking . ' " What will the advertising world give to secure our services ? Warren ' s bard is
dust—Warren ' s Japan , and Day and Martin ' s jet , Can trouble aim no longer—Biah's Shelley is , like his lotteries , but a memory . The world is all before ns , and we are before the -world . — We are ready to idealize British Brandy , or Grocer ' s Port to any extent—so we be not asked to drink them . Dust-pans , Balsamic Pill , Jupes , Detector Locks , Sicilian Cream , Mosley ' s Pens , Aerothermic StoTes , Patent Starch—nothing can come amiss to a goose-quill like ours . " Ton think we are joking—not a bit of us . Assuredly the thing is to be done . Tis as easy as lying / A pleasant exercise of the fancy over our morning ' s coffee -will turn you off a panegyric that will get your shelves cleared of your wares , though they were ten times the rubbish they are .
JCPITEB XVD THE INDIAN ALE . " Take away this clammy nectar !" Slid the king of G-adB and men ; " Never , at Olympus' table , Let that tr&sb be served again ! Bo , LJanus , thon , the beery ! Quick—invent some other drink , Or , in a brace of shakes , them standest On Cocytus' sulphry brink !" Terror shakes the limbs of Bacchus , Paly grew his pimpled nose , And already in his rearward Felt he Jove's tremendous tees ; When a bright idea struck him" Dash my thyrsus . Ill be bail—For you never were in India—That yon know not Hodgson ' s Ale j
• ' Bring it } " quoth the clond-compeller ; And the wine-god brought the beer" Port and Claret are like water To the noble stuff that's here !" And Sarurnius drank a-d nodded , Winking with his lightning eyes ; And amidst the constellations Did ibe staT of Hodgson rise l " We feel tempted to make trial of the classical style . It always tells well in advertisements . People like to be flattered byiappeals to their classical knowledge—or ignorance , -we suall not Bay which . Let us see I We D * vb it—and here goes in the divint stars * of Goethe ' s Bride of Corinth : —
TABQX 3 IN AND THE AUGUB . Gingerly is good king Tarquin shaving , Gently glides the rssir o ' er his chin , Hear him standb a grim Hsruipex Taving , And with frantic mean he pitches in Church-Extension hints , Till the monarch pqnints , Snicks his cheek , and swears—a deadly sin ! " Jove confound thee , thou bare-legged impostor . ' Prom my dressing-table get thee gone ! Dost thon think my flesh is double Glo ' ster ? There again ! That cat was to the bone I Get ye from my sight , 111 believe you right , When my razor cuts that sharping hone . ' "
Thus spoke Tarqnin with a deal of dryness ; But the Au ? ur , eager for his fees . Answered , — " Try it , your Imperial Highness , Press a little harder , if you please ; There ! The deed is done !" Through the solid stone Went the steel as glibly as through cheese . So the Augur toncbed the tin of Tarquin , Who suspected some celestial aid ; Bnt he wrone'd the blameless Gods ; for hearken ! Ere the monarch ' s bet was rashly laid , With his saarching eye Did the priest espy Bodger s name engraved upon the blade . " " Virginia Hams" is capital ; so is " To persons about to marry , " and " Paris and Helen . " But here comes the most popular character of the day , " Old Parr . "
" We aTe almost afraid to trnst ourselves among the advertisementa of pills ^ nd lotions , so infinite be they in their numbers and fascinations . For our own parta , we cannot conceive why anybody dies in such a world of specifics as that we live in . Our pen hovers over 1 Mrs . Johnscn's American Soothing Syrup . ' Something afu-r the manner of Barry Cornwall wonld be appropriate . But there aTe * Kearesley ' B Original Widow Welch's Female Pills , ' irresistibly forcing themselves upon ns . Widow Welch ! The Original Widow Welch ! The subject is too inviting . We could cover a page t * ith it in the style of Sttrne ; knt , as we cannot afford this space , let ns see what can be said of PABR'S LIFE PILLS .
TVaa in 'he town of Lubeck A hundred years ago , An oid nian walked into the church Wi \ h beard as -white as snew ; Ytt were his cheeks not wrinkled , Nor dim hia eagie eye : There ' s many a knight that steps the street ilisht wonder , should he chance to meet That mien erect and high . When silenced was the organ , Ai * d hushed the vespers loud , Ths Sacristan approached the sire , And drew him from the crowd" There ' s something in thy Tisage Oa -which I dare not look . And -when I rang the passing-bell , A tremaur that I dare not tell 3 Jy vkry vitals shook . "'
" Who art thon , awfnl stranger ? Oar ancient annals say , That twice two hundred years ago , Another passed this way , Like thee ib face and feature ; And , if the tale be true , Tis writ that in this very year Again the strangtr shall appear , — Art thou Tfce Wandering Jew ?" " The Wandering Jew ? thou dotard ;" The -wondrous phantom cried" Tis several centuries ago Since that poor stripling died J He would not use my nostrums—See , sbaveliDg , here they are J These put to flight all bnman ills , These conquer death—unfailing pills ! And I ' m the inventor , PaKB !"
" This—enclosed in a letter from the sacristan of the ballad , wiih a statement , that be felt himself growing so much yonncer every day by the use of the pills , that he expectxd he would soon have to leok out for a nurse to snctle him—would tell ameztngly before the usual * price Is 1 H . 23 9 d , and family boxes , lls each . ' Family toses ! A flieside of ilethaselahs .
