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      " TILE PBOMISE OF THE PRESENT . " TThe following lines are extracted from a poem T" ^ ** £$ *** *> « n 4 which was delivered before the Philalathean Society of Hanover College , SX ^ f ' w ^ ^ "pal commencement , August 17 , 1846 , by W . T Gallagher . Tho prediction of the poet has alread y been partially realized ; the complete fulfilment is to come—come it will , ] Hare we not paltered , trifled , slept ? -are vrc prepared to do , or dare , -for T'S ' conscience , for the fires Of Freedom , what ( key dared , and did , our noble sires ? * * * * The Promise of the Pbesesi ! Hour by hour i see the upgrowing of a perilous pow ' r , "Whose mightiest energy , whene ' er it come , "Will Strike ihe pale and startled nations dumb . Sot here—not here alone

      , Pants the torn bosom for a better day , But wberesoe ' er the light of truth hath shown , In the Old World away . Patiently , well and long The many for the few have toil'd in sweat , — 2 for deeming rightly of the accursed wrong , But feeling that not yet Had come the day of reckoning and wrath . But now , beside the lone and desolate path Of slave and peasant , —where the rice-swamps spread , Or where his bone and crust the Chartist hatb , Or where Htbernia ' s sons in bondage tread , Or by the Danube ' s icy wave , or where The dusky . Syrian roves with bosom bare , — W & ere ' er a proud and trampled spirit bleeds ,

      A desperate purpose nerves for desperate deeds ; And outraged millions ; rising from the dust , Place in on ^ lookiri'Heav ' n their hope , their trust , And pant to ; mingle in that gloriousfight , "Which shall .. beat down the . Wrong—lift np the Right . '; " - ; : ¦ ¦ : ? :- ¦ ¦ ' - . The voice of . Senates , and the breath of Kings , -Order and law . -shallthen be fragile things , — For , as fierce tempests , lashirig-aa they sweep Tumultuous billows on the sounding Seep , Strike down the mi ghtiest fleets , and scatter-wide The proudest armaments its waves that ride , — So human passions , of terrific birth , Shalt sweep and desolate the broad green Earth , Until the fight be fought , and victory won . And Equal Justice smile on all beneath the sun .

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      SOJfiJET . ( From the Reasoner . ) To the memory of Count Louis Sathyanv , murdered at Pesth , on the 6 th of October , 1849 , by order of Marshal Haynau , accused of having been infidel to the Emperor of Austria and faithful to the People of Hungary . Thou art our brother now ;—The manifold And cruel sins inflicted by thy race ,

      Patrician , upon ours , shall have no place Hereafter in our minds : but in tbe fold Of our rough hearts , in which are nursed the old And sacred fires , there shall be lasting trace Of thy proud name—which time shall not erase If or future wrongs freeze in Oblivion cold . For thou hast died beneath the fangs of those , 'Tween whom and us is natural , deadly strife , The blood-gorged , priest-crowned , Anarchs , our fell foes .

      Thus , by thy death , which vindicates thy life , Installed in that Companionship , art thou , Of those who suffer— IFe are brediren now . Eugene

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      The Illustrated Atlas And Modern History...

      THE ILLUSTRATED ATLAS AND MODERN HISTORY OP THE WORLD . Edited by R . Mostgomert Mahtix , Esq . Parts XII ., XIEL , XIV , and XV . London : J . and F . Tallis , 100 , St . John-street . These parts of the Illustrated Adas contain

      maps of ' England and "Wales , ' Scotland , ' 'Holland / 'Europe , ' United States , ' 'Turieyin Asia , * 'Syria , ' and 'Asia , '—all most faithfully and beautifully executed . The letter-press , though condensed into small -space , contains a mass of valuable , statistical , and general information . When completed Hie Illustrated Atlas will be of great value as a ¦ work of reference .

      The Reasoner. Edited By G. J. Holyoake. ...

      The Reasoner . Edited by G . J . Holyoake . Paris XXXIX ., XL ., XL ! ., XLIT . London : J . Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster Row . These Parts constitute the first four of a new series of the Reasoner . To Reformers who « gree -with Mr . Holyoake in bis fullest

      assertion of the right of private judgment , but ¦ who dissent from some of his views on theology & c ., this publication / will be more attractive than it was in times past , when it was more polemical and less political than it is at present . It is pleasant to see a teacher of progress progressing ; a sig ht not always to be met with .

      The orations , articles , & c ., on ihe death of Henry Hetherington , form a striking feature of ihe Parts under notice . The report of Mr . Coo er ' s "Funeral Eloge" contains an interesting summary of the eventful history of the true and tried patriot who commenced his public career as the Poor Man ' s Guardian , . and ended his mortal race while occupying the sacred position of a faithful and p hilanthrop ic Guardian of the Poor .

      Although Henry Hetherington had expen'enced many trials and misfortunes , he had also had his victories ; and in his death he -svas signally fortunate in leaving behind him feithml and talented friends , willing and able to do justice to his memory . The admiration of the readers of the Reasoner must be paid both to the deceased patriot , and to those who so worthily dedicated their talents to vindicate his reputation , and make known his claims to the gratitude of bis countrymen .

      In these Parts will be found a series of abl y -imtten articles by a writer who takes the signature of " Eugese ; " his articles combine - ttith tho enthusiasm of youth , that solidity vhich usually belongs onl y to those of mature 4 i o-e and experience . The articles of this writer on continental politics and the Factory Question , are worthy of special commendation . Other writers might be sing led out for notice , —we will name only one , W . J . Lktox—the Murat of the Reasoner corps . Mr . Lixtox is

      no friend of ours , but that shall notpreventus thankino- him for bis chivalrous and nntrrmg pleading for the Romans , Hungarians , and other " oppressed nationalities , " against the cruelties , and crimes , and treacheries , and hypocrisies of Tsar , and Kaiser , and perjured President , and palavering Palmerston , and T > et ^ ogg ing , pitiMpea cemongers . Ifwemay for the moment adopt a vulgar but expressive Americanism , which ; indeed has become pretty wrett Anglified , —we " go the whole hog with ¦ « r T I . ISTON against all and sundry ot nis

      opponents , in his manly vindication of those who have dared to draw the sword for Liberty and Justice ; and his equally praiseworthy denunciations of aH who have been parties—directly or indirecfly-fo the temporary overthrow of the brave and suffering patriots of the continent . , ., The following article , b y a writer with a signature unknown to fame , is briefly as well as eloquently written ; two reasons for quoting it entire : — x „„„ THE STONE BREAKER . the Friends of

