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      THE POOR MAX TO HIS SO >" . Tvcrlr , work , my boyy . be not afraid , Look labour boldly in tie face ; Take up the hammer or the spade , And blush not for your humble place . Earth was first conquered hy the power Of daily sweat and peasant toil , _ - And where would tings have found their dower , If poor men had not trod the soil i a SSK »^^^^ Su * hinds are sap-veins that provide The life-blood of the Nation s tree . There ' s honour in the toiling part ,

      That finds us in the furrowed fields ; ft stamps a crest upon the heart TTorfh more than all your quartered shields There ' s glory in the shuttle's song—There ' s triumph in the . anvil ' s stroke ; There ' s merit in the brave and strong , Who uis the mine or fell the oak , -Werli , work , my boy , and murmur not , The fustian garb betrays no shame ; The srim of fnrcrc-soot leaves no blot . Anil labour gilds the meanest name . There ' s dnty for all things , my son , Who act their earthly part aright ; The spider ' s home threads must ha spun—The bee sucks on ' twixt flowers and light .

      The hunjrry b > rd his food rnnsi seek—The ant must pile his winter fare ; The worm drops not into the beak , The siore is only gained hy care . The wind disturbs the sleeping lake , And bids it ripple pure and fresh ; It moves the green houghs till they make Grand music in their leafy mesh . And so the active breath of life Should stir our dull and sluggard wills , For are ire not created rife With health that stagnant torpor kills ? I doubt if he who lolls his head Where Idleness and Plenty meet , Enjoys his pillow or his bread , As * those who earn the meals they eat . And man is never half so blest

      As when the busy day is spent * So as to make his evening rest A holiday of glad content . God grant thee bnt a dne reward , A guerdon portion fair and just , And then ne ' er think thy station hard , But work , my b oy , wor k , hope , an d trust Buz ± Coos

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      Royalty And Republicanism In Italy , - O...

      Royalty and Republicanism in Italy , - or Motes and DocU'iients relating to the Lombard In sttrrection , a n d th e Royal War of 1848 . By Joseph Mazzini . London : Charles Gilpin . There is a power of reasoning in Mazzini , an aasallied mor a l purity , a chivalrous veracity and frankness , an utter abnegation of self , ami a courage that has stood the severest tr i als , which command not only respect , but TOiieratiou . He belongs to the martyr age of Italian liberalism , and possesses himself the highest qualities of the martyr .

      His declared object in publishing the small ¦ v olume before us is , to correct public op inion i : i England as to the Italian movement , in vUicli te took part . But it is a statement of pr i ncip les rather than a narrative of details . It is always di gnified in tone , often singularly eloquent , and substantially it contains a little winch would be likely to draw forth an expression of willing disagreement from any welle-iucated , hi gh-minded , liberal Englishman . 31 . ifazzini thus declares his reasons

      WHY THE GOVERNMENT OF HALT SHOULD BB BEPUBUCAS . Italian tradition is eminently republican . In Knzlani , the S'isiocratic element has a powerful 5 nfrit ^ ce , because it hss a history ; well or ill , it Jias frgavsKd society ; it has created a power , snatched /' ¦" - ' = royalty , by conqnsrin . - guarantees for the rights ci ihe subject ; it has founded in part the wealth and tus inflavuee < -f England abroad . The monarchial ef- meat has still great influence over _ the tendencies of France , because it also claims an important page iu the national history ; it has produced a Charters » ' ! ge , a L >> u ! s XL . a Napoleon ; it has contributed lo fraud the unity of France ; it has rhared with the cimimunes tha risks and the honours of the struggfe

      a . ainst feudalism ; it has surrounded the national j banner with a halo of military glory . What is the history of ihe monarchy and of the aristocracy of Italy ? Wii-it prominent part have they playad in the national development ? What vital element have t : ; rv supplied to Italian strength , or to the tmificati n of the fatare existence of Italy f The history of our royalty , in fact , commences with the dominion o' Charles V ., with the downfall of our last liberties - it is identified with seivhudi and dismemberment - it i ? written on a foreign page , in tbe cabinets of Fraice . of Austria , and of Spain . Nearly all of them v .- issue of foreign families , viceroys of one or other oHr-j great powers , onr kings do not offer the exaijipieefa single individual redeeming by brilliant

      p isoual Qualities the vice of subaltcrnity , to which lri < p-sitioa condemned him—not a single one whi Ins erer evinced a ^ y grand national aspiration . A-oand them in the obscurity of their courts , gather i . sc or retrogade courtiers , men who call themselves nzlU . but who have never been able to constitute an arksEracy . An aristocracy is a compact independent body , representing in itself an idea , and from one extremity of the country to another , governed , more or ]; . *? , by one and the same inspiration . Our nobles l » va lived upon the crumbs of royal favour , and if , oa same rare occasions , they have ventured to place themselves in opposition to the mona'ch , it has not

      be ? - \ in the cause of the nation , bat of the foreigner , or nf clerical absolution . The nobility can never be regarded as an historical element : it has furnished S " ine fortunate Condolieri , powerful even to tyranny , in Mime Isjiated town ; it has knelt at the feet of the foreign emperors who have passed the Alps , or .: fo = ; ed the sea . The original stock being nearly everywhere extinct , the races have become degene rated amidst corruption and ignorance . The descendants ef our noble families at Genoa , at Naples , nt Venice , and at Rome , are , for the most part specimens of absolute intellectual nullity . Almost everything that has worked its difficult way in art , ia liter Sjre . or in political activity , is plebian .

