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      J Torpabr 6,1847. The Northern Star,

      j _toRPABr 6 , 1847 . THE NORTHERN STAR ,

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      Erin. (From The Labourer , For February....

      ERIN . ( From The Labourer , for February . ) Oh' . Erin my country , I lOTe tnee w t _A priae ) Bat I love thee the more for thy sorrow ; Many is the bitter salt tear I have cried _. As I've cheerlessly thought on thy morrow . Though my fame be erased from thy history ' s page And the name of my _martyr'd dead sire forgot ; Though my uncle still pines In the muter of age , A fifty yews' exile for Erin his lot : Thongb , hounded by trader and traitor , you aimed To shed my life's blood in your madness and woe , I resisted with reason _slone till I tamed The spiritless courage infused by the foe .

      Tet , Erin , I have never forgotten the vow , Tbat I solemnly swore at my country ' s shrine , That ths haug hty oppressor shonld beBd his proud brow , That I'de break his _stiffipirit , or he should break mine . How oft I have sighed through my cold prison bars , As I ' ve thought on the magic that bound you a slave , When you ' ve cursed the Lord Edward that died of his cars , And reviled the young Emmett that sleeps in his grave . Though his body lies mangled by traitors and knaves , Bis ' memory's enshrined in each true Irish heart , And his country , though crippled by sycophant slaves , Shall rise a prond nation despite of their art .

      Then , Erin , take courage , the day is at hand "When Saxon oppression shall tremble and fall , When Erin ' s own sons shall possess their own land , Acd shall make their own laws , still better than all . Tes , Erin ' s dark night of oppression shall flee Like a vapour dispell'd by tbe sun ' s genial ray , And then , sweetest Isle of the ocean , thou'lt be First flower of the earth and first gem ofthe sea . When we see the light footstep that bounds o ' er the sand

      Ofthe exile condemned the wide world to roam ; When the day-star ef freedom shaU shine e ' er the land To light the lone wanderer back to his home ; When the waters that bound tby lone dungeon shall swell _* 2 * eath the crowded white canvass that bends to the west , And fill'd with the cheers of thy sons come to dwell Ib the laud of their fathers , the heme they love best ;

      Then Edward and Emmett may rest in their graves , Where untombed and _unhonoured their relics have slept ; While tbe traitor tbat lived on the blood ofhis slaves ¦ Shall perish unhonoured , unmourned _, unwept . Then , Erin , I'll visit try sei-h ' . iten shore , When the home of m ; : ¦ ' .. : ¦< v home tor the free , Then , Erin , III swear _* . _- ¦ :. j _aiur once more . To perish if needed , lovpd Erin , for thee . And then , though my name , like yonng Emmett ' s , be cursed , My spirit shall hover around the loved spot , Where I play'd in my childhood , and where I was nnrsed , Where I rocked in my cradle , and I was begot .

      Then we'll build a snag nest in oar own little isle , And we'll choose our own members to make our own law , Like freemen we'll lire on our own native soil _. The loveliest , greenest , that man ever saw . TJp , up , then , young Ireland , the land of the green ! Ere the traitor , with Saxon your liberties barter , Each trne British spirit will join with Erin FOR REPEAL OF THE UNION—THE LAND AND THE CHARTER .

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      The Labourer.—A Monthlv Magazine Of Poli...

      THE LABOURER . —A Monthlv Magazine of Politics , Literature , Poetry , _drc . Edited by Fearocs O'Co . v . noh . Esq ., and Ebxest Jones , Esq ., ( Barristers _at-L-uv ) . London : Nortliern Star Office , 1 C , Great Windmill Street . The task of reviewing this month ' s number of the La bourer is an easy one . We can find nothing to censure ; and praise of the literary ability displayed by the _Lalourer ' s staff of writers , would be but a repetition cf the commendations we expressed last month . In appearance this number exhibits considerable improvement as compared with No . I . ; while as regards thc contents , the several articles are -well worthy the reputation ofthe editors , and ( as we said ofthe lirst number ) would do credit to the half-crown _magasines .

      A pcem by Ernest Jones entitled " The Factory Town , " opens this number ; and , if we say this poem alone is well worth the cost of the entire magazine , we very inadequately express onr sense of its merits . "We had marked it for extract , but mnst defer it till onr next number , when it shall appear in full . The history of "The Insurrections of the Working _Clisses" _Js continued , " ! and thej second chapter confirms ifce high opinion we expressed of the first . The greater portion ofan _excellentarticle on " Trades Unions . " wc have _transferred to another column . "The Romance ofa , People , " gives a thrilling chapter of modern Polish history . " _Progress and Prospects of Society , " _j-5 an eloquently > ritten article , full of faith as regard-- " the go **! time coming . " "The Jolly Young Poacher , " is the commencement of what _pron-ises to be a good rattling story ; it contains a jolly good song , and we heartily advise tbepoaehing brigade to make the author their " poet laureat . " We must hue extract largely from an article on

      THE USD A 5 D THE CnARIEH . However the moit hostile opponent may denounce the _^ _rincipJes of Chartism , noBe will venture to withhold awn its advocates the tribute due to energy , perseveraace , courage , and independent expression , regardless of the threats or vengeance of faction . The fact " that Ct anism has become the adopted principle of the young ffliad of America , which now sees the weakness of political power if severed from social enjoyment ; that its _trrgan , the "Northern Star , " has able correspondents in America , Frusria , Belgium , France , and Switzerland , who speak the growing mind of those countries ; the fact tiat Chartism has struggled against and beaten old Toryism and old WhiggUm , that it has survived the malicious slander , and outlived the interested opposition , of

      tbe bigottrd OLD IRELAND PARTY ; that it maintamed iu ground during the Free Trade campaign , and outlived the Free Trade agitation : —its advocates' defiaace of persecution ; their ever readiness to meet their fees upon the _public platform ; tbeir _disregard of the law ' s oppression and their master ' s frown ; their respect for age as evinced in the support of their veteran victims ; their love of youth as manifest in their struggle to release the factory infant -rom a portion ofhis toil ; their leveof principle exhibited in the universal execration poured upon the head of the _desert-r ; the stand that Chartism has made against the united power of faction ' s servile _press-sgainst thecombined and _sectionalauthority ofthe rich as representatives and local tyrants ; against the laws made bs their oppressors , administered by their judges , enforced by theirpolice , and vigorouslv executed

      by their cruel jailors—prove that the will , the _' whim , the caprire , the _s-pite , the spleen , the envy , ofthe unjust but strong , has _m-tn in vain gathered up in one volition in tbe hope of bearing down the unbending mind of honest labour _strugg ; ing for its jast rights . Such is Chartism : a _eombinati .. n of young mind resisted by the conspiracy t-i" OLD OPINIONS , " a conspiracy of monarchs against a combination of men , a conspiracy of fading prejudices Sgainst a combination ef blooming _inttlUcts . The enelaiesofChartUra foolishly hoped to accomplish iu ruin , trstby persecution , and then by silence and indifference . The one has failed , the other is _DANGEROUS , as " tobe ¦ forewarned is to be forearmed , " and Cbartisin , being the only defined and accepted principle , and the only oue _seady to supply that place which faction uill ere long be compelled to a bandon , will , instead of being understood , come upon those who must surrender to its influence as

