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      The Powtss-Luuk Weaver. 1 F Earinluabear...

      THE POWtSS-LUUK WEAVER . 1 F earinluabeartjandinsdneuinbJaeje , 1 The weaver viewt the rapid shnttlefij , i Am idst the noisy din of whirling wheels , i A * o er ^ ^* ^ f ° Pandemonium ( teals 4 Contending hard agiinit mechanic power , ] From early rnerntiUmiariighA latest hoar , i la heated atmosphere of smoke and fire , He slave * for life to gain a scanty hire . Vfby does he toil ? To live in luxury ? go to hii garret—mark hit penury !

      On pallet laid , made up of rigs aad shredi , The usual compound of the poor nun's beds , Lies infant innocence condemned to die , That Cotton LordV may on their velvet lie ; That daughters may their gratalations pay , Or at the ball in diamonds blaze away , In hopesto captivate tome lordling twig , And gato atitlefrom the 'honouredsprig f Or like D & dob , to Florence , France , or Rome , Beaut to teO—tmo free tie trade ' s ot some , Whil « t < a < 2 friend Drab is left behind to tsrHa * n € Waodly talk of * freedom ' s favour'd isle !

      Freedom ! alas ; how misapplied the name t Go , view it in the weaver ' * blighted frame ; Mark well hi * pallid cheek and sunken eye How oft bunts forth the groan of agony ; Behold his wretched partner ' * palsied hands As e'er her dying chad tbe trembling stands , Or turns it to that breast which shall no mote Yield forth tbe nurture that oft flowed before : 'While aUaroandhpestilentialair Grim-visaged want , and never-ending care .

      Is this the class who'd ease the toilers' woes , Hi * wants relieve with comfort , food , and dotaei . Or think , with Sterae , 'that wiriter ' adnDystorm ' Istemper ' etottelambbutnewly shorn ! How vain the thought J they treat ye as their slaves , And leave ye to your base ignoble grate * : The ffeloa ' s ceil , ana bastile—these are thine } Anl rtciaag tuituie * if ye < are repine , like worn onr-garmente yearecast away , Despised , insulted , base bornjutelts * clay .

      How long will ye , the bees of Britain ' s file . Support the drones who fatten on yonr soil f How long permit your native land to be The grave of freedom—home of slavery , Without an effort made of heart and Blind , In unity with aU your fellow land , To hurl despotic power from its throne , And raise aloft fair freedom ' s sacred dome . He firm , unite , assist die glorious cause-Proclaim aloud yonr right to nature ' s laws ; Or calmly wear the chains of tyranny , Aad leave yonr children heirs to slavery . Despised live—detested die and rot , TJnmoura'd , unpltied , hated and forgot ; And desolation dire shall make the grave Of him who lived and died a willing slave . Manchester . Edwih Gim

      A Chartist Song Bt Sou B. R. Rosrn .

      A CHARTIST SONG bt sou b . r . rosrn .

      Be watchful , be patient , be iteaefast and tne ; The goal of oar freedom is ever in view ! As storm-wearied mariner * anxious to see A glimpse of the morning , soch watchers are we ; And tare as tbe sun will rise over the ware Shall liberty shine oa the good end the brave . Be patient—the teed that is set ia the ground Ia secret reposeth while seasons go round . So quietly wait we ; and sure as the day Gireth life to the seedling , will pride melt away , Aad prejudice , like the dark clods of the earth , Fall back and give Freedom her glorious birth . Be steadfast . —Ah ! list not the voice that allures The heart that we prize is the heart that endures ; 5 ar heed ye the scorninge , the mockiogs of pride ; Those she cannot oppress , she will seek to deride . Be steadfast!—in purpose and heart we unite , Demanding of man but humanity ' * right .

      Be true , —for the banner of truth is oar fhg , We struggle not no w that a puppet may brag ; We fight not for pageants and shams of the past , But into the future eur vision is cast . Truth , truth is our standard , whose magical word Is mightier than scourges of fire or sword . Oa , on—like a current unruffled and deep . That none dare oppose in its powerful sweep ; On , on with oar cause , and it shall sot he long Ere Right shall destroy the dominion of Wrong ; On , on ! for already dark tyranny cower * . On , on ! and the Charter of Freedom is ours .

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      Revelations Politiques. Les Trois Victim...

      REVELATIONS POLITIQUES . LES TROIS VICTIMES . Fib ix Conns be Wezbbod . [ Political Bevdatiom . Tie Three Victims . By the Count deWUlbrod . ] London : Armand , Rathbone-plaee . ( Continued from the Star of September 18 th . ) There wece , thea , at Grenoble , when Didier arrived there , all the elements of a revolution . - On the one bond there were men inclined to stretch their power to its utmost limits ; on the other , hostility , or at least indifference , to the present government In a large portion of an enlightened population ; mistrustof the sew order of things , and a perfect readiness on the part of soldiers and officers , to march under the first leader who should wave a tri-colonred banner , or in . veke the name of the Emperor . At Qoaix , Didier has taken np his quarters with saold officer of the Empire , Brun , le drvmedaire , ( the dromedary ) , bo called because he had had the

      command of tbe guides in the Desert during the Egyptian campaign . One evening , preparatory to a wider extension ef Ms revolutionary mission , Didier assembled all the troogs , and the inhabitants of Quaix . whom Beds the Dromedary had enlisted in the Eervice of the conspirators : Didier harangued theassembly with vehemence and indignation , on the snhappy effects of the role of priests and nobles in France , and by hiseloqnence made a deep impression oa the minds of his hearers . When the motives of the insurrection had been discussed , and his own part assigned to each actor in the drama , Didier read , in the midst ef a profound silence , a powerful and energetic address , which concluded in these words : —

      Frenchmen ! all your blood boils in yonr veins , yonr indignation is at its height , fear the consequences of its excess : yoa will fall into the snares laid for yon by the common enemies of France . Let not the most just , end noble , and sacred of causes be injured by rashness ; let us save Fraace from tyranny and from Jacqutrie . Strength is generous ; oar forces are immense ; let us submit the developement to invariable rults ; indulgence far the past , a cordial welcome to convert * , respect for private rights and property , death to traitors ; let these be seized , but not punished by the people ; this is a Uwof honour , justice , and order , which public safety demands , and which ought to be inflexibly observed . And you , who , in the bliad fury of its envy , the Holy Alliance wouH exterminate , a * a chastisement of year valour , you , soldiers ! shall be avenged . Revive to aid the Army of National Independence ; and let us z & erit , by our conduct , that heaven should protect the most holy of enterprises , aad that all mankind should give their prayers far its success .