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" We have hitherto dealt chit fly in the discursive and lyrical style : but the epigrammatic ipight be turned to equal account . This would suit particularly for advertisements by plain cooka , and housemaids , with a two-years' character from their last place . Take as a specimen : —
A SERIOUS FOOTMAN . Wants a place , a lad , who's seen Pious life at brother Teszle ' s , Used to cleaning boots , and been Touched with grace and had . tbe measles . " This for the advertisement aheet of the Congregational Magazine . In odd corners of the Morning Post we occasionally see hints like the following , pui in more circuitous language : — Wants a place , as housemaid , or Companion to a bachelor Up in years , and who'd prefer A person with no character ; A female , who in this respect Would leave him nothing to object ''
" ExcnriBons in the West of Ireland" contain some good sketches of real life . We have only room for the following extract , vividly descriptive of the state of things produced by misgovernment in . too many parts of that country : — " The immediate approach to Galway is a reproach to it ; it would be , indeed , to Timbucteo . It winds over a bleak and ugly hill , flanked fey a dirty pool , which is all mud unless when the tide is full ; and it passes through a long defile of the most wretched and filthy liovels . The inhabitants of this outlet are chit fly 1 fishermen , whose wires and children seem to have no occupation but to squat about the doorB in a state of loathsome laziness . The dens consist , for the most
part , of a single toosb of very email dimensions for each family . Light and air are permitted to come in when the door happens te be open ; but , at all other times , are hermetically excluded . Of furniture they have none ; rarely a table , more rarely still , a chair . The floor on which they sit , and in a corner of which they strew down their ( not ) lonely pillow , " is mud—dry enough in fair weather , but through * the winter months of about the same consistency with the street outside ; for although , the light and breath of heaven are skilfully kept out , the rain is not . It comes dripping through the sooty thatch , or flowing in tiny rivulets , enriched by liquid exudations from the dung heaps . Moreover , those same heaps are , in all weathers , more prodigal of ammonia than an agricultural economist could at all approve of , or a mere
unchemical fellow , who loves to poke bis nose into queer odd places , take any pleasure in . The annual rent extorted for one of these styes is forty shillings ; an amount sufficient , -with a week's labour of the family , to complete the whole building from the foundation . The persons who traffic in this sort of house property are not the lords cf the soil . They belong rather to the pave , being generally low men , who , in defiance of the subletting act and its clauses , parcel out iheir leasehold tenements thus for the reception of the poor . But although tbe landlords do not condescend to deal in such dismal holes , they have provided too many candidates for them ; the demand having greatly increased with the land-clearing system , which has been carried on for some years in Ireland . The outcast population of the fields have been driven into the towns , where starvation and
•• Fretting grief , the enemy of life , " make them ready marks for infectious diseases ; and thousands upon thousands have perished , unpitied and unrelieved , in those hovels . " This number has some good notices of the new novels . That of the " Stage Coach" will do not a little to ensure for it the patronage of the public . In conclusion , we can recommend this number of Tait to yon , " gentle reader , " as an excellent shilling's-worth for your shilling . THE NEW AGE . Cleave , London .
This is the title of a monthly publication , price 2 d . In our last paper appeared an advertisement of the present month ' s number , which contains , among others , articles on "Association , " " The necessary co-operation of both sexes for human advancement , " " The truth of the Sabbath , " &c , &o . This publication is tho organ ( as iis second name bespeaks—Concordium Gazette J of a small but " sacred band " of practical philosophers who by " association" , or co-operation of united labour and t qual enjoyments , are labouring to convince the old world of its errors in perpetuating its cannibai system of divided and
competitive interests . It is in this sense we use the word practical as applied to our friends ; for with some of their practical views we by no means coincids ; very likely because we don ' t understand them . Be that as it may , we have no hesitation in wishing them success , and in calling on the public to read their Gazette and judge for themselves . " Prove all things , hold fast that which is good , " say we . We should mention an article headed "Fruit Rooms " which recommends the establishment in London of Refectories where fruit could be supplied for the refreshment of the public . The article thus concludes : —
" In sober and practical verity , we do believe that Fruit Booms , if opened by prudent and competent persons , in the Beigbourhood ol the Bank or of Charing Cross , would be as beneficial to those who opened them as healthful and delightful to these who frequented them . The capital necessary to establish one would pot be large . Periodicals and newspapers might be enjoyed as comfortably and elegantly in these arbours of Pomona as in a cigar divan , a coffee-room , or a West-End Club . They : would be more fiagTant and becoming resorts for ladies than the shopB of the restaurateurs . Tbeir business seed not to be confined to tbe summer or autumn months . Winter supplies foreign fruits , oranges , figs , grapes , limes , all that
* By frugal storing firmness gains To nourish , and sup&tfiuous moist consumes . ' " Here 13 a suggestion we should like to see taken up , and which -we have no doubt will yet be done The man who has made it is a public benefactor , though the publio may not be aware of it . To our readers we say " buy the book , " and do all you can to help on the New Age , when oppression and war , and ignorai . ee and crime , and all the miseries of the present system shall be known no more .
