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      The Bairns 0' The Mill. Air— Calm Deuy I...

      THE BAIRNS 0 ' THE MILL . Air— Calm _Deuy ifondu ' . Have yon . heard on acauld wintry mornin " , When snaw * mantled muirlaud and hill , The horn or the bell loudly warnin ' The barefooted bairns to the mill 1 Sae dinsome it rings through ilk dwellin ' That sleep flees thepuir bairnies' e ' en "While , waefu _' , the mother is callin ' To rise , her wee Johnie and Jean . -Wi' pun * tremblin * forms and wan faces , They ' re roused frae midst tatters and straw A sicht which old Scotia disgraces—A sicht which our sires never saw . Tbe wee raggit things then maun wander Awa through the cauld Crispin' snaw , To toil midst the mill ' s boomin' thunder , While dull dreary time flits awa ' .

      Sweet spring sime shall garland tiie _wlWaw , And blossom the rose in the glen , While winter afar o ' er the billow Maun flee to his dark norlan glen . The gay rosy morn then shall gladden Ilk wee thing that wanders at will , But , ah ! how the breists it will sadden Of bairnies confined to the mill . O when shall the laws of our country Bring joy to the bairnies of toil , Or when shall the kist and the pantry In plenty ' s embrace greet their smile ? The Power wha can calm the wild ocean His word this great end can fulfil , To bin then in fervent devotion 0 pray for the bairns ofthe mill ! Follokshaws . Thomas _Waisoj

      TO MY COUNTRY , Mr—Grama c ' rec . The long , long wished for hour has come , But come , _mastore _, in vain , And left tbe unavailing hum Of sorrow and of nam . My light of life , my lonely love , Thy portion sure must be The scorn of man , wrath from above , A cusbla gal ma ' cree . 'Twas told of thee , the world around , 'Twas hoped by thee from all , That with one gallant sunward bound , _Thou'dst burstlong ages' thrall ; Thy faith was tried , alas ! and those

      "Who perilled all for thee—Jfere cursed and branded as thy foes , A . cusbla gal ma c ' ree . What iateis thine , unhappy Isle ! That even the trusted few Should pay thee back with -fraud and guile * Where most tbey should be true ; "Twas not thy strength or spirit failed , 2 for those whose souls were free , Bu moral force thou wert deceived , " Acushla gal ma c ' ree . I ' ve given thee my youth and prime , And manhood ' s waning years , I ' ve blest thee in thy sunniest time , And shed with thee my tears ; And mother , though thou ' st cast away Tho child who'd die for thee , My fondest heart-pulse thrills for ay ,

      A cusbla gal ma c ree . I ' ve tracked for thee the mountain sides , And slept within the brake , More lonely than the swan that glides O ' er Lua ' s fairy lake ; The rich have spurned me from their door , Because I'd set thee free , Yet do I love thee more and more , A cusbla gal ma c ' ree . I've run the outlaw ' s dark career , And borne his load of ill , His troubled rest , his waking fear , With fixed _smstaining will ; And should his last dread chance befal , E'en that will welcome be , la death I'll love thee more than all , A cusbla gal ma c ' ree , Cork Examiner . Michael Dobext .

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      The Commonwealth. No. Il March. London: ...

      THE _COMMONWEALTH . No . IL March . London : 16 , Great Windmillstreet , Haymarket , Our readers may remember that we extracted from the first number of this Magazine , a paper on the writings ofLoms Blanc . The half-critical , half-biographical review-of that eminent man , is continued in the number ofthe _Commonwealth for March , and that continuation we hare transferred to another part of this page of tiie Star . Our " -wholesale appropriation" of the article in question , sufficiently speaks onr sense ofits merits . We may add that tire are equall y well pleased -with the general contents of this number ofthe Commontcealth—Tcall j a talented and worth y champion of the cause of Democratic and Social

      Reform . "The Crime of the Government against the People" is the title of a powerfafiy-written article on the neglect of themental , moral , and social culture of the masses , by their aristocratical '" pastors and masters . " Fourteen years ago , Lord John Rcsseix—then Secretary of State inthe _Melbourne Administration , observed in the course of one of his parliamentary orations , that : — "A State is culpable in its punishment for offences , while it fails to use its most strenuous efforts for tlieir prevention . " On this text the editor ofthe Commonwealth founds his "discourse ; " a " discourse , " w _* e -will assert , containing more - wholesome truth and sound doctrine than our

      readers are likel y to hear preached from any pulpit in any church or chapel between John _O'Groaf s and the Land ' s End—excepting , perhaps , some half-dozen , whose preachers are anything but orthodox . How Orthodoxypolitical and reli g ious—governs the people , is well set forth in the following comments on "Ragged Schools " : — According to Lord Ashley ' s showing , not less than 30 , WX » bovs and girls are growing up in this metropolis , without home , occupation , or instruction , in the ordinary acceptation of these terms . Thev are a class of outlaws who constitute the

      pabulum of our criminal army ; materiel from which its numbers and strength are continually recruited . In every large town , at * least the same proportion of outcasts may be found , predoomed , as it were , to grow up into criminals , if not cut off by disease before arriving at an age which fits them to join in depredations upon society- Tbe establishment of a niea _** rely supported word-mongering school , for a few scores or hundreds of these unhappy victims of a bad organisation of society , or the annual fittimr out of half a hundred ofthe best conducted of such scholars for our colonies , seems to ns a mdeous mockervof tbe admitted gigantic proportions of this

      social evil . We must find room for the following graphic picture of the working ofthe judicial portion of OUH GLORIOUS _DSTirCTIOSS . The ignorant law-breaker is offered up tothe laws ¦ rindictiveness with a " pomp and * circumstance analogous to that which distinguished thesacrihce of human victims in some of the sanguinary religions of antiquitv . The judge is _marsluiUea into the assize town with the Bound of trumpets and the ringing of hells ; his horses are richly caparisoned ; he is surrounded by the noble and wealthy , tlie learned and tbe wise . He makes a ceremonial visit to the statelv cathedral or antique parish church ,