      an enemy , and if convulsion and confusion should be the cause of ignorance , faction _nill have to blame its own , -its servile press , and it alone , for the _DISPENSATION . "When faction of all shades shall have surrendered to the principle ofthe ago , and when the impartial _historian shall write its history , be will represent Chartism as the dial of the age , as the rime ' s chronometer , by which public opinion vim set , and thc national will was regulated . The historian may trace it from its infant weakness to its matured _strength , shewing how the folly of vengeauce and force vanished before the hope in moral power : how the denunciation of wrong withered into the censure of fools who bere it , and how the party became like a bed of _mushrooms , the more you pluck the more jou leave . The historian will characterize thc vain attempt of

      faction to suppress opinion bj brute force , as only paralleled by the insolence of the haughtj Dane . whom the plenitude ofhis power sooght to stay the tide and arrest the ware . The historian will say , "that about the year Ut ., the several political parlies in the state , who had heretofore contested lustily with each other for the reins Of _powtr , were compelled to unite aa one great party to resist the _progress of democracy and famine , then making rapid strides , not only in England , but _throu-rbonght tbe civilized world , - Sir _Rjbert Peel had di . < _u , t £ d a large number of his _farmer supporters , and the choice of a leader feU upon Lord John Russell , J _* oo , earl ) in the session of that year , disappointed his wends and difgusted his opponents . The noble lord

      committed the _eiror _ofrDnJjjiimT bis measures to the mere _S **« tkm ° f famine without au attempt to correct the abases which the Chartist party contended were the parent of the calamity _. Jand the cause _' of the _^ _scvenil evils of which they justly complained . Whether the minister found _hims-. lf uuequal tothe task of governing , or whether he was unwilling to surrender to tbe democratic Pint , must now remain a secret , while hia obstinacybad it not been for the discipline ofthe Chartist _ranks and the prudence aud forbcarauee of the leaders , would baye probabl y ended in a bloody revolution . The no-™» ty _, gentry , and middle classes appeared to be taken _wholj j by surprise , when , upon a given day , the whole aemwratic party came to a resolution , ' _tlwtthelsaiJinjj

      The Labourer.—A Monthlv Magazine Of Poli...

      men of all parties and politics having seen and _confesse _' d that the non-performance of duties b y _landlords , and the _cwMeqnent neglect of all agricultural pursuits , has placed the people of these countries wholly at the merer of foreigners for the necessaries of life , and has created a famine from which the producin g classes alone suffer ; that inasmuch as the unjust monopoly of the land has also conferred the power upon its _potnessors of making such laws as shall be necessary to protect them in the unjust possession of property ; the owuers of which do not faithfully discharge their duties ; and believing the principle of _sb _. i- _emplotmest to ba the surest protection against unequal suffering and man ' s disks .

      _satios , and further believing that the property that _cct-riVATES ( Labour ) is more _valuable than the property _ooiTiVATED ( Land ) ; therefore we , the producing millions , demand the bestobation of the und to its na . tur . il legitimate and original purposes , firstly , as the only means of arresting famiue , by increasing production ; secondly , as the only _rnean-i of promoting industry and independence , by affording to each a labour field and encouraging tbe grand principle of self reliance ; thirdly , as the only possible means of establishing a fair standard of wages in the artificial market , and fourthly , as the only means of making machinery and all other national improvements and properties man ' s holiday instead of man's curse . And as the exclus-ive possession

      of the vote was only tolerated ia barbarous ages , upon tbe presumption that tbe enfranchised steward would faithfully discharge his trust , and Parliament has proclaimed him guilty of gross _negligence , he having failed to do so , and having thereby brought famine and woe upon the Land ; we demand the restoration of the vote to every man of twenty-one years of age , of sound mind and io possession ofhis liberty at the time of election . The above resolution was passed on the same day , in every town nnd village of importance in ' _. Enriand ' and Scotland , and being embodied in the shape ofa petition , and committed to Mr . Thomas Duncombe , M . P . for Fins _, bury , and the most popular man of the times , it was presented to the House of Commons by that gentleman , on Monday , the 2 nd of May , 1817 , and was escorted by a vast concourse of the working classes to the door ofthe

      House of Commons . The prayer of thc petition was rejected , and but few members voted for its reception , however , before many months bad elapsed , famine had accomplished what prayers and petitions failed to achieve , popular discontent had grown to such an alarming heighth , while a wasting Exchequer paralyzed the hands of authority , that all parties agreed to call to their councils the leaders of the Chartist party , when , after some conferences , the two statutes known as" The _Cnis-TEa" and •« Land Restobatios" Acts , were passed in both houses of parliament , when , as if by magic , all famine appeared to merge in future hope ; every muscle of the nation was at active employment ; those with

      something helped those without anything ; useless taxes were abolished ; the national property usurped b y the church was disposed of to pay the just creditors of the state ; all useless places and pensions were abolished ; England h 3 d the preference of all the trade in the world ; her mines were opened , ber fisberes encouraged , ber population all well housed and _well-abiied , and during the following year she was in a situation to demand the swr-ndcr oi ie . ! r * , " by Russia , and to which the _autecra _, was _cotopeUe _. " to / ir . ' * Tr /> ' _-snd also in the following year had her parYiamer . _* . restored , and a similsr act was passed with respect to the lands oi Ire ' :: nd . "

      " fhe history of England , prerions to the enactment of the Charter , u written more in the character of romance than ofthe history of a great nation . We see inthe museums and national institutions , figures dressed in red and blue and green , presenting a most fantaslic ap . pearance , and always armed with long swords , or guns and bayonets , and called the standing army . The history of England ! , however , is only interesting to the reader since the period , by consent called the Golden Aoe , which dates from the year 1848 ; since when England has been the mistress of the wcrld and tbe arbitress of nations . It is estimated that the national property increased in the first twenty years of the GotDE . v Age from _Tbbee Hcndbed millions annuall y to _Tweeve Hondbed millions , and within tbat period not a single murder was committed—a thing of frequent occurrence before the Goldes * Age —and the criminal code became a dead letter . "

      Such is the character that England will deserve from the impartial historian , when the Land and TnE Chaster shall go as handmaids to resist famine , except when of God ' s creation ; to fertilise the now barren heaths , to humanise _^ the now barbarous mind , and to d _' . stroy the now unnatural inequality existing between man and man ; the monstrous anomaly , the revol _isg _spec » acle , of fatted idleness 1 gislating for starved industry requires but the exercise of a moment ' s calm thought to _ens-jre universal eli . -i . -u 3 t . The labonr mind has become too proud , because

      conscious of its strength and value , to offer thanksgiving for a royal begging letter , or thanks for the crumbs from the idler's board . And however the press , the law , and the power of fiction may unite , inthe hope of resisting the onward march of democracy , we tell authority that the days of king-craft and priest-craft are numbered , and that the question of the Lasd and the Chabtlb is now but a question of time , as no human ingenuity or political device can much longer resist the demand . " The simple question is , whether authority will yield to Reason , or surrender to Fobce !