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Carlisle . —Important Dfchjon in the Revision of the Carlisle Burgess List . —After the passing of the Municipal Reform Act , the Whig party , who were then popular in the oountry , teok every means to make the Curgess lists as extensive as possible , by placing all occupiers of houses upon the rate-books ; so that the overseer , in making out the burgess list , might not overlook those occupiers whose landlords paid the poor-rate . Thus a very popular franchise was established ; but no sooner ¦ was it exercised against the Whig party , than they wished , and actually set about curtailing tho very franchise which they had previously established . Wo shall give an example as an illustration of what we have been stating . In Botchertjate Ward , the
Burgess list , immediately after the passing of the Municipal Reform Act , contained upwards of six hundred names ; but no sooner was the franchise exercised against the Whig party , than the list was reduced to the incredible small number of about one hundred . This was certainly done by the overseer ; bnt we have little doubt , that it was either ordered , or suggested , by the Whig party ; however , it was done ; and bad tbe people not resisted this inroad , the Whigs , as a party , would have had it in their power , to return , as councillors , whoever they thought proper . The ground on which the overseer acted , wasjihat all persons not paying rateB directly , had no right to have their names placed upon the rate-book ; consequently , would not be put upon the Burgess List . Now as many landlords of property
pay the poor-rate for their tenants , and receive it back in the shape of rent ; those tenants according to this rule laid down by the sapient overseer , were to be deprived of the right conferred upon them by the legislature . It has been decided , however , that except tbe overseer place all the names of the occupiers of a propertyupon the rate-book , that the rate is an illegal rate , and ^ inay be successfully appealed against . This we consider a most important decision , and if acted upon will greatly enlarge the Borgets lists in different parts of the country . Let any occupier of a house or tenement , whose name is not upon the . rate-book , claim to have his name inserted ; and , if the overseer neglect , or refuse , let him appeal to the mavor and assessors -who must consider his claim the same as if his name was there .
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Daniel O'Connell , —Mr , O'Connell was born in the year 1775 . In heiKht the learned gentleman measures about 5 feet 9 inches . Repeal Ballads—Three Kepeal ballad singers were apprehended the other day in Athlone , for aingiug a ditty ; to the air of " 98 " notoriety , " Shan Von Vaoht ;" but were diacfeargvid on engaging not to repeat the offence . Paris is li ghted every evening by 13 , 000 lamps of which 5 894 are supplied with gas , and 7 , 321 with oil . Compassion to Othebs . —If a man be compassionate towards the afflictions of others , it shows that hia heart , is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when It gives tke balm .-lord Bacon .
A Lady ' s Letter —George Selwyn once afilrraed in company that no woman ever wrote & letter without t P " ^ " ?* ' " My next letter shall refute you , said Lady Q— . Selwyn soeu after received a letter from her Ladyship , when after her signature Btood— " P . S . Who was ri ght now , you orl ? ¦• EAaTHQUAKE . —The Gazette des Polestes states , that the shock of an earthquake was felt at CarJstad on the 14 th ult ; fortunately no injury was sustained . ¦ DRUAiivyh Fire . —The village of Oberegeof # ental , says a Vienna journal , was nearly destroyed by fire on the 23 rd ult Out of 200 houses , of which the village consisted , 160 were burned to the ground . Taste . —The Courtier Francais says , that a young Englishwoman , -who is yet to bo married , purchased for BOt ., at the auction of the Glandier , the glass in which Madame Laffarge save her husband his drink .
THE Weather in France . —Tbe weather is extri-ni-ely inclement at Paris at the present ; it causes great apprehensions , the vintage being now near at band . History . —Documents , relative to the flight of Louis XVI , to Varennes , have been lately discovered in the Register-office of the Court Royale of Orleans . They art composed of all the papers used at the trial of M . M . de Bouille , de KHnglin , de Choiseul , de Dauia , le Goguelat , and others , which took place at Orleans . This vast collection of papers consist of letterB , examinations , and depositions , and is calculated to throw a new light on the historical facts of that day *
Odd Fellowsh if . —Accredited number of members , 400 , 000 ; capital invested in government securities , £ 200 , 000 ; floating capital , £ 20 , 000 exclusive of buildings ; printing machinery , foundry , library , its . £ 10 , 000 . Some of the '' Diad Weighis—The number ol soldiera receiving pensions from Cd . and 9 d . to Is . per diem is upwards of 50 , 060 . , A Youno Bride . —Some time ago a marriage was about to be celebrated between a man of eighty-seven years of age , and a woman of seventy-seven . Ou reaching the ckurch , however , the lady unexpectedly refused to go through the ceremony on the ground , " that her intended bridegroom was much too old for her . "
A Professional Man—The keeper of a Scotch ale " bouse , having on his sign , after his name , " M . D F R S / a physician asked him how he presumed to affix these letters to bis name . " Why , sir , " said the publican , " I Lave as good right to it as you have . " " What do you mean , you scoundrel ? " replied the doctor . " I mean sir , " returned the other , " that I was Drum Major of the R > yal Scots Fusileere . " Lashbd to the Helm—A gentleman once said he should like to see a boat full of ladles adrift on the ocean to see what course they would steer . A lady in the room replied " That ' s soon told—they would steer to the Isle of Man to be sure /'
Liberality of Landlords (?)—At tbe Duke of Buccleanch ' a recent rent , audit for the district of Eskdale , his Grace ' s chamberlain returned a discount of 10 per cent to all the tenants ; Sir Alexander Johnston , of Carnsallach , returned 15 per cent . ; Mr . Djvid Welsh , of Collin , 20 per cent ; and Captain M'Inray , of Arnhill Kincardineahire , 10 per cent ; and this when the harvest is most abundant Can there be a doubt that these tenants are over-rented , aud ought not their rents to be at once equitably reduced ? 41 Up in the morning ' s no' for me . "— " Why on earth don ' t you get up earlier , my boh ? ' said an anxious father to his sluggard boy , " don't you see the flowers even spring out of their beds at tbe early h mi of dawn ? " Yts , father , Baid the boy , "I see they do , and I would do the same , if I had as dirty a bed aa they have .
