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      - '•"'" OUR TRUST BT EBSEET JOKiS . ^ o-i nnz men , working men—stand by your order ! ¥ 2 £ ., onU wntcbiag—deception at bend : „ Jk gold king and titled marauderp es csb b 3 fowd in tbe hear t of your band . n « b- the Charter—desp ite of their treason ; ab ° if you « k ° e the « Hew f and the When V t own heartsyour own bands , and your reason

      voor , principle * Principle ! Measures , not men ! Tr -- C . not the service of those who stood by yon , B-stmby the veterans who fought in your ~ ars ; d ' d'isn not to fawn on the classewn who Sy yon , Yet ask for . W weapons to strike in their cause . t -tour , stand forth , end the world mu = t obey thee ! Lsbo ' ar , shrink back , and the world will despise ! vow jt the crisis , when none may gainsay thee ; 0 h \ gsiis oa the moment , for swiftly it fifes . ^ otin border , nor mid insurrection , is its

      Thy fie , R . volution , winning noon . jfee fruit of lone sg < s is reaching perfection , But hands are uplifted to pluck it too soon ! jj , e cof , silken band of the vile prefitmonger ! Bat o % not for him be the frnit of the free . Then rally aronad It , brave children oi hunger ! Tbs hcrsy hzati only shall pluck from tbe tree . Tell me , how long have you fought for tbe Charter * Cou-. tnie the ' years of your wroag and distress ; jjtve you net sworn at the grave of each martyr : « g ^ r rights and no more . ' ' and ' Our rights and no lets J ' A nd sow Rhea the Snt pang of poverty presses The gold-making minions who made you so poor—What . ' " Shall your struggle—your strength—jour ois .

      resses , End bat ia making fteir orier secure , forking men , working men—stand 05 your Cbatter-TUhisdia say : witheat you their efforts are nought Jreedom pn-i Right are not things you can barter ; Thtu rally the pbalanx of wsTihood atid thought I A short time of trial . ' My friends , be you ready , The s hip is sfloat , and the heavens , they smile ; Sow , sailors , be faithful—aiw , helmsmen , be steadj-Aai brazes of Liberty , blow but awhile . O ' er quichsan Js and breakers I see tbs calm haven ; Tip with your tricolour , nailed to the mast . Success for tbe valiant , asd wreck for the craven ! Hurrah ! for tbe vessel gies gallantly past .

      Do you ask ma to Basse you the day of ysur power " Organise—organise—organise , still ! Then I'll t * -ll you the day—nay , I'll tell yoa tbe hour Ton' ! 1 jus : gain tbe Charter , trhsntcer you tctll .

      THE HOLT CAUSE . ily brothers in England , There ' s plenty for all ! But our nobles are base ! A corrupt knavish race ! Day dawns when they fall I My brothers , kfigp watching ; Be steady and true ! And robbery Isge!—ihsred in by the regal ! Its long reign shaU rue ! Goa in bounty has bleuei Oar dear native isle ! We ' ve been trampled down long , but 0 God we are strong If thou only smile !

      And brothers , remember , God smiles on the right ! He who banished the kaave ! * he who aided the brave ! t L ; nds poor men his might ! Bravs brothers , your coanrry For freedom doth cry ! AH one bold effort make , and tout bondage chains break ! Or like Br itons die !

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      * I / mis Philippe . W . W . 7 ' s hand has guided the revolutions of Europe

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      THE LABOURER . A Monthly Magazine of Politics , Literature , Poetry , & c . No . XVII . Mat . jLoadoE : Jforthem Star Office , 16 , Great Windmill-streeti Haymar & et ; J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s-Head-jassage ; Manchester : Abel Hey wood . We cms some of the usual contributions in this number of the Labourer ; but there is no Jack of readable matter , both in poetry and prose . To ns , tha mo 3 tiate « stia > article U the cantinuatiouof the series on National Literature . Mr Ernest Jones , bavins disposed of Poland and Russia , now

      introduce * his readers to the popular literature of Germany , the subject of Ms " first review being Frederick Von Scniller . Amongst the contents of this number are ( the commencement of ) 'St John ' s Kve : a Rimantie Drama in Three Acts ; ' * Pride and Prejudice , ' waica will bs appreciated bjail true reformers ; ' The London Door step , ' a picture of one of the social assassin itions which are everlastingly goin ? on in this corrupt Babel ; and 'The Wife , a poem , br Jare '—rsyrtle aad cvpress-wreathed . We quote a " prose article on me pultuctw mwremenw or the hour , and a newpoera by Mr Ernest Jones—both Trill soeak for themselves : —

      REFOEM ASD REFORMERS . There fias generally been a great difference between Ksfonn end RafoimerB , EUu 0 Q 8 Of the great evils in political movements hitherto , bes been , that the Eiform xnd the JUf jrmer have betn considered identical . All has his ^ d on a few mea—if they were weak—or snavish- ^ -or bafi-id—the moremsst was lost , for the people bad looked to tV . em , iuStea . 4 Of to themselves . Vow a change has come OVtr political feeling . ' Mealures ' not Hen , ' is the motto of tbe day . Tbe people have W . -rown their political leading-strings , ana begin

      to talofc js < S < h snd * *» ioT tkeraselves . Mr O'Connor has crea ' tiy conduced to this result , inasmueh as he has aver tr . sa 10 inform the popular mind—to explain his motives and his actions , to give reasons Instead of merely razing o < iaions , aad thus we find tbat the peoplejsamno longer bl 1 = 3 astray by any will-o ' -th ^ whisp ,. and BO lonfjer bow slartltlj W any stereotype * Wol - ¦ ^ \ .. This is of greater congsquecces tharf ** er , ut - the-pf * ) esnt state of the Cbsrrist movement . Strang ! an & lJifcJ sailing as is its present position ,, . swftrmSjqgjajPiJ ^ ti * men ' are na »; ^ tarting forward , , rf ? fy % > §(!?* . _ , m ef success to tne - hwsn tf &\ l 9 * # ' nhontverfrjife ^ -rtr " jo never

      Joified usar *^ ' ytg C A people "e r ! P ^ jj ^ y-runt if anything r . oold jITUe fact , tbat every , b ^ ^ n the surface frora * * " ^ . . Jdl ' e-class lire , i ^ ^ -jxr ^ * ayed I ' tsis Is well enough ) *' . - actually pro-¦ dn ? . over the heaoil ' . " . deserving working —od .-naTdi , and vet ? ' IrfS ' iU the Chartiit cause-. This shoul ; not be ., Iramanls to wear epaulettes , lei h'rn earn them . . .

