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      August 11, 1849. Thi^ Northern Star. 3

      August 11 , 1849 . THi _^ NORTHERN STAR . 3

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      A Trip. Ttte To The Brate Huxgatiiaxs , ...

      TRIP _. TTTE TO THE BRATE _HUXGATIIAXS _, BY _OXE'TOlb HAD SOT A SOYEREIGX , BUT GIVES THEM A SONG . ( From the 5 km . ) There is a nation bold and brave , Whose matchless valour now is tried ; Which scorns to be a despot ' s slave , Or angbt to slavery allied . Long has it groan'd beneath a yoke Of a usurper s deadly hand . "Till freedom ' s spirit has awoke Thc courage of that nohle land .

      "With swords drawn forth in deadly strife , Tor liberty resistless fight . The _bra-vestbours that gild man ' s life Is crushing tyrants in their might . " - "Us more than noble to engage And fight the battles ofthe free ; "For who would live from youth to age , And end his days in slavery ? Tho * the Tartar-Vultur _' s flag may float Above yonr valleys and your towers , To crush the song of freedom ' s note , And desecrate your village bowers—And base Lorainc , with basest guilt , Whose dismal prisons g looming stand—The vengeance for that blood now spilt Will drive those despots from your land

      I "Freedom has raised her hallow d shout—It Nor locks , nor bolts , nor massive bars % Can keep that heaven-born music out , § Tho . * tyrants wage ten thousand wars . I 'lis spreading far , and cherish ' d dear , g , A virtue in each household talcp "'TIS felt where falls oppression ' s tear , H And borne along in every gale . H " * lis _niirs'd in every cottage home , W Tho' persecutions round it rave ; If It springs from every living tonib _M Where rests a martyr in his grave . W Enshrin'd in glory ' s dazzling light , 1 The bold _SLigyars have made their stand M For Father-land triumphant fight , If , Or die , like heroes , sword in hand . % Irom east to west , from north to south , _ % In every zone , in every clime , H Dembinski , Georgey , Bern , Kossuth , fir Are namc 3 which only die with time ; H And English hearts now heat in flame , U With fathers and their gallant _sons—§¦ - } And this their prayer—that right of claim m May crown with victory the Huns . If Bracford . S . B . M . _ytuxms _t , _&& — —

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      fciOUIS BLANC'S MONTHLY REVIEW P —TIIE _JKEIV WOULD of Politics , H ; Arts , Literature , and Science . Lon-H ion : T . C . _Ifewby , 72 , Mortimer-street , _^ ft- Cavendish-square . pTiiE illustrious e -sile Louis Blaxc has _compSmenced thc publication ofa montlily magazine Ipii Paris entitled Le Nouveau Monde . By a " . _y adicious arrangement tliis work , _published on lithe loth of the month in Paris , is translated If and published in an English form on the 1 st Hof the succeeding month . The English ver"Saioii , edited by M . _Tuehoxxais ( under Louis _gBucfc's immediate inspection ) , will contain _lulistiiictive and -peculiar features of its own . f | Wc arc afraid that so "far as the newspapers are concerned , Louis Blasc has but small _g-chance of obtaining a candid bearing . One j ** € _YCuing last week , we noticed in one of the i-most Radical (?) of the -daily papers a al of

      _^¦ critic (?) notice the "New World . " III The critic (!) contented himself with some llf-ten or twelve lines of comment , tothe follow-|| f rag efiect : — " This is a strange publication . fll The first article is a savage attack on Order , _g" Family , and Property . We should pro-Is ** -- test against the publication of such a work , | p ' - '• but that we feel convinced it will never K * " obtain _lialf-a-do 2 en subscribers . Every one ml " will admit Louis _Blasc ' s talents ; but , | H ¦* ' thank God 1 his pernicious principles will be | 1 § " - ' scouted b y the discerning people of this § B '"*'* country . - " In snbstance such was the _cri-S' -ticism of the enlightened and enlightening

      If journalist - j a criticism founded on shameful * # ; ignorance , or shameless falsehood ; for the W critic ( 3 ) cither had not read the article he con-H demned , or , otherwise , he deliberately and | jf' "wickedl y wrote that which he knew to be false : H in either case he lied . That our readers may H -determine this matter for themselves , we res' print the entire article denounced by the m- aforesaid critic ( I ) as " a savage attack on H Order , Family and Property : "ST This journal is dated from London , that is from ff the place of mv exile . Among inv friends , some are St in prison , others banished in foreign lands . The S- -cause to which I belong has become , for many

      mis-Si _"taken minds , a subject of awe and scandal ; thc m "party I serve has lost , one by one , nearly all its Ifi leaders , most of its journals have been suppressed , _Hfj -and even its name is perhaps upon the point of | H » being disputed . In fine , at the moment lam writ-Is ing , it is known by all that , for the second time 1 * since the Revolution of February , Paris is in a g | -state of siege—that reaction speaks without an j | -opponent in thc councils of the Republic—that the B :-capital ofthe world to emancipate lives under the jfp "strange guardianship of an army—that the home of If -citizens is no longer a sanctuary — that the soil of WL Trance , hitherto so hospitable , crumbles away under E the steps of every exile—that the reactive system times has been with

      _^ -ofthe present arrayed a new | §" law against the liberty ofthe Tress , and _ane-v US * -regulation against the liberty of the Tribune—that l |? -the clubs arc closed , and six democratic papers sup-H # - pressed , just as torches whose flame is extinguished HI Tinder pretence that it burns at the same time that if _* t gives % n _* - § r | This is , no doubt , a great disaster , and yet , on §§ my conscience I declare it ; never , no never , have _^ I S felt my heart more filled with courage , confidence , H and hope ! H Nay , I will go farther ! Let ns suppose more 1 * 4 ; -terrible strokes of an adverse fortune . Letussup-I * pose that that march ofthe age which is now heard t _** - throughout Europe has been suddenly stopped—. that the heroic cohorts of Hungary have been If ; -crushed by thc Russians , all the free cities

      im-§ g ; : mersed inthe blood of their defenders , the standard _§*§• ¦ -of _Republican "France strayed over the ruins of the % Vatican . . . . The idea brought to H -mankind by the nineteenth century will , neverthe-| g less , remain erect and triumphant . This famous ft prophecy of _Xapoleon : "In -fifty years Europe will ft ho Cossack or _Republican , " has heen too often % repeated , too much sanctioned . We do not admit p this alternative ; no : even shonld the Cossacks , by m . a second decision of fate , water their steeds in the _jjj _* - stream ofthe Seine , Europe shall not be their prey . _jlgg Tor , according to a noble expression of Godfrey Wt Cavaignac , * the world is tired of looking upon such m . -wretches .

