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      A j After long delay and repeated postponements , we thii thii week make Venerate attempt" to clear , off snuamaw ofnttnncnpt bearing the " outward and visible ible form * of " Poetry ; "but , for the most part , we recrreeret tosay , containing bat little of its "inward anoiandsp iritoal" essence . « We cull thechoicest . "

      LABOUR'S HOLIDAY . A»— «« Luey , ily Fafrite Bird . " The vernal season bow draws near , The early buds their green unfold , Stern'Winter ' s vapours disappear , And Sol emits a brighter gold ; Bat vain for ushis lengthened sway , Our labour meets no holiday—Holiday , holiday , © or labour meets no holiday , Our labour meets no holiday . In vain for us the flowrets bloom , In vain the songsters ml the grove , The meadows breathe their rich perfume , And Nature ' s bosom glows with love : The sicken * d eye but turns away , It bring * tons no holiday-Holiday , & c . long harewe braVd theseasoas ' rage ,

      The Sammers'fire , the Winters ' cold , At length appears a brighter page , The promis'd blessing long foretold ; Then , brothers , hope—prepare the way To keep tbe sbadow'd holiday—Holiday , & c . Th' Egyptian darkness breaks andfllts , Enlighten'd millions join in thrones , 'While earth and air , and seas and skies , Re-echo with tbe Chartist songs , Fair Freedom shows no distant ray , Prepare to meet tbe holiday—Holiday , < fcc .

      Then shall commence tbe reign of Right , Tbe ehain-gaU'd wealth-crektor smile , Co w'd tyrants stand deprived of might , And peace and plenty fill tbe isle . Riie , brethren , rise , no more delay To usher Freedom ' s holiday—Holiday , tc . Then shall the soil its fruits increase , Obedient to the tillers' care , Pair Commerce spread htr tails in peace , And flU shall in her blessings share . Rettor ' d Astreahold the sway , And myriads keep the holiday-Holiday , & c . Leicester . T . B . Ska » t

      The "Great Talk" At Westminster; The Ger...

      The " great talk" at Westminster ; the German prose-poem of the King of Prussia on the blessings of a safe admixture of constitutional humbug with the good old " right divine ; " the cut-throat doipgs of our precious kinsmen , the Yankees , in Mexico , enacting , with the assistance of the cruelly-wronged Mexicans , the grim farce ; of the Kilkenny cats"the two armies cut to pieces ; " domestic horrors , murders and executions !; the never-ending columns of Irish misery ; the efforts of oar countrymen to redeem themselves from thraldom by the triune

      talisman of " Charter . Land , and Labour Bank ;" these , with innumerable "accidents by flood and field , " forming the staple of a public journal command so much of onr space as to leave us room for sot more than a tithe of the pieces not positively bad , with which we have been favoured by contributors . Of course we have no room for critical comment , desirous as we are of giving as far as possible , "the thoughts that breathe and words that burn" of others . A WEEPIXG MOTHER TO A SLEEPING CHILD .

      Fide "the Manufacturing Districts of England . " Sleep on a Utile longer , child , nor heed the Factory bell , Sounding clear this dark cold morning , like somefnneral knell ; 1 bave not tbe bear * to rouse thee from thy bard but welcome bed , Sleep on a litUe longer—rest tbj vteary , aebing head . I will not break thy slumber , for I grieve to see thee go To thy labour of a morning , ere the cock b « guu to crew . I saw last night thy ( tnnted limbs were tottering and weak , Thine eyes have lost their sparkle , and tbe bloom baa left thy cheek ; nevermore among the daisies with tbe gayest wilt thou skip , Tby foxvbead barns like fire , there is fever on thy lip . Sleep Oa a little longer , though tbe dreadful bell has rung ,

      Asa the tyrant of the mill has called with stern and iron tongue , He has feasted on the droppings of that p-oie white brow of thine ; He would wring tby young and throbbing heart to fill bis glass with wine . Bat a kinder Master ' s waiting , to bear thee far away To a better land than this , where tby kindred angels play-Where rest is everlasting—where sorrows ne er began , And little children live secure from heartless , tyrant maa . Tet I am loth to lose thee , my own , my darling child . And the angaish of my bosom speaks in language vex'd and wild"O God ! spare me so longer ' than my infant draws her breath , Let ns both be clasped together in tbe friendly arras of Death ! " M . W . Tacmix .

      The Voice Of A Slave. 5ear To A Poor-Law...

      THE VOICE OF A SLAVE . 5 ear to a Poor-law Bastile of tna land , Where stooda thousand starvelings grim and gaunt , Dread spectacles of Hanger ' s iron band , Craving for food to stay the stings of Want , — One slave I saw—alone be stood apart , "With keen eyes gazing on the famisn'd crowd , Pale were his looks—he bore the haggard mark Of slavery—and o ' er bis mind a cloud Of woe seem'd brooding miserablv dark . His bosom felt—while thus he breath'd aloud!—"Whence , mighty God , doth this huge misery spring ? This vsst amount of bjdra-headed woe f This Eerce starvation—pestilence and crime-That like a deluge o'er this nation Sow : Behold the millions starve—bear je tbe cries Of helpless infants—pierced with bitter stings Of cold and Hanger t Hear a mother ' s sighs .

      A father's prajert—deep groans and murmnnngs . Ascend from earth to heaven , and rend tbe skies . Oh ! whence , great God , this troubled state ot things ? " With deepest sorrows everj besom fill , And heaves in s ecret man ; a heartfelt sigh ; Each loving life , alas ! bat finds it still Htrd—hard to lire—and still as bard to die ! Robb'd of the blessings , God , which them hast given To all alike within tby changeless plan : Bounteous as ( be balmy air of heaven , We starve—and life , tbo' but a narrow span . Appears an age—when man is blindly driven To curse bis birth and bate his fellow man ! " As vermin to some filthy carcase clings , From which th ? T sprang—and torture and devour ,

      So to the earth cl ng corses—priests and kings , Gods in themselves—implacable in power ; Toils men to such—submissively bave bow'd , Even as the savage to his idol bows , In violation of tby great laws , God—For which they weep an ocean ' s depth of woes , "While tyrants tremble ' neath a catalogue Of gory crimes stamp'd upon their brows ! " Some strange anomaly roles this fearful age - , Ills sweep tbe world as billows sweep the sea ; And man , long bound in error ' s iron cage , Like some wild bird , is panting to be free 3 Too long bath he remained the passive slave Of bis oppressors—those wbo bold tbe reins Of mighty empires—too long knelt to crave Those rights which be by Nature's order claims , And , ere life ' s noon bath dawn'd , a starveling ' s grave Receives him , morder'd , dragg'd to death by chains !