      Dedicated , without person , 0 - U would seem that the wrings of the labourer will 1 w / SrP « ed Many things are brought to never be redressea . m ** £ .. ^ ji un certain pf , both s « i « d jJ ^ SSa constantly in cf ihe morro « -Jus means m ^^ jeopardy . Science ^ JWJJ ^ feats > that lohard . and . performed mcfc ™« the lawand ^ prop hefe ^ e no ° S ^ were ; but , like the m « te « ^ ^ ' acc 0 m assumed a new g ™ se J ^' S from darkness to plijhed , much has been rescuea w £ g ht . The labourer ^ . ^ Sfpennry and slavery cf bis hard estates ; fteJgfJ ^ fceUdl i gnominioiisU ^ tnient . He sttU ^ ui Sig hted bandral ^ m % &^^ 0 f fat-meatil oppressor ^^/ Lfc He 1 tiU shrinks to irtSZlS ^ if Zenct ^ besomi , tvvo-^ fffl „ tt ! 4 ho ? romises Hmso mncb , andg . ves is

      WsoTitae ; who smiles on him when M new ** fe ^ ggStes is all unknown : ^ *» gg ^ te & . I * " * v ^^^& SS & aJF ^ fa tar look at thee . Alas .. tnuiac , def 0 rmed ! mony and proportion , but « » » w *»

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      That body should be erect , and full of force and life , but it is bowed down and spiritless ? 1 should be comely and well clothed , bat it is filthy and ragged . ' Hear friends of order , look on him ; do not at least contemn him , for he has been , all through this pittiless winter day , breaking stones to make smooth the road that your carriage wheels might glide along smoothly . Look on him ; if you do not ; he will not much need it ; for he is not like the lazzaroni you may have encountered in your travels . He will not crawl , whine , aud beg for a little charity . Look on him , and fear not . He has a very unpkasing countenance , it is true ; but it does not brood murder , as you might well suppose . It is the expression of despair which his visage always wears when , as is the

      case now , his children at tbe hovel yonder have eaten up seven days' food by the end of the fifth . He calls it being " eaten toil of house and home ! " You should visit tJiat -which he calls bis house and home . You should see his wife and children ; endeavour to spy in upon them without their knowledge . You would then be better able to form a true notion of them . You might then be led to think some means might be provided to make their condition less dreadful . It might so strike you . When the children sobbed and screamed for bread , you might think they needed and ought to have of it : and seeing the mother sank down , exhausted , ou her bed of Straw , with the squalh'd infant at her breast , you might , from yonr knowledge of nature , be convinced that she sank down for want of proper

      nourishment . Friends of order ! if the smallest particle of the labourer ' s heart be good ; if there be left in him aught of parent or husband , if the fell scourge , pov < rty , has not bereft him entirely of his common nature , he cannot quietly endure a sight like this . if nobility , the boasted attribute of humanity , ever were his , to what a worthless dreg it must be reduced ! If he were ever clothed in native majesty , it has Ions been displaced by infamy . But we will return to him . "We left him breaking stones on the Queen ' s highway . There he is , all alone , unheeded and unpitied , plying his sledge-hammer with what strength he has left . He seldom lifts his head , -except , perchance , as some one of your wealthy families , lounging in

      their- ^ arriage , rush past him .- ; The night is already set in—cold , piercing winds and . drenching rains ; that fill his bones with aches and cramps , are gathering all around . Alas-I poor labourer , whither will he go ? Yonr splendid villas , oh , friends of order ! adorning the hill side a ' ong the road , are all lit up with fire , and candle , and lamp . It is your dinner hoar . Savoury roast meats and choice wines load yon tables , and the laugh and the jest , soft music , and graceful song are yours . But what is all this feasting and merry-making , to the starving labourer , but a mockery . and a taunt ? "What but a demonstration that you have won the victory ? "What but the manifestation of the fact , that by you he has been despoiled ?

      He goes towards his wi e and children who are anxiously awaiting his approach . His way lies through the dark lane . Oft he stumbles in the unseen ruts , knee deep in mud and water , made by the waggon wheels . Clogged is every stepJie takes , and ofthe well-nigh sinks in despair , for the fiend , hanger , has not been idle with him . "Quit thy muddy path , " the fiend whispers in his ear , " there is the rich man's garner , take thy fill , poor man , and thy necessities be thy justification . " The lock is broken , the store gained , the sack is filled , and the deed done ! Friends of order 1 you know the rest . . You will sit in judgment upon him for this ; and , with one voice , cry " away with him into slavery !"

      Look on this picture , oh , friends of order . ' consider it ; and then ask yourselves whether all this machinery , this order of which you are the pillar and capital—this church , parliament , throne , country house , Sessions-house , and model prisonmight not be made to produce some result fur the labourer less hateful to humanity than this his present lot—a so-called independent manhood , without recompense , without comfort , with the gaol on the onehandandthe poorhonse on the other—and an old age , for those who reach it , of discomfort , disrespect , and hopelesswretchedness . What you are required to do , let it be said , is to be done for justice , not for charity . You are required to make paupers men , not men paupers . Christopher ,

      Were we captiously inclined we might pick a good many holes in the pages of the Reasoner , but there is one good reason why we should forbear : the matter we disapprove of bears hut a small p roportion to that which has our iull approbation . Though not a flattering , this is an honest tribute to the merits of ( the new series of ) the Reasoner .

      The Uxbridge Spirit Of Freedom.. Conduct...