      Workine Men 3 the above mav be a page of history if you will it . May the antici pations of the _Labourer prove no dream , but a glorious reality . What say you , men ofthe multitude , shall it be so ? Vox Populi Vox Dei ! There are other well written articles in this number , — " The Confessions of a King . " ' Review ofthe Events of the Month ; " and , last not least , same stiring lines on * _* Erin , " given in the [ "receding column . If the Irish Journ . ili ts are in earnest , they will transfer these earnest lines ( from the pen of one of their own countrymen ) to their papers . Wc shall see .

      " 'Tis not for mortals to command success , " but at any rate the Editors of the labourer seem re solved to " deserve it . "

      Howitt's Journal. Edited By William And ...

      _HOWITT'S JOURNAL . Edited by William and _Minr flowirr . Part I . London : 171 , ( Corner of Surrey Street ) , Strand . We welcome the first part of this excellent publication which we are g lad to hear has already a sale of upwards of twenty thousand copies weekly . We cannot profess to admire some of the contributors to this "journal , " and their writings are not so wonderfully clever as to call forth our applause irrespective of personal or political feeling ; but as regards the editors from what we know ofthem , and from what we have read of their literary productions , we entertain towards them but one feeling , —that of sincere pleasure at their immediate and well-deserved success . We have alread noticed and quoted from

      y the first number ; four other numbers are contained in this part , _something more than equally as good as the first number . The principal articles are a life of Metternich ( the Austrian Kaiser ' s master ) , by Wm . Howitt , with a portrait which if it be ) h _* e him has not disappointed us , we guessed hira " a smoothfaced villain" and so he is here represented . The same number contains what may be regarded , viewed politically , as the most important article in this part , an account of •« The Peasant Subjects of the Citizen King . " This article wehave intended , and still inend to transfer to ' our columns , but we will not abrid ge it , and would rather not give it piecemeal , wc must , therfore , wait for an opportunity to give it entire . This said article on the French

      Peasantry , is a translation from the French of the celebrated George Sand , and is as far as we have seen , the most complete _' exposme of thc horrible middle-class despotism which now weighs upon France . Welcome terrorism , anarchy , all the ills and evils of deadly striie , rather than thc continuance of the state of slavery in which our French brethren are at present involved . Let those who have not seen the article here alluded to . buy this Part , or No . 3 , of " Ilowitt ' s Journal , " and read and judge for themselves ; sure we are that when they have done so , they will take their little ones by tbe hand , and swear them to eternal enmity against those gods of gold , those profit-mongering knaves , whose creed ia — " buy in the cheapest and sell in the dearest market , " and " Lord love you , we re ali for ourselves in

      this world ' . " Mary Howitt contributes some interesting articles , amongst them a curious account of " The Preaching Epidemic of Sweden ; " and ( translated ) " Scenes from the _Peasant Life of Hungary . " Amongst the illustrations is a portrait of " Pope Pius the _lS'intb , " with a sketch of his life , The p rincipal _contribution by Mr . Howitt is an account of some ofhis rarablings in Germany , entitled— " A few days tour in the Odenwald . " This account is most delightful reading , so truthful and fascinating that the reader cannot but feel as though he was _sharing with the traveller in person , step by step , the wonders and enchantments of each successive scene . Here is a brief extract , descriptive of a rural scene in the neighbourhood of the height of Melibscus : — -

      THE VILLAGE SCHOOL—THE _AGRAniAS SYSTEM . We saw several children sitting on n bench io the open air , near a school-house , learning their lessons , and writing on their slates , and we went into the ichool . The schoolmaster was a man exactly befitting the plate—simple , rustic , and devout . He told us tbat the boys und girls , of which his _schoi-1 was full , came , some of them from a considerable distance . They came in at six o ' clock in the morning , and stayed till eight , hud an hour ' s rest , and then came in till eleren , when they went home , and did not return again till next morning , being employed the rest of the day iu helping tlieir parents ; in going into the woods for fuel ; into the ' fields to glean _.

      tend cattle , cut grass , or to do what was wanted . All the _barefooted children of every village , however remote , thus acquire a tolerable education , learning singing as a regular part of it . They have what they call their smg . itv . nd , singing-hour , every day . On a blackboard , the lied , song or hymn for the dav , was written in German character in chalk ; and the master , who was _n-eturelly anxious to exhibit the proficiency of his _scholars , gave them their singing lesson while wc were there . The scene was very interesting in itself , but somewhat humiliating to our English minds , to thiuk thatin the Odenwald , a portion of the great Hyrcancian forest , a regioa . associating itself with all that is wild and obscure , every child of every hamlet and cottage ,

      Howitt's Journal. Edited By William And ...

      however secluded , was provided with that instruction which the villages of England are in a great measure yet destitute of . But here the peasants are not , as with us , totally ent off from property in the soil which they cultivate ; totally dependent on the labour afforded by others ; on the contrary , tbey aro themselves the possessors . This country is , in fact , in the bands of the people . It is all parcelled out among the multitudes ; and wherever you go , instead of tbe great halls , vast parks , and broad lands of the few , you see perpetual evidences of an agrarian system . Except the woods , the whole land is thrown into small allotments , and upon them the people are busily labouring for themselves . We might add , bnt have not room , much more respecting the simplicity , industry , economy , and happiness of the people ; we must merely giro the following : —

      Each German has his house , his orchard , and his _road-side trees , so laden with fruit , that if he did not carcfullyprop up and tie together , and in many places hold the boughs together with wooden clumps , they would be torn asunder b y their own weight . He has his corn plot ; his plot for mangel wurzel , for hay , for potatoes , for hemp , etc . He is his own master , and he therefore , and every branch of his family , have the strongest motives r constant exertion . You see the effect of this iu his industry and in bis economy .

      We are glad to see the very knowing gentlemen who do the Aihenccum taken down a peg or two . Mr . Howitt _' _a _« ' Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets , " we have not seen , but we have seen and read a " pretty considerable" quantum cf petty criticisms thereon , we , therefore , felt some interest and satisfaction in reading the "notice " contained in this Part . A'thoug h much pressed for room , we must find a place for the following extract from Mr . Ilowitt _' _s book , given in this part of the Journal : —

      TaNN A HILL ' S hole . For want of poets and poets' children entertaining these rational ideas , what miseries hare from age to age awaited them ! In the course of my peregrinations to the birth-places and the tombs of poets , how often have these reflections been forced upon me ! Humble , indeed , are frequently their birth-places ; hut what is far worse , how wretched are often the places of their deaths ; How many ofthem have died in the squalid haunts of destitution , and even by their ownhand 1 How many of them have left their families tontterpoverty ; how many of those carressed in thiir lives , lie without a stone or a word of remembrance in their graves ! Scott , with all his glory and his monuments in other places , has not even a slab bearing bis name laid upon

      his breast . Chatterton ' s very bones havebeen dispersed to make a market . Motherwell , amid the proud cenotaphs in the Necropolis at Glasgow , such men as Major llonteith having whole funeral palaces to themselves , has not even a cubic foot of stone , or a mere post with his Initials , to mark his resting-place . But still moro melancholy is the contemplation of the beginning and the end of Robert Tannahill , the poplar song writer of Paisley . Tannabill was no doubt stimulated by the fame of Burns . True , he had not the genius of Burns , but genius he had , and that is conspicuous in many of these songs which during his lifetime were sung with enthusiasm by his countrymen . Tannahill was a poor wea . ver of _Faisley . The _«*«•/ . ' .: _* . -where he lived is still to be seen , a very ordinary _weaver ' s cottage in an ordinary