      ' What are yon chattering about ? ' exclaimed the Dromedary , impatiently ; ' There is not one word of the Emperor in your address . Speak of the Emperor . ' Yes , yes ! replied Didier , * I will arrange all that . * He folded up his address and pnt it in his po : ket . They separated , but Bran , who held fast by his own idea , and could not conceive of a revolution w hich had not for its aim the placing of the Emperor er his son on the throne , left thu hall with him . Two men were the chiefs of the insurrectional movement in the mountains of Oisans , where Didier had arrived early in the January before his arrival at Lyons : these were Dosssrt , one of the old guides of the army of the Alps , a man of a daring and adventurous character ; and Dnrif , an ex-maire , a man of more cautious disposition than the other .

      From Qisans , Didier descended to . Mure , where the remembrance of Napoleon ' s triumphal march was yet fresh in the minds of the people , and where he found numbers of old officers and retired soldiers , who needed but a word to take the lead in an insurrection . Wherever he went . Didier followed very much the ttme course in enlisting the sympathies of the People , and preparing the downfall of the Bourbons . Through theintrignes of Metteraich , he received the ttcret consent ef Austria , whilst at the same time he * as assured of theconenrrenceof England , provided tte conspiracy should result in the profit of the Duke ° f Orleans . ( This fact is registered in the secret report of AL Palis , comrcissaryof police at Grenoble . ) Great pains were taken to enlist , cotonlytheofnjeraaad soldiers on half-pay at Grenoble , bnt also j heyonng students at the-Military College ^ Not ™ o yearsaso . a man who was oneof theconsoirators

      or thes Restoration ef 1816 , revealed the means em-Ployed , to enlist theyoath in the cause of Didier , and S ^ onea a letter from that chief to an old officer w the Gendarmerie , in which occurred the-foOowg ^ onls . evidenUy pointing- to the Duke of Or-A prince who ha . , from earliest youth , given pledges to tie cause of freedom , who has bravely fought under « s Banners , ana whosg aberal epin 5 ( mSj wbich he haS no . oeenaole to conceal , hwecsnsed him to be regarded L 5 S °° l < Jthttnie ! nbers « 'ftne family . UietvS : 8 ? n - eraID TT ! lnadie , l wa 8 C ' . mmandantof £ * St ? fl & T \ He was » determined royalist . fe-1 ? £ nn B n oarbo i ? * • ¦?* tore a high character Zlve ^ cZ ^^^^ - Hardly hadhe SSTw ' 1 ? aJ ? ^ e ealkd tie a ««> tioa of brrf ^ f ^ !?« ie insufficiency of the mili-2 t £ o isfff iif'T * durifl S ths fot iionJ Ul ] ' const ? tly requested an angmen-« wn of the forces and was ^ constantly refVed :

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      ^ Minister added , thatfcahad laid General D ^ erfs requestbifore the f » cilTand that the Minister of Police ( Decues ) , had renlied tT ^ k wpp & ktion , that « G « noMe and thl DenartmtS wera perfectlyJranuuil , and SSS £ SS spiracies existed only in the imaafnatSf Ro £ « . i Donnadien . ' Therel « u 1 on ofS * £ mM ^ n ^ Amartih were needed to decide ttm ^ SPJ ? ¦ a ^ dS en ^ ^ 2 * £ ^ SiP ^^ f ^ out waitin g for further SffifcSJ * *? ^"" tocement eighty men from W ^ ° the Sein ^ then at ^ nce . . dlK Lz « ffi meaSttre l' «* as the recal of the sol . Sr * ' wtf theexde f ™ tttbeDiTMonof Sofficera of «™ 75 ^ J » ^ ' considered « "olent Buonapartists , 53 T b * P f rations wW <* , » tne estimation 2 n . „™ K ^ ^ .. CoHMnissary of Police , were to ensure the tranquillity of the department .

      Jitmnynedi ; Or Magna Charta. A Historic...

      Jitmnynedi ; or Magna Charta . A Historical _ ,. . Tragedy . By Johk Waskjks . ihisis a pamphlet containing sixty-four pages of nonsense , arranged in imitation of blank verse , and called a Mstorieal Tragedy . ' Whyithas received this nicknamefrom the author , we are at a loss to understand , it being in utter Tiolationof I /> rd Byron ' s rub , * All tragedies are ended by a death ! ' Indeed , there'is no . fatal occurrence throughout , unless we can so term the signing of the Magna Charta ; this is the only event in the play , and as it , moreover , forms the finale to the sixty-four pages , we may fairly conclude that the author looked on it as a very melancholy circumstance , and one that quite justified him in terming his work a tragedy .

      We are , certainly , bound to allow him the merit ef originality , in having placed that great event in an entirely novel light ; but we must , at the same time * beg to assure our author , in all friendliness of spirit , that he has entirely misunderstood the intentions of nature , in supposing she ever designed him for a votary of the muses . His would-ba tragedy has no E oetical merits ; he does not understand nature , and e is entirely ignoraat of history- The only ground on which we can conscientiously commend itis , that it will prove a valuable opiate , should any one require artificial aid in eonrting the embraces of sleep .

      . Consdelo.—Bt George Sasd. For Its Intr...

      . CONSDELO . —Bt George Sasd . For its intrinsic merits , and as the production of a woman ' s pen , this is a singular and interesting work ; displaying greater power ot reasoning , more knowledge of life and human character , and far greater boldness of utterance , than often characterise the writers of romance . The plot is not so well con . structed as it is brilliant and original ; adorned by the gorgeous tintings of a redundant imagination , and breathing throughout the spirit of truth . The actors are drawn with a masterly hand , they are real in all they say , and do . and think ; and in spite of the wild and improbable circumstances which surround them ; their andeviating consistency rivets and sustainsoar interest . George Sand paints nothing by halves , she delights in bold outlines and sttong reliefs ; the vices she pourtrays would render devils more damnable , while her virtues might adorn angels .

      Consuelo , the heroine of this novel , is a vocalist , endowed with talent , which unwearying industry renders wonderful . She is a glorious picture of a woman . Angoleto . the betrothed other early youth , is a Venetian of great genius and personal beauty , hut idle , vacillating , and destitute of principle . The sequel displays rectitude of heart , and steadfastness of purpose , triumphing over the obstacle of birth and fortune ; while splendid abilities , unsustained by principle , and unimproved by stndy , soon become subservient to the baser passions , and help

      to plunge their possessor into vice . This work , though it says little directly on the subject , inspires an elevated love of liberty , and a detestation of tyranny in all its phases ; the dominion of superstition , the usurpations of kings , and the insidious , but all-engrossing influence of mind over mind ; theunperceived tyranny which affection , in its self-indulgence , exerts over its object . George Sand would teach us * ef / -cnltureand * e ( f-reliance , and the more such sentiments are disseminated , the better . We shall look forward with much pleasure to the continuation of this very brilliant and powerful romance .