      We acrce , also , that working men must , as a whole , csrry th > - laovement of tbe working class ; but we disagree alifc" With tb « t sp ' rit Of class . 'errHity , which makes more of a recru it a few days ol d from the ranks of wealth & nd birth than of a working veteran—and with that spirit of cl ^ - - -hostility on the other hand , which would eitfuie all tut working men from participation in the gre- ! w-rk of redemption . This is a narrow spitir . This is , indeed , a class spiritthat is the very quintessence ef class-legislatien . 'All men are trethrtn 1 '—and we , who eschew classlegisla'ion , eboula bs tbe last mea in tbe world to curl eurtslv's / lik ^ a bedgshog , within the bristling limits of ciass-otclasivemsa . Htre are two extremes alike dangerous to our movemtnt : excess of confidence , and exce ' . s of sx < -lusiveness . ht of be

      Kow , we uahesitatinsly assert , it is the rig t working clanes to hi the most poweifsl aad primary iateitBt iU t-ie community ; to this the ethir classes will nSVer COE « nt , until compelled : aad for this It ig BECES . garr that v e toilm ; miilions should retain the leader-£ his ef ib'ir own csnse . We wish to asfc the'Reform party'in the House of Commons , what are they ft r ? What do lher msan to do ! If they want the sngport of the co smrv , tbe country must know v , hat tbey mean . Are thev for ibe six points of tbe Charier ? If not , for how much ? How do they mean to obtain it ? Why did tbey no' join ns before ! What do they want the people to - -o ? A burnt child druads tha fire—and let them rest a > st ; re 3 , Vefore they can stir the peeple as they were b irredfor the R : fonn Bill , vague professions must cea « e , and we mast hava guarantees that they really mwc the Charter .

      We repeat , we are prepared to waive old animosities , and to enter oa n w friendship , so loag as that frhadehip is bss-i on candour , honesty , and principle ; but ¦ ws will lave no truckling , timeserrin ? , or temporising . As the p i neers of reform , we will not wait for the laggards . Tn < - workin ? ehsses are marching ou the highroad : o p - .-i- r .-:-ion—the middling class are hobbling after . ^ '¦¦> fij ' - J comt' Because we are moving on , aad they ca * = rot do without u « . If we stop , they stay ; if we go * cu . tbr-y will spur bsrder .

      THE SOKG OP THE GiOGERS . « T ZESEBX JOKES . Gag—gsg—gag ! Is the cry of tbe traitor band , v ? hi ! e they try , whh a piiuted tagi To ride like a midnight hag On ' . as breast of a sleeping land . Cowe , knave « nd viliaia , informer and spy , Tj : , e goTe-nrntnt mint , where you coin a lie ! C Gold—gold—gold f Is th * piy 'o r the re .. dy slave , ¦ W tos ? ^ ord at a braithcan destroy the bold , In th- bills where justice i » bought eno sold , AtiO the withering glance falls keen and cdld Oa tbe neart or tbe true and brave , Gsg—gag—gag ! Is tb * crv of the traitor baael

      Whi ! e tbey try , witk ¦ p rinJed rag , To ride like a moonlight hag Oh tbe fc" ? ast of a sleeping land .

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      Wt'il stay tho stream In its fullest force , yj » 1 l stop the world la Its oaward course Cag—psg—ggg ! TheTo : c 3 of six thousand ye ? n Shallbvgiu at our blading tofail and flag Not a lip shall breathe , nor a tongue shall ' wag And biuory ' s page be an Idle brag , ' Compared to a Russell ' s f « ar » . Gag—gag—gag ! Is the cry of the traitor band , Whilg they seek , with a printed rag , To ride like a midnight hag On the breast of a sleeping land . In vain shall the bbo 3 of an Emroetthave flowed , In vain shall the breast of a miser have glowed ' ' Gag—gag—gag !

      The thought in the teeming brain 1 The poise in the heart ef the world shall lag , And nations the burden of misery brag , And Lilllput trample on Brobdignag , As long as a Russell shall reign , G » i—gsg—gag ! Is tha cry of tbe traitor band , While they seek , with a printed rag , To ride like a midnight hag On tho breast of a sleeping land .

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      HowitCs Journal , Parts XV ., XVI . L-ndon * W Lovett , 291 , Strand . Tmre are many excellent articles in these parts of i / otwfs Journal ; amongst the best are Hewitt ' s Pacts Irom the Fields , ' exhibiting the depopulating policy of onrlanded and monied aristocrats , and show ? ing how by the extensian of the manufacturing aystern men are worked up into malefactors ; ' Scenes and Characters from the French Revolution' translated l ' rem Lamartine ' s History of the Girondins ; ' Letters from Paris , ' by Goodwyn Barmby ; ' Poets of the People ; and biographical notices of Lamartine and Albert . There are also translations of The Marseillaise Hymn' and * Mourir pour la Patrie' — both vrere transferred to our columns some weeks ago . We select the followiag extracts : — I

      ALPHOSSE DE LAMARTINE . Alpfconse de Lamartine was born at Macon , the 21 st of October , 1790 ; bis family name was De Prat ; be has lately taken the name of his maternal uacle . His father wasmej ir of a regiment of cavalry under Louis IVI ., and his mottx-r was fiaagbter of IfsiJsme des Rois , asder . poveraefs of the Priaecs of Orleans , Attached thus to the old order <> f tfein ;* , bis family was broken dswn b y the Revolution , and his most early recollections carried themselves bask to a sombre jail , where he went to visit his fsther . Soon was the child obliged to quit his paternal roof ; they sent him to finish his education at Belky in the colbge of thePathers of the Faith . The reli s ious germs which were sown by his mother , developed themselves strongly , in that selsncboly solitude of the cloister : the beautiful episode of Jocelya is full of remembrances imprinted by the calm aad austere life of that holy residence .

      After bis departure from college , M . de Lamartine passed some time at Lyons , made a first brief excursion into Italy , and came to Paris daring the last days of the empire . In 1813 , the poet revisited Italy : the greater part of his * Meditations ' were inspired by its beautiful sky , and thas delicious page of the ' BermoaleB , ' entitled 'First Love , ' was sounded forth , it is believed , by some sweet first mystery of the heart buried within a tomb . At the fall of the empire he offered his services to the ancient race , who had had the blood and the love of his fathers , and was entered in a company of the guards .