Very Accommodating—Dr . A . Teste was passing on Tuesday night , about eleven o ' clock , by the Rue Notre-D-iine-dee-Cbanips , when he was attacked by two men who demanded his money . The doctor very coolly drawing forth a pistol , presented it at one of them , declaring that for the moment he bad nothing else to offer them . They were not prepared for this demonstration , and took to flight . Age iof Louis Philippe—King Louis Philippe , being born on the 6 th of October , 1773 , has now entered bis 71 st year . Bis MajeBty is the first of his race who has reached so advanced an age . Robert Dale Owen , son of Mr . Robert Owen , tbe philanthropist , has been elected member of the United States Congress for tke first congressional district of Indiana . Mr . Owen was elected by a majority of 577 votes over his opponent . The numbers being for R D . Owen , 6 . 659 ; John W . Payne , 6 , 082 .
11 The Wild Justice of Revenge . "—Tho Frankfort Journal states , that in the comital of Zilade , in Hungary , the partisans of tbosu who pay no taxes and those who t ' o pay had come to blows , and nine individuals had lost their lives , victims of their political opinions . The nobles—that is tbe party who do not pay taxes—killed a married man , the father of five children . When this fact was known to tbe peasants they pursued the aggressors , and having overtaken them at a village they murdered them all . French Sensibility .. —The Nafiwiof in indicnant
that the Spanish telegraph Bhould talk of " tho King ' s ( Louis Philippe's ) navy . " It says : — "We know of two navies , one merchant , and the other military ; but , in fact , we know of no ' Kine ' s navy' except the Royal Yacht . " And then the A ' ationaf condemns these " Feudal , or ratiter Britannic phrases , which are incompatible with the spirit of our institutions" " Oar institutions ! " Are the walls of Paris among them ? Are the forta and bastilles " the King ' s , " or the people's ? Certainly , —according to the spirit of their institutions—intended for the people!—Punch .
Destructive Fire . —On Saturday morning , between twelve and one o ' clock , a most alarming flro broke out upon the premises occupied by Mr . Long ( latoKeatch ' s ) . Pearl-street , SpitalfieltfB , u » ed & 8 a lucifcr-m&tch manufactory and storehouse for those articles ) ' The Sre originated rn a fuom on tho ground floor , at the dwelling-bouse , in which there were in stock dome hundreds of boxes of lucifer-matches , besides boxes , labels , tc . A plentiful supply of water being obtained from a spacious tank on the premises , the fire was speedily checked , and its violence : was confined to the
storeroom and the upper part of the premises , which are burnt extensively , but owing to the confusion it was impossible to ascertain the ( xact amount of the damage . Fire in Holborn . —On Sunday night between six and seven o'clock , an extensive fire broke out in tbe lower part of the Monarch Coffee Raoms , corner of Leather-lane , Holborn . In a few minutes , two of the brigade engines from F « ringdon-street , with several firemen , arrived , when tbe fire was arrested in its progress , not , however , until the contents © f the lower part cf the premises were consumed .
Who Can Beat This ?—A correspondent of the Eastern Sentinel boastb thus : —As I have often read in the papers of great men being praised for their great deeds , & < i . I think 1 have a right to tell what I have done . First , I was five yoars a seamster ; three years a constable ; nine years justice of the peace ; seventeen summers 1 was a lime-burner ; nineteen winters I taught school ; twenty-seven yfara a commissioned office ?; from lieutenant to major ; thirteen years I was lock-tender on the Lehigh Canal , lock No . t § ; and I am father of sixteen children , namely , ten sons and six daughters ; and tbe beat of my story is . that I have quit drinking liquor . I was born in 1789 . My name is Hope , and I have faith , and show charity .
Rebecca in 1727 . — "About the latter end of February , 17 ' 36 7 , a petition was sent to Parliament complaining of the badness of the roads about this city ( Bristol ) , and praying for relief , and provision for keeping them in good repair . Inconsequence of this , an Act of Parliament , 13 Geo . I ., 1727 , was obViined , and turnpikes were first erected here about Midsummer , and lolls collected for many days . But the country people showed a violent hostility to the measure , and great disturbances ensued , and the gates were soon cut down and demolished ,
chiefly by the colliers , who would not suffer coal to be brought here , whereupon the Mayor had the city supplied from Swansea , which , when the colliers perceived , they brou ghc their coals as usual . Soldiers assisted at the gates to take the toll , but the next night ., after the soldiers were withdrawn , the gates were all cut down a second time , by persons disguised in woman ' s apparel , and high-crowned hats . "— Memoirs of Bristol aud its Neighbourhood , by thf Rev . Samuel Sever , Bristol . —London , 1823 , 4 to . Vol . 2 . p . 575 .
WoNDERPUt if TuuE .- ^ -The Cincinnati Chronicle reports that in digging one of the salt welU ol Kanawha , a vein of carbureited hydrogen ( inflammable gas ) was Struck , and that the gas comes up in large quantities , mixed with the salt wa' er . The proprietor ha . 3 contrived to separate the gas from the water , and while the water is conveyed into the boilers through one set of pipes , the gas is conveyed in another set under the boilers , where it is inflamed , and evaporates the water .
; CERITO . Cerito ! Ceriio ! how sylph-like thy form , What aerial grace thy light movements display , Thou seem'st mid this region of sorrow and storm , Ad emigrant bright from the land of the Tay . I have faith in the Metempsychosis of flowers When I gaze , fair Cerito , on thee , Of the sweetest that bloom in Italy ' s bowers Th' incarnation thou seemest to be 1 The Charm of perennial youth wears thy face And radiant wilh beauty it glows , And unrivalled is thy Terpischorean grace , Aa its peers are surpassed by the rose . Beautiful figurante ! Long may ' st thou ehine , Of thy heart the most dazzling and glorious star , And oh 1 should thy health promatuteh decline Seek aa antidote in the Pills of Old Fan ,
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¦ The Comidn Salt of Pari-i is adolterated , some part with impure carbonate of soda , other parb with . iodine , and tnree specimens have been found " containing small crystals of a salt of copper . Winter and Summer . ^ At Rugeley , Warwickshire , an old man of the name of Martin , of Longdon , aged seventy-six , some time ago appeared at the altar with a girl of seventeen as bis intended bride ; while her dister , two years older , was led thither by Martin ' s grandson , ' aged nineteen . Thus the old man has a brother in a grandson , and a sister in his wife ; his spouse must submit to the venerable epi-. thet of grandmothe ^ from her elder sister , and the young man may aidress the damsel of seventeen as hia grandmother or sister at pleasure ; while his wife may claim as her just right , by reason of mature age , the submission ) of her sister , or may be ca ' . letf upon to exereiae all jthe respeotful docility of a granddaughter towards her .
