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      BEAUTIES OF BYRON , no . xn . " CHItDE HABOtD . " We have now to introduce the reader to the second < anto of " Childe Harold , " which opens with the following magnificent stanzas , as sublime as poet erer pennad : — Come , blue-eyed maid of heaven !—hnt thou , alas ! Didst never yet one mortal song inspire—Goddess of Wisdom J here thy temple was , And is , despite of war and wasting fire , And tsars , that hade thy worship to expire ; Bat worse than stetl , and flame , and ages slow , Is the dread sceptre and dominion dire Of men who never felt the sacred glow Hat thoughts of thee and thine on poliah'd breasts bestow .

      Ancient of dayi ! August Athena ! where , "Where are thy men of might I thy grand in soul * Cone--glinnnering through the dream of things that were : jFirstin the race that led to Glory ' s goal They won , and pass'd away—is this the whole ? A school-boy ' s tale , the wonder of an hour ! The warrior ' s weapon and the sophist ' s stole Are sought in vain , and o ' er each mouldering tower , Dim with the mist of years , gray flits the shade of power . Son of the morning , rife ! approach yon here ! Come—hut molest not yon defenceless urn ; Look on this spot—a nation ' s sepulchre ! Abode of gods , whose shrines no longer hum . Even gods must yield—religions take their turn : 'Iwas Jove ' s— 'tis JIahom » t's—and other creeds Will rise with other years , till man shall leam Tainly his incense soars , his victim bleeds ; Poor child of Doubt and Death , whose hope is built on reeds :

      Sound to tha earth , he lifts his eye to heavenj & t not enough , unhappy thing ! to know Thoaart ? Is this a hoon so kindly given , That heing , thou would's the again , and go , Thou know ' st not , reck ' st not to what region , so On earth no more , hnt mingled with the skiet ! Still wilt thou dream on future joy and woe I Regard and weigh yon dust before it flies : That little mm saith mora than thousand homilies . Or burst the vanish'd hero ' s lofty mound ; Tar on the solitary shore he sleeps : He fell , and falling nations mourn'd around ; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps , Nor warlike worshipper his vigil beeps " rTher » demi-gods appeal ed as records tell . Hemove yon skull from out the scatter'd heaps : Is that a temple where a God may dwell % Why ev ' n the worm at last disdains her shattered eell J

      % ook on its broken arch , its ruin'd wall , Its chambers desolate and portals foul ; Tes , this was once Ambition ' s airy hall , The dome of Thought , the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre , eyeless hole . The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit , . And Passion's host , that never hrook'd control : Can all saint , sage , or sophist ever writ , People this lonely tower , this tenement refit ! Well did ' st thou speak , Athena ' s wisest son ! All that we know is , nothing can be known : Why should we shrink from what we cannot shun ? Each hath his pang , hut feeble sufferers groan With brain-born dreams of evil all their own . Pursue what Chance or Fate proclaimed best ; Peace waits ns on the shores of Acheron : There no forced banquet claims the sated gnest , But Silence spreads the conch of ever welcome rest .

      Yet if , as holiest men have deem d there he A land of souls beyond that sable shore , To shame the doctrine of the Sadducee And sophists , madly vain of dubious lore ; TIo \ r sweet it were in concert to adore With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more ! Behold each mighty shade reveal'd to sight , The Bactrian , Samian sage , and all who taught the right ; In the original MS ., instead of the stanza just given , was the following : — Prown not upon me , churlish Priest ! ihat I Look not for life , where life may never be ; lam no sneerer at thy phantasy ; Thou pitiest me—alas ! I envy thee , Thou hold discoverer in an unknown sea , Of happy isles and happier tenants there ; I ask thee not to prove a Sadducea ; Still dream of Paradise , thou know ! not where , But lov ' et too well to hid thine erring brother share .

      We had purposed offering some remarks respecting our object in printing these selections from Btbon : want of space , however , forhidsus _ doing so at this time . We defer , therefore , oar intended remarks until we come to the conclusion of our extracts from " Childe Harold . " We now proceed to the continuation of our extracts from

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhyme , in Ten Books . Br Thomas Coofbb , the Chartist * In the third book , from which we extracted the address to the Sun , given in last Saturday ' s Star , the reader is introduced to those two notorious characters , Damned to everlasting fame , Jotas and Castlekeagh , Awful is tho picture Of the first o ( theso traitors : — Tongue cannot syllable the blig hting curse Stamped on that dern and desolate countenance : For mastery—despair , wrath , shame , remorse , Contended , in each petrifying glance , —

      And stM their contest burning sustenance Drew evermore & om the consuming blaze Within : — " ?& y being ' s ceaseless heritance Is agony !"—seemed written in that gaze-In letters not a universe of joy could raze : It was a look unique in wretchedness : Such as , in land of penance , could be worn By none hut him who—in his heart ' s excess Of ill—his gust for guilt , engrained , inborn—Bstrayed to shameful death , and vilest scorn Of butchering priests , the Being who only sought To bless mankind and die ! Theiookof lorn Itemediless woo with trhich that face was fraught 2 \ ceded no speech to tell—it marked Iscariot ,

      Next—Iscariot raught A space circled with snakes in deathly array Vpicired—pointing with forked tongues , where smote Bis breast , as on the rocky floor he lay In speechless agony—the suicide of Cray . Kearly the whole of this hook is occupied with the criminations and recriminations of the two traitorous suicides . Thus Judas commences , and Casileheagh replies in the two following stanzas : — TH » pandar to the pomp-blown , lust-swoln Guelph ; Arise , I say , —avaunt : —betake thee hence ! I will he fellow to Hell ' s inmost

      self—Hather than thee , with all thy guile prepense , — Thou aouMe-dealtr in each mean pretence J ' or forging fetters to tlij fatherland JHer champion—first *—and then—true subsequence Of falsehood ! tool , her slavery that planned , and for his guilty wages stretched his guilty hand 1 Traitor , —that sold his country for a price— - Traitor ' . —a price 1—the prostrate shape outburst;—Did 1 betray my JIaster , with device Of a false kiss , nato the foes athirst Per his most precious blood , —my heart endorsed , The while , with settlement of black receipt—The thirty silver pieces ! .