      m , At some distance from "Worms a tree is shown p : which a peasant was about planting , when , in the _ _% . sixteenth century , Luther passed by , on his way ' _%£ ,. to be judged by Charles V . "Let me place it in H the ground , " said the monk to the countryman , _5 - " and may my doctrine grow and spread lifee its H branches I" A few days afterwards Luther was | f 8 -condemned at "Worms , in the name of Europe , _indigf- mant at bis revolt ; an edict of proscription was _6 -promul g ated against him , and he fled as a malep _-factor-Jbrough the forests of Thnringia . Rut then 1 _gj . in leaving Worms , that undaunted culprit had & "written to Charles V . "My cause is that of the W * whole world j" because , in fact , free inquiry was at g' that time the cause of all . Thus the new doctrine

      * was not long in diffusing itself with a force that was invincible . Even in "France , where it did not penetrate as a reli gion , it established itself in the bosom of Philosophy , it even succeeded in dominating over politics ; and nothing could ultimately prevent this supreme result , neither the scaffold of Amboise , nor the Loire covered with dead bodies , nor the heroes of _Por-ery marking their road with human limbs iastenl-d tothe branches of trees , nor the warriors of Calvin slaughtered by thousands in the plains of Jamac and Moncontour , nor the nocturnal massacres of the St . Bartholomew , northedrafoonades , nor all the powers of the irritated lOuis XIV . "Well , that which political Protestantism was in the sixteenth century , Socialism is in the

      nineteenth . The one was - resistance , then necessary and legitimate , of individuals , as opposed to the excess and fury of a principle of authority ; the Other is the opposition , not less necessary and legi-R tin-ate , ofthe princip les of fraternity , tothe excess j * -and fury of individualism . Of these two movements , | : the second is like the first , providential and _ing _* domitable . | r- Xes , this is the hour of a new developement of _hu-^ manity . For from the north to the south , from the ? east to the west , an increased anxiety has taken ( possession of men ' s minds ; for the France of _I ' _-February has uttered words which even the blasts e ' of te mpests cannot bear away ; for all Hungary has _fc * risen ; for Italy , every part of it has shuddered ; _Mor Europe , sick Europe turns and turns again in £ her old civilisation , and seeks for repose in the change I _^ -f Brother ofthe General , an emtoent writer , now dead .

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      hi fine , what arc the terms of the question now placed before the nineteenth century ? Let us imagine a society : A society where , hy a common , gratuitous , compulsory education , all citizens should be called to take their places at the sources of human understanding . "Where there should be spent upon schools that which is now necessary to be expended upon prisons . Where in place of usury , which is a gross despotism , there should be substituted gratuitous credit which is the debt ofall towards each . ' "Where it should be admitted as a principle that all men have an equal right to the complete developement of their -unequal faculties , and where consequentl _y the instruments of labour should no more be a privilege than the rays ofthe sun .

      " Where , instead of angrily disputing in barbarous anarchy , in ruinous struggles of competition , the field of industry , producers should associate themselves in closely united companies , in order to fertilise it , and fraternally divide its fruits . Where men should proceed towards this object , vindicated alike b y _Mature and hy Justice ; that is , to produce according to their faculties and consume according to their wants . Where positions , no longer distributed by the capricious hand of hazard , but according to the laws of human nature , should suit the diversity of aptitudes , not the differences of fortunes . Where the point of honour and the noble passion for public weal , transferred from the field of battle into thc workshop , should add their power to thc stimulant of personal interest , and should sanctify emulation by rendering it mor energetic ; where luxury should be the sp lendour of democracy in its

      progress . ... . , Where the state should be the guide , freely elected of the people , on their march towards light and happiness . This , then , is Socialism ! this , the new world ! To trace out the roads which must gradually conduct thither is the task imposed upon the 19 th century by the logic of history . And against this happy necessity , what have persons presumed to invoke ? Order , family , and property . Order , just heavens ! but what is that order which conciliates itself with misery , prostitution , theft , murder , with the galleys to be filled , with the scaffold , which it dares not pull down ? What order is that which is unceasingly tossing society from crisis to crisis , from riots to insurrection , and fvom insurrection to civil war ? I put no trust in a boon

      which so many people cannot make up their mind to accept ; and should there be an absolute necessity , in order to save society , to suspend the action of the law , to shackle the expression of thoughts , to profane family homes , to re-establish proscription tables in the fashion of Sylla , to array in battle order a hundred and twenty thousand men along the streets ofa city , to enforce silence with artillery _; what disorder should be compared . with that order which requires to be so maintained ? Provisional measures , I hear it argued . What matters , if the cause which yesterday necessitated their adoption unavoidably brings them back to-morrow ? Is order bashful poverty ? Is it grief stifling its sobs 1 Is it conspiring hatred ? Is it an adjourned revolt ? Is it a panting pause between two revolutions , a dead

      calm between two shipwrecks ? Oh ! self-styled defenders of order , you do not even _kno- * r your own languase : true order is precisely that which has no need of being defended . Order is not protected , it is founded , and to do this it is necessary to know how to prevent that which you combat , and combat the more vainly because you battle against it desperately . But it is in vain we should expect even this from them ; they would answer that to pretend to suppress misery and conquer evil is only a mad scheme ; that evil exists in the essence of things , that misery is indestructible . For , incredible insanity ! wonderful inconsistency ! those pretended defenders of order are the first to proclaim that disorder is necessary and indestructible . As to Family , 1 should like to know what that

      social regime which is held out as its palladium , is doing for its welfare . Ah ! let our adversaries know it well and remember it : it is because Family is by excellence a sacred and inviolable institution , that it requires a medium purer than that in which it is seen in our days , getting more and more depraved , and gradually sinkin- *; into destruction . "Let us open the records of criminal justice , and let us read . What gloomy dramas ! Here , a wife has poisoned her husband to sport and enjoy his spoils ; there two brothers , over the half-filled grave -which has just been opened , scandalously dispute their paternal heritage . Here the brutality of conjugal despotism is retaliated by the cunning intrigues of adultery ; there , a cliild is discovered naked , bruised , and starved in a dungeon , where his inhuman parents

      had cast him . Here is a son who has been instructed by his father in the practice of theft ; there a daughter taught by her own mother lessons of debauchery . ' Such is the mournful glare which now and then is cast on the darkness in which private life is so carefully shrouded . But what awful scenes remain in the shade ! How many terrible occurrences wliich will never see the light , correspond with those wbich chance or an excess of imprudence have laid hare to our gaze ! Let us see , let that social regime so carefully protecting Family , plainly answer ; we ask : why is adultery taught on every stage , learnt from every novel , sung by every poet ? In one word , what is matrimony in our times , that is under the sway of capital ? If , in order to obtain a definitionI open the code , there I find that