      After the Hundred Days , M . de Lamartine quitted the scrrice . One passion absorbed him entirely—tbat passion made his glory . Love came and agitated the fountain of poesie which slumbered in the depths of his soul . It was needful to open a passage for the gushing wave The obj « ct of that mysterious passion , that loving and loved Elvira , was snatched from his arms by death . She lived again in his verses , Lamartine sung to give eternity to her name , and Prance consecrated him her poet ! This was in 1820 . A young man , scarcely recovered from a cruel illness , his visage paled by suffering , and covered with a veil of sickness , on which could be read the loss of a worshipped being , went timidly hawking about , from bookseller ' s to bookseller ' s , e poor little copy book of verses , wet with tears Everywhere they politely shifted off the poetry and thepeet . At last , a bookseller , less prudent , or perhaps engaged by the to . finite grace of tbe joungman , decided to accept tha HS . so often refused . The good-natured bookseller ivas , I believe , named Kicolle .

      Everything possible has been said oa this first work of tbe poet ' s . AH the world knows by heart the ' Ode to Byron , ' the ' EvoniEg , ' the Laka and Autumn . ' In four years , 45 , 000 copies of the ' Meditations' were cirtulated . Five years afterwards the sublime voice of ' ReBe , * fonnd an harmonious echo , and with one bound only M . de Lamartine placed himself on the same pedestal , by t ' e side of the demi-gods of the epoch , Chateasbrland , Goethe , and Byren . This literary success , the most brilliant of the age since the GcrdusofChrUtixnity , opened to if , de Lamartine the career of a diplomatist . Attached to the embassy at Florence , ha departed for Tuscany , and there in its land of inspiration , ia the midst of the splendours of an Its . ir— .. r _ -j .: _ -i : t ; - — :. a -t—* - * ... . a tender aad melodious voice , murmuring ia his ear , these verses of the 'Meditations '—

      A hopeless return of the bliss which has flawn , Perhaps in the future is stored for me still , And perhaps in the crowd a sweet spirit unknown . Will answer me kindly and know ray soul well . The soul of the poet was known , he fonnd a Second Elvira , and some months after he became the happy husband of a young and rich English woman , entirely smitten with his psrson and bis fams . From that time to 1825 , the poet resided successively at Naples , as Secretary of the Emblssy , some While in London in the same office , and then returned to Tub . cany in the qaallty of a Charge d ' Aff-rires . In the interval bis fortun- % already considerable from his marriage , increased again through the inheritance of an epn-Unt uncle .

      The ' Second iledita'ionB' appeared in 1823 . There was noticed in this new collection , a more correct , mora balanced , mereprecise versification . The poet had been abroad ra'tbe'domain of the soul . Grand historic facts had fuikflifea him with noble inspirations . The ' OJe fftSboaparte , ' 'Sappho , ' the 'Preludes , ' aad the ' -Bymg Pott , ' were admired . This volume was also well followed by the ' Poetic Sketch of Socrates , ' and by tbe last canto of the " Pilgrimage of Childe-Harold . ' In these verses , intended to complete the epic of Bjron , the poet fialshed' ~ " * H l % ; " eloquent tirade on the abase-i

      meat of ha * # - "' \ T jc ' me . shade of Rome ! fo ^ ' '' " , , r- is s ^ wfc ere for men , azui .- - *» . ¦ " ^ **' This apostrophe Appeal " ' , j »« Cjfjbr C'lonel Ftps , 8 Neapolitan oF" * ' ^ name of his country , he de . manl ' ' ' ,- ii . o ' m 11 . de Lamartine . The poat *¦ ' . j-ms paeiry with the sword , and received a severe woand , which far a long while pnthis life In danger . When scarce ]? Kcovered , he hastened to iatsreede with the Grand Dukeia favour of his adversary .

      After hating in 1 S 25 published the ' Song ef the Sacred , ' the poet returned to France in 1829 , and in the month of May of the same year appeared the 'Harmonies , Poetic and Religious . ' M . de Limnrtlne was received a * the Academy , and when the Revolution of July brcke out , he departed for Greece in the character of Minister Plenipotentiary . His tribute of sympathy once paid to the unfortunate great , M . fie Litaanlne dashed gallantly into the aew road opened to tbe mind of the Revolution of Ja ' y . ' The past is nothing more than a dream , ' said he , ' tve must regret it , but we ooght not to Jose the day in weeping to no purpose . Ic is always lasfal , always honourable , for one to take his share in the unhappiness of others , though he ought not gratuitously to take his share Id a fault which one has net committed * * * He sheald return into the ranks of his fellow eitizens , to thick , to rpesk , to act , to fight , with bis country—the family of families . '

      Sumo while afterwards be decided upon putting into execution the project of bis tvbole life , and on the 20 th of Uay , 1842 , he was at Marseilles , ready to embark for Asia ; After a travel of six month ? , M . de Lamartine returned from the East , with grand ldea « , and a b .-autiful beok , * Travels in the East , ' a treasure ales ! right dearly bought , bs he had lost there his only child , his lair Julia , whom the noble heart ef the father and of the poet wept for like Rachel who would not be comforted . When in Asia , Lidy Stanhope , that miniature S * mira . mis half sublime , and half foolish , predicted bim mar . vellous des'ties , and the Arabs delighted with the beau tiful ani imposing figure , tall in height , straight , and sparkling with arm « , ot him who passed at a gallop with twenty horsemen over the desert , bowed Vhenead to him thev culled the French Emir , the French Prince .

      Since his entry to the Chamber , M . Lamartine , has not abandoned the worship ef bis first , of his most glo- ' rieuJ years . lie has attempted to march in rank , the inspirations of the poet , and tbe duties of the deputy . In 1835 , he published tbe potm of ' Jocelyn , ' a magnificent picture of passion sacrificed to duty . After 'Jjcelyn , ' Lamartine gave us , the ' Fall of an Angel , ' the si cond episode of that vast epopeia , with which he was inspired by tbe east . This was followed by his poetic recollections . Theie works were not so well received by tbe critics , and is the introduction to the latter , M . de Lamartine professed to despise mere poetic inactivity , and to aspire to social

      labour for the advance of society . At the same time that Limartloe thus met unaccustomed repulsions in the literary world , he grew greater at the tribune . The Oriental question furnished him with an occasion Lr developing kfe ideas on the bases of a new European system . A warm and eloquent attack on the punishment of death ; some generous words in favour of foundlings ; a beautiful improvisation in which he contended for classical studies , against a rough jouster M . Arago , who eombatted for science , made Lamartine kaown in the rank of a chief of a column , collected around him a little phalanx of choice men , and this aggregation was decorated with the name ef the Social Party . The doctrine of Lamartine approaches that of St Simon , He rspudiates not this likenWS . He had nro-

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      claimed it some while before .. 'S : SimonW said he , has something in it of tha true , of the grand , and of the fruitful , th-j application of Camti > n ' . sa » to pc-rU ' society , aad the legislating in favour of human fraternity . In thisp » intofviewIamaSaintSlmonian . That which was deficient in tbat eclipsed sect , was not the idea , was not the disciples : it wanted only a chief , a master , a regulator . The organisers of Saint Simonism decelred themselves in declaring at once a deadly war , agaiast famil y , against property , against religion . They o > uld not conquer the world by the power of a word They converted , they agitated , they worked , and they changed , bat when an idea is not practicable it is not presentable to tha saciil world .