      as a solemn " preparation for the discharge of his task ; and having thus given a sacred character to it , he _ascentbi the judgment-seat and dooms his fellow-creatures to stripes , chains , dungeons and death . That being done , he dines with the sherifis , the corporations , the lawyers and magistrates , and toasts , with three times three , " Our glorious constitution in Church and State . " Alas 1 did we rightly comprehend onr duties and interests as human beings and children of one common parent , such proceedings wouldnotbe tolerated . The entrance of a judge into a town would be a season for general mourning ; streets would be hung _-withhlack . ; bellswouldbe muffled , and _theday-would be ono of solemn grief that such a visitation had como upon it Cholera and pestilence are dreaded , Mdther . rrtF-i-. w-f of their _auproach rouses mto

      activity the instinct of self-preservation . "Why should it be otherwise with this moral pestUence * _3 hich _w _- _# s abroad more dcadlv to all the highest and noblest interests of societvthan any disease , however virulent The withering miasma of ignorance _«* tcn-i 3 its influence through every ramification of the social machine , and engenders lawlessness , roguery , chicanery , injustice in all directions . Assizes , quart er-sessions , and other courts , judges , assistant-jud ges , and the host of _lisensed lawyers , are unable to <* opc-with or subdue it . Powerful but impotent law jud ges of the act—but in the majority of instances there it stops . Of motives it does not take cognizance ; and where it does , fails to act effi ciently upon the knowledge . It can punish , and jn the exercise of this awful power it punishes daily , "Ut ho-s- futile are its punishments I The coercion _tf the bod y does not convince or a ter the mind ; it

      The Commonwealth. No. Il March. London: ...

      only hardens still more the hardened offender ; and the inutility , the cost , the grievous failure of our past efforts ought to convince ub that penal statutes , public executions , and all the paraphernalia of force _, are a huge mistake , and lead us to substitute intellectual , moral , and industrial training in their place . The elaborate and excellent article on "Home Colonies in the Netherlands , " would alone justif y us in earnestly recommending this numher ofthe Commonwealth to the friends of social reform . At the moment that the attention ofthe London Trades is being directed to the _^ important subject of Home Colonisation , this article , showing the working of that system in Holland , is , indeed , well timed . Democratic and Social Reformers will serve their own cause b y doing their best to promote the circulation of the Commonwealth .

      Tne National Debt , And Publie Funds, Si...

      Tne National Debt , and Publie Funds , simplified for general comprehension , & c , & c . B y Justin Brexak . London : E . Wilson , Royal Exchange . We have much p leasure in recommending this cheap and useful little book to that very numerous portion of the public unacquainted with the nature and distribution of the Debt called "National ; " and the management and working ofthe Government Funds . An attentive perusal of this work is all that is necessary to render every one enli g htened on the important matters it treats of . All those who desire to penetrate that " mystery of iniquity "the funding system , will do well to study Mr . Brenan ' s book , as a necessary introduction to works of loftier pretensions .

      The National Reform Almanack, For 1849. ...

      The National Reform Almanack , for 1849 . Hew York , V . S .: published at the office of " Young America , 56 , Chatham-street . "A Free Soil for a Free People , " is the admirable motto emblazoned on the title-page of this Almanack . We may observe , that without a Free Soil , a Free People is not possible . Polititical Institutions may confer the means of establishing a state of Freedom , but the actual amount of freedom enjoyed by a people will depend upon their Social Institutions . The National Reformers of America

      deserve the good wishes of all true Democrats , for their efforts towards making the Declaration of Independence a verity . May they succeed ! We hope to make use , on a future occasion , ofsome of the _valuable matter contained in this Almanack . We are glad to learn that there are now , in the entire Union , not less than two hundred and fifty Newspapers devoted , or favourable to the National Reform Movement . This progress , in five years , is most encouraging , and gives promise of a final , and not very distant , national triumph .

      Pamphlets. 1. An Appeal To The Chartists...

      PAMPHLETS . 1 . An Appeal to the Chartists Proper , & C .- —2 . Draft of a National Franchise Bill . —3 . State Education Vindicated , & c . —L Free T / ade , "notproven , " & c . B y R . _Oastieb , Esq . 1 . The author , who entitles himself " The Pimlico Hermit / ' has written sixteen pages of exquisite twaddle , devoted to ahuse of "Red Republicans , " "Communists , " & c . ; laudations of the aristocracy , and denunciation of Cobden and his movement . Our verdict on this pamphlet will he best expressed b y the Americanism—bosh!—2 . A pamphlet published by the " National Franchise Union of Great Britain and Ireland , originated in

      Liverpool , on the 22 nd of January , 1849 . " The outline of a Bill to establish Universal Sunrage is g iven . The other points of the Charter , with the exception ofthe Ballot , are omitted"because on some of those points many persons do not and never would agree , who are yet desirous of extending the Franchise to the whole people . "—3 . In a well-written pamphlet Mr . T . _Esteuy vindicates ; State Education irom the objections of the votaries of Voluntaryism . —4 . An exposition of Mr . _OxsTiEB ' _sviews on "Free Trade , " in a series of letters to the People of England ; with an introductory address to R . Cobden , M . P . Well worthy attentive perusal and general circulation .

      Received :—Unreformed Abuses In Church A...

      Received : —Unreformed Abuses in Church and State , & c . & c . B y John Wade .

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      Sadler's Wells Theatre. Beaumont And Fle...

      SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE . Beaumont and Fletcher ' s play of the Honest Alans Fortune , remodelled by Mr . R . H . Home , was revived here on Wednesday night . The story is very artificial , and one feels little or no sympathy with any ofthe characters , notwithstanding thatthe leading feature of the play is the downfall of a man whose honesty makes him an object of compassion . This part- was played by Mr . Phelps ; but it afforded him very little opportunity for display , and it was _not-antUthe last act that the ordinary pluy-goer could conceive why so good an actor had chosen so poor a vehicle for the exercise of his abilities . Montague , is a nobleman of unblemished honour , who is ruined by a law-suit wliich has been

      instituted between him and the Duke of Orleans , a rival suitor to a high-bom lady , to whom he had formerly been devotedly attached . By this reverse of fortune he becomes reduced to a dependant position ; and in the midst of his difficulties he falls a prey to the fraudulent propensities of men who before had treated him with the respect due to his rank . He is succoured in his distresses by Lamira , who in secret loves him , and for whom he cherishes a passion which he has never confessed . Beyond the interest which arises from this point of the play , there ia little or nothing to enlist the attention of the audience , and it is only when they find that Montague exposes ib very strong language the Villany of the fellows by whom he nas heen duped