      The Uxbridge Spirit of Freedom .. Conducted by "Wokking Men . No . VIII . November . London : Watson , Queen ' s-head Passage . This number ofthe Spirit of Freedom is , like its predecessors , rich in the eloquence . of truth outpoured in the defence of Liberty and Justice . Our friends Massey , Rymiix , and others , abate nothing of their vigour ; on the contrary , they seem to progress in strength as they advance in the work of their mission . The following extracts will exhibit the spirit ofthe articles from which they are selected : —

      THE TRIUMPHS OP LABOUR . Labour is glorious , it has changed the savage glen into a fruitful , civilised country , and covered it with countless monuments of art ; it was the labour of countrymen that has given Britain her illustrious position among the nations , and won for her the proud boast that the sun never sets upon her dominions . Our countrymen , by their labour , have built our Londons , onr Manchesters , our Birmingbams , with all their magnificent churches , splendid mansions , sorgeous palaces , institutions , asylums , hospital s , r . oble halls , schools , and stately athensums , mechanics' institutes , « fcc . They have sweated at the forge , and swelled at the furnace , and experimentalised in the foodies garret : they have given us the

      printing press , the steam engine , the telegraph ; they have laid all nature under tribute to do our bidding , made God ' s lightning our messengers ; at our command the leviathan steam engine starts with the strength of a thousand horses in his iron sinews , and draws passengers and merchandise at the rate of forty miles an hour ; they have almost superseded manual labour , and , in many instances , entirely ; by machinery they have filled the pockets of the rich , and rendered the poor poorer ; they have created another aristocracy , more odious and more powerful than the feudal one , one ever readv to coin their treasures out ofthe heart ' s blood of the toiler , by crushing his

      energies and destroying his independence for ever . Our countrymen have bought , by the pangs of their sore travail , every gem in the bauble crown which rests on the biflW of England ' s queen , her bed , the silken hangings and golden trappings of her throne , her palaces , her property , all have been wrung from the sinews and bones of labour ; the men who have filled our armies and armaments , marched over burning plains , and ploughed the raging seas , conquered Hindostan , and won Trafalgar , have sprung from the ranks of labour ; and such are some of labour ' s grand achievements ; and yet , with all our victories , we are slaves—tbe slaves of monarchy , of aristocracy , of priestcraft , of bad laws , and of ignorance .

      We have not room to extract from the articles on Organisation , & c , & c —very ably and boldly written . Wo conclude this notice with the Mowing spirited sentences addressed

      TO LAMARTINEVj You may set yourself up to be the counssllorof the people M . de Lamartine , but you are not the manyonr soul has a sublime sneaking for royalty , even to the lip-worship of that offal remains of the empire—Louis Napoleon ; you might have breathed the breath of life into the republican present ; you have been the murderer of the future : you might have guided the free steps of a happy people up thetxansfi < rurin < r mount of the To-Come . You have left them draeeirT" the car of misery in the ruts of past generations , misery is within their walls , misery is within their hearts , and instead of bidding their little ones to love all men as brothers , the torch of revenge is lighted , a mist of blood is in their eyes , it is tne blood of their brothers of Rome , of Paris , of Radstadt , and Vienna ; and they bequeath to them the bloody heritage of retribution-retribution that will arise , stalk forth from the graves of the dead , and cholera-like , avenge their wrongs upon the peace of the living .

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      Reynold ' s Political Instructor . Edited by G . W . M . Reynolds . London : J . Dicks , 7 , Wellington-street North . We have to welcome a new publication devoted to the instruction of the people , and the advocacy of their rights . We give the Editor ' s opening article in full : — THE REVIVAL OF A WORKINC-CXASS AGITATION . The history of nearly every moral agitation aud of every movement accomplished by means of physical force , shows that after the immediate object has been cither partially or wholly gained , the middle classes

      have reaped the greater advantage , and the toiling millions have seen their own material interests neglected—their wrongs unredressed—their rights unrecognised—and * their claims disregarded . In a word , they havebeen cheated with the shadow , while the middle classes have grasped the substance . Then , too , the middle classes have proclaimed the necessity of desisting from any further agitation , on the plea that absolute tranquillity becomes necessary for the revival of trade ; and if the working classes have persisted in continuing the agitation , they have been denounced as disturbers ofthe peace—inveterate malcontents—and incorrigible foes to order , —while mid-

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      dle-class juries have been called upon to become the media of dealing forth the vengence of sanguinary and barbarian laws . It is indeed a painful faut that the middle classes have too often proved themselves as hostile and as oppressive as the Aristocracy towards the industrious millions;—and therefore the sons and daughters of toil must at least be upon their guard , if not actually animated with suspicion , whenever they are called upon to give their adhesion to a political movement which originates with tbe middleclasses .

      Of all such movement which hare taken place within the present centurv , that of the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association appears to offer the best guarantees for sincerity of purpose , unflinching determination , and breadth of fundamental principle ; and in my opinion it deserves the strenous support of all true patriots and honest Reformers . But as the objects , of that Association are defined and limited , It must necessarily expire when its mission is accomplished ; and as the working classes demand more than it undertakes to procure for them , a well organised agitation should at least be in embryo , if not in actual existence , to perpetuate the moral struggle of democracy against class legislation and of right against wrong , until the full measure of reform be obtained and the regeneration of society be accomplished . " '''

      Moreover , for the reasons allleged at the outset , the working classes must be careful how they compromise their claims by throwing themselves heart and soul into a movement which is professedly instituted to obtain for them less than the . amount of those claims . They should support that movement to the utmost of their power : but they should not , by abandoning a legitimate agitation within their own sphere , lead the world to suppose that they have entered into any compromise to take less than all they were wont to . claim . They should assume that imposing attitude which seems to say to the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association , "We go with you hand-in-hand as far as you are travelling , because our journey lies along the same road : but we tell you honestly and frankly

      beforehand that we do not intend to stop at the same mile-stone where you propose to halt , inasmuch as we are bound to travel on to the end . " For it cannot be for a moment admitted nor tolerated that , any Association organised by the middle classes shall settle the privileges and define the rights of . the working classes . Indeed , if any one section of the community ought to have the power of establishing the nature and equilibrium of the governmental and administrative institutions , that section assuredly consists of the industrious millions , who are not only the numerical majority , but are likewise the origin of all wealth and the producers of everything necessary for the support and enjoyment of life . Again , the working classes have much to agitate

      for , in which they do not receive any sympathy from the middle classes . I especially allude to the rights of labour , the evils of competition , the measures re gulating the periods of labour in factories , and all the varied grievances of coal-miner * , stockingers , cutlery manufacturers , potters , weavers , agricultural labourers , < tc . & c . But I need not enter into any detail of all those points on which there now exists a war to the knife between those who work and those who give work—between those , whore capital is money and those whose capital is labour—between those who revel in luxury and those who starve . It is sufficient for the present purpose to know and to feel that inasmuch as a vast proportion of the wrongs and sufferings of the working classes emanates directly from