      There remains to be known , howover / whatls the practical system which M . Lamartine presents to the social world , that system he thus espresses : You say that all is dead , tbat there no longer exists either fdith or belief , There is a faith , —that faith is the general reason , tho word is its organ , the press is its apostle ; it wishes to remake in its image , religious civilisations , societies , and laws . It desires in religion , God one and perfect as the dogma : eternal morality as the symbol : adoration and charit y aa the worship—In politics , humanity above nft " tionalities—in legislation man equal to man , man bro ' ther of man , Christianity made law . '

      the poet of Elvira has in his general appjarance a something which recalls Byron . There Is the same beauty of face and look , there are the game habits of elegance and of dandyism , the same tournure , a little trimmed , a little English , perhaps , but perfectly noble and distinguished If you join to this to comp lete the resemblance , the train of a great lerd , a sumptuous hotel , horses of pure race , a magnificent chateau , you can then conclude that since Tassa and Camoens , tbe times ate a little changed , and that one is permitted In our days to be a great pout without dying in an hospital .

      With the lato political position of M . de Lamartine the public is familiar . The longer he has stttin the Chamber of Deputies the more he has seen cause to withdraw his confidence from the King and Guizot , to oppose them , and warn thn country of tbe necessity of a firm stand for liberty . For this bis eloquence has been zealously and splendidly exerted in the Chamber ; for this he established the Journal Bien PubU ' que ; ba « above all , for this has he written his great wotk the history of the Girondists , which has unquestionably done more than any other cause to urge on the era of tho Revolution . We now extract the following ; notice of Aibbrt , ouvrkr . member of the late Provisional Govern - meat : — ALBERT THE ARTISAN .

      Albert is a son of Lyons . There he was born , brought up , aui hae mostly resided . By employment ha was simply a mechanic , a working modeller . Not the less for that ! Barns burnt the stubble , before be flamed ferth in song . Ifassaniello was a fisherman , made up mostly of maecaroni , and by no means of jellies and ices , before he was known la Naples . Hofer was an innkeeper , before his name ran like a thrill through the Tyrol . Not the less that Albert is an artisan ! T . Ye hut with all its holes of disadvantage has produced more heroes than the hall . Ever the Cot may match against the Castle for prophet , poet , saint or saga . Never need the Cottaga fear comparison with the Court , nor the hovel af the hamlet with the palace of the prince .

      In his education Albert had probably some advantages above those of his brother artleans . Certainly his in . tellectual development was superior to that of those ia the midst of whom be dwelt . Moral himself , his experience among his fellow workmen showed him the hbcessity for their moralisation , To moralise them , he found , he must make them think . He could discover no true way to the heart but by tbe road of the intellect . In this intellectualislng be entered without intending it , tbe province of politics . Therj he found how much of the demoralisation of the people was the consequence , direct or Indirect , of class legislation—how terrible taxation ceased morbid misery—how that morbid melan . cboly misery fled to venal vice as a rascal refuge , —and how that vice consequented crime . He determined then

      to war wnh that class legislation which was one of the chief causes of tbe demoralisation of the people . By tbe bard work of his hands , be saved sufficient to start , and ultimately to establish , a publication , which ap . peared under the modest title of ia Gfaneuse , or The Gleaner , but which was In truth mostly an original political periodical . This journal was published in his natal town of Lyons , and became locally , especially pe . polar . Its politics were frankly republican ; from the first , it proclaimed without hesitation the wants and tbe rights of the working population , and It exercised a considerable influence over the labouring classes . Its artisan editor , however , wag several times under process for his publication . Just previous to the breaking out of the Insurrection of Lyons , in the year 1833 , he was condemned for this causa , with the harsh sentence of

      fifteen mont / ts imprisonment and a fine of 5 , 000 francs . His sin here had not Lecn only his joarnal , but his having assembled all the members of his ptrty together , at a public political banquet . The celtbrated outbreak at Lyons , found him therefore a political martyr ; and hailed him fondly as such . He was then the chief of a stction of the Saciety of the Ri ghts of Man and necessarily took a considerable part in that terrible struggle In which so much generous and unfortunate blood was shed . It wsa he who then caused tbe workmen in in . surrection to adopt for their banners tbat determined device , that terrible formula which atarv . d stomachs and hungry hearts can alone justify : — ' To live by working or to die by fighting : '— ' To exist by labour , or to perish in of accusationagairist hfm artssrea 4 Ahft-Kcaaad . « C _ ai \ . sc * dued . He was also implicated iu the process of April , but was honourably acquitted .

      More lately we find him in Paris . After the Parisian emeutein 1640 , of which the writer w » s an eye . wltneps , be founded bis second publicatioa , under the name of L'Atelier , or the Workshop . Its editors , Of Contributors as we should call them , seem clearly convinced , tbat no political change can be permanent without a new industrial organisation , that no governmental modifica ' ion can be successful without a reformation of cur present societary state . Th y write not only against class legislation , and its monstrous anomalies , but also against competition end its awful incoherencj . Thiy write not alone for uaiversal snffraee , and political enfranchise ' ment , but likewise for universal association and industrial organisation .

      We next meet Albert at the patiotic banquets before the late revolution . We then behold him bailed as one of the provisional government of the French Republic . After the consummation of that grand event , we new s . e him as Vice-President of the Governmental Commis . sion for tbe Organisation of National Employment ( or the Labouring Classes of France . No longer now ia it to Uvj by worklng-orjjtoj ^ ie by fighting , the question now )^ sha *[ Jo ' grga . isf 5 » linau 8 try ! It is indeed a great ' ^ r r + T ^ f ^ : "which be has been theorlsiner upon , . ye tested by practice . At the head of tbe com-, « , ( Siotf . ' of wbicbheis the Vu-e-President , presides Louis Bianc , the anthor of a remarkable book , on the organisation Of work , ia which beaimplifiad and popularised tbe progressive theories on tbat subject , The commission of Industry has also just appointed J . B . Krauts asits agent for the creation of an industrial army , with which to wage atiulyglorious warof reclamation with the uncultivated lands [ of France ,

      I saw Albert , at the Commission of Industrial Organisation , sitting attheLuxembourg . He is a bearded man . rather above the middle height , with a sedate air , end somewhat sombre and pensive look . As Louis Blanc became impassioned iu his address , his eye , hewever , brightened up , and you saw that there was a ^ firc latent there . Helooktd gtraightforwardin bis tfothcoat , and would have appeared to more advantage en blouse . In that brightening eye , however , there was that which redeemed all else , which vindicated the man in spite of the tailor , and proclaimed the patriot .