      Snake accurst !—¦ Retorted Judas , —think not here to cheat Thy soul : imj deed was foretold by the Paraclete ! Jtrus palliates his crime on the ground that he was the child of destiny : — God did appoint my soul to sin : Unto his high decree I bow : His drudge I am . Vis purpose answered—I shall win 3 Iy seat in that bright realm where beam the seraphim ! On the other hand G & STtEUEAGn labours to excuse

      Ins infamous career , by alleging that Jig was incited to his ambitious aims hv supernatural influences . He tells the story of the " * ' Radiant 15 oy" appearing to him onee in the bed-chamber of an ancient castle in the north of Ireland , and again in the House of Commons after he had climbed the heights of power . Wc mast refer our readers to the poem for the particulars of this strange story . Here is a description of that bloated sensualist and royal brute , Geokge IV ., put into the mouth of his former sycophant and dirty tool G-isriEKEAOU : —

      A living prey to his heart ' s vice—a slave Tofihh so aVject that the worms , which now their brave Carousal hold amidst his putrid clay , Pind liun not more uncleanly than in life . = * * # His kingly course affords no trait Of nobleness : selfishness was rile - Is lust within him : his soul a strife Perpetual shewed the trampled human crowd To bruise more vilely still : while the knife "Was at their verv throats his scofts were loud , Ana he could see " them bleed and die , —unmoved , tin

      honed . Be thirsted hut for power to wring From out his subjects' hearts the last life-drop—If it would minister to his revelling One guilty hour : a sot , a fop , He was by turns : a blackleg , then—to groupe Of swindlers fugleman I—becoming , soon , The god of earthly gauds , and to the top Of his vain beat fooled on , by each baboon , Tinselled with titles , that beheld the holy spoon

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      Bestow Its Unctuous Virtue On His Head, ...

      Bestow its unctuous virtue on his head , — And laughed to see the gew-gawplaeed thereon , — The grown child ' s gew-gaw !—while , in pomp outspread , ' Peers , prostitutes , pimps , prelates , round his throne Knelt blasphemously immaging the o ' crgrown Monster of vice , —their grandeur fed , the while . With tears of starving thousands ! In the following stanzas Judas is addressing Castlekeagh , recalling to the latter his hideous earthly career : — .

      Hah ! howaloof Thou stood ' st from mercy , while on earth ! Disproof That millions starved and suffered , thy false tongue Forged , daily : not a tear-drop in behoof Of suffering from th y stony eyes was wrung For on * of all the thousands that th y treachery stung I Wilt thou deny that there is suffering—now ! 2 fow ?—while the worm of conscience thou dost feel ! IV nndying worm ? Why , what is the weak woe Thy coward soul can bear , —though Hell unseal Her quintessence of torture ? 'Twill be weal , Compared with aggregate of woe thy heart , Remorseless , wrung from millions whose appeal To Right was vain!—millions of sires whose part Of woe though first , wa » least : they left an atter-imart !

      For whom ! For millions of their starveling sons And famished daughters , —who still pine and moil By law : mere skin-and-bone automatons ! Oh S serpent!—how my spirit ' s tide doth boil Against such viperousness as thine 1 * * * ' # Hah . * how they shouted while thy mangled clay Was borne unto its burial 1—the few men Whom blood of their old fathers , for one day , Stirred into more than slaves ! Oh ! it was then-While terror quelled even the iron ken Of thy stern fellow-lizard , who his claw Held up , and breathed an idiot ' hush !'— 'twas then Thy waking victims should havt filled Death ' s maw With the whole vermin brood that human vitals guaw S * * # * A hypocrite thou wert in life ; in death A coward * * *

      * * What wonder , —though the Guelph Oft spat npon thee , —that thou , stiU , the path Didst keep of fawning ? Meanest , vilest elf . That ever played the tyrant , —loath * thy abortive self 1 Most of this portion of the poem is powerfully written , but it strikes us that there is a too frequent repetition of "hell , " " snakes , " "tortures , " & e . The speeches put into the mouth of Judas we think wonld have been more telling if somewhat curtailed , and more simple in their structure . We quote the conclusion of the book in which Casixereagh , in the height of his agonies , imagines he sees again the "RadiantBoy , " no longer in the guise of a messenger of glory , but as a mocking fiend . These stanzas are awfully beautiful , and excite the thrilling interest of the reader . Castlereagh giving utterance to his agony at the sight of the fiend , Judas exclaims : — False minion , hold . '

      i " ¦ i » i this region is exempt From Earth's old dreams : nought seest thou , hut hast sold Thyself to falsehood till thy heart is bold To forge wild frauds ev ' n here ! Castlereagb replies : — Curst Judas , cease Thy taunts!— ' I come , ' it saith— ' thy heaven t ' anfold—« Thy ancient heav'n—the haggard , thought-worn face Of Pitt : that thou mayst dream old dreams of power and place !' Perditioned Jew!—seest not the portraiture The fiend hath raised I—list what ho saith!— 'Now

      w ' Themagic eye , once more , which cleft th' obscure ' Opaque of thy dull clay—his fit tool knew'Accepted thy meek offers to eschew 'Bash , youthful promises—and cheered with smiles , 'Prurient with place , the recreant to pursue ' His snaky course of patricide ! Recoils ' Thy spirit from such vision of its patriot toils ? 'Dost think it would recal the withering sneers ' Of Ponsonby—or Grattan ' s lightning glance' Till thou wouldst quail with sense of ancient fears ? ' Courage ! thou thing of cut-throat puissance J * What of their sarcasm ' s empty f ulminance ? * Thou wast a victor—' spite of all their gibes ! - * Thy country ' s suicide was won!—Perchance * Thy own for smallest sin Hibernia ' s tribes 'Will count—the hosts thou sold ' st to Pitt for traitor bribes !*

      Tile Jew ! why dost thou scoff with hellish glee 1 Hark!— 'tis the Fiend , again— ' Would ' st gaze ' On Brandretb ' s gory head ?—111 bring it thee , 'Freshreeking from the scaffold , with the glazo 'Of death still in its eyes ! Hah ! thou shalt crazo ' With joy , gloating thy fill upon that throat' The mangled throat of Thistle wood !—Pourtrays ' It thy own wound 1—Stifle the troublous thought'And once , again , upon thy spy-trapped victim gloat !' The Fiend's fierce eyes—how gleefully and fell They glister—like the eyes of Earth ' s vile things Thathnntfor blood . ' Again it saith , 'How well ' The eyes of Castles and their glisterings' Edwards' and Oliver's—o ' er traffickings ' Of blood for gold—thou dost remember!—Start ' Not now;—for , swift , thy Radiant angel ' s wings ' Shall toil to bring—that thou mayst mock its smart « With life ' s old relish—Caroline ' s lorn broken heart !

      « Gloat—gloat thy fill upon each torturous pang ! Dost shrink !—Courage!—they wereher dying moans ! ' The music thickens : —' tis the sabres' clang Mingles with Shrieks;—aud , now , a peal of greans ' Comes up from Petevloo ! What , though the stones ' Would rise and curse—were thy vile image there !—' Thou shalt have joy in listening to the tones , ,, 'Renewed in Hell , of Hunger ' s loud despair I—•* 'Hark ! what wild choir breaks forth in anthem debonair ? ' Behold—thy Radiant angel hath called up * Thy bread-taxed victims , in their lank array ; ' And , with the hunger-bitten weavers' troop , * Thy fatherland ' s crushed children leave decay I ' All rise—and hymn thy glorious deed at Cray !'Hell-Fiend , avaunt!— And forth the minion fled—Shrieking with horrid madness ! Me , dismay And terror woke ; and , from soul-quelling dread Set free , I blessed the morn , upon my prison-bed .