      that any excitement is produced . In this scene Mr . Phelps acted with much earnestness and vigour , and added another proof to those he has already given , of his determination to take nature for his model . The three characters , Ia Poop ( a pretended seacaptain ) , Lavendine ( a fop ) , and Malicorn ( a sharking merchant ) , were played by Messrs . G . Bennett , Scharf , and A . Younge . The first-named was a variety of the Bobadil genus , a specimen of humanity somewhat common in the days of the author . The bombastic cowardice of the pseudo sea-captain was humorously rendered by Mr . Bennett , the extravagant language in which the character iudulges being pecufiarly adapted to his emphatic mode of intonation . His worthy companions were also well p layed , and the antics of the disreputable trio afforded great relief to the duller portions of

      the play . Miss Cooper performed Lamira with much taste and discretion , and the other characters were embodied in such a manner that the general effect was hi g hly creditable to those under whose direction the piece was produced . In speaking the lines which are affixed by way of epilogue , Mr . Phelps suddenly forgot his words , and apologised to the public , attributing the misfortune to the nervousness incident on the production of the plav . He was answered by long and repeated cheers from every part of the house . It was pleashur to witness this good feeling on the part of an _audience towards a manager who has laboured so hard to elevate the character of his _estabhahment , and who at that moment was giving evidence of his < -m-. tiniipd enertrv by the very complete manner in _wMcKe £ 3 J _& , ForuLwas put onhis stage .

      Roial PoLTTECHSic _IssiinJiiOS . -A new and hi-mlv interesting subject has been commenced _SJ _tSStwe _? k , by Dr . Ryan , •* _toghjghmmt entitled " The Chemistry of the Breakfast ffi '" more particularly for the !» _% «» _£ _* ducing the newly- _^» ted process forJKJJJ milk for long voyages , _patented , bj ' Mr _^ Moore , holdinj- a -medical appointment ia h _£ o _*^ _£ _* _household . _Bymea _Ds _^ ftMs procGSs _fe m _& _wM kept perfectly clear and unadulterated _^ The milk was _preserved in a solid state , and this •« _£ done by _c _^ --. - _** ; - _* _„ -, <_ _nfita _/ -. _A-m-nnneni-. Darts—wa ter . J . _JU-J

      , _, lecturer observed that _hews not *« _* P _^™| _f what was termed London milk , but pure and proper milk , which he said was composed of two things , _sona mass and water . This water being separate *? , tne solid mass was placed in cases made au _' -tignt , anu fit for sea-travelling . It mig ht be kept for any length of time . Several specimens exhibited on the lecture table , had been to the East Mies and back , and had kepfperfectly good and sweet . ± ne learned professor was followed by Mr . Shaw , who fave explanatory lectures on magic , illustrated by uniorous and pleasing feats of slight of hand .

      Givetrs Fboji Ocb Friends.—Mo6t Of Our M...

      _giVEtrs fboji _ocb Friends . —Mo 6 t of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them . . .

      Louis Blanc: •The Nisiort Op Xzti Tears....

      LOUIS BLANC : THE _niSIORT OP _XZTi TEARS . ( From the _Commonu-calth for March . ) In our last number we remarked on the extraordinary influence of the " History of Ten Years , " not only in the production of the late revolution , but in giving to that revolution its peculiar and distinctive characteristics . From the first page to the last the author ' s mind seems to be brooding over the sad condition of the working classes , the unregarded struggles ofthe poor ; and whether he is engaged in ' recording the changes of dynasties or the revolutions of empires , still wc find him looking below the surface , and saying to the humble man , "How is it with you , my poor brother ? where did this change find you—where has it left you ? "

      . . True , the revolution has so far disappointed the hopes of many ; the bourgeoisie have again regained their power in part , Louis Blanc is in exile , and the poor nave gone back to theie huvdeus « , society ia , as they say , reconstituted—order restored . Li reconstituting society , however , and in restoriug order , let us hope that they are not sowing the seeds of another revolution , more terrible in its nature and more complete in ita results than any which has yet taken place . We are no advocates of violence , and we believe we may safely say that no men more sincerely deprecate violence that those who are called social

      and democratic republicans ; but they have the wisdom to see , and the boldness to declare , that there is a worse state of things than that which arises from revolution ; namely , the pestilent unwholesomeness of stagnant and allowed corruption — such corruption as was allowed in France during the last years ofthe reign of Louis-Philippe . The strife of a revolution may enlarge both the intellect and heart of a nation , whilst the peddling meanness protected by power must , as a matter of necessity , kill its very soul by obliterating all manly instincts , and subduing all generous and noble sentiments .

      This is abundantly testified by the struggles of the republican party in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe , and Louib Blanc has placed it beyond all dispute in the work now under consideration . In this work he has passed under review not only the actions of the various parties , but he has also indicated the various passions by which they were actuated ; he makes no apology for the mistakes or even for the vices of these who call themselves republicans , but at the same time h _» shows no mercy to the delinquencies of kings , or the meanness and fraud of the so-called respectable classes — _. the man and his motives are alone regarded . We shall make no attempt to give an abstract of this work that , within our present limits , would be impossible . We shall content ourselves bv

      giving a few extracts , whereby the principles and spirit ofthe Republicans may be known as far as their principles had developed themselves up to that period where the work breaks off . In the introduction to this remarkable book , he proves that Napoleon was sacrificed by the bourgeoisie for the promotion of their own interests . and that after the Restoration the privileges ofthe Bourbons and their old nobles were continually combated by the same power , until , in 1830 , the king himself , after a desperate effort to maintain his prerogatives , was prostrated hy this same party , aided and assisted by the Republicans and the people . Indeed , in the July revolution , as in the revolution of February , tbis class of trading politicians were carried by the people much further

      than they of themselves intended to go . Li Jul y , 1830 , the Republicans and people meant a Republic , and when the conflict was over , they sought for ono ; but there was a juggle not then played out , namely , a Republican Monarch y , and this farce at the time got countenance from some of the most sincere friends of the people . There was , however , a large number who were not taken in by this , who saw through the whole thing from the beginning , and who from the moment of its establishment warred against it fiercely and incessantly . This party was composed of the choicest spirits of the time ; and although many suffered and some fell in the . struggle , it wasnot without leaving to the world an inheritance worth having , It Is curious to remark how purely political were

      the objects of this party at the commencement of the fight ; but as the battle proceeded , we observe a g radual enlargement of their aims—a desire to take into consideration not only the political ri g hts , but also the social claims of the people . To illustrate this , we shall quote a speech of Godfroi Cavaignac , when accused , during the first year of Louis Philippe ' s reign , of an attempt to establish a Republic : — " * My father , ' he began , - was one of those whe , in the Convention , proclaimed the Republic in the face of then victorious Europe . He defended it in the armies . For tbis it was that he died in exile , after a proscription of twelve years ; and whilst ithe Restoration itself was forced to leave France the

      fruits of that revolution he had served—whilst she loaded with favours the men the revolution had created , my father and his colleagues alone suffered for the great cause which so many others betrayedlast homage of their feeble age to the country their youth . had so vigorousl y defended ! That cause , messieurs , is therefore bound up with all my feelings as a son ; the principles it embraced are my patrimony . Stud y has confirmed this bent naturally given to my poUtical ideas ; and now that the opportunity , at last , presents itself to me this day to pronounce a word which so many others proscribe , I declare , without affection and without fear , I am , in my heart and by conviction , a Republican . '