      " In Italy the initiative of progress has always belo-ajed to the people—to the democratic element . It is through her communes that she has acquired all s ) :- ? has eve ,- bad of liberty . Through her workmen in wi - iol or alk , through her merchants of Genoa , 3 ' : renoe , Venice , aid Ksa , that she has acquired her wealth ; through her artists , plebian and republican , from Giotto to Michael Ange'o . that she has acquired her renown ; through her ravigators—plebian—that , * h' - hss gm-n a world to her humanity ; through her i ' opes—sons of the people , even they—that until the TiV : > l-ih century she aided iu the emancipation of the \ T , -a 3 c , and sent forth a word of unity to humanity &\ l her memories of insurrection againsttheforeigner ars memories of the people : all that has made the

      greatness of our towns , dates alraostalwaysfromarejJa . hlica-. » epoch : the educational boot , the only book tp' A by the inhabitants of the Alps or the Transtevrr in , who can read , is an abriflginent of the Ancient Roman Republic . This is the reason why the same = -. r n who have so long been accused of coldness , and hi ' , , hi faei ; witnessed , with indifference , the aristocr-. t ; c and royal revolutions of 1820 and 1821 , arose ~ . " t : enthusiasm , and with a tree power of self Sicrifv . --, at the crv of iSf . Mari and the Jtepublie ! God flifj the PeojAc ! These words contained for them a guamatee . Thev awoke in them , even unconsciously in iiieiase ' ve =, { t e all-powerful echo of a living past , a < p . ru ; ed rec < il cctioa of glory , of Streng th , of COBsr >» -nc . \ and of dignity .

      With < ueh eleiasnis , bow would it be possible to f . . T ' . iml r » monarchy , surrounded with an aristccracy ? tiow can onesveak of a balance of powers , where there are bat two forces—forei gn absolutism , and the people i How c . uld one organise a constitutional monarchy where the aristocracy 13 without a past , rtnii where royalty inspires neither affection nor respect ' 7 \ 1 . Mazzini repeatedl y declares that the r . rjsublieaii—or , as he calls it , the nationalpnrty are nut responsible for the disunion wiiidi , at a time when the Avhole nation was anncd against the forei gners , and mi g ht h a ve -driven them from the country , turnedits forces

      against its own citizens . He gives proof that his own advice was for union till the day of victory , and ' not till then for discussion as to ubat party should reap its fruits . "Whether to mon a r c h , or to peoplp , he affirms that he was ready to submit : ho asserts repeatedl y t h a t it w ss only after having been betraye d , that the national party set up f o r themselves and he expresses his belief that even now , when a union of princes has heen seen to be impossible , the leadership of a single prince voald he accepted by all , supposing such a iitting . Jeader could bo . found ... He- * tbus 4 eicribes- * -- "' - '

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      THE REPUnUCAN PARTT AND THEIR DETBACTORS . Thty hare said , and they sayagain , without taking advantage of the favourable position in which events have placed them : —Let tbe nation arise ; let her make herself mistress of her own territory ; then ; the victory oncegained , let her freely decide who shall reap the fruits . Mqnarch . or people , we will submit ourselves to the power she herself shall organise . ' Is it possible that so moderate and rational a proposition should be the object of such false interpretations , in a country which reveres tbe idea of right and of self-government ? Is it possible that its leaders should be the object of so much calumny ? twe REPUBLICAN PARTT AND THEIROETnACrrnns .

      It is time that these calumnies should cease . It matters Jittle to us , who act as our conscience dictates , without troubling ourselves as to the personal result ; and to whom failh and exile have given the habit of looking higher than the praise or blame of this earth . But it should be recognised as most important , by all who believe that political questions agitated by whole nations , are questions eminently religions . For religion , to all those who see more in it than the mere materialism of forms aud formula ? , is not only a thought of Heaven , bnt the impulse which seeks to apply that thought , as far as possible to government on earth , our role of action for the good of all , and for the moral devrlopment of humanity . Politics then are like religion—sacred ; and all good mea are bound to see them morally respected . Every question has a right to serious , calm , and honest discussion . Calumny should be the weapon of those only w h o hav e to def e nd not id ea s , but

      . It is immoral to say to men who have preached clemency ihroughout the whole of their political career , who have initiated their rule by the abolition of capital punishment , who , when in power , never signed a single sentence of exile against those who had persecuted them , nor even against the known enemies of their principles : — "You are the sanguinary organisers of terror , men of vengeance and of cruelty . " It is immoral to ascribe to them views which they never had , and to . choose to forget that they have , through the medium of the Press here and elsewhere , attacked and refuted those communistic systems and exclusive solutions which tend to suppress ra ' . her than to transform the elements of * ociety , and to say to them , " You arc Communists , von

      desire Jo abolisJi property . " It is immoral to accuse of irreligion ' and impiety , men who have devoted their whole lives to the endeavour to reconcile the religious idea , betrayed and disinherited by tbe very men who pretend to be its official defenders , with the national movement . It is immoral to insinuate accusations of personal interest and of pillage , a g ain s t men who have serenly endured the sufferings of poverty , and whose life—accessible to all—has never betrayed either cupidity or the desire of luxury . It is immoral continually to proclaim—as the act of a whole party—the death of a statesman killed by an unknown hand , under the influence of the irritation produced by his own act " , and by the attacks of another political party , many months before tbe Republican party recommenced its activity in Italy .

      M . Mazzini charges no direct treachery against Carlo Alberto . He declares him to have been himself the victim of the weakness which caused others as well as himself so much loss and misery . For the impossible political project of a Kingdom of tbe If orth he was content to surrender the grand reality of a United People which fate had p lace d within his hands .

      CIIAKLE 3 ALBERT . Genius , love , and faith were wanting in Charles Albert . Of the first , which reveals itself by a life entirely , logically , and resolutely devoted to a great idea , the career of Charles Albert does not offer the least trace ; the second was stifled in him by the continual mistrust of men and things , which was awakened by the remembrance of an unhappy past ; the last was denied him by his uncertain character , waverinsr always between good and evil , between to do and not to do , between daring and not daring . In his youth , a thought , not of virtue , but of Italian ambition—the ambition , however , which may be profitable to nations—had passed through his soul like lightning ; but he recoiled in affright , and the remembrance of this one brilliant moment of his

      youth presented itself hourly to him , and tortured him like the incessant throbbing of an old wound , instead of acting upon him as an excitement to a new life . Between the risk of losing , if lie failed , the crown of his little kingdom , and the fear of the liberty which the people , after having fought for him , would claim for themselves , he went hesitating on , with this spectre before his eyes , stumbling at every step , without energy to confront these dangers , without the will or power to comprehend that to become King of Italy , he must first of all forget

      that he was King of Piedmont . Despotic from rooted instinct , liberal from self-love , a n d from a presentiment of the future , he submitted alternately to the government of Jesuits , and to that of men of progress . A fatal disunion between thought and action , between conception and the faculty of execution , showed itself in every act . Most of those who endeavoured to place him at the head of the enterprise , were forced to agree to this view of his character . Some of those intimate with him went so far as to whisper that he was threatened with lunacv . H e wa s t h e H a ml e t of Mon a rch y .

