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      i September 7 , 1850 . THE _JSTORTHERN ST _^ R _. — — " ~— _^ ~ i . _itjj l ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦ " ¦ _., _"

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      _USISSCRIBED TOMB OF EMMET . ( From tbe Dublin Comet . ) 'let my tomb remain nninscribea , and my memory m oblivion , until otber times and other men candojustice to jay character . ' «« Pray tell me , " I said to an old man who _**^ r _« » Drooping over the graves which his own hands « Pra _^ _teKVe name of the tenant who sleeps _^ _SHonder lone shade where the sad willow ¦ _ErerySfis engraved with the name of the dead . _J $ ut vcr black slab declares not whose spirit is

      fled . " In silence he bowed , then beckoned me nigh , Jill we stood o ' er the grave—then he said Tfith a sigh , . . « ycs thev dare not to trace e en a word pa this stone , To the memory of him _ttiio sleeps coldly alone ; He told them—commanded the lines o ' er his grave , Should never be traced by the hands of a slave . " "H e bade them tq shade e ' en , his name in the gloom Jill the morning of freedom shonld shine on his tomb , < When the flag of my country at liberty flies , Then—then let my name and my monument rise . ' Ton see they obeyed him : 'tis forty-six years , And tbey still come to moisten Ms grave with their

      • tears . "He was young , like yourself , and aspired to o ' erthrow The tyrants who filled his loved island with -woe j They crushed his bold spirit : this earth was cOnfined , Too scant for the range of his luminous mind . " He paused , and the old man went slowly away , And . l felt , as he left me , an impulse to pray . _4 _Jrant Heaven I may see , ere my Own days are . done , A monument rise o ' er my country ' s lost son . And , oh , proudest task , be it mine to indite Tbe long-delayed tribute a freeman must write , Till then shall its theme in my breast deeply dwell So peace to thy slumber , dear shade , fare thee well .

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      Alloa Locke, Tailor And Foetj An Autobio...

      Alloa Locke , Tailor and Foetj an Autobio graphy . Two Vols . Chapman and Hall , London , 18-50 . We understand the author of this remarkable and admirable exposition of ihe _rotteness of ddt political and social system is a clergyman cf the Established Church . Itis thoroughly and sensibly in earnest , and is one of the finest , deepest , and most eloquent invectives against society ever issued from the press . The intimate knowledge of the actual condition and hardships of the working classes , exhibited by the writer , is perfectly marvellous for a person occupying his position ; and in

      these days , when so many ofthe class to which he belongs are devoting the whole of their energies to the restoration of the ancient despotism of the clerical order , it is gratifying to think that so powerful a counterblast should have been sounded from the same quarter . The author avows himself a Chartist , the principles of which party he boldly and forcibly upholds . He shows himself fully aware of the miseries of our so-called civilisation . Much and often as we "have heard of the foul black stains npon this gilded metropolis of ours , their foulness and blackness has seldom been so eloquently , never so vividly , described . To a true and touching sincerity of purpose , the author adds a felicity of description and expression rarely surpassed in modern

      literature . One object of Alton Locke is to depict the sufferings of the town and country poor , arising , in the city , from the cupidity of capitalists and the pressure of competition—in the country , from tlie want of capital and of spirit among the farmers . Another is to exhibitthe character and feelings of the citizen , self-edncated enough to speculate upon what is passing around bim , to be -wounded by -what he undergoes , and to look for social amelioration through political change . In the concrete , the work is evidently intended to uphold the principles of the Charter , and to advocate the adoption of a refined Communism , "with a democratic Christianity for its basis . The form into which the author has cast his

      matter is that ofthe autobiographical fiction . Alton Locke , the hero , is the son of a small tradesman , -whose brother has risen in life in proportion as himself has sunk . After a struggle , the poor man dies " of bad debts and a broken heart ; " leaving Alton in charge of his mother , a rigid and sour Calvinist . His dreamy boyhood in a mean suburban street , his occasional glimpses of London and the country , his natural notions of God in contrast _Tvith those of his mother and the "

      ministers" "who sponge npon her , poor as she is , are very ably done . In his early teens , Alton Locke , by means of his uncle , is placed with a "West-end tailor ; and the account of his selfeducation , through the instrumentality of an old Scotch bookseller , -with the low humours of a tailor's workshop , occupies some space . On a quarrel originating in his reading Milton and TirgiL his mother turns him ont of doors .. He takes up his abode with Sandy Mackaye , the bookseller ; joins a friend resisting a reduction for wages ; turns Chartist ; gets a living by -writing for Chartist newspapers and cheap publications ; and publishes a volume of poems -with some success . Doubts , however , having

      been thrown upon his honesty , in a rage he undertakes a country mission ; the rustics are too obtuse to understand his politics—instead of agitating for the Charter , they plunder a farm-yard , setting fire to what they cannot carry off ; and Alton Locke is condemned for riot , & c ., and sentenced to three years' imprisonment . On his release he joins the abortive plot of the 10 th of April , catches a fever , through accompanying an old fellow workman to one of the dens iri which poverty shelters ; and on his recovery is converted to the Christianity we spoke of , by a charitable lady , and , in company -with a brother Chartist , departs for Texafe , bnt dies in sight of land .