      We have a word or two to say respecting certain remnants of " original pieces" not noticed in the first part of our " Feast . " The lines " To Liberti " we would gladly have given , if conscientiously we could have done so , had it been only to encourage the writer—who professes to be a " Manchester Millboy , "—to further efforts . The piece contains some good lines , and some poetic thoughts not properly expressed ; hut it is too faulty as a whole to give publicity to . Let the " Mill-boy" try again . That "Music is the food of Love , " we will not attempt to dispute ; but certainly the lines thus entitled are not fit food for our " Feast . ' What we have said of the " Mill , boy ' s " poetry applies to the piece from Glasgow , entitled "Tho Twilight . " The other piece , by the same author , is too tame on such a subject as " Freedom ' s Approach . "

      A . C , of Glasgow , sends us some lines m praise of " Glasgow ' s bonny Green ; " and although that honoured spot is , we believe , chiefly famous as a " drying ground" forauld wives' claes , still we would willingly have given it a chance of such fame as our columns may confer , had " A . C . ' s" lines been poetry , which unfortunately they are not . The lilies are simple and correct , and repeated by a child at a family party would pass muster very well ; hut they are not of sufficient merit to warrant their insertion in a public journal : "A . C . " must try again . "We have

      received some lines from John Peacock , of Port-Glasgow , to the memory of that genuine poet , but unhappy and unfortunate man , Robert Tasxaiull . Poetic the lines are not ; and our judgment bids us reject them ; but on the other hand , tho writer ' s motives are so excellent , and our feelings arc so in unison with his own , that we find our judgment succumbing to our feelings—and so , at the risk of displeasing the critical , wo determine to give a few of Mr . Peacock ' s verses , hoping that the next piece he favours us with will be so far an improvement on his present production that we mar be able to give it entire .

      TO THE XEMORT OF ROBERT TAKNADJLL 0 ! Scotland , thou hast blamed and praised Thy native sons of genius far ; And sculptur * d monuments have raised In pomp to men of blood and war . Long thou hast tivin'd the laurel's wreath Around the image rock-earvM bust Of many a bard , long locked in death , And mingled with their parent dust ! But , ah , no monument hath rcard To he whose deep impressive strains , In native language long enucnVd , Breathes sweetness o ' er tire hills and plains . He who hath long forgotten been ; ¦

      Whose songs the breasts of all doth fill With noble feelings , deep and keen—The long neglected Tannabill . When Scottish peasant , prince , and lord , Conjoiu'd to praise old Cailas hard ; " To hards , " the toast went round the board ; For Taimahill no voice was heard ; I care not though a poet ' s worth ' Is blazoned not by cold carv'd stone ; But wonld his name have usher'd forth , As oue of nature ' s nobles gone . Why , Scotland , hast thou honours paid To some on thy poetic list , Tet sunk beneath a nameless shade Thy first and brightest melodist ? When thy sons met at festive throng ,

      Why did each lip rest mute and still , And scorn to name thy son of song—Thy dear departed Tannahill ? His life was but a fickle dream Of sighs and smiles , of joy and care ; Cf ¦ sank , by self-nnrs'd feelings V . eev , Beneath tho grasp of wild despair . Alas ! he but too keenly felt The pangs of misery and woe ; Until at last 0 ' ercome , he knelt To self-destruction ' s reckless blow .

      Bestow Its Unctuous Virtue On His Head, ...

      No classic lore made fair his lot ; He own'd no title , wealth , nor soil ; But born within a straw thatch'd cot—The son of penurj and toil . Should no vain edifice be rear'd To his lov'd name and memory ? Still , still , bis melodies eudear'd , A lasting monument will be . We believe we have now disposed of all the " original" pieces received from our friends and readers ; It is a subject for congratulation that we have had a greater number of amateur poets competing for admission to this quarter ' s " Feast" than to the one preceding . But if the quantity of poetry received has been greater , we cannot say that the

      quality exhibits a corresponding improvement . "We wish our poets would try their hands at subjects more inspiriting than those they usually adopt Ours is not the party , and this is not the paper , for lackadasical versifying . We want something patriotic : something to " stir the blood like the sound of a trumpet" in vindication of universal Liberty , and in furtherance of her good cause . In short , we want the Nation ' s poetry without the Nation ' s bigotry . What say our friends—have they the spirit within them ? If so , let it have utterance . Let them read Thomas Cooper ' s Purgatory of Suicides , and take courage by his example . He is the first who has really given to the world Chartist poetry , worthy of the name ; we trust , however , that he will not stand alone . We have spoken of Thomas Coopee as the only

      Chartist poet , and we have said this with the full recollection of the " Mob Melodies" of Thomas Doubleoay , Esq ., editor of the Tyne Mercury ( formerly editor of the Northern Liberator ) , for these reasons ; first , that the " Mob Melodies" are , with one or two exceptions , decidedly less poetical than many of the same author ' s prose productions . In this T . Doubleday is not singular . Thomas Paise and Thomas Caulyle are great examples of true poets , not recognised as such by the world , because their true poetry has not been set forth in the form of verse . Secondly , the author of the "Mob Melodies" shrinks—at least so it appears to us—from avowing himself to be , what formerly he hesitated not to acknowledge himself—a Chartist ; for we see be adopts that ridiculous and stupid designation of " Complete Suffragist . " Notwithstanding this , we feel called upon to give a specimen or two of Mr . Doubleday ' s " Melodies : "

      THE FACTORY CHILD . "Twenty more kilPem !" Every Man in his Humour . Tune—" Iangoiee . " When first these young eyelids to nature were optn'd , They closed in delight , as they open'd in joy , The flower in the meadow—the tree inthe forest-All nature's luxuriance had charms for her boy . From grey morn to e ' en , 'mid the valleys I wander * d j The streamlet I follow'd , or travers'd the plain , Andwonder'd ( how simple !) whatcould be their meaning , Who talk'd of " the world , " and its " sorrows and pain . " The song of the sky-lark to me then was music , As wildly he carol'd aloft in the sky ; Or the throstle ' s , when , nun-like , she chanted her vespers ,