      " And not one land stands all alone the prey To tyranny—all na tions of tbe earth Groan under huge monstrosities—which they Themselves have brought , and foster'd ia to birth ; Disease aad Famine—deadly Hate and Crime-Besiege the world—with the fierce fiendish clang Ot War ' s wild tumult , heard in every dims . When—when , oh , God ! will Freedom ' s morning dawn , And thou behold , ia Beaton ' * palmy time , A nobler creatore in thy creature man i ' Greenock . John Peacock ,

      Song. Tusx— «« A Man's A Man For O' That...

      SONG . Tusx— A Man ' s a Man for o' that . " Tbe millions toil—tbe millions starve , As if high Heaven bad will'd it ; Our ens of woe does overflow

      As if tbe fates had fiu'dit . We toil , we moil , from dawn to dark , To earn a bare subsistence ; Our corse upon tbe idle drone , Who sports on oar existence ! The millions toil—the millions starve , 'Hid earth's exuberant treasure ; And , strange to say , the rich and gay Have nonght to mind but pleasure ; They tell us Nature form'd us slaves , Nor e ' er the act lamenfed ; To work and want , with clothing scant , And fore'd to be contented . Themulions toil—the millions starve , The wealthy disregard us ; We till the soil , we mock the toil ,

      Should J ostice hut reward us . Bat no ; we wear the brand of shame—We ' re haggard , low , and voteless ; Hot , yet content , the knaves are bent To make the ag ; d eodess . The millions toil—the millions starve , Bat Heaven shall be tbe avenger ; The time shall come , the tyrant ' s doom Shall cheer tbe bapless stranger :

      Tet , Labour's tons shall make them quail , For each shall aid his neighbour ; Well break their bands—well claim our lands , Then live upon our labour , Edinburgh . 3 . Habkkiss ,

      Farewell To Erin » Farewell, Mj Neat Eri...

      FAREWELL TO ERIN » Farewell , mj neat Erin , thon " gem of the ocean , " Farewell to thy vallies and green-shaded groves ,. . This heart that now beats , shall first cease its motion , Ere the exile forgets the land that he leves . Farewerl , ye fair scenes , where ia youth I deli ghted To trip o ' er the verdant and daisy-clad lawn . Where with friends who by kindred ' s fond ties were united , Pre watch'd the wild gambols of the light-bonnding fawn .

      Ala *! I am doom'd from my dear friends to sever , And cross the rough ocean in search of a boms , For the hearth that once blazed is now quenched for ever By tbe hand of a tyrant , who claims it his own . Cease , my heart , cease this strife , nor call on tbe than . ders Of Heaven , to avenge the fell tyrant ' s decree , ' Whose mandate went forth , and the homeless in numbers Were sent to seek shelter ' neath the cold leafless tree . Whet pen can ponrtray tbe contending emotions Thatfill'd the sad breasts of these children of toil ,

      As they wandered forth by the shores of the ocean—That cast up its waves on their dearly-lov'd soil ! The clouds that o ' ershadowed the high-crested mountain , Surcharg'd with the waters that deluge the earth , Were not dark ' a the hearts of these wanderers , whose fountain Of tears were destroyed in their force to get birth . Ob when shall those scenes be unknown in our nation , Oh when sbsll this rale of curs'd Tyranny cease , And man look on man as the same by creation , And live in sweet concord together in peace ? Grivan . P . B .

      To Erin. "Alas, Psor Country 1 Almost Af...

      TO ERIN . "Alas , psor country 1 Almost afraid to know itself . " Degenerate sons of the land of my birth , You once bad a chivalrous mind , And wept o ' er tbe heroes that ' s sleeping in death , Whose deeds in each heart were enshrin'd ; You saogof their virtues—their sufferingspourtray'd—From the picture my bosom recoil'd , And I vovf * d to avenge them , by lending my aid To Liberty ' s favourite child . What cbangebas come o ' er you , led , heedless a nd blind By vile , sordid , hypocrite knaves ! Disperse the dark cloud that o'ershadows each mind , No longer be sycophant slaves ? Cease servile shoaling—why crawl on the earth , Descendants of "United men , " Whose blood crimsoned deep the green fields of their birth—Who dare shout for royalty then * Your fathers forFreedomhave shed their hearts'bleod In years but recen * Jj gone by , Firm as their own native mountains they stood , Determined to conquer or die ; And they swore by the bine vaulted heaven above , Whilst the green flag waved proud on tbe gale , That tbe tyrant land robbers should that day be drove From each sweet-scented meadow and vale ! Barnsl-y . Michael Seobave .

      Moral Musings. " Man Is Made To Mourn."—...

      MORAL MUSINGS . " Man is made to mourn . "—Job . " Man ' * made to mourn . " O melancholy truth I Hath Nature stamped him with her seal of woe 1 Or strews tbe thorns around the path of youtb . Which matt perforce to gloomy Sorrow grow > Mast tbe hot waves of tribulation flow f Mntt tbe black fiend of Discord ever reign ? Bonndless Creation generously answers No ! While rolling spheres , in sweet harmonic strain , Echo the shout from mountain , flood , and plain . Nature ! thoacommon mother , great Divine !

      Thy gifts are scattered with a bounteous hand ; Then why should man , ' mid cares and trouble , pine , Where Plenty reigns throughout a smiling laud , And Nature links within a golden band Hrr choicest treasures for the use of man ! Yet doth he mourn at on a barren stand , And Ditcoateat stands foremost ia the van , While hireling prints proclaim it Heaven ' s primeval ban . " Han ' s made to monrn , " but not destined by Fate

      To languish ' neath oppression , toil , and p tin ; 'Tis man wbo doth life ' s thousand ills create , — 'lis man who is unto himself a bane , Riveting Custom ' s adamantine chain , Which , like some dire incubus , ever stands , Exulting o'er tbe mangled and tbe slain , Heading asunder Nature ' s social hands , Till monarche , nobles , serfs , are slaves to her commands " Man ' * made to monrn " beneath a weight of woe , Which he increaseth still with studied care ; Intemperance batb been bis deadly foe :

      Not satisfied with Nature ' s bill of fare , He taxes Art to gild the pois ' nous smre , Where hissing serpents ' mid tbe banquet glide , Emitting death from their noisome lair , Tainting tbe enrrent of life's purple tide , Bbutlng the father ' s hope , the doting mother ' s pride . ' 'Man ' s made to monrn" beneath excessive toil . Labour exacted for a scanty fare , Shorn of bis birthright , alien on the soil , Wbicb Natare gave him as her rightful heir ; But gaunt Oppression placed bis standard tbere , Whence plagues , more fatal than Pandora , hurled , With moral poison , taint the ambient air ; But Hope , her cheering banner batb unfurled , And , free ontrammell'd Thought shall renovate the world .