      The Labourer, A Monthly Magasinc Of Pout...

      THE LABOURER , A Monthly Magasinc of PoUtics . Literature , Poetry , & c . Edited by Feargns O'Connor , M . P .. and Ernest Jones , Esq . London : northern Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-street , Haymarket . While other nations have to seek the attainment of their rights oa the paths of war and bloodshed , it is the happy prerogative of England to realise its social redemption and political liberty oa the ways of peace . Sinca the Charter passed through its stormy ordeal , all minds have been directed to a more healthy mode of reform , convinced , that though forms of government may be ameliorated by force of arms , yet , the domestic condition of a nation undergoes an additional blow by the derangements aud

      convulsions attending physical revolutions . It was left to the genius of one man to propound , and to the spirit of the people to embrace , a plan that , while it ameliorated the social condition of the masses at the same time , and be this well remembered , armed them with political power , and the means of resisting the onslaught of their enemies : it has , literally , proved a rampart thrown np around the camp cf the Charter : —such is the Land Plan . Founded on the requirements of the age—and here is the great secret of its unparalleled success—it is at once bold in its conception , consistent in its details , and startling in its results . Men were beginning to grow tired of the artificial labour-market , and turned to nature ;—hunger in the factory contrasted strangely with

      plenty in the field ; and the great Reformer of our century wisely caught the tide of re-action , and is guiding it in a prosperous career . The' Labourer' of this month is tlevoted to a Treatise on this great subject from the pen of Mr O'Connor . We will briefly review , Firstly—The data on which his Plan is basel : Secondly- ^ The necessity for its exi-tesce : and Thirdly ^ -The advantages derivable , the safety and security of the scheme in all its branches , and the means advocated for rendering it national . I . Two great elements of prosperity , the one passive and the other active , the Lsjto and Labour , bad

      evidently been long neglected , or abused . History points to the fact , not only at home , but abroad as well ; not only in recent times , but in remote ages , that in the same proportion in which tbe & e have been overlooked ^ has national prosperity declined ; or been fostered into a hotbed growth , whose unstable vegetation was sure to perish at the first change of the political atmosphere . This great fact , and the unparalleled misery existing among the working classes of Great Britain and Ireland , led to the establishment of the Land Plan , which is based on a just estimation of the value of the Land , and of agricultural labour . ' Thus says the author : —

      The produce of the land is the thing , tho only thing , in nature , which gives value to gold itself , and value to every other commodity that it purchased with gold . The land is tho only raw material upon which permanent and unchangeable security can be given . Ho roan will lend hf s money upon mortgage secured upon cotton , upon wool , upoa cows , upon horses , or cloth . The land is tbe only commodity that cells in the market with something like regularity of price . The land is the only raw material out of which the husbandman can coin that exchangeable medium , which he can barter for every necessary of life , and every luxury . The land is the only raw material , by the working of which , the real valne of labour can be ascertained . The . land is tbe only source from whence man can draw every article of consumption , and every article in use .

      When a man sits down to hie breakfast , every thing in the room , everything on the table , the table itself , and the room itself , is produced from the land . When a man rises from bis bed , he should understand thatthe bed , the bedstead , the furniture , sheets , blaakets , counterpane , and everything in the room is produced from the land . TVhen a man dresses himself , be should understand that every stitch upon bis back , and every particle in which he is clothed , is produced by the land . If he reads , he should understand that the paper , ink , and eovtre , era all produced by the land . If he drinks , he should understand that tbe glass , tbe decanter , are all produced from the knd- If he smokes , the pipe and tobacco are the produce of the land . So that , in short , everything useful , everything usable , aad everything ex . changeable , comes irom the land ; and , therefore , the land is the MINT OF LABOUR , from which the moneyer coins bis livelihood .

      The value of the Land is further proved by the effictsof its possession on the condition of the pc * sessor , as illustrated in France , Belgium and Saxony , where we are reminded of a clever stroke of policy on the part of the king , who—; Knowing that the possession of the land could alone confer security npen the throne , and cemfart upon the subject , issues a comraisiion to value the estates in his dominions—the aristocracy imagined that the object was to surdr-ct them to a graduated scale of taxation and the King allowed tfaera to furnish their ownesti ! mate of the value , and at that price he compelled them to sell ibe amount required for the employment of the people . The value of labour as applied to the land hasbeen too plentifully illustrated in our times to need a comment , and is admirably summed up in the following passage : —

      Can any man tell me , then , what there is in tbe nature of an Englishman , in the character of an Begliihman , in the loveof independence of an Englishman , or iu the quality of the English soil , which ' would render Englssd aud the English less valuable for sjrricullural pursuiss than the land or the people of any other country ! or in point of political economy , in which they have been abundantly instructed by the professors of that science of late , have tbe English people discovered the greatir advantage to be derived from capricious labour and irotn slave labour , than from continuous labour and free lebour f Or , havo I again to remind them , that the landlord ' s rents , the parson ' s tithes , tbe tax-

      The Labourer, A Monthly Magasinc Of Pout...

      & gatherer ' s- , demands ,, the - farmer's profit ! , the blackkmith ' s profits , the wheelwright ' s profits , the . tradesman ' s profits , and the shopkeeper ' s profits , are one and all derived from the profit made upoa labour tj The talue of this labour is , however , not enjoyed by the labourer , and here is the seeret of the misery existing throughout the United Kingdom ; hence arises the necessity for the Land Plan . II . —Under the present system by which Great Britain is governed—A considerable part of her population is wholly employed in maaufactaring for the other nations o ( Europe ; according to the natural order of things , this part should reside in those countries which give it employment ; for it is on those countries that this part of the population of Great Britain is dependent for its provisions ; by which means sht is exposed , not only frequently to suffer tbe evils of dearth , bat to be menaced with the horrors of famine .

      By this forced system , which aims at manufacturing for Europe , millions of the people of Great Britain depend ea the caprices and changes which takes place in the surrounding nations ; whereby , all at once , whole classes are deprived of employment , and , in full . heaitb , reduced to the condition of beggars ; by which the poor and the poor rates of Britain are greater than those of all the nations of Europe together . ¦ Again . the cultivation of colonies by agency is injurious te the labouring classes . Monopoly prices can

      alone compensate the proprietor for the waste and neglect occasioned by his absence , —and thus commodities are placed almost beyond the reach of the poor consumer at home , while the home soil is neglected on account of the very sums expended in colonial and mercantile conquest . This position is beautifully proved by extracts from a work of General Arthur O ' Connor , which , written at a distance of fifty years ago , foretells the pre sent results ot British policy . This effect is furtber .

      heightened—By tbe unjust and impolitic laws of primogeniture , entail , and settlement , and the equally ruinous law of commonage of lands . Again , to quote from the above-named author , by which—At least one half of Great Britain is without CU'ture or produce . By ths law of primogeniture , vast tracts of lsnd are made the estate of su individual who cannot sell them , or even lease them , except for a few years . But it can never be tbe interest of any man to expend bis labour or capital on uncultivated lands , where a considerable part of tbe produce is to be paid to another as rent , and on a term too short to enable him to get back his capital . No man will work tbat another shall reap the fruits ofhis labour ; yet It is oa this principle that the advocates for the laws of primogeniture and commonage of land expect tbat men will expend their labour and capital .