      In the deep-woodod glen as the ev ' nmg drew nigh . 'I was music to me , the still voice of the streamlet , As , purling , it wended its way thro' the dale ; Sow , shrinking , in shade , from the sun ' s noontide ardour ; Now silvery-bright , in the moon-beam so pale . Oh ! days made of heav'n , and all-heavenly tinctured . With joys such as beings in Paradise know 1 Oh ! days made of heav ' n , all too soon to be shrouded In mis ' ry ' s dim pall and the dark veil of woe ! Oh ! d « ys made of heav ' n , tho' now lost , not forgotten ; Still cherish'd , tho' ne ' er to be look'd on again : Since ye have departed , I now know their meaning , Who talked of " the World , " and its " sorrows and pain . "

      My sun-shine is , now , the pale lamp , that with radiance like death , lights the task of an early despair . My music is , now , the harsh steam-engine ' s hissing , That drives on the woof ol my sorrow and care ; My floiv ' rets are , now , tho coarse tints that are scatter'd Amid the vile threads of the web that I weave ; My home is the gloom of that Factory Prison , Where childhood must pine , lest oppression should grieve . No Sabbath to me brings its bright , hallow'd , morning ; The chime of no village-bell calls me to pray ' r ; No peal rings for me , but the knell that still bids me To curses and blasphemy—wailings and care ; Where the hand of the task-master ' s ever in motion , Where the thread of a life is butmeasurM and sold ; "Whtreiron is all thatshould know and feel for ns , And the heart ' s blood of childhood is barter'd for gold 1

      Oh ! hear me , ye flow ' rs , that first oped on my boyhood ! Oh ! hear me ye streams , whose first music I heard ! Oh ! hear me , ye wild woods , where earliest I wander'd ; All , all ye delights that this bosom first stirr'd . One breath of your fragrance , ye flow ' rets , but send me ; Ye streamlets , once more , be your melody nigh ; Ye wild woods I lov'd , for one moment wave o ' er me , And 'guile from my senses tho Den where I die .

      T D THE POACHER . " To push the priviliges of property beyond the limits of common sense , is to endanger the fabric by a vain attempt to exalt it . "—BeficcVwns on the Game Laws . Tune— "Moll Roe in the Mobning . " They feast , aud they snore , whilst we hunger and toil ; They rejoice in the title of " Lords of the Soil . " Nay , as "Lords of the Soil , " not content with their share , They resolve to be " Princes of Powers of the air ' . " Sot content with their reign o ' er the wet and the dry , Their dominion would have all that creep or tbat fly ; But their " High and Low" are no inoi'e than a name , And we swear there shall always be "Jack and the Game !"

      See the Pheasant rise stately , all glistening like gold ! See the Covey , alarm'd , flush'd in fear from their hold ; See the Woodcock , alone , from the well-head taliO WJDg J From the grass-tangled hank see the Leveret spring . Who ' s the Rearer , the Tender , the Feeder of those ? 'lis the Woodman who plants , and the Ploughman who sows , For here "High and Low" are no more than a name , And a field there will always be , " Jack and the Game . " A " Poacher ' s" a title—a " Lord" is no more ; And both have been won by brave fellows of yore ! The Mitre ' s the Bishop's—the Crown is the King ' s ; But who ever saw " goods and chattels" with wings !

      Then scour out your barrel—your powder keep dry ; There can be no " Manorial Rights" in the slty : For there " High and Low" are uo move than a name , And not half so well sounding , as " Jack and the Game 1 '' Do ye preach up "the Peace ! " do ye threaten " the Law , " If a cover we beat , or a trigger we draw ? Remember the time , in its ripeness , may come , When your cars may be stunn'd by the roll of the drum ! To fight for your fields , shall it then be our will , Or to bleed for the birds we're forbidden to kill 1 JTot while "High and Low" is made more than a name , And the lawyer dares stand bitwist" Jack and the Game . "

      When ye ' ve tied down the eagle with parchment and wax , And , by law , made the wild swan his pinion relax ! When the crane and the wild duck ye stop on their way , And set up a turnpike , the woodcock to stay , — When this ye have done , we shall yield , as we must , The privilege true , and the heritage just ; But till then , * ' High and Loiv" shall be only in name , And we swear , there shall always be " Jack and the Game . " T . D .

      Press Of Matter Compels Us To Cut Short ...

      Press of matter compels us to cut short our . "i'cast , and omit several select pieces we had prepared for publication . Our next " Feast" will be included in , and form part and parcel of , our " Christmas Garland . "

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      THE PEOPLE'S GUARDIAN , AND LEEDS SANATORY JOURNAL . Leeds : W . Lonsdale , 37 , Nile-street ; Pontcy , Kirkgatc . We have received the 1 st and 2 nd numbers of this cheap and excellent publication , and we feel bound to award it our hearty commendation . Its getting up is highly creditable to the editor , and nearly every article evidences the genuine talent of the several contributors . We notice amongst the other contents the first two of a series of letters on the Land , written bv a mactical " small-farm" agriculturist , who .

      though not of the working class , is one of their most devoted friends . The second title of this publication bespeaks its object , that of arousing attention to the present unwholesome and unhealthy state ol Leeds , and obhiiuine a much needed sanatory reform . Excepting Bradford , we know of no town more filthy in its streets aud disgusting in its atmosphere . Agitation for a reform is therefore much needed ; and this little publication is well-timed and may do mucli good . Wctrustthatthemen of Leeds will give their support to the Guardian , and not only they , out the men of Yorkshire generally .

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      *"' " " ^ fflr — <**«*^» A Diseased Stomach . —Cuke Extiuohdi . v ahy by IIolloway ' s Pilis !—Mrs . Aikins , widow ol the late Captain Aikins , residing at Connaug ht-terracc , Ed « ware-road . This lady had been in India , where her liver and stomach had become diseased , so much so that she could scarcely keep the slightest food on hei stomach . She was very weak and debilitated , and suffered continually from sick head-aclies , besides a nervousness and lownoss of spirits . In six weeks , however wonderful it may appear , she was restored to a high state of health by this unrivalled medicine , which is a certain remedy in all liver , bilious , and stomach complaints , however bad the case * nay be .

      A . Handful of "Nothing . "— It is rather singular that hundreds of people boast of being shareholders in various railway lines that are at present only projected , and have not been before Parliament . We should like these parties to inform us how they can be shareholders of what does not yet exist , and whether they consider their tenures firm ? Like Hhclcth and the dagger—their grasp is visionary . —Jit

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      THE LETTEH S OF A SEXAGENARIAN TO HIS SON . tETTER 111 . . The social aspect of things . Men go without food for days now . They did not do so m my . time . There are people in fertile and populous couimes , bustling and wealthy communities , in thriving towns and great and opulent cities , who exist from year to year on food which , in point of quality , would have been deemed inferior , and in average quantity deficient , and wholly inadequate to the support of life , iu the short season of dearth and scarcity , to which I have alluded in aformer letter , and which was th » n tho occasion of mobs and murmurings , which reached the gates of the palace , and alarmed the wealthy of the well-to-do of all grades ' . It would almost seem as if the familiarity with unexampled misery was increasing the power of endurance , and inducing a eontantadnsss unworthy of the English character , and not hitherto found in connection with extensive physical deprivations .