      Then torn , ye sons and d & nghters of distress , From tbe old world and each alluring toy ; Take the fair path that leads to Happiness , Where social pleasures reign without alloy , Warming each breast with pure ecstaticjoy , Where Virtue wrestles with a giant ' s might , 'Gainst se'fisb demons , who would fain destroy The heavenly lustre of communal light , And keep the trammelled world in ignorance and night Cheam . J . Buckabv ,

      The Might And March Of Intelligence. The...

      THE MIGHT AND MARCH OF INTELLIGENCE . The love of Right is spreading To Earth's remotest bound , And Truth at length is shedding Her lustrous lays around ; The mist of by-gone ages Isvanitbingaway , The Mind ' s progress presages A brighter , fairer day : Intelligence is on her mareb , like ocean ' s surging swell ; Nor dungeons , racks an 3 scourges , her growing might can quell .

      To keep tbe mass in i noranee Hat been all tyrants' aim , That they might have a safer chance To play their crafty game ; Bat , despite all the cunning schemes Of each despotic knave , The dawn of Freedom faintly gleams To cheer the injured slave : Intelligence it on her march , and / fore her might must fall Oppression , wrong , and tyranny , and slavery and thrall .

      Yes , Freedom ' s dawn is breaking O ' er every land and sea , The millions are awaking From sleep and apathy ; The long dark reign of terror Is drawing near lu close , And Superstition ' s error Is in its dying throes : Intelligence is on her march , and 'fore ber mighty away Old mystic rite ? , and craft and cant , alike will pass away .

      And unjust systems that have long D ' sgraced History ' s page , Intelligence ' s flood-tide strong Will sweep them off tbe stage ; Tears , monarch * , despots , by her might Will from their thrones be harl'd ; Aad Justice , Liberty , and Right , Will reign throughout the world . She ' s on her march , go aid her , yc men of heart and mind , In this her ballow'd mission , to reformate mankind . Derby . J . Edwasos .

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      The Parlour Library. Vol. Ii. Memoirs Of...

      THE PARLOUR LIBRARY . Vol . II . Memoirs of a Physician , by Alexander Dumas . London : Simms & M'Intyre , Paternoster-row ; and 26 , Donegal-street , Belfast . . We took np this volume with no very friendly feelings towards Monsieur Dumas , who is undoubtedly the generalissimo of literary coxcombs ; and our first impressions of these "Memoirs" were not calculated to dispel our prejudices . Although entitled "Memoirs of a Physician , " tho Physician we cannot find , notwithstanding we have carefully read from the beginning to the end of these 316 pages . Trne , the

      volume before us is only part 1 of these " Memoirs , " and bearing in mind the frightful length to which French romances usually extend , we suppose we must have patience , trusting that some half-dozen , or eight or ten volumes hence , all mysteries will be cleared up , and we shall understand what at present « ' passeth all understanding . " This is a true character of , at least , the opening portion of the volume , wherein we have introduced to us a magician who professes to exemplify the transmigration of souls , as taught by Pythagoras ; onr conjuror claiming to have been a denizen of earth on many previous occasions , one of these occasions being so far back as tbe time of

      The Parlour Library. Vol. Ii. Memoirs Of...

      Archimedes , though the time of this story ' s com . menceraent ia laid in the year 1770 . The magician deals largely is mesmerism , and is w league with some old sinner , who isfor ever boiling his pot in quest of " the elixir of life . " He fortcls future events , and after performing a series of tricks almost worthy of the far-famed Wizard of the North , he encounters Marie Antoinette , on her entrance into France to marry the Dauphin ( afterwards Louis XVI ., ) and reveals to thatill-fated princess her future doom . Of course it is not a very difficult thing at this time of day for Monsieur Dumas to make his conjurors predict the fate of Marie Antoinette ! Thus much for the Devil and Dr Faustus part of this volumewhichhad it contained nothing better ,

      , , we should soon have tired of ; but it does contain something better . Tbe principal scenes are laid at Versailles and Paris , in tbe last years of the reign of Louis XV ., and the author makes his story the medium of exhibiting tbe horrible depravity of the court , and the appalling misery of the people which immediately preceded the great convulsion of 89 . The heartless sensualism of Louis , the degrading reign of the royal harlot Dubarry , the hollownessand wickedness of the aristocracy generally , the gapping and mining efforts of the philosophers , at the head of whom figure Rousseau and Voltaire ; and the murmurs of the despairing people—the mutterings of the coming storm—these pass before us , pictured , we must confess , by a master-hand . At the conclusion whom

      of the volume we are introduced to an old man , we imagine must be Jean Jacques Rousseau himself . Whatever dislike we may have felt towards Monsieur Dumas , and notwithstanding the rather ridiculous necromancy with which the volume opens , we must say , that we shall Wait with impatience for the continuance of this story , which ia promised at an early period . . This volume exhibits some neat improvement s in its outward appearance , as compared with its predecessor . Trnly tbe Parlour Library is a marvel ot cheapness ; in * that respect it ( as the Yankees say ) " whips all creation . " The next volume of this series , to be published on the 1 st of May , will be from the pen of that popular favourite , Mary Howitt .

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      Exeter Hall,—The Musical World Is, At Th...

      EXETER HALL , —The musical world is , at this moment , unusually prolific in presenting to the public eminent men and women , wtose genius will not be received and applauded by a London audience for a few short weeks , to give place to other stars , and then forgotten ; but the enduring triumphs achieved by a Mendelssohn , a Lind , and , we may add , an Alboni , are likely to gain for these bighly . gifted names a fame as enduring as Genius —which is akin to Divinity—must and ever will command . Who has not heard of Mendelssohn ! What Wellington was , as a military leader , this eminent and amiable man is as the first mnslcal composer of the day .