      A further cause of the depressed condition of the people is the large farm system . It is these farms , ( says Mr O'Connor , ) these unprofitable farms , that have led to the slavery of the English people , and there is nothing now to secure * heir redemption , bnt the subdivision of those farms into such allot ments as will secsre to the nation the largest amount of produce , and to all classes , the smallest possible amount of pauper rate . Mr O'Connor ably illustrates this position , and , in the course of his illustrations adverts in the following terms to the waste of food attendant on the present large farm system : —

      I have frequently drawn the picture of 8 , 000 acres , cultivated in a parish by a thousand peasant fanners , as compared with tbexondition ef the same parish , cultivated by three slaves of an autocrat landlord ; or can I draw a picutre from a better subject than that which I now daily witness . I have come to a poor parish —poor , because the farms average nearly a thousand acres in extent , and-because the whole labour that should be performed by man , is performed by oxen and horses that devour the fruits of the earth , and what should legitimately belong to man , that is , if man is of paramount importance in the eyes ofhis Maker . Well , Ifoundtbis parish poor , eaten up with poor rates , and now I have set the bee-hive , and the busy bees—called drones , vagabonds , and idlers , by the pompous and the idle swarm—to make honey from the blossom of cooperation . The result of this accumulation of anomalies are evident ; to this is owing

      that-Great Britain contains twenty-two millions of waste acres in common . Would it be believed , if it was not affirmed by the report of a committee of tbe legislature , that one-third of tbe lands of this nation , of whose exports aud imports there has been such vaunting , is without culture or produce ! To which must be added several millions of acres , of which the monopoly of land , by the laws of primogeniture , < fec . prevents the improvement . The effect on the . working-man is forcibly brought before the reader : — Need I remind tbe slave labourer , that the employer may measure his wages by the standard of his own cupidity , his own avarice and daring , and that with the proceeds of the slave labour be is obliged to go without what he himself produces , while he is obliged to purchase

      the produce of tbe land , at that capricious retail price which the producer , or monopolist and forestaller may please to demand for it . That he is obliged to purchase all of the worst quality , at tbe highest price , and to tbe greatest disadvantage , being compelled to deal at the truck shop of the master , or to pay a tax of twenty-five per cent , for credit to tbe shopkeeper ; while if ho was even paid in the produce of his own labour , be could not exchange it beneficially , because it is upon the wholesale principle , aad on the aggregate of the labour of thousands , that the capitalist makes his profit . And even beyond that he is obliged so to demean himself , as to insure the toleratioa of the capitalist slave driver ; he has

      no house that he can call his own , he has no resting place whereon to lay his addled head and aching limbs ; hebas a partner whom he calls his wife , but whose iu . teres ts are too often at variance ; he has children , ay , daughters , who become lodgers in bis own honse ; he cannot calculate upon any certainty ; he lives frem hand te mouth , he gains credit upon tbe presumption tbat his labour will continue ; he may rent his house by the year , and make bis domestic arrangements upon tbe calculation « f permanent employment , and upon Saturday night tbe will of his employer may constitute him unwillingly a defaulting tenant and a debtor , unable to meet tbe demands of the shopkeeper .

      Still , though unemployed , the rent goes on , and if he is to live food must be provided ; and if , in his unwilling idleness , he is ready to confederate with his fellows to resist or overthrow this unnatural state , he is tried a . % a conspirator , bludgeoned as a rioter , or shot as a rebel . Such is the real picture of the condition of an artificial slave . To remedy such evils the Land Plan has been propounded—it will , says Mr O'Connor : — Very , speedily this the overstocked labour rank * of thousands and tens of thousands of competitors , which , bear in mind , has ever been the primary importance that I attached to the undertaking , and it will thus destroy that competitive reserve , upon which capitalists may fall back to reduce the wages of the comparatively satisfied .

      For will any man deny—can any man doubt—that tbe wages standard of Britain is now tyrannically and ungenerously measured by tbe standard of insult and degradation that the family-loving , liberty-loving , and kind-hearted peasant will endure , rather than be subjected to the slave-brand—the pauper's fare , or pauper ' s dress , and a pompous overseer ' s havghty contumely and dominion ; and can tbe greatest sticklers for the new tangled principle of political economy , taught by a new race of speculators in low wages , contend for a system , which simultaneously renders barren and sterile nineteen twentieths of our Und , while a tenth of those hardy peasants , who would cheerfully cultivate it , are consigned to beggary and degradation , to pauperism and starvation , lest their generous , natural , rightful , and legitimate employment should tend to the more equitable distribution of ihe national income , secured by the better cultivation of the national resources .

      Therefore has tho Land Flan been founded , and this plan will-Teach the minister that in these days of sudden transition , and of doubtful ministerial ascendancy , the working classes , the industrious classes , the honourably speculating classes , aud the justly regulated trading classes , are the rock upon which he must henceforth build bis title to govern ; aad , as cure as water will find its level , so surely will power find its level ; and tbat power , which alone can constitute ministerial security , is to be found in the just and equitable government of the working classes . Question has succeeded question , aad the rapid

      rolling of antagonist interests have revolved m such quick succession , as wave succeeds wave in a storm , that ihe minister , sitting upon the billow of the day , if aiked what principle or policy he represented , should point to tbe most recent swell of discontent rising in the distance . His station must be uncertain ; bis principles must be equivocal ; bis policy must be capricious , until he can sit firmly upon the levelled breaker * , waves , and billows , which will constitute the safe harbour for ministerial integrity , landlocked by the ; affection , the strength , tbe poufUeuce , and the inteiest of that wall of British hearts , which may defy the indignites of tbe foreign despot , or the assault of domestic factions .

      Press of matter has prevented our completing our notice of this invaluable treatise in this number , and we are , therefore , forced to postpone the most important poiats brought under our consideration until the ensuing week .

      Bboketii'b Model Of Ancient Jbrusaiem Ut...