      Such is the machinery , in connexion -with a love plot , the author has chosen for -working out the objects we have enumerated . A few _ ctracts will serve to indicate his manner , and the variety of his style . Here is a description and a defence of the intellectual poor : — Ay , respectable gentlemen and ladies , I will confess all to you—you shall have , if you enjoy it , a fresh opportunity for indulging that supreme pleasure which the press daily affords you , of insulting the classes whose powers most of you know as little as you do their sufferings . Tes ; the Chartist poet is vain , conceited , ambitions , uneducated , shallowinexperiencedenvious _^ ferocious ,

      scur-, , _rilous , seditions , traitorous . "Is your charitable vocabulary exhausted f ' Then ask yourselves , how -often have yon yourself honestly resisted ' and _conjured the temptation to any one of these sins , when it ha 3 come across yon just once in a way , ' and . not as they came to me ' , as they come to thousands of the working men , daily and hourly , " till'their torments do , by length of time , become their _elements ? mat ! are we covetous too ? ' Yes ! Aud if those who have , like you , still covet more , what wonder rf those who have nothing covet something ? Profligate top ? _^? e 1 , though that imputation as a generality is utterly calumnious , ' though your amount of respectable animal enioyment _ner

      annum 13 a Hundred times as great as that ofthe most self-indulgent artisan ; yet , it you had ever felt what it is to want , not only every liixurv of the senses , but even bread tb eat ' , you would think more mercifnllyof the man who makes up hy " rare excesses , and those only bf the limited kinds possible to hini-, for long intervals of dull privation and says in his madness , "Let us eat and drink for _to- morrow-we die ! " "We have onr sins , and ybu have yours . OurBraay be the more ' gross and _barfcaric , but yours are none the less damnable ; perhaps allthe more so , - for being the sleek , subtle reliious sins

      respectable , g they are . , Ton are frantic enough If our part of the press calls you hard names , but you cannot see that your part ofthe press repays It back tons with interest . ' IF * see those insults ; and feet them ' bitterly enough-and do not forget them / alas ! soon- enough , whOe they pass unheeded by your delicate eyes * as trivial truisms , . Horrible , unprincipled , villanouB , _sediitiora _, frantic ,, _bliwpbemoas , are epithets of course when applied to—to now large a portion ' of tnefEng hsh . people , 7 ou will some'da _^ _diswreT to your astonishment . ' " When ' will ' that'day Wme , and how ? « thunder , and storm , and garments rolled in

      Alloa Locke, Tailor And Foetj An Autobio...

      blood ? _orhkethedewon the : mown grass , and the clear shining of the sunlight after April rain ? One of the most graphic passages in the book is the description of his introduction to the tailors workshop , and of its inmates , upon whom the combined influences of physical and moral deterioration had surely and sadly , done their work . I stumbled after Mr . Jone 3 np a dark , narrow , iron staircase , till we emerged through a trap-door into a garret at the top of the house . I recoiled with disgust at the scene before me ; and here I was to work—perhaps _throush life ! A low lean-to hlood ? or hkethedewi on the : _mnm „ _-. _ . _„„

      -room , stifling me with the combined odours of human breath and perspiration , stale beer , tho sweet sickly smell of gin , and the sour and hardly less disgusting one of new cloth . . On the floor , thick with dust and dirt , scraps of stuff and ends of thread , sat down some haggard , untidy , shoeless men , with a mingled look of care and recklessness that made me shudder . The windows , were tight closed to keep out the cold winter air ; and the condensed breath ran in streams down the panes , chequering tho dreary out look of chimney tops and smoke . The conductor handed me over to one of tbem , "

      A burst of chatter rose as the foreman vanished , and a tall , bloated , sharpnosed young man next me bawled in my ear , — " What do you mean ?" "'Ainthe just green ?—Down with the stumpya tizzy for a pot of half-and-half . ' ' " 1 never drink beer . " . " Then never do , " whispered the man at my side ; " as sure as hell ' s hell , it ' s your only chance . " There was a fierce , deep earnestness in the tone which made me look up at the speaker , but the other instantly chimed in , — " Oh , yer don ' t , don't yer , my young Father Mathy ? then yer'll soon learn it here if yer want to keep yer victuals down . " " And I bave promised to take my wages home to my mother . "

      " 0 criminy ! hark to that my coves ! here's a chap as is going to take the blunt home to his mammy . " ' "T ' aint much of it the old ' un see , " said another . " Yen yer pockets it at the Cock and Bottle , my kiddy , yer won't find much of it left o' Sunday mornings . " " I say , young'un , do you know why we ' re nearer heaven here tban our neighbours ?" I shouldn't have thought so , " answered I with a naivete which raised a laugh , and dashed the tall man for a moment . "

      " Ter don't ? then Til tell yer . A cause we ' re a top of the Louse in the first place , and next place yer'll die here six months sooner nor if yer worked In the room below . 'Aint that logic and science , Orato ? " appealing to Crosthwaite . "Why ? " asked I . "A cause you get all the other floor stinks * up here as well as yonr own . Concentrated essence of man ' s flesh , is this here as you ' re a breathing . Cellar . workrooms we calls Rheumatic Ward , because ofthe damp . Ground-floor ' s Fever Ward—them as

      don't get typhus gets dysentery , and them as don ' t getdysente _' ry gets typhus—your nose'd tell yer why if you opened the back windy . First floor ' s Ashmy Ward—don ' t you hear ' um now through the cracks in the boards , a puffing away like a ne 3 t of young locomotives ? And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital . First you begins to cough , then you proceeds to expectorate—spittoons , as you see , perwided free gracious for nothing—fined a kivarteu if you spits on the floor . "

      This is a true specimen of the actual thing . Tet it is the abode , not of ignorance or inexperience , but the work-room of a first-class tailor , a man of wealth , and , as he is afterwards described , an excellent specimen of his class , and a far better man than his successor , who takes up the " sweating system , " and deprives the workmen of half the wages earned in this pestilential atmosphere . Here is a forcible censure upon the government for its complicity in this infernal system of robbery .