      And how vast the comparison ! The misiion of tbe one that of a blood-stained warrior—the other , a glorious worker in the mighty cause of Progress—for wbo can deny that the direct influence of Music is other than to soften the obdurate , cheer the weary , and even to civilize the roughest of mankind ! Hear what tbe immortal William puts into tbe mouth of Caliban : Be not afraid ; the isle is full of noises , Sounds , and sweet airs , that give delight , and hurt not . Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hnm about mine ears * *

      # # that , when I wak'd , I cried to dream again . What was true in Shakspere ' s day is not tbe less so in ours—human nature is ever the same ; and what the great bard describes in the above quotation , Science and Art have in our own time absolutely verified . Tbe oratorio of " Elijah , " the work of Dr Mendelssohn , was performed a few evenings since at Exeter Hal ) , for the first time in London . The magnificent Hall was never known to be so crowded ; and the enthusiastic plaudits btstoweu upon tbe truly gifted composer were sincere , and prolonged for some minutes . The text of tbe oratorio , entirely composed of passages from Scripture , embraces four principal events , viz ., the fearful judgment

      of tbe drought which lasted three years ; the railing to life the widow ' * child ; the assembling of tbe prophets of Baal at Mount Carmel , with their appeal to Baal ; and the sacrifice of Elijah , its acceptance , and the departure of the prophet , and his subsequent translation to heaven . Mr Phillips opened with a declamatory recitative , an unprecedented novelty . Miss Birch acquittrd herself with her usual success ; and all the artists and the cborns were evidently " well up , " although the work had been but once rehearsed . Our regret is that these fine and instructive compositions are sealed books to the industrious millions ; but the Sacred Harmonic Society has already achieved much , and deserves the greatest praise and inflate honour for introducing to the public some of the finest musical productions extant .

      ADELPHL—A little piece , called " an entirely new operabuffa apropos sketch , " has been pioduced here under the title of " Jenny Lind . " The farce is of the most meagre description , and the laughter which occasionally attended the performance was owing solely to the grotesque acting of Mr Wright , who , disguise ! as the "Swedish Nightingale , " ployed a succession of antics more grotesque ^ than artistic . The " plot"is suggested by the anxiety existing amongst the managers oi the London theatres respecting tbe arrival of Jenny Lind . The directors of the rival opera houses , and of Drury

      Laae , are awaiting the advent of the fair prima donna , at an hotel at Dover ; and the fact of her expected arrival being known to tbe innkeeper ' s son and niece , she assumes the character of tho " Swedish Nightingale , " and by practising on tbe credulity of the managers , succeeds , at tbe expense of those gentlemen , in filling her pockets with money . Tbe piece may be described as successful , inasmuch as the audience laughed loudly and frequently . It would be unfair , in noticing this trifle , to pass over another piece , on the same suggestive subject , which hes been some nights before tbe public at the

      LYCE PM—entitled " Jenny Lind at Last . " The principal difference here consists iu tbe heroine being tbe unintentional means of deceiving a London manager in search of star * , and who mistakes an English lady for the expected singer . The identity of tbe manager is unmistakable , and was sufficient to insure the success ot the piece without counting tbe inimitable acting of Mrs Keeley , who is even more than herself in her caricature of tbe Italian school of singing . The dialogue is smart , and abounds in as many pointed allusious to passing events as can very well be crammed into one act . The mistake of tbe lady in construing tbe manager ' s offer of a theatrical engagement into a real-life one of a different kind , affords an opportunity of which good and sufficient use is made .

      Daoav-Lane —It Is Stated We Are To Lote ...

      Daoav-LANE —It is stated we are to lote the gorgeous spectacle of The Desert . It appears that Mr Hughes has entered into a series of provincial engagements , which it is impossible to postpone ; and that his establishment leaves Drury . lane about the end of next week . Ltcech . —It is reported that when the term of Mr and Mrs Keeley ' s management expires Madame Vesjtris and Charles Matthews will succeed them . Ommpic—This evening , w « have much pleasure in announcing an amateur dramatic performance , for the benefit of the Printers' Pension Society , will take place at this theatre . Caiman ' s comedy of the " Poor Gentleman , " and "Luke the Labourer , " are the pieces selected for representation . The theatre will be open to the public as usual .

      Jenht Lind . —The long-disputed question of the visit of the eminent Swedish vocalist , Jenny Lind , to this country , ia at length set at rest in a most satisfactory manner , aud in a manner , too , to delight all lovers of music who are anxiously waiting to hear this renowned singer . On Saturday she arrived in London , and wat present at the performance at ber Majesty ' s Theatre that same evening . She reached town late in the day , Mr Lumley having preceded her by some hours in the journey . This far-famed vocalist is a lady of kindly counte nance , fair hair , nod fresh complexion ; ber eyes are soft and mild , and tbe expression of ber face is intelligent and ingenuous . Tbe Italians have a phrase , volto saiolto , to indicate the combination of intellect and truthfulness which is manifested in her features ; and the Germans generally term it freundlkh . Neither words have a

      literal meaning in English , as applied to human expression ; but ability and candour are their synonyms in our tongue . Jenny Lind is of the middling height , well formed , and of some seven or eight aad twenty years of age—as far as appearances can be credited . Her aspect is pleasing ; ber most prominent character seems to be modesty . In her deportment she has the air and bearing of a perfect lady ; that is to say , she is calm , quiet , and perfectly self-possessed in manner and address , with that" most excellent thing in woman "—a voice soft , low , and sweet . It is believed that she will mak * her debut in about a week . The likenesses that have been published of ber seem to hare succeeded in representing the general style and character of the face and figure . The opera in which she will make her first ap pearance before an English audience at her Majesty ' s Theatre is said to be tbat of Roberto hll > iavolo .

      A Pbnxy Chikbsb Publication.—A Recent Wr...

      A Pbnxy Chikbsb Publication . —A recent writer on China says , " For 22 cash or tseen I purchased an elegant book , filled with choice subjects of the graphic art , as patterns for tbe use of the young needlewoman . She is assumed to be poor , and hence the little manual is priced at about one penny of our money . It basa cover of a fair yellow , studded with spangles of gold , and contains between two and three hundred figures , culled frimthe varied stores of nature and art . In fact , the objects are so well selected and so numerous that they might serve as

      illustrations to a small encyclopedia . One acquainted with Chinese literature and natural history might deliver several lectures with this book before him . The meadow , the grove , the brook , the antiquary's museum , and the pages of mythology , with the adornments of the house and garden , are all laid under contribution . The book is said to be for the use of the person who belongs to the green window , which is ftn epithet for the dwelling of a poor woman ; while the red g allery denotes the residence of a rich female . "

      The Duke de Rianzares , husband of tbe dowager queen of Spain , has become a naturalized Frenchman , under the title of the Duke de Montmoro .

      These Are The Chambers' Of 1845. I We Ha...

      THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS' OF 1845 . I We have already shown toour readers the Chambers of 1847 ; we now refer to tbeprevious opinions of these changeable economists . Whence this wonderful change ?]