      Bboketii ' b Model of Ancient Jbrusaiem ut a very pretty , and to some , a most interesting exhibition ; it is beautifully carved and arranged , giving as correct an idea of a city as diminutive wooden houses and churches can possibly convey . Brunei " has expended many years of research and labour in bringing his model to its present perfection , and has , certainly , produced an exquisite toy ; but our sympathies being with the . pment , and our imaginings with the / uture , we confess our inability to appreciate the result of his exertions . We gaze at the model , hut we do not realise' Jerusalem in our mind , or bring it away in our memory . It fails to impress us , save i with admiration of the perseverance and rueehanicul abilities of its constructor , but there are many who ' delight in the study of by-gone ages , to whom the j exhibition of this model may afford considerable ' pleasure .

      A proposal has been published for raising £ 100 , 000 as a provision fur the family of the late Mr Daniel O'Comiell .

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      IETTERS ON GRAMMAR . _ No . 6 . TO THE WORKING CLASSES . MYDEAa Fniit ,,,,, , ^ The third change of which the Noun is susceptiMe is with regard to Case . Case means the po-8 , . ; on or Nation of things with regard to each other . Thus , in the sentence , 'Richardgave his father a book to John , ' we bave four different nouns which stand in entirel y different casesto each other , Richard is represented as ai /«^ -he is giving the book . The 'father' is represented as possessing the book . The < book' is the thing given , and' Mn ' is the person receiving it ,

      Now , these different Cases of the Nouns are very necessary to be understood . They are four . The Nominative , or acting me . The Possessive , or ssess ' . ng case . The Dative , or receiving . case . The Objective , or object of the verb . . JS ThpT "^ ^ different P ] aces * " a sentence . The Nominative goes before the verb active-- ^ 'I write , ' « I an , the person doing the thing , ' and / , consequentl y , is in the Nominative case .

      The-0 J / ec «» e case usually follows the verb , as , < I write a letter ; ' but it also follows prepositions , as , 'I went wVA kirn to London . ' It never . follows the preposition to , which is the peculiar mark of the Dative case . ' I , ' in the above sentence , is , therefore , the nominative , 'Mm' the objective , ' London' tbe dative case . The Possessive case implies possession , and we have this peculiarity with regard to it , that we put the letter * with the little mark called an apostrophe ( ' ) before it , after the noun . This implies the second noun belongs to the first ; as , ' ihe people ' s sove'

      reignty' ihe tyrant ' s power . ' In ancient times , when few people could write or read , words were very differently used to the manner in which they now are used , and , we should then have written , ' Me tyrant his power ; ' but now we use simply the letter s and the apostrophe . This is the case in the singular ; but when the plural ends in * , we do not add another « for the possessive case : we write the apostrophe only , after the word . In the same way , when the singular ends in ss , we use only the apostrophe . Thus , we should write , ' the tyrants ' power , '' when we mean the power of more tyrants than one— 'for goodness' sake !

      Observe , therefore , that the apostrophe and s after it , or the apostrophe without an « after it in the plural , or when the word already ends in double s , marks the act of possession , and ia the sign of the possessive case , and the apostrophe is to be used only in that way . The Dative case has also a sign ; it follows the preposition to . I gave it to John . ' These , then , are the three variations of which Nouns are susceptible—Gendek , Npmber , and Case .

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      The Adjective does not alter on any of these accounts . We say ' a good boy , ' 'good boys / ' a good girl ; 'but , as it expresses quality , and there are different degrees of quality , it has changes to correspond with these degrees . For instance , we may say , ' My devotion to the cause of the people is great ; yours is greater ' , his is greatest . ' You see that all these people of whom we have been speaking are marked by the same quality ; they all are devoted to the cause of the people , but this

      devotion is in different degrees . In the first part of the sentence ,.. My devotion is great . I simply state a fact , without in any way alluding to anything beyond it . I do not compare my devotion with any other person ' s , making it either more or less than theirs . But when I observe , ' Yours is greater , ' I cease merely to assert a fact . I compare it with another fact , and in the concluding clause of the sentence , ' bis is greatest , ' I not only conv pare with two previous degrees of the same quality , but I assert it to be superior to both .

      These three degrees are termed the Positive , the Comparative , and the Superlative . The Positive states the quality of one person or thing , without regard to any other . The Comparative increases or lessens the Positive , making it one degree better or worse . The Superlative compares the quality of one thing with that of more than one other , and makes it as good or as bad , as great or as small , as possible . In order that you may use these degrees of comparison correctly , both in writing and in speaking ,

      1 wish to remind you that there can be nothing better than the best—nothing more perfect than perfection ; and , therefore , when you have occasion to use the Superlative it is quite unnecessary and very absurd to put ad verbs to heighten its effect . Wha * can the landlord of a public-house mean when he marks his barrels of poison ' the best , the very best , ' except to take advantage of your belief in fine words , to rob you . If the first be 'the best' there can be no better—he is , therefore , a liar , or a knave .

      There are three sorts of comparisons : that by which we render things gradually better , as pretty , prettier , prettiest ; which is called the comparison of superiority . That by which we consider things as gradually worse—as ugly , uglier , ugliest—called the comparison of inferiority . That by which , on comparing things , we find them equal , called the comparison of equality . The comparatives of superiority or of inferiority require the word than after them—as , ' He is wiser than his neighbour , * ' She is uglier than her sister . ' The comparative of equality requires as before and after the adjective — ' He is as unjust as his brother . '

      I must now tell you the way of forming the comparative and superlative of adjectives from the positive . When thetKwifiee , or simple adjective has only one or two syllables , we add er for the comparative , and est for the superlative ; as ' great , great-er , great-est . ' But when the positive ends in e we add only r tmist tor the comparativeand superlative , as ' wise , wise-r , wisest . ' When the positive ends in y , we change y xtAoi before er , and est as ' lovely , lovelier , loveliest . '

      When the simple adjective contains more than two svllables , or when it has two long syllables we put the word more before it for the comparative and most for the superlative , —we should say , ' useful , more useful , most useful ; diligent , more diligent , most diligent . ' . . . . There are some adjectives , however ; the comparative and superlative of which are quite different words from the positive and from each other . Such

      are- Good Better Best . Bad Worse Worst Little : Less Least Much or many More Most Before I leave this subject I must notice a ridiculous custom , into which some people fall , of using two or three adjectives , which mean , the same thing , to one noun . Such people would say ' a diligent and industrious man , ' and they would talk non-Bense , for 'diligent' and 'industrious' mean the same thing , and , therefore , it is equal to . using the same adjective twice over . . ..

      Take care to use such adjectives as are suited to the nouns . If we are speaking of anything that pleases the eye , we may say 'lovely , beautiful , handsome , elegant '—if it charms the taste , we may use the adjectives ' nice , pleasant , " delicious , 'but it is at once very ridiculous and very inelegant to talk of ' a lovely dinner , ' 'a delicious chat / a 'beautiful piece of beef / because , though beef is a very agreeable thing to a hungry man , the pleasure it affords is addressed to thepalate not the eye , and a chat with a long-lost friend is a luxury to the mind , but gives no particular gratification to the mouth .