      A characteristic passage of the volume has relation to LiMARTlSE ' S VIEWS OF ITALIAN ISDEPESDESCB . The war between the two principles was general in Europe—the enthusiasm excited hy the movements in Italy , especially the Lombard insurrection and the prodigies of the five days , was immense ; and Italy could , had she willed it and known how , have drawn thence sufficient force to counterbalance all the strength of hostile reaction . But to do this , it was nccessarv , whatever the mean policy of the Moderates might fear , to gire to tbe movement a character so audaciously national as to alarm our enemies , and to offer tbe moat powerful element of suppo ' rt to our friends . Both felt the time was ripe ,

      and began to believe that Italy would be but Italy and not the Kingdom of the North . I remember the consoling words Lamartine addressed to me , at bis house on the eve of my departure for Italy , and in presence , amongst others , of Alfred de Vigny , and of the same Forbin Janson whom I was afterwards to meet preaching the papal restoration , and getting up various petty conspiracies and ridiculous intrigues at Rome . . •« The . hour has struck for you , " said the minister , " and I am so firmly convinced of it , that the first words with which I have charged Monsieur d'Harcourt for the Pope are these ; Holy Father , you foiow that you ovgltt to le the President of the Italian Republic . " But Monsieur d'Harcourt had quite other

      things to say to the Pope , on the part of that faction which involved Lamartine in its snares whilst he imagined that he could control it . For myself I attached no importance , except aa a symptom , to these words of Lamartine , a man of impulse and of noble instincts , but unstable in belief , without energy lor a fixed purpose , and without real knowledge of men and things . He was indeed the echo of a tendency all powerful , in those moments of exc i tement , upon the French mind ; and every reawakening nationality , every political programme , which , if not absolutely republican , was like that , at least , of the Italian constituent , would have compelled the support of the most hesitating government in France .

      From great things great things are born . The dwarfish conception of the Moderates froze up all sonls , and imposed an utter change of politics upon France . The Italian People was an ally more than sufficiently powerful to preserve the Eepublic from all danger of a foreign war ; a Kingdom of the North , in the hands of princes little to be relied upon , and hostile , by long tradition , to the Republicans of France , did but add a dangerous element to the league of kings . The French nation became silent , and left its government free to exist without any foreign policy , and to leave the destinies of the republic to the impenetrable future . The incidents described in most detail are

      those immediatel y preceding and following the fatal surrender of Milan ; aud it is impossible not to he struck by the contrast of the Royal and the Republican party . But passing this ignominious period , there ought to he small difference of opinion in a free and educated country as to where the 3-i g b . t lay in the subsequent Roman struggle . What sensible or honest Protestant would not sympathise with the indignant eloquence of this earnest Italian protesting against the flimsy oratory of a Jesuit Frenchman ?

      MAZZISI 10 MOXTALEMBEnT . You base your argument upon the void ; you discuss that which was , not that which is . The Papacy is dead , choked in blood and mire ; dead , because it has betrayed its own mission of protection to the weak against the oppressor ; dead , because for three centuries and a half it has prostituted itself with princes ; dead , because in the name of egotism and before the palaces 01 all the corrupt , hvpocritic . " . ! , and sceptical governments , it has for the second time crucified Christ ; dead because it has uttered words of faith which it did not itself believe ; dead , because it has denied human liberty deadbe

      a : ; d the dignity of our immortal souls ; , - cause it has condemned science in Galileo , p hilosophy in Giordano Bruno , religious aspiration in John Huss and Jerome of Prague , political life , b y an anathema against the rig h t s of t he peop le , civil life *» y J esuitism , the terrors of the Inquisition , and the example of corruption , the life of the family by cc ™? ssl ° i * " converted into a system of espionage , ana by division introduced between father and son , brother and brother , h u sba n d and wife ; dead , for tbe princes , hy the treaty of Westphalia ; dead , for r & SSifir ' - * * Greg 0 ^ XL , i n 1378 , an d with since 1530 , vrhen Clement YII . and 'Charles V ; the

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      Pope and the Emperor , signed an infamous compact , and extinguished , at Florence , the dying liberties , as to-day you hare attempted to extinguish her rising liberties in Rome ; dead ; because the people has risen , because Pius IX . has fled , because the multitude curses him , because those very men who . for fifteen years have niado war upon the priests , in the name of Voltaire , ' n o w h y pocriticall y defend them , bucause you and yours delend them , with intolerance and by force of arms , and declare tbat _ the Papacy and liberty cannot live sidoby side ? You ask Victor Hugo to point but to you an idea which has been worshipped for eighteen centuries Pnna . m , l + Wi ? _ i ___ . . - ¦ ,

      . It is that idea which you havo declared irreconcilable with the Papacy , and which was breathed into humanity by God ; the idea which has withdrawn from Catholicism the half of the Christian world—the idea which has snatched from you Lammenais and tho flower ot the intellects of Europe—the idea of Christ—that pure ,-holy , and sacred liberty which you invoked for Poland some years back , which Italy invokes for herself to-day , under the form , and with the guarantee of nationality , and which you cannot pretend to be good for one country and bad for another , unless you believe ifc-a part of religion to create a pariah people in the bosom of humanity .