RuoSian Spies . — . fhere are Russian ambassadors at some courts who employ spies in the house of the English minister , who can neither receive a friend nor give a dinner without a certainty that some ef the servants will report every word that has passed on the occasion . Nor is it always to needy lacqueys that these igentlemen trust for information . Persons who from ih-ar profession ^ nd standing in society ought to be ' above Buch treachery , are often dragged in this base traffic . No Englishman would
stoop so low ; but ! there ara foreigners in English pay who carry tales ; from the table they dine at . In addition to such auxiliaries , the Emperor has . his regular bands of jwell-salaried scouts , men and women , Russian and native , in every capital of Europe , whose duty it is to ascertain the sentiments of the leading men towards Russia , and to keep the ambassador on the spot , or the political police at St . Petersburgh , acquainted-with all that may concern the views or wishes of the Emperor . —Bremner ' s Russia . \
Caution to Yocng Females . —On Sunday se'nnight the following advertisement appeared in the columns of The Dispalch : — " To Young Ladies ;—Wanted , a respectable young female , between sixteen and twenty-five years of ago , as companion to a lady residing ia aj retired village about 100 miles from London . Salary £ 50 per annum . Address , post-paid , stating full particulars , to B . H . W ., Postoffice , Barnes , Surrey . ' Such notice was calculated to attract great attention , and many were the applicants for a situation which seemed to offer more than ordinary advantages in these times of competition and depression . One lady , a Mrs . W— , answereditho advertisement without delay , and tho ruffianly advertiser sent the following letter in return
— " B . H . W . is sorrv to state that the situation for which Mrs . W r— applied is filled up . At the same time B . H W . trusts she will not be offended at the liberty he takes iu making her the following offer . He will make her an annual allowance sufficient to live respectably on , if she will place hersolf under his protection , assuring her that the utmost secrecv and honour may be relied on . B . H . W . is a young man twenty-five years of age . Should Mrs . W . feel inclined to accept this offer , the following advertisement j put into The Morning Herald , will be immediately attended to : * S . W . accepts the offer of B . H . W . ( Write to appoint an interview . ' " The conduct of this scoundrel reminds us of the doings of a fellow who , some time ago * endeavoured
to inveigle young girls into his house at Chelsea , on preteuce of requiring assistance in the education of his daughters ; but whose real object was the destruction of those young creatures who sought a situation at his bands . The ; miscreant who advertised in The Dispatch uses the terms " honour" and " secrecy . " What a misapplication of the former . ' What honour caa be expected from a fellow who pretended that he required the services of a young female in the capacity of companion to a young lady ; but whose subject was to sacrifice the first girl or woman who might fall into his hands at tne shrine of lust ! We have thought it worth while to allude to this
advertisement , seeeing , that ero this , he may have secured a victim , and in that case , to acquaint the friends of the unfortunate creature , if she have any , the deplorable situation she must be placed in , so that they may take immediate steps to rescue her from ruin , and bring the advertising scoundrel to exposure and punishment . It is ' impossible to guard against the insertion of such ! advertisements as those , when , upon their face every thing appears fair and honourable ; but we shall-never faifto denounce the authors a- villains when w 6 find their objeot is to rob virtue of its brightest reward , or when a descent upon the public i& intended , [ with a view to speciously inflict a robbery . — Weekly Dispalch .
Mr . Gregory and the Letters . —The London police investigation into the charge brought by Mr . Thomas Wentworjth Beaumont ' s cast-off mistress , against Mr . Barnard Gregory , of the Satirist , of keeping sundry boxes of Jettera for tho purpose of extorting mouey , jhas terminated in Mr . Gregory , being ordered to pay £ 7 , the value of . the boxes and some French coins which they oontained . The letters , therefore , ) will not be restored . Mr . Valiance , the solicitor for Miss Burgess , the prosecutrix , had stated that Mr . Gregory had demanded . £ 2 , 000 for the random of the letters ; but there was not a shadow of proof produced to sustain this allegation . '
Abatement of Rent . —Thomas R . Barneg ,. Esq ., has considerately given directions to his agent , John Hutchinson , Esq ^ , of Church Jerpoint , to make an abatement of fifteen per cent , to his tenantry on the lands of Baw-kea , KUkeuny , during the continuance of the present depression ia tho prices of agricultural produce , j _
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extinct , which produced the utmost horror among the crowd . Alian Mair was born five weeka after the death of his father . His mother having married again , he left tbe paternal dwelling at nine yeats of age , Hi » mother , thinking he was lost , advertised him in the newspapers of the day , the knowledge of which aftenmrda retched him , but did not bring him home . He had gone to England at that early age , where he remained , employed as a drover , for twenty-five years . He was next em > ployed to conduct 160 merino sheep , belonging to the Earl of Selkirk , to his settlement upon the Red River , in North America . For this job he received 1 $$ guineas . After remaining there for & few weeks , he made his
way to New York , where he got into the employment of Mr . Lloyd , an extensive dealer and shipper . He wag employed by him principally in buying grain te ba ground into flour . Here he was doing -well , and saving money , and getting every day more into the confidence of his master . He was then placed on shipboard , in one of Mr . Lloyd ' s ships , as supercargo . This vessel traded regularly between New York and Kingston In Jamaica . He continued in the trade upwards of four years , when , by some means , he learned that his mother was engaged in a law plea . He then returned to Scotland , bringing with him 2 , 000 guineas , which all went to the lawyers in a very short time , which ifc seems , while it directed his mind to litigation , at the same time rendered him tour , and perhaps somewhat misanthropic
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PUiNCH AND THE SHEFFIELD FORK GRINDERS . Man . in his present social state , may be represented by his fork . Look at it with philosophic eye . it ia his type—bis very self—the visible and tangible sign of his worldly worth . What an outcast is he who has bo fork ! What a Pariah—what a mere animal—who picks his fitful meal , not with three prongs , but ten fingers . ' And , then , bow great the aristocracy of prongs ! How very different the metal and the workmanship ! Consider , too , the hypocrisy of forks ; and deny , if you can , that tbe said hypocrisy has in it the spirit of tbe times . We repeat it ; a > with forks , so ¦ with men . The screeching vice of our day—a vice that screams to heaven—is for every man to appear at least solid aiivex to his neighbour ; and , so that the appearance be successfully put en , the real worth of the metal is of little matter .