      street ; and the place where he drowned himself may be seen too at the outside of the town . This is one of the most dismal places in which a poet ever terminated his career . Tannabill , like Burns , waB fond of a jovial hour amid hiscomralesin a public-house . But weaving of Terse and weaving of calico , did not agree . The world applauded , but did not patronise ; poverty came like nn armed man ; and Tannahill , in a frenzy of despair , resolved to terminate his existence . Outside of Paisley there is a place where a small stream passes under a canal . To facilitate this passage , a deep pit is sunk , and a channel for the waters is made under the bottom ofthe canal . This pit is , I believe , eighteen feet dei p . It is built round with stone , which is rounded off at its

      mouth , so that any one falling in cannot by any possibility get ont , for there is nothing to lay hold of . Any one once in there might grasp and grasp in vain for an edge to seize upon . He would sink back and baek till he was exhausted and sank for ever . No doubt Tannahill in moments of gloomy observation had noted this . And at midnight be came , stripped off his _cjat , laid down his hat , and took the fatal plunge . No cry could reach human ear from that horrible abyss : no effort of the strongest swimmer could avail to sustain him : soon worn out he must go down , and amid tho black boiling torrent be borne through the subterranean channel onward with the stream . Thus died Robert Tannahill , and a more fearful termination was never put to a poetical career . The place is called T . innahill' s hole . We recommend " Ilowitt ' s Journal" to our readers as one of the very best publications of the day .

      Music. -Handel's "Messiah." - Haydon's "...

      MUSIC . -HANDEL'S "MESSIAH . " - HAYDON'S "CREATION . " Loudon : Alfred Novello , C 3 , Dean-street , Soho . We do nit thank publishers for sending us odd numbers of periodicals . Wc have here parts i , 5 . and C , of Handel ' s Sacred Oratorio , " The Messiah , ' ( in vocal score , with a separate accompaniment for the organ or piano-forte ) , but we have not seen the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd parts . We have also a double number , 32 and 33 . of * ' The Musical Times , " the preceding numbers of which we hive not seen . " Tlie _Messiah is published in monthly sixpenny numbers , in largo octavo , and will be comp leted in twelve numbers . Uniform with "The Messiah" wc have the three first numbers of Haydn ' s Oratorio , "The Creation , " which will be completed in nine monthly numbers . Both works arc edited hy Vincent Novello , and bsth reflect great credit upon editor and publisher .

      —^—Tne Midland Florist. Conducted By J. ...

      _—^—TnE MIDLAND FLORIST . Conducted by J . F . Wood , F . H . S ., ( the Copp ice , near Nottingham ) . Nottingham : R . Sutton . London : Simp kin , Marshall , and Co . This is asmall , well conducted threepenny monthly _majrazine . intended " to convey in a popular and easily-understood manner intelligence of what is passing in the world of fruit and flowers . " The numbers for January and February are before us , and a perusal of their contents warrants us recommending "The Midland Florist" to our readers , with best wishes for its success .

      Mackenzie's Hand Book To Billiards. Mack...

      MACKENZIE'S HAND BOOK TO BILLIARDS . Mackenzie , 111 , Fleet-street . There is evidently much pains taken by thc writer of this work to render it plain and easy . The rules , games , and _engravings are numerous , giving in-trucction , amusement , and science to those _practising this now popular mode of exercise or pastime . To those who can afford leisure , or possess opportunity for indulging in the game , we recommend this work . It ought to be wherever a Billiard Table is kept , either as a work of instruction , of preference , ot authority , or science .

      Koyal Polytechnic Institution, Tbe Elect...

      KOYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION , Tbe Electric Telegraph . —Doctor BaehofTner has been lecturing on the above-named subject at the Koyal Polytechnic Institution . The learned profussor introduced much new and interesting matter into his discourse upon the peculiar application of electricity to the purposes of the electric telegraph . In addition to the usual lucid explanation ofthe principles of magnetism , and an historical notice of the application of t . ' _ie invention to railway and _^ public purposes , _^ Doc tor Bachhoffiier , upon thu occasion , entered into a lengthened illustration of the practicability ofthe mode of communication by the index upon tho new principle secured by patent to _Messrs . Nott and Gamble , It [ is but just to observe in a _pacing notice of various instruments inrcnted for the purpose of facilitating the transmission of _^ messages , die . ; in such

      cases the new patent of the above-named _gentlemen is far superior to any that has preceded it . The ) simplicity of the index , and the direct communication established by the electric current , and the _ringing of the notice . bell to the most distant station on sny line of _telrgraph , appear mighty strides towards the necessary simplification of the most important , but at prcseut , not sufficiently appreciated agent . Most admirable practical exemplifications of the applicability of the invention were given during the lecture by conveying messages from one side of the stage to the other , from two beautiful working models on the principle of Messrs . Nott and Gamble . During the lecture , and more particularly at thc conclusion , the learned lecturer was warmly and deservedly applauded by a most numerous and highly respectable audieiice , Jivh : ch quite filled the theatre of the establishment .

      «¦ Astley's Amphitheatre. On Tuesday Eve...

      _«¦ ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE . On Tuesday evening a Drama , by ) Mr . Moncrieff _, entitled the "Royal Fox Hunt , or Lite's Course of Man and Steed , " was presented at the above theatre . Almost thc whole of Mr , Batty ' s well-trained and beautiful stud was introduced . Thc production on the stage of a miniature fox hunt , with its huntsmen , horses , dogs , whippers-in _, < tc , wa 6 never , perhaps , attempted at any other theatre , indeed , Astley ' s is tbe only place of amusement at all adapted for the proper carrying out of so novel a performance , the original of which has , perhaps , seldom been seen by the majority oftlie frequenters of the amphitheatre . Iii order tojrcnder the chase as true and lively a picture as possible , the circus , in addition to the

      stage , was made use of , thus allowing a larger space tor the display of the parties engaged . The whole ceremony of a hunt was gone through , —the meet , going to cover , unearthing the fox , the chase and other equally stirring incidents followed each other in rapid succession . The fox , a very fine one , has been trained under the superintendence of Mv . Batty . After having been let loose , _Iteynarel was pursued in right earnest , tho hunters , and others hurrying on , in all the ardour of the _chaso _, which takes place on the stage and iu the olrcus _. the cries of encouragement to the horses , the _sounding of _horns _, and the _barking uf the dugs , serve to produce a tout ensemble of the most spirited description , and whieh could not fail t > excite in the spectator a mixed feeling Of astonishment and pleasure . The dramatist , in order to render the piece more complete , has introduced the

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      usual incidents and characters necessary to _> the working out of a melo-drama , the principal portions in which were very effectively sustained . The piece-was received with the greatest applause throughout . _Afrtlte termination of the drama the usual seines in the oircle took place . The entertainments concluded with the « 3 hristmaB pantomine of " Ali Baba , or tbe Forty _ThievesV _**

      Tiieatre Royal , Sadler's Wells. The Leg...

