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      i « dhriEbter are their drops ot sweat , _^ diamonds in a coronet ! ana bless tbe noble _working men , _° _ih 0 rear the cities of the plain ; ¦ who Us the mines and build the stops , tyhoarive the commerce of tbe main ; Ana" bless them I for tbeir swarthy hands _mve wrought the glory , of all lands .

      LINES An _perceiving an advertisement in one uf the _rjaflv Papers , of a lady advertising for a domestic servant , concluding with the words—« S 0 IWSH SK 1 JI > _Aepvt " ( by j . b . u _' kenzie . ) " _^ at * n e " m those proud and haughty terms , _^ mockery to High Heaven ' s decree ; gay , are we aught _Trat dust and worms , _T * _flien in the grave from pain set free ? _jjc God ordained , this language given _. To one brave nation ,. now : laid low ; ffbnld ' st thwart the dread designs of Heaven , Or spread death , famine , grief , and woe ! t it because of titled rank ,

      Yon thus disdain our country s name ; Or worse than all , our open , frank , 2 nd manly language ?—blush with shame Bnt , in the future ' s misty sphere , jlethiuks I see some brighter days In store for Erin ' s land , so dear To all fond hearts who freedom praise . Strive on , then Erin , spurn their jeer _. To freedom ' s cause be true , be tried ; The day wnx come—ay I and'tis near , When " Erin ' s need shall be supplied . "

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      AS ADDBESS TO THE ELECTORS JJSD "NON-ELECTORS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM , on the defective state of the Representative System , and the consequent unequal and oppressive Taxation , & c , & c . By W . "Williams , Esq . ( lata M . P . for Coventry ) . London : E . Wilson , "Royal Exchange . NoTWHHSiAia > nfG certaim " moderate"

      sentiments g iven expression to in this pamphlet , which meet -with no sympathy from us , we can conscientiously wish Mr . "Williams ' s work a wide circulation . Therein the reader will find a good deal of information relative to the collection and expenditure of the public money , and the crying necessity that easts for such a reform of parliament as will give the taxpayers full control over those who rote away _fiie people ' s money . We ' quote the following f rom Mr . Williams ' s opening observations : —

      TO THE EIXCIOES AND SOS-ELECTORS . Ton , the non-electors , who are excluded from the possession of the elective franchise—the proud birthright ofa free people—number , in the "United Kingdom , six millions of men ; while yon , the electors—the favoured class entrusted with the suffrage—the great privilege which forms the distinction between the freeman and the slave—count but 1 , 061 , 000 , who were invested with this exclusive privilege by the Reform Act , which , seventeen years ago , became the law of our country . Li order to neutralise the opposition and secure tbe co-operation of the Radical Reformers , who contended for conferring tbe elective franchise on all men after attaining tbe age of maturity if not disqualified by

      legal disability , those of you who are old enough , well remember the plausible arguments used , and the confident assurances given , both in and out of Parliament , during the agitation and debates on the Beform Bill , that "the Bill , tbe whole Bill , and nothing bnt tbe Bill , would be effectual in constituting tbe Commons' House of Parliament a real representation ofthe people , instead of being tbe creature of a borough-mongering oligarchy . The abolition ofso many rotten boroughs consigned to Schedule A— -the sale of whose seats in ihe House of Commons was admitted to be " as notorious as the Sun at noon-day "— -and the conferring upon populous towns the right to fill those defunct seats , was ostentatiously displayed ; aud although the Beform

      Bill constituency formed but one-seventh of the adult male population , yet assurances the most confident were beid out that the first fruits to be produced by the House of Commons , elected under the provisions of tbe Reform Act , would be . that of retrenchment and economy in the expenditure of the public money ; so equalising the taxes that their burthen shonld fall on those best able to hear it . instead of on the hard earnings of toil and industry ; and thatthe laws should no longer be made to favour " classes "—or more particularly the rich class—but equally for the well-being of tbe whole community . In confirmation of this , the public declarations of many leading men of that period might be quoted , but especially those of the then prime minister , Earl

      Grey , and of Lord John Russell , and other members of the government who framed the Reform Bill . In his speech in introducing tbat bill into the House of Commons , Lord John Russell said , that "to establish the Constitution on a firm basis , yon must show that you are determined not to be the representatives of a small class ,. or of a particular interest ; but to form a body who—representing the people , springing from the people , and sympathising with the people—can fairly call on . the people to support tbe future burthens of the country , and struggle with future difficulties . " Again , said the noble Lord , "Looking at the question , then , as a question of right , tiie ancient statute —the 25 th Edward the Erst—contains the germ and vital principle of our Constitution ; it thus

      declares , m the name of the king , "Moreover we have granted for ns and our heirs , to all the comrnonaltyafihe land , that for no business from henceforth we shall take such manner of aids , tasks , nor prises [ taxes ] , but hy the common assent of the realm , and for the common profit thereof "—that tbe people shall send tothe House of Commons their real representatives , to deliberate on their wants and consult their interests—to consider their grievances—to hold the purse-strings ofthe nation —to lay the foundation for the most salutary changes in tbe well-being and comforts of the people , and tbat laws should not be passed for the benefit of classes by men roused from their slumbers at twelve o ' clock at night , to vote for they know not what .