      ma-, trimony is an association nearly similar to a Joint Stock Commercial Company : the code in its various dispositions , inclines to consider matrimony as an establishment of peculiar kind , of which the husband is the manager . If I consult facts , I find that matrimony is almost always a bargain , a speculation , a means of making or enlarging one ' s fortune , and , according to legal mode of expression , one ofthe various ways of acquiring property . Natural attraction , union of two hearts thrilling with love , sovereign laws of sympathy , all come after the deed that regulates matrimonial conventions . The notary in this case is the most important personage ; so much so , that In the order of forms the legal settlement must precede the celebration of matrimony . And , those maimers have created a language

      worthy of themselves . People do not marry a woman whom they love ; they marry _dix , _guinse , vinfftmilleslivresderente , andexpectations . ' i ' es , expectations as they are denominated in the matrimonial grammar—the death of relations ! What think you ofthe influence exercised by the prevailing system over the constitution of family ? But to form a better judgment , it is in the bosom of the poor people ' s family that we must search . Woe to the poor if he happen to marry ! Unable to nourish his offspring , he is reduced to the necessity of abandoning their bodies and souls to the evil genius of production ; he will require part of his maintenance from their tender age , oppressed , withered by premature labour ; he will bury them alive in one of those factories , in which the philanthropists of the

      prevailing political economy have been compelled to show -us poor little wretches , of six or seven years old , "with their dim eyes , sallow cheeks , and bent bodies . Out of 10 , 000 young men called up to military service , the ten most manufacturing departments of France offer 8 _. 9 S 0 incapacitated by infirmities and deformities . This has been declared in tho Chamber of Peers , by Charles JDupin , one of the defenders of Order , Family , and Property ; such are the fruits wbich are brought to the Family by those social abuses -which are so _unblusliingly upheld for its sake , and in its sacred name ! Now consider , if you have the courage to do it , the frightful progression in the number of Foundling hospitals , draw up the list of those tours * which have been erected to provide for a mother , how horrible ! the means not

      to destroy the fruit of her womb . Who now will dare to say , that the family institution gains by maintaining such a social regime . Nest we eome to property , the nature and princip les of which it is important at first to indicate and characterise . Whom shall we consult on this point ? Perhaps the adversaries of Socialism will not refuse to accept Thiers as an authority ? Now , in the National Assembly M . Thiers has solemnly asserted that the fundamental principle ofthe right of property was labour . We do not care to contradict this ; but then , let the actual social System defend itself if it can . For , ho \ n many thousands ot men are at this day proprietors without working ! and below them , how many thousands who labour without being or _eten expecting ever to he the owners

      of property I Whose is this houBe ? Does it belong to him who has built it ? fie can scarcely find a shelter . Whose are those rich silk stuffs ? are they the property of him who has woven them ? He is covered with rags . Whose is that plentiful harvest ? is it owned by him through whose labour it has sprung forth from the earth ? He has scarcely food . Nevertheless , and it is again 11 . Thiers assertion , Property is something essential to human nature . Whence it follows that every individual who has no property lacks what is essential to nature . But then , what must we think of the day-labourer ? A day-labourer then is not a man ? Yes , sir , you are right : Property which

      derives its legitimacy from labour , is an essential condition of life . And this is why , in the name of human nature , in the name of life , we reproach present society withnot being constituted in such a manner as to render property accessible'to all . In conclusion , if we wish for order , we must attack disorder in its principle , and not in its effects . Now , regularity of movement , harmony in the relations of all men among themselves , wisdom in liberty , the employment of science in the pursuit of happiness , such should be order . And who does not feel that its triumph is closely bound up with that of Socialism , since Socialism consists in replacing the opposition of forces , by their accord , in-* Sort of cylindrical cupboards turning on pivots to transmit parcels , & c , into the interior of convents or hospitals , without either the giver or receiver being able to have a glimpse of each other , they are much used in Foundling hospitals ,

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      dustrial anarchy by association , the cL > nnict of interests by the union of wills , that which renders repression necessary , by that which would render it useless . Family now is getting debased , in th & ' hi g her regions of society from the influence of cupidiVy , in the lower from the action of misery . The true dafenders of family arc the Socialists , they who wish to rescue-marriage from ihe spirit of speculation , and giTe it back to love , and who combat the reign of prostitution in the despotism of hunger . Property , in fine , will it not salute its true apos . ties in those who say : why are these precious stuffs made by men without clothes , wherefore are the happy ofthe earth fed by men without bread , ' and j

      palaces built by men without roof to shelter them ? Let us not make a privilege of that which is the first ofall rights ; the right to live . In truth , when I see placing in opposition on the one hand Socialism , and in the other Order , Family , Property , I am astounded at so much insanity , and my heart is Jivided between pity which ignorance inspires and disdain which honesty deserves . , But against truth nothing can avail when the day of her triumph has dawned . The whole question is , then , to know whether the time is mature for the advent of Socialism . Now , how could any one entertain a doubt about it ? Let us measure the career it has made in the course of less than a year : what rapid , what immense

      progress . After the mournful and bloody days of June 1 S 48 , the adversaries of Socialism pronounced it to be drowned in blood , and scarcely had a few days elapsed when the Paris elections gave it a victory less unforeseen than magnificent . Afterwards , in order to nullify the results ofthat victory , the counter-revolution ( no one is ignorant of the fact ) has wasted-itself in violence of all kinds . The purest representatives of Socialism have been exposed to Europe—alike deluded and terrified by the portraiture—as so many Catilines , greedy for destruction , pillage , and conflagration . Socialist books have been combated with libels black with lies . Socialist journals have been struck with fines , so heavy as to be equivalent to confiscation . Votes of proscription attainted or menaced the official representatives of

      thc new idea . The reactionaries have entered into a subscription to effect an immense written crusade ; incredible sums have been raised , and with their coalesced riches they have made up a budget for calumny . Deplorable efforts , tho inefficaoy : of which has been so forcibly demonstrated by the elections for the Legislative Assembly , which gave to Socialism nearly the half of the suffrages of France ! Besides , it must be acknowledged that Socialism has suffered from the faults of its own partisans , by their intestine divisions , their inopportune debates , and their secret or avowed rivalries . But there are for certain truths decisive epochs , where it is no more in the power of those who proclaim them to compromise them than it is in the power of those ¦ who combat them to overcome them .