      Albert at the late election was returned as one of the depntieo for Paris On the meeting of the Assembly , he , in conjunction with the _ other members of the Provisional Government , resigned his power as member of that government : The re-aotionary character of the Assembly , too soon appeared , and the commission at the Luxembourg was dissolved . Of course Albert was too democratic to bo elected f o the Executive Committeeappointed by the Assembly . The 15 th of May found Albert at the Hotel de Viite , Hi company with Barbec , the people havim ; named him Al

      a member of the Committee of Public Safety . - most immediately afterwards he was dragged to the dnnpeoEB of Vincennes , where he is at present lying once more a martyr for the great principka ho has throughout life so nobly advocated . The only member ef the Assembly who rose up against the mstion for his arrest , was Flocon . Honour to that patriot' If the peofla of Paris tareely allow the destruction of Albert and his brother patriots , they will well deserve the yeke the 6 ourg « ome are preparing for them . This comes of Lamartine's' soothing sys tem . ' Oh . ' for one hour of ' 93 !

      The Charter, What It Means ! The Chartis...

      The Charter , what it means ! The Chartists , mhatihey Want ! explained in an address to the raiadltclasses of Great Britain . By Pbteb Murray M'Douall , Surgeon . London : E . Dipple , Holywell-street , Stiand . Dr M'Donall has in this pamphlet folly and plainly exhibited the true principles and objects of the OhartisU ; and replied to every possible objection to the Charter by arguments calculated to convert ail oppsnents who are opeu to conviction , rim exposure of the absurdities of the Household Suffragists leaves

      nothing to be desired ; and in dealing with both sham reformers , and honest—but prejudiced objectors , the advocate ef the Charter will find in this pamp hlet a complete armoury of unanswerable arguments in support of bis cause . Want of space forbids extract , which we the less regret , seeing that tbe pampnlet itself may be obtained for two-pence . We recommend Chartist Councils to procures supply , ot ur M'Dousll ' g pamphlet for loan or distribution , ^ their respective localities . Its wide circulation is calculated to greatly advance the good cause , and accelerate tho mroh of the movement ,

      The Midland Florist, Mat. London : Simpk...

      The Midland Florist , Mat . London : Simpkin and Marshall . This number of the' Florist , ' contains the utnal matter interesting to gardenersand amul ! farmers .

      To The People. Position Of The Democrati...

      TO THE PEOPLE . Position of the Democratic Movement at home and abroad . The States General and the National Assembly of France-Character of the Assembly-The Ibth of May-Progressofthe Counter Revolution . The Future—Nil Desperandum ! Friends , Countrymen , and Brothers , In reviewing , or rather glancing at the position of the Democratic movement at home , I fear it must be admitted that Chartism , if it has not retrograded , has hardly advanced since the end of March last . For this the Chartists have principally to thank themselves . It is true that the systematic lying of tbe press could not fail to have

      injured any party against whom its calumnies and falsehoods were directed . On the principle ' throw mud enough and some of it will be sure to stick , ' the dirty diatribes projected frora Puddledock failed not , to a considerable extent , in producing the intended effect . The Chartists were covered with the foulness of their enemies , who had craft enough to make the unthinking and politically ignorant believe that such was the natural , ' unwashed' condition of the proscribed party . Still it required Chartist folly to complete the work of Whig , Tory , and sham-Liberal villany , and , unhappily , that folly was not warning . The fearfully mismanaged ' National Petition' was < a heavy blow and sore

      discouragement' to the cause of the Proletarians . The buffooneries of which the ' Convention' was the theatre , and the cut-throat quarrellings of the ' Assembly' completed the sad work of Chartist suicide . The Press-gang found it quite superfluous to abuse the ' Assembly' seeing that its members were evidently resolved to talk themselves down . Hence the ' Assembl y' escaped the lUi ^ ls ot -which the Convention had been the mark . To ' write down ' those determined on self-destruction would have been a waste of ink and paper . The press seems to have regarded the ' Assembly' in much the same light as Satan is reported to have regarded the denizens of this ; earth when discoursing with Michael—( vide' Vision of Judgment . )

      'Tbey arogrom so bad That Hell has nothing better left to do Than leave them to themselves : so much more mad—And evil by tfeelr own internal curse , Heaven cannot make them bettar , nor I worse ' If the defunct ' Assembly' has any mourners , let them not charge me with exaggerating the faults of the deceased . Anything that I have said , or even could say , must fall immeasurably short of the withering condemnation pronounced upon its acts by one of the members thereof—one , too , of the new Chaitist Executive . Ma James Leach : —

      Ha ( Mr Leach ) believed if their constituents could only get to Bee them—could only tnanago to look in upon them for one half hour—they would send tha As . eembly home . Tbey bad spent more time In abu » ui £ eaofe other than tbey had in transacting tho business of the peiple . * * * He saw their proceedings with sorrow . Ha bad sat disgusted with the Assembly , and ie hoped that no euoh Assemb ' y would ever be taken as representative of England again . Countrymen , let this be a warning to you . Reflect , that if you appoint incompetent delegates to represent you in a Chartist Assembly , you thereby furnish your enemies with a dangerous argument against your admission to the exercise of the

      franchiseviz ., your unfitness to select fit and proper persons to legislate for the nation . Remember that the mere ' Shibboleth' of ' the Charter , ' though sufficient for the ranks , is not sufficient for the commanders-Your leaders and delegates should be tried and approved Chartists , and something more . You should not only know thera well , and know them to be honest ; you should also know them to be able , discreet , and energetic ; honesty , ability , energy , and judgment , are tbe grand requisites for popular leadership . Wanting any -one of these , the best-intentioned man may mar the hopes of millions . A glance at the state of the Democratic movement in Germany , Poland and Italy must suffice for the present .