      Is it not an indisputable fact , that the Reform Act has entirel y f ailed to realise any of these promised national blessings , for the attainment of which it was _vauatingry pretended to be passed ? Hoes it not , then , exhibit , in a questionable character , the sincerity of its promoters—especially that of Lord John Russell—who , without venturing to assert that it has effected the promised reforms , has strenuously opposed all of tbe many propositions for reforming the House of Commons , whether it were Mr . Hume ' s comprehensive measure , shortening the duration of parliaments , establishing the vote by ballot , or even abolishing the disqualification to be placed on tbe register of electors by

      nonpayment of the poor-rate ; although , since the reign of Queen Elizabeth , a law has existed which gives tbe power to enforce the payment of rates dne by selling a defaulter ' s furniture or other property he may possess , and , if insufficient , to east him into prison , and there to remain till paid ; this ' Was the law until the last Session , when an act was passed to limit the term of imprisonment to three months . It would seem that the "Whip , in framing theRc form Act , foresaw that its results wonld only give to them a larger share of political power , and thereby enable them to get possession of the government , and , through a subservient House of Commons , to squander the resources of the country on their minions and aristocratic connexions .

      The Duke of Wellington ' s ministry -was no sooner installed in office in 1828 , than a great movement and agitation took p lace for Reform and Retrenchment , to which an impulse was given by the notoriously corrupt case , of East Retford . The duke , either 13 deference to thepuMicontery for retrenchment and economy , or , perhaps , what may be more lastl y due to him , from a sense of public duty , effected large reductions ; and at the close of 1830 , when Mb ministry resigned office , the expenditure ot tbat year was brought down to £ 52 , 018 , 000 , wang _Ussthtm that of 1827 £ 4318 , 000 , and which _fabled the noble duke to leave , as an inheritance to

      Ms _Whigsuccessors in office , a surplus of revenue over expenditure of £ 2 , 900 , 000 . ia ?* 1 ' 3 wj" _% ministry under Earl Grey , in 1831 and _Wj- — their two first years in office—hid to submit " ¦ tor Estimates to an ""Ohreformed" Parliament ; _^ \ disappointment was not , therefore , felt that _aiey had only reduced the expenditure in those two yeaxs to £ 50 , 908 , 000 , being less by £ 1 , 100 , 000 than " ¦ at of the preceding nunistry . Jc iifiw enter under the balmy shade of the _^ orm _PiTcliament— " springing from tiie people , " _^ _¦ _"fmpalhuiing with the people" — which was _{^ "nise-iwould ieep a tight hold of the national _Wse-stri ngs , and , _jn ihe terms of King Edward ' s

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      _' _~ " froni henceforth to take no manner of aids _, tasks , or prises ttaxea ] , but . by the common consent of the realm , and for _ther common profit thereof " The first estimates of expenditure , presented b y _?* rey 8 _gofemment to the _Befom _Pwliament m 1833 , were , ra ; amount . £ 49 , 166 , 000 , and . foi 1834 , £ 49 , m 000 ,, . Towards the _' latter endI of that year , King "William turned the "Whigsout- of office _, and _ a _jnew . ministry was formed under the premierr P _, 2 „ - Slr _^ oberfc Peel _» who framed the estimates for 183 o , which were partl y voted before their resignation of office in the month of March of that year , and _^ were adopted , unaltered , by their successors , Lord Melbourne ' s administration . The amount of _^ "f _expenditure , under those estimates , waa £ 48 , 787 , 000 , which combined the economic efforts •_ . , _JrTTTi . .. " - ..

      of both Tories and "Whi gs , and were the neplut ultra of retrenchment by V Reformed" Parliaments , being £ 2 , 120 , 000 less than tue ' estimates voted by the last rotten-borough Parliament , in the last year of its existence . This is the fulfilment of the " cheap and good government , " which it was promised tbe Reform Act would produce ; but even this * ' tight hold of the nation ' s purse-strings" was but short-lived . The Whig economical ministry , finding itself backed by a " safe working majority" in the second Reformed House of Commons , in tbe next year ( 1836 ) , increased the expenditure to £ 50 , 819 , 000 , or w'thin a few pounds of tbat of the borough-mongers of old ; and that , too , when there was not a ruffle—" not even a cloud ofthe size of a man ' s hand * ' — visible within the whole circle of the _^ political horizon , either domesticcolonial , or foreign .

      , I well remember this increase of more than £ 2 , 000 , 000 ofthe public money being voted often by less ikon forty members—the required number to form a House—and that , too , without opposition or comment from any one but the faithful guardian of the people ' s money—Mr . Hume . I had been , then , too short a time a member to enable me to render him very efficient assistance . .., .. * . A remarkable scene is presented in the _^ Reformed" House-on a motion for going into Committee of Supply : a general flight and dispersion takes place , a corps de reserve of officials and expectants being kept at Bellamy ' s dining-rooms , ready to defeat a motion to " countout" the House , or to answer the " "Division Bell ;" , all heing thus made

      safe , the " Supply nights , " when ihe people ' s money is voted * way by millions , are devoted to dinnerparties and other _free-from-ncare enjoyments . To return to the public expenditure , which was annually on the increase : —that of 1839 reached £ 53 , 440 , 000 , and exceeded the revenue by £ 1 , 500 , 000 , which was auietly added to the National Debt . The increasing expenditure went on , year after year , until , in 1847—in the first estimate of Lord John Russell ' s ministry to the fourth Reformed ; _P- * . rliament—itreaehed to nearly £ 60 , 000 , 000 and was then only arrested by a refusal , in 1848 , to increase the Income-tax from little less than three to five per cent ., or from sevenpence to one shilling in the pound sterling : which , in this year , exhibited