      In fact , we are in the lists in the name of those thousands of the land-tillevs whom the minute partition ofthe soil ruins , and usury devours ; In the name ofthat sickly multitude of labourers who in our cities employ , in creating those marvels , the delight of others' live 3 , their slow and fruitful agony ; In the name of that immense crowd of petty tradesmen and poor manufacturers whom competition crushes to-uay , or will crush to-morrow ; In the name of legions of soldiers , an armed

      people , employed to restrain the people without arms ; In the name of all those children who are denied the happiness of acquiring knowledge ; - In thc name of all women condemned to a love , which is onl y an expedient for not perishing ; In thc name of whomsoever , in our imperfect civilisation , suffers from the tyranny of things , and lives in a continual despair , but also in the name of whomsoever thinks he gains by that tyranny , and so deceives himself , since he is compelled to live alone in fear .

      Here , then , are interests too considerable , and of a character too universal , for satisfaction not to be granted to them , and Socialism , which embraces them all in its aspirations , is absolutely invincible . Letthem strike as much as they like , it will be but labour lost , for wc say to thc enemies of Socialism that which Theodore de Bezasaid ofthe Reformation to the King of Navarre : " Remember , this is an anvil which will wear out many hammers . " Our readers can now decide as to tho justness of the criticism (!) above referred to . For ourselves , we declare that never did we read so eloquent , so sublime a defence of " Order , Family , and Property" as that "which , written by Louis Blanc , we have extracted from the "New World . " The whole article is a

      masterpiece of writing , defying criticism , though , it seems , incompetent to stifle the malice of Calumny . ¦ 'An Unedited Chapter ofthe History of the Revolution of 1848 " narrates , and throws considerable light upon the events of the famous " 17 th of March . " The most elaborate article is the one entitled " The Presidency and Universal Suflrage . " The views enunciated we heartily accord with , and earnestly wc commend the consideration of this article to all political thinkers— " the Men of the Future" especially . Minor articles on "Rome , " the recent "French Elections , " and notices of new works , make up the remainder of No . I .

      Published at a Shilling each number , the "New World" is rather too hi g h-priced for the working classes ; hut those who cannot purchase a copy each may club their pence and so obtain it . To all the disciples of Democracy—to all the advocates of Social Progress —to all the admirers of Intellect devoted tothe hol y work of human regeneration—we most cordiall y and earnestly recommend Louis Blanc ' s "New World , "

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      SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . _cr XHOsrAs _mah-to * _wheexe-- ? _, Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company .

      _Cmapter XIX . How blest could consciousness forsake his mind , But vain , ob vain ! Thought burning lingers on ; Thought bears him back to al ! he once desi gned—To fond enthusiast hopes for ever gone ; Those glorious dreams for which he once had pin'd—Amlitious visions scattered one by one ! . "What' vail'd those proud aspiring energies ? He sees his fate—unknown , unwept , he dies ! # * * * Might she not flit around : and when his soul Was wrapt in some sweet strain of earthly sound Might not her whisper'd voice his thoughts control , Thrilling amid the harmony around . —Beste , He ' s truly valiant , that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe , and make his

      wrongs His outsides ; to wear them like his raiment carelessly , And ne er prefer his injuries to his heart , To bring it into danger . —Shakspeare . Slowly did Ai'thur retrace his steps to the village —all nature appeared dark and heavy to his sombre imagination—the noonday sun seemed enveloped in clouds and mist—joy and hope to have taken their flight , and himself and misery left alone on the earth . In this frame of mind he pursued his journey homeward , where he arrived at an early hour the ensuing morning , more indebted for his safe arrival to the goodness ofhis horse than to his own caro or exertion . Upon making his appearance at Mrs . Elkinson ' s mansion about noon he was arrested by

      two officers despatched by Sir Jasper , and conveyed to the prison at , to await the sailing of a vessel to England . In vain did Mr . Elkinson exert himself to procure his release ; in vain did he show the illegality ofthe seizure in the absence of evidence to support the charge . Sir Jasper , irritated against his supposed rival , heeded naught but the gratification oi his vengeance , and our hero was immured in the worst cell ofthe filthiest hole ever denominated a prison , and his food was ofa quality to match with his residence ; but , fortunately for him , the frame of mind he was in made him heed not the combination of evils . He certainly wondered at his sudden arrest , as he had never mentioned the cause of his flicht from England to any human

      being save Lady Baldwin ; and being ignorant ofthe involuntary manner in which she had betrayed it , he thought , when informed by his captors that the charge against him was ¦¦ arson ; " that his flight and subsequent adventures had been traced , and that officers from England had been sent to apprehend hiin ; that Lady Baldwin could be _^ the informant never entered his imagination . The recollection of their last interview would have rendered sueh a thought profanation to her memory . Day after day passed heavily away , and no change came to his position ; the lethargy of mind which rendered him indifferent to his fate , on his first entrance to the

      prison , gradually subsided , and ho became restless and uneasy . His captors had said naug ht about his being sent to England , and he hourly expected to be examined relative to thc charge ; vainly did he endeavour tp extract information from his gaoler , he either knew not or was unwilling to impart it . Weeks rolled on , and Arthur was still a solitary prisoner . Change of any sort would have been a relief to him , but suspense was intolerable ., Books might have served to solace his confinement , but these were denied him . Often did hc recall his last interview with _La-iy Baldwin , and thoug h it was a melanoholy joy , yet its recollection was the only comfort he _eavoyed in his dungeon , when leaving

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      her he felt assured that before manv davs she wouid depart from this vale of tears , but now he felt conndent that she was still alive ; his morbid feelings seemed to say that sho could not depart without a sympathetic nerve being touched in his own frame ; had she not assured him that her spirit , if allowed to . visit this earth , should console him in the hour oi trouble ? and sceptic as hc was tempted to be , he leit conhdent that she would not abandon him to if ' _^¦ L _*' . m _* ° _^* er husband ' s vengeance , for gradually _. _™ _° thought had impressed him that she had conhded tlieir interview to Sir Jasper , and his vengeance had dictated his _co-fifinement , perhaps perpetual confinement , and the thought was dreadful . _JJeath on the scaffold would have been for preferable to him m hfe then state of mind . Oh ! the agony of

      solitary confinement—the misery it entails is drcad-• * ~ * Y tlie' _^«« Jties of the _saind sink _benea-fife it 3 influence—the- body may be imprisoned , even due nourishment may be denied it ,-but give it the relief of _employment— allow the solace of books , or the company of fellow-beings , and the- soul will live ? nanourish ; but solitary confinement carried out in all its severity , is- death to tho souJ _^ -day by day is it deprived of nonrfehment until it either sinks into annihilation , or starts into _insanitf ; if those _m _! L 1 ? cven _"P - ' enlightened nii ' _nds , upon those who have a world within themselvcs-a world HJt ° s i . ? nd -ntelle _<* independent of external _tZL , _? ,, st bc '¦ ite' _^ cts upon those who _Slwi , lch i *? combat _" 3 influonoe-upon those who , uneducated and _brutalised bthe vicious