      Very admirably and nobl y written are M ; Mazzini ' s later remarks on the Republican and anti-papal administratian of Rome , and the coldness it met with in England and elsewhere . It is hard for a people to strugg le , suffer , and bleed al o ne , yet hold themselves in this temperate attitude , It . is not generous , as M . Mazzini too truly complains , in anation having the enjoyment and the consciousness of liberty herself , to wait until the hour of victory has sounded for another nation before she stretches out a sister's hand towards her . WHAT TBE REPUBLICANS DID AND ENGXASD MIGHT HAVE DONE .

      I affirm that with the exception of Ancona , where the triumvirate were obliged energetically to repress certain criminal acts of political vengeance , the republican cause was never sullied by the slightest excess ; that no censorship was assumed over the press before the siege , and that no occasion arose for exercising it during the siege . Not a single condemnation to death or exile bore witness to a severity which it would have been our right to have exercised , but which the perfect unanimity which reigned amongst all the elements of the state rendered useless . I affirm that , except in the case of three or four priests , who had been guilty of

      firing upon our combatants , and who were killed by the people during the last days of the siege , not a single act of personal violence was committed by any fraction of the population agai st another , and that if ever there was a city presenting the spectacle of a band of brothers pursuing a common end , and bound together by the same faith , it was Rome under the republican rule . The city was inhabited by foreigner ' s from all parts of the world , by the consular agents , by many of your countrymen ; let any one of them arise , and under the guarantee of his own signature , deny , if he can , the truth of what I say . Terror now reijms in Rome : the prisons are choked with men who have been arrested

      and detained without trial ; fifty priests are confined in the castle of St . Angelo , whose only crime consists in their having lent their services in . oar hospitals ; the citizens , the Lest known for their moderation , are exiled ; the army is almost entirely dissolved , the city disarmed , and the " factious " sent away even to the last man ; and yet France dares not consult in a legal manner the will of the populations , but re-establishes tbe papal authority by military decree . I do not believe that since the dismemberment of Poland there has been committed

      a more atrocious injustice , a more gross violation of the eternal right which God has implanted in the peoples , that of appreciating and defining for themselves their own life , and governing themselves in accordance with their own appreciation of it . And I cannot believe that it is well for you or for Europe that such things can he accomplished in the eyes of the world , without one nation arising out of its immobility to protest in the name of universal justice . This is to enthrone brute force , where , by the power of reason , God alone should reign ; it is to substitute the sword and poniard for law—to decrees ferocious war without limit of time or means between oppressors rendered suspicious by their fears , and the oppressed abandoned to the instincts of reaction and isolation . Let Europe ponder upon these things . For if the ligh t of h uman mor ali ty becomes but a little more obscured , in that darkness there will arise a strife that will make those who come after us shudder with dread .

      The balance of power in Europe is destroyed . It consisted formerly in the support given to the smaller states by the great powers , now they are abandoned . France in Italy , Russia in Hungary , Prussia in Germany , a little later perhaps in Switzerland ; these are now the masters of the continent . England is thus made a nullity ; the " celsa sedet Solus in arce , " which Canning delighted to quote ,. to express the moderating function which he wished to reserve for his country , is now a meaningless phrase . Let not your preachers of the theory of material interests , your speculators upon extended markets deceive themselves ; there is history to teach them that political influence and commercial influence are closely bound together . Political sympathies hold the key of the markets ; the tariff of tho Roman Republic will appear to you , if you study it , to be a declaration of sympathy towards England to which your government did not think it necessary to respond .

      And yet , above the question of right , above the question of political interest , both of which were of a nature to excite early the attention of England , there is , aa I have said , another question being agitated at Rome of a very different kind of importance , and Which ought to have aroused all those who believe in the vital principle of religious reformationit is that of liberty of conscience . Tho religious question which broods at the root of all political questions-showed itself there great and visible in all its European importance . The Pope at Gaeta was the theory of absolute infallible authority exiled from Home for ever ; and exiled from Rome was to be exiled from the world . The abolition of the temporal p ower ev ide ntly drew with it , in tho minds of all those who understood the secret of the papal authority , the emancipation of men ' s minds from the spiritual authority . The principle of liberty and of free consent , elevated by the Constituent

      Assembly into a living active right , tended rapidly to destroy the absolutist dogma which from Rome aims more than ever to enchain the universe . The high aristocracy of the Roman Catholic clergy well know the impossibility of retaining the soul in darkness , in the midst of light inundating the intelligences of men ; for this reason they carried off their Pope to Gaeta ; for this reason they now refuse all compromise . They know that any compromise would be fatal to them ; that they must re-enter as conquerors , or not at a l l . And in the same way that the aristocracy of the clergy felt this inseparability of the two powers , the French government in its present reactionary march , has felt that the keystone of despotism is at Rome—that the ruin of the spiritual authority of the middle ages would be the ruin of its own projects—and that the only method of securing to it a few more years of existence was to rebuild for it a temporal domination .

      England has understood nothing of this . She has not understood what there was of sublime and prophetic in this cry of emancipation , in this protestation in favour of human liberty , issuing from tho very heart of ancient Rome , in the face of the Vatican . She has not felt that the struggle in Rome was to cut the Gordian knot of moral servitude against which she has long and vainly opposed her Bible Societies , her Christian and Evangelical Alliances ; and that there was being opened , had she but extended a sisterly hand to the movement , a mighty pathway for the human mind . She has not understood that one bold word , " respect for the liberty of thought , " opposed to the hypocritical language of the French government , would have been sufficient to have inaugurated the era of a new religious policy , and to have conquered for herself a decisive ascendancy upon the continent .

      The writer of such passages as these may nevertheless bo of good heart . Like Knox and "YYickliffe , Huss and Luther , M . Mazzini is no maker of ephemeral arrangements and compromises ; but , lik o them , he is the uncompromising asserter of princi p les , and the creator of a national sentiment , that will in time give law to the makers of such arrangements . Looking to the yet weak and timid condition of public op inion in Italy—looking to the narrow provincial views which still hamper general society—above all , looking to the limited power of its princes and prelates , and to the imbecile and demoralised characters of its Pio Nonos and Antonellis , there is no hope o f any immediatepolitical settlement , theattainraent of which need make it worth while for M .