      Government—government ? Tou a tailor , and not know that government are the very authors of this system ? 25 ot to know that they first set the example , by getting the 2 rmy and navy clothes made by contractors , and taking the lowest tenders ? Hot to knew tbat tbe piltce clothes , tbe postman's clothes , the convicts' clothes , are all contracted for on the same infernal . plan , by sweaters , and sweater ' s sweaters ; and sweater ' s sweater ' s sweaters till government work is just the very last , lowest resource to whieh a poor starred-out wretch betakes himself to keep body and soul together ? Why , the government prices , in almost every department , are half , and less than half , the very lowest living

      price . I tell you , the careless iniquity of government about these things will come out some day . It will be known , tbe whole abomination , and future generations will class it with the tyrannies of the Roman emperors and the Kormon barons . Why , it ' s a fact , that the colonels of the regiments—noblemen , most of them—make their own vile profit out of us tailors—out ofthe pauperism of the men . the slavery of the children , the prostitution ofthe women . They get so much a uniform allowed them by government to clothe the men with ; ahd thenthen , they let out the jobs to the contractors at less than half what government gives them , and pocket the difference . And then you talk of appealing to

      government . One quality of the author is the power of _bringing rapidly together the real or apparent falaciesof the time that pass for arguments , in snch a manner as to seem to expose their emptiness . . This attack upon the modern system of business is a specimen . Well , one day our employer died . He had been one ofthe old sort of _fasionable West-end tailors in the fast decreasing honourable trade ; keeping a modest shop , hardly to be distinguished from a dwelling house , except by his name on the window-blinds . He paid good prices for his work , though not as good , of course , as he had given twenty years before , and nrided himself upon having all his work done at

      home . His work-rooms , as I have said , were no elysiums ; but still as good , alas ! as those of three tailors out of four . He was proud , luxurious , foppish ; but he was honest and kindly enough , and did many a generous thing by men who had been long in his employ . At all events , his journeymen could live on what he paid them . But his son , succeeding to the business , determined , like Rehohoam of old , to go a-head with the times . Fired with the great spirit of the nineteenth century—at least with that one which is vulgarly considered its especial glory—he resolved to make haste to be rich . His father had made money very slowlv of late ; while dozens , who had begun business long after him , had now retired to luxurious

      ease and suburban villas . Why should he remain in the minority ? Why should he not get rich as fast as he could f Why should he stick to the old , slow-going , honourable trade ? Out of some four hundred and fifty West-end tailors , there were not one hundred left who were old-fashioned and stupid cnonghto go on keeping down their own profits by having all their work done at home and at first hand . Ridiculous scruples ! The government knew none such . Where not the army clothes , the Post Office clothes , the policemen's clothes , furnished by contractors and sweaters , wbo hired the work at low prices , and let it out again to journeymen at still lower oneB ? Why should he pay his men two shillings where the government paid them one ?

      Were there not cheap houses even at the West-end , which had saved s everal thousands a year merely by reducing their workmen's wages ? And if tho workmen choose to take lower wages , he was not bound actually to make them a present of more than they asked for ! They would go to the cheapest market for anything they wanted , and so must he . Be _* _-ides , wages had really heen quite exorbitant ; Half his men threw each of them as much money away in gin and beer yearly as would pay two workmen at -a cheap houBe . "Why was he to be robbing his family of comforts to pay for their extravagance ? and charging his customers , too ,

      unnecessarily high prices?—it was really robbing the public ! Sucb , I suppose , were some of the arguments which led to an official announcement , one Saturday night , that our young employer intended to enlarge his establishment , for the purpose of commencing business iii the " show trade ; " and ' that , emulous of Messrs . Aaron , Levi , and the rest of that class , magnificent- alterations were to take place in the premises ; to make room for which , our work-rooms were to be demolished ; and that for that reason _** for of ' course it was only for that' reason—all work would in'future be given out , to be made up at the men ' s own homes .

      TVe might have extracted numerous highly wrought dramatic pictures of real life , but our space warns us to conclude with the following unanswerable argument for granting the Charter , as far as the working classes are concerned . Why , didn't they tell us , before the Reform Bill , that extension of tbe suffrage was to cure everything ? And how can you have too much ofa good thing ? -We ' ve only taken them at their word , we Chartists .: -Haven't all politicians been preaching for years that England ' s national greatness was all owing ,, to her political institutions- _^ to Magna ynarta , and the Bill of Rights , and representative _pwbamenfe ; ' and all that ? It' was but' the other _^• tfu _^^ : 0 _* 80 me Tory paper , that talked _aboutf * _htfEuglM h ; constitution _^ nd the . balance , of i _yaeea , _ _sros , and Commons , as tha " _TaUsmanio

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      Palladium of the country . 'Gad , we'll see if a move onward in the same line won ' t better the matter . ir the balance" of classes is such a blessed thing , the sooner we get the balance equal , the better ; fer its rather lopsided just now , no one can deny . So , representative institutions- are tbe talismanic palladium of the nation , aro they ? The palladium of the classes that have them , I dare say ; and that ' s the very best reason why the classes that haven ' t got ' em should look out for the same palladium for themselves , What ' s sauce / or the gander is sauce for the goose , isn't it ? We'll trywe'll see whether the talisman they talk of bas lost its . power all of a sudden since ' 32—whether we can ' t rub the magic ring a little for ourselves , and call up genii to help us out ' of the mire , as the shopkeepers and the gentlemen have done . . u .: ... _« _,

      Pictures Of The First French Revolution....