      "After this noble exordium , Cavaignac repudiated , with singular elevation of thought , all the reproaches addressed to the Republican party . It was accused of conspiracy . An idle accusation . Ever since revolutions had been in vogue , conspiracies had counted for very little . The Republican party was too sure of the future to lose patience , and refuse to rely on the fortune of the popular cause . It was much better pleased to let Monarchy _consph' eforituyaliost of incurable blunders and iniquities . Why should the Republican party be over-hasty ? Could it fail to know that a dissolving agency was so potently at work on all the means of government , - that the latter -would require to be wholly reconstructed ? Did it not know that , tormented as the world was , by new , immense wants , _'

      even a god would find itmore difficult to govern than to reconstruct it ? The bloody deeds of ' 93 were cast in the teeth of the Republicans ! But men of sense , those who judged history by its results , had , doubtless , not forgotten that the Convention had defended the national soil , extended France to her natural limits , and fecundated the germ of every great political idea ; and that of all the governments that had successively appeared during a space of six-and-thirty years , the Convention alone had retired because such was its willretired triumphant amidst the thunder of the cannon ofthe Vendemiaire . Disappointed ambition was imputed to the Republicans . Those who cast that slur on them were men whose ambition had been gorged to excess . Passing on to considerations of another kind , M . Cavaignac showed how much deliberate and practical good sense there was in the notions ofthe Republicans , who had too much

      enlightenment to antedate their programme , and to live on the reminiscences of Athens and of Rome . He argued against Monarchy considered in its action , not on France , but on the secondary powers . Thank Heaven ! France carried within her what enabled her to surmount the most fearful trials ; but what was to become ot the nations placed under her a * gis , and which it was one of the necessary conditions of the Monarchy to abandon ? ' The revolution , ' said M . Cavaignac , In concluding his address , 'is the whole nation , with the exception of those who fatten upon tho nation ; it is our country fulfilling that mission of emancipation confided to it by the providence of peoples ; itis all France which has done her duty towards them . As for us , messieurs , we have done our duty towards her , and she will find us ready at her call , whenever she shall have need of us ; whatever she demands of us Bhe shall obtain . "'

      These were the views of the Republicans at the time indicated , It will here be observed that the social aspect of the question is but very obscurely hinted at ; still it is plain that the _thoug hts ofthe Republicans were beginning to entertain it , and with such . men to entertain such a question was to understand it and proclaim it . At this time the discip les of St . Simon attracted so much attention as to bring upon , themselves a prosecution . They were men of great ability , and counted amongst their number such names as Carnot , Chevallier , Thierry , Pierre Leroux , and many other men of great practical and literary ability . Our historian gives a moat instructive account of this system and its effects on French society , and shows how Fourierism and St . Simonianism

      penetrated republicanism , and produced those humane politics which we cannot help noticing as characteristic of the present day . ... . , We find we have not space to enter into a minute detail ofthe many encounters which took place during these years between the spirit of patriotism and that of pelf , and of which Pans and Lyons were the theatres . Could we do it , it would bo instructive , inasmuch as it would show the growing Stance that became attached to the right of the working man , and it would also show the unconaiierabli courage that characterises those in France who have taken the people ' s cause in hand , manyof _Som still occupy the front ranks mthe batUe We shall , however , fill up our remaining spice by g iving a few specimens of the style ana Se o / tioug ! t of the historian

      WHAT IHE FRENCH PEOPLE 0 A 1 _XED B 1 IUE . ' _"* ¦ ' REVOLUTION OF 1830 . "A new Marseillaise , composed by M . Casimir Delavi g he , was sung in the theatres . The heroes who . -had fallen in the cause of liberty were celebrated in pompons language . The National , the

      Louis Blanc: •The Nisiort Op Xzti Tears....

      _Sll ? _, s a er exclaimed , ' You have Sr _£ , _fe m the bmest and most heroic of mon . Sa * , Vf fr ' . bravc Par - _*« n _8 ! ' And the magisf _£ m in L ¦ Clty > not less enthusiastic , ou _& id _fe n piVUS 0 - - ' Wl 0 > ' sa d M . _Alexandi-e de La-< who 1 _H ? lamation to _^ e inhabitants of Paris , fi 2 m _^ _LSi V h , maclf , ? moritin _S the rank of _ductC ho _^ , _, _Potion , whose _l-evoic contionV ' f M ° _» J . ™ t « on of freedom and _civilisaftmiL . thls whlle bread was wantin S »> many _SSn _. _"S _, ? _7 'V P _S ra _<* thcr was _sei the Morgue ' corpse on thc cold fla S

      il T * NATIONAL EDUCATIO- _*! . Lducation can be made national by no other means than by considering it as a debt on the part ? f _™^ i ' f nd a , s a duty on that of _t- _" - citizens . It must therefore be at once gratuitous and compul-IU \ _. _? " -t could not have been rendered the latter without interfering with the rights of labour , since , through the effects ofa government as loohsh as barbarous , tho _? _oor _xtovW-aw * _-. _-- . _vkaversallv compelled to look upon his children as a _S ! rfl _- orea 8 i J 8 his wa S ° * and had too great SE ? 12 their services to caro for their instruction . _SnSuf ' _, dio of hunger , in order that _«» M « i I k be _Seated , would onlv have been a _Zwn _S 7- ? _- at this Tei 7 fect _O' -S' _-t t 0 hare " ' »* absurdity of every partial reform ; and ..-Ij 0 l » y true reform is one whicli shall be

      IC _i -V _, _. 1 a body of 1 , efo - constituting a tnorougft , bo hi , and complete social renovation . . ' u * . - authority has an end in view , it ougnx to impel society towards it with _unifoi-mitv , steadiness , and vi gour of purpose . With regard to _L-T r _" '" _--- cannot be too strong a centralisa-• 111 \ i _* in a country torn bv party , of the suiy nvalry of private schools , is to _hstil into new _generations tho poison of civil discords , and to afford _fir _t _^ _-i i _£ means of _Propagating themselves _^ j ««! ' i ° 'I increasing , confusion of opinions _? _£ ; P _^ _ciP-es-it is like _sowfrg chaos . The education ot the people , a sublime priesthood when tho state provides it , is , when abandoned to individual caprices , but a _spoeulation replete with danger and what is termed liberty of teaching is only the gestation of anarchy .