      Mazzini to compromise or abandon for a moment his most extreme political opinions . Nothing is to be accomplished at present ; and ho is therefore more usefull y emp loyed in rallying his party by fervent reiteration of his principles , and in forming a pure and elevated public sentiment alike by his precepts and his example , as one of those iron men who are able to beard tyranny and profligacy even while they stand alone , the apostles of reformation , the originators and heralds of after change .

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      AunihoN is . like a wild horse , whieh prances unceasingly until it has thrown off its rider .

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      . ,. SADLER ' S WELLS THEATRE . of tw „?! ay of 2 / easure M . Measure has b een revived ribeli ,. ° i ' Mi 8 s G 1 yn > in * ne character of ™!' V opportunity of displaying her ETfK ? aata i and impressive declamation , lnir , u few bur 8 ts of grief which , interrupt the $ TZtJ C v ? aeP ° rtment of the stately maiden are given with great force . Mr . Marston , as the Ji ^ 'AT 8 \ v y urban e and sensible interpreta-& S ?'» ^ * ' which contrasts > well with 82 Z !? ^ S ^ PJayed" by . Mr . George Bennett . ih ^' - * ° , S « an effective Dogberry , i s well fci mth parfc of Elbow , a we a k e r edition o f the same character , and Mr . F . Younge exhibits T &^^ w mour asthe Clown - The afterp i e ces at badler s Wells seldom form a main feature in an

      evening s entertainment , b ut a ' new jMtfte comedy , 5 J * ' ¦ ' r St r £ ' en « tled the Teacher Taught , is worthy of mention . A staid youth with a dissipated fother proposes to reform the latter by marrying k - OQ ^ y 0 Ung lad ? ' "hilo he consents to take to himseit the young lady ' s aunt as a means of assisting the match In the progress of the . scheme the S ^ a / al ln love with . the juvenile , and is converted from pedantry to animation , ari d t h e elderly maiden is consigned to the parent . The aeiineauon

      - ot a classical-scholar is nob very accurate , inasmuch as the youth is made to talk of Socrates as an " ancient father , " but tho intrigue 14 pleasantl y condu c te d , and the piece has tho adv a nt a ge o f very liv ely and spirited acting . Mr . Hostms , who plays the young pedant , is one of the most useful performers of the establishment . ' -Here his quiet assumption of gravity , is highly ludicrous , but generally his line is the rapid and eccentric , to winch he always gives effect by his unceasing flow of spirits . As a Shakspearian fop ho is also valuable , and of his talent in this way his Lucio in Measure for Measure is a good specimen .

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. Mr. Georg...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Mr . George Barker has commenced his second lecture on the subject of " The Ballad Music of Gr ea t Britain . " The subject is treated by the lecturer in a popular and agreeable manner , an d gives an outline of the many ^ advantages to be obtained by t he cultiv a ti o n of this c h arming sci e nce to . all classes of society , and being the most rational way o f s pen d ing t h e leisure hour s . The illustrations gi v en i n t he course o f h i s lecture were well selecte d and highly appropriate , and was received at the termination of his labours by tho unanimous applause of his audience . Among the ballads which appeared to attract greatest attention we noticed the , following— "Friends of my Youth , " " The Rose of Cashmere , " " Wreck of the Emigrant Ship , " & c .

      Parliamentary^ Reform Meeting At The Lok...

      PARLIAMENTARY REFORM MEETING AT THE LOKDON TAVERN . National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association Rooms , li , Poultry . Sib , —My attention has been called to a leading article in the Northern Slar of this day ' s date , in which the writer , whilst commenting on the meeting on Monday last , at the London Tavern , makes the following statement : —" The Chairman , so far from rebuking such unmanly interruption , tock part with those who gave it . " If , by this , it is meant to insinuate that I took any partin the interruption , I beg to say the statement is totally untrue . I am , sir , your obedient servant , To the Editor of the Northern Joshua Walxsiet . Star , Oct . 19 th .

      [ The meaning of the passage which has drawn forth this note is perfectly clear . It is not stated that Sir Joshua Walmsley took part in the interruption , but that , so far from rebuking the interrupters , and as chairman , exerting himself to procure a fair and uninterrupted hearing for Mr . O'Connor , ho "took part unih those who gave it . " We refer to the report Of the Daily News for proof of that fact . At the conclusion * of Mr . O'Connor ' s s p eech , Sir Joshua rose and , in a very warm manner , e x p ressed his disapproval of the views of that gentleman . If this was not taking part with the interrupters , we do not know the meaning of words . At . ill events , we beg to assure Sir Joshua that we faithfully expressed the conviction made upon onr own mind at the time of the occurrence , " and , as journalists , " Nothing extenuate nor set down aught in malice . "—En . if . S . ]

      Surrey Quarter Sessions. The Adjourn Ed ...

      SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS . The adjourn ed quarter sessions for the county of Surrey commenced on Monday at tho Court House , Newington Ca useway , bef o re Tho ma s Puckle , Esq ,, and a full bench of magistrates . The calendar contained the names of forty-eight prisoners . Robbeux . —James Stroud , 23 , was indicted for stealing , at Bermondsey , a watch , a pair of stockings , and other property , belonging to William Farning . —The prosecutor , a young man in the employ of a butcher at Bermondsey , said thatHhe prisoner was also in the same service prior to the 17 th of Septem b er and slept in the same room with him , On that day he absconded , when witness found that his

      box had been broken open , and that his watch and other articles had been stolen . —Mary Pearch , a lodging-house keeper in the City-road , said the prisoner formerly lodged at her house , and on the night of the 17 th ult . he came to her and handed her an old-fashioned silver watch to take care of . He slept there that night , and on tho following morning he went away , but returned shortly afterwards for the watch . A few days after that she received information of the robbery , and as soon as the prisoner came to her again sho sent for a policeman and gave him into custody . Witness produced a pair of stockings which he left with her , and which the prosecutor identified . —In defence , the prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery , and said what the female stated was false . —The jury found him Guilty , and the Court sentenced him to six