      Pictures of the First French Revolution . By M . Lamartine . Darnley . By _G-. P . B . James . Vols . XLV . and XL VI . of the " Parlour Library . '' Simms and M'Intyre , London . These two volumes worthily sustain tho character and excellence of this excellent and popular series of volumes , -which bring the productions of the best writers within the reach of the poor man , and enable him , at tbe cost of a shilling , to place on his book shelves as his own , works which a short time since he would have had to pay as much to a circulating library for liberty to read . The Pictures of the First French Revolution are selected from

      Lamartine ' s larger and well-known work , The JBistory ofthe Girondists , andpourtray vividly and powerfully many of the most exciting passages of the astounding and most thrilling of dramas that ever was acted on tho stage ofthe world . Comrnencing with a brief summary of causes which led to the revolution and its first outbreak , the volume presents , in succession , the leading incidents in the life of Louis XVI ., from the flight to Varennes to his execution by the gullotine , in what waB then the Place de la Revolution , now the Place de la Concorde , in front of the Tuileries . As specimens ofthe spirit in which the ex-member of the Provisional Government , formed by the third revolutionary crisis , treats the subject , we take the following : —

      TITE SENTENCE . The aspect of the town was menacing , the aspect ofthe Convention ominous . The passages and interior of tbe hall ofthe Convention seemed arranged for an execution rather than for the pronouncing of judgment . The hour , the place , the narrow avenues and sombre arches of . tbis gloomy monastery , the dim light of the few lamps that struggled with the shadows ofa winter ' s night , and threw a pallid shade upon every face ; the clash and glitter of arms at all the doors ; the pieces of cannon at the principal gates , by which the gunners stood match in hand , less to intimidate the people than to be ready to turn their pieces against the hall , if the fatal sentence was not pronounced ; the hoarse roar of the innumerable crowd filling up every adjacent street and pressing against the walls of the building , as if to catch the first murmur of the verdict : the

      movements of the patrols dashing aside the ocean of men to make way for the passage of some of the representatives who were late in arriving ; tbe costumes , the countenances , the bonnets rouges , the carmagnoles , the lowering brows , hoarse voices , and atrocious and significant gestures—all seemed calculated to make the inexorable fiat , already pronounced by the people , enter by every avenue of sense into the minds of the judges , "His death or thine ! " was the single sentence muttered in a low voice , but with an imperative accent , in the ear of each deputy as he threaded the groups to take up his position . Persons accustomed to attend the sittings of the Convention , and who knew each member by sight , were placed at stated distances , and these spies of the people named the deputies in a loud voice as they _parsed , pointing out the doubtful , threatening the timid , insulting the lenient , and applauding the inflexible .

      At the names of Marat , Danton , Robespierre , Collot d'Herbois , and Camille Desmoulins , the crowd parted with respect , to give passage to these men who represented the wrath of the people ; but when Yergniaud , Brissot , Lanjuinais , and Boissy d'Anglas passed , frowning brows , clenched hands , and pikes and sabres brandished over their heads , showed clearly that the people would be obeyed or revenged . The interior of the hall was dimly and unequally lighted ; the lustre which bung from the ceiling , and the lamps on the table , diffused a brilliant light through some portions of the hall , and along the vaulted roof , but throw the remainder into yet deeper obscurity . Tbe public tribunes which ascended gradually , as in an amphitheatre , till they met and blended with the elevated benches of the Mountain , were crammed with spectators as

      in a Roman circus ; and , as in these ancient spectacles , the front rows were crowded with women , their youthful faces adorned with tri-coloured ribbons , who sat chatting and laughing among themselves , exchanging bows and smiles , and only assuming a look of seriousness and . attention when reckoning the votes , and pricking them on a card with a pin as they were announced from tho tribune . Servants belonging to the hall moved about amongst the different benches , carrying trays loaded with ices , oranges , and other refreshments , which they distributed to these women . On the very highest grades of the circle were ranged the men of the people , in their ordinary working-day dross , eager and attentive , repeating in loud voices to one another the name and vote of the deputy who had been just called , and greeting him with applause or murmurs as he returned to bis seat . The lowest of

      tho public tribunes were occupied by butchers' apprentices , their blood-stained aprons tucked up at one side in _. their belts , and the handles of their long knives ostentatiously projecting from the folds of cloth that ; served them as a sheath . The open space in the centre of the hall was filled with a mingled crowd of spectators and deputies , surging and agitated like the waves of ocean , dividing every moment , to give passage to the voters _, as they were summoned to the tribune , or returned to their places , and closing again as they passed ; The first votes heard by the Assembly left all minds in uncertainty . Death and banishment resounded alternately , as if equally balanced . The king ' s fate rested evidently on the first vote given

      by a leader of the Girondists ; for this vote would no doubt determine those of his entire party , and from thoir numbers , if unanimous , the Girondists were certain of irrevocably deciding the majority . Thus life and deatb , in some degree , hung upon thc lips of Vergniaud , their leader . The voters were summoned according to the alphabetical order of tbeir departments , consequently every one watched with anxiety for the arrival of the letter G , which would summon to the tribune the deputies of the Gironde , and Vergniaud the first . As it was called , all conversation ceased , all eyes were turned upon him alone . He slowly mounted the steps ofthe tribune , collected himself for a moment , with his eyes bent on the ground like a man who reflects for the

      last time before acting , then in a low voice , as if struggling with the feelings which still appealed within him , he pronounced the word " _Deatli . The silence of astonishment seemed to have suppressed the very breathing in the hall . Robespierre ' s lip curled with an almost imperceptible smile ; Danton shrugged his shoulders , and whispered to Brissot , ' * Boast of your orators now : sublime words—coward acts ! What can be done with such men ? Speak to me no more of them ! Their party is lost . " Hope died away in the hearts of the few friends of the king who were concealed in the hall and amongst the tribunes . They felt that the victim was surrendered by the hand of Vergniaud , The voting continued . All the Girondists , Buzot ,