      THE THESES ! SYSTEM . "As for the social system desired and upheld by the bourgeoisie , it has been marked b y a complete abandonment of the poor . ' Every one for himself ; charity begins at home , ' has been the maxim of their leaders ; loathsome , base maxim , wliich contains all oppressions , until it gives birth to all disorders . The error of the bourgeoisie has been this , that it believed freedom to be sufficient for progress and justice , under circumstances of no equality in thc means of development . But what signifies it that the . right to acquire wealth be granted to all , when ther ihstrumentu of labour and when credit belong only to a few I What signifies aright to prosperity without a possibility of _realisint ?

      that right ? What matters a broad and level road to the wretch who cannot move ? True freedom consists , not in the right , but ih the power , granted to every one to develop his faculties . Freedom is there but a lure , but the hypocrisy of despotism , wherever the possession of the mstruments ot labour is a monopoly ; -wherever the doling out of credit is inthe hands of . private individuals who lend only to the rich ; wherever competition leaves the ' small capitalist atthe mercy of the great one ; wherever there are commercial- ' dealings between wealth and hunger ; wherever theJives of citizens depend , not on their good conduct ; , and forethought , but on the visitation of a disease on the cessation of a commercial demand , or the invention ofa new method :

      wherever the children of the poor are forced away from the school where they would be instructed , andburied alive in the factory , where they are starved and stinted ; _wlie-iever . . there is no freedom of the press , except in favour of those who can deposit an exorbitant sum of caution money ; wherever , in fine , there are chilarcn of seven years of age working twelve hours a day for their bread , girls of sixteen prostituting ) themselves for bread , vagrants found asleep on the steps of inhabited palaces , infanticides from penury , journeymen whom the discovery ofa machine turns into the streets to starve , and thousands of working * men who wake up some day with pale faces and raging hearts , and rush to the fight with this cry : Let us live by our labour or die _nffhtinff . '

      " And in this the fault is not in men , but in things . . Feudal _. tyranny was composed of proper names , it could be looked in the face , it could be touched with the finger . There is nothing of the sort in that tyranny which is only liberty misunderstood . Mysterious , impersonal , * invisible ,. almost defying all effort to grasp it , it enfolds the poor man , compresses and stifles him , without his being able even to comprehend the nature of tho evil against which he straggles , miserably and in vain . "The destruction ofa despotism of this sort is , therefore , an affair of science , not of revolt . Itis the principle that ia impious * , it ia the situation that is guilty . Men do not take vengeance upon a pinciple- they supersedo it for a better * _, men do not punish a bad state of things , thoy change it . Fierce appeals to the wrathful feelings of thc

      oppressed would , therefore , bo as frivolous as they would be mischievous ; the more so , as the bulk of the people is not now enlightened enough to have a clear idea of what it ought to seek , and of what is possible . Still the duty of seeking a remedy for so many ills is but the more imperative ; and , as regards the bourgeoisie , it is matter of urgent interest . It , too , is undermined by competition , which gradually swallows up moderate fortunes in the vortex of great capitals . What security can the bourgeoisie have against the danger of popular outbreaks on the one hand , and the oligarchic yoke slowly forged for it on the other ? Striking and novel proof of the inevitable co-partnership that unites various interests ! The bourgeoisie , if it look

      not to It , is going to destruction b y the same route on which the people is toiling on in wretchedness and suffering : unfortunately , it does not seem hitherto to have had any suspicion ofthe fact . " M . Blanc eloquently points out the true policy of the middle classes in France and every other country . " If the bourgwiw is nobly prompted , it can do everything for thfc regeneration of this country . Captive in its monopolies , devoted to the sordid passions to which the selfishness of its principle condemns it , it would ruin France and itself , _posscssing , as it would , but tlie smallest portion of those qualities which high policy requires . Instead , therefore , of standing aloof from the people , it must unite with it indissolubly , by taking the

      first steps towards a system whicli should make association , not competition , the rule of trade , which should generalise the possession of the instruments of labour , institute the banking power of the poor , and , in a word , abolish the serfdom of labour . In such an enterprise there would be equity and wisdom , intelligence and charity . Gathering fresh , racy vigour from its contact with the people , and strengthened by its co-operation _^ the bourgeoisie would find incalculable resources in its recovered security . Peacefully and forever victorious over the spirit of sedition , it would not fear to look the Europe of the kings in the face , and restore to France thc language and the bearing of command .

      It would , moreover , in becoming the nation , acquire all the virtues it now lacks ; for if it has much to give the people , it has much , too , to receive from it . It can give the people instruction , true liberty , and the treasures that now therefrom ; it will receive from it energy , the might of manly instincts , love 0 * 2 greatness , aptitude tor generous devotion . Precious exchange , which would save and exalt our country by the harmonious employment of the will and the virtues of all her children I " Having thus given , with sufficient imperfection , a slight sketch ofthe meaning of this most extraordinary work , and a few specimens of the style of the author , we shall , in conslusion , present our readers with a short notice of his life .