      TIIEATRE ROYAL SADLER'S WELLS . The legitimate drama in the shape of tho Plays , " A King and no King . " and Sir Edward Bulwer LyMon _' s " Lad y of Lyons , " with the Christmas Pantomime continue to attract crowded audiences .

      Royal Marylebone Theatre. "The Black Doc...

      ROYAL MARYLEBONE THEATRE . "The Black Doctor , " General Tom Thumb as "Bombastes Furioso , " and the "Incheape Bell" have at . traded admiring thousands to this elegant and capacious temple of the muses . We are happy to learn that the spirited Lessee , with his usual liberality bas placed his house at the disposal of the committee for leasing or building a working man ' s hall . The benefit for that purpose will take place on Tuesday the 2 nd of March next , under the patronage of Sir B . Hall , and Sir C . Napier , the members for the Borough .

      Princess's Theatre. Miss Bassano Still C...

      PRINCESS'S THEATRE . Miss Bassano still continues her triumphal career , " Anne Boliyn , " being as attractive as ever . We congratulate Miss Bassano on her great success , anil her good fortune in having obtained the unanimous voice of the press in her praise . Miss Bassaso , tho popular singer at the Princesses _Iheatre , has sprung like most ofthe children of genius trom the ranks of the people . Her father was an Italian , Clement Bassano , who married an Englishwoman . The parents of the singer formerly kept a small Italian warehouse , 27 , _Jermyn-street , St . James ' s

      Tiie Late Fatal Accident On Tiie Great W...

      TIIE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY . On Monday morning at 10 o ' clock , Mr . Waklev , M . P ., Coroner , resumed the inquiry into the circumstances attending the deaths of Henry Ilall and Henry Bishop , who were killed in the late fatal accident on ihe Great Western Railway , at Southall , on Monday , the 25 th ult . The large room at the Red Lion Inn , Southall , in which the inquiry was held , was crowded by respectable persons . Among those present were B . J . Armstrong , Esq ., a local Mag istrate ; Mr . S . Clarke , Superintendent of the Great Western Railway : Mr . Gooch , Superintendent of the locomotive department , & c . The Jury on re-assembling went to the Southall station with the Coroner to make a personal inspection o f the broken carriage and tire , which occupied nearly an hour . At eleven o ' clock the Coroner and Jury returned to the _inqiiftt-ivooin , _vnd the inquiry was resumed .

      Mr . John FawceVe - wju liibii _exavclned . He deposed that he was a smith residing at Swindon New Town , and was in the employ of the Great Western Railway . His duty was to make arms , wheels , and tires , to see that tltcy were properly made , and t o see tires put on wheels . Was still putting on tires made by other persons . Saw tho tiro put on the driving wheel of the Queen engine , which has occasioned the accident ; it was made at the Haigh foundry , in Lancashire . Was placed at the Swindon station to examine every tire ; did not remember making thc examination ofthe particular tire in question , but as he examined them all he . must have done so . The tires are usually senta little - -mailer than they are _ustd , on account that when tuey are put together

      they are stretched , lliat is done by putting them ou a stretching block , _ita _houcss may weaken them a little . If there is t if it v i t is then ascertained . The tire in questional ) * i ¦ 'd to witness to have had a V put in . liad been * i _; i c _. l inhis present emp loy about three years , during w i ich time the tires had been put on iu the same wa-. The tires came to witness in thc hoop . When accidents occur to tires they are to be brought back to witness . Had had accidents occur to tires in the same way as in the present instance . They are then charged by witness as spare wheels ; in those instances witness has nothing to do with putting them to an engine . Had known the tirea of three or four wheels go in a similar way since he had been at Swindon . They were all put on without rivets .

      Thomas Armond , the driver of the Queen engine , who was examined at the previous sitting of the inquest , was here recalled by the Coroner , and further deposed tiiat on seeing the report of his evidence in the newspapers , he saw that he had not s-tated that there had been a previous accident to one of the diking wheels of thc Qu < - Ci _* . Mr . Benjamin Cubitt deposed that he lived at New Deptford , and was an engineer ; had had a deal of experience in railway matters , and with respect to tires and wheels : had examined the wheel broken ,

      aud considered from that examination that the cause of its breaking was the unsoundness of the welding ; the mode of welding generally adopted is the _cultin--oil' the ends , and welding in a piece of iron in the form of a V , and smoothing it all down . Considered chat in the present instance only the one V piece was put in between the two edges of the tire , instead ot two or three V . pieces . There is another mode called " scarfing , " by welding the end 9 flat . The Coroner , to Mr . Cubitt . —Do you think that if the tire in this case had been riveted , it would have been strong enough to have held it ?

      Witness . —Yes , I think it might . It would at any rate havo prevented the breakage going so far . Mr . James O'Connell deposed that he was an en gineer , living at Bromsgrove , in Worcts ' . ershiie Had been engaged on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway , but had now an appointment on the London and North-western Railway , Had seen the broken tire in question , and had come tothe conclusion , nn looking nt the first place where the fracture took place , that there was a defective weld . It had been united only at thc two edges , and not nt all in the centre , through the improper mode oi welding . Onl y one large V had been put In , whieh by the negligent mode of welding had not united in the centre . Had seen two V pieces of iron put in , and _considered that better than ono . The Coroner . —What do you think had better be done in future ?

      Witness . —Had just ] been told by Mr Gooeh ofthe new mode adopted at Swindon , and thought that would be thc best mode in future . Mr . Gooch puts in a small V first , then a larger one , to the extent of _iliree V pieces , an 1 when they are united , he thon cuts out a piece on the inner rim , and puts in a small V there . Kuows the process of the stretching machine . Thoug ht an unsound tire might be strong enough to resist that , withoutaflaw being discovered , hut by the continued running of tho wheel , it would afterwards gradually give way . Mr . John Brathwaite _deposed that he was an engineer , living at 39 , Bedford-square . Had filled appointments on the eastern C _3 untics and several other railways . Had inspected the tire in question , and had also heard the evidence of Mr . Cubitt and Mr . M'Connell , and considered there could not be a doubt ol the fracture of the tire having been caused b y thc unsoundness of the weld , which extended to sixty

      degrees of the whole surface . Thought that no degree of foresight on the part of the examiners of the tiro couid have led theia to suppose the probability ofa fracture at that part . After much further evidence , of a nearly similar character , tho Coroner summed up . The Jury here retirod to consider their verdict , and after remaining absent about a quarter of an hour , returned to the inquest room , when The foreman , on the part of himself and brother jurors , anuounced thc following as the unanimous finding of the panel : —Tbat the deceased , Henry Bishop and Henry lleit , were accidentally killed by the breaking ot a certain tire attached to the _drivingwheel ofan engine belonging to the _Great Western Railway Company ; " and in returning this verdict , the jury strongly recommend that tho system of tastening the tires with screws , as advised by the engineers examined , should be invariably adopted foi thu future .