      the remarkable anomaly of three budgets in the same Session , in each of which reductions were made in the estimates of the expenditure , to bring it nearer to the amount of the insufficient revenue , and this after having been atpedce thirty-three years ' ; for the disturbances in Lower Canada in 1838 were soon suppressed , and our interference between Turkey and the Pacha of Egypt was brought to an end by sending a few ships to take possession of Acre . The cost of Indian wars is defrayed by the East India Company , and that of the rupture with China was more than defrayed by tbe Chinese ransom . As to the tiffs with Louis Philippe , it would seem they were nothing more than adroit contrivances to frighten and alarm the people of

      France and England , the better to enaoie tneir governments to increase their warlike armaments and thereby augment their patronage . To provide for this en _Ormous and prodigal _expenditure , the amount of the taxes was insufficient and tbe Reform ministry and Parliament — during the eleven years the "Whig Reformers were in possession of tbe government since the Reform Act was passed—have added £ 41 , 000 , 000 to the _National Debt ; of which £ 1 , 000 , 000 was applied to paying the Irish Darsons' arrears of tithes , due from the Irish Roman Catholics , the payment of which tbey had _successfally resisted . I well remember condemning , in _Btrong terms , the iniquitous immorality of thus mortgaging the produce ofthe

      industry of generations yet unborn to pay the interest ofa debt so shamefully contracted , and to have observed , that , if future generations should look into the items of which the debt is composed , and discover this and so many millions added to it to provide for a prodigal expenditure exceedihg _^ the revenue in a period of profound peace , it might shake the stability ofthe whole fabric . It is but justice to Sir Robert Peel to state that , on his coming into office in 1841 , having fonnd the exchequer nearly empty , and the expenditure of Lord "Melbourne ' s ministry in tbat and the four

      preceding years having exceeded the revenue by £ 6 , 000 , 000 , he put an end . to a financial system so ruinous , and bad recourse to the Income-tax ; by which means he placed the finances of the country on a solid basis , and so continued them up to his resignation of office in 1846 . His " reforming " Whig successors—Lord John Russell ' s ministryno sooner got possession ofthe government than they again adopted the spendthrfit for their financial model . Their expenditure in 1847 and 1848 exceeded the revenue by £ 3 , 361 , 000 , and that , too , was ungrudgingly countenanced by the " Reformed " Parliament .

      The following extract cites a few examples as to

      HOW THE MOSBX GOES . "Without going into tbe labyrinth of thc public expenditure , whence flow , from countless sources , the most profligate extravagance and waste of the country ' s resources to ' provide patronage for the government , to supply the insatiable cravings for places , pensions , and sinecures by the Aristocracy , their parliamentary supporters and creatures , denominated by Junius the " Scavengers of the Ministry , " I will instance a few heads of expenditure in which great reductions may be effected . In the second Session of 1841 , 1 brought under the consideration of the Hause of Commons the enormous increase in the Cost of collecting the public revenue , which had been nearly doubled . I took ,

      as an example , the year 1806—an eventful year of war— -in which the cost was not less than that of other years about that period , but because a Committee of the House of Commons had investigated the cost of the collection of that year , which amounted to £ 2 , 797 , 000 for collecting £ 58 , 250 , 000 of taxes , or a little more than 4 f per cent . __ The amount of the taxes for the year ending the oth of January last was £ 57 , 054 , 000 , of which the cost of collecting was £ 4 , 684 , 000 , or 8 i per cent . J In making that motion in 1841 , 1 showed that the cost of the necessaries and luxuries of life was much less in that year than in 1806 ; but they are at present still lower , and may he estimated at folly one-third las than in 1806 . These striking facts induced Sir

      Robert Peel , who had just come into office as prime minister , to appoint a Commission to inquire into the whole system of collecting the taxes ; but the only inquiry instituted by . the Commissioners was in the port of Liverpool , and their report exhibits the system there pursued as highly discreditable , both as to the expensiveness and inefficiency . The cause , it was understood , of cutting short the Inquiry , was a discovery that enormous reductions might be effected , but which , if acted upon throughout the vast ramifications of the Customs , Excise , Stamps , Post-office , and the Estates of the Crown , wouldlopoffan immense amount of corrupt Government Patronage , which is carried on unseen and

      uncontrolled . Parliament having surrendered its great prerogative of supervision , each department intercepts the amount of the salaries and pensions of its officers from the Taxes on tbe way from the people ' s pockets to the Treasury , and in the annual account published , the net amount only is given , and no mention is made of tbe cost of collection . This is a public grievance of long standing ; in reference to which , the Marquis of Lansdowne , in 1797 , in his place in the House of Lords , said , that " Every officer seems to be lord of his own will , and to have unlimited power over the purse of the _Nation , instead of being—as the spirit of the Constitution directed —> under the constant cbeck of Parliament . "