      __ y SS am _^ s _ndithemv live only on estcr-« t rt flP _^ tho mate _« al world ! _wimdcr _nerisKtfe _* _* an I Pray for employment , and _SXwk _™ _- _* -7 ™« aye 1 * not- Yet this is the system _S _« f ph ll 0 S 0 P hersftnd k _gfcfotow are anxious to lniroauce mto our prisons and penitentiaries , —a system which has utterly failed on trial in America , —a system which is false in principle , brutal in practice , opposed to every dictate of nature and ev _, / _jeeliwg of humanity . Arthur Morton , the child of imagination—the visionary enthusiast—who looKed at mankind through the glass ofhis own PJ ? ' e 1 ~ t » ° Y _h _" " was gradually sinking beneath the baneful influence of this pernicious system . Hope was fast evaporating through his dungeon bars—the dreams of his vouth became horrid

      _fant-i-sies to torment ana rack his soul with their _unsubstantially—his overwrought visions for the improvement of his kind became dismal spectres haunting him with hideous mockery . Incipient madness was preying on his nerves , and the strength of his bodily frame alone averted the terrific evil . Oh ! that those who make laws to operate on their fellow-beings could but even in imagination endure for a period the horrid realities they inflict upon others ; if they have human feelings—if the milk of humanity is not entirely dried up in their hearts , they would ponder on the awful miseries they inflict , and cancel for ever from the statute book

      every arbitrary law , every enactment not consonant with justice , and not essential to the safety and happiness of the community . Vain and idle dreamtheir existence is based upon the sufferings of their fellow-men—their splendour can only be maintained by his wretchedness . "Were simple justice to be administered , privilege , with its hydra corps , must cease to exist ; the judge and the magistrate , the gaoler and the policeman , would soon be among the rarities of the land—a consummation devoutly to be wished , but far , far from realisation ; like vultures , they feed upon human carrion , and are interested in creating victims for their horrid repast . ( To be continued . )

      W The Hungarian Crusade. (From No. 3, Of...

      w THE HUNGARIAN CRUSADE . ( From No . 3 , of the Democratic Review , August , 1849 . ) t The following immortal summons to the Hungarians to rise , arm , and fight the war of extermination —victory or death—against the savage hordes of Russia and Austria , appeared in the Pesthcr Lcitung of June the 29 th . Shame , shame to the British people , that they are " the mere spectators" of this mighty struggle .

      THE NATIONAL GOVEIiNMENT TO THE PEOPLE . The fatherland is in danger ! Countrymen—To arms ! To arms ! If we thought it possible to rescue our country by ordinary means , we should not raise the cry that it is in danger . If we stood at the head of a timid and childish people , that in its terror prefers ruin to self-defence , we should abstain from pealing the tocsin of alarm throughout the land , But knowing that our countrymen are a manly nation , that counted upon themselves when they resolved to resist the most godless oppression , we reject as unworthy botli of ourselves and the people , a system of varnishing , hashing-up , and patching , and we proclaim it openly and without reserve , to the whole country—the fatherland is in danger . Because we

      are certain that the nation is capable of defending itself and its native soil , we set before it the danger in its full size ; and we call upon every citizen , in the name of God and our country , to look the danger boldly in the face , and to take up arms . "We will neither flatter nor console , but we speak it out straight and openly , that if the whole nation docs not rise with manly resolution , prepared to pour out the last drop of blood in self-defence , then so much good blood has been shed in vain , every exertion _hithei to has been frai'les ? , our country and nation must be ingulfed in ruin , and on the soil in which the bones of our ancestors sleep , which Heaven destined as a free inheritance for our posterity , will the remnant of a people subjugated and enslaved be managed by the Russian knout . Yes , we say it openly and

      without reserve , that if the nation is not prepared to defend itself with united force , it must eat the bread of slavery ; rather , it must starve ; it must perish from sheer hunger . He who is not struck down by the weapons of the barbarous enemy will find no food ; for the savage Russians not only reap the fruits of your _industry , and mow down the ears now ripe for harvest , but , our hearts bleed to tell it , the wild hordes which have broken into our country sweep oil and trample down the unripe crops , wasting the produce of your fields for camp forage . They advance , _killing and devastating , and leave behind them murder , flames , famine , and misery . Where the savage Russian hordes cometheve the furrow has been turned and the seed scattered in vain ; these voracious swarms of foreign robbers destroy the fruit of your

      toil . But with steady confidence in the justice of God , we also declare , that the danger for our fatherland can only be fatal when the people gives up in cowardly despondence its own cause . So long as the people rise with heart in defence of their countrytheir homes—their families—tlieir harvest—and their own lives—then , armed , no matter with what weapon , scythe , mattock , club , or even stones , the people are strong enough , and the Russian hordes , led by the Austrain Emperor into our fair country , must , under the avenging arm of the Hungarian people , be exterminated to the last man . If we could wish to dissemble or underrate the danger , we should not , by s <> doing , avert it from any one ; but when we represent without reserve the state of things in its true light we make ther 4 by the nation master of its own fate .

      If in the peop le lies vitality and vigour , they will save themselves and their country . If , _ma'tered by a cowardly panic , they remain passive and idle—they are irretrievably lost . God will help none that will not help themselves . We feel it our duty to proclaim to the Hungarian people that the Austrian Emperor has loosed upon us the barbarous Russian hordes . We let them know that a Russian army of 40 , 000 men lias broken from Gallicia into the counties of Arva , Zips , Saros , and Zemplin , and is continually fighting its w ? . y deeper into the land . We let them know that Translyvania also has been invaded by Russian troops , from the Bukowina and Moldavia , with which our army has sustained bloody engagements . We let them know that , relying upon ttussian assistance , a rebellion of the Waliachs is

      also broke out in Transylvania , and that the Austrian Emperor has assembled bis utmost force to extirpate the Hungarian nation . We also inform our fellow _, citizens , that , although , if the Russians conquer Hungary , the inevitable consequence will be the slavery of all the nations of Europe ; yet we have no _assistance to expect from foreign countries , whose rulers have set a bar to their sympathy , so that , motionless and inert , they are become mere spectators of our just struggle . There is , therefore , no help for us but God and our own strength ; but if we use not our own strength God also will abandon us . Heavy days lie before us , but if we face them with courage , then freedom , happiness , prosperity , and glory are our reward . The ways of Divine Providence are hidden ; through trials and sufferings it