      the avarice , injustice , neglect , and ignorance of the middle classes , it is useless to look for total redress to this latter section of society . No middle-class movement , therefore , can ever lead to results calculated to give entire satisfaction to the working classes ; and this fact constitutes perhaps the strongest ^ argument that can be advanced to show the necessity of the working classes maintaining an incessant , but peaceful and constitutional agitation of their own , despite of and in addition to any other agitation which may be concurrently instituted by the middle classes . That an union between the two classes is most desirable , no one will attempt to deny : but an union cannot possibly be otherwise than transitory so long as the one class is resolute on stopping at a certain defined point and the other is equally determined to push the work of progress on to the extent indicated alike by reason and justice . Thus , an union between

      the two classes may now take place , under the auspices of Sir Joshoa Walmslby , with a view to wrest from , a reluctant Ministry certain measures of reform : but when once that point shall have been gained , the coalition must inevitably cease—one party relapsing into quiescence , and the other still magnani mously toiling on in the cause of progress , A trite simile will not be here out of place . The millions are starving and exclaim , " We have no bread 1 " Forth come certain individuals of the middle-class , saying , " We will agitate in order to obtain you half a loaf . ' To this the working-classes should reply , " We will certainly join you in the endeavour to obtain that half-loaf , because it is better than none : but inasmuch as the whole loaf is our just right and what we have always claimed , we shall perpetuate the agitation , with or without you , until we have obtained it . "

      To my mind the various arguments which I have thus ventured to throw together , are conclusive in showing the necessity of a revival of that workingr man ' s agitation which under the good old Saxon name of Chartism has already more than once convinced a tyrannical oligarchy that the millions feel their wrongs and have become impatient under them . And that the demands of the working-classes may be fully understood , —and that they may stand forth in juxtaposition with any petty concessions which a frightened Ministry may within a short time be disposed to grant , —I think that these demands should be recorded as follows : — 1 . Universal Suffrage . 2 , Vote br Ballot .

      3 . Annual Parliaments . 4 . Equal Electoral Districts . 5 . Paid Representatives . 6 . No Property-Qualification . 7 . The Recognition of the Rights of Labour . 8 . The Abolition ofthe Law of Primogeniture . It will be seen that two principles are here added to those contained in the noble document called the People ' s Charter ; and I thus annex them because the events of 1848 brought one of them so prominently before the eyes of the world , and because the other is so intimately connected with the causes of the wide-spread pauperism existing in this country . For the Rights of Labour may be summed up in the axiom that " there should be a fair dav ' s waire

      lor a fair day ' s work ; and that every man able and willing to work , should have work found for him . " As for the Law of mmogeniture , it is abhorrent to those principles of common justice and common sense which proclaim that" the earth belongs first of all to those who are upon it ; and that every one is entitled to receive a subsistence from the earth , before any one individual has a right to more . " But the laws of entail , of mortmain , and primogeniture , instituted for the purpose cf retaining wealth in particular channels have been ably denned as measures that " prevent ihe natural circulation of property-obstruct the coming together of land and useful labour—and by thus hindering the production of food from advancing at the same rate as the production of people , spread

      pauperism and misery over the face of the country . " I have now stated my opinions in behalf of a revival of a working man ' s agitation ; and Ihave recorded the principles on which I think that agitation should be based . But I must emphatically declare that I contemplate only a legal and constitutional agitation , —adopting those means and having recourse to tho = e espedienis wbieh are comprised within the meaning or the term— " Moral Force . " Sir Joshua Walmslev , the Member for Bolton , must now be considered the Leader of the . Middle Class Movement . This gentleman is thoroughly honest and an undoubted Liberal / indeed , lie him ? self has admitted in the , admirable speeches , which-he

      has delivered at recent public meetings , ' that he goes beyond the principle set forth in the " profession ' of faith" promulgated by the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association , . Sir Joshua is a man of buciness-habits , shrewdness , ' tact , and indomitable perseverance : he is strai g htforward in his character and his speeches ; and his acquaintauec with the real wants and interest of the masses is apparent in the mode in which he addresses them from the platform . His votes in Parliament have always been on the right side ; and it should be recorded that he was one of the fifteen who supported Mr . O'Connor ' s motion for the People ' s Charter last session

      Air . Feahgus O'Connor , the Member for Nottingham , is the Leader of the Working Class Movement . To the cause of the sons of toil he has devoted the best years of his life : day and night has he served them with energy , fidelity , and intelligence ;—and tbe best proof of his patriotism is to be found in the fact that he has beenunweariedly , shamefully , and atrociously maligned by the illiberal portion of the public press and by the upholders of existing abuses . Him whom the people love , the Aristocracy are certain to hate;—and therefore the hated of the Aristocracy and of that large portion of the press which the Aristocracy can command , is sure to be a man whose talent , integrity , and influence are an object of dread on the part of despots . George W . M . Reynolds .

      Ably-written articles on the "Wants and Claims ofthe Miners , " " Universal Suffrage , " " the Aristocracracy , " "the People , " & c , together with Chapter I . of "A New History of England" will be found in this number , which is also embellished with wood-cut portraits of Sir Joshua Waimsley , M . P ., and FEAKGr / s O'Connor ., M . P . An exceedingly cheap and good pennyworth of political information ; this publication gives promise of a long and successful career .

      ZS- Since the above was put into type we have received No . II ,, which we observe contains valuable articles on Chartism ( by the

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      Editor ); "Tho Monopoly of the Laud ;'' " The rise and progress of Human Slavery •'' "Lord John iutlie Lion ' s Skin , " ¦ &© ., & c „ together with a life-like portrait of . Mr . G . Thompson , M . P . for the Tower Hamlets .