      Barbaroux , Pethion , Isnarn , Lasource , Salles , Brissot , Rebecqui ,. voted with Vergniaud for death . The greater number ' added , the condition of suspension of execution . The Mountflin , ' > lmost . without exception , voted for death . Robespierre , condensing in a few words the substance of his first discourse , attempted to reconcile his horror of the punishment ofdeath withthe condemnation that fell from his lips . He accomplished it by asserting that tyrants were an exception to humanity , and by declaring that his tenderness "for the oppressed prevailed in his heart over pity for the oppressor . The Duke of Orleans was summoned , the last . A profound silence followed his name . _Silleryj'his friend and confidant , had _votedagainst death ; . and every one expected claim

      that the pjirice would act like his friend , or exemption from voting in the name of nature ana kindred . Even the Jacobins considered him exempted , but he would not admit the plea himself . Slowly and . without emotion he ascended the tribune , unfolded a paper whieh he held in his hand , and read with a stoical demeanour the following words : — " Solely occupied with my duty , convinced that all those who ' havo attempted , or may attempt in future , to maintain a sovereignty over the people , merit death , I vote for death ! " These words were received in silence and astonishment , even by the to

      very party to whom the Duke of Orleans seemea offerthemas a pledge . No look , no gesture , no . voice rose even from the Mountain to applaud him ; a shudder ran along the benches and tribunes of the Assembly , and tbe Duke of Orleans descended from the tribune confused and doubtful from these first symptoms' of the effect of the act hehad committed . The examination of the votes was tedious and lull of doubt ' and anxiety . Death and life , as in a struggle , were alternately in the ascendant , accor ding as chance Had grouped the suffrages inthe' lists -drawn by ' the secretaries ' ., '' . . ';; . . ' __ "';; : " . _; Z ' _ ,. '< Vergniaud read the result / of the scrutiny . ¦ " » _cxmventf on ' consisted ef 727 Voters : of these m

      Pictures Of The First French Revolution....

      -Wh fid _-i-aWbpen- S or imprisonment ; 387 foi ZiS _^ P en » wn ' of the execution . The votes SSha : J < le < l ( , ? _\ thefwt - _-six ™ > _^ r J , ™ ' ? s _««» tion , there remained only an cientto SS ?* - br _? e Y 0 tes would have been 8 « ffitwelve oJ _« _£ J *™* - _» was therefore the flnn < r ? h » _rf « ' _- en ch _- f the Gironde who had iMenw _^ _% _^? I - * intftthe balance * Death _- the _^ GiSS W 18 h 0 fthe JaC ° bins Wa 8 tLe act ° _* The parting of the King -with his family , previous to _^ _his execution , is powerfully _descnoea . Ihe commissioners did not dare to allow the interview to be private .

      They deliberated , therefore , how best torecon-?* _£ l _» _w mten _^ n ° , f the decre _«' _* _t-he _rLour of _shouldtUS _^^ _. r _^* that _«» e _fe ting _nniutated bv lCe i , n ? d ™ nJ- ™ m , which _com-KTh . ; yaga ? sdoor with another apartment elves th _l n ommiss _*<>«* ers agreed to station themselves _, -the door was to remain closed upon the hnvf ? h - hl 8 faa _£ _K but the _commissionerfwould have their eyes fixed on them through the glass . By this means if their attitudes , _festures , and ItT'ZZ * Pr _° faned _» y the _glanced strangers " then * words at loast would be inviolable . A short time before tbe princesses descended , the king left the turret , enjoining his confessor not to aopear _, least the presence of a priest might recal the thought of death too vividly to tho mind of the queen . He then passed into the dinim ? -room to

      prepare the space necessary for the interview . Bring a glass and some water , " said he to his servant , ciery Bhowed him a carafe of iced water already on tbe . table . " Bring somo water that is not iced , said the king ; » for if the queen drank of that it might make her ill . " At length the door opened , and the queen , holding her son by the hand , was tbe first to enter . She sprang into tlio arms of the king , and ' mado a rapid movement as if to lead him into his own chamber , out of si _<* -ht of the •¦

      spectators . No no , " said the king in a low voice , pressing his wife to his heart , and drawing her back into the dining-room , ' " I can only see you here . " Madame Elizabeth followed withthe princess royal , and Clery closed the door on them . The king gently forced Marie Antoinette into a chair at his right hand , and placed Madame Elizabeth on his left , while he took his place between them . The chairs were so close that tho two princesses , as they bent over him , encircled his neck with their arms , and laid their heads upon his breast