      Soon after the "Whig ministry were installed in office in 1831 , a Commission was appointed "to examine into the manner in which tbe public money is received and paid in the several departments of receipt and payment . " The Commissioners , in their Report , strongly recommended that , in future , all public moneys should , without any deduction whatever , be paid into the ' Treasury ; and , as a consequence , that the salaries and pensions of the officers of the revenue departments should be annually voted . This recommendation was signed by the Commissioners , Lord John Russell , Sir James Graham , Sir Francis T . Baring , and Mr . Edward Ellice . Motions were repeatedly made in the House of Commons for carrying into effect this recommendation , but they were resolutely resisted , because this hidden source of corruption has

      been found too convenient to be relinquished . This accounts for the enormous increase in the cost of the Collection of the Taxes , which was commenced by Mr . Pitt , before whose administration it did not exceed two-and-a-half to , three per cent . If the present cost of the Collection were reduced to three percent ., a savingof £ 3 , 000 , 000 a year would be effected ; or . if reduced to four and three quarters per cent ., the cost in 1806—and that eventful year of war , ' o ;>— £ 2 , 000 , 000 would besaved . - The property ofthe Crown , which the Queen has surrendered to the public for a . Civil List of £ 385 , 000 a year , is nearly swallowed up by plunder and mismanagement .. This property is under the management of the Commissioners of "Woods and Forests , who received from it in the last three years an income ' of £ 1 , 187 , 746 ; of this amount they only paid into the Treasury £ 313 , 31 % being £$ 74 , 430 lets than they received . If this pro-

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      perty were _hoimdy'imridgeii' it ** would produce a sum equal to the amount of the . Civil List , thereby placing our most gracious Queen in the independent position of _receiving : no more ' from tho _Ration than Her . _TiIajesty ; repays from the producei of her own estates . The great Crown Forests ; which annually ought to supply the Navy with a vast quantity of timber , produce scarcely ; a sufficiency to pay the pensions and : salaries of . officials and peculators . The Hock-yards is another ' . department in which there is a riot in prodi gality . Since the termination bf . th ' e war £ 52 , 700 , 000 have been expended for timber and other materials for ship-building , _salarieaand wages of officers and . workmen employed in these dock-yards ; for every shilling of which there ought to be something to show . "What has become

      of this money it would be difficult even to conjecture , as at the close of the war there were 606 ships in commission and 335 in ordinary . " If stock were taken ofthe ships built and on the stocks , and repaired , since the Peaco , I doubt if anything ap-i preaching to one half , of this enormous amount could be accounted for . During the same period £ 9 , 000 , 000 havo been expended in what is denominated " enlargingand improving the Dock-yards , " although sufficiently capacious during the : war for building and keeping in repair the above 1 , 000 menof-war , store ships , & c . Pembroke is the only naval yard added , and basins for steamers . The entire system of conducting the business of the Dock-yards has been one of continuous blunder , mismanagement , extravagance , and waste ; for , as has been truly remarked by The Times , " ships havebeen built two or three times over . " It would

      be marvellous , indeed , if a better state of things existed under tbe present system . The qualification for First . Lord of the Admiralty and the Secretary seems to be , utter ignorance of Naval affairs ; and if the other Lords , should have abetter qualification , their being required to be Members of Parliament , the duties of which occupy so much of their time both day and night during the Session , renders it impossible for " them to attend to their official duties . It is hardly reasonable to expect that so vast a concern as the Naval affairs of Great "Britain , on which £ 203 , 000 , 000 have been expended since the Peace , can be otherwise than mismanaged under such a ruinous system ;' Much of the same character has been the Expenditure of the Ordnance department , in building barracks in Great Britain and Ireland , and the construction of Fortifications and Barracks in the

      Colonies . The Expenditure under these heads , in the last five years , was £ 3 , 000 , 000 . Upwards of £ 400 , 000 was expended in fortifying one of the Ionian Islands ; and the value of our Exports to the whole of those islands is about- £ 120 , 000 a year ! The Ordnance Estimates for the expenditure of the year ending the 5 th April last were £ 3 , 001 , 100 ; in 1790 they were only £ 375 , 000 . £ 4 , 000 , 000 are taken annually from the pockets of the people of this country for governing our Colonies ( exclusive of India , which pays its own expenses ;) besides this , the Colonists pay taxes to the amount of about £ 4 , 000 , 000 a year , which to a

      large extent is . absorbed in paying extravagant Salaries to Colonial Placemen , who are imposed upon the Colonies by the Government of this Country . The return we receive , for this Expenditure is , trading with them to the amount of about £ 9 , 000 , 000 a year : not . a very profitable investment ,: except to the government as a source of enormous Patronage . And ; as was recently observed by the limes , "We have spent hundreds of millions in fostering and protecting our Colonies , and are now paying millions . over and above the interest of the debt for the establishments and defences of our Colonies . "

      The Half-pay and Pensions of the Army , Navy , and Ordnance , amount to £ 4 , 000 , 001 a year , which is but littleless than the whole expenditure of these departments in 1700 ! and not quite £ 2 , 000 , 000 less than the entire Expenditure of the United States ' Government . " The Miscellaneous Services amount to £ 3 , 888 , 600 ; in 1790 it was onl y £ 168 , 600 . The charges on the Consolidated Fund are £ 2 , 811 , 000 ; in 1790 they were £ 1 , 003 , 000 . In days of yore , the House of Commons rigidly exercised its high prerogative of holding the purse-strings of the Ring ' s Exchequer , and allowed nothing derived from : the people ' s

      pockets to be expended without its authority ; but , to a large extent , it has surrendered that great constitutional power , to the Government . In the year ending the 5 th January , 1847 , it permitted tbe Government to spend £ 7 , 004 , 000 without its permission or the exercise bf any control over it ! The Bank of England having stopped payment in 1797 , caused a depreciation in the value of its notes ; in consequence of which , a great increase took place in the salaries of all public officers and persons paid out of the public money : they are now , in very numerous cases , double what they were before 1797 . Take , for example , the salaries of the Judges : —