      Louis Blanc was born at Madrid , m October , 1813 . His father was Inspector-General ofthe Finances in Spain ; his mother was of Corsica , where he was brought up till the age of seven ; he was then sent to the College of Rhodes , from whence in 1830 he joined his father in Paris . But from that time to the revolution of February he has constantly laboured with his pen for the promotion ofthe popular cause , through the pages of the " Bon Sens , " the ¦¦ National , " the " Republican Reviews , ' _^ the " Revue de Progrds , " and many other publications , as well as by the more important works which wo have already enumerated . In person he is exceedingly small , somewhere

      about five feet , with a countenance remarkable for the beauty of its form and the nobleness ofits expression . His figure is exceedingly well-proportioned , and altogether he strikes you at once as a most remarkable man ; his voice is full and flexible , hi conversation most winning , in speaking publicly , rich , and forcible ; indeed , we are disposed to think that he is quite as good an orator as he is a writer , and we havo no hesitation in saying that , taken altogether , he is one of the most remarkable , men of the age . Were he the advocate of kingly power , we doubt not he would be one of the most noted men in Europe being , however , the champion of the oppressed , ho must wait for his roward , such as it may be , until the day when thc poor man is delivered from his thraldom . Let us pray that it may be sooa !

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      _Ltclixbd Axn not LvcxufED . — " Why don't you wheel that barrow of coals , Ned ? " said a learned miner to one of liis sons ; " it is not a very hard job —there is an inclined p lane to relieve you . " "All , " replied Xed , who had more relish for wit . than work , "the plane may be inclined , but hang me if J am . " MAnMAGK . —Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species , with a design to be each other ' s comfort and entertainment , have , in that action , bound themselves to be good-humoured , affable , discreet , forgiving , patient , and joyful , with respect to each other ' s frailties and perfections to the end of their lives .- _—Addison

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      THB TEN HOURS BILL AND MANCHESTER LAW . Simple-minded , honest dupes that we were , we had thought that the Ten Hours Bill was law . We forgot that tbe English constitution was centred in the Bank of England , and the acts of the Legislature administered by factory lords . The mistake we regret , but have much to say in extenuation . The agitation in favour of regulating the hours of factory labour was protracted over a period of years ; discussed , and re-discussed . Sometimes we heard it

      in the rough voices of native _Yorkshiremen , headed _liy Mr . Oastler , the Factory King . The outspoken preaching of Stephens told its tale . Tbe humane pleadings of Michael Thomas Saddler , the patient details of Ashley , the practical experience of John Fielden— -the late member for Oldham , and experienced factory owner—wera all _heatd . Tht- _League newspaper , the Economist , the Times , Chronicle , and Post , wrote and reasoned . The question was narrowed to a discussion on the principle of political economy .

      Lord John Russell recanted—Mr . Bright replied . The text was ten hours labour per dav—tbe pleadings on both sides were from those premises . After a discussion , in which every argument had been exhausted , the last struggle ended in a vote in favour of a Ten Houra Bill ; not a Twentv Hours Bill , with a relay ot hands . No—the labour of women and children was restricted to ten hours per day by Act of Parliament . We Englishmen thought that the distinction between day work and night work was plain and unmistakeable . But the Manchester magistrates cannot see tbe difference . There is no clause , it seems , in opposition to tbe relay system—therefore , all the spirit of the act

      must be lost sight of , its effects neutralised . The Manchester magistrates think it honourable to evade thelaw—and why this evasion ? It even does not end with the evasion of the law . It destroys the law , aud enacts , executes , and allows to be executed , a law in favour of the relay system . Itis Manchester law against Parliament-made law , __ i Manchester triumphs . The Manchester Ministry , too have their official organs . Your cautious nei ghbour , the Morning Chronicle , _recentlyanimadvertingonaspeech spoken by C . Hindley , Esq ., M . P ., Bavs that the law provides : 'Only that no young person or female be employed for more than the statutory number of ten hours in any one day . Many mill-owners have availed

      themselves of the facility thus unexpectedly afforded for taking advantage of the recent revival of trade by employing two sets of juvenile and female operatives in each day , and giving extra wages , for extra hours , to the male adults , ( with whose liberty to dispose of their own time and labour even the Ashley majority never dreamt of meddling . They are enabled to realise all the substantial benefit of _indutrials freedom , without trenching on the code of legislative benevolence . Can anything be fairer ? Six , seven , or eight hours per day , for those whom a protection Act of Parliament restricts to a maximum of ten—and as many hours as may be mutually f

      agreed upon , or those whom parliament leaves to be the judges of their own interests , and the master * of their own actions . There are doubtful propositions involved in the last part of the paragraph , which , we for the present , purposely omit to discuss and call attention to the words , ' many mill-owners have availed themselves of the /« oi % thus unexpectedly afforded . ' The words facility and _unexpectedly explain all . If such facility be not enacted against , and unexpectedly used—why allow the unexpected facility to be practised ? Such might be a fair argument from the lips of a barrister defending a law breaker , but comes with very bad grace as a defence for the acts of a magistrate or a judge .

      Lord Bacon , m his essay on judicature , writes : " Judges ought to remember that their office is ' Jus dicere , ' and not' Jus dare '—to interpret law , and not to make law . " Tbe same authority continues , Fons iurbatus et vena corn / pta est Justus cadens . in causa sua coram adversario . ' The just man failing in his cause before his adversary is like a troubled fountain and a corrupted vein . ' And , again , ' A judge ought to prepare his way to a just sentence , as God _useth to prepare his way by raising vallies and taking down hills ; so when the _? e appeareth on either side a high hand , violent prosecution , canning advantages taken , combination , power , great counsel , then is the virtue of a judge seen , to make inequality equal , thathe may plant his

      judgment as upon an even ground . ' Fourthl y , judges ought , above all , to remember the conclusion of the Roman twelve tables , ' _SahfS populi suprema lex '— ' The safety of the people is the highest law ; and to know that laws , _except they be in order to that end , are but things captious , and oracles not well inspired . ' We recommend these passages for the consideration of the writers of the Chronicle , and the perusal of the Manchester magistrates . Men must be , . indeed , sunk deep into the slough of iniquity if they cease to respect wisdom and virtue , even if they , every hour of their lives , practice despotism and injustice ; it may be , however , after all , ' that we are casting pearls before swine , ' so far as factory magistrates and one-sided journalists receive our consideration .