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      Jh Champion of what is true and right for the good of all . Ashton-under-Lyne : Hobson , Old-street . Manchester ; Heywood , Oldham-street ; and j olm Heywood , Deansgate . Tins publication , at ouce Radical and Religious in its tone , is devoted to tlie cause of the Factory Workers . It appears to be under the influence—and , perhaps , the editorship—of the Rev . J . R . Stephens . Amongst other contributors , we observe the esteemed name of Riciiaed Oastier , who has contributed to the first number an article on ' The Politics of Christianitv . '

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      David ' s Sling at the State Church Goliath , by . George Hows . London : W . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row . Mr . Hows dedicates his "Sling" to the Bight Rev . Father in God , the Lord Bishop of Lincoln , after the following manner : — How dare your Spiritual Lordship call yourself a minister of the religion of Christ ? H Je *\ w were at this moment to demand an account of your stewardship , how blanched would your cheek become

      vrnere would you hide your guilty head ? Surrounded as you are by all tbe paraphernalia of infidelity to the meek and lowly Jesus ; . to wit , your purple and fine linen , your palaces , your equipages , your luxuries , your immense wealth ; surrounded as you are by all these unmistakable evidences of your infidelity , do you ever think of the man of sorrow and acquainted with grief , who had not where to lay his head ? Du you -ever dream' of the poor English heathens by whom . you are . surrounded , and whom you rob to maintain yourself in your infidel splendour ?

      « The , character ofthe " Sling" may be understood by the following ( not very smooth ) stone , flung at

      PRIESTS AND RULERS . Be not deceived by their soft words , their sublime prayers , their imposing ceremonies , their loud protestations , their eloquent discourses ; I declare to you , that in spite of all these external appearances to lead the people astray , they know and believe in their heart of hearts that it ' s all a mummery—a stage play —a make-believe , to " awe and govern" the people ; and line their own pockets . This is as true as that God has ordained , that they , for their hollowness , iniquity , and pride , shall be speedily annihilated . Bravo , David ! " Up , and at them !"

      Sunshine And Shadow; A Tale Of ' '. ' . ...

      SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF ' ' . ' . THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BV THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XXXII . She was a thing like thee , that seemed Almost . too glorious for desire ; And all of which romance had dreamed , Tamed all that passion meant to fire , look round—and where the bright—the holy—The dawn-star ! fallen from the skies 1 And after vice and craftier folly , Where nobler natures weep—despise .

      In that false world to which thou ' rt chained , Who sins not is too tame to reign ; And custom in an hour hath gained , What vice for age had stormed in vain . And duller , colder sins shall mar Tho gloss upon thy spirit ' s pinion ; This sorcerer world but makes the star - It most invokes , the most its minion . And all the pleasures which possess thee But dim thy heart while they caress thee ; And truth will lose her virgin beauty ; And art shall mould itself to duty ; And all that fashion bids thee follow , Leave love foresworn and friendship hollow . I would not meet theo when some years

      Have taught thy heart how folly sears , And trifles now so tempting fluttered Away the youth they but embittered , When all our fancies most adore , Cling round that joyous form no more . Lytton Bulwer . The clock has just struck eight , the night is cold and drizzling , the wind sweeps in fitful gusts through the streets , and is heard moaning as though in grief at nature ' s desolation ; in the parks of St . James and Hyde , the region around seems dull and untenanted , but it is high noon in Belgrave-suiuare , — g ilded lacqueys are nurrying to and fro , the carriages are setting down their richly dressed occupants at a mansion whose blazing lights and

      bustling appearance seem to indicate that some unusual revelry is taking place within ; two policemen are at the door to keep order among the rival servants , each asserting their . owner ' s claims for place and precedence ; the stately groom ofthe chambers is bawling the names of the titled visitors as they are ushered into the splendid suite of rooms ; the mistress ofthe mansion , tho beauteous Clarence Fitzherbert , now Lad y Maxwell , is busily employed in receiving her guests , and going through the routine of aristocratic ceremony ; how changed from the pure-hearted girl of our former chapters , —the simplicity of girlhood no longer hangs around her , she has emerged into the blaze of resplendent womanhood , —she is the fashionable leader ofthe ton , —the

      cynosure of all eyes , and the admired talisman that attracts a thousand beating hearts , —her brow seems loftier , though paler , than of yore , and her voluptuous form , attired in all the splendour of lace and jewels , seems to dazzle the beholder , yet a careful scrutiny of her countenance would show to the most inapt observer that all is not peace under that gay exterior , —her eye no longer swims in the liquid light of unaffected happiness , —her footsteps have not the lightness of their former tread , —her gaze , when unoccupied with receiving the meaningless compliments of the gay flutterevs who surround her , is absorbed and vacant , —she is the splendid mistress of a gorgeous mansion , not the loved wife of a happy home . Her husband , Walter North , now a peer of

      the realm , has been elevated to the Upper House with the title of Lord Maxwell , as a reward for his subserviency to the Whig Cabinet ; his quondam friends and supporters , the Corn Law League , occasionally receive his support , but in all essential respects ho has become . 1 mere tool of tho ruling faction ; his services are ever at their command , and his mediocre abilities bettor suited to tho dull region ofthe Peers than to the more active arena of the so-called House of Commons ; his father-in-law and the Earl of Attringham are both- immured in the tomb of their ancestors , and in right of his lady ho has become possessor of their extensive domains ; his career has been one complete gleam of sunshine ; the height of his aspiring hopes has been attained ,

      and his whole soul glories in his success , still his happiness is not without alloy : his lady has twice brought him a son and heir , but death has claimed them as his prey , and his ambition frets and chides itself , that whilst every cottage on his extensive domain is crowded with starving children , whose parents waste their strength in vain efforts to support them , whilst his baronial hall , where more food is wasted than would supply the wants of tho whole hamlet , is destitute of a child to share its plenty , or transmit the honours of the lord to succeeding generations . Marrying from motives of pride and ambition—destitute of the genuine feeling of love , ^> when a few short months had ' passed , passion was exchanged for satiety , —home ceased to hare charms

      in his eye * , used to the active pursuits of trade he could not enact the simple but dignified part of a country gentleman , and the retirement of Newland Hall ( for the fond father had insisted upon their living with him whilst in ihe country , ) was too irksome a restraint to be long endured by one whose every wish' had hitherto been gratified . Attendance to his parliamentary duties being a valid excuse , his home was but seldom visited , and speedily quitted , without any symptoms of regret , and his once flattered bride , the lovely Clarence , in the depth of her heart was forced to admit that she had pledged her affections to one who was careless of the value of the offering ; vainly did she try by every solicitude in her power to charm back his wayward heart , but