      leads men to happiness . The cause of Hungary is not ours alone . It is tbe cause of the people ' s freedom against tyranny . Our victory is the victory of the people ' s freedom ; our overthrow is the destruction of liberty . God has elected U 3 , through our victory , to redeem the people from political vassalage , as Christ has redeemed mankind from spiritual vassalage . Ifwe conquer the hordes loosed upon us by tyrants , in consequence of our victory the Italians , Germans , Czeches , Poles , Wallachians , Slavonians , Servians , and Croats , will also enjoy freedom . If we are conquered , the star of liberty has set for all peoples . Let us regard ourselves , therefore , as the consecrated champions of liberty . This feeling will add resolution to our breasts , and steel our sinews ;

      it will help « s to _Bave the land of our fathers for our children , and preserve the life-tree of liberty , which , if through our cowardice it fall under the accursed axe which the two Emperors have laid to . its root , will never flourish more . People of Hungary , would you die under the exterminating sword ofthe Russian savage ? If not , defend _vburselves . Would yon see the Cossacks trample under foot the dishonoured bodies of your fathers , wives , and children ? If not , defend yourselves . -Would you see a part of your fellowcitizens dragged into Siberia , or to the foreign wars of the tyrants , " and another part bowing to the yoke under the Russian lash ? If not , defend yourselves . Would you see your villages consumed in flames , and your crops devastated ? Would vou starve upon the land which you have cultivated ? If not , defend

      W The Hungarian Crusade. (From No. 3, Of...

      _yourselvpg . Wo , the government of Hungary and tlie P ° r" ?? l ) elon Si"g to her , chosen by the free will ot the Hungarian nation , call npon the people , in the name of God and our country , to defend themselves . In the mean time , in accordance with our duty and the powers delegated to us , we order and command : — 1 . Against the Russians who have invaded our country , and the Austrian Emperor , an universal crusade is to be forthwith set on foot . 2 . The commeneement ofthe crusade is , on next Sunday and Wednesday to be proclaimed in all temples by the clergv , a » d in all municipal assemblies b y the _mayers , and to be * announced by tbe _rinsrinn * of bells , to the whole land ' .- ° ° 3 . After the proclamation every man , sound of health and umb , _isobligedi within forty , eight hours to provide _hioaself with some' kind of arms : he who has no _fire-arnw or sword is * to' furnish himself with a scythe or mattock .

      | 4 . Wherever ihe Russian _.-wmy approaches yretch' men by day and night are to _ksep-a * look-out o » the towers and _heigbtsv and to give She alarm when the enemy comes in sight , so thai ! the tocsin may _fc-y peated throughout the whole country . Upon the tocsin being rung , tfie people are _ta-assemble in _thea * communes , and to repair in troops ifo'the points fixed beforehand by the proper officers . But where the ? enemy has already passed , the peoplcare * to rise en masse ire his rear , and _to'fall upon the Cossacks-who ride in a eareloss , loose way—and all parties of _stragglers , an < 8 destroy them . The people mast * especially stir themselves to allow tlie foe no rest at night , but to _assaulthJm unawares , tfien to retreat and come back to the- charge again , and so on witheat pause ; to keep him ever in a state of alarm by the- ringing of bells , so t & at h « may find no moment of Fast upon the grouud which he has _invad-ed .

      5 . Before tbe enemy _mustf all provisions , eattle _, wine , and brandy be concealed ! in caves in the mountains , or behind morasses , that he may die of hunger . Before the enemy occupies any place , eTery living thing is to remove ; and after hia-entrance let aome bold men set fire to the roofs over the heads of * the invaders , that they may be either burned alive , or at least be prevented from sleeping . By observing these rules the Russians saved their own _uountry from subjection , when it was invaded by Napoleon . _Already has the enemy sacked and destroyed with fire several towns and villages ; and lately the Austrians , in their savage fury , attacked the unarmed inhabitants ol

      Bo-Sarkany , in the county of Oedenburg , and burnt down the town . If , therefore , our towns cannot escape lire , let them at least burn when the enemy may suffer some damage by the conflagration . If we conquer , we shall still have a country where de stroyed towns may be rebuilt and flourish ; but ifwe are conquered , all is lost ; for it is a war of extermination which is waged against us . 6 . ln those places which can be barricaded with effect , like the town of Erlau , for instance , let all fall to work so as to set it in a state of defence , that the excursions of the Cossacks may be barred . 7 . The priests are to grasp the cross , and to lead on the people to the defence of their religion and freedom .

      8 . Throughout the land assemblies of the people are to be held in order to consult upon the best means of defence adapted to the local circumstances . 9 . The counties of Borsod , Gomor , Abauj , Zemplin , Heves , Neograd , the Fulek country , and the district of the Jazygiar , are to set about organising the crusade forthwith , and to combine their action with that of the troops in the county of _Mislcolz , Szabolez , the Ileyduk district , Great Cumania , Heves beyond the Theiss , the lower parts of Bihar and Debreezin , are especially directed to the defence ofthe Theiss , so as to make it impossible for the enemy to pass that river . But the counties of _Per-th , Csongrad , Little Cuniain , Wiessenburgh , Ti . lna , Gran , and the lower part of Neograd , are . to organise the bands of thc crusade , so as to assemble at the first summons upon the Kakosfeld .

      10 . The execution of these measures is , in such communes as possess a regular municipal council , committed to the mayors , and in other places to the jurisdiction boards and government officials ; so that after the publication of this edict in the Kodony ( official organ of the government ) , or after receipt of ( he ordinance , these boards are immediately to hold a sitting , to set in train the dispositions ordered , and forthwith to advise the ministry of the interior . He who attacks his country is an enemy , but he who neglects his duty in its defence is a _ti'aitor , and will be accounted as such by the government . The country needs only one pull altogether to be for ever saved ; but if these means of defence are neglected , all is lost . The country is in danger ! We have , it is true , a bvave , valiant army , resolved to die fov freedom , whose numbers amount to 200 , 000 meneach man a hero , inspired with a sacred causo , nnd no more to be likened with the servile mercenaries

      in array against them than light is with darkness . But this is not a war between two hostile , armies it is a war between freedom and tyranny , between the soldiers of barbarians and an entire free nation . Therefore , tho _peoj-le themselves must rise with the army ; and when our military forces are supported by these millions , we shall conquer freedom for ourselves and all Europe . Therefore , mighty people , join tha army in grasping arms . Every citizen , to arms 1 to arms ! So is victory certain ; but only so . And therefore we order and command a general landsturm for liberty , in the name of God and fatherland ) ( Signed ) . Ludwio Kossuth , governor ; Bartholomew SZEMKRE , Ll . ADlSlAS , Csanti , Arthur Georgey , Sau Vukowich , _Cxsiuin _Bat-THVANYI , MlCHAEJC HoRVATII , _Fkanz Duscuek . Buda-Pesth _, June 27 , 1849 .