      . Tbe princess royal , with her head supported upon his knees , and her long hair falling around her , seemed half prostrated before him . The dauphin was seated on his father ' s knee , with one arm passed round his neck . These five persons , thus grouped by the instinct of tenderness , and convulsively pressed in eachother ' _s arms , with their faces hidden oh the breast of the king , formed to the eye ofthe spectators butone palpitating mass of human agony , from whence issued murmurs , sobs , and sometimes shrieks of grief , as if the despair of five souls had been blended into one to burst forth or die in a single embrace . During more than half an hour no word passed their lips . It was a passion

      of grief in which the voices of father , women , chiL dren , were lost and commingled in tears and groans . Sobs answered sobs , and sometimes a cry would arise so sharp and agonising that it pierced the doors , the windows , the very walls of tho tower , and was heard even in the _neighbouring quarters . But at last exhaustion of strength lulled the expression ' s of grief , their tears dried upon their eyelids , and a conversation began in low whispers , mingled with kisses and caresses , wliich lasted for two hours . No one without heard these final confidences of the dying to tho survivors . The tomb or the prison stifled them in every heart a tew months later . The princess royal alone preserved the record in her memory . Nothing was heard by those without except a tender and confused murmur of voices , but the commissioners from time to timo glanced furtively through the glass door as if to warn the king that

      time was passing . When at last the sufferers were exhausted with tenderness , tears , and lamentations , the king rose , and pressed them all to his bosom in one long embrace . The queen throw herself at his feet , and conjured him to permit them to remain with bim that last night , but he refused out of tenderness for those whose affection might have been fatal to themselves ; alleging , as a pretext , the necessity he felt for afew hours of seclusion and trantranquillity , in order to prepare all his strength for the morrow . Bui he promised his family to have them summoned to him tbe next morning at eight . "Why not at seven ? " asked the queen . "Well then , at seven , " replied the king . " You promise that _?*' they all'cried . "I promise , " repeated the king . They crossed the ante-chamber , tho queen's arm encircling his neck , the princess royal and . Madame Elizabeth clinging to bim at the other side , while the dauphin , holding tbe queen ' s hand in one of his and the king ' s in the other , gazed up earnestly into his father ' s face .

      But as they advanced towards the stairs , their lamentations redoubled . They tore themselves from his arms , and then again fell upon his breast in all the renewed agony of lovo and grief . At last the king retreated a few stops , nnd stretching out his arms towards the queen , "Adieu . ' adieu ! " ho exclaimed , with a gesture , a look , and a voice in which were concentrated a whole world of past tenderness of present anguish , and of future separation , yet in which might be distinguished an accent of serenity and religious joy that indicated tbe vague yet confident hope of a re-union in a better world . At this adieu , the young princess royal glided fainting from the arms of Madame Elizabeth , and fell senseless at her father ' s feet . Clery , her aunt , and the queen , rushed towardsher to raise her up and Eustain her to the staircase .

      During this movement the king retired to his room , his face covered with his hands , but when he reached the threshold he turned for tbe last time and uttered the final adieu in a voice broken with sobs . As to Darnley , it is well known to be one of the most interesting that has proceeded from the prolific pen of the veteran novelist , and , at this time of day , needs no recommendation from us .

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      Tlie Future : an advocate of Social and Democratic Progress . No II . Collins , 113 , _Fleet'Street , London . This is the first number we have seen of a new monthly periodical intended to herald a better future for the Proletarians , to be the advocate of social and democratic progress , aud the register and supporter of all movements calculated to elevate the condition ofthe people . Judging from the contents , we have no hesitation in saying , that the writers are thoroughly and honestly in earnest ; and this

      new addition to the democratic press deserves - —as we hope it will receive—cordial and substantial support . It professes to be the property of working men , is printed by the Working Printers' Association , and pledges itself to be the earnest advocate of the working men . These ought , of themselves , to constitute sufficient claims on the support of the industrious classes ; but we have to add , fthat The Future is varied in'its contents , and written with considerable ability . Of the spirit in which it is conducted , bur readers may judge from the following extract : —

      UNION . Reformers at home having tho Bamo end in view , but who have hitherto disagreed as to means , arc now coming together to adjust or inquire into those differences which have hitherto kept them apart , fighting single ' -hahded against the hydra-headed evils of society , and are now seeking common ground on which they can stand , shoulder to shoulder , and with their combined energy and strength do battle against ignorance and oppression . ' . Two parties who havo long been in the holy crusade have already met for the above specific purpose —they are the Social Reformers and the Political Reformers , ¦ otherwise' . Chartists and Socialists .

      Both havo for years laboured assiduously in their own way—sometimes quarrelling with each other _^ and both have done much good , but expect to do much' more in a less space of time than heretofore when this common ground which they seek can be found . God grant that it / may ! If we come to sift tho why and the wherefore of the long separation of these two bodies , I think we might discover it to be very trivial , or at least not sufficient to warrant' a division among tho army of the people . . The great difforehco between thorn is -one believes redemption can be attained best through the re-organization of the sooial arrangements of society by tho peoplo themselves without the necessity for legislative interference ; the other ,

      letting alone social questions fov tlio present , argue the impossibility of reform of any pernancy or extent unless supported , backed , proteoted by parliament ; for , say they , government constituted as it is of those who deem the rights and privileges we , the working classes seek , inimical with their own ; will never ( having the power and will to prevent ) permit us to have them ; and , therefore , all our endeavours are of no avail , ' seeing that they can be annihilated , wheaever those individuals choose , and that will be , of course , when we are bettering bur condition at the expepse ' _. of a little of their superfluities . Again , the ' Sooial Reformers ' assert , the people , . as yetj would , be no better with the Charter than they are now * without it , _beoause they understand not what their sooial position

