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      . THE MARTYRS OF lBiS-49 . Thev are gone ! ¦ When Hope's blossoms , many-number'd , Srirr'd as if to burst-When on earthquake's edge all slumber'd , Who hare man accursed ? TVhen oar hearts , like throbbing drum , Beat for Freedom , ha ! it comes ! < Jod ! they stumbled among tombs ! They are gone ! Freedom ' s martvrs , young and hoary , Beautiful of faith ! And her first dawn-blush of Glory Lights their camps of Death ! There they sleep in shrouds of blood , Muvder'd while for Right they stood ; Murder'd , Christ-like , doing good !

      They are gone ! And ' t is good to die , up-giving Valour ' s vengeful breath—Cursing heroes of the living—Thus , god-blest is Death 1 One oy one , true hearts , they ' re left ns ; Yet Hope hath not all bereft us ! Triumph lamps the gap they ' ve cleft us ! They are hehe ! Here , where Life ran bloody rain-While power from God seem ' d wrench'd ! Here , where tears fall moltex braix , And teeth are agony-clench'd ? gee them . ' count their wounds ! Ah ! now Smiles a Glory , where the plough Of Pain ' s red crown fire-seam ' tfeach brow '

      They are here ! In the Etna of each heart , Where Vengeance laughs hell-mirth ! In the etersji teaks that start n er their glorious worth ! Tears ? Ay , tears of fire , proud weepers , T ' avengc these soul-sepulchred sleepers ! Pue J to smite Death ' s blood-seed reapers ! TheyarenEHE ! In the starry march of Time—Eeatjsg at oub sidelet us lire their lives sublime ! Die as they have died ! God shall wake ! these Martyrs come—Jlauos-roij ) from each heakt-tomb ! Then , Tyrants ! for your Day of Doom 1 T . Gerald Masset

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      LOUIS BLANC'S MONTHLY KEVTETT The New World . No . II . September London : T . C . Newby , 72 , Mirtimer street , Cavendish-square . il The Empire and the Emperor " is the title < £ a very excellent letter , addressed by Louis Blaxc to Louis Buoxapaete . The second article is on the infamous speech recently delivered by Thiers . The third article is so . good that ire shall ' take the liberty to transfer it in full to our columns .

      LOUIS BLANC ' S ADDRESS TO THE

      OPERATIVES ASSOCIATIONS . __ Mr Deas Frissds , —The possibility of putting into practice the ideas of fraternal association was denied ; it was confidently asserted that simple labourers could not have sufficient intellect to manage great enterprises of industry ; sufficient zeal , spirit of order and discipline to clo without a master . _ To the detractors of association , you have replied like th ? t philosopher of antiquity in whose presence movement was denied ; you have created associations .

      To-day they exist in hundreds in Paris , in all the great cities of France—even in Belgium . God knows by what labours , at the cost of what sacrifices you have arrived at such results , and futurity will reader you justice for it . Yes , we shall soon be able to trace the history of so many unknown selfdenials , so many modestly-heroical efforts , and people will see what you had to encounter to give motion and life to noble ideas , to overpower routine , to defeat the plots of inifated capital , to surmount the obstacles raised in your own cause by distrust and jealousy . Alone , abandoned to your own feeble resources by the State which ought to have been your

      banker , Vf " v , had \ mderstood its mission , you have -notoriously struggled against the pressure of the old world , against a formidable display of means laid at the disposal of passions which are hostile to youagainst the coalition of all monopolies , monopoly of power , monopoly of riches , monopoly of science ; you have triumphed over the tyranny of your own misery . In the midst of society a prey to tbe fury of competition , an ignorant , selfish , morbid society , you have come not only to announce , but to realise the glad tidies , that glad tidings which , in the time of Christ , was called Gospel , and which in our own is called FniTsnxrry .

      Even shnnld you have failed , no conclusion could hare been fairly taken fur the condemnation of our principle . Who knows not the incertitudes , the difficulties of a first debut ? In the stormy seas of the new weald how many vessels were lost on still Tmesplored breakers , before the art of navigation had traced safe and invariable roads ! If among SO many associations which rise and prosper , some are seen to perish at t ' aeir very birth , others after a brilliant hegimrin ? suddenly stop and languish , it is elsewhere than ia the inanity of fundamental bases , that lie the causes of such disasters . Well ! it is of the greatest importance to find out these deleterious causes , to produce them to light , either to confound dishones * detract < TS , " or to enlighten associations on perils to he avoided .

      In the first place let us remember that all the established associations do not own the same origin , that is the desire of preparing the affranchisement of labourers , and of putting an end to the speculation of man by man . Wherever the magic word Association * was seen , the people ran in crowds . At the end of a month's existence , some of those affiliations had attained a colossal extension . Certain masters on the verge of bankruptcy pulled down thc r signs , decorated their shops with die emblem of an equalising level , and continued under a ma « k , to speculate on the their workmen and the public ; nothing fraternal was their in reality but the assumed characteristic but the fraud was soon discovered , customers disappeared ; the speculator must stop ; but

      the fall of thft enemies to association was laid on the principle of association itself . It wonld be unjust to require of the mass of labourers , the virtues of a state of society for which they were not brought up , in which everything is sew and unexpected to them , in which everything is in flagrant contradiction with their received ideas , their pnjudicps and education . For that very reason , itwould have been advisable for the creators of the first associations to have shown themselves most ri'nd in the choice of those whom they admitted to share their labour . Unfortunately it has net been so . All those who have entered into the associations have not brought with them the same soirit . Bv the side of fervent apostles of the

      principle , by the side of the courageous initiators who devoted ' themselves to realise its application , by the side of those who had not concealed from themselves the difficulties of the enterprise , and held themselves in readiness for sacrifices , there were indifferent and weak-minded men , those who thought they should find in a new formula of labour the immediate satisfaction of all then-wants , and a spontaaeous self-produced welfare . They forgot that in the state of things , association was to be , above all , a work of self-denial , aneff-rt of abnegation , and , deceived in their exasperated expectations , abandoned to discouragement , they soon became elements of disorder . Let this example serve you , my dear friends ; be Trell persuaded that in forming yourselves into