      Improvement Of Waste Landsspade Husbandr...

      IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( From the Information for the People , No . 12 . ) [ Continued from oar lost . ] In connection with the protection of river banks , we may say a few words en the method of gaining land from rivers and tidal estuaries . This may be done if the river appears to strangle over an unnecessarily wide space , and brings down quantities of mud so as to produce Impediments to navigation * The process usually followed with most advantage , is to run out at intervals short rows of stakes , matted with twigs , calculated to catch tho confluent particles of mud , but to allow the water to pass through . A sediment is thus gradually formed between the rows ;

      in time , it rises above tho water , and ultimately forms a green productive surface . When the water is affected by the tides , a row of loose stones laid between high and low water-mark will similarly catch mud and sand , and while forming new land , will , by narrowing the channel , give greater impetus to the stream , and help to deepen its bed . When done on a grcatscale , the bed ef the river is scooped by mechanism , and tho rubbish brought up may afterwards assist in elevating the newly-formed banks . In point of justice to all parties , any of these processes of river-bank improvement should be done on both sides of the river at the same time ; for if effected only on one side , tbe water may be driven to the opposite shore , to the serious damage of the land in that quarter .

      SPAMS nrjSBANDRV . The reclaiming and culture of small pieces of land by means of the spade and other instruments of manual labour , is visually spoken of under the name of spade husbandry ; but ia also sometimes called cottage-farming , or field gardening—the operations of the culturist bearing an intimate resemblance to those applied in ordinary kinds of gardening . Tbe apparatus supposed to be employed by the cottage farmer is simple and nnexpensive . It consists of two or three spades of different sizes , a pickaxe , three-pronged digging-fork , hoes , rake , light harrow which he can draw , scythe , reaping-hooks , hay-forks ,

      flail , wheelbarrow , be , according to means . It is of great importance for the cottage farmer to be able to sharpen or mend his tools , and for this purpose be should have a grinding-stone and small forge , also some carpenter ' s tools . No horse or paid servant is kept . All the work is done by the manual labour of the farmer and his family . The only live stock is a cow or cows , pigs , and poultry . The homestead consists of a cottage with several apartments—a cowhouse , pig-stye , and bam . The size of the farm is supposed to vary from four to six or eight acres , and to be laid out in six or eight distinct fields , properly fenced .

      TRENCHING . The basis of cottage farming is deep trenching with tbe spade ; but before regular trenching can commence , the land , if in a rough state , must be cleared and drained . We have already shown how these preliminary operations are performed on . a large scale , and they may very easily be modified for manual labour . Suppose the patch of land is part of a moss , dig open drains round it to draw off the water ; scarify the surface with the spade , and burn the heaps of turf ; scatter the ashes on the land along with any sandy material or lime which can be procured , and then delvo all from one end to the other . This process will cause a large portion of the mossy fibre to decay . and the exposure to the atmosphere arid draining will be found to meliorate the soil . In twelve months , the face of the land will be more like carta and less like peat than it was at the time of delving .

      If the land be choked with stones or roots , all these encumbrances should be removed to the depth to which you design your trenching should go ; and the sooner you get rid of them the better . The whole ground should be free of everything which can present the slightest impediment to tho spade . Stones of even an ounce in weight should be removed . Where subdraining is required , the stones maybe employed to lay in the drains . With respect to the first crops taken from the delved field , it will depend on the natural fertility of the ground and other circumstances . If the land be comparatively dry and fertile , as , for instance , the forest land of North America , a good meliorating and opening crop is potatoes ; but in the case of poorer soil , manuring will

      be required , and the first crop may be grass . If the land can be conveniently partitioned into separate fields , a different crop may be taken from each , thus commencing a regular rotation . In proportion as the upper layer of earth is meliorated and exhausted , it will be necessary to go the deeper down . On large farms , certain fields are occasionally left fallow , that is , doing nothing , unless it be gathering what strength can be procured from the atmosphere . In cottage farming , this wasteful practice must be unknown . Instead of trying to recruit tho land by giving it a rest , you must recruit it by turning up the

      layer of mould immediately below that which has been affording nourishment to your crops . Thisstratum , which we shall call layer No . 2 , extends from 9 to 18 inches below the surface , supposing you to have been employing a nine or ten-inch spade . It is , generally speaking , neither soil or subsoil , but partakes of the qualities of both ; and after two or three years' cropping , will be found to have imbibed a share of the manure delved in for the crops . The art , then , consists of raising up this layer No . 2 , and turning down No . 1 in its stead . By doing bo , perhaps manuring may be ommited for a year , and , at any rate , a light manuring will suffice .

      In some districts the depth of available soil may not be so much as 18 inches , the layer beneath being rock or chalk , in which case the stirring of the soil cannot be carried deeper , unless at an immense cost of labour ; but in the greater number of instances , the soil rests on a till or clayey-hardish substance , usually called subsoil ; and this , which we may call layer No . 3 . must be _ stirred and gradually brought up in aid of the upper soils . As mentioned under the head subsoil Ploughing , the proper method of nourishment consists of first stirring or breaking up the hard subsoil . Get down to it , and go over it with a pickaxe . Next yewe it may be incorporated with layer No . 2 , and in two or three years the whole three layers may be indiscriminately mingled

      or made to change places . Such is tho principle of trenching , by which three layers of soil are alternately , or at proper intervals , compelled to do duty ; and thus a farm of six acres , by being , as it were , three storey deep , is practically as extensive as one of eighteen acres but one storey deep . When we add , that while tbo plough leaves lamps of earth unbroken , and comparatively useless to the crop , the spade dashes and pulverises the whole soil , bringing all into effective play on the roots , the value of spade over plough husbandry will bo at once apparent . Another important advantage of deep trenching with the spade , is the turning down and destroying the larvae of insects and seeds of weeds which may be about the surface ; and it will be found that the first crops of trenched ground are always remarkably free of these nuisances .

      The process of trenching to effect these important advantages is no doubt very toilsome ; this , indeed , is a fact not to be concealed ; but , without almost constant labour , and labour in which a pleasure is taken , cottage farming will generally come to nought ; and he who is disinclined to undergo tbe trouble , should not commence the undertaking . To render the work as easy as possible , it should be methodic , and bit by bit , and always the more the ground is tilled , the less difficult will the trenching be .