      1792 . 1849 . The Chief Justice of the Queen ' s Bench's salary £ 4 , 000 8 , 000 The Puisne Judges of do . 2 , 400 each 5 , 000 each , The Chief Justice ofthe Common Pleas 3 , 500 „ 8 , 000 „ The Puisne Judges of . do . 2 , 400 „ 5 , 000 „ The Chief Baron of the . Exchequer 3 , 500 „ 7 , 000 „ The Barons do . 2 , 400 „ 5 , 000 „ We trust this pamp hlet will have an extensive sale . Its disclosures should suffice to arouse the p lundered people of this country to a great and national struggle to achieve a complete and Eadical Beform of Parliament .

      Ketchiana, Syc, Fyc. By The Rev. Alexand...

      Ketchiana , _Syc , _fyc . By the Rev . Alexander _Duncanson , of Falkirk . London : C . Gilpin , Bishopsgate-street Without ; J . "Watson , Queen ' _a-head Passage ,. Paternoster-row . This pamphlet has heen written to prove that " The Punishment of Death h y the Civil Law is in opposition to enlightened reason , and growing social and political policy ; and also antagonistic to the mind of God , as expressed under the Patriarchal , Jewish , and Christian dispensations . " The author is evidentl y a man of strong convictions , enlig htened sentiments , and generous feelings . The work is ably and eloquentl y written , and is well worth y the carefol perusal of those who are giving their attention to the important question of Capital Punishments .

      Mackenzie's' Educational Books. London: ...

      Mackenzie ' s' Educational Books . London : E . Mackenzie , 5 , Wine-office Court , Fleetstreet . Here are three more specimens of Mr . Mackenzie ' s enterprising venture in furtherance of the all-important work of popular education . First we have " WaJkingame ' s Tutor ' s Assistant , "' comp lete for fourperice , or in two parts each at half that sum ; second , a new system

      of " Short-Hand made Easy , " adapted either for self-instruction , or the use of tutors , students , or schools ; and third , "A Treatise on Phrenology , " in which that science is elucidated and illustrated . The " Phrenology " and the " Short-Hand " are charged no more than twopence each ! Faithfully prepared , neatly printed , and marvellousl y cheap , these works deserve , and , we trust , will have an immense circulation .

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      ¦ — - »**** S _*^*' 1 _ASTLETS AMPHITHEATRE . Mr . Batty has adopted a p lan which is well worthy the imitation of all managers of theatresnamely , that of having a juvenile nig ht once a week , when the pantomime is played first . The second of these nights took place on Thursday , when the attendance of smiling faces was more than . usually numerous : the boxes being literally crowded with youngsters , at home for the holidays , who seemed to enjoy the fun of Yankee Doodle . The truly wonderful performance of that mistress of her art , Mdlle Angele , elicited the most rapturous applause . The graceful dancing of Mdlle Gardonie on the tight rope , also excites the admiration of the audience .. The performances concluded with the grand chivalric spectacle of tbe Knight of the Eagle Crest , which still continues its triumphant career .

      The Tuscan Monitore Of The 30th Ult. Con...

      The Tuscan Monitore of the 30 th ult . contains the following : — " We are happy in being _ableto contradict the statement given , by the Qratz Gazette , and repeated bj vb , that Count Zichy was at Florence attacked with insanity . "We quote the following p assage of a letter with which H . E . Prince JOemidoff has favoured us on the subject : — 44 For the last six weeks I have had , at San Donato , the pleasure ofthe company of Count Zichy , whose name is Edmund and not Edward , andwho : isa brother of my unfortunate friend Eugene Zichy ; _oi

      and his numerous friends have tne _opportunity seeing him every day as healthy in mind as he is resigned in heart . " ' " '' ¦ ' , ' , _' ¦ Lukraet Gossip . —DicRens will start a weekly journal in March , and on the 1 st ofthe same month Douglas Jerrold will produce the first number of a new magazine . A new satirical publication is being organised . Kenny Meadows is to draw for it , and the literary contributors are men of some standing . The title fixed upon is Pasquin . The first number will appear on the 18 th inst . Mr . Douglas Jerrold s new comedy , is now nearly ready for the stagej . it will be produced at the Haymarket in the course of nextmonth ; _, . ; . ; , _L