      To conclude my notice of adjectives , you may use as many as you require to paint the quality of the noun , provided each adjective describes a different quality ; and your sentence will sound most pleasantly to the ear , if you place the adjectives according to their different lengths , making them gradually longer . Thus , 'She is a young , learned , virtuous , and benevolent woman , ' has a much better sound than , ' She is a benevolent , learned , virtuous , and young woman . ' correct

      It is true that the latter phrase is as as the former , but it does not please the ear ; and , if in writing or in speaking , we would gain the hearts of others , we must endeavour to gain the goodwill of that steady sentinel of hearts . John Wesley said , when regretting the inferiority of church music , that he could see no reason why the devil shouldhave all the best tunes to himself j I certainly cannot see wh y tho se whose heads are as sensible , and whose nrurts are more true than those of most writers and

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      speakers , " shouldh' 6 f acquire the few . technical . rules which will enable them to convince the bead ? , » d touch the hearts of others . I am , your very sincere friend , M . M . P .

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      Chjbge or BIcbdbb ioiiKsr a Maniac—Thomas M'Intosh Davidson , an aged man of respectable appearance , but evidently of weak intellect , was indicted for the wilful murder , of Lewis Monntford —Mr Parn 11 appeared on the part of the prosecution , and Mr Bodkin for the prisoner . —Sir Bodkin said it would be unnecessary to go into the facts of the case , as the prisoner was in such a state of mind as to be utterl y incapable of p ' eading or understanding the charge . The jury was then sworn to try the issue whether he was of sound or unsound mind , and Mr Bodkin then called witnesses to that fact . —Mr Outfield , a surgeon at Tottenham , proved hwlng attended the , prisoner for two year * .

      Witn . tbe concurrence of his trustees be had him placed with a Mrs Holmes , at . Tottenham , where be committed tho act for iwhicb he is now placed at the bar . —Ho was decidedly of unsound mind , and from witness ' s opportunities of observation ho thought he was quite unconscious of the present proceedings . —Mr M'Murdo , surgeon of tbe gaol of Newgate , said be thought tbe prisoner was in such a state of mind as to be incapable of understanding tbe charge against him . Mr Olding , assistant-surgeon ef Newgate , corroborated last witness . The jury immediately returned a verdict that tho prisoner was of unsound mind ; and Mr Baron Piatt ordered him to be remanded to safe custody , there to be detained during her Majesty ' s pleasure .

      The Mubdee ik Mabymsbone , —Mary Ann Hunt , the female who was convicted Inst session of the murder of an old woman named Mary . Stoweil , as reported in tho Northern Star , was placed at the bar ; The Clerk of the Arraigns then asked her if she had anything to say why execution should not take place upon her for the crime of which she had been convicted . The prisoner , in anewer , said tbat she tellevcd she was with child . —Mi < Baron Piatt ; A jury of matrons must be empanelled , to see whether ornot she is pregnant with a quick child . — At half-past one o ' clock a . jury of matrons was

      empanelled , and sworn ; and Mr Baron . Piatt having told them what tbeir duties were , tbey retired ; and , after an absence of three quarters of an hour , returned into court . The Clerk of the Arraigns then asked whether they found that the prisoner , Mary Ann Hunt , was preg . nant with a quick child or not f To which the forewoman replied , that tbey had all agreed in tho verdict that tbe prisoner was not pregnant with a . quick child . —Mr Baron Piatt : Let her be removed from tbe bar , and tbe law must take its course . We understand tbat such a proceeding has net taken place in this court for the last half century .

      Foboebt . —Gcerge Hay ward was Indicted for forging and uttering a ' chequefor £ 89 . ss ., with intent to defraud Messrs Jones , Lloyd , and Go ,, the bankers . , It appeared tbat the cheque in question was presented for payment on the 22 nd of Mirch , but it iras not proved that the prisoner was the party who presented it , but oho of the notes given in payment ( a £ 50 Bank of England ) was traced to his possession . . The jury found him guilty ef the forgery , but not of the uttering , The prisoner was then Indicted tot forging a cheque for £ U 0 on Messrs Giyn and Co ., the bankers , and William Alexander was charged with being an . accessory both before and after tbe fact . In this case tbe evidence of tbe forgery was also complete ; the only evidence against Alexander was , that he changed a £ 50 hoto , which was given in payment of the cheque . The jury found Hay ward guilty , and acquitted Alexander ; tbe former was sentenced to be transported for life .

      Lifs in Lqhdon . —Thomas M'Carty and Mary Doher ' y were indicted for feloniously taking and receiving from James Patrick Nangle a sovereign , unier pre . tence of helping him te a watch of the valuo ' of £ 40 , which had recently been stolen from him . —Mr Preadergast stated the case for the prosecution at considerable length . Ha said this was a peculiar case , and required the attention of the jury . He read a recent act of Par . liament , which makes such conduct felony . Mr Nangle had been robbed of a watcb , and be met the male prisoner at a public-house , who said he knew the thief and could apprehend him . He also knew the'Jew to whom the watch was sold . In consequence of this represontation he gave tho-prisoner a sovereign .. ? Previous to this M'Carty had been given into custody , but discharged , as no proof was adduced against him to warrant a detention . —Mr Nangle deposed , that in the latter part of July he went with some friends to a public-house in Compton-street , and while ( hero he lost his watch .

      Before that time ths prisoner came in with . two men and two women . M'Carty was given in custody for the theft , but discharged by the magistrate for want of evidence . When liberated , the prisoner said , ' Now , I can tell you something you don ' t know . ' He said he knew the thief , and would apprehend him . He knew also tho manner in which it was disposed of . The female was introduced , and she made the . like and other observe , tions , which tamed out false . Mr O'Brien crossexamined the witness , when it appeared that on the night of tbe robbery he had been on a nocturnal stroll with his friends , to sse a little of' Lifein London . ' Witnesses were called , who confirmed Mr Kangle as to the prisoner ' s representations . —Mr O'Brien addressed tbe jury , and submitted , that the offence had not been proved in the terms of the act . The jury found both guilty . It appeared thatthe prisoners were both associates of thieves . The court sentenced them to seven years ' transportation . '

      Concealment op a Child . —Janet Irish , 33 , was in . dieted for unlawfully concealing the birth of a male child . The circumstances connected with the case are very singular . The occupants of the house in which tho prisoner lived stated that they were annoyed by an in . tolerable stench at times , for which no one ' could account until a box was epened , in which was found the decomposed remains of an infant , which must have been there for a long time , it was supposed three years , Whrn questioned , the prisoner said , * I put it there / alleging thatshehad not tbe means to bury it . Tbe jury found her guilty , and she was sentenced to three months' im-P'isonment .