      associations , ycu march towards the land of promise , but though ragged paths . Let not your illusions be too sanguine , they would lead you perhaps to bitter disappointments . You have to conquer happiness , you have to receive it . Kow , every conquest requires patience and courage . Some enterprises had commenced in the most brilliant manner ; they had accomplished great and important works , realised considerable profits , and behold , that prosperity suddenly vanished to make room for ruin , under the blow of a commercial catastrophe , the result of the associates' inexperience , We must not be too much astonished at this . For the first time the operatives saw themselves taken out of the narrow sphere of a factory . The directors of associations , operatives like their brethren , were called upon to manage commercial operations often undertaken upon a large scale ! their practical science was not at all times equal to their self-denial and zeal . This is sufficient to show how important it is for

      asssciated operatives to use the greatest discernment 5 n the choice of those who are to direct them . In the accomplishment of so grave a duty they must deal freely with all questions of persons . Choose , for the common interest , the mosthonest , the most capable ; but at the same time , fix to his power such limits as will not compromise the associations destiny ; surround him with an active watchfulness that may follow him in all his actions ; let his power be easily revoked , and let his authority cease from the very day when it shall cease to he fruitful . The position of the manager " of an association must not excite jealousy , because ^ it must be well understood that there are neither inferior nor superior positions , all 2 tre equally honourable , from the moment they are useful to society . There can be no possible association , except it be admitted as s sacred , impugnable principle , that he "who does what he is able to 1 ) 0 , DOES WHAT HE OBGHT TO DO . - The first step has been made in the way to social gaiancipation . Associations are in existence . The

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      next thing to do , is to connect them all , one with another . Behold the object to which must now tend all your efforts . To attain this object , here 1 suggest the exposition of the means that might be used . There should be established , under the denomination of Committee of Associated Operatives , a council in which should be represented all the associations based upon the principle of fraternity . This council would have for its mission : To centre all individual efforts ; To investigate the great questions of production and repartition . r To help in the formation of nascent associations , and the developcment of those that are in existence _ To control the mutual intercourse between association , for the exchange of produce , the loans , advances of money , tenders , bills of exchangeand circulation , & c . nnvl- tliinnr fn tin 1 Q f (\ onTITlPfit flimr » . "*» il « .. « ... vt

      The Committee o / Associated Operatives would occupy their attention with those institutions which are the complement of association , such as stores , bazaars , labourers homes , provident funds , asylums They would exercise upon all associations a fraternal watchfulness , and wonld impart to them that uniformity of movement which is so desirable . Some associations exist in the provinces and in foreigncountries ; the committee would take it upon themselves to open relations between these and the Parisian associations . __ At last , they would occupy themselves with opening outlets to their produce by means of exportation , that source of labour so indispensable to the continental support of great factories .

      Independent of that committee , the associations would preserve their special direction , as well as the disposal and management of their capital . Such is , my friends , the plan which I submit to jour meditations . The hoar is drawing near , I am convinced of it , when democracy will be in power , and when the abolition of the labourer ' s servitude shall essentially be the state question . For Socialism is coming with the insuperable might of the ocean waves ; it ascends , always ascends , and will in the end reach the heights of society ! But until that decisive moment arrive ? , you have to take in hand the care ofyour own emancipation , and to shape for yourselves , as much as

      possible , your own destinies . The task is hard , but fruitful . The end difficult to attain ; but your interests , your duty , your glory . . : . all consists in matching towards It . What an honour for you to have discovered wherelies the declivity of the age , when we see the men of power hesitating , getting confused , nay , rushing back towards the past , to escape the logic of history ! Associated operatives , you are truly the men of the nineteenth century . Be of good cheer ! your children will gather still more largely than younelves , bear it in mind , the fruits # f your efforts . Be of good cheer ! the genius of liberty watches over your work , and already you caa say , as Luther formerly did , God is withus !

      After the hard trials we have gone through , it is useless to refer asain to the imprudence of those labourers who , anxious to realise the association , went and carelessly placed themselves under the yoke of self-styled protectors , organisers , money-lenders . They have paid dear enough for their credulity . Associations must be constituted , organised , by labourers . Those men who seek to meddle with their affairs , are , for the most p art , only intriguers , who wish to make a commercial speculation of them , or else nse them as political instruments . One ofyour great preoccupations must also be to attract through low prices , the numerous class of poor consumers . I know it well , associations cannot tread on the foot-marks of public vampires , like those merchants always on the look-out for ruins and failures , and who profit by the misfortunes of their fellow-tradesmen , to obtain at mythic prices , goods sold afterwards below the market price , at an

      enormous profit . I know it well , associations cannot either , as owners of factories do it , specu l ate upon slackness of labour and onmisery : they cannot , by performing their work at a low price , cause the alread y soninchreduced rate of salaries to fall ; they are , consequently , under the necessity of selling at a higher price than factory owners , a necessity which exposes them to sell in less quantities . But this is only applicable to those corporations infected with the scourge of factory system . Everywhere else , associations should make it their study to deliver their produce at the lowest possible price . They are in possession of the confidence of the people ; they must justify that confidence . They have a double end to effect ; the first , to free the labourer from the speculation of man by man ; the second , to suppress the parasite intermediaries , the retailers , and thus realise , for the profit of the consumer , a considerable economy .

      There is another point , my dear friends , to which I cannot too earnestly call your attention . Be careful not to draw around your associations an insuperable circle , or even render them difficult of access . This would be reviving the odious system of jurande and maitfiscs . * If associations , instead of bein ? opened to all , were only reunions of individuals in a fixed and determined number , united by the common desire ot getting riches at the expense of their brethren , they would no longer have anything to distinguish them from certain commercial societies which abound around us , and only constitute new gangs of speculators .

      At the time of the Provisional government , several associations had received from the state important orders . One of the first acts of reaction in power was to refuse abruptly the execution of those agreements passed with all the forms that render a contract binding and sacred . It was raining all at once those associations which , relying on the faith of regular treaties , had already laid out considerablesums . When an indemnity for certain associations was talked of , they differed , threw in obstacles in the hope that those associations , so cruelly struck , should perish before payment . It even happened once , th it the indemnity was flatly refused altogether . Now , in those associations , created for the object of arriving without a shock at the suppression of

      competition , competition was introduced and installed . By the side of a house opened in a favourably situated neighbourhood , a second association was established , then a third . Customers thua dispersed , were no longer sufficient to support the three establishments . They all three failed , where one alone would have prospered . This result would not have occurred , if the distribution , the management of associations had heen entrusted to careful hands , instead of being abandoned to hazard and caprice ; if a methodical plan had been adopted , a plan fixed upon beforehand , by a competent meeting .