      GfiNERAL MANAGEMENT . "Whether the land of a cottage-farmer be part of a reclaimed bog or waste , or a section of fertile soil , or whether it be his own property , or rented , he must necessarily exert unremitting industry not only in digging and trenching his small fields , but in all the ordinary routine of manuring , cropping , and in attending to the other affairs of his establishment . To procure manure in sufficient abundance , he must keep one or two cows and a pig , and into a pit adjoining the cowhouse all the solid refuse , including all that may be collected from the family , must be removed . The urine from tbe cow-house should be collected in another pit , or in a barrel sunk in the ground , protected from the air . This will be found

      3 , most , valuable liquid for throwing over the land , to excite a young growing crop . While on the subject of manures , it cannot be out of place to mention that most surprising results have been effected in agriculture and market-gardening by the use of ni » ht-soil . In some foreign countries , where this is well understood , the night-soil is carefully saved , and todestroy ita offensive effluvia , is mixed with gypsum or earth ; forafewshovelsful of earth thrown over it at once removes all offensiveness in this respect , besides being otherwise useful . So little thought and trouble aw usually taken in Britain to preserve this material for manure , that for the use of enterprising agriculturists , quantities are now imported from France in a dried and prepared condition . There are other means of increasing the quantity of manure . From every niece of around auuantitv

      of rubbish may be collected , as withered leaves , stains , clipping of branches , roots , & o . Improvident persons burn much of this refuse , but we strongly advise the cottager or gardener never to burn anything , except it be stumps of trees or pieces «» branches as fuel . Collect all the inferior stuff into a heap , to which scrape or carry all the mire that can be gathered from the pathways , and the whole will make a compost dung-hill ; a pitilful of cow urine thrown occasionally over the heap will be a valuable addition , and . so likewise will bo a shovelful of ni $ htsoil . A little lime will hasten the rotting of any compost . If properly managed , in twelvemonth ' s all will be rotted , and then beJn taking trom one end for manure . To the other extremity you may keep adding new matter that is collected . The treatment of the ordinary dung-pits is to be on the same plan . „ o not remove the manure till it has lain a sufficient

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      length of time to decompose , but keep taking from one that is ready , while another is collecting . ( 7 b be continued in our next . )

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      "Every individual possesses , legitimately , the thing which his labour , his intelligence , ( or more generally , ) which his activity has created . " Tbis principle is incontestible , and it is well to remark that . it contains expressly an acknowledgment of the right of all to the soil . For as the soil has not been created by man it iollows , from the fundamental principle of property , that it cannot belong to any small portion of tho human race who have created . t by their activity . Let us then conclude that the true theory of property is founded on the creation of the thing possessed : " -La Pk danae The Saxon government has determined that corn flour , and pulse , from foreign countries passing in transit on the Elbe to Saxony , shall be admitted till the end of September , free from duty . '

      Mr Herbert , of Muekross , in tho county of Waterford , has sold his hounds , and devotes the weekly sum which they cost him to the relief of the poor . The municipal authorities of Berlin lately announced to the King of Prussia , their desire to give a grand banquet to the members of the Diet , - but the king replied that , as suoh distress existed , it would be better to employ the money for more useful objects : It is said that some merchants in London , desirous of promoting the cultivatbn of the potato , have agreed to furnish several farmers in Perthshire with seed , on condition that the latter furnish the ground , manure , labour , dec , and that the crop be equally divided between the two parties .

      Grass lands , in Scotland , have been let for the present season at higher rents than have been obtained for many years . The King of Bavaria has ordered , in consequence ot tne nearness of food , an increase of salary shall be given to the masters of Jewish as well us of Christian schools . m It is said that negotiations are about to be entered into between trance and Prussia , for a treaty for the protection of literary property on the same basis as that contracted about , a year ago between Prussia and England ., A mechanic of Carlsruhe has just invented a new locomotive , by which steep gradients of twenty . two feet in one mile may be surmounted ; and the adoption of such an engine would facilitate the construe tion of the proposed line from Carlsruhe to Switzerland .

      ! An excavation was lately made in the Stradella Fortuna , at Pompeii , in presence of the Prince Oscar Frederic ; when various utensils in bronze and glass were found—and near a human skeleton , a beautiful cameo of onyx representing the bust of a woman . M . Scipio Volpicella , it is announced , has discovered in the same city the column which Robert of Anjou erected to commemorate his interview with Andre of Hungary in 1333 . According to Vasari , the sculpture of the monument is most miraculous workmanship for the age . It is probable that the bas-reliefa are from the designs ol Petraee , who sojourned at Naples from 1341 to 1343 , —and they were executed by Masaccio .

      " Bless me ! exclaimed an old lady , throwing down the newspaper , and wiping her spectacles ; "here is John Doe and Richard Roe at law again—they ' ve had a suit reg'lar every year or so , for more ' n thiity years , to my certain know ledge 1 " Love ene human being purely and warmly , and you will love all . The heart in this heaven , like the wandering sun , sees nothing from the dewdrop to the ocean , but a mirror which it warms and fills . —Jean Paul . At the Preston Sessions , Mr Marshall wound np his summary to the jury with these remarks : — " You cannot have any doubt as to the prisoner ' s guilt ; his very countenance would hana him . " In the High Court of Justiciary , recently at Edinburgh , a juryman , who had attended the court in a state of intoxication , was fined £ 20 .

      The Pacha of Damascus lately issued a proclamation , enjoining the women of thitt city to be more strictly veiled when they went abroad , and declaring that he would cut off the noses of all who disobeyed his orders . A Prince Consort , says the Cambridge Advertiser , belongs to no estate , to no etas , to no fraternity , — unless , in the waggishness of our humour , we shall dub him an Odd-Fellow . At Luton , Bedfordshire , a tradesman has produced quite a flutter amongst the bachelors , by sticking in his window the Following notice : — " Good Ladies , Is ., lasting ditto , Is ., 6 d . per pair , " A number of fishing-boats from tbe Aberdeen and Banffshire coasts , have left for the West Highlands , to prosecute the lobster and cod fishing .

      A baker of Berne , in Switzerland , is said to have succeeded in making very palatable bread from Iceland moss . From a scientific analysis of this bread , it appears that out of 120 parts , it contains Hi of fecula or nutritive matter . A chemist of Vienna has produced bread from oilcake—the refuse of the colza seed , after extracting the oil—which is both agreeable and nutritive , and costs only one halfpenny per pound . A correspondent assures us ( Leeds Mercury ) that so

      particular are the managers of the Cambria steamer , in respect to colour , that a black cat , with some mulatto kittens , found in the hold previous to the vessel ' s sailing , were immediately flung overboard ! According to an American paper , a slave at Charleston lately whipped a female slave so cruelly that she died ; and the court which tried him foi the murder , acquitted him on the ground that he had obeyed the orders of his mistress ! The whites of Mercer county , Ohio . will not permit the coloured people to have grain ground at their mills .