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      should be .. The classes now in possession oi power _,, legislatorial and social , make a lamentable use * of it . Arid why ? Because in the majority of cases they know no better . Supp ly their places with others equally misinformed , and you will only reap the same harvest of disappointed hopes and suffering , # This , then , being the views of the two parties , it is evident the first and greatest duty to be accomplished by each body in order to the attainment of their end is the awakening of the great mas 1 the people from the dark deep ignorance in whioh they are now steeped , to a knowledge of the misery , injustice , and degradation heaped upon them in conse quence . For it is too true , whatever may be said to , the contrary , that all but

      governments are reflexes of the people they govern ; aye , even , though not one-hundredth part of the people are what is termed represented therein—they are ever and always represented . therein I How so ? Thus : Suppose twenty men ruled by one — if that one be ignorant , selfish , brutish , must not tho twenty be much' more so , not to feel their position and see his errors . Thus is the ignorance of the governed represented in that of the governor . So is it with nations—so is it with this country at present ; the great mass of its people are more ignorant than their rulers , and the task . of the enlightened few must be to enlighten the many ; and when that is accomplished , the one man unaided could no more hold out against the twenty than could an aristocracy against a people .

      Here , it is evident , can be found a common ground for action , and as it should be and is the first that ought to be taken , inasmuch as there must be shown evils and wrongs to exist before persuasion to adopt other arrangements can be consistently used . Another common ground upon which it is pretty certain our Social and Political friends can unite is the advocacy of Land Common Property , which , though in other words , ; is a declaration tbat all men are equal ; and what affirmation other than that is more likely to make men think of each other as brethren ; and induce them to inquire after and acquiesce in all arrangements likely to make them live in lovo . together . And who for

      a moment doubts they can work , hand and heart , with each other for freedom of thought and expression—to destroy a forced Godworship , upheld by devilish means for diabolical ends ? None ! These three courses , forming , as they undoubtedly do , the grand , broad outline of Radical Reform , may , with a little bearing and forbearing on each side , be accepted as mutual ground for a common causo , and rest assured tho other subordinate strokes or touches requisite for the completion and harmony of the glorious picture of Salvation and harmony will , as usual , be discovered and given while in its progressive state , till tho glorious task be finished and rendered f "A thing of beauty , and ajoy for ever .- "

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      A Mionqscono Dividend . —Iu tho matter of Bowles , Og ' , and Wyndham , * of Shaftesbury and Salisbury , bankers , who were bankrupts in 1810 , a final dividend of one-eighth part of a penny in the pound has been declared . A Large Ordkr . —A young woman went the other day into the shop of a butcher in the upper part of Richmond Row , and with rather a pompous air , ordered , a quarter of a pound of gravy beef ! The butcher , who is a clever wag , looked at her in amazement , and stepping up to her said , " Pray , ma ' am is all for one establishment ?"

      Female Pkize Shooters . —A Mrs ; Simmonds , who , it appears , can be heard of at the Crown Inn , Salford , challenges Mrs . Wilkinson , or any other female in England , to , a match at rifle , pistol , or pigeon shooting , for 100 guineas . The expressions of Mrs . Simmonds are very startling : she says she " is open to shoot Mrs . Wilkinson or any otber female in England . " _CuniosiTV . —A gentleman dining with a friend one day , was struck by the earnestness with which a little girl regarded him , and taking her on his lap

      caressed her . "Please , sir , " said she , "tell me what is in the house next to yon ? I'd like very much to know , and to see it . " "And tell me , my little dear , why you wish to know ? " " Because I heard mamma say , sir , tbat you was next door to a . brute . " Editors and Printers in . California . —Editors receive 6 , 000 dollars a year ; city reporters . 3 , 600 dollars ; marine reporters , 6 , 000 dollars ; foremen , 5 000 dollars ; and compositors , 4 , 000 dollars . These are the actual prices paid by the Pacific Neivs for the daily matter prepared for that paper . The expenses for the year reach 100 , 000 dollars .

      -Why is a kiss like a rumour ? Because it goes from mouth to mouth . . ¦ # Why is a gunsmith ' s shop like a chicken pie ? Becauso they both contain fowl-in-pieces . " Well , Mr . Jackson , " said , a clergyman to his parishioner , " Sunday must be a blessed day to you . You work hard six days , and the seventh youcune to church . " "Yes , " said Mr . Jackson , "I work hard all the week , and thon I comes to church , sits me down , cocks up me legs , and thinks of nothing ! " . *

      A Dear Retort . —A female servant sweeping out a bachelor ' s room , found a fourponny piece on the carpet , which she carried to the owner . "You may keep it for your honesty , " said be , smiling , and chucking her under the chin . A short time after he missed his gold pencil-case , and inquired of the girl if she had seen it . "Yes , sir , " was the reply " And what did you do with it ? " " Kept it for my honesty , sir ! " The old bachelor grinned horribly a ghastly smile , and vanished . The Eye . —Ic is more difficult to make the . eye He than any other organ we are possessed of . To tell what a woman says , pay attention to her tongue . If you Wish to ascertain what Bhe means , pay attention to her eye . To talk in opposition to tlie heart is one of thc easiest things in the world—to look this opposition , however , is more difficult than algebra . The Sterling Value of a Ducal Kiss . —The

      Duke of Marlborough of parsimonious celebrity , superintends personally the produce of his dairy , and not uiifrequently sells the milk to tbe village children with his own hands . Ono morning a pretty girl presented her penny and a pitcher to his grace for ' milk . Pleased with the appearance of the child , hevatted her on the head , and gave her a kiss . "Now , " said he , " my pretty lass , you may toll as long as you live , that you have been kissed by a duke . " " Ah , but , " replied tbe child , ** you took the penny though !"