      The fact is , that associations can only live by a mutual and close connexion . There must be established between them the same bond which exists between the divers members of each of them . Isolated one from another , they would most assuredly fail in their struggle against the owners of privileges . Well united , resting upon one another , and civing each other a mutual help , they will form a compact mass , and will be enabled to resist the crisis of politics and those of industry , until the day when the state will reckon amongst its first duties , that of attending to the welfare of the labouring classes .

      Following , the above is an address to Louis Blanc , from Fauke , Gtrepfo , and Nadaudall three Operatives , and Bepresentatives of the French in the present Assembly ; Faure being a cutler , Greppo a weaver , andNADAUD a stone mason . This address is equally creditable to the addressers and the party addressed . " Persecution , condemnation , exile , " say they , "have only rendered more profound , more ardent , the sympathy and confidence of thepeople

      towards you . We seize with eagerness this opportunity to express the joy with which the operative members of the Assembly hail your publication , The Nero World . * * * To you , dear citizen , belongs that task so gloriously commenced at the Luxembourg . Be assured that in that great work the best wishes a » d hopes of the labouring classes will accompany you ; that they will aid you with their concurrence , and support you with that immense force which the earnest assent of

      several millions of men confers . Articles on " Hungary , " " Jewish Disabilities , " and "APolitical Review of the Month , " complete the contents of this number of the New World . _

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      • These two terms refer to the peculiar and exclusite organisation o ? trades in the middle ages . Jurandowas an office in the corporations from which much abuse and injustice was derived ; Maitrises , or mastership , was the qualification of an operative to the full amount of the ¦ wages generally earned in his trade . As that qualification was conferred by the corporation alone , there resulted out of these feudal principles , the most ahominahle , vexatious , and atrocious acts ot injustice and tyranny . —E » .

      I7ie Illustrated Atlas, And Modem Histor...

      I 7 ie Illustrated Atlas , and Modem History of the World . Edited by E . Montgomery Maiitis , Esq . Parts X . and XI . The History of Ireland . By T . Weight , Esq . Fait XV . London : J . and F . Tallis , 100 , St . John-street . Mats of " Ireland , " "Egypt , and Arabia Petrcea , " " Switzerland , " and "Greece , " are contained in parts X . and XI . of the Illustrated Atlas . The part before us of the History of Ireland is more than ordinarily interesting . The civil wars and massacres in the time of Charles I . are powerfully narrated , without passion or prejudice on the part of the historian . The " Murder of Shane O'Neill ' . 'is the subject of the engraved illus-

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      traiton- a beautiful work of art . Both these publications continue to deserve our warmest good wishes . >» . -,

      The Lancashire Beacon. We Have Received ...

      The Lancashire Beacon . We have received kos . III ., V ., and VI . of a newpenny weekly periodical , published at Manchester . The articles are cleverly written . From No . V . we take the following very sensible observations on

      MOniL FOSCE STMr-ATDT AND THE FAIL OF nCNOABY . We appeal to the fact as conclusive against nonresistants , whose cowardly peact-at-all-price policy contributed to this result . We fearlessly assert , that if England had protested against the impudent invasion of Hungary by Russia , and accompanied the protest with a distinct intimation that , if not attended to , it would be backed by an army , the cause of Hungary , instead of being trampled in the dust by barbarian Cossacks , would long ere this have triumphed , and tha * , too , without the least necessity for actual intervention . A warlike attitude

      was the one thing needful to cow that infernal autocrat who calls himself Emperor of all the Ru ! sias . Who , save an idiot , or politicians of the Mrs . Gamp and Betsy Prig school , could expect the " miscreant of the north" to retrace his steps , or turn aside from the brutal path on which he had entered , because thegallant people whom he had aimed at reducing to ignoble bondage were assisted by moral force speeches from parson or other politicians at public meetings ? No man knows better than Nicholas that _ Sympathy without relief Is like to mustard without beef .

      Would to God all Englishmen understood it as well , for if they did the game of make-believe in matters of foreign policy would be up , and the despots of Austria and Russia made to feel that we are not merely a nation of jabberers who amuse ourselves by sending ship loads of sympathy to tbe relief of nations struggling against oppression but worthy descendants of those gallant Saxons who knew how to fight as well as talk for the liberties of nations . England ought to blush for her foreign policy which has always been warlike when a Bourbon or

      some other despotism was to be upheld , but the very image of peacefulness when liberty ^ called for assistance . Were we despots , and anxious to perpetuate the dominion of tyranny ( which so circumstanced it is possible we might be ) , our greatest favourites would be talkative patriots , who , detesting tyranny much but loving peace more , are ever ready to pity but never prepared to help those who dare resist it ; and we should be all the more obliged to them if , like the devil , they quoted Scripture for their purpose , as then they would dignify crime by giving it the sanction of a holy faith .

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      SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BT THOMAS MABTIiV WHEELER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XXVI Men of England , wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low—Wherefore weave with toil and care , The rich robes your tyrants wear ? Wherefore feed , and cloth , and save , From the cradle to the grave , Those ungrateful drones , who would Drain your sweat—nay , drink your blood ? Wherefore , bees of England , forge Many a weapon , chain , and scourge , That those stingless drones may spoil The forced produce ofyour toil ' .