      immersed in business or pleasure , he heeded not her attractions ; and love for her father , whose declining health would not permit his removal to London , still kept them estranged from each other until the death of Lord . Fitzherbert , when they removed to their town establishment in Belgravesquare . Devotedly attached to her father , Clarence mourned his loss with no common grief , —he was to her a dear companion and a sincere friend , —and when bereft of him she felt still more keenly the unkindness of her husband ; but onco introduced into ' town life , the novelty of the scene—the glitter and refinement with which she was surroundedawakened the dormant passions of her soul , and she

      plunged recklessly into its whirlpool of gaieties , and sought to hide her domestic grief in the chaos of dissipation . Young and lovely—admired and flattered by all—she strove , amid bustle and gaiety , to fill that void , in her heart which unrequited love gave birth to , but in vain did she seek to satisfy its cravings ; in the dance and the carousal she was the giddiest of the gay , but in her deserted chamber she felt all the lone bitterness of a slighted heart . True , she was flattered and caressed , and many were the voices that whispered to her of love—false , adulterous love—but thoug h the fulsome adulation gratified her newly awakened vanity , and whiled away the tedium of the hour , it never reached her heart , —her education had been too pure , —her na-

      Sunshine And Shadow; A Tale Of ' '. ' . ...

      ture too unaophiscated , for the poison to sink deep 01 ' the careless husband mi ght have reckedhis inattention to his fair bride . If our fashionable novelists paint truly the scenery of high life , how vapid and unsatisfactory are its pleasures . '—how fruitful its tendencies for vice and crime , gilded though they be by artifice and refinev ? e t .-V" ' 6- genuine love—can scarce survive in its baleful atmosphere ; virtue is scorned , or treated with ridicule—still its outward show is maintained , out , like all hotbed productions , its blossoms are talso and deceitful , calculated to please the eye and gratify the palate , but unsubstantial and worthless , compared with the genuine fruit . Yet these are our legislators and rulers-these are those who govern by right divine , whose authority so to do it is treason

      to question . On theniiyhfc with which our chapter commences Lord Maxwell had taken for the hrst time his seat and the customary oaths , on presenting himself as a member of the Upper House and a brilliant assemblage ( so called , we presume , from the ] ewels that sparkled among them ) was met at his residence to congratulate him on the auspicious event . But , alas ! the lord of the mansion appeared not—hour followed hour , and his carriage came home empty , the servants being unable-to trace their master , . He had ordered his carriage at the Reform Club-house , at eight o ' clock , intending to walk thither from the House of Peers . Elevated with the new honour which had been conferred upon him , and having partaken freely of wine , he had fallen in with a fair Cyprian , and thus occupied was

      attacked by a maniac , robbed , and left bruised and insensible ; the girl having given the alarm he waa conveyed to the nearest doctor , and some hours elapsed before hewas sufficientl y recovered to make known his name or residence . Header , the schoolfellows had once more met . The peer had encountered the outcast—the favourite of fortune had sunk beneath the hunger-smitten rage of his quondam acquaintance . What a tangled web of arbitrary arrangements do the affairs of this world appear . Good and Evil , Right and Wrong , are so mingled together , that we cannot trace the principle that governs it , nor find the clue to its varying threads .. Cause and Effect seem to have abandoned their unity , and the whole to be composed of vast fragments of one mighty chapter of accidents . We

      see vice triumphant , and Virtue in adversity ; Geriius , . in j-ags , ' and . Mediocracy in power . How calculated isihis to raise a doubt of the superiority of intellect over instinct , and to make us sceptical of the existence of a beneficent superintending Power . In the world of Nature all is harmony and beauty —all is in accordance with known natural laws ; the planets roll through space without infringing on each others' spheres ; the seasons rise and fall in due succession—every tree , every plant , is placed in a soil and situation suited to the Jdevelopement of its peculiar properties ; all is order—all is regularity . But when we turn to man , how sad is the contrast . Boasting of the lights of revelation and Pndosophy , proclaiming himself an emanation from the Deity , he spreads around himself chaos and

      confusion . With bitter malignity he seems to delight in heaping evils on his own head and on those of his brethren ; tho fair world around him he curses with his passions , until he makes it one scene of desolation , . He dwells in an atmosphere of corruption , and calls it a metropolis of civilisation . He shuts out the pure light of heaven , and defiles tho very air he breathes , in order that he may have tho pleasure of paying physicians to torture " and to rob him . He invents laws innumerable , and by his devices renders it impossible for them to be obeyed , in order that ho may have the malicious satisfaction of punishing those that break them . Ho places power in the hands of those whose interest he makes to abuse it . He invents a religion , which , professing peace and goodwill , spreads

      wartare and animosity wherever it penetrates . He delights in war and massacre , and worships it under tho guise of patriotism and glory . He denies instruction , yet punishes ignorance . He brutalises his fellows , and then scoffs at their want of refinement . In a word , he makes a man a monster , and then shrinks in terrorfrom his own handiwork ; and not content with these evils , bvhis false training he sophisticates his mind , and makes thought—that hvmg God—an incarnate demon , torturing him with a continuity of suffering , adding to present torments the memory of past evils , and embittering ino

      mum wun prospect ot a still increasing future store , until he renders himself a fit inmate for his priest ' s hell , and the earth a fit dwelling for such a demoniac being . While humanity is so constituted , —whilst those who would fain improve it , and bid the Evil Spirit avaunt , are treated as fanatics and impostors , who can but despise himself that he belongs to " such an insensate herd , and count it wisdom to join in the wild revel of humanity , rob and despoil all who come within his reach , wrap himself up . in the mantle of selfishness , and laugh at the mingled folly and atrocity by which he is ° surrounded ? ( To bt continued . )

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      Royal Polytechnic Institution. Cneiiistr...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . cnEiiisTRr or food . An instructive lecture on the above named subject has been given by the chemical lecturer , Mr . Ashley , at the Royal Polytechnic Institution . The lecturer started by first of all leading his hearers to comprehend the importance of respiration and the operations . that wore carried on during its action . Respiration , he stated , was nothing more that combustion and the whole source of animal heat . The constituents of food ho classified under the head , elements of respiration of heat affording constituents , and elements of nutrition , those necessary to the formation of flesh , muscles , & e . Amongst the former were classified fat , gum , sugar , and many similar compounds daily consumed in articles

      of diet—tho latter class comprised those substances of more complex natures , generally containing nitrogen , as fribrine , caseino , albumen blood , & c , After briefly adverting to other points , tho lecturer more particularly directed his attention to bread as an article of food , pointing out the nature of flourthe process going on during its preparation for our tables , and ending by enumerating and showing ; the modes of detecting various , impurities some " times found in flour and bread , placed there by the fraudulent vendors—amongst these were mentioned chalk , gypsum , and other foreign matter , common to flour , known as seconds and thirds , and which had , in some instances , been known to produce serious consequences . The lecture was well attended , and the lecturer greatly applauded at the conclusion .

      ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE . The Prophet still continues to be tho chief attraction at this theatre ; the part of Von Bomb being sustained by Mr . ' Barry , the well known clown of this establishment . The return of Mr . Barry from his American to his old quarters has been hailed with great delight by the frequenters of this fashionable and favourite place of amusement . He does not depend upon grimace to please his audience , but upon pun , repartee , and living sallies of wit , which are the move highly relished , interspersed as they are with a fresh importation of Jonathanisms . On Monday night a new piece from tho pen of the veteran Moncvieff , founded on the life and

      adventures of ilr . Brigg ' s Housekeeping and Horsekeeping ( illustrated in Punch , ) was produced ior the first time . . This piece , which might not inaptly be termed abroad equestrian farce ( both the ring and stage being employed in its representation , ) kept the audience in a roar of laughter from the rise to . the fall of the curtain . The eccentric Mr . Briggs , who is the dupe of a builder and horsedealer , was admirably personated by that clever actor , Mr . Crowther , who plays a round of diversified characters , from the hardened villain to the simpleton of sixty , with equal success . Mr . Barry deserves equal praise as Nimvoh Nosebag , the horsedealer . ' This piece will , we have no boubt , have a long and successful run .

      • NEW STRAND THEATRE . Mrs . Glover , who has accepted a temporary engagement at this house , made her first appearance on Monday night as Mrs . Heidelberg in tho " Clandestine Marriage , " well known to all playgoers as one of her chief parts . Mr . Pan-en played Lord Ogleby , and the combination of these veteran artistes , who have , delighted tho public for so many vears . drew' a crowded audience ; and so sireat was

      the manifestation of feeling on this occasion that it elicited a special acknowledgment from Mr . Fan-en . An adaptation from the French vaudeville " Le Pot aux Roses" followed the comedy . It is the piece in which Ravel created much mirth at the St . James ' s Theatre by tho use of the military instrument called a * ' Chapeau Chinois . " . The jingle however , rather offended than pleased the S ' trand audience ; and as the piece becomes puposeless if this particular joke misses its effect , a decided expression of disapprobation followed the fall of the curtain as a matter of course .

      Paddy Kelly's Last,—It Has Lately Been D...

      Paddy Kelly ' s Last , —It has lately been demonstrated by this erudite physiological reasoner , that the Magyars of Hungary are descended from a tribe which emigrated from Cork shortly after the haitteof MuUagtiinnst , and that their ancestral name was no other than Maguire . ' . A Dreadful Enlargement of the Knee Cunro by Holloivav ' s Ointhknt and Pills . —Abraham Banks , an elderly man , living near the Dr / Creek , South Australia , had such a painful affection and enlargement of the knee , that h « despaired of ever recovering the use of the joint , the numerous remedies tli . it he made trial of failed even to mitigate the disease . In this suffering and hopeless condition he was advised to try Holloway ' s Ointment and Pills ; he commenced a regular application of them , which , in a short time , " effected a complete cure . The Adelaide Obse ) W , of the 25 th of March , 1848 , published this as one among tho many cures effected in South Australia by these invaluable medicines .

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      % The Modeuates, —Moderation Is Kindred ...

      % The Modeuates , —Moderation is kindred to selfishness ! It excites little sympathv , and no enthusiasm . Moderation and mediocrity are twins of the same ignoble parentage . Moderate men arc tho neuters , whom Solon punished by-his laws , and whom Dante placed among unmeaning sights in tho last sad receptacle of fantastic mortality . —George Enscn ;

      Kwmso was unknown in England until tho middle of the sixteenth century . It is said , that one William Ryder , an apprentice on London Bridge , seeing at the house of an Italian merchant a pair of knitted worsted stockings from Mantua , took the hint , and made a similar pair , which he presented to William , Earl of Pembroke , in ioU , and that these were tho first of the kind made in England . 2 , 300 silk worms produce one pound of silk ; but it would require 27 , 000 spiders , all females , to produce one pound of web . A cow cats 100 lbs . of green food in every twentyfive hours , and yields five quarts , or 10 lbs . of milk . Dr . Bright published a case of an egg producing an insect eighty years after it must have been laid .

      Saiubai , Bjoht OF all Men to Bread . —The earth in its natural state is capable of supporting but a small number of inhabitants compared with what it is capable of doing in a cultivated state . And as it is impossible to separate the improvement made by cultivation from the earth itself upon which that improvement is made , tho idea of landed property arose from that inseparable connexion ; but it is nevertheless true , that it . is tho value of tKe improvement only , and not the earth itself , that is individual property . Every proprietor , therefore , of cultivated land owes to the community a ground rent for I know no better term to express the idea by , for the land which . he holds . —Paine ' s Agrarian Justice .