      A Mazzini Medal. To Tiie Editor Of Tiie ...

      A MAZZINI MEDAL . TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIIE DAILY , NEWS . Sir , —Mazzini has left Rome . Protected by a British passport , he has hitherto defied the burglarious hands of the French government—the ready " p ickers and stealers" ofthe inspired Oudinot : inspired " with the voice of God , " upon the sweet fiiith and weeping testimony of lackey cardinals . For French gunpowder is now your sacrificial odour —your only myrrh and frankincense at the altar of St . Peter ' s . Mazzini is now in Switzerland . "A great pity " —think certain ones who spoak and write the English tongue—" a great pity that the arch-conspirator was not for once and all provided for ; put to sleep with French lead in his breast . " The

      English people think otherwise . The English people have watched with kindling admiration the glorious growth of the man Mazzini , enlarged and ennobled by the most sublime of human motives . The heart of the English nation g lowed at the manful di gnity , at thc direct simplicity , straight as a javelin to its mark , with which the triumvir met the Frenchman . How admirably did Mazzini tear to shreds thc politic sophistries—of approved French manufacture—ofthe stammering Lesseps ; with the , cold calmness of scorn puffing back the ambassador ' s fallacies in the plenipotential visage ! By the downlight directness of purpose the Italian made the Frenchman nothing . It was the swoop of the eagle trussing tho barn-door cock .

      However , French bomb-shells have prevailed , and again the red hat burns in Roman sunlight . And then the French have stormed Home gently , kindly . They used philanthropic bayonets , and , in the name of freedom , carefully cut the throat of liberty , All , too , with such self-denying veneration for monuments of art ; proclaiming a determination to repair , by French hands , the devastation of French shot . Guido should be improved , and Raphael in misfortune benefit by improving art , « la mode de Paris . Nothing more easy for French genius . Wero it possible for French artillery to damage the planet Jupiter , French complacency would squeak the name of Arago or Leverrier , and serenely promise to make the battered Jupiter a better planet—a much more jaunty Jupiter than

      before . It was not permitted to the people of England to give to the Romans aught but their sympathy and their prayers . The _sympathy was deep , the prayers were fervent ; and Mazzini with every new despatch grew in the national heart the statesman-hero of the struggle , the man who stood out from the cause with the severe serenit y , the grand' simplicity of early Rome . But Marshal Oudinot shelled the city ; French metal prevailed : nor was it permitted to England by a single gunto gainsay it . Nevertheless , as 1 conceive , Englishmen may yet mount metal inthe cause of Roman freedom : most potent metal , the more potent that in the end it sheds no blood , defaces no picture , shivers no statue . I mean the metal that enshrines opinion . I mean

      in this especial case , a medal struck , in honour of the Roman cause , and as its . noblest expositor , and defender , bearing the name or effigies of Joseph Mazzini , Despotism , that for a time has crushed men only " a little lower than the angels "—flattery , that has slavered things only a little higher than the apelust—rapine—imperial falsehood—all these nave had their medals , immortalising lies : shameless counterfeits , struck at national mints . Let the English people strike their medal in honour © f human liberty , and in sympathy with its suffering . It is the game of a certain party to preach and advocate the apathy of Englishmen towards the

      social and political condition of the foreigner . "Good Englishman , " says the Tory preacher , " Providence has cast the sea about your land ; let your heart be as insular as your country . Fill your belly with beef ; warm your knees before a _seacoal fire ; what have you to do with Hungarian or Roman ? You have your Habeas . Corpus and your House of Commons , and—in . the namo of Lord Abordeen—why ' trouble yourself with the foreigner ? Pay your taxes ~ _-sing 'God save the Queen '—and , above all—believe there be rio livers out of Britain . '' But , somehow , the Englishman ceasos to listen to this good counsel . He still likes his beef—finds . comfort at his * sea-coal _firo ; but nevertheless haa a

      A Mazzini Medal. To Tiie Editor Of Tiie ...

      restless yearning to know how that Mazzini bears himself in Rome ; ami hopes , with all his heart and all his soul , that Bern will give a mauling _huijto Brum . . In conclusion , sir , I would propose that a committee shonld be formed to receive subscriptions , that a medal be struck commemorative of Emrlisli sympathy with the cause of thc Romans , and _ofad-. miration of the character and genius of Joseph Mazzini . Here to dwell upon details is needless . - I would _me-rely suggest that tho medal be placed within the possession of the humblest subscriber . A few thousand Mazzini _meijals circulating _throughout the- continent would , in doe season , do mof t enduring service to the cause of European * liberty than as many thousand cannon-balls now _sIumBering * ( may tlieir' sleep bo eternal !) in that Mecca * _$ f the _Horsf-gUards , Woolwich-arsenal . I remain , Sir , & e : Douglas Jerrold .

      We 3 fc Imlge , Putney-common , July 30 . - [ We begCto express dissent- from the last paragraph of _fifr . Douglas _Jerrold's letter . We hold that a few thousand cannon-balls , fired from English cannon , m the side ofthe Raman Republic would havo beon worth infinitely more than millions of medals . Nevertheless , we-vote for the medal , and tsh « nk Mr . _Jei-Sald for his t _* * mely hint to tho British * _adtnircrsof the- admirable _Maajsihi . —En . N . 5 . 1

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      Louis Blanc On Sompetitionv—***"'' Compe...

      Louis Blanc on Sompetitionv _—*** _"'' _Competition ia the perpetual and ? progressive * development of misery . Instead of associating individual forces , so as to m ake them prod-fee their most : useful result , compeJijion perpetually'opposes _thenrto each other , and wastes tnem incessantly in a _reciprocal absorption _andiannihilation . On what is ttie prosperity of a successful factory established ? On * what , but tho ruin of its- less fortunate rivals ? How- does a shopman thrive , but by attracting to his establishment the customers of neighbouring shops ? : How many fortunes are but built up of _bankrnptcie _»» nd ruins I And with the tears of howmany unfortunates is thin cup filled , whom the world * ' considers happy ? And

      can it be a time and permanent society in . whioh the prosperity of some thus fatally involves tihe suffering of others t Can it bo a principle of order , of conservatism ,, of wealth , that thus pits _foroe against force , and interest against interest , _permitting none to triumph but by the destruction of their- enforced antagonists V—Democratic Review . ¦ An AuERicAH'lias said of his countrymen ; that the genuine Yankee-would not be able to repose-in Heaven itself if he could travel further westward . IIo must go a-hcad - " Sot the _Orft-sr One . —Mr . _< Fohn > Bell ,. M-P . for Thirsk , has been pronounced to- be of unsound mind . "VYe are sorry to say that Miv B . is-not the only M . P . _similfinly situated .