      Sow s e eds , but let no tyrants reap—Find wealth , let no impostor heap-Weave robes , let not the idle wear-Forge arms , in your defence to bear . Shelley . 'Tis morn , the sun is trying in vain to shine through the clouds of mist that envelope the goodly town of Manchester ; its myriads of tall chimneys , each in itself a work of art , are disgorging their sulphurous vapour which , joining with the mist and becoming condensed , return again in showers , which would make you imagine that it never ceased raining iu this metropolis of our cotton dominions . ' The streets are crowded with men , women , and children , hurrying to their respective factories ,

      keeping tune to the chiming of tho bell , fearful lest it should cease ere they reach their destination , aud a deduction be made from their already too scanty earnings . But many groups have collected together who seem not to heed the incessant ringing , or to participate in the general haste ; rumours have reached them that the men of Hyde , Ashton , Stalybridge , and the surrounding towns , are about to enter Manchester and cause the factories to cease working until some definite object is achieved ; some say , a rise in wages—some , a ' Repeal of the Corn Laws—whilst others maintain that the strike is to be continued until the Charter become the Law of tbe Land . The league masters had commenced theiv campaign ; some move daring thaw the vest

      had actually closed their mills for a month ; but the majority had given notices ot heavy reductions in the rate of wages , thus throwing the responsibility of the strike upon the workmen—this trap had well succeeded , in all the towns surrounding Manchester the strike had become universal ; in the words of the Executive Address , " Within fifty miles of Manchester every engine was at rest , and all was still save the millers useful wheels , and the friendly sickle in the fields . " The League agents were busy in propounding their scheme—that toil should cease until the Corn Laws were abolished and wages increased . Shopkeepers , manufacturers , all coincided in this preconcerted plan . Funds wore largely subscribed—provisions distributed

      among the turn-outs—places of worship were opened for their meetings , and all seemed to bid fair to realise the League predictions . The magistrates , though fully aware of these proceedings , in accordance with the declarations of many of their body , refused to interfere , and secretly abetted the conspiracy . From the 2 Cth of July to the Sth of August , continued meetings were held , and language of the most exciting description indulged in . On that day a League manufacturer proposed that they should march on Manchester , which , under the influence of Chartist councils , had hitherto remained quiescent , but not apathetic—for a meeting of Trades' delegates had been convened to deliberate on this momentous question , and a conference

      of Chartist delegates , in accordance with a long prior arrangement , was to assemble on the 16 th of the month . On the noon of the day first mentioned , the Oth of August , the excitement , feebly demonstrated in the morning , has become intense ; some thousands of artisans , marching in procession , have already arrived at Holt Town , and caused the factories to stop . Here they were met by two of the magistrates , who , placing themselves at their head , ana dismissing Colonel Wemyss and tho military , seemed to give a semi-official character to their proceedings . Under this guidance they wevo conducted into the town . Everywhere on their passage work was abandoned , either voluntarily , or by the forcible interposition of the multitude . For

      three days and three nights was Manchester entirely under the control of this unarmed mass of people ; nearly every town in the district was similarly situated , yet not one act of robbery or personal violence was perpetrated . Oh , what an answer is this to those who say that Chartism means robbery and spoliation . Tens of thousands of men were collected together—their passions inflamed—their power unbounded — the law seemed to have abandoned its supremacy , yet property was as much respected—human life was esteemed as sacred as if naught had happened to disturb the tranquillity of the town . Meanwhile the object of the strike was still undefined . Some were in favour of a rise in the wasres , others a Repeal of the Corn Laws , but

      the predominant feeling was in favour of the Charter ; so long as op inions fluctuated—so long as there was a chance of the League object being achievedso long did the authorities seem to forget that this state of things w as not strictly compatible with their functions as justices and magistrates . But on the 12 th this indecision was brought to a termination ; for at a meeting of the delegates of the trades at Manchester and its vicinity—also of delegates from the chief towns of Yorkshire and Lancashireit was almost unanimously decided that tho strike should be prolonged until the Charter was obtained , and that delegates should bo sent throughout the country announcing this determination to their fellow-men . This was a final blow to the League

      project , and it aroused them from their supinencss ; the monster they had created threatened to destroy their existence ; they no longer directly or indirectly sanctioned the strike , but issued proclamation after proclamation , menacing all who took part therein . Meetings of delegates were forcibly dispersed—special constables were sworn in by thousands—military began to swarm in the streets , where hitherto a redcoat had been unseen . But a spirit was around that could not easily be quietedmeetings of trades delegates were still covertly held , and still did their placards announce their determination to nersevere in the struggle for political

      power . All eyes were now turned to the assembling of the Chartist Convention ; this body met on the 18 th ; here was a new element broug ht into action , or rather a gathering info one focus , of all the scattered elements previously existing , Had this body met a few days earlier , while the authorities were silently gazing around , tho energy and enthusiasm they brought into the contest might have rendered it successful ; but the crisis was past , throughout the whole district the magistrates were prepared for any emergency—tho troops of the whole empire were fast concentrating upon the north—tbe blood of the people had already reddened the streets of Preston and Blackburn—the

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      volcano ^ had exploded in Stafibft ishire-and the people , frightened at their own violence , had once more hugged their chains to their ' weary hearts . SS ^| , manfull y . notwithstanding ' these drawbnok 5 ' . » lh , ^ legates proceed to theii' * ork ; surrounded by hostile forces , they still proclaimed a continuation of the strike , their . very wora > were words calculated to inspire a revolution . Listen to their glowing eloquence : "Brother Chartists , the Crf ^ i ^^ ^ ch have been agitated during th * last half century , have at length aroused the degraded and insulted white slaves of England to a W- of their dut y > to themselves , their children , and their country . Tens of thousands hate flung down their instruments of labour , your task-masters -

      tremble at your cnergv , and anxious masses eagony watch this , the great crisis of our cause . Labour must no longer be the common prey of masters and rulers ; and unless knowledge has beamed upon the mind of the bondsman , and he is convinced innL * ? llth , and Pn > duce , ~ every thing va-SmW ** ? ' i iaele ^ t ,-have sprang from the palm of his hands ; he feels that his cottage is empty -iiis back thinly dad-his children breadless-him-S . i « j 7 w ~ hi ? n , indhan » w < l . «> d his bodypun £ v'i . ^ ndue riches - luxury , and gorgeous £ & ft 15 ° ^ the P alace 3 » f « " > * " *• " * ' ' \ nd flood « d into the granaries of the opftff w ™ rf ' Go d ' and reasV ^ ve condemned SJH ai'ty' - a ? d > the thunder of a people ' s voice it must perish for ever . Therefore it is that