      months' imprisonment with hard labour . Two Old Offenders . —W . Bramley , 16 , and . T . Mitcham , 10 , were indicted for stealing 159 yards ol cotton print from the shop door of Mr . Henry Hayman , a linendraper , at Clapham , his property . — Alfred Spier , a constable of tho V division , deposed that on the evening of the Cth inst . he saw the prisoners in the Wandsworth-road , and , knowing them to be old thieves , he followed them to Clapham , where he saw Bramley approach the prosecutor ' s door , when he snatched the piece of print from the door way , and joined the other prisoner , who took it from him . ' They both ran away , but witness pursued them , and after a ftnart chaso secured them . —Prosecutor identified the printed cotton as his property . —The jury found them Guilty . Sentence three months each at Brixton , and to be privately whipped .

      Railway Robberies . — George Rees , a c a rm a n in the employ of Mr . Henry Smithers , town carman , was indicted for stealing twenty eggs , the property of the Brighton and South Coast Railway Company . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty , but strongly recommended him to mercy on account of his previous good character—The Chairman ordered him to be confined in the county gaol twenty one days , with solitary confinement . William Humphreys , 22 , and George Butler , 31 ,

      were indicted for stealing a purse containing five shillings and sixpence from the person of Frances Greenwood , in the booking-office of the London and South Western Railway Station , in the Waterlooroad . —The Chairman said that such robberies had bec om e very frequent , and some example must be made to put a stop to them at railway stations . Ho should sentence Humphreys to nine months hard labour at Brixton , and Butler to six months at Guildford ; and should they bo ever convicted before him again , ho should certainly transport them .

      . « Ship On Fire At Maim.—We Regret To S...

      . « Ship on Fire at Maim . —We regret to state that early on the morning of the 8 th of October tho fine new barque Secundus , belonging to the " Sacieta di Navignzione Maltose , " was discovered to bo on fire in Talletta Harbour , Malta . We observe by the official statement of the secretary to the company , Mr . Luigi P . Yella , that the vessel was ready to leave for Constantinople , when on the morning of the above day the persons in charge on board were alarmed by the appearance of smoke , a nd on c a llin g for help it was promptly rendered by Captain Olivari , and the crew of the Sardinian schooner Zencbia . The officers and seamen of tho French steamer Sososlvis arrived soon after , with lire engines and buckets , followed by Lieut . Harvey and a party of

      seamen from her Majesty ' s ship Ceylon . Mr . Napier , the master-attendant of Malta Dockyard , also came with an engine . Water by these means was introduced into the vessel , hut finding that , after two hours of continual exertion , the firo could not bo effectually overcome , it was determined upon to take the vessel into shallow water , and bore her , which was soon done by a great number of boats , towing her to a proper place . The vessel was then bored in several parts , and the fire extinguished by the water let in . Tho damage is spoken of as not being of much consequence , and that the repairs were already begun , which it was hoped would bo finished in ten days . Much praise and many thanks are due to the parties who rendered their assistance on this disastrous occasion , among whom the names

      of Mr . Gacaco and Mr . G . Parman in , and the shipbu i l d ers German and Mirabitur , ought not to bo omitte d , since they , by their advice and co-operation , contributed materially to the paving of the barque Secundus . Roar-Admiral Harvey was alongside the vessel , and staying somo hours watching all the operations . Various arc the surmises as to the c ; tuse of the fire . The cargo was partl y compose d of Malta flag-stones , but some iron bedsteads , have been consumed by the burning of the straw in which they were b ound , besides the destruction of several sofas and chairs . The vessel was not insured , but we hear the cargo was , to a limited extent , at Mai a . The number of attorneys and solicitors at present in Lontidn ; Westminster , and SoutUwark , and their enyiroiiBj iu 3 , 209 only , : ' : ¦¦ ¦ .-

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      An Evergreen—A Man Who Does Not Learn By...

      An Evergreen—a man who does not learn by experience . A dandy is a chap that would be a lady if he could ; but as he can ' t does all he can to show the world that he is not a man . Be not affronted at a jest . If one throw salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm , unless thou hast sore places . What is it that most bothers a cabinet maker ? —Putting a leg to the multiplication table . What kind of essence does a young manlike when he pops the question ?—Acqui-escence . A restorative . — The l ad i e s wh o f a int o n bein g ' proposed to , " can be restored to consciousness by just whispering in their ears that you were only joking .

      A Yankee editor says he " like to died a larfin ' to see a drinkin' chap tryin' to pocket the shadow of a swinging sign for a pocket handkerchief . " Church Flonketism , and Patrdnage . —Seven hundred pounds a-year are p-iid to the vice-chancellor ' s mace-bearer , and £ 40 to the Greek professor at Oxford . System , — "What is system ? " asked a young lady of a man of letters . . " It is , " replied the , scholar , " a faggot of ideas , well arranged , and neatly bound together . " - Law , like a razor , requires a " strong back , " keenness , and an excellent temper . —N . B . 'Many of those who get once " shaved with ease and expedition , " seldom risk a second operation .

      A difficulty . — "Mike , why don ' t you fire at those ducks , boy—don ' t you see you have got the whole flock before your gun ?''— " I know 1 have ; but when I get good aim at one , two or three others will swim right up betwixt it and me . " Dead , and a live . —4 . lady of rank complaining that her husband was dead to fashionable amusements he replied , " But then , my dear , you make me alive to the expense . " _ Tuled aristocrats . —It is surprising what an influence titles have upon the mind , even though these titles be of our own making . Like children , we dress up puppets in finery , sand then stand in astonishment at the plastic wonder . —Goldsmith Oh I there ' s not in the wide world a pleasure so sweet As to sit near tho window and tilt up your feet ; Pull away at the " Cuba , " whose flavour just suits , And gaze at the world ' twixt the toes of your boots . —Yankee Made .