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      Puma with Fire-arsis . —A few days ago , while a young woman named Sarah Mitchell , a dressmaker , aged 34 , was at work in tho nursery of thc mansion of Mr . J . C . Roberts , Treval House , Treval , near Torpoint , the eldest son of Mr . Roberts entered the apartment , and , in a playful manner , asked the deceased to sing . She replied that she could not . He then laughingly remarked that he would shoot ber , and taking down a pistol which he had put away a few days previous , he put a percussion cap on the

      nipple . He then pointed the pistol to her head , pulled the trigger , little thinking that it was loaded _, l'he contents passed through hor temple , andsho immediately fell to the ground . The boy ' s screams brought the domestics lo the room , and she died in half an hour . The youth , who is 14 years of age , absented himself , and was discovered under some hay and straw in an outiiouso , where he had concealed himself from fear . Tho Jury being satisfied that the inelanoholly catastropho was purely the result of accident , a verdict to that eil'ect was returned .

      Death op as _Eccentuic _Chabacikb . —Mr . Mills lt « ldau inquest at Stainfield , near Staines , on Saturday , on the body of Mrs . Potts , a wealthy lad y , who had died suddenl y . From tho evidence , it appeared thatthe deceased was a most eccentric character . Uer delight was not only to take all tha medicines she could obtain , but also to compel others to do the same . When she visited a sick friend , she would empty the physic bottles and pill boxes , and swallow their contents . Aloes constituted her favourite physic , and a physician stated that ho had prepared in twelve months as much aloes for her as would havo supp lied all Uxbridge . On removing her upper garments , 40 yards of flannel wero found swathed , rouail her body , Verdwt , •¦ Natural death . " .

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      Fall op mE Denby Dai * Viaduct on thb IIud-DBRSFIELD AMD SHEFFIELD- J _' toCIION RAILWAY . —The dreadful gale of wind , whieh prevailed Jast week did considerable damage to the wood viaduct , in course ot erection , at Denb y Dale . Our of forty perpendicular supporters , twenty-seven were blown down , and such was tho distance they had to fall ( 100 feeth mat tho strongest timbers were broken into splintersand match wood . « _i ! . T l _"rTwo labourers of _EasenhaHj _» t . T _' ' have been suffocated bv a coal-fire _Srim . m a panand pI - _" cedi * - their wS _^ "" _^ r th \ ° - ° L Edv T ar th e Confessor , which is made of oak , is 000 years old ; and one ofthe oaken coronation chairs , in Westminster Abbey has been the occupant of its present position < 540 i ycttio *

      Guw _Cotto _** . —We understand that Dr . Barron the accredited agent in this country for Schonbein ' s gun cotton , is shortly expected to superintend a series of trial experiments in Standedge tunnel , on the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway . Mendicity . —The number of beggars has lately increased in Huddersfield to an alarming extent , many of wh « m are destitute Irish . Worthy or Imitation . —There exists an excellent institution in Leipsic for procuring employers for the working classes . During the year 1846 , there were , on the part of the former , 5 , 023 applications , and 4 , 963 persons were provided with suitable work . The entire expense of the establishment was 5 , 978 dollars . Glory . —It is estimated that 1 , 500 Americans have died of sickness along the Rio Grande , more than three times the number who have fallen in battle .

      Consolation . —An inhabitant of Corfu , who recently returned from S p itzbergen , after an absence of 28 years , found his wife in very good health , but the widow of three husbands . A Great Fact—Died , on the lst January , 1847 , aged ninety-three , Mr . John _Cushing , of Llursford , Norfolk , being father , grandfather , and great-grandfather , to 129 children . Daily Newspapers ih Glasgow , —A dnily newspaper is about to be set up in Glasgow , under ihe title of fhe Glasgow daily Press . Mexican Patriotism . —A wealthy Mexican _laiiy , after the disasters at Monterey , tendered at Santa Anna 100 horses and 100 mules to carry on the war .

      Caged Aristocrats . — 'Ihe Reforme states that "the criminal prison of La Force and the Concicrgerie arc at present peopled with almost as many nobility as the Faubourgh St . Germain . On the 15 th of last month those prisons contained 28 gentlemen , 11 knights of the Leg ion of Honour , 7 Barons , 0 Visc » unts , 5 Counts , and 2 _Marqtiis 3 es . " T'ib British Colonies . —A " _1-lue Book " of 355 pages in length has just been issued from the Parliamentary Paper-office . It contnins voluminous despatches and documents relative to the _stato of the _labouring population in the West Indies and the Mauritius , in continuation of the papers presented last year .

      Sin R . Prel ' s Labourers . — Sir Robert Peel has directed that the wages ofthe labourers employed on his estate be augmented from twelve to fifteen shillings per week . PnoTESTAST Churches re China . —Some _Prottatant converts are stated to have succeeded in establishing several churches in thc interior of China . Railways in Rome . —Lieutenant Waghorn , It . N . thc well-known originator and pioneer of the overland route to India has arrived at Rome , with M r . Austin , the eminent engineer , and other assistants , sent out at the expense of the British government and the Hon . East India Company , with the

      sanction ol Pope Pius Ia , . _indtheKingolxVapies , to survey the projected lines of railway through Brindisi at thc south , to Bologna at the north , via Ancona . Royal Humane Society . —On Saturday the annual report ofthe society was issued . 174 persons have been restored by the means adopted for restoring suspended animation by the society ' s officers ; 26 were beyond recovery . 14 silver and 31 bronze medals and pecuniary rewards havebeen given to 162 individuals for courageous conduct in saving human life ; and 70 persons were rescued during the recent skating season by the society ' s men , only one _terminating fatally .

      Distcrba _\ ces . —Accountsfrom Jassy _. in Moldavia , of the 14 th ult ., state that a serious outrage had occurred at _Galatz on the occasion of the _fOto of the Greek church . A mob of about two thousand persons broke open and pillaged the Jews Synagogue and several of their houses , nnd killed several of the Jews . Small-Pox is Belgium . —The small-pox continues to rage in several localities in the environs of Brussels , and especially atMolenbeck , St . Jean .

      Elopemhm to Gretna _Gueen—On the 23 r _< l ult , Mr . Wiiliim Hope , son of Lnmnx Hope , Esq ., of Baholme Cannoby , was married , atthe ahove 'iIkcc . to Miss Jane Donaldson , daughter of thc Rev . James Donaldson , of Cannoby Manse . The fair iady , it wouid appear , had been narrowly watched , or rather confined to her room for some _waeks , but "Love laughs at locksmith ' , " and sheeffectcd her escape _, iler lover was in waiting , they took the road for Longtown , and from thence took a post chaise to Gretna Green ,

      Glut op Fish—On Monday _. tipwanls of 100 tons of sprats and plaice were landed at Billingsga e , the former fish bting retailed at 3 tb . for ono penny , and plaice of larger sixe selling for one halfpenny each . Demolition of Um * En St . Martin ' s Lanb . —On Friday tho whole of the houses on the east side of Upper St . Miirtin ' s Lane , vested in the Mercers ' Company , were being demolished for the formation of the new street from the west-end of Long-acre so carried into King-street , Covent-garden , and ultimately extended to the point of junction ofllolborn _, New and Old Oxford-streets , and Tottenhara-Court-Road . Birth E . xt'iaqrdi . vary . —Lately , thc wife of William Leedhnui , collar-maker , of Y 02 ca . ll , was safely _delivered ofa male child , and on tho following day , of two other m : ile children .