      Tiik Harvest Moox . —A money-hunter being about to marry a fortune , a friend asked him how long the honey-moon would last . He replied . " Don't tell me of the honey-moon ; , it is harvestmoon with me . " Curious—if true t—A German writer observes , in a late volume on the social condition of Great Britain , there is such a scarcity ; of thieves in England that they are obliged to offer a reward for their discovery . The JV «« England'Washihatonian states that Mr . Tefft , of Savannah , has a collection of 35 , 000 autographs . Among them is a letter from Kosciusko to the wife of an officer in Charleston , closing with an affectionate inquiry as to her husband ' s health : "for , " writes Kosciusko , "ifheisdeiid , I wish to

      marry you , as I have always been one of your particular admirers ; but if ho is alive and well , pray give my compliments to him . " Evert , law in which the people have not concurred , and which emanates not from them , is null . Democracy is labouring at the heart of humanity , and it is only present circumstances which prevent its utterance from a million silent lips ' . Cnoss Intolerance . —The chaplain- of the Edinburgh gaol has resigned his situation ^ having gone over to tho Free Church . His congregation had a conscientious desire to follow their pastor , but the

      intolerant gaoler wouldn t allow them ' The Real and tub Ideal . —" Ah ! you don't know what muthical enthuthiath ith , "> said a musicmad miss to Tom Hood . " Excuse , me , madam " replied the wit , " but I do . Musical enthusiasm is like turtle-soup ; for every quart of real , there are ninety-nine gallons of mock , and calvcs ' -heads in proportion . A swarm of bees contains from 10 , 000 to 20 , 000 in a natural state , and from 30 , 000 to 40 , 000 in a hive . There are six or seven generations of gnats iu a summer , and each lays 200 effgs . There are about 9 , 000 cells in a square foot of honey-comb . 5 , 000 bees weigh a pound .

      A WORD TO SLUGGARPS , Idler , why lie down to die ? ' Better rub than rust ; Hark ! the lark sings in the sky , " Die , when die thou must , Day is waking—leaves arc shaking-Better rub than rust . " Ho who will not work shall want , Nought for nought is just ! Wont do—must do , when he can't'' Better rub than rust . " Bees are flying , sloth is dying , " Better rub than rust . "

      Vert True . —Some descendant of Solomon has wisely remarked , that those who go to law for damages are sure to get them ! A Definition , —Yoltaire defines a p hysician to bo an unfortunate gentleman , who is every day required to perform a miracle—viz ., . to reconcile health with intemperance . Rather too Deep . —The Atlantic Ocean is estimated at three miles , and the Pacific at four miles deep .

      "Wide Awake !—Pish arc common in the seas of Surinam with four eyes , two of them on horns which grow on the top of their heads . * * * Yekt early one morning Gaino rose , and going to where tho cow was stalled , saw the sow lying on its fat belly beneath , with the teat in its mouth , milking , " milking with all its might , and gruntin" complacently at the larceny The sow had fattened on stolen milk Many are the fat swine , and only fat at the expense of poor defrauded cattle .

      To Clever Young Ladies . —Don't let the keys of tho piano-forte make you forget the ' keys of the store-room ; or the enlightenment of your under-Standing prevent you from inquiring the price of candles . Every pound of cochineal contains 70 , f < 00 insects boiled to death , and from < 300 to 700 thousand lbs . are annually brought to Europe for scarlet and crimson dyes . Death . — " The Sense of Death ' -is Most in AiTHEiiEsiox . " —Tho act of dying would seem to bo

      pleasant ; jt is like tho benumbing of the mental and bodily faculties which precedes sleep . Lamentations , therefore , over the dying , especially if they bo loud , are not only unavailing , but . painful . It would seem that death by the guillotine docs not extinguish life at once ; the body and head both feel , it is said , for more than ten minutes after separation . Hanging and drawing are easy modes of getting rid of life , therefore , as compared with decapitation . Some surgeons have fancied the dissevered head and trunk might be rc-united : and it is on record that a soldier who had his nose bit off and

      spat in the gutter at night , wont next morning , and having found that part of his face , put it on again with complete success . Lord William Russell , before his execution , expressed a conviction that to lose a head , was no greater pain for a man than to lose a tooth . The American journals announce that the wife of a machinist , named Andrew Thomson , at Trenton , New Jcrsev , has become heiress to a fortune of £ 400 , 000 sterling , by the death of ft relative in tills country . Be Civil . — " Decvil , indeed ! " said a primitive country schoolmistress to oneol her pupils , as she heard the . little girl designate his sntauic majesty "devil . " " Deevil , indeed ' . —set him up with fine names—ca' him dcil , its guid enucli- for him . "Edinburgh Witness .

      How ' to get over the Hard "Words . — " Skip the hard words , honey dear , " said « n Irish schoolmistress to one of her pupils , " they ' re only the names of some foreign country , an yo ' s never will be in ' em . " * , A Smuggler's Trick . —It was stark calm ; and as tho fog cleared up a little I saw I was los-t in tho very jaws of a ship of war , and I almost gave up all for lost . However ,. as they were lowering their jolly boat to board me , I sculled oft' to them , all alone in ray littio punt , and asked the people of the ship if they knew what was good for the measles 1 1 could hear them laush from

      stem to stern . A big fat man they called the doctor , told me to . keep my patients warm and to g ive them hot drinks . It was enough ; tlicy took care not to come near the Peggy Ann that time . — Gesner ' s Nova Scotia , A Gentle Hixt . —A spruce young man , gallanting- his inended-, was conversing on the late " turnout" when he remarked that " he wished he was able to support all the factory girls in Lowell for six months , he would do it to prevent their returning to the mills . " His fair one . more limited in her desires , replied with a sigh , "Ah , Scth , I wish you were able to maintain one of them . "—American Paper .

      Mr . Mato , in his amusing work " Tho Philosophy of Living , " states , as an instance of the tendency of man , as well as other animals , to imitation , that " if , when three or four persons are sitting at a table and engaged in conversation , you , seemingly without design , take up the snuffers and slowly open them to the utmost , and shut them several times , one or two of the party will immediately fall into an imitative yawn ; "' - ' The late Lord Courtney , who was of a very old family , having married a Miss Clack . -of much inferior birth , a conversation took place on tho disparity of the connexion , between a lady who was related to his lordship and the late Bishop of Exeter . " What is your objection ? " asked tho Bishop . "Want of family , " answered she , "Want of family ! " replied he ; " Why , the Courtneys may date from the Conquest , but tho Clacks are as old as Eve . "

      Mes of genius are often dull and inert in society ; as the blazing meteor , when it descends to earth , is only a stone . To Cure Smoks Osiimseys . —Lay tho fire , as usual , with coals and sticks , but be careful not to light it . This has seldom been known to fail , while it is , at tho same time , a great saving of fuel . . Axcels . —A vagrant called at a house on Sunday , and bogged for some cider . The lady-refused to give hiiw awy , smd lie Tcnihided l \ ev of the oft-qttote . d remark , that she " might entertain an angel unawares . " Yes , " said she , '' but angels do not go i about drinking cite on Sundays "

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 17, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_17111849/page/3/