      Alobrnon Sidney , in a letter to his son , says , " That in the whole of his life he never knew one man , of what condition soever , arrive at any degree of reputation in the world , who made choice of , or deli g hted in , the company or conversation of those who in their qualities were inferior , or in their parts not much superior to himself . " " Shabby Gentility" is to the social life what " Brummagem" wares are to the things they imitate . In both cases there is elaborate workmanship bestowed on a worthless material , to produce the

      result which the honest Jew d e sire d , when he directed that his mock silver spoons should be stamped with a " dog , which is to be made as much like a lion as possible , " At A debating club the question was discussed , whet he r , there is more pleasure in the possession or the pursuit of an object . "Mr . President , " said an orator , " suppose I Was courting a gal , and she was to run away , and Iwas to run after her , wouldn ' t I be happier when I catch'd her , than when I was running after her . "

      Patents . —The cost in France is £ 12 and upwards ; in Spain , £ 10 , £ 30 , and £ 00 ; in the Netherlands and Belgium £ 6 to £ 30 ; in Austria , £ 516 s . Sd with lis . 8 d . a year additional ; and in America , £ 6 s . 10 s . ; while , in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ,. it is no less than £ 300 ! " Every man is a volume , if you know how to read him . " True ; but some can claim to be such only upon the principle that " a book ' s a book , although there is nothing in it . " A negro may be considered & black-letter volume , we suppose , and a rogue in irons a well bound one . Teeth Sharpening . —A housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner , found him engaged in using his tooth-brush . " Well , is ho coming ? " said the lady of the house , as the servant returned . " Yes , ma ' am , directly , " was the reply , "he's just sharpening his teeth . ''

      An inebriate Irishman , on being kindly questioned in a very narrow lane across whioh he was reeling , as to the length of the road he had travelled , replied .: "Faith ! it ' s not so much the length of it as the breadth of it that ' s tired m ? . " Two little girls , one the daughter of a wealthy brewer , the other of a gentleman of small fortune , were disputing for precedency . " You are to consider , miss , " said tho brewer ' s ( laug hter , "thatuiy papa keeps a coach . " "Very true miss . ' was the other ' s reply , " a n d y ou are to cons id er , likewise , that he also keeps a dray . "

      London Wells . —In reply to an inquirer , the deepest well in London is that sunk by Messrs . Combe and Co ., the brewers , which measures 522 feet . The next is at the Excise Office , 500 feet . The well at Meux ' s brfiwerv is 425 feet deep ; that at Messrs . Elliott ' s , Pimlico , 308 feet . The Trafalgar-square welt is 383 feet deep , and the well at Kensington new workhouse , 370 feet . —Builder . Good Advice . —Judge Burnet being applied to by an old farmer for his advice in a law-suit , heard his case with great patience , and then asked him if be had ever put into a lottery ? "No , sir , " said the f armer , " I hope I have too much prudence to run such risks . " . " Then take my advice , my good friend , and 8 uffr : r any inconvenience rather than go to law , as the chances are more against you there than in anv lotterv . "

      Past and Pkesknt . —In the ninth century it was an established custom in the north , that all the sons of a king , except the eldest , and the chief nobility , should be furnished with ships properly equipped , in order to carry on the profession of piracy , which in those days was held in high admiration . —Smollett . [ The princes and ihearistocrary of the nineteenth century have an . easier and less hazardous mode of plundering ] ';" : As Affectionate Son . — A country bumpkin , whose habitation is not far from , this immediate locality , was called upon a short time ago by a neighbour , to inform him of a domestic calamity—the loss of his mother . Th e b e r ea v e d son w a s found a t his breakfast ; when the following dialogue took place : — "Hai bin thee , Jim , oive g otten sad new s for thee — thee mother ' s jed . " "Jed , mon ! didst say ? well , wait a hit , till I finish my porriteh , and I'll mak the a pretty blaat . " — Macclesfield Courier .

      WANTED TO KNOW . If steam ships arc used in navigating the " sea of troubles . " If ship s in " stays " are addicted to "tight lacing . " If it is owing to the rate of interment bein g che ap that so many are buried "in oblivion . " Whether the sun shone during the " dark ages . " Whether the " tale" which the ghost of Hamlet ' s father could unfold , was " founded on fact . "

      The elevation of the " pinnacle of fame , " a bove the ocean , The extreme length of the " Long _ Parliament . If hydropatic treatment would be likely to cure the " eruptions" of Mount Etna . A Hint to Householders . —An experienced burglar once confessed that , for the street door , a chain is a more perplexing obstruction than locks bolts , or bars ; both at windows and doors , bells are a serious disturbance ; but worst of all is a little yapping dog , that does not attack intruders , but runs away barking . _

      Intelligknce of the Doa and Elephant . —The dog is the only brute animal thatdrefins , and he and the elephant are the only quadrupeds that understand looks ; they are the only animals that—besides man—feel sorrow ; the dog the only quadruped that has been brought to speak . Loibmtz bears witness to a hound in Saxony that could speak distinctly thirty words . Teak-Bottle . —It is a custom among the Chinese to have a tear-bottle . When two ladies or females of th e lo w er r a nk q u a rrel , they go before a magistrate . A tear-bottle is given to the individual who says she is aggrieved , and if she can fill it with tears , the magistrate says , " I perceive you have been harshly treated . I shall award a great punishment to the one by whom you have been oppressed . " If she can only half fill it , the punishment is reduced one half , but

      if she cannot shed one tear , there is no punishment at all . The Eleventh Commandment . — Archbishop Usher was wrecked on the coast of Ireland , in a wild and desert p lace . In his distress , he went to the house of an ecclesiastic—a man reserved and prudent almost to distrust—and to conciliate his feelings , alleged his sacred character . The ecclesiastic , in a tone hardly civil , refused to believe him , and said he would answer for it he had never known how many commandments there wore . " I can prove to yon , " said the archbishop , with mildness , " that I am not so ignorant as you think ; there arc eleven . " " Eleven ! " answered the ecclesiastic ; " very well , tell mo the eleventh , and I v $ l give you all the help you need . " " Here it is , " replied the archbishop : " A » iei « commandment give 1 unto you , that yc love one another . "—John xiii . 34 ,