      tw « 2 W SW 01 ' ~ and one and all declared ™ JlnJl ° en ° PP ° , rtu >» ty now within our ff PrFn S °° A Pa ! saYayfr , uifc 1 ^ ; that the chance fi n d ST ^ t J ° us ** a wise a ^ Seeing 2 v & S n 0 t be lost ' * but thafc we do now universaly resolve never to resume labour until labour ' s fST ° j ' ° ycd > ™* protection secured to ourselves , our suffering wives , and helpless children , & In " 4 nactment ° f the People ' s Charter . " Again ttw » ° nh ? « 3 ion :- " Countrymen and fllftn ^^ e : r tUrie 3 may . ro 11 on ' as they have fleeted past , before such universal action may again be displayed ; we have made the cast for liberty and we must stand , like men , the hazard of the die . Let none despond . Let all be cool and

      watchfullet your continued action bo likea beacon to guide those who aro now ha stening far and wide to follow your memorable example . Brethren , we rely on your firmness ; cowardice , treachery , or womanly fear , would cast our cause back half a century . Let no man , woman , or child , break down the solemn pledge ; and if they do , may the curse of the poor and starving pursue them , —they deserve slavery who would madly court it . Our machinery is all arranged , and your cause will in three days bo impelled onward by all the intellect we can summon to its aid . Strengthen our hands at this crisis . Support your leaders . Rally round our sacred cause , and leave the decision to the God of Justice and of Battle . " Such was tho address put forth by the Executive on behalf of the Conference . Would that their machinery had been all arranged .

      but the hour had gone by . Division had already crept into their Councils . Mr . O'Connor , Harney , Hill , and other influential leaders of the body , seeing the hopelessness of the contest , —fearing the ruin that would ensue , —were for abandoning the strike ; the men of Wales who had abandoned their hammer and forge , seeing that the Northern Star was opposed to the movement , again resumed their employment ; London and the West of England , where Chartism was still rife , were left destitute of any correct information how to proceed . One by one the delegates were arrested , or forced to fly ; wholesale imprisonments became the fate of the poor and the unknown ; treachery aided this fearful consummation ; the chance of centuries fleeted from their grasp , and another link was added to the chain of despotism , —another scourge placed in the hands of the tyrants . ( To ie continued . )

      Royal Polytechnic Institution. The Exhib...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . The exhibition of the Hydro-Electrical Machine has been renewed by Dr . Bachoffncr to illustrate his lectures on Electricity , which has been a great source of gratification to the numerous visitors who daily crowd this most interesting and useful establishment . He stated that the Hydro-Electrical Machine was for the purpose of obtaining a supply of electricity by the agency of water , and observed , that it was one of those extraordinary facts in Natural Philosophy that accident reveals to us , and which startles us with its strange results . The learned Doctor then stated , that previous to the discovery of this machine water was one of the greatest enemies an electrician had to contend with whilst

      making experiments withfrictional electricity ; but by the aid of this machine , water will give him such a supply of electricity as he can obtain in no other way ; for example , tho largest Electrical Machine , of the common kind , in the world , is in the possession of this Institution . It consists of a plate of glass , seven feet in diameter , which , worked by the steam-engine of tho establishment , makes nine ' ty revolutions per minute , giving an ekcti -ical spark , three feet in length ; but the Hydro-Electrical Machine is proved , the Professor said , to be equal in power to eight plates of glass combined , in fact , the electric currant appears to pour out in one continuous stream ; this course enables the operators to carry on their experiments upon a scale of magnificence that previously have heen impossible .

      Marylebone Theatre. On Monday Night Mrs....

      MARYLEBONE THEATRE . On Monday night Mrs . Mowatt made her first appearance for the season as Beatrice , in Much Ado about Nothing . This is one of her very best characters . Her ' innate intelligence and vivacity have free play , while her physical powers are not too severely taxed . The points with which her dialogue is studded she gave without a particle of malice and without the sli g htest appearance of effort . It is a merry nature displaying its own geniality , uncurbed by fear or convention . The sentiment of the character is brought out with grace and feeling , and the whole performance evinces a thorough study of the part , with a sympathy for its peculiarities . Her manners aro completely those of the educated and accomplished lady , whoso native spirit has not been

      crushed by her training . So much hearty mirth with so much grace are rarely combined . Benedict was one of Mr . Davenport ' s favourite characters in the United States , and he has played it here on the occasion of his benefit . He is completely versed in ail the points of the character , and he acts throughout with unwearied force and spirit , The play went as well as possible with the audience . Tho high and the low comedy , the interchange of repartees between Beatrice and Benedict , and the droll blunders of Dogberry and Verges , kept up a continued roar of merriment . At tho end Mrs . Mowatt was vociferously called for by the audience , and was led on by Mr . * Davenport , when she received such a shower of boquets that she was embarrassed to reuuee them to portable dimensions . With her appearance the Marylebonc season may be said fairly to begin , Tho house was crammed to the ceiling .

      The Tesselated Pavements At Cirencester....

      The Tesselated Pavements at Cirencester . — One of the finest and most interesting Roman tesselated pavements ever perhaps found in this country was last week exposed to view in the principal street of this old town , the site of ancient Corinium . The room now discovered forms part of tho same building as that which was found some weeks ago , and which has been taken up and removed , with a view to its ultimate preservation , by laying it down again as tho floci- of the museum , which , we understand , Lord Rathurst has in contemplation . This last discovered room is tho sixth that has been

      found upon this one spot alone , at tho bottom-of Dyer-street , and is equal in point of workmanship , and superior in interest , to any that has yet been found . The room ^ measures from wall to wall about twenty-five feet , four feet on each side being occupied by borders of various patterns and widths . Within these borders is a cable border , composed of green and white tessera ) , about six inches wide , enclosing a square of nearly seventeen feet , which is about the usual size of ordinary rooms . This one , therefore , is larger than common , by the entire width of its border , eight feet , and is wider by four feet than even tho magnificent specimen on Lord Bathurst ' s property . At a distance of ten inches from the outside of the green border is the common

      red butt and white cable , from which the more elaborate designs generally commence . The room contains nine circles , of four feet eight inches diameter each , disposed in three rows each way , and separated from one another by the cable border , last above-mentioned , surrounding each circle with an octagon . The first circle contains the head of Ceres , with ears of com in one hand and a reapinghook in the other . The next contains a very spirited representation of Actaoon and his dogs , executed in a manner which shows the state of art in the time of the Romans to have been of a very high order . In the third circle is a head of Flora , corresponding with that of Ceres ; and the fourth represents the jolly old man Silcnus riding upon his ass . These four circles , together with two small squares formed bv the meeting of the adjacent

      octagons , are all that are as yet wholly exposed to view , a portion of tho others only being visible . Incendiary nn . ES in France . —A letter from Montargis states , that incendiary fires & ve becoming of alarming frequency in tho department of Loiret . On Saturday last two farmhouses at Artenay , with their offices and a vast quantity of agricultural produce , were totally consumed . Assistance was afforded by the troops in the neighbourhood . On the same day a farmhouse was burnt at Oison , and property to tho amount of upwards of 20 , 000 francs totaly consumed . Death mom a Cricket Ball . — Mr . Godfrey Pigott , of Bolton-upon-Dearno , died recently from concussion of the brain , occasioned by tho blow of a ball under the right ear , whilst playing at cricket , °

      . '•" The Royal Etchings. Mrs. Judge's R...