      Presence of Mind . — Wilkes never lost hia presence _ofmindybut was always full of resources . "When he . was _appochended by the- King ' s messengers , the warrant included Churchill-. the poet , who entered thc room- just as Wilkes was captured . *• Thompson , my dear fellow , " cried "Wilkes , as if overjoyed to see him , " they have _yist seized me , and the warrant includes Churchill ' .. You- are not likely to see Churchill yourself , but _if-you meet any of his friends beg them to warn him to-get out of * the way . " Churchill took the hint ,, and after a few observations about Mrs . Thompson ,, he took his leave , and took care- to be off pretty quickly directly he was clear of thc house . Tiik total number of letters delivered in the * United _Kingdom in tho week ending the 21 st of February , 1 _§ _49 , was G _* . 849 , IOC .

      It is not all joy which produces laughter : the greatest enjoyments- are serious . The pleasures of love , ambition , or avarice , make nobody laugh . True Civility . —There is nothing , I own , that inclines me to think so well of tho understandings or dispositions of others , as a thorough absence of impertinence . I do not think they can bo the worst people in the world who habitually pay most attention tothe feelings of others ; nor those the best who are endeavouring every moment to * hurt them . —Jlaxlitt . _Significant Epitaph . —A tombstone in New Jersey , America , bears the following epitaph : — " Died of thin shoes . January , A . D . lSdi ) . " " A Lady in Kashville being asked to waits * , gave the following answer : — " A _' o , thank you ,. Sir , I have hugging enough at homo . "

      Ax America * paper has just started upon the principle of g iving its impression away for nothing , which a rival journal on the spot tells us is its full value . Marriage Preliminaries in Ceyi . ox . —As soon as a young woman has attained a marriageable age a , feast is given , and those of tlie same caste whoso sons are desirous to become "Bcncdiets flock to it . In a short timo after the feast , a relative or friend of the youth who desires to marry tho girl , calls upon the damsel's family , and insinuates that a report of the intended marriage has gone abroad . If this insinuation bc indignantly rejected , or quietly refuted by the lady ' s family , the discomfited talker speedily withdraws ; but if , on the contrary , no dissatisfaction-is expressed , a little polite badinage is indulged in , and tho gentleman takes his leave , stating his intention of announcing the report tothe father of Che would-bo bridegroom . After a day has elapsed the father pays a visit to the ladv ' s parents ,

      inquires the amount of her marriage dowry , and many other points of minor importance ; .- . nd if the information ho receives hc _sntisi ' sietovy , nnd meets his views , he formally states a wish that his son should form a matrimonial connexion with thc girl , and invites her parents to pay him a visit , naming a day . The visit is returned by the damsel ' s parents , who make the same inquiries concerning the portion which the young man is to receive , his circumstances , and future prospects in life : and if all meets with their approbation , they invite thc father and mother of tho fortunate youth to come to their dwelling on a certain day . — Dublin University Magazine . A " gentleman , " advertising in the Waterford Mail for a wife , says , " it would be well if thc " lady were possessed of a competency sufficient to secure her against the effects of excessive grief , iu case of accident occurring to her companion . " Amiable forethought !

      Amon g tun eminent travellers who avo proceeding to California is James Arago , a blind brother of the celebrated astronomer . Ho has a largo fortune in France , but goes out to ascertain thc physical character of the country .

      AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY . [ FROM A BOSTON _TArEI ! . ] Of all the notable things on earth , The queerest one is pride of birth Among our "fierce democracie !" A bvidge across a hundred years , Without a prop to save it from sneers , Not even a couple of rotton j > eers ; A thing for laughter , fleers , and jeers , Is American aristocracy ! English and Irish , French and Spanish , German , Italian , Dutch , and Danish , Crossing their veins until they vanish In one conglomeration' . So subtle a _t-ingle of blood , indeed , No heraldry Harvey will ever succeed In finding the circulation .

      Depend npon it , my snobbish friend , Your family thread you can't ascend , Without good reason to apprehend You may -find it waxed at the other end By some plebeian vocation ! Or , worse than that , your boasted Line , May end in a loop of stronger twine That plagued some worthy relation . I . Cf . Alive ! All Alive O!—A clergyman at Oxford , who was very nervous and absent , going to read prayers at St . Mary ' s , heard a showman in the High-street , who had an exhibition of wild beasts , repeat often "Walkin ! walk in , ladies and gentlemen ! All alive ! alive O ! " The sound struck the absent man , and ran in hia bead so much that when he began to read the service , and came to the words " and doeththat which is lawful and right , he shall save his soul alive ! ( he cried out with a louder voice ) shall save his soul alive ! all alive ! alive 01 " —Horace Walpole .

      "Is tour house a warm one ? " asked a manin search of a tenement , of a landlord . " It ought to be ; the painter gave it two _eoats recently , " was tlio response . A Poet asking a gentleman how ho approved of his production , "An Ode to Sleep , " thc latter replied , " You have done such justice to the subject _, that it is impossible to read it without feeling its full weight . " " Ma , is there any hasm in breaking egeshells ? " "So , my dear—why ? " '" Cos Pre lee the basket drop , * and look what a mess I ' m in with the yolks . ¦¦ _- .., TnE Editor of the Chicago Democrat gives the following good advice : — " Wives , lovo -your husbands , and make them take in a newspaper . " " Wnr is my wife _viorse than the devil \ " said a "entieman , Whose face showed signs of the affectionate attentions ofhis better half . "Because , '' he added , ' If you resist the devil ho flics from you , but if you resist say wifo sho flies at you . "

      Smuggling in Bustles . —The Manx Liberal relates that a lady , bound from the island for Liverpool , had a bladder containing spirits attached as a bucile to hor dress , 'with the view of smuggling it . On the voyago a pin , unfortunately , punctured the bladder , and . the liquor gradually escaped , to the utter confusion of the fair smuggler . —A lady , who gave her name as Badbeer , was caught the other day by a custom-house officer in ono of tho Jersey steamers , with throe pounds _oP smuggled tea concealed , in that part of the apparent body feminine called the bustle . Its extreme rotundity attracted first the admiration and thea the suspicion of tho wary official _.

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 11, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_11081849/page/3/