      Although not gifted with second right , we have seen the object aimed at by the millowners and magistrates , from the time the _' eases of evasion were first raised before tbe Manchester bench . It is no other than a hope on the part of the factory lords to re-open the subject of factory legislation . After a long lapse of dull trade a revival of trade is expected , and the keen - sighted capitalists are ripe and ready for the chase . Itis invaift that you remind them of the fearful ordeal they have passed through—unequalled bankruptcies , and approaching revolt . Commercial crises —and their results only whet their appetites for gain . Those whe have " suffered from bankruptcy ,

      hope to amend their decayed means . Those whose fortunes enable them to withstand every shock are enriched by the late misfortunes of others . Tbe Ten Hours Bill stands in the way . Tbe Russell Cabinet exists by sufferance , and perhaps they will have to legalise the relay system , or pass an uniform bill of eleven hours . The men who said— ' Free Trade or a revolution '—now say , ' Long hours or a change of ministry . ' What _vyill be theresult ? It cannot be supposed that the workmen , who for years struggled patiently and peraeveringly for a legislative enactment , to protect flesh - against Mammon , will yield quietly and without a struggle ; and those who know the

      character of tbe Economists—their skill in the subtleties of argument—their endless repetition of refuted fallacies—their willingness to write up or write down a cause for hire—and know also that the commercial aristocracy are men of business habits and incalculable fortunes , will not look forward for a speedy and satisfactory settlement of this question . For our part we are on the look out , and say to the working men of England , he prepared for the future . Factory operatives , read Mr . Oastler ' s speech as reported in the Slarot Saturday last . Remember , ' Be ready boys , be steady boys . ' A Leap prom the Annals op a Shoemaker ' s Garret .

      Poblic Petitions.—Every Member Presentin...

      Poblic Petitions . —Every member presenting a { etition to thc House must affix his name at the eginning thereof , ( vide Commons' Journals , 1833 , March 20 ) . Every petition must be written , and not printed or lithographed , ( vide Commons' Journals , 1793 , May 6 ; 1817 , March 12 ) . Every petition must contain a pvayev , [ vide Commons' Journals , 1843 , July 10 ) . Every petition must be signed by at least one person on the skin or sheet on which the petition is written , ( vide Commons' Journals , 1817 , March 12 . ) Every petition must be written in thc English language , or be { Accompanied by a translation certified by the member who Bhall present it , ( vide Commons' Journals , 1821 , March 16 , March 21 ) . Every petition must be signed by the parties wnose names are appended thereto by their names or marks , and by no one else , except in case of sickness or incapacity , ( vide Commons' Journals 1675 . November's ; 1619 , November 14 ; 1774 , June June 2 : 1826 , December 13 ; 1836 , June 28 ) . No

      letters , affidavits , or other documents may be attached to any petition , ( vide Commons Journals , 1826 February 20 , November 28 ) . 2 so reference may be made to any debate in Parliament , ( vide Commons' Journals , 1822 , March 28 ) . No application may be made for any grant of public money except with the consent of the Crown , ( vide Standing Orders ) . —Globe . _-,-,,. Advice to the _Fxm Sex . —Women should be unacquainted that beauty has any charms , but the inward one of the mind , and that a gracefulness in their manner is much more engaging than that of their persons ; that meekness and modesty are the true and lasting ornaments * for she that has these is Qualified as she ought to be for the management of a familv , for educating her children , for an affection for her husband , and submitting to a prudent wa y of living . These only are the charms whicli render wives amiable , and give them the best title toour respc ct .- _^ c'c * i _<* .

      Mr Jons Duncan , the African traveller ,. whose iouvney throug h and beyond the territory of the King of Dahomey has already been made public , is , it is understood , about to leave England shortly on another expedition , with the view of prosecuting further discoveries in the _unexplored regions of that country .

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      _Ankcuote ov _CnoMWELL . -In the vear 1 G ' , 7 S I" TUT ln ( o _* > £ » e . offensive and dofonnn \\ _n _^••"" _ce _a-ainst Spain , in which he would _, not allow the French king to call himself Kine-of ' Franco , buUnlv of tho F rench , and took to Eselt the title ot Protector , not of _En-dand w land , and Ireland , but of Franco also . "Sd ' in tho ' instrument of the treaty , he insisted that , his ( tho Protector ' s ) name should be put before tliat of tho i French monarch ; and it was so done .- \ ccordin- * iy In > short , I know of no prince that bovo his character soi high as Oliver did in his treaties with crowned _, heads . Dutch Proverb . —The Dutch have a proverb i that " when the French are asleep the devil rocks ! the cradle . " They are quiet for the present , bub what devil is rocking the cradlo future events must : show .

      Sentiments . —'' liehoiii _, Miss Flora , how glorious Nature looks in all hor bloom ! Tiie trees arc filled with blossoms , the wood is dressed in its green livery , and tlie plain is carpeted with grass and Mowers !"— " Yes . Charles , I was thinking of the same thing . These flowers are dandelions , and when they are gathered and put in a pot , with a piece of good fat pork , thoy make the best greens in the world I " The Rulixg Few . —* ' Only by _makin- _* - the ruling " few uneasy , can the oppressed many obtain a particle of relief . "—Bentham . Aristocracy . — " The origin of Aristocracy was worse than Popery . Tho first aristocrats ' in all countries were brigands ; those of later times , sveophants . "—Paine .

      WHY _AN'D BECACSE . Why is a railway train _likea vision of thc night 1—Because it goes over the sleepers . "Why is a spendthrift ' s purse like a thunder cloud ? —Because it keeps continually light ' _ninc . IVhy is a solar eclipse like a woman wlii pping her " boy ?—Because it is a hiding of thc mn , A " Flea ahd VvTT-nrhr" Kate . ' —Sunderland , it seems , is one of the few towns by which a rata has been , laid , _wwlcrM _** . "E _** _-n _* rt . ' a bill , for the maintenance of a public museum . One learned and worthy member , however , of the town council , whea tVie Museum committee had presented a report last week , took objoction to an item in the accounts , remarking that he could not sec tho advantage of imposing charges on thc ratepayers for " rleas and butterflies . "

      The Schoolmaster Abroad . — " In a village in tha West of England , " the Arbroath Guide relates , the following is seen to flourish upon a si gn-board _ovci _* the door of an ancient couple ¦ —* fours a gooseand my wife curs the ganders . ' Thc meaning intended to be conveyed is : — ' I cure agues , and my wife cures the jaundice . " Blue Eras . Blue ! 'Tis the light of heaven—thc domain Of Cynthia—the wide palace of the sun—The tent of Hesperus , and aU his train—The _bosomer of clouds , gold , grey , and dun . Bluo ! ' Tis the life of waters' ocean And all its vassal streams : pools numberless May rage , and foam , and fret , but never can Subside , if not to dark blue _nativeness . Blue ! Gentle cousin of the forest-green ,