      . '• " THE ROYAL ETCHINGS . MRS . JUDGE ' S REPLY TO Mil . ANSON . 13 , Gloucester-place , Windsor . ' ~ T , September 13 th , 1849 . v JmT'm , ave to be y ° u wiU do me tho favour , in your official capacity , of presenting to her Majesty fe ? hW ? ed « V Jtter J ? Srateful acknowledgments ficemj -1 y aaniher ^^ tdous Consort benemlflJ ?** Pard 0 n m ? ' Sir for adoptmgthe ( I may say cnyoiirpan ill advised ) course of eivine fifif 11 f 6 COT" * po * dence ^ tween ns ! 5 H £ tt ^' f ? ired the commands of See All ? lref i ; "J" ? ^ Shness the tnnce Albert , to take that method of makin " known to the public the generous svmnX ^ tnem

      oy towards an already afflicted woman I repeat , Sir , that the course you have Ztcd was on your part ill-advised ; as it must K prove to every thinking person , that the whole proceedings that have been instituted against my husband , Mr . Judge , arose from vindictive feeWs , and not mevelyliecause he had in his possession Sopressions of Etchings made by her Majostv and the Prince Albert . But why you should suffer those feelings to assail his defenceless wife , I am perfectly at a loss to imagine . I am , I must confess , astonished that a gentleman should so far forget his position as to calumniate a woman ' s character in the columns of a newspaper . It would have been but an act of justice on your part to have made

      public at the same time my letter , or , as you term it , my " petition" to her Majesty , to which your letter is a reply . That you have calumniated my character is apparent , by yom asserting in your letter thafc the allegations brought forward by me , were wholly unfounded ; " in other words , that I had told a falsehood to my Sovereign . You have not had the generosity to point out to me any particular allegation , but from what I gathered in the course of conversation with a gentleman at Messrs . White aud Bvou « hton ' s , I imagine it is , that I stated in my letter , tSat no less than six writs of injunctions had beeb issued , two against my husband , two against my son , and two against my husband ' s publisher , Mr . Strango ; when it appears that it was only a notice to mv son .

      ana tliat no ivnts were actually served upon Mm . That a woman should make a mistake in legal technicalities , and especially those relating to Chancery proceedings , which appear to me to puzzle wiser heads than females are generally allowed to possess , is , I may venture to affirm , no very extraordinary circumstance , and ought to bo suffered to pass without drawing upon her the accusation of telhng falsehoods . You say " neither have Mr . Strange ' s costs been added to Mr . Judge ' s , nor is Mr . Judge ' s debt owing to His Royal Highness Prince Albert . " That Mr . Strange ' s costs were added to those of Mr . Judge you , yourself , admit , by saying , in another part of your letter , that " Mr . Judsre was

      from the ' beginning liable to the ivhole costs . " But since Mr . Strange was absolved from the costs in his caso , T cannot see why the other defendant to the suit should be charged with the whole of them . It may be equity , but I defy any one to call it justice . If you refer to my letter you will find that I never assorted that Mr , Judge ' s debt was owin" to His Royal Highness Prince Albert , but , had I done so , I should only have repeated the legal phraseology of the writ , for there , it distinctly states that Mr . Judge is to be taken or kept in custody for a debt due to His Royal Highness Prince Albert ; I cannot give the exact terms , as I have it not before mo ; it being with Mr . Judge , at Reading . You say Mr . Strange " made his submission . "

      That I positively deny . His counsel did so , without any instructions to that effect from either him , or his son , who was present during the proceedings , and who distinctly stated to the counsel that he was onl y there as a spectator , and would give no instructions , when they urged him to give his consent . " Your husband , " you further observe , " on the contrary , obliged it (' the suit' ) to proceed against him by following tho opposite course . " That , pardon me , Sir , is not the fact . Mr Judge has only , throughout the whole 0 lancery affair , acted as he was compelled . He did not take one stop either to incur or increase costs . lie has delivered up the Etchings and the catalogues in his possession , and ho has only left undone what it was

      not in his power to do , that is , pay the costs , which her Majesty has generously done for him . As my letter is somewhat lengthy , I shall content myself by replying to the remainder of your epistle by merely ashing you , or any one else , to point out a single instance of Mr . Judge having vilified " any of the acts of the private life" of either Her Majesty or His Royal Highness Prince Albert . To your kindly aspiration " may he in future support his family by a more honourable industry , " I beg leave to say , that if he continues to support his family by as honourable an industry as ho has hitherto done , he will neither disgrace himself nor them . I have the honor to remain , Sir , Your most obedient Servant , ( Signed ) Maiw Judge .

      A Female Sailor.—On The 20th Inst. A Per...

      A Female Sailor . —On the 20 th inst . a person wearing the dress of a common sailor , and to all appearance of the male sex , was brought before the magistrates at the police office , by iioad-constable Crowley , under the following extraordinary circumstances : — It appeared tliat the prisoner , who belonged to an American vessel now in the port , went down to the Cove in the Princess Alice steamer , for tho purpose of being paid off , when a suspicion arose in the mind of Mr . Cameron , tho captain of the steamer , as to the sex of his passenger , lie mentioned the matter to head constable Crowloy , in Cove , and when the prisoner , after being paid off , returned to the steamer for bis purpose of coming back to Cork , the head-conslablc charged the prisoner directly with boim ? a female .