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      -: - '• _-- THE . M 1 NERS OF THE NORTH . - _— . _ThoiirorfanenAof . _Seatoii Deleval Colliery , togetberwith several friends from the . adjacent col - lieries , met on New Year ' s Day to celebrate the anniversary of the present-organisation : of the " .-Society , for , the Protection of the Labour ; of the Miner , which society was' first { established : bythe workmen of that colliery ,, vin . connexion with the miners of Cowpen and Bl ythe . It having been arranged to take tea fogetber 7 * ab ' out 340 of the hardy miners were accommodated in the large room ofthe Hastings ; Arms Inn , ; many of whom were accompanied by their , wiyes and _Btreethearts . Tho committee , of management having ' disposed of one essential and _neccssarvnart of this'Wtheriii ' i ? . viz . ;

      the providing each with a very goodcup of tea and Christmas bread _s next proceeded to bring before the audience several well-known friends to counsel and advise . them -ffith regard to their future welfare . Before , however , entering upon this part of the business ; it affords us great pleasure to remark the example of cordiality and harmony of sentiment which characterised the whole proceedings of this body of men ,, who hare for the last twelve months acted in concert arid union with - ' each other , both with regard to' the proper and equal distribution of their labour , and the fellow feelmg displayed when the late epidemic raged so fearfully among them . It is pleasant to observe that those proceedings stand out in bold relief when compared with ; the

      _raiseraDio exhibition of a neighbouring colliery , where the workmen were regaled with £ 10 worth of ale , which only served to bury in a momentar _^' oblmon the aches and pains entailed by the last year ' s competttiveJabpur _^ it Js alscrworthy of remark , that in consequence ofthe long and severe illness which has prevailed in this colliery , added to which , the work has been of late very much reduced , many of the workmen could not spare : the necessary shilling to take tea with their brethren , but to obviate this a subscription was set on foot , and the needful raised in a short time , thereby giving many an opportunity of being present at this goodly gathering . On the motion ot Mr . Haul , Mr . M . Richardson was called upon to preside , and Mr . J . > Maiiderson to officiate as vice . • . ; . ' ¦ ¦ _,- . ¦ - ¦ ¦¦'

      The _Cu-airman then enlisted the attention ef the audience by a few brief remarks , and introduced Mr . _Thiblwku , who said : nian in himself was an apt illustration •; of union ; - the -feet could ¦' . not possibly do without the belly *' nor the latter exist without therVarious members which constituted the whole organism of his frame ; but though man ' s imperfection would be visible without theso combinations and dependencies , yet in the question of his co-operation with his brother man much had been said on both sides . ; , for himself , ho was decidedly of opinion that such co-operation was good ftr all j by it the advocates for man ' s redemption from slavery and serfdom were enabled to prosecute their labours , and lay bare the nefarious practice of holdinir in

      chains a portion of God ' s children . . "What fearful evils have the . kings of the earth perpetrated by the congregated masses of mankind but we unite ourselves for the holy purpose of disseminating the heavenly doctrine of bearing each other ' s burdens , and establishing a common and universal brotherhood ; and let it be understood , that in carrying out those views and objects we would . also embrace and connect the interests of our employers , and although we have as yet failed to impress our ' employers practically with this view , of the question , perhaps the day is not distant when these opinions , will be better ' understood , when upon the principle of each for all , and all for each , the moral elevation of the human family will be a necessary sequence of man ' s

      existence .,: A better time is on tho wiBg _, and we must endeavour to afford ourselves the consolation that each of us have done something to facilitate the onward _Anarch of human redemption . The aspect of things is improving ., "We have , like the Romans , sown the seed , " and in due time" we shall reap the fruits . Union cannot dp all things at one time , but great things can be accomplished thereby . We desire to achieve the power whereby to pay all our creditors , their fair due , and to banish that curse from so great a branch of our national industry , namely , —continued and necessitated degradation , by being constantly in debt to our shopkeepers . We want also moral elevation } and that we can obtain only by setting shoulder to shoulder ,

      ana _oy using our best ettorts _. the objects dosired may be realised before man ' s journey comes to a close . . . Mr . _BsiLsaid , when this union was first originated it was purely a defensive one : our' wages were threatened a considerable abridgment ; and when we perceive the uncommon amount of good done in so short a time , we arc wishful to apprise our Seghill brothers that the- " feast of reason and flow of soul" is much more preferable than the debasing practise of closing the year ' s labour with drunkenness and disorder ; we are enabled to enjoy ourselves at our own cost , thus securing our independence , whilst they , although the recipients of £ 10 from their master ,, havo but received it as a

      premium in exchange for their birthright . This country is the most wealthy , ' perhaps , under Heaven , yet what a terrible mass of misery does it contain ! Experience proves that until there shall exist a powerful pressure from without , the burdens of the people will still increase . Let us demand , then , a proper share of that wealth which we produce , and we shall obtain it . Our assembly here this day is an omen of future good , and , perhaps , we shall not long bo witnesses of the disgraceful manner in which our hard-earned wages are nefarioutly taken from us . This would not be if union , instead of competition , had :., been in the ascendant . .. "We wish for justice and fair play , and if united we shall obtain it .