      Now this is greatly to be deplored ; and what does it all prove J Much . It shows that if there has been progress in some things , there has been retrogression in more important things . If the present generation has reason to be proud of some advantages , evils are working their effects upon large numbers of the people , which , in times within my memory , would have rendered the existence of society a problsm , and been deemed too urgent and appalling t o admit of an hour ' s delay in their condition . But it is unnecessary to insist upon the deteriorated social condition of the people . No one attempts to deny the notorious fact . It must be very obvious and alarming indeod to have arrested the attention of the legislature in the manner it has done of late . Be assured , it is not because the privileged orders are better disposed

      towards the humbler classes , than they ever have been , that commissions have been appointed to make inquiries touching their sanatory condition . The independent attitude of a portion of the press has doubtless had a large share in ealiiiigr attention to that condition ; but its sheer and naked hideousness chiefly has forced upon public attention a subject at no time welcome or attractive . The fact , however , that the commissions assert , and the legislature aU but confess , their utter inability to administer a remedy , is suggestive of many important considerations . It would appear b y this that Government is simply an executive power , and the admitted existence of evils which legislation cannot remedy , while it disposes of all claim on the part of class legislation to be viewed as anything but impertinence aud tyranny , points to the true source of all genuin * reformation and just authority—the people themselves .

      This admission of the inability of all legislation to reach a condition of things so unnatural , and altogether so portentous of danger , as has been disclosed by late reports of parties who would willingly gloss it over if their fears would allow them—this acknowledgment , of more than a tacit character , of imbecilit y and impotence , of the inadequacy of legislation to the discharge of its proper functions , is a curious and significant satire upon a class-elected legislature , and certainly forms the most cogent reason that could be urged for placing the electoral power in the hands of the people , It is not at all wonderful—nothing else indeed could be expected—that a government , appointed as the British Government is , should be incapable of removing evils which lie

      beyond the pale of its safe and legitimate action ; but that the legislature , the embodiment of a nation ' s sagacity and wisdom—the intellectual instrument , so to speak , whose peculiar province and object it is to contrive plans and means of securing the ends of society and the happil ness of the people—that this body , or institution , or instrument , or whatever else it may be called , should be admitted to be inadequate to its functions , and yet allowed to exist , is one of those anomalies which may be defended by prescriptive reference and rule , but admits of no explanation . It is not , however , so incomprehensible , when we consider that no interests are understood or cared for in the British legislature , but those of the classes to which its members individually belong .

      We are | thus brought to the political view of this subsubject , And here it is obvious , even from their own acknowledgment , that no government or legislature appointed under a restricted franchise , can do anything towards remedying the appalling social evils , whose existence is so notorious , and whose operation is so fearful , whether contemplated in reference to the every , day suffering endured , the injury to national character and morals , or the explosive materiel and power in process of accumulation at the base of the social fabric . What boots the affected sympathy of such men as Lord John Russell ? what is the value of his late-adopted

      views , and his reluctant and wheedling iteration of the fact that , the working man has not had his fair share of the advantages of increased and ever-increasing wealth ? What would my Lord Russell consider a fare share ; and how would he propose to secure that shore ? Ball ! this man must know that he ha ? not the capacity , even had he the desire—which he equally well knows he has notto suggest a means of securing a more equitable distribution of that wealth , whose inconceivable accumulation is only paralleled by the enormous aggregation of social misery and mischief which so remarkably keeps pace with it .

      With a deteriorated serial condition , then , enduring the pressure of greater physical suffering than , by universal admission , was known to any former period , are the people at the present time in a political position of greater advantage , or which can warrant a hope of better things , than the one in which they found themselves thirty or forty years ago ? They certainly are not . With a partially unshackled press , an extended franchise , a reformed parliament , what has b » en , or can be , done for those who toil for their daily bread ? Worse than nothing . It was a grand error on the part of the labouring population to assist the Whigs in their struggles for the Reform Bill ; not only because they might have had the sagacity to perceive that that party had no aim or ambition unconnected with self-aggrandisement and the sweets of office , but because it left a struggle to be renewed with a more inveterate cunning ; and less open and honourable enemy , with resources extended by experience and the benefits of a course of legislation directed to the intrenchment of party interests and connexions in the meantime .

      How shamefully have the Whig party disappointed the expectations of the people : and yet , how foolish was it tO expect any good from the infamous and contemptible pack of huckstcrers ! How absurd to imagine that the legislation of men appointed by the non-productive would tend in anyway to the benefit of the productive classes . The clear , obvious , direct , and now painfully-felt effect of such legislation is , to depress and injure the workersthe labouring or productive classes . The cheap , unrestricted competitive system is unquestionably—and I may have an opportunity of proving this to your satisfaction—the main cause of all the misery endured and deplored , and political power was , and is , only sought by the non-producers to procure for their favourite system and philosophy a larger sphere of operation ,

      Who , at this time of day , requires to be told that the landlord , the farmer , the merchant , the master tradesman , the shopkeeper—the capitalists of all grades and distinctions—look alone to enlarging their incomes by the only method really available or capable of answering the end , that of reducing the value to the labourer of that-labour whence all their incomes are truly derived , and upon which they are all contingent , and even dispensing with that labour altogether when they can conveniently do so , leaving those thus driven from the field of labour the choice of starvation or tho workhouse ? And how , Until tho legislation of this class of people is entirely stopped , or boldly encountered and checked , by the labourers acquiring the balance of representative power , can the devastating progress of physical suffering , moral depravity , and all social evils be stayed or turned ?

      The natural tendency . of this legislation is towards revolution , by producing wider extremes of affluence aud poverty , and a hu-ger aggregation of the varied evils which How from this prolific and polluted course . Ardour in the pursuit of wealth , the desire of gain and rapid accumulation , are the most prominent of all the characteristics of the English people ; and at no period of our history has such scope been given for their exercise as of late years ; and the result is seen in the deteriorated condition of the people . This circumstance ought to excite reflections in the minds of all . What may be the

      ulterior consequences of persisting in a career , which so certainly leads to mischief , is a question not for statesmen alone . AU the productive classes would do well to moderate their desires , and endeavour to procure for the working people a larger and more equitable share in the distribution of that wealth which , by being at present so unequally divided , makes this country the wonder and the reproach of nations . For their own nakes—for the sake of the stability of the system , which gives them the lion ' s share , they ought to consider seriously how tjiis might be done , but they will not .