      She denied the fact at first , but after a few questions had been put to her she admitted that she was a woman , and said that her name was Abigil Lindsey . Ilead-constable Crowley then deemed it right to have her brought before the magistrates . The account which she gave of herself was extremely singular . She stated that her father was a spar maker , living at St . John ' s , New Brunswick , and that she had been in exceedingly comfortable circumstances . About eight years ago , she stated , she had been seduced by a captain of a vessel named Bradford , who promised to marry her , and by whom she had a child . His vessel sailed soon aitcr , and he left her without giving her any notice whatever of his departure . After a long time had passed

      without hearing any tidings of him , she felt that he had completely deserted her , and she at once adopted the extraordinary resolution of disgnisin " herself as a sailor , and going on board some vessel with the hope of meeting her seducer somewhere , and , as she herself stated , of being revenged . For five years she remained on hoard ship under the name of John Browne , being employed as cook , but frequently having to perform the duties of a common seaman . She stated that she saw tho captain who she was in search of once on a quay in London , and she wanted to be allowed to go ashore , but as her vessel was preparing to sail she was not allowed to do so . She declared that she would have stabbed him if she got the opportunity . Since then she had served on board several vessels without being discovered , By the orders of the magistrate the saltwater Amazon was allotted a separate and tolerably

      comfortable room in the Bridewell , until means can be found of ascertaining the truth of tho story , and having her sent back to her native place . As might be imagined , she is an exceedingly masculine-looking woman . Her age she stated to be twenty-three , but she appears at least four or five years older , her complexion being much tanned from exposure to the sun and weather . She has dark hair , fine looking eyes , a short nose , very well-formed mouth and chin , and is on the whole a striking and good-looking person , but with scarcely any trace of a feminine appearance . Several persons having come to see her at the Bridewell to-day , she became indignant , and declared that if she were made an exhibition-of any longer she would destroy herself ;

      orders were therefore at once given that no person should be allowed to see her , more especially as she was exceedingly unwell all night and this day . It is said that some medical gentlemen who saw her expressed theiv opinion that her eyes had a peculiar wildness in them , which indicated something like a tendency to insanity . A subscription is about to be made for the purpose of procuring a proper style ot clothing for tlve unfortunate sirl , ( who now wears tho coarse blue trousers , blue shirt , and jacket of a common seaman , ) and means to enable her to return to the place of her birth . —Cork Examiner . Imprisonment for Non-payment of Rates . — Frederick Welsh , of Buckingham , described as a farmer , & c , was summoned by Mr . Turner , one of

      the overseers of Buckingham , for the non-payment of two poor and other rates , amounting to £ 2 15 s . lOd . ; and , immediately upon non-payment a distress warrant was issued against his goods and chattels for £ o Is . Sd . It appears , however , that all these had been disposed or , on the 17 th instant , by Mr , Baker , under a bill ot sale ; consequently , we suppose the only return to tho warrant was nulla bona . Tho defendant was committed to the Borough gaol for one month on account of poorrates for the Borough ; fourteen days for a poor-rate for Prebeud-cnd ; and fourteen days for a highwayrate for Pvebeud-eud , —malung a term of two

      months' imprisonment . —Buch Chronicle , New Wax to Dress Vegetables . —With plain boiled pease , when just boiled , I put in a stowpan a little milk , butter , cayenne peppci' , and one ounce of grated Parmesan cheese—stir two minutes and serve . French beans may be dressed tho same way , as also young broad beans and cauliflowers , or any small vegetables . —M . Soyer . It may not be uninteresting to know th & t Garibaldi , tho leader of the insurrectionists of Rome , once kept a public-house on Sixth-street , between Plum and Western-row in thia city . —Cincinnati Commmiah

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      A Bishop's Bon Moi.-Dr. Corbet (The Bish...

      A Bishop ' s Bon Moi .-Dr . Corbet ( the Bishon SM r " 1 his fHend Dv - StubWl « . « remarkable for excessive corpulence , were once accidentally upset , and precipitated into S deepest depth of mud they could hie possibly selected . The servants ran up to help them out ot tho quandary , hut could not help laughm * when hey behold Dr . Stubbins , fat ana foiC . ^ yE lessiy on his back , like a turtle , in a bed of mud and slush , with the worthy bishop piled again OH him ; and this unseasonable risibilit y was increased to tho utmost when Dr . Corbet humourously cried out , " Here ' s Stubbins np to the elbows in mud , and I ' m up to the elbows in Stubbins , ' Mr . S . deciared that his wife had five fulls" she was beautiful , dutiful , youthful , plentiful , and an armful . "

      A Iebt of Desjh . —M . Maniple , a learned Belgian , has lately disaovcred a simple means of discriminating between real and apparent death , ft Sll ' f eatin ? smaU bora J » f there is life , a blister is always formed , even in the absence of apparent sensibility . If ' death has a ready So ? - ri » ° , ^ ° V ° i ^ ' oceOT 9 ' This « SrSly a simple and singular discovery . J At North Shields there- has been recently extracted from a woman ' s shoulder a needle , which fifteen years ago entered one of her fingers A Noble Roman , being asked why ho ' had put away his wife , she being beautiful and rich , ho stretched forth his foot , and showed his buskin " Ia not this , " said he , " a handsome and completa shoo ' . —yet no man but myself knows where it pinches me .

      A Dor , selling newspapers at the railway station at i-iy , was calling out one Saturday evening— " Today s Times , gentlemen , " upon which a passenger , attempting a witticism , cried out , " What ' s the use of to-day ' s Riiics ? I'll give a shilling for tomorrows . '" and the boy immediately handed him the Sunday Times , when the passenger refused to gvve him more than sixpence , but his fellow-travellers made him keep his word , and give tho sharpwitted lad a shilling for a sixpenny paper ! An Englishman observed a stone rolling down a staircase . It bumped on every stair till it came to tbe bottom ; there , of course , it rested . " That stone , said ho " resembles tho national debt of mj country ; it has Jumped on every grade of the community , but its weight rests on the lowest . "