      Bigamt . —Daniel Sinclair , a very respectable-looking man , was indicted for feloniously intermarrying with Jane Wells , his wife , Aon , being alive , . Tbe particulars of this case having very recently appeared in our police reports , a lengthened statement is not now necessary , B . Elliott , the parish clerk at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , proved that in 1839 the prisoner was married in that town to one Ann Joyce , who was now alive . Jano Weils stated that she was married to the prisoner on Octobsr 25 th , 1815 , at Christ Church , Botherhithe . She had kR < wn him a considerable time , and had always believed him to have been as he represented , a single man , Suspicions , however , arose , and on being interrogated he admitted that he had been married before , and that he had been convicted of bigamy . The prisoner , however ,

      obviated the difficulty thus created by assuring witness tbat bis conviction rendered bis marriage a nullity , and that he had consulted the proper authorities at Doctors ' , commons upon the point , and that tbey bad assured him that legally he was free from his former marriage . Under this representation witness became bis wife . Witness , in cross-examination , stated tbat she was a widow The certificate * of both marriages were then put in and proved , Mr Prendergast , for the prisoner , said that bis client had , undoubtedly , violated the law , but ho had done so without design , as he' was acting upon the opinlon of a proctor la Doctor ' s-eommons upon his former marriage . He had erred , certainly , but it was in ignoranee of the law . The Common Serjeant summed up , and the prisoner was Immediately declared Guilty . Two

      witnesses were colled to speak to the prisoner s character . One of them had known him from boyhood , and could testify to tbe respectability of his reputation . The witness , however , admitted that the prisoner had a third wife at Liverpool , but she bad since died . The witness was cross-examined by Mr Ballantinefor tbe prosecution , with reference to a conviction for felony , for which tho prisoner suffered twelve months' hard labour . The witness very reluctantly said he had heard as much , and that it was very likely to be true . He also admitted that ho was privy to tbe prisoner having a wife at Liverpool and another at Newcastle . A document was banded to

      the court , which showed that in 1843 the prisoner was convicted at Liverpool for bigamy , and was sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment . The Common Serjeant , in passing sentence , said that a more aggravated case be had never tried . For tbe protection ot society from such unprincipled men it was indispensable that the present case should be punished with severity . Something had bcon said of an opinion from DootorVcommons , and if such an opinion was ever given , why was it not proved , and then the court could havo briieved that he was acting with sincerity and honesty ? He ( the Common Serjeant ) believed tbat it never , was given . The sentence was that tho prisoner be transported for seven years ,

      ' Stabbing the Glaze . '— Barnett , and John and Thomas Bush ( brothers ) , were indicted for , and convicted upon clear evidence of , stealing from a pawnbroker ' s window a tray containing thirty-six gold rings . The act was perpetrated in tho mode technicolly called ' atarrias ; the glaze , ' < . «„ removing * , pane in the window by means of a diamond . An aliU was set up in reply to tbe case , but it fell to the ground . —Sentence en Barnett ten years' transportation ; T . Rush , 18 months ' , and on J , Rush six months' hard labour . Assault . — Henry Sceble , aged 28 , & person said to be respectably connected , was indicted for feloniously cutting , striking , and wounding Louisa Bradford , with intent to disable and do her grievous bodily harm . He was also charged with a common assault . Louisa Bradford deposed as fellows : —1 live In Wheatsheaf .

      court , St Pancras , New-road , On the night of the IC . h August I met with the prisoner . He solicited leave to spend the night with me , and I consented . Aftor a time , the prisoner was about to go away . I got up to prevent him , and ha pushed me . I then felt something on the uppsr part of my thigh , and a sensation like a out . 1 then thought tbe prisoner , who held me with one hand , bad a knife in the other , and I screamed out * Murder . ' He then knocked me down on the floor , and when I got up , dow-i he sent me again , and I kept crying 1 Murder' all the time , A lodger came down , and in . quired what was the matter . I told him the prisoner was ill-using me , -He afterwards came with a light , andtha prisoner let him lo . I was sitting on the side Of the bed bleeding at that time . Prisoner left the house He took the key of the street door away , so that I eou . d notget out . I never saw him more until the 20 th , when I found him where we first met , I said , that is the man

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      who stabbed me , and carried away my key . He laughed at me , and ! gave blm in charge . I attended my wound for a week , but was forced them to apply to a surgeon . Ttie policeman who took the prisoner into custody de . posed that on their way to the station-house , he con * versed with him about the charge , when he said , 'Idfd it , and I'd do it again . ' The Common Sergeant summed up the evidence with great particularity . The Lenrned Judge said that the law of the land threw its mantle over a person of immoral character and afforded them the

      same redress as the highest . The Jury consulted nearly , half an hour , and then returned a verdic t of Guilt / of a common assault on the second count . The Common Sergeant quite concurred in the propri « ty of the verdict , for the Jury had taken a most merciful view of the case , which tbe Court was bound to conslder a bad on ? , and aggravated by tbe prisoner locking the young woman in so as to prevent her obtaining assistance . The sentence of the Court was , that be bo kept te hard labour in the House of Correction for nine calendar months .

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      ^ , ., .,.. . •—„^^ , — The first steamer that crossed the Atlantic between the new and old world was the Savannah , Captain Rogers , built at New York ; she was 300 tons burthern , ship rif ged ; her engine was 70 or 80 horse power , low pressure . She proceeded from New York to Savannah , whence she sailed in 1819 for Liverpool , making the passage in 22 days . In passing the Irish coast , the smoke and steam from her chimneys gave her the appearance ofashipon fire , and vessels were despatched from tho Cove of Cork to her relief . She subsequently made the voyage to Constantinople and back , being the first steamer that traversed the Mediterranean Sea , as well as the Atlantic Ocean .

      Kebp it buporbthePeoplb . —The United States ' Government sold at public auction , for 530 dollars , in the district of Columbia , on the 13 th of July , in the year of our Lord 1847 , at ten o'clock , A M ., tivo women , and put tho money in the Treasury of the United Stales . A New Sopraso . —A young German singer ( says tho Gazette Musicale ) , of a family of high rank in Berlin , Mademoiselle . Cruwell , m at present obtaining great and legitimate success in Italy . The journals compare her to Jenny Lind and Madame Pasta .

      The Fobcb of Exampib —A hawker offish , residin ? in tho Basse-ViUe , at Lyons , a few days back cut his wife ' slhroat . Being arrested shortly after , he avowed his guilt , declaring thatdukes acted iu the same way as be had done . A fatal duel took place at San Augustine , Texas , on the Ulh of July , between Messrs Russell and Kendall , the rival editors of two Texan papers , who had been abusing each other for some time , and at length took to pistols . They fired three shots each , when Russell fell mortally wounded . Cabbuobs Exempt prom Tax —It may be useful to those who drive carriages , with their names , Ac ., attached , to know that the name , occupation , and residence of the owner , must be painted in separate and distinct words , with a proportionate distance between each word ; as otherwise such carriages , however strictly in other respects they be in accordance with the act for exemption , are liable to the duty .