      They have become alarmed , however . They cannot SllUt their eyt'S tO tllU palpable fact , ihat , with the increase of productive power the deprivations of the people have increased in a commensurate degree . The shrewdest among them perceive the tendency of things , and would fain conciliate and divert popular feeling and attention . ' They appear anxious to break the force of a catastrophe which their fears conjure up , looming like a storm in the distance , and which they cannot hope to avert . Fear , be assured , is in great part the origin of that solicitude and sympathy for tho ? e classes of the people who were cvst uosigntited as the swinish multitude , and by other

      appellations equally graceful and creditable to those who uttered them . Who has the temerity to apply such appellatives to any class of their fellow creatures now ? Ah ! a crisis is too imminent ; vt the best , and too near at all times to render the use of such language in any degree safe or prudent . It is not because tho people have more political power , or that few men have the courage of Uurke in these days , that such appellatives are uncommon ; but neither ignorance nor boldness , intrenched behind rank aud privilege , can now afford to he so foul-mouthed . The pressure of other than political evils and deprivations have shown the privileged orders that they stand upon a mine which trilling irritation might help to spring , and thus involve them in utter and awful ruin .

      Having referred to the nature , aud indicated—merely indicated—the source of the afflictions of the people , let us consider the remedial plans and movements . It is to remedy a condition of unexampled social disorganization that so many nostrums have been concocted aud gravely propounded of late . Viewed merely iu relation to their variet y , one might be warranted in saying thai the subjecthas received no small degree of attention . II has given vise to immense—but to a great extent verj absurd speculation . All sorts of people have come will their fractional offers of aid , as expressed in their sevcra

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      plans and ' suggestions ; but the truth is , if this social disease is understood , none of the physicians—and they are legion—pretend to have discovered a cure : th » y wonld merely administer febrifuges arid opiates ; they want to compose the patient , and trust to time and the natural elasticity of a pretty strong , though severely tried constitution , to throw off its impurities , and regain its vigour without medicine . Few of them profess to know anything whatever of the origin or nature of the disease for which they would prescribe ; they do not pretend to have taken a diagnosis , or to be in the least degree competent to do so ; but they wish to be serviceable . They are benevolent ; it ' s a tashion now to be so , and as well be out of the world as out of the fashion , as tho apothegm has it .

      Imagine a host of physicians at tho bed-side of a patient , and that patient John Bull—the physicians are tho political and social pill-makers of all characters , and ' With various crotchets and pretensions . "Give him better quarters , " says one ; "Give him more air , " says another ; " Wash him , for God ' s sake , " cries a thud ; " He must have two shirts a week , and a change of clothing , " cries a fourth ; "Give him a bath , " chimes in a fifth ; "He must come out of that dark damp house—pull it down ! " cries ft dapper little gentleman to whose innocent imagination the thought never once occurred of how or where , except in the filthy habitation lie wants pulled down , the patient is to be placed . Now all these suggestions may be good enough in themselves , and valuable as mere sanatory recommendations , if the means existed to

      render them practicable or effective ; but what but caviare can they be to the patient ? He wants food chiefly provided him , with a sufficient and permanent supply—not the intermittenthunger-and-burst supply of the Corn Law people , and you will have done something towards his relief—provide him with the means of removing , and he will remove of his own accord , | and be very happy to do so , in a more airy and comfortable abode . Do ' not credit the reports of his filthy habits—furnish him with tho means , and you will find that he will , in a short time , and as if by magic , become as healthy , and cleanly , and respectable a peison as you affect to wish him . Bo all this , 1 would say to each and all of the physicians , and you have done something to entitle yourselves to the patient's gratitude , and to a character above that of the empiric .

      You . will pevctive , by this concluding bit of metaphor that my notions and your own are not much akin rcgardiug the floating regenerative plans of certain tea-supping philanthropists , the agreeable benevolent talk of men of soft tongues , smooth faces , and hands as smooth . Such humanity is too watery—such philanthropy too cheap . There must be sacrifice and solf-daniai , at which these perfumed agitatorsandphilanthropists'iTOuldstare , before a tittle of the wretchedness can be removed , which they affect to deplore . Bespiteofall their pleasant talk and childish schemes , vice and misery , and wretchedness and destitution , will go on—the black volume of wave will gain in accumulative bulk and turbid foulness every day , until it rolls in desolation over tha land , if other men do not make timely and serious efforts to turn and stop the innumerable streams and currents by which this wave is fed .

      Of all the empiricisms , however , that of the League , from its boldness and magnitude , is the most apt to deceive , and is in all respects the most dangerous . I will consider its pretensions in a future letter . In the meantime I am , & c , Jacob Trusty .

      Death Of A Ohan-Cerv Prisoner.—On Monday...

      Death of a Ohan-cerv Prisoner . —On Monday evening Mr . Payne held an inquest in the Queen ' s Prison , Southwark , on John Leadman , aged ^ 0 , a prisoner therein . Deceased was a native of Barnsley , in Yorkshire , and was committed in August , 1844 , by Vice-Chancellor K . Bruce , for contempt , in not putting in his answer in a suit in Chancery , he and other defendants not having the means to do it . On his admission he was weak and low-spirited , he was immediately removed by the surgeon into the infirmary , where every nourishment was afforded him , but he gradually sank under mental anxiety , and expired on Saturday . The deputy-governor stated , it was customary every three months for a Master in Chancery to visit the prison , to ascertain if any Chancery prisoner who had not the necessary means , wished for his discharge . If so , funds to sue in forma pauperis were granted by the Lord Chancellor . Deceased had repeatedly been asked to avail himself of such to purge himself of his contempt , but he refused . —Globe .

      Thunder-storm . —Rochester , Sept . 22 . —Yesterday everting , between six and seven o ' clock , this neighbourhood wag visited by a fearful storm , which fortunately was but of short duration . The vivid flashes of lightning were followed by thunder claps loud and deep , and accompanied by a heavy shower of hail and rain , during which ayoungman named Catt , a brickmaker , about twenty years of age , lost his life . He left Stl'OOtl at about the commencement of the storm , on his way home to Ouxtone , a village on the bank of the Medway , about three miles above Rochesterbridge , and before he had proceeded one-third of the distance lost his life . The corpse was found early this morning by a labouring man in the employ of Mr . William Manclark , near whose farm the melancholy catastrophe occurred . The electric fluid appears to have struck the unfortunate man on his head , one side of the face being much burnt , his hat and clothes rent open , and his shoes torn into shreds .