      In Germany , the Democratic cause has received a check from the defeat of the ill-advised undertaking of the Republicans of Baden . Public attention , too . has been directed from home to forei gn questions . The war against Denmark , and tbe renewal of the conflict of races in Posen , have served to divert the Prussians from questions of home reform . Seventeen ' wise men , ' assembled at Frankfort , have concocted a monster-humbug , in the shape of a constitution for a Germanic empire , Vhich might have done for the times of Charlemagne , but which , in these times—if ever erected—will be found less stable than a house of cards . Democratic

      Republicanism is the destined future of Germany , as of every rithpjt o / iiuitraJj * . Vwucciic ui uioody conflict , and , unhappilyi the conflict is between , not Pole and Russian , but Pole and German . This is the work of the treacherous Prussian King . After the terrible conflict at Berlin , Frederick "William , terrorstruck at the prospect of losing his throne , promised , not Olily free institutions to the Prussians , but also the Polish restoration of Posen , as a first step towards the complete establishment of ancient Poland . But Frederick William is determined to repeat the usual royal illustration of the old adage : — ' When the devil was Biok the devil a eaint would be , When the devil got well tbe devil a saint was he . '

      He has falsified every promise he made to the Poles—decreed another partition of Posen—excited the old prejudices of German acaiust Pole—and at this moment his armed assassins are ravaging the entire Duchy of Posen with fire and sword . The Poles , after fighting with the valour of despair , and performing prodigies of heroism , have been again crushed . The unhappy emigrants , who have been lured from Western Europe by the promises of this perfidious king , are treated as criminals , and the Poles from ' Russian Poland' are driven back across the frontier by Prussian bayonets , where , treated as

      deserters , they are knonted to death or sent to Siberia . Austria is playing the same game in Galicia and Cracow . The ancient capital of Poland has been bombarded , and hundreds of its inhabitants mercilessly slaughtered . This comes of putting faith in kings ! How long are the miseries of Poland to continue ? The heartless government of this countrv will , of course , regard the destruction of the Polish ' patriots with a secret joy . With heartfelt grief and indignation I must add , that the government of Republican France is apparently equally criminal !

      In Italy , Charles Albert is , like a true king , playing his old game of fast-and-loose—his one object being to annex Lombard } ' to Piedmont . It is not unlikely that , after all , he may fail , unless France throws her sword into the scale . I come now to France , where Democracy would appear to he destined to once more succumb to the Bourgeoisie . The repetition of ' the 4 th of May ' has heen closely followed by something very like a repetition of ' the 1 st of Prairial . ' Fifty-nine years ago , the 4 th of May witnessed

      a spectacle similar to tbe one of which Paris was tbe theatre three weeks since . On that day , in the year 1789 , the opening of the States General took place . The procession of the twelve hundred has been often described . Tho broad streets of Versailles failed to contain the immense masses congregated from Paris . Every house was decorated with feathers , flags , and flowers . The sun ' shone on fair women and brave men . ' The inspiring strains of music filled the air , and all ' the pride , pomp , and circumstance' of military power added to the intoxication of the scene . There were the nobles in their

      plumed hats , velvets , gold , and lace . There were the bishops in robes of violet and lawn , and the cures in gowns of black . There were the membtrs of the Tiers Etat in their bourgeois dresses , the destined conquerors of plumed hats and violet robes . In that procession was contained men who , though conscious that the hour had come when they could no longer enjoy their foul usurpations unquestioned and unassailedby the long-suffering victims of their tyranny , were , nevertheless , determined to struggle for the maintenance of their evil power , even though

      they plunged France into the horrors of civil strife . There were others who , determined upon combatting the assertors of hereditary and hierarchical privilege , were only animated by the motive of personal ambition , or the desire to found the empire of the bourgeoisie upon the ruins of aristocracy and priestcraft . Lastly , there were others—alas , how tew !—who possessed both the wisdom of head and the honesty of heart to desire the entire destruction of the ancient system , not for personal or class aggrandisement , but for the freedom and happiness of allthe emancipation of all Frenchmen , and the welfare

      of entire France . In that procession , was seen the bad , but not bold father of the cunning tyrant , whose ignominious deposition from the throne of France has created the second * 4 th of May . ' How strange that the ex . ample of the terrible result of the father ' s crooked ways should have been no warning to the son ! In tbat procession was to be seen the eloquent but |

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      corrupt , the mean but mighty Mirabeau , bearing aloft his livn . like head ; scorching with his verj glance the sons of privilege from whose ranks he had been ostracised . There too were the mouthing demagogues , the popular idols of an hour , Barnave Duport , and the Lameths , whose exterior mock patriotism could not long conceal their rottenness . Lastly , there too was the master-mind of the future , the ruler of the C invention , the Apostle of Equality , ' who died too soon for humanity , ' the incorruptible Robespierre .

      On the 4 th of May , 1789 , France desired a glorious and bloodless regeneration . Alas ! the intrigues of the monarchy , the priesthood , and the aristocracy , ar . d still more the dishonesty of the bourgeoisie , prevented the realisation of the hopes of the people . I am not about to review the events of the first French Revolution , but this glance at the past has been naturally called forth by the events passing before our eyes . Tae spectacle of the 4 th inst ., was in some respects more imposing than that of the 4 th of May , 1789 . When on the recent opening of the National

      Assembly , seven hundred deputies leaving their scats appeared in front of the Hall , and there with uncovered heads and uplifted hands- —with the brightly shining sun and two hundred thousand of the people of Paris for their witnesses — proclaimed that the Republic was and should continue to be the government of France ; men fondly hoped that this solemn confirmation of the voice of the victorious Proletarians of the 24 th of February , had made the course of the future plain and straightforward—that reaction henceforth had no chance , and anarchy and counter revolution were equally impossible .

      Thus probably thought many sanguine but unreflecting well-wishers of tbe French Republic ; but a little inquiry into the composition < sf the Assembly would at once have excited apprehensions of the afflicting events that have already occurred , and seem likely to occur . The first exercise of Universal Suffrage in France * has not called into existence tho best possible of representative assemblies . It is a remarkable fact , that with Universal Suffrage , No Property Qualification , and Payment of Deputies , there are nevertheless not fift y working men in an assembly of nine

      hundred members ! The bulk of the members consist of lawyers , bankers , contractors , landlords , military officers , & e . Whether so bad a selection has been caused by a dearth of fitting ' men amongst the vrsrking classes capable of assuming the functions of legislators , or the inability of the proletarians to perceive that their sacial emancipation depends principally upon the law-makers being men of their own class , I am unable to say . Probably both causes , but princithe latter , have operated to produce so marked a limitation of the number of ouvriers in the Assembly . f

      It is matter for profound regret , that not only are the working men elected to the Assembly very few , but that also many men who have long made the social problem their study have been altogether excluded . It is lamentable that snch men should have been excluded from an Assembly which contains instead men notorious for their championship of legitimate royalty and intolerant priestcraft , like BisnnYER and Montalembbrt ; military adventurers like Lamoiiiciere ; Louis-Philippists like Dupi . v ; and political humbugs , like that poor counterfeit of O'Connell , Odillon Baruot .