      _ taddy Outdone . —In a remote English county , it is said that that a few years ago a signboard had the following unique inscription : — "In crossing this here ford you must bear to the right when you coma to the middle of the stream . N . B . —Them as can't read had better go round by the bridge , two miles further down . ' The Captain of an English vessel once sailed from Cadiz with a number of passengers aboard ; and amongst the rest-a Frenchman , who evinced the greatest fear lest the ship should be taken by one of the Sallee rovers , and they should all be made slaves to the Moors . "Don ' t bo in the least alarmed , cries the captain ; " for before I'd let ray ship fall into the bands of those d d rascals , I'd blow her into the air . " Voltaire used to say that the heart never grew old , but that it became sad from bein <» cased in a ruin . ° ed « '

      . t ^ remarij thafc the climax human indifference has arrived , when a woman don't care how she looks . " Large masses of the inhabitants of Baden are preparing to emigrate to America . " Why do you not hold up your head , as I do ?" inquired an aristocratic lawyer of a neighbouring farmer . " Squire , " replied the farmer , " look at that field of grain ; ail the valuable heads hang down like mine , while those who have nothing in them stand up like yours . "

      % An , Eliza , " saida Sunday-school teacher , " you should not waste your precious time curling your hair , if heaven intended it to bo curled it would have curled it for you . " " Indeed , " said the maiden "I must differ with you . When I was an infant heaven curled it for mc , but now I am grown up , it thinks I am able to do it myself . " " Are you an Odd Fellow ? " "No , sir ; I ' ve been married for a week . "— " I mean do vou belong to the order of Odd Fellows ? " " No , no ; 1 belong to the order of Married Men . "— " Mercy , how dumb ! Are you a Mason ? " "No ; I ' m a carpenter by trade . "— " Worse and worse ! Are you a Son of Temperance ! " " Bother vou , no : I am a son of Mr . John Gosling . "—The querist went away .

      Ihe Church and Education . — The state of tho grammar schools all over tho country , exposed by the report of a commission , forms one of the blackest records in the whole history of abuse ; nnd these schools were the exclusive possession of the church . A Rhyming Rascal . —In a city well known to everybody ( if they can find out the name ) , a poetical genius was hauled up before a magistrate for kissing a girl , and kicking up a dust , and the following dialogue ensued : — Magistrate . —Is your name John Jay ? Prisoner . —Yes , your honour , so the " people say . Magistrate . —Was it you that kissed the girl , ' and raised the alarm ? Prisoner . —Yes , your honour , but I thought it was no harm . Magistrate . — ¦ You rascal ! did you come here to make rhymes ? Prisoner . —No , your honour , but it will happen sometimes .

      Magistrate . —Be off , you scamp . ' get out of my sight . Prisoner . —Thank ' e , your honour ; then I'll bid you good night . Mr . Musters died on Saturday week at his seat , Avmesloy Park , in the county of ' Nottingham , aged seventy-two . He was the fortunate rival of Lord Byron , nnd married Miss Chaworth ( the noble poet ' s " Mary , " ) in 1 S 0 G , when his lordship was a minor . Ho is succeeded in his large possessions by

      his grandson John , a boy thirteen years of age . The Manchester Guardian , of Wednesday , mentions a report that the experiments of the East India Company in growing cotton aro about to be abandoned , although the prospects arc most encouraging , and earnestly recommends the subject to the attention of capitalists . Austria expends upon its army tho third of its revenue-. Prussia the half ; Russia the fourth . France expends every year £ 16 , 000 , 000 sterling upon its war establishment .

      A Private letter from Italy states , that proceedings were about to be instituted , at Florence , against the printer who had printed an edition of tho Italian Bible for Captain Pakenham . A Cambridge tutor , asking an Irish " freshman " if ho was his father ' s eldest son , young Pat replied , "Atpresent lam . " The Western Times tells us that to Woodbury chuvch-door " John Stamp , constable , " affixed a notice of " a licensing meeting for tho Purpiis of grantcn Licones to Pursoues keepeu or about to keep inns for tho Puvpos of Silen Exces Lickors . "

      Co-operation . —Co-operation is a large , a comprehensive term . In it may be traced the germs of civilisation . In it may bo traced power , peace , and plenty . By it companies of individuals have become rich , and by it kings and autocrats have been able to keep half the world in subjection . It is tho great lever , by the proper use of which , the working classes of this and every other country might raise themselves from their present state of serfdom and slavery , to that state which nature ' s God ordained . —Independence .

      Prince Casino Buonaparte , who has been attending tho meetings of the British Association , declined to accept the invitation to a soiree proposed to be held to his honour at Birmingham , on Monday last , to express " admiration of the trucly-hcroic Roman people . " Population op Londos . —The number of deaths registered in London last week ( says a correspondent ) was 8 , 183 ; that is equal to 451 every day , nineteen every hour , and one person every three minutes . This may appear very alarming to some readers , but thev must bear in mind that the vast

      extent and population of our metropolis , London and its surrounding districts , contains nearly 3 , 000 , 000 persons . If this immense number of persons were placed in a lino , at a distance , of fourteen yards apart , they would reach to tlv * extent of 25 , 000 miles , or more than tho circumference of tho globe ; so that if persons died at the above rate , viz ., one every three minutes , and allowing 1 , 000 births every week , it would then bo twenty-six years before all tho people in Loadon were extinct . — Globe .

      The London Water . —The hardness of water is owing to the presence of earthy and alkaline salts A grc-at portion of the water used in London labours undor this grave defect . Th © consequences are , great waste and enhanced cost in washing arid culinary processes , and a long- catalogue of bodily sufferings entailed on tho drinkers of tho impure beverage . To illustrate by contrast tho pernicious effects of repeated calccroas drenches , wc need only point to the restorative qualities of the Malvern waters . Long before I ' ncssnitz asd hydropathy were heard of , thoso celebrated springs were resorted to for their curative powers , especially in diseases of the digestive organs , iho kidneys , & c

      such as the hard water of London tends to produce . Now the Malvcru waters are not of tho mineral class ; they euro , not by means of any medicinal ingredients contained in thom , but simply by virtue of their own exceeding purity . Their specific gravity is only 1 . 002 , showing tnem to bo all but devoid of foreign admixture . There lies beneath London , quite accessible , and ready to overflow for our use , an inexhaustible lake of water as pure as that of Malvern ; but wo are forbidden to touch it . Tho sick Londoner , craving for Nature ' s pure cordial draught , must gulph down his limcdvugged potion , in reverence for tho monopoly of tho Water Com * pantos , —Spectator ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 29, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_29091849/page/3/