      Mr . HAnDT . observed , tbat many people were at the present time suffering keenly from the contracted means of subsistence , but what , indeed , would have been tbe miners' condition if the union had not commenced ? Previous to its formation , wages were tumbling to p ieces—reduction followed reduction , and we were fast approaching the lost and forlorn condition of the weaver who was enabled , in 1812 , to earn his £ 2 per week , but who could only at the present time earn five or six shillings per week , for exactly as much as was formerly , done for the larger amount . He could weir recollect when a putter , was bound to a bond which guaranteed a fixed price for a year , at which a certain amount of work would be paid for , but many of them , as well as himself ,

      could . testify their astonishment at the terrible increased size of the corves by which that amount of labour was calculated , and which increased quantity was a fraud upon the hewer and putter , who were paid by tbe piece ; and the amount thus taken from them was not less , upon the average , than fifteen per cent . There- was at present some stir about educating the miners . Why no children got se early an education as the trapper ; doomed to sit twelve hours in aidark corner beside the door , he hourly had his attention drawn to . the curses and imprecations given expression to by the putters , who are apt , on the- smallest interruption to their work , to vent their rage in horrid oaths , and unseemly language . Thus it was that the miner ' s child

      was educated , ' and his young mind—like a blank sheet of paper—became readil y and indelibly impressed with that -stamp of wickedness which , in afterlife only , fits him _; to act the schoolmaster to tbe next generation . ' However , it is gratifying to learn that the miners have improved , and that a few of them are enabled to break through the coarseness of the pit college , and it was to the efforts of these men that a great deal : of : their altered' and improved condition may be ascribed ! Yet a great work remains to be done ; hundreds and thousands of miners at the present day have : no time nor leisure to attend to any instruction . The severity and lengthened nature of their toil unfits them to take advantage of attending any lecture or address that any party may feel disposed to give

      them , and thus they pass away the time between work aiid rest- _^ from the bed to the pit—and from tho pit to bed . ; ' History furnishes us with a picture of the condition of the ' labouring people in the fifteenth century , when Sir J j Fortesque declared that every , man _iO'England was well clothed—well housed—and \ had plenty of good and substantial food , and that no man drank water except in doing penance . It is only by , union that we can restore so enviable a state of things , and by attention to the principle of supply and ; demand we may , at least considerably nullify the extent of the sufferings now endured by our brethren—procure fair wages for our dangerous toil—andgefc clear . of the degrading system of receiving our wages by tommy tickets , which is to some extent-yet iri existence in this district . •• ¦ - > - ; : 1 ' ;' :. '¦ - ¦ _.-

      Mr . G . Hall said , our progenitors have , through ignorance , allowed themselves to be deprived of theirbirthright like ' Esau of old , and it remains for us to work ou _$ our own salvation , Let us exert ourselves to improve bur condition , and then may we expect to present to'the world an aspect of comfort and peace . He expected to witness the period when our rulers . would remove the taxes upon knowledge , andthat also which kept the sun of Heaven from _Bhining into bur dwellings . ¦ " The former had much tb do wi th our mental darkness ; and the latter most assuredly _operated-againsf our physical _comforts ;; _.-. . '< _v :: n ' _:-.,-, _^ _j : _u _.- ; , _;^ ,. ; . ¦ .. ¦

      ; Mr . A . _Srovus said , he would call , their attention to the necessity of adopting and carrying out that most 'excellent rule— " Love thy neighbour as thyself . " It unfortunately , happened , that our lawmakers ; left out a great portion of the principle embodied in the scriptural injunction ; but there was one law , namely , . Hume ' s Act , " , whioh , if it did _notfallyionjoin love _,-yet gave us liberty to ; fi g ht our employers . ; , By these laws we are enabled ¦ to meet together , and discuss the various _hiatters ' connected with bur earthly welfare ; while , at the same time , our employers have the same power to act in what seemed _jbest for them . Upon this law we must meet our masters , and endeavour to _: get ' . tho . best possible , price for oiir labour . All other trades had taken iip this matter , and were more or less organised upon its provisions , " and why r not the pitmen ? He was fully persuaded thafc'the moral andihtellec-

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      tualelevationof the . miners , depended very much _upon-tbe relaxation of their present _excessive and severe toil , and to the diminishing of the loh 2 and wearisome day ' s work . - 'Every colliery enjoined the boys to work twelve'hours , ; and many even ' at * the present time were fourteen hours at work , ' especially whero the men were not united . '; ' , ; and " at tho ' West Moor one man had worked so hard and long , that ho had lost "his eyesight . 'Let us imitate _. _thsbrave men of Broomside Colliery , where if a man is _'weakerTthah his neighbour , the latter " helpsTtht former , and thus : they ' work together in Harmony and love . .. . "'' . ''' . _' : " : '''

      \ The Chairman " then introduced M . Job * to speak upon the subject of ventilation , and tho necessity of the same being improved ; Mr ; Jude addressed the audience at considerable length upon this subject , wherein was clearly shown the great necessity for a change in our present mode / of ventilation of the mines of this country . It was also intimated _^ that we , as miners , did not desire any . vexatious enactments , but . that there existed a necessity for an inspection of mines , and in a groat degree for compulsory inspection . The speaker then ! adduced some practioal illustrations of the above necessity ! wherein it was _demonstrated , that sometimes the nirof a pit was so ventilated that a candle would not burn , and that in many collieries the workmen had

      to light two or more candles at a time , to clean their coals , and to ensure , the continuity , of such li ght ; and even then , in many instances , both candles have gone out , and left the miners in the dark . In a general way , the-pits were worked up to the verge of danger , thus exposing the lives of the workmen , the slightest derangement in any / part of the machinery ; such as a trap door being left too long open , or a _> sudden change in'the atmosphere , brought immediate destruction to many of them . Explosions are often due to a parsimonious spirit in laying out the general arrangement of a colliery : for example , when the high main seam was worked out at Walla-end , one shaft only was sunk down to the Bensham seam , which was a much move fiery