      Melancholy Accident . —On Thursday last , at one of the pits belonging to the Glangarnock Iron Company , on the farm of llyeholra , in the parish of Dairy , which they are at present sinking down to the irenstone , two men—a father and son—of the name of Muir , of the relative ages of forty-five and twenty years after charging the shot , were ascending the shaft in a waterbucket , when James Mnir , the father , looked down 'to see if the straw wonld ignite , when tho mid partition took hold of the back part of his head , and tore him out of the bucket . He fell to the bottom , and the shot exploding , ho was killed on the spot . The son held on by the tow and was saved . — Scotsman ,

      Sudden Death . —On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr . Carter , the coroner for Surrey , at the Duke of York , Swan-lane , Rotherhithc , on the body of Mr . Charles Devines , aged 55 , a timber measurer It appeared that , on Friday last , the deceased was employed in measuring the cargo of one of the Baltic vessels , and appeared in excellent health and spirits : suddenly he was observed to stagger and fall , and upon one of his assistants going to his aid , he appeared wholly insensible . A surgeon was sent for , who immediately attended , but pronounced the deceased quite dead , probably from tho rupture of a blood vessel . The jury returned a verdict in . accord ance with tho medical evidence .

      Suicide from Affection for a Horse . —A municipal guard , in barracks at the Barriero d'Enfer , was about a year back taking out his horse for exercise , when the animal , being of a fractious temper , took the bit between his teeth , and ran away . The rider endeavoured to pull him in , but in vain , and at last they both came down with violence . The man had his leg broken , and the horse was muck injured in the bacZc . The former" was , after a time , sent to Bonne for the benefit of his health , and the horse got so much worse that it was found advisable to shoot him . The man returned after some months , and was seized with the most lively grief when he found that the horse , for which he had a great affection , was dead . His own life became , in consequence , a burden to him , and a few days ago he went down to the siaU where the animal used to stand , and , putting a pistol to his head , blew out his brains ,

      Liverpool Corn Market, Monday, Sept. 22....

      Liverpool Corn Market , Monday , Sept . 22 . — The arrivals from Ireland of wheat , oats , flour , and oatmeal , are to a fair amount during the week . Of foreign produce and manufacture , the imports consist chiefly of about 20 , 000 brls . of flour from Canada , about 8 , 000 brls . from the United States , and one cargo of Indian com from the Black Sea . In the early part of the week the weather , which for three weeks previously had so favoured us , became broken , and wo have since had an untoward time for the completion of harvest . It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of the grain crops of the United Kingdom

      yet remain to be secured , The business in this market during the week has been extensive , and prices generally have daily improved . The principal transactions have been on speculation ; middling quality of Baltic and Mediterranean wheat , in bond , which , ten days ago was sold at 5 s , Od . to os . dd ., has since been disposed of at Cs . 3 d . to Cs . Gd . per 70 lbs . ; United States Hour , in bond , has also had a great share of attention , and the late prices paid were 25 s . to 2 Gs . per brl . The cargo of Indian corn , reported above , has changed hands at 25 s ., and 480 lbs . in bond . The Town ' s millers ' and dealers have taken to a

      moderate extent of both wheat ' and Hour , pa ) ing an advance on Tuesday ' s prices of 3 d . to < ld . per bushel on old , and about 2 s . per bushel on Irish new wheat . An improvement of 2 s . per sack and brl . has been obtained on Hour . Oats and oatmeal have each been in request ; the former lias advanced 2 d . per bushel , and meal about 2 d . per load . The market has been well cleared of peas , at an advance of -is . to Os . per qr . liarlev is held fur hiahcr prices , but the demand has been only limited . Beans and Indian corn have each commanded only 2 s . per or . more money .

      MAXCiifSTun Conx Mauket , Saturday , Sept , ^ 0 . —The weather during the week having been exceedingly wet and unfavourable for securing the late harvest , caused an animated demand to be experienced for Hour , the stocks of which article in first liai : i . s belli " , in consequence , reduced to a narrow compass , factors were enabled to realize a material advance on the previous currency . For both oats and oatmeal there was likewise a better inquiry , at improved rates . At our market this morning , the weather haTintr assumed a more settled appearance , the ™ was less excitement in the trade . A ( air amount ot business , however , occurred hi wheat , and nu descriptions must be noted 3 d . to 4 d . per 701 bs . ( tana . Kr - continuing in steady request , commanded an cnh " „ Wne ^ t 0 tl ^ ratesobtainable on this day sc ' n St of 2 Uo 3 s . per sack on good middling qualities 3 S to 2 s . on cxtra-supcrfliio sorts . Oats were hell innl v ior an advance of Id . per 4511 m . ; and oatmeal , meeting a good inquiry , was lully Is . per load higher .

      . __ „„ _ , , _ Kichmosd Conx Mauket , Sept . 20 .-TTo lad a fiir sunplv of grain in our market to-day . Nhcat sold from ' 7 s . to 8 s . Od . ; oats , 3 s . to 4 s . ; barley , 4 s to is . Cd . i kswYi , 5 s . 3 d . to 5 s . Gd . ner bushel ,

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      To The Brutal And Uarnixcifhed—A Cann.--...

      To the Brutal and UarnixciFhED—a CAnn .--Any person desirous of gratifying his brutal propensit . es , earning , at the same timo , a handsome niaintenai . ee , has now an opportunity of obtaining permanent em « ployment as master of a union workhouse . [ Peculation within tolerably wide limits will . be winkedat , and every facility will be aflbrded to elude detection , and , in case of exposure , punishment . A handsome retainer is also offered to any barrister , expert in bullying and insulting witnesses , and ready , if called upon , to act in a judicial capacity , and to blend therewith his forensic function , according to the instructions of his employers . For particulars apply at a certain office , Somerset House . — Punch .

      A Good Day ' s Sport . — -We understand several o £ the civic companies have invited Prince Albert to a day ' s sport in the city . They have offered to collect in the area of the Stock Exchange all the bulls and bears that are in the habit of prowling about the neighbourhood . As soon as these are despatched , a number of desperate Stags , that have been brought up expressly by the railways , will be driven from Capel-court into the interior , and his Royal Highness will be armed with unlimited power to hunt down as many as ho pleases . - The lame ducks of the city will be reserved for the last , as an especial treat . Tho

      large room at Lloyd ' s has been fitted up handsomely for tho occasion , so that his Royal Highness will ba put to no inconvenience or fatigue , in firing at his leisure from a magnificent throne erected at the largest window . Weippert's band will be in attendance . In fact , nothing has been neglected to make this " civic battue" worthy of tho noblo guest fox whom it has been provided . — Ibid . Burning Africa . —The French papers , published in Africa , hint very strongly that it is Marshal Bu « geaud ' s ambition to ho crowned Monarch of Algiers , As he will want a title , we suggest ho will he caller " the Fire-King of Algeria . "

      A DAINTY . BISU TO SET BEFORE A QUEEN , Sing a song of G otha—a pocket-full of rje , Eight-and . forty timid deer driven in to die ; When the sport was open'd , all Weeding they were seen—Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a Queen ? The Queen sat in her easy chair , and look'd as sweet as honey : The Prince was shooting at the deer , in weather bright and tunny ; The bands were playing Polkas , dress'd iu green and golden clothes ; Tho nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , and that is al Punch knows !