Teas of thousands of men—of men of precious metal as they seem—what are they but Britannia metal forks ? What their daily labour behind tbe counter , upon the mart , and in tne nignwaya , tut tv sub and polish themselves into a silver look ! Now come we to the plain , unsophisticated , household instrument , the plebeian of forks—the fork of itoc What a terrible history may hang about it 1 Of all the family of forks , bow wretched ! Glorious is tbe fork of gold , doing its dainty work at royal and noble tables . Comfortabte—yea , most comfortable—the fork of solid silver , visiting the mouth of ease and competence . Well to do , enough , those f raudful forks—forks of all imaginable metals that may pass for silver ! But , sometimes , sad indeed the fate of fork of iron ! Sad ia the scauty food it picks from out the poor man's dish ! Sad in ita long solitude , rusting ia cupboard !
Here are two forks—silver and iron . A well-paid healthy artificer was he who made the precious fork ; and it was sold into some good man's family—a good , prosperous , easy , well-feeding man . - This silver fork hath smacked its prongs at a thousand luxuries ! . It knows tbe fat of venison—can tell what grouse is made of!—has had tbe ruby gravy gosh from the sirloin beneath its claws . Veal , lamb , and mutton are its constant acquaintances , in all their vapid variety . The silver fork could write a cookery book , discoursing practically . What says the fork of iron ? Why , it came into tbe world as death's weapon ; and such was its fate—it fell into the hands of the poor—and scarcely knows the taste of meat . How -was it made , and what good gifts did tfae said iron fork award to its maker ? Be . Calvert Holland shall tall us .
A book—a terrible book—called The Vim Statistics of Sheffield—h&s just been published , in which the tragic history of the iron fork-grinder may be read by tbe sons and daughters of the Silver Fork with some profit , perhaps . Dr . Holland says : — "Fork-grinding is always performed on a dry stone ; and in this consists the peculiarly destructive character of tbe branch . In the room in which it is carried on there are generally from eight to ten individuals nfc work ; and tho dust which is created , composed of the ne pwticles of stone and metal , rises in clouds and perv ades tbe atmosphere to which they are confined . The < just which is thus every moment inhaled , gradually unermines the vigour of the constitution , and produces P ermanent disease of the lungs , accompanied by difficulty ° f breaihmg . cough , and a wasting of the animal frame , often at the early age of twenty-five I " Here are thoughts that might sometimes spoil a good man's dinner . Dr . Holland
proceeds" It is found , on examination , that among ninetyseven men , about thirty at this moment are suffering , ia various degrees , from the disease peculiar to this occupation , and which is known by tbe name—grinders ' asthma . The diseaaa is seated in the lungs and the airpassages , and the progress of it is accompanied with the gradual disorganization of these important organs . In its advanced stages , it admits neither of cure nor of any material alleviation . In the early stages , the eniy efficient remedy is the withdrawal from the influence of the exciting cause ; but h « w is this to be sfficted by men who depend from day to day upon their labour , and whose industry , from early life , has been confined to one particular branch ? Here , then , is the melancholy truth —that nearly one-third of this doss of artisans , in addition to th « poverty and wretchedness common to the whole , is in a state of actual disease—and disease which no art can cure . "
" In 1 , 000 deaths of persons above twenty years of age , the proportion between twenty and twenty-nine years , in . England and Wales , ia annually 160 . la Sheffield , 184 ; but among the fork-grinders , the proportion is the appalling number 475 : so that between these two periods , three in this trade die to one in the kingdom generally ;" Such is the history of the Iron Fork . It is Death ' s moat handy weapon . ' Upon the very threshold of life it stabs men in the lungs ; deals a wound which admits of neither cure nor alleviation , but sands them coughing to their graves at twenty-five !
Oh , reader 1 thou mayest be a Gold Fork ; tbou mayeat be solid Silver ; nay , Britannia Metal—Queen ' s Metal—German Silver—British Plate ! Yet , whatever thou art , as the daily- fork visits thy mouth , sometimes think of the Fork of Iron—of the death it awards its maker—of the scanty meal it helps to thousands ! Think of this ; and though the thought may sometimes spoil a toothsome morsel , 'twill fill tbes with thanks for thy exemption , and teach thee tenderness towards the sufferer . Terrible is the sermon preached to other Forks by the Fork of Iron !—Punch .