      Is it probable that the members of the former ' dynastic left' will honestly set their hands to the Creation of democratic institutions ? Is it possible for bankers and the other traffickers m the sweat and blood of the people , named above , to seriously desire such an organisation of labour as would redeem the Proletarians from the slavery imposed upon them by their taskmasters ? « Men do not gather grapes frora thorns , or figs from thistles , ' and honest democratic legislation—political and social—will not be performed by the National Assembly unless driven in the right path by the pressure frora without .

      That pressure has been attempted , but badly timed and unwisely directed ; it has , instead of weakening the reaclionnaires , endowed them with increased strength . The events of the 15 th of May I need not recapitulate , you all must be familiar with them . My purpose is to defend the principles of the proscribed democrats , and justify their intentions . I judge their principles and objects by the known characters of the leaders , by their declarations iu the tribune of the Assembly and by the documents found at the office of the Commune de Paris ,

      The actors of the 15 th of May are proscribed under the names of' Communists' and ' Anarchists . ' The fact is that Cabet and other Communist leaders l . „ , l ... ~ tu : ~ ji .-i . _ J in ii - - - ¦ a - " "' "" invaded the assembly , but Baubes , JBlaxqui , Sobrier ar . d Hubert are not Communist leaders , they are chiefs of the ultra-democrats—the social regeneration democrats . In France ' Communist' is just now used as a ' cry , ' started by villains and echoed by fools , in the same sense that the terra ' Jacobin ' Was eoiuloted in this country rifty years since . ' Anarchist' is an old cry invariably applied to the defenders of the poor and the champions of eternal justice . Jesus Christ himself was denounced as an anarchist , and crucified as ' a seditious and a blasphemer . '

      Barees , BiANaut , Hubert , Sobrier , Raspail , Albert , and others of the proscribed , are men who have devoted their lives to the service of the people . They have endured y ears of persecution and dungeon-tortures . They are the recognised chiefs of the men who , on the 24 tb of February , summoned order out of chaos and enthroned liberty upon the ruins of despotism by decreeing the Republic . When masters of the Assembly , on the 15 th of May , what were their demands ? Bread and work for the people , a Ministry of labour and progress , justice for the Rouen democrats—butchered or imprisoned by the royalists , the immediate formation of a democratic constitution , and a tax on the rich

      to enable the French people to express m proper form their generous sympathies for bleeding Poland . Who will assert that these demands were not just ? The documnets alleged to have been found at the residence of Sourier , supposing them tobe gennine , perfectly justify the intentions of the party . The first' decree' ( prepared like the rest in advance ) after asserting that the National Assembly had violated its mission and setting forth facts in support of that assertion , proceeds to decree the formation of a Committee of Public Safety , invested with unlimited powers for constituting and organising a truly democratic Republic . The second ' decree' is missing . The third ' decree' abolishes all existing administrative and judiciary powers , public charges , functions , privileges -and monopolies , and provides for the establishment of fresh powers thoroughly popuiar .

      The bourgeois guard was to be abolished , and a working men ' s guard established instead usder the title of Force Ouvriere . The fourth ' decree' pro . vides that all known proprietors ( landlords and capitalists ) were tobe called upon for a species of property tax , to which the title of 'Impot Fraternal * was to be given , ranging from one-fifth up to the moiety of their income , in progression , acccrding to the amounts of their incomes , or , in case of refusal , to be liable to confiscation . This decree contains further provisions for the distribution of the monies thus raised among the necessitous . Another ' decree' declares that an organisation of labour , founded upon the best possible bases , shall be promulgated in three weeks , and shall be entirely in the interests of the workman , protecting as far as possible the just rights of the capitalist .

      Of course tbe respectable robbers of society are terribly shocked at the « spoliating' intentions avowed by the ' anarchists . ' Only think of compelling an enormously rich idler to give up the half of his income , that bread and work might therewith be supplied by the State to the people ! And then think of the monstrous wickedness of arming the labourers and disarming their enemies ! The very thought of such a state of things is calculated to throw all idlers , parasites , schemers , and p lunderers

      into a cold sweat , and so , of course , these worthy classes denounce Sobrier and his friends as ' thieves' and ' terrorists . ' On this side of the water , too , much virtuous indignation is expended against the anarchists , ' ' communists , ' and ' terrorists . ' Why ? Because as the ' higher classes' are in the habit of importing French fashions , it might be , that if the reign of Justice were once established in France , the lower classes of this country might also become importers of the fashions of their neighbours ! It is asserted that the patriots of the clubs used the name of Poland as a pretext under which to

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      cover their ' conspiracy' against the Assembly . T « ey may have conspired against tbe Assembly , but undoubtedly they desired to fly to the rescue ot Poland . The correspondent of the Times , a bitter enemy to the CJubbists , writing from Paris the day before the 15 th , said : — I must confess that the refusal of tbe government to aid the Poles seems calculate to produce en amount of dissatisfaction which cannot hi conceived bj any person who has not seen how en thusiastically the Parisiansthe lower orden oboro all—have taken up »!» : > ruuso ot Poland . No : merely was the Rue du Fau ' ejurg St Astolno literally flll-d with group ? , but all tbe lateral streets also . Tbo Place de'la B-iatillo was cov' rid with them , and tho whole line of tha Boufevard mora less bo .

      Again , it is asserted , tbat Barbes and his friends only desired their own personal aggrandisement , if this were true , Barbes must have aspired to the piesidency of the Republic , yet we have brcn told by the journals of the aristocracy and the hourgeosie that Barbes and his friends proposed that no Directory , nor Consulate , nor Presidency , should be created , but that the duties of the Executive should be performed by Committees appointed by the General Assembly . Again the press-gang denounce Barbks as a ruffian who desired to give up Paris to the pillage of his followers , yet the same parties have informed the world that Barbes ' is a gentleman of education and fortune , wiih an estate worth £ 4 , 000 or £ 5 , 000 per annum .

      The men who invaded the Assembly on the 15 th of May are represented by the lying journals of Paris and London as a crew of confederated cut-throats ; yet their demonstration was an unarmed one , and they sued not a drop of blood . The brave men who are now denounced as robbers and would-be assassins , are the very men who , at the barricades in February last , conquered Louis Phiwppe . The following description of these self-same men was written by the correspondent of the Times on Thursday , March 2 nd , exactly one week after the overthrew of the monarchy : —

      Those men of tho barricades—those grim looklngJ terrific men of Wednesday and Thursday la « t—those unwashed , ill-dressed , tattered men of tbe quarters of St Martin and St Denis , and of th * Bode , and of the Eotd de Yille , and of tho Faubou-jj St Aatoinc , whose appearance and whose cries wire appalling—where are they % They hav * s returned modestly to thdr labour ; to the practice of their admirable industry ; to their privations and their entrances . Let those men be known to the world . The great mass of the combatants of 22 nd , 23 rd , a ^ 24 th oi Feb . were tho poor hard-working classes of the Parisians .