      Thrm ' s TJm . — " I say , captain , " said a little keeneyed man , as he landed from the steamer Potomac at Natchez , " I say , captain , these here an ' t all . I have left sometbin' on board , that ' s a fact . " " Them ' s all the plunder you brought on board anyhow . " " Well , see now , I grant its OK accordin ' to list—four boxes , three chests , two bandboxes , a portmanty , two hams , one part cut , three ropes of inyans , and a teakettle ; but you see , captain , I ' m dubersome ; I feel there ' s sometbin' short . Though I ' ve counted um over nine times , and never took my eyes off um while on board , there ' s _somethin' not right , _som-how . " "Weil , ' stranger , time's up ; them ' s all I knowon ; so just' fetch your wife and five children out of the cabin , cos I'm off . " . ' " Them ' s

      um ! darn it , them ' s um ! I know I had forgot sometbin' . " —American paper . ' . Thb American papers _s ate that the last scenes ofthe popular branch of this Parliament were not calculated to illustrate the dignity , of constitutional legislatures , but were , on the contrary , of the most disgraceful nature . It is stated that the majority of the Members were drunk , and amused themselves by making paper bullets and flinging them at each other ' s cheeks and noses . One of them , being more drunk than the rest , resented this treatment and threatened to respond by throwing inkstands , but his antagonists appeasedhim , and then pelted bim by stealth , so that he could not tell who to throw at iu turn . Meanwhile the few who were sober , or

      partially so , were passing laws with railroad speed . Old English Sforts as Preservatives of Courage . —It was formerly thought effeminate Hot to hunt Jews ; then not to roast heretics ; . then not to bait bears and bulls ; then not to fight cocks and to throw sticks at them . All these evidences of manhood became gradually looked iipoh as ' no such evidences at all , but things fit only for manhood to renounce ; jet the battle of Waterloo , and Sobraon have been won , and Englishmen are not a jot the less brave all over the world . Probably they are braver , that is to say , more deliberately bravci more serenely valiant ; also more merciful to the helpless , and that is the crown of . valour . —Tlie Autobiography of Leigh Hunt . :,. . ' ¦ . ? .. ¦ A _& _E-W-Zbalander ' s Desire to be Eaten . —

      ' I ' ve been among tho New Zealanders , ' ¦ quoth Jack , " and there they use each other for fresh grub as _regular as boiled duff ih a man-of-war ' s mess . They used to eat their fathers and mothers when they got too old to take care of themselves ; but now they ve got ( tobe more civilised , and so they only eat _jickety children and slaves , and enemies taken m battle . ' " A decided instance of the progress of improvement , and the march of mind , " said I . " Well , " replied Jack , " it ' s a bad thing forthe old folks . They . don ' t take to the new fashion ; they are in favour of the good old custom . I never seed the thing myself ; but Bill Brown , a messmate of minei'bhcotoldme

      that , when he was at the Bay of Islands , he see'd a great many poor souls going about , with tears in their eyes , trying to get somebody to eat _thrhi . One of them came off to : the ship , and told them that he could not find rest in the stomachs of any of his kindred , and wanted to . know if the _, crew could ' nt take him in . The skipper told him he was ou monstrous short allowance , but he couldn ' t aocommodate him . The poor old fellow , Bill said , looked as if his heart would break ; ; 'there were plenty of _sharks round the ship , ahd the skipper advised him to iump overboard , but he couldn ' t bear the idea of being eaten rM . _—Blackyioti , ' _-- .. ' _'"''

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      THE _SILENT FEIEND ; n 7 _^ i _^ I , ? ° A _¦^ ' HHtion and physical decay of the- system , produced by excessive indalgenc / , the _cons _„ quence _* of infection , or the _abuae of merc _ y , witl . obse _£ _vatienr _, on the marrned state , and the _^ W _„ tiori * winch prevent , * ; illustrated _oy _twenty-six coloured en graving * , and by the detail of cases . By R . and L PEHRT and Co ., 19 ' , Berners-street , Oxford-street , London . Published by the authors , and sold by Strange , 21 Pater _, noster-rovr ,- Hannay , 63 , and Sanger , 150 , Oxtord-street * Starie , 23 , Ticlihorne-street , Haymarlset ; and Gordon , UZ , Leadenhall-straet , London ; J . and Ji . Raimes and Co ., Letthwalk , Edinburgh ; D . Campbell , _Arayll-street , Glasgow ; J . Priestly , Lord-street , and 7 . Newton , Church _, street , Liverpool-I- * .. Ingram , Market-place , Manchester , Part the First

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      Brother Chartists ! Beware of " Wolves in Sheep ' s Clothing ! . ' " Sufferers are earnestly cautioned against dangerous imitations of these 1 _'ills by youthful , self-styled doctors , who have recourse to various schemes to get money ; such for instance as professing to cure complaints for 10 s . only advertisng in the name of a female , and pretending to give the character of persons trom their writing , and what is equally absurd , promising to produce hair , whiskers , & c , in a few weeks ; but , worst of all , ( as it is playing with the afflictions of their fellows ) , daring to infringe the proprietors' right-by making truthless assertions , and advertising a _Spurious . compound under another , the use of . -which will assuredly bring annoyance and disappointment .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 7, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07091850/page/3/