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London Corn Exchange , Monday , Oct . 9 . —The demand for all kinds of English Wheat was rather dull , and the factors were compelled to give way in their demands about Is per qr . For Foreign Wheat at an abatement of 4 s per qr . In grain under lock nothing doing . English aud Foreign Barley at full currencies ; the value of all other kinds was with difficulty supported . In Malt no variation to notice . In Irish Outs the rates ruled easier . Beans , Peas ,
aud Flour as last noted . London SmithfiiTld Cattle Market , Monday , Oct . 9 th . —The Beef trade was in a state of complete stagnation , the extreme figare for the very b sl Scots did not exceed 3 s lOd per 8 : b . ; all other qualities suffered an abatement of fully 2 d per 81 b . Sheepprime old Downs from 4 s to 4 s 4 d per 81 b , other kinds at an abatement of quite 2 d per 81 b . Vaal quite 2 d per 81 b lower than on Monday last . Pork at late rates .
Borough Hop Market . —We have received a very large quantity of new Hops for our markets since this day se ' nnight ; still , however , the demand for most kinds is tolerably active , at full prices , Tho duty is not estimated at more than £ 135 , 000 . Borough and Spitalfields . —For Potatoes the demand is tolerably active , at from £ 3 5 s £ 5 10 s per ton . Wool Markets . —By private contract a steady business is doing in most descriptions , and previous rates are freely supported . Tallow . —Thera is but little alteration to notice in our remarks ou the Tallow Market this day . The market is firm , with but little doing .
Manchester Cobn Market , Satdsdat , Oct . 7 . —There was only a limited inquiry for Wheat at our market this moraing , and the best qualities of English and Irish must be quoted fuliy 2 d per 701 b lower than on this day week . Of Flour there was a more plentiful show of samples than for some time past , and in tho sales made , factors were compelled to submit to a decline of 6 d to Is par 280 iba . Oats were Id per 4 filb , and Oatmeal ( both old and new ) 6 d per 2501 b cheaper . Liverpool Corn Market , Monday , Oct . 9 — Since thi 3 day se ' nnight we have had large importations of Wheat , coastwise and from Ireland , with liberal supplies of Irish Oats and Oatmeal , and a fair quantity of Flour . There are also reported 6 , 144 qrs of Wheat and 17 , 600 barrels of Flour from abroad . With tha iuereasad supply of Irish new
Wheat , and only a moderate demand , we have to quote a decline of 6 d a bushel ia our prices for that grain . At Friday ' s market the best runs ef red would not exceed b ' s lOd par bushel Flour has gone off Ie 33 freely , easier terms . Oats have sale . Oatmeal has also mealing qualities of the former of at 2 s 5 . 3 d per 451 b ? , and treme prico for now Mealbushel aud la per load respectivel last week . The transactions or Peas , have been quite in money . Dusaei rio
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? THE "CRY OP THE CHILDREN . " Ho ye hear the children -weeping , O , mj brothers * Ere the somrw comes -with jears ? Thsj aie leaning tbeir young beads against Oi&fr mothers , And that cannot stop their tears . ! Tbe yousg lambs are bleating ia tbe meadows—The voung birds are chirping in the nest—The young favms are playing -with tbe ^ shadows—Tbe yenng flowers are bloTring from the irest ; Unt the joang , youBg children , O , my brothers ! They are weeping bitterly ! Thej -are "jpeeping in the playtime of tie others , In the country of tha free .
Alas ! tie young children 1 they are seeking Death in Hie , as best to have I Thej are binding np tbeir hearts a-sray tram breaking , With a cerement from tbe grave . 4 xo ont , children , from the mine and from the . city—Sing oat , children , ns the little thrasfrca do . ' Pluck jonr bandfnls of tbe meadow cowslips pretty—I ^ ugn aloud to feel your fingers let them throngh I 2 $ nt the children say , il Are cowslips of the meadows Like the weeds anew tbe mine ? Leave us quiet in ths dark of onr coal-sh&dotra , Prom your pleasures fair and Sue . "For O r' gay the children , " we are weary , And -we cannot run or leap : If -sre cared for any meadows , it "were merely To dropdown in them and sleep . Onr knees tremble sorely in tbe stooping ;
Tie reddest flower wonld look as pale as snow j Pot , all dsy , we drag our burden tiring , Through the coal-dark underground—Or , all day , "we drive the wketla t f iron In tbe factories , round and round . " All day long , tbe ¦ wb . etls are droning , tnrnini;—Their "wincl comes in cur faees ; Till onr hearts torn , and onr beads with pulses burning , And the ¦ walls turn in their places I ^ Turnsthe sky in tie high "window bLink and reeling—Tnrns th 6 long light that droppeth down the wall-Turn tbe black flies that crawl along the ceiling—All sre taming all the day , and we with all < All flay long , the iron -wheels are droning , And sometimes we could pray—* O , ye wheels { breaking offin a mad meaning ) Stop . be silent for to dsy P "
Ay i be silent . ' letihem hear each other breathing , Pora moment , jnonth to month ; Let them tench each other's hands , in & fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth ; Let th « n feel thit this cold metallic motion - Is cat all the life God giveth them to nse ; let them prove tbeir inward sotla against the notion Thas they live in yon , ar under yon , O wheels ! Still , all day , the iron "wheels go onward , As if fate in each "Were stark I And the children ' s Eouls , wLich God is calling mmsrsrd , Spin on blindly in the dark . Blackwood s Magazine
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The ENGLISH NON-INTRUSIONIST ; or Northern Lights ok Souhhern Latitudes . This is a publication , as its name betokens , devoted to the Non-jntrnsion cause . It is also anti-Puseyite . Of the former it is the staunch defender , and of the latter the fierce opponent . It is a publication that , in the present excited state of the religious world ou tht-sequestions , will , no doubt , command the attention of a large number of readers . It is published by Thomas Hodtj ^ on , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , aud Simpkin and Marshall , London .