      Dkatii ov Mr . James Toole , the City Toastmaster . —After a very short but severe illness , the above celebrated attendant on all the principal public dinners , both political and oharitable , died on Monday at his residence . _Murdrb in a Rail-WAV * Carriage . —Thc ' Swiss National Gazette ' of tl . e 27 th ult , contains the following details of an atrocious murder committed in a rail way carriage : — " A person whose name is unknown took a seat at Mai _. heim in a railroad carnage with a ticket lor Carlsruhc . Three other individuals of respectiiblo appearance shortly afterwards placed themselves in the same carriage , strangled thc first , rilled his pockets , and quitted the carriage at Heidelberg . Tha crime was not discovered until the train arrived at C . vrlsruhe , when the man was fouud in thc corner of the _carriase dead and alread y cold .

      The A ' ew Planet Curistened . —The Bureauz de 3 Longitudes nf Paris has agreed with the principal _astronomersof Europe , such as Enckc , Gausz , Hcrschel , and Struve , in giving thc name of Neptune to the new planet discovered by M . LeVerrier . The sign _, of this planet in celestial map 3 is to be a trident . The Cholera—A letter from Trehisond , of tho 2 Gth December , states that accounts have been kcceived there from Persia , stating that thc cholera had disappeared , except at _Oraiiah , but fears were cntcrtai led that it would make its appearance again in several places in the spring . Pedestmax Match for _Fm-ty Pounds —On **¦ - turday _moruiug , the match _, in which _Wlinrton , ot Whitechapel , was backed to run ten miles _winD'acne hour , came off over two miles of road at . U _* _£ kaey _* Ilowontha match by _performing the ten . miles of road in filly-nine minutes . in an easy manner ..

      _IMI'ROV _' . MK . VTS AT Tlia _ADELPni-TESIL-eCB ,. — On Friday , the dilapidated _talustrade on _theAdelplutcrrace , that has for some time past been in a very dangerous state , was vemoved , It is to be- replaced by a , light iron palisade . Suicide b y Ju . mw * jSi from a Wisdow . —Lately , W . D . Trail , late accountant , whilst labouring , it is supposed , under insanity , threw himself _frosa the upper window of an e & _i ' sng-house in Queen-street , Hull , kept by a _persoa named Hewson . lie died almost immediately .

      A Miser . — A man , aged 77 , who has been long living in the _Quarter dea _Italiens as if in a _stateoi penury , denying himself thc common _nccessariea of life , was iound dead on Wednesday . On tho room being searched by the police it was found to contain , in different holes and corners , mixed with crusts ol bread , bits of broken glass , and other refuse , 20 , 000 f . in bank-notes , 880 f . in gold , and 88 . COM in silver Curtailment . —A singular railway accident took placo a few days since at Orton , _Westmai-eland . The tail of a pointer dog , which was standing upon tho railway , _v-ascut off by a passing tram . Longevitt of TnE DONKEY . —A donko ? belonging to Mr . Gandcy , OS Upper Bedford-street , Brighton , died on Monday hut at the advanced age ol a hundred Years ! It w , as a great favourite with its master , m \ _vm wil _voided tor u- > U > tlio time ot death .

      Tnu Army . —For some weeks past a rumour has ., prevailed that an augmentation of the army was to take place . We can assuro ouv readers that no roal foundation exists for auy such report . With the i exception of the organiz ition of a Local Corps for service in New Zealand , no increase of our military strength is intended . — Ciited Service Gazette . Liberation of Madame Laffahge . — Tlio French correspondent of thc Adas announces that this criminal , concerning whom so intcuso and factitious an interest has been kept up , is about to be liberated . Extraordinary Threshing Macuisk . —A threshing machine has been built by Mr . Staple , .. n Mv . T . Audrews farm , at Burthy Row , in tho pur . sh ot Saint Enoder _, which has threshed . 1 , 200 sheaves of com in an hour , with a coup le of small horses , going ata very moderate pace . Oran ge Manufactories . - _^ St . Giles ' s there _i _*> a manufactory of oranges , at which bad _oraos-o-i

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      could be made Jinto apparently good ones . The i ro cess pursued was the submitting o f unripe and in . ferior oranges to tho action of steam , or parboiling them . Thi * made them swell , filled out their rinds , and made them thin , the usual external sign that the fruit was good . To give them the Jast polish , and heighten their outward attraction , they were rubbed with a greasy piece of flannel , or with somethin " more objectionable . " Embezzlement of Diamonds—Mr . Forrester , tho distinguished member oftlie _London _defective force , has been in Dundee , on the look-out for a party who has absconded with diamonds of the value of £ 3 , 300 in his possession . Tm Convict liviK at Woolwich . — Sir Georga Grey , Secretary of State for the Home Department , has ordered the strictest investigation relative to tliostatements made in the House of Commons by Thomas Duncombe , Esq ., M . P ., on the evening of Thursday last , relative to tho convicts at Woolwich , and the investigation is now in

      progress . Thb Dure of Devonshire has subscribed only £ 40 to the soup shop at Dungarvan , which would give ' but a quart of soup for three days to each of hia own paupers in that town , ' for every quart of it costs three half-pence . His Grace should , at least , give £ _ff , 0 Oi > , and not allow his paupers to be supported ' by the bounty' of others . _Qiubiir . —There is some expectation in the city that Government intends to raise a loan of some six or eight millions to meet the exigencies of the year . —Brighton Herald . Great _Econujit i . v MAKtNft Bread . — Boil ont ? pound of _unground Carolina rice in water until quite tender , then add to it six pounds of Hour . Knead and bake in the usual way . Of course barn and water are used in the usual proposition . The bread will be very sweet and moist for several days . Tbis p lan , being very economical , deserves general attention .

      I isn for Manurb . —Myriads of bushels of sprats - arc now being caught in the Lower Swinn , off tha Essex coast , and sold to tho farmers for manure , at the _rateoiSd . per bushel . Outcasts . —According to a writer in tho ' Quarterly Review , ' out of 2 , 945 children in 15 ragged schools , 249 had never slept in beds . Ilia Majesty . —My lord , the railway kine , has qualified as a magistrate for the North Riding of Yorkshire . VVhat ' s in a Name ?—Tho Custom-house authorities of this port were called on last week to register , under the Merchant Seamen ' s Act , an indenture of apprenticeship , for a lad boon 1 to tho sea service , and ,, odd as it may appear to our readers , that the master ' s name was " Fudge , " and the apprentice 18 " Gamun . "—Western Lvminarv .

      Lamentablk _Accide . m . —On Thursday week , an inquest was held before W . S . Ruttcr , Esq ., coroner , at the Unicorn Inn , Kcrsiey , on the bodies of James Cowsill , aged 40 ; William Cowaill , his son ; Peter Harrison , aged 38 ; and William Johnson , aged 30 , all brick-Belters , whose deaths had beon caused by suffocation whilst at tlieir work in a coalpit . A verdict was returned by the jury of "Died from suffocation . " Takin g the Veil . —A few days ago , at Bristol , four young ladies from the north of England , one of whom , Miss Lynch , of Liverpool , is said to be possessed of a handsome fortune , took tho white or novice's veil of the Sisters of Penance of the third order of St . Dominic , an establishment of which order haa _reeer . tly been commenced in Bristol .