      Tbey were labourers at the ports , shoemakers , sawyers , carpenters , shoe-blacks ; In a word , the operatives and the labourers of tho capital . What did they « They believed tbat the lats Rovernment had cheated thoaa of the fruits of their revolution of July . They waited tha proper moment for reconquering their rights , and they went at it without arms , taking their chance of finding a dead enemy , and of arming themselves with his weapons . And when , by a succession of miracles , tbeir courage and their constancy were rewarded by the most splendid victory evpr achieved by insurgents , what did they ?— ' rob , '' pillage , ' « murder ?'

      Search tho columns of the newspapers , d ^ mancl of tho thousand ^ of English aui other foreign residents af P & tla during the severe struggle , and thry will tell you that those men , ao hideous and so terrible in the streets and at the barricades , eo infuriated by the slaughter of their friends , seized the earliist opportunity for leaving the ehosepuMigue to bj looked after by honest competent muri , and returned to their watkihopo , their horels , and tbeir poverty , proud—for that too should be knorrnproud of haying once more conquered liberty for their country . This is not hyperbole , nor is it o designing , a cowardly or an interested compliment . If it were , I should bo sure to ba contradicted by dozans of letters to you . djfy contradiction .

      I could add many a similar testimony , but the above must be all sufficient . If such was the conduct of the working men generally , you may be sure that the men of the clubs—the most enlightened of the people—participated i" that noble conduct . Notwithstanding that I am prepared to defend the principles and objects of the men of the clubs , I must express my regret at the attempt of the 15 th of May . It was , I repeat , ill-timed and ill-directed . The clubs should have remembered that although the Assembly was composed of a most unmistakable set of rascals , that nevertheless it was the representation of the Universal Suffrages of the French nation , and should have been respected until at least it had

      prepared the new constitution . If , when that constitution had been brought to light it had been found to have been anti-Democratic , then , I say , the people of Paris , who with their blood had made the Revolution , and therefore were the natural guardians of the young Republic , would have been justified in overthrowing ; the AsSftniliteJ ^ vtoeraiiuVirl all probability have been able to have commanded the physical force of the entire people of the capital . Since the 15 th the Assembly has rapidly progressed from bad to worse . The monarchical reaction is in full swing , and if matters progress as of late , they have done , then , indeed , we may conclude with Blanqui , that ' the regency cannot be far off . '

      Barbes , Sourier , Albert , and Raspail , with more than 200 other patriots are in prison . Blanqui , Hubert , and Thoke are being hunted for like wild beasts . The best of the clubs have been suppressed by armed force . To shoot a clubbist ( patriot ) is meritorious ; to shoot , in self defence , a National Guard ( reaetionnaire ) is murder ! Even the moderate Democrats , such as Caussidiere and GuiNARD , are driven from power . Lotus Blanc is booted , hustled , and insulted by the National Guard , and his arrest demanded . Flocon and

      Leduu-Roixin are threatened with proscription , and even Lamartine is said to have lost his popularity with the bourgeoisie , because supposed to be not sufficiently hearty in erecting a reign of terror against the Democrats . The committee for drawing up the constitution is composed of three parts monarchists , and includes not one thorough Democrat . Lastly , the slayer of Armand Carrelj , openly spits upon the Republic , and is indirectly advocating the claims of King Smith ' s son , Joinville , to the throne of the intended new monarchy !

      Such are the melancholy results of the glorious days of February—such are already the bitter fruits of the second' 4 th of May . ' This letter presents a cheerless picture of the present position of the Democratic cause . He is a traitor to himself who shuts his eyes to the dangers that are visible in his path ; be it our part , therefore , to look present evils in the face , and resolve to overcome them . At home we arc not without hope for the future . The people have recently exhibited an unanimous and stern determination to stand by their long tried friend and leader . This argues well for union . The

      energy of the new Executive argues well for action . The cause of Democracy is not lost in Germany . Since the first portion of this letter was written , a popular movement in Vienna has established Universal Suffrage ! What will miscreant Metternich 3 flV to that ? The Poles though defeated and betrayed , will again and again rise until victorious . ShaU we not hope for Italy ? It would be treason to humanity to despair . And France , glorious France , will , depend upon it , not be again enslaved without a fearful struggle to save the Republic . Every day theacts of the Assembly are justifying the movement of the 15 th of May , and can hardly fail to ere long produce a much more formidable movement .

      Countrymen , in spite of temporary defeats—in spite of tyrants and traitors—in spite of aristocratlcal and profit-mongering conspirators—all the world overour motto shall still be , ' Never Despair !' I / Ami du Peupi . k .

      I - - Of Course I Am Speaking Of The Pre...

      i - Of course I am speaking of the present revolu'ioa . 1 fear a third cause has operated to fill tbe Chamber with the enemies rather than the friends of Labour ; namely , the neglect sf a very large number of the working men to exercise their right of Suffrage . It Ib said thut in the department of tbe Seine alono a hundred thousand voters neglected to appear at the polling places .

      Frightful Death.—On Tuesday Last A Young...

      Frightful Death . —On Tuesday last a young man named Benjamin Oatchpolo , aged twenty-nine , a servant in tho employ of Mr Hare , of Preston , met with his death under the following lamentable circumstances . He had been ploughing , in ' company with four or five other men , and upon their leaving )! work , at twelve o ' clock at noon , tbey all proceeded homewards , th ^ deceased riding on a spirited colt , and leadinu its fellow horse . In passing into an adjoining field some difficult- - was experienced in getting both animals through tho gateway ; but this having at length been accomplished , tlvs colt he was ridicg became restive . Alarmed for his safety , the v . niEa man threw himself off . and fell on his head ,

      thvough hia foot getting entangled in the trace , in this position he was dragged a distance of nearly fifty yards , and was so much trampled upon by the colt , that bis left lee was torn completely oft at the thigB , a oortion of the pelvis and some of . the intestines also enning away with it . Wfcen picked up , th « poor fellow was quite dead ; and upon subsequent ex . amina ' ion by a medical man , he wa < found to have sustained , in addition to the above frightful injuries , a fracture of the temple bone , resulting in concussion of the brain . The mangled limb was found twenty yards from tbe body . An inquest was held on the followinc dav and a verdict ol * Accidental Death ' returned . Ha was a remarkably ateady young man , and his death , under such circumstances , bis created a strong sensation ia the neigobourflood , and elicited much sympathy for hU relative ?!

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 27, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27051848/page/3/