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THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE . No . 7 , Vol . 2 , is almost n ' . led with an account of Faiher Mathew ' s visit to tho Metropolis ; of whom a portrait is given . A portrait is also given of William Dope , sged 95 , who is si 11 living at St . Aldates , Oxford , strong and hearty ; which is acoouDted for by shewing thit he has uevt > r been the dupe of the "jolly god . " May all water-drinkers live as long ! say we .
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The Pictorial Spelling Bock , and First Book of Tors for Children . By John Ellis . Cleave , London . The = e are well arranged little books ; the former , price 3 j ., the latter , 2 d ., well calculated to make " the childthe father of the man . "
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Several publications , including " The Artizan " " Philanthropist , " "Errors of Emigrants , " § c , we must defer noticing till our next .
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MURDER ^ ACCORDING TO LAW ! Execution ofj Allan Mair . —On Wednesday , tbe 4 th inst , Allah Mair , who was convicted at last Circuit Court at Stirling of murdering an old woman , 85 years of age . h < s reputed wife , underwent the extreme penalty of the law in the above town . We take tbe following particulars ( abridged ) from a Scotch
paper : — ; After the trial , the utmost effort wa 3 marie by the authorities of the town to obtain a remission of Ihe sentence , and a petition was forwarded to the Secretary of State for . that purpose , but the answer returned was that the law mast take its course , which was immediately communicated to the unfortunate man , who manifested no degree of feeling until tbe day and hour were mentioned , when he was quite overcome , and gave vent to his feelings in a lott burst of crying and lamtntation . Long before the time ^ ppointed for the execution the front of the Court Housewas crowded by an immense mob , among whom were many women with children in their arms . Oa entering the cell in thw gaol where the culprit was confined , we found the Rev . Messrs . Leitcfa and Stark in earnest prayer with him . At twelve minutes past eight o ' clock , the Rev . Mr . Leitch came into the court-room , and was followed
by the prisoner , half carried by the Rev sir . Stark , and the man who had been guarding him all night . At this moment the spectacle was most humiliating—a hoaty old man , inhis 83 dor 8 ithyear , bent together wilh ' age and menial suffering , and oppressed with five months ' imprisonment , his whole appearance indicating the utmost degree of human frailty , borne down with the intense idea of grief , struggling \ to bear up against what he comidered the greatest injustice . On tho executioner making his appearance , and commencing to pinion the prisoner ' s arms , the poor creature said— " You need not do it very tightly , as I intendlto make no resistance . Sly only wish is lo have il soon over . " At this time he was a good deal affected , and tears were flowing . We now thought that the idea of ai speech up ^ n the scaffold had left him , but we were mistaken ; for he had been making up bis mind to this last abortive effort for vindicating his innocenca
He was then conducted to tbe scaffold between two officers , being half carried , and guile bent , as when brought into the court-room . B ^ ing placed upon the drop , he was accommodated with a chair , upon which be was no sooner placed , than he began the contemplated speech , which continued nearly ten minutes . From the hollow , sepulchral tone in which he expressed himself in the court-room , we were apprehensive that not a word of what he said would have been understood by the people !; but we were mistaken , for , when he got to the fresh air , and felt himso . f at ease upon the chair , and saw j the immense crowd gathered thick together , he assumed a courage greater than we thought his advanced age alone could have allowed to remain , to say nothing of the other circumstances in which he was placed . Aa he advanced in hia harangue , he got more and more animated , hurling fire and brimstone , ! death and damnation , both temporal and e ' . ernal , upon j ail , with the exception of the Judge and Jury , who had i
any part in his apprehension , examiniiiation , and trial . Scott ' s Meg Merritjes , breaking the Wand of paaca in the presence of Ghdfrey Bertram , and denouncing against him the heaviest curses , or even Snakspere ' s Margaret of Anjoui when personated by Mrs . Siddons , would be but poor imitations of the burning earnestness with which Allan Mair , upon the scaffold , devoted his victims to everlasting destruction . Not a nerve quivered , nor did his eye blench , while his arms , pinioned as they were , obeyed itha indignant fire within , and told to thoae who could jndt hear , that denunciation and not prayer was actuating his mind . He asserted his innocence most solemnly ; charged the minister of his parish with framing falsehoods against him ; stated that be bad not been allowed to bring up witnesses on hia trial , who could have clearly substantiated his innocence , 'and that he was not allowed to write letters to his witnesses . He charged other parties with being guilty of the crime for which he was to suffer . " He was , " he said , " no murderer . He never committed murder , and he said
these things as a dying man , just passing into the presence of God . Bat . he was condemned as a murderer by the lies of tbe minister , by the id justice of a sheriff and fiscal , and by the ] perjury of tbe witnesses ; and he trusted that for this conduct all these parties would be overtaken by the vsngeanc * of God , and sent into everlasting damnation . When ihe execulimer was adjusting the white cap arid the rope , he again gave audible vent lo his pent-up feelings , There was ninchjpeint givsn to his heavy denunciations by tbeir being uttered in an antiquated Scottish dialect , now fast dyint ; out . Precisely at seven minutes to nine o ' clock the signal was given , the drop fell , and the unhappy man iwas launched into eternity . There were , however , several convulsive struggle * before life teas
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 14, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct823/page/3/
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