      1 his _fecoTciiIno . N Trade . —Glasgow , Jan . 30 —The price of Scotch pig iron , 6 fcVv \ , _-i * _'i-d irecon board here , may be quoted to-day at 72 s . Gd . _pev ton net cash for the usual proportion of Nos . Our market ' . _- _.-A-i _a- * - sumed a firmer aspect , and though there have been but limited sales at the above quotation and 74 s . three months' credit , tho price tends upwards . Attack uro . v a _Gamekelper . — On Tuesday the police received information that , on . he night of the 20 th ult ., at Muclclcy , near Muck Wcnlock , in the county of Salop , Abel Martin , gamekeeper , to Eari Granville , was so severely beaten by a poacher that no hopes are entertained ofhis recovery . The Distressed Irish and Scotch . — Mr . Bunn , of Drury-lane 'fliuatve , has . in the handsomest manner , appropriated tho receipts of M _.-mlay next lor the lietieiit of the Irish nnd Scotch . Tho committee

      of thc theatre have agreed to allow the use uf tho theatre free of rent , and every artist and employer of the establishment have consented to give their services _gratuitously on this occasion . Ockam Penny IWagk . —What then , shou'd England do t _> i bring all nations of men within the range of the vital functions of that heart-relation which she sustains to the world ? Answer—Let Iut establish an "Ocean Penny _Postage . _"—Eliiil- _Ilt-Kiti-jr . The Et . _Ecniic Telegraph . —It is proposed to extend the electric telegraph , wliich is now in _course of being laid down under thc principal thoroughfares in London , to the several lire-brigades stutions , in order to _ci-nvey instant information of lire 3 . Ince . \ diai . ism . —Several incendiary fires have lately occurred in ihe lower districts of Lincolnshire . Punch and Prussia . —The Prussian censorship has forbidden thc admission of Punch , whieh is henceforth to be stopped at the frontiers .

      Hudson Land —The name of Hudson ' s New Town has been given to tho extensive factories in connection with the engine and can-age works of the Eastern Counties Railway Company near Stratford , Essex , and tothe COO houses and church for the _accummod-ition of the company ' s workmen . Fate of Pope ' s Skull . — Mr . Howitt , in his " Homes and Haunts of British Poets " ' sii , vs that tho skull of Pope now ornaments thc private collection of a phrenologist . Fifty pounds were piiid to iiiamigo the transaction with the sexton of the church in which the poet was buried . Education if Native Indian _Youmns London — It is contempla'cd to establish a fund toward . *! the formation ofa school in the University College , London , for the education of Indians in the several branches of science , and to prepare them for the different professions in their own country .

      Roman Catholics . —In Great Britain the Roman Catholics _posse-ss C 22 churches and chapels , 14 colleges , 31 convents , . ind S monasteries . Navvy Gratitude . —A school was opened four months since at Pettinain , for tho instruction of the ' navies ' on the Caledonian Railway , and lately they entertained their schoolmaster to a splendid supper . Hbpsesentatios of _Lt-. _v-iBS . — Inconsequence of the retirement of Sir Howard Elphinstone from the representation ot _Lc-. _ves , which it is expected will be announced in a few days , Mr . Lyon has annouced himself as a candidate lor tho borough in the Conservative interest : and the Honourable Mr . Br ; . nd is expected to come forward on thc Liberal side .

      Isle of Man . —At a meeting of the House of Keys , on Tuesday last , a petition to the Queen was adopted , praying for a grant of _JE ; " _> , _900 outof tho surp lus revenue of ihe island , to purchase food to be sold to the labouring population at a price commen * s * irato with their cannings . The _Chine-e . —My . Gtttzlaff , thc well known missionary , thinks the Chinese the most prolilic nation in the world—all marry , aud not me marriage in a hundred is unproductive . Misery in Glv _* - » .. w . _—D- \ Wail , of Crl . _iigovf , estimates the population of that town at Ul _* i , 100 . lie attributes the undue mortality oJGIasgow not to any general insaltih * titv , but to thc toil Judging , deficient clothing , and peer diet , ofa vast numberof the inhabitants .

      _ruocKssio _t-. o * - the Host . —The Tablet announces that the other day , in Kcniish Town , for the first time _perhaps in England , since the Ret oniiatioti , the Holy Eucharist was caroetl through the streets , with the lights blnxing , nud in full procession , to visit the _tluath bed of a _faitiHul departing . The sensation prodiSii'tHl amon » ths- Protestants iu tits neighbourhood was indescribable . [ These ridiculous doings oft the Unman Catholics , if persevered in , will re-aivakea Protestant _jjanaticism , and s _» mar t he work of religious Jib & yality _, which all good men should labour to _pivmsie ]

      _RoaiiBALV . MtiNTiai * Cattle Fair —Tiiere was a very poor show uf hm : aed cattle in the fan on Monday , but the attendance of farmers , iiutchers , and graziers was small Calving rows were selling afc from four to seven per test , lower than , last month , and scarcely tin _tuwrage number wen * s -Id . Drapes were also lower in prices , and but few _cham-ed hands . Good _oU * hay was telling at from four pence half-penny to _s & pcnec per stonf , and straw at two pence hnlf-pem & v ami three penes per stone . A Real _Cvwmity . —At Conciliation-hall , a fewdays a * _-o , Mi * . O'Coiincllroso with melancholy face , and said , " i am sorry to say the Repeal lent tor the week _i' only £ 15 . _lGs . j ) . ' . " Sony to _sivy it , 1 With thousands perishing with hunger ! Fur our part , we _scuk upon every farthing paid to the Rcj eal fund at . the present time as so much plundered frem 1 bellies of the famishing . But there are i * w » e i _patriots \* . ho would ring shillings upon coffin-lid * . — : Punch . . ... .

      Ei ? BAOIID 1 _NARY lu _**? KCTS OF LlOIITNlNO . —Oil VI _Clinesday evening , about nine o clock , the lightning _lcscentled tlie chimney of _Willinm Moir , of 40 , _Grosvoiior-strcct , Ilo _* . _o-hill , Liverpool , and blew out the _snop-window , with : \\\ its contents into thc street . Thero were live pert-mis sitting round the lire , none of whom wore Inn" * , except a lad , who was stunk on tho knee b y a brick from the chimney . From the Tlt , kisii _Frostieiw , Januiry _.----Tiie Servian Government is wiil to be in posses ion ot documents , whieh manifes tly prove the intent . on , ou the part or Ilussia , to excite an _insarrpcliou in Bulgaria . Ri . _* . _' _-ou _* tr . D Death or Sir Valentixe Llam _:.-. \ loUer was _m-civrd in town this morning an _:-nuncM-g the death of Sir Vi . lcn _' . ino Ulake , Bart ., _whosu _•* - _sK ? o of tno _rcprescniation ot GaIv _.-av h _,, ' , dto ! t _uU ) te _»* ' which is io _ti't'e place in that borowfih . -

      _Dullni paper . _. Death * - r . _v Burning in Pkestox . _—Dui'i- 'B tho hst tew weeks , thcie have beon a great number of _( . Viidr . n burned to death in Preston , chii _rog'ect of their p _uent ? . Last wpek . tl thuu five ; and the present week Monday y ith another vieVlW .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06021847/page/3/