      Two harvest-mice placed in a scale will only weigh down a single halfpenny . Prizes were lately offered by the French Government for the composition of religious and mora ! songs , and no fewer than 1 , 109 competitors entered the lists . On the London and South-Western Railway , all seed , meal , corn , or other provisions forwarded by the relief committees , is carried free of charge . In London the Bread League has commenced operations in right earnest , and its doors are besieged with customers . ( This is another heavy blow at the monster Monopoly . ] A statue of theQ , ueen , which has been executed by Gibson , at Rome , is expected to arrive in this country by the Tiger steamer , at the port of South , ampton .

      Measures are now in progress for blending the Irish medical staff with tbe Esglish This arrangement has for sometime past been in agitation . Its adoption has , however , at length been definitely decided on , and it will be brought into operation at as early a period as possible . Monsieur Soyer , on his way from Dublin to London , visited Liverpool and Manchester , and inspected the soup kitchens of these commercial towns , as well as the different kitchen departments of tbe several

      unions , Is it nob scandalous to consider that a Prime Minister could raise within the year , as I have seen it done , a hundred and twenty millions sterling to shoot the French ; and we are stopped short for want of a hundredth part of that to keep the English living ?— Carlyle . Foote , dining at the house of Mrs Thrale , found nothing to his liking , and sat in expectation of some better coming up . A neck of mutton , being tbe last thing , he refused it , as he had tho other dishes . As the servant was taking it away , however , unders'anding that there was nothing more , he called out to him , "Hollo , John ! bring that back again ; I now find it neck or nothing . " A correanondent of the Tunes says there is no

      truth in the report so currently circulated , that the Duchess ol Montpensier is enceinte . It is true that the young duchess has changed recently in appearance , but this change is merely the result of obesity , which is the family complaint , and which in her Royal Ilighness ' s case threatens to assume no ordinary development . A man , named Mick Di-rapsey . died at Drumming Park , county Longford , last week , at the advanced age of 115 years . There is at present living at Mullyard , within four miles of Keady , county Armagh , a hale , ruddy , cheerful patriarch in the 103 rd year of his age . The House of Assembly at Jamaica has voted £ 2 , 000 towards mitigating the distress in Ireland and Scotland . Ireland sent to Barbadoes 65 years ago £ 20 , 000 when the above island was desolated by a hurricane . .

      The West Indian theatres have opened their doors for benefit performances to relieve tho destitute in Ireland and in tbo Scottish highlands . There are no means for the education of our race , which can in any degree be compared to a domestic life in its purity . Domestic life in its essence is a bond of love , and through this a divine institution to beget love . —Pestafozzi . It is reported that Dr Oschate has di-. covered tho art ot making very good paper from wood , without tho aid of nitric acid or great mechanical force . When any plan ot National Education is proposed in England , it always receives an opposition which may be illustrated by the fable of the Old Man and his Two W < ves ; one pulls all the black hairs out of his head , the other all the white , until , in a very short time , the pour man is left without any hair at all .

      Those beings are only fit for solitude who like nobody , are like nobody , and arc liked by nobody . — Zimmerman . An inhabitant of Ihc French colony of Senegal lately advertised lor sals an excellent , Maltese asu , for which he was willing to take slaves in payment Asses would thus seem to bear a higher value than men in Senegal . A little Kirl walking in the cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise , P ; iris , and reading one after another the praises upon the tombs of tho & e who slept beneath , exclaimed , " I wonder where all the sinners are buried' . "

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      Thb Price op a Labourve ' s Swkat . —The ill-paid man has usually become an inferior workman . Of . this the following homely illustration . mentioned at a late farmers' club , is an instance : — Whilst inspectingafarm in one of these pauperised districts , an able agriculturist could not help noticing the slow , drawling motions of one of the labourers there , and said , "My man , you do not sweat at that work . " ' Why no , master , " was the reply , " seven shillings a week isn't sweating wages . "—Hampshire Telegraph . „ _ .

      Democracy in New York . —The ' Democratic ' city government of New York , it is said , let out of the city prison on Blackwell's Island , sixty convicts , on an election day , in order that they might vote against giving coloured people the right of suffrage ! Thirteen of these ' worthies' were arrested by Alderman Benson and Justice Merritt . on their way to the polls . —Cftrigtian Citizen . Singular Will . —A penon lately deceased in Bradford , after providing for the apprenticing of hit three sons , bequeathed £ 500 to his widow , but on condition that she marry before six months after his decease . She is very good looking , and will hare no difficulty in complying with his injunction . Price of Wheat i . i Enolanp . —On striking the averages the price of wheat in Hants , Dorset , and Wilts , is at present 18 s . a quarter higher than at any corresponding period since the new mode of taking the corn returns has been adopted .

      Cork Lams Ships . —The total number of ships laden with foreign corn entered inwards in the year 184 G , at the ports of the United Kingdom , was 4697 . The following were the quantities imported in British ships-. —Wheat , 663 , 664 qrs . ; barley , ? 0 , 805 qrs . ; oats , 321 , 266 qrs . ; beans and peas , 249 , 599 qrs . ; maiie and buckwheat , i 1 , l \ 8 qrs . ; flour , 815 , 275 cwts . ; oatmeal , 1 , 893 cwts . ; Indian-corn meal , 170 cwts . There were imported in foreign ships : —126 , 220 quarters of wheat ; barley , 287 , 579 qrs . ; oats , 452 , 832 qrs . ; beans and peas , 204 . 111 qrs . ; rye , 70 qrs . ; maize and buckwheat , 73 , 765 qrs . ; flour , 1 . 936 , 783 cwts . ; and of Indian corn and meal , 2 , 165 cwts . Crinesb Sug ar . —The importation of sugar from

      tbe Uhinese empire , and more particularly from tho new British settlementa \ u thafc ^ tt cA \ A » viwt \ u i excites a great degree of interest . The vessel Baboo , arrived in the St Katherine ' s Docks , from » he port of Canton and the new British settlement Victoria , respectively , has brought 1 , 600 bags from the former place , and 7 . 838 bags of sugar from tbe latter . Pursuit op Clkanmnbss unokr Ditpicoltibb . — We have read of a clear stream—the Clituranusbeing a " mirror" as well as a " bath , " for " beauty ' s youngest daughters , " but never heard of a river being turned into a shaving glass , until Sunday last , when some friends of ours surprised a man busily occupied

      in shaving himself in one of the meadows on the banks of the Ii well , by the help of his image reflected in the stream . He had cleared away half the crop , and proceeded gravely to clear away the other , in spite of their laughter . —Liverpool Times . Parliamentary Electors . —The bill prepared and brought in by Sirde L . Evans and Sir B . Hall" to regulate the times of payment of rates and taxes by parliamentary electors , " consists of one clause , which declares that rates and taxes payable on or before October 11 th in the preceding year must be paid to entitle parties to be on the list of voters for any city , town , or borough in England .