      A New PolvhcalDictiosabt . —Advocate , from the Latin words ad , to , and vocare , to call ; because an advocate is at the call of any one who needs his services . The early Roman advocates professed to plead gratuitously , but some of them were soon detected in taking fees indirectly , by making no charge , but "leaving it to tho generosity" of their employers . Clients were " expected" to give something to the advocate , and wero no doubt considered to have acted shabbily if they shirked it ; so that at last a regular charge was made , and some of the Roman barristers used to receive so mucli a head from as ? many as chose to take shares in these joint-stoelc advocates . At length the gentlemen of the Roman long-robe became greedy , and it was found necessary

      to limit their iees , the maximum of which was hxea at ten thousand sestertii , which the classical student may at his leisure reduce to six-and-eightpences . The advocates were paid generally in asses , or brass , and they paid those asses their clients usually in the same metal . The fcts were always payable before the cause was pleaded ; and it was a rule that if the advocate died , or did not , or could not , or would not , attend to his duties , the sum hehad received was in no case to be given back again . "No money returned" was the motto of the Roman as well as of tha English barrister . —Agent , is a-gent acting for another gent , and is derived from the Latin word agens , doing , because an agent is often doing his principal . — —Agrarian Laws related to the public lands ; and Spurius Cassius , who was called spurious to

      distinguish him ft om the genuine Cassius , was the first poor man's friend who proposed an agrarian law ; for which piece of patriotism he was tried , condemned , and put to death in no time . Subsequently , Seh > pronius Gracchus , who was the Lord Ashley of his day , earned an agrarian law founded on the small allotment system ; and he was murdered in an election row , as a reward for his good intentions . His brother , Cains Gracchus , who wished to see ' tho ' p ' ooc settled on their own land , got settled himself , in a shindy , when putting up for the tribuneship . Other Roman radicals passed agrarian laws , but Radicalism was so unfashionable that its adherents got assassinated very rapidly . The professed object of the agrarian law was to divide the public land among the poor , so that ever } ' Roman should crow his own cabbage , as the people of Cos reared their own lettuces .

      —Ibid . Appropriate Decorations . —A showy line of weathercocks has been erected along the new Houses oi Parliament . "We detected " speaking likenesses" of particular members in many of them . In one we perfectly traced the profile of Lord Brougham , and in another the wig of the present Lord Chancellor This new style of portraiture is capitally adapted to such a building ; and as it is closely allied to the Gothic , it is perfectly in character with the other features that are prominent in the decorations of the

      future St . Stephen's . —Ibid . The Saxe-Gotha Butchery . —A bad excuse , say the expediency-mongers , is better than none at all . " A slavish writer in the slavish Herald , " says a Contemporary , " sneakingly apologises for the conduct of our Queen , by saying that she was the guest of the chief slaughterman at Gotha , and was . therefore obliged to bo present at the sport he had provided for hcrcntevtainment . " If we were invited to take a chop with Giblett , the butcher , surely we should not be expected to visit his slaughter-houso . '

      THE AXDOVER DON GIOVANNI . Scene . —Grand Banquetting IMl in the Workhouse . —Don Giovanni and the Ladies of t he Court ( yard ) are discovered . Grand Chorus— Omnes . Merrily pass the thick soup round , Quaff the pump in sparkling measure , Love and skillagalee abound , Give the night to joy and pleasure , Blest communion , Hera ' s the union , Such a master is a treasure . [ Da Capo ,

      Solo . —Don Cioeonm . Come , place thy hand in mine , love , And gently whisper " yes , " Those beauteous eyes divine , lovo , Were meant but mine to bless . Ko more the dull mop twirling . Or the greasy dishclout furling , "With the streems thus early purling , I my suit with rapture press ! Chorus of Paupers ( without ) . Grind and grizzle and grizzle and grind , Bones may ache hut a dinner they find , We envy tho vain , for that can mizzle , "Whilst we are doomed to grind and grizzle

      llctntalwc . —Giovanni . In vain they pick and choose—I say , to joke ' em , They know they cannot choose hut pick the oakum . Such joys with my seraglio I share ' em , And nothing shall from this my harem scare ' em . Air . Ah ! what means this sudden darkness , Sure some danger hovers near—Yes , my race I see is ended , Furies ! can the truth appear ? ( Gong sounds . The Power of Jnvcsligalion rises in a Maze of blue fire and red tape , ivith demon reporters in tha dfetanee . ) Chorus of Demons . Don Giovanni , get out , get out , Don Giovanni , get out . ( Grand Tableau of Public Exposure and General Indig * nation . ) Joe Miller ,

      Travelling is "Less than so Time . "—Her Majesty is apparently resolved , if , during her mania for travelling , she should ever visit the dtaert , not to be overtaken by the Simoon . At least we should so conclude , judging from the announcement to tho effect that last Saturday the opening of "her Majesty ' s Railway took place at Gosport . " This railway extends from the terminus ot the South Western line at Gosport , to the Royal Clarenco Victualling Establishment , and is intended to facilitate tho Royal visits to the Isle of Wight . The rail passes thromih the fortifications , and is about SIX

      hundred yards long 5 and it was kindly suggested by Prince Albert . Itscostis a mere trifle , o ) ify £ S 000 !! After this we may not despair of seeing a miuiature railroad laid down in the large banqueting room of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle , for tho convenience of the Queen ' s children , in order , to save the dreadful fatigue of a walk . We hoar—but can scarcely credit the rumour—that a tunnel similar to that of Mr . Brunei under the Thames , is in contemplation from Portsmouth harbour to Osborne House , in the Isle of Wight direct ; and it is further said , that nothing but nature herself can " throw cold water" on the scheme . —Ibid .

      A most . Exemso Nkw JtraxAL . —Speedily will be published , No . 1 of a new daily paper , to be entitled , "The People ' s Illustrated Hallway and Steam-boat Accident Chronicle . " This journal will be exclusively devoted to matters connected with accidents on railwavs or steam-boats in every part of the globe ; and will contain the fullest and truest accounts of the latest catastrophes up to the moment of goitur to press ; together with lives and portraits of the killed and wounded , and reports of the inquests held on tho former . It will be published early every morning , profusely illustrated with engravings on wood , representing tho latest collisions , explosions , scattering of limbs , boilings alive .-: or , other , catastrophes on land or water ; and will consist of- ; 32 closely-printed columns , a great proas of matte * being expected . To friends of travellers this journal will be of the deepest interest , as affording authentic memorials of tho last moments of the departed , - ' ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 27, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27091845/page/3/