      . Bowbis op Mercy ' . —The eviction of tenantry in Ireland is now being carried to an extent truly horrible . A writer , dating Carrick on-Shannon , s » ys'At least one-third of the entire county is under ejectment . Now that the crep is ripe the landlord steps in , takes the crop , turns the tenant en the world , and levels the houses without the usual time or chance of redemption . ' At one place in the county Cavan , as many as ninety-nine , houses have been rased , and their unfortunate occupants turned adrift upon the world . The county resounds every night with the shouts and shots of the hired marau ders , by whose relentless ferocity the work of expul sion is carried on . The day must sooner or later arrive when * the cry of the poor , ' loud as it has long been and is , will be redressed .

      Ship-Fbvbb in Canada . —Many hundreds of emigrants , annually leave Hull for Canada , and the following statements , taken from the Quebec Mercury , the Toronto Globe , and the Streetsvillt , cannot but be mournfully interesting to many of our readers , During the present year upwards of 70 , 000 emigrants have already arrived at the ports of Quebec and Montreal , and few , if any , of the vessels in which they crossed tbe Atlantic were free from the ravages of fever to a most awful extent . The Montreal Board of Health , in their report , dated 12 th ult ., state that the Black Hole of Calcutta , was a mercy

      compared to the bolus of many of the vessels from the British Islands , instancing cases where , out of 496 passengers , 158 died on the passage , and 186 more were sick on the arrival ; where , in 10 vessels ,, sailine with 4 , 427 passengers , there were 804 deaths and 847 sick . The sick in Grosse Isle ( a quarantine rendeveuz , established by the colonial officials ) , on . the 6 th ult ., 2 , 148 were sick , and the deaths in the previous week were 197 , having in one day amounted to 48 . This is an awful state of things , and requires an immediate and judicious investigation from the home authorities .

      • Hold On !'—Several instances of the folly , to say nothing else , of ' holding on ' during the ' late scarcity of provisions , have been told us . One we will mention . A farmer of Clevedon had a large stock of wheat , and was offered 14 s . a bushel for 400 bushels . This he refused , as he wanted 15 s ., but he would now be glad to sell the same at 63 . abushel . Railway Accidents svaiss Six Months . —A return has jifst been printed , by order of the JJotise of L-uds , of the number and nature of the accidents and of the injuries to life and limb which have occurred on the railways in Great Britain and Ireland , frem the 1 st of January to the 30 th of Junr , 1847 , as reported by the various railway companies to the

      commissioners of railways . The total number of passengers carried during the half-year , as returned by the companies , was 23 , 210 , 422 , a number nearly equal to four-fifths of the population of Great Britain and Ireland . Of this number 101 persons havo been killed , and 100 injured . Wasp Suns . —Immediately after the sting , press the hollow or tube part of any key tightly over the part stung ; the poison may be seen at the mouth of the wound , and should be wiped off . An Italian paper states that the celebrated composer Rossini holds the rank of captain in the National Guard of Bologna , and displays extraordinary activity in the discbarge ofhis military duties ,

      The emigrants who arrived at Baltimore , recently from Germany , deposited sixty thousand dollars in gold with the Baltimore bank an hour or two after their arrival . Edwin Forrest , the actor , offers a prize of 3 , 000 dollars for the best original tragedy in five acts , to be . written by an American citizen , and submitted before the 23 rd of June nexf . Rkuarkusle Precautions por Louis Philippe ' s PnoiKciios —One of the saddest circumstances which existin this coun try is the extraordinary precaution which it is considered necessary to take for the safety of the King . There arc , for example ; five large barracks , each occupied by regiments of elite , in the immediate vicinity of the Tuilleries , and

      eighteen guard-houses , each of which is continually occupied day and night by a troop of readynrmed men , surrounding the palace . The palace itself is occupied by 250 national guards of the infantry battalions , and by 25 men of the regiment of horse . There are , besides , S 50 soldiers of the lino , and a troop of 50 men ot a cavalry regiment . At nine o ' clock at night a detachment , composed of four companies , takes itsstetien in the centre ot tho palace , and remains all night with loaded arms ; 80 sentinels , with loaded arms , keep watch in and around the palace during the night ; besides which , patrols and detachments visit every part of the palace and the gardens every half-hour ; 55 of the attendants in the gardens , and of the domestics of the royal household , mount guard in the royal apartments during every night , armed with double-barrelled guns . Iu addition to all this multitude , there is a number of policeagents , aides-de-camp , adjutants , & o ., continually

      oud'ity . A secret passage leads from the palace to one of the nearest barracks , and some of the guardhouses are provided with ladders to enable the soldiers to enter the palace and gardens at any moment . Nkapoutas Bhutamit—The Neapolitan police are said to have subjected several printers to the torture of the thumbscrew , in order to force them to reveal the names of the authors of some placards attacking tke conduct of the government , which have been posted at Naples . An InKn Brigade por Rome . —In consequence of the allusions made in Conciliation Hall , Dublin , and elsewhere , respecting the propriety of the Irish forming a brigade to defend the Pope from Austrian aggressions , a large number of Irishmen , resident ia London , have expressed their willingness to enlist tor that purpose , and they contemplate holding a meeting , to petition the Queen to allow them to do so .

      Ton Thumb ' s Fortune . —Tom Thumb ' s secretary has furnished one of the Syracuse papers with a statement of his receipts in Europe , which are said to be as follows : —Ilia receipts in Europe were 4150 , 000 sterling , or 750 , 000 dollars ; reckoninsr Mysix sovereigns to the pound avoirdupois , 3 , 078 pounds of gold , one hundred and seventy-eight times his own weight . In silver the weight would be 40 , 3 / 0 pounds Calculating tbat an ordinary horse would draw 850 pounds , it would require fifty-five horses to draw the precious load . As the general only weighs fifteen pounds , the silver would make 3 . 12 o statues of hifl Sin £ gat . Calculating that each dollar nieasures one and-a-half inch , it would reach in a straight line about twenty-five miles ; and supposing eachdollar is one-eighth of an inch in thickness piled one upon the other it would reach over a mile and a half in heigth "

      . ,, ..... _ . tt VlSII OP FATHfiB MaTHBW 10 TUB IJsiTE * Siates . — Father Mathew is to proceed , early next a » "m 2 to America , and tho owners of the packet ship Mnry Anno havo already given instructions to have the private state cabin placed athis disposal or that purpose .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02101847/page/3/