      Yorkshire Barristers . —A barrister of the northern circuit had occasion to attend the Reading assizes the other day , in the capacity ef witness in a horse case . The learned judge ( Maule ) suggested thai barristers generally were not supposed to know much of the merits of horses . The witness thereupon replied , " But your lordship must recollect that I am a Yorhihiremnn " To this the counsel engaged in the cause added , "Yes , my lord , the Ywkahiro barristers know a good deal more about horses than they do about law .

      The New Potato Crop . —We are enabled to make the gratifying and important announcement that three successions of potatoes , brought to maturity in the forcing-house at Pitfour Castle , by Sir J . S . Richardson ' s gardener , have all produced sound crops . There was a slight taint upon the young tubers at an early stage , but that gradually disappeared . Representation of Greenwich . —We understand that in the event of a vacancy occurring in the representation of Greenwich , it is the intention of a portion of the constituency to put in nomination David Williams Wire , Esq ., of Stonehouse , Lewisham .

      Death or as M . P . —Thomas Martin , Esq ., M . P . for Gal way , is reported dead of fever . A Little too Bad . — A gentleman of Albany recently married a lady reputed to be rich , who turned out to be poor , and some seven hundred dollars in debt , which he had to liquidate . She assured him , however , for bis consolation , that the debts were contracted for dry goods , which she bought to captivate him . Only think of a fish paying for the hoek with whieh he was caught ! British Museum , —The new hall of this national establishment was on Monday last opened to the public .

      Total Loss op the Brio Cawniho bt Fire . — A despatch has been received at Lloyd ' s from tbe Foreign-office , enclosing a copy of a despatch from her Majesty ' s Charge d'Affaires in Chili , announcing the nerchant brig Canning having been destroyed by fire , in the Straits of Magellan , on tho 16 th of December last . Carpenter and two men supposed to be drowned . Follow ! Follow ' . —At Elgin proposals have been issued for the establishment of a Working Men ' s Prevision Association—thecapital to be £ 1 , 000 , in shares of £ l . By purchasing for cash in tho best markets , the promoters expect to supply meal wheat , bread , and groceries , at prices below the current ones . A . baking establishment is included in the proposals .

      Extensive Robbkht . —A few days since the counting-house of James Morrison and Co ., 28 , St Maryat-Hill , Thames-street , was plundered of a tin cash box , containing CO South-Eastern Railway shares , 25 Taff Vale Railway shares , and 10 Paris and Lyon ; £ 372 in notes and bills of exchange , as well as several bill stamps , signed J . Morrison and Co ., payable to Jones , Lloyd , and Co ., and not filled up . Womas Bkooiso with a Dkao Child . —On Saturday , a woman , named Rafferty , was found begging in Castle-atreet , Dublin , with a dead child iu her arms . Starvation — Two deaths from starvation are reported to have occurred in Invernessj—the parties , a mother and daughter , were formerly ki better circumstances . They made no complaints , and were found both dead in bed .

      Early Mushrooms . —A splendid dish of mushrooms , fiom 2 \ inches in diameter , were on Wednesday gathered on the estate of Obadiah Williams , jun ,, Esq ., of Roundbay , by Wm , Woodall , a brass founder in the employ of Mr Clayton , at the Wellington Foundry . Refuge for Discharged Prisoners . —We understand that it is in contemplation , in Somerset , to erect an asylum for prisoners after they have served out the terms of imprisonment awarded for their offence .

      Distressing Occubbmcb . —A most distressing event connected with the loss of the Tweed West India mail packet , occurred at Southampton about a week since . A poor woman , the wife ot one of the crew of that ill-fated vessel , the mother of six children , and several months advanced in pregnancy , dropped down dead on being told abruptly by a neighbour that tho Tw « ed was lost , and that all hands hud perished . What renders the circumstance tbe more affecting is , that the husband arrived safely at Southampton in the Avon packet on Thursday last , being one of the persons whose lives vtere so providentially saved . Short Time . —Several of the Belfast spinning mills have been put upon short time . Litbriry JysTiTvwx . — A literary institution , called " The . Atheni 9 um , " was opened at Paisley on Tuesday .

      Tub Duke and the Quacks —Observing the name of his Grace the Duke of Wellington advertised the other day as the patron and swallower of the pills of one of the pestiterous tribes of London medical quacks , we used tbe liberty of asking the illustrious Duke whether his Urace gave authority for the publication , and the iollewing characteristic reply was received in course of post : — " Strathfieldsaye , April 10 , 1847 . — F . M . the Duke of Wellington presents his compliment to Mr M'Nab . He has received his letter . The Duke knows nothing ef the person alluded to , or his pills . No individual of his class has authority to use the name of the Duke of Wel « lington in any manner . "— Olasgsw Constitutional The Bot Dean . —This ill-fated youth ( only thir

      teen years of age ) , whose name is so notorious lrom his alleged participation in the murder of the " blacking boy" at Greennays , was on Monday brought up at the New Bailey sessions on a charge of obtaining , at Heaton Norris , on the 15 th of March , by false and fraudulent pretences , a quantity of money , flour , and groceries , the property of Hiram Wakefield , He was found guilty , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle , and was ordered to be once whipped . He is also to be kept in solitary confinement for fourteen days . Thb Devil ' s Own . —A letter from St Petersburgh , dated the 2 nd , announces that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill , and that his journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed .

      Emancipation .-Iu 1846 , 1 , 010 slaves were emancipated at Martinique , 1 , 115 at Guadeloupe , 177 m French Guiana , and about 300 at Bourbon . A Man Shot nr a p , .-A few daysago , about seven o clock , tho eldest son ( about Wy-toe years of age ) of Mr Amos , farmer , near the Cuckoo in Spalding , left a gun heavily loaded standi ^ in the corner of the barn ; during his absence which could scirrely exceed ten minutes ) several pica entered ; and whilst they were being driven out one of them knocked down the gun , which immediately expbded , and tho unfortunate individual alluded to being not more than four feet from the motile , the whole of the charge entered a little below the calf of his tieht leg , which was dreadtuAly lacerated . (

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24041847/page/3/