      Rejoice not at Misfortune . —Never rejoice at another ' s mlsfortue because it may turn out to your advantage . In some parts of Germany they make use of the following saying , " My corn is ripening , " which a person will repeat who has the prospect of something profitable occurring to him . Once while a surgeon and a carpenter were taking a walk together , they observed at some distance a small village , known to them both , on fire . The carpenter pointed to it , and said to his companion , " My corn is ripening , " for he concluded that if the old nouses were burned , new ones would require to bo built ; but , as he looked intently at the conflagration and not at the road , immediately after this befell into tf ditch and brokers arm , "Ah 1 " said tho surgeon , V it appeava totae that my corn Is already ripe , '' f

      Uatracea Thirty-Fifth Edition, Containing The Remedy For The Prevention Of Disease,

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      Cures For The Utfcuredi Hollo Way's Ointment. An Extraordinary Cure Of Scrofula, Or King's Evil.

      CURES FOR THE UtfCUREDI HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil .

      Extract Of A Letter From Mr. J. Ii. Aihj...

      Extract of a letter from Mr . J . II . AIHJay , 209 High-street , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1 SD 0 . Sin , —My eldest son , when about three years of nge , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of s > : rofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without etiVet . The disenso then for years wont on gradually increasing ia virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below tho left knee , and a third under the eye , hesides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the wliole of the time my suft'erinjr boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospital

      where one of the surgeons said that he would amputate the left arm , but that the blood was so . impure , that if that limb were taken offit would be then aven impossible to subdue the disease . In this desperate state I determined to glve ' yonv pills and ointment ft trial , » nd sifteP two months pel severance in their use , the tumour b ^ gan perceptibly to disappear , and the discharge from all the ulcers gradually decreased , and at the expiration of eight months they were perfectly healed , urn ! the boy thoroughly restored to the blessings of health , to the astouishmentofahu'gi ! circle of acquaintances who could testify to the truth of this miraculous case . Three years have now elapsed without tiny recuri ence of tho malady , and the hoy is now as healthy ns In art cm wish . Under these circumstances I consider that 1 should he truly ungrateful were I not to make you acquainted with this wonderful cure , effected by your medicines after every other means had failed . —( bynsd )—J . II . Alliday . —To 1 ' rofessor Holmway .

      Cure of Acute Rheumatism of Four Years Standing . Extract of a Letter from Mr , John rite , Dudley , January Will , 1850 . Sin , —It is with the greatest pleasure that I write to thank you for the benefit I have received from your puis and ointment which have completely cured me of the rheumatism , under whieh I suffered for the last four years , at times I was so bad as hardly to bo able to walk ; I had tried every kind of medicine that was recommended without receiving any being . I at last thought I would give vour medicine a trial , and purchased front Mr . RolUn , chemist , of this town , two boxes of pills , and two of ointment , and in three weeks , through them and the blessings of God , I was restored to health and strength , and mn now as well aUe to walk as over 1 was in my life . I am well known in this parish , having been sixty-five yciirs in it , with the exception of ten years I served in the 21 th regiment of loot . —( Signed )—John Pitt . —To Professor IIollow-WAT .

      Cure of a Bad Leg of more than Sixty Years Standing , Mr . Darker , of No . 5 , Graham ' s-p " , Drypool , near Hull , h « d ulcers on hu lejj from the iige , of eighteen until upwards of eighty , and although for many years he had sought the first advtee in the country , nothing was found to euro them . He very often su ' . Yered most eserueiating pain for long periods together , which incapacitated him from attending to his business . He had given up tilt hopes of gettimj a euro , when at last he was persuaded to try ilollovt'fiy ' s Pills and Ointment , whieh he . did , an . I however wonderful it may appear , the leg was thoroghly healed by their means , and by continuing' to use the Pills alone al'tef his leg was well , lie has become in health so halo and hearty as now to be more active than most men of fifty . — Jf , B , Tho truth of this extraordinary statement can ba vouched for by Mr . J . O . lleinhardt , 22 , Market-place , Hull . February 20 th , 1350 . Cure of a Desperate Case of Ringworm of Six rears Standing .

      One of the most eminent surgeons m Lima ( the capital of Peru ) had a child covered with ringworm for more thaa six years ; in vnin he exhausted all his art in his endeavouri to effect a cure . Not succeeding , he consulted among his brethren , the most celebrated medical practitioners of the city , but nothing was found to do the child service . When ho was persuaded ty Mr . Joseph V . Hague , tho English chemist and druggist , residing at No . 74 , Callu do Pafacio , to try Ilolloway ' s Pills and Ointment , u Inch wa « done , and after using six large pots of the Ointment , with a proportion of tho Tills , the child was rndicnllv cured , to the surprise of the whole medical profession , " 'ihe luuna of the parent , from motives of dclicacv , is withheld . — Lima , 13 th of November , 1819 .

      The Pills should be used conjointly with the Oin ' meiit in most of the following cases : Bud Legs Corns ( Soft ) llitcumatism Dad Breasts Cancers Scalds Hums Contracted and Soro Nipples Bunions Stiff-joints Sore Throats BiteofMosehotoes Elephantiasis Skin-diseases and Sand-flies Pistulns Scurvy Coco-littv Gout Sore-heads . Chiego-feot Glnnduiar Swel- lnm « i » Chilblains lings ^ . , Chapped-hands Lumbago y-Sva ' London , and by ! dl respect ^ «^ ^ ^ cincs throughout tho ° " « . 35 . v | 0 aT 1 d 88 s . moo . there is is . Id ., 2 s . ad ., 4 s ., 6 s ., j" ¦¦ ir ^ i * the larger sues . : , to fliicu Pot or Bus ,. ..,.. __ .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 26, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_26101850/page/3/