      Married to green in all the sweetest _flowers—Porget-me-not ;—tho __ blue-bell—and that queen Of secresy , thc violet : what strange powers Hast thou , as a mere shadow ! But how great When in an Eyo thou art alive with fate ! From literary Remains of John Keats . As Infallible _SrEcinc—The late Lord Erskina being one day indisposed in the Court of King ' s Bench , told Mr . Jekyll , " that he had a pain in his bowels , for which ho could get no relief" " I ' ll give youan infallible specific , " said the numerous barrister , " get made _aMor-nci / - (* e ) tera _£ , and then you will have no _bcnuels . _' '

      The Largest Baby Yet . —A Race of Giants . — Mr . and Mrs . Randall the celebrated Scotch giant and giantess , have recently had a son born to them , at their residence , near Mineral-point , "Wisconsin , whose weight , at three days old , was twenty-two pounds ! This is their first child , and is , wc believe , the first successful experiment in modern times , in the production of a race of giants . They do great things in " Wisconsin now-a-days , *—we give this as a specimen . —Boston Chronotype . "Nothing can bo done well , " said Dr . Kitchener ,

      " that is done in a hurry . " Lxcept catching fleas , " adds a wag at our elbow . All Right . —An Irishman being asked , on a rainy day , what he would take to carry a message from Drummond ' s at Charing Cross , to tlio Bank , answered , " Faith ! I'd take the threepenny bus . " The Outward Signs . —At a recent examination of girls in Cheshire for the rite of confirmation , in answer to the questions , " Wliich is the outward and visible sign and form in baptism ? " The repl y was , " The babv , sir .

      _ruuaATOKY . — " Molly , said Joo Kelly ' s ghost to his wite , " I ' m in purgatory at this present , " says he . " And what sort oi a place Is it-J" says she . — " Faix , " says he , "it ' s a sort of half-way house between you and heaven , " says Joe , " and I stand it mighty aisy after laving you , " says he . Domestic Life . —Recreation is to a woman what the sun is to the flower ; if moderately enjoyed , it beautifies , it refreshes , and ifc improves—if immoderately , ifc withers , deteriorates , and destroys . But the duties of domestic life , exercised , as they must be , in retirement , and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female , are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms as the shade and the shadow are to the rose—confirming its beauty , and increasing its fragrance .

      A Smart Doc—A shepherd once , to prove the quickness of his dog , was lying before the fire in the house where we were talking , aaid to mc , in the middle of a scntenco concerning something else , "I ' m thinking , sir , the cow is in the potatoes . " Though he purposely laid no stress on these words , but said them in a quiet , unconcerned tone of voice , the dog , who appeared to be asleep , immediately jumped up , and , leaping through the open window , scrambled up to the turf-roof of the house , _fi-om which he could sec the potato field ! lie then ( not seeing the cow there ) van and looked into the barn where she was , and finding that all was right , came back to the house . After a short time the shepherd said the same words again , and the dog repeated his look-out ; but on the false alarm being- a third

      time given , the dog got up , and wagging his tail , looked his master in the face with so comical an expression of interrogation that ho could not help laughing loud at him , on wliich , witb a slight growl , he laid himself down in his warm corner with an oftended air , and as if determined not to be made a fool of again . ,. . A IIorse-Fly . —Two gentlemen angling in the Thames at Ncwham lately , could not agree upon the appearance of one of their favourite baits , the horsc-nv , and they agreed to refer thc question to a rustic whom they saw ploughing at a little distance , and accosted him thus : "Did you ever see a horsefly ? " "Whoy , " said Hodge , with some astonishment , " noa , d _' rat it ; I never seed a horse fly , but I once seed a cow fall down a hole .

      Sedition . —Tho surest way to remove sedition is to take away the causes thereof . —Bacon . Equal Rights . —Mankind will never be in an . eminent degree virtuous and happy , till each man shall possess that portion of distinction , and no move , to which he is entitled by his personal merits . — Godwin . Value of a _Husband . —In the Court of Queen Bench , on Thursday , Sophia Tucker recovered £ 100 compensation from Messrs . Chaplin and Co ., the carriers , for the death of her husband , a porter , occasioned by the breaking of tackle , and by a bale , in charge of the defendants' servants , falling on the deceased .

      A Hint to Rulers . —When concession is inevitable , it is wise to concede before necessity destroys both freedom of thought and dignity of movement . Si 3 i . 7 * -11 i * sp- _* ct and _Self-Dependence . —Be and continue poor , young man , while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty ; be without place or power , whilo others beg their way upwards ; bear the pain of disappointed hopes , whilo others gain theirs by flattery ; forego thc gracious pressure of the hand , for wliich others cringo and crawl . Wrap

      yourself in your own virtue , and seek a friend and your daily broad . If vou have , in such a cour e , frown gray with unblenched honour , bless God and ie . —IJeinzelmann . A Wipe ' s Consolatio . v . — Tho Indiana State Journal tells a story of a prominent democrat of that city , who , on hearing Taylor was elected , went home a good deal chop fallcn . His wife , to console him , remarked that Taylor mig ht die as Harrison did , and the administration might thereby come into thc hands of the democrats . " Die ! the devil I" replied tho husband , " thunder couldn't kill him . "

      SirAKsrERE ' s Betrothing _Uikg . — A few weeks since Mr . Crofton Croker , the well-known author , purchased for a few shillings , of a silversmith at Gloucester , a massive g ilt ring , of tho time ot Queen Elizabeth , containing the letters " W . A . in an untied true-love knot . The _silvoramith stated , in answer to an inquiry made by Mr . Croker , that he purchased it from a poor woman at Stratford-on Avon , in whoso garden itwas found about five years ago ; biit it was only within thc last few days that an opinion of its probable connexion with the great

      dramatist has been entertained . On comparing the scroll with that on thc poet ' s seal ring described in Halliwoll's Life of ( shakspere , and with a similar scroll on a piece of painted glass from _New Palace , competent _judges have como to the opinion that the ring thus singularly recovered by Mr . Croker _was : in all probability the ' betrotbing-ring of William and Anne Shakspere . Genius axd _Comjios _SEVSE . -Genius _, hko . the lark , is apt to despise its nest upon the earth , and wastes its time in Wring _^ 3 _™^™ $ the clouds ; but common sense is thc _hymblei Jow l which picks up tho barleycorns , and _crOWS . pfl fattens at leisure .

      "Farietir-3.

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 3, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_03031849/page/3/