      seam than the one worked out , and t _» which there had been two shafts sunk * . the consequence was , that in a very _sbOrt time atrexplosion took place , and killed fifty-two persons , after which another shaft was sunk ; so that the economy , as it is termed , exercised in the first instance was of no avail , inasmuch as the second had to be put down , and that , with all the additional expense engendered by the explosion . But this example did hot mend the matter , for at the present time there are about five pits do _^ nto the Bensham seam in that colliery ; yet each successive pit was put down , after an explosion had taken place ; there having been at Walls-end four great sacrifices of life , making in the aggregate upwards of 160 lives ; and it waa

      not until after each explosion that the next pit was sunk ; so that the parsimonious spirit thus displayed ; served but to shew the bungling judgment ofthe manager , who either could / or would not be guided by experience , in looking a little more beforehand , ' and-adopt - the'necessary means to prevent these accidents again . The Committee ofthe House of Commons who sat in ; examination upon the cause s of accidents in coal mines , * had their attention drawn to the invention of Mr . Goldsmith Gurney _' s plan of ventilation b y high pressure steam ; yet fourteen years have elapsed before a " single colliery in this district made the attempt to introduce and make trial of its merits . And even how- — when by the results of the experiment , double the

      quantum of air has been got , and-when the evidence of Mr . Foster , the , viewer , ( under whom the invention . has been tried ) before the Committee ofthe House of Lords last year , gave ample details of its superiority , and assisted and corroborated by the evidence ; of Mr . J . Mather—we ; cannot hear of any generel attempts on the part of other . proprietors to follow the example . Many such omissions can be adduced , which fully , prove that all is ' not done that can be done to prevent such calamities , and hence the necessity of parliamentary interference . Mr . ' Jude then read several letters received from various members of Parliament , promising to aid the miners in their desired object , and also letters from parties eminent for their scientific _atainments , all breathing a spirit of humanity for

      the miner ; likewise a very humane and philanthropic note from his Royal Highness Prince Albert , expressive of his sincere desire that something may shortly be done to meet the desired purpose .. After a few more remarks relative to the necessity of being prepared with the outward pressure by our petition , dec ., and the utility of apprising the Par . liamentary and Financial' Reformers that more than 20 , 000 miners in this district are without the vote , and are likely to continue so if any rate paying-clause is retained , inasmuch as the houses are made to form . part , of their wages , and thus they pay no rent , and therefore cannot be put upon the rate book . The proceedings were brought to a close by a vote of . thanks to the parties who presided , and , with three times three cheers forthe union , die , die .

      Heugh Hall, Diirriam.—The Men Of This Co...

      Heugh Hall , DiiRriAM . —The men of this colliery met on Saturday last to celebrate the anniversary of the present organisation of labour amongst the Miners of the north . They met at eleven a . m ., and heard a public lecture from Richard Hodgim , ono of their own order , and one against whom the master party have taken a spite on account of his union principles . Besides the lecture , we had some recitations , amongst which were'" Tell ' s Soliloquy , " and a portion of " The Doom of Toil . " At one o ' clock we sat down " to a good and excellent dinner , which the host ofthe house provided for us . After dinner we had more recitations , and several excellon $ / 6 ongs were sung . ' . "We continued together till five o ' clock , when the meeting broke up satisfied with the day ' s proceedings .

      The Weavers Strike at Wilsden . —This strike has at length terminated . The weavers have nobly fought the battle , and wonthe victory . At a public meeting on the 5 th of November last , they passed a resolution not to work for Mr . Richardson any more , at any price whatsoever . They have stood to that resolution like men , determined to conquer , and the consequence has been that Mr . Richardson has been compelled to shut up his mills . When he gave them a statement of . the wages he was about to give , he repeatedly told them that they were not bound to take his offers , " . ' but that "if they did not comply with them , he would shut up his mills , and take his machinery to Manchester , and in : order that he might do so without fail , the weavers

      determined not to work for him . Although Mr . Richardson spoke as if he would rather shut up the mill than not , yet he sent ono of his men to Manchester to inquire for weavers , telling them that there were plenty of work , and plenty of wages ; and that they might do " very well and save money , if they were _steadyand willing to work . Wilsden was represented as a paradise . When the people inquired if it was a strike , the man replied , "No , there was nothing the matter in that respect ; " the people here were all to idle to work , ana that was the only failing there was . Mr . Richardson would pay the fare of all married people , and their families , and their goods , if they would come to the promised land , but he would not pay the fare of _sinsrle

      persons , nor would he pay the fare of a father to come , and see the work , ' and then if he found things as represented , to take his family . No , those that intended to have their , fare paid must first break up their homes , and give ; up their work , —if they , had any—and depend upon his word , for the glorious fare they would meet with ; through such meahsas these he succeeded in , decoying a ' few families to this place . They were destitute of house or habitation , excepting such as Mr . Richardson had provided for tbemj and these were of a sorry kind . Teh had to be ' erammed into an old hay chamber ; they had no food , but what Mr . Richardson provided for them , nor had thev any money , and thus they were at his mercy , . When the weavors * committee learnt their case , they kindly offered to pay

      their fare back , and if they bad nothing to go back to . they ' would support them until they could get work'elsewhere . Some twenty were . sent back at the expense of the committee , and Manchester was _P lacarded , warning the people ofthe strike at _¦* ilsden . The weavers here were determined that not a tittle of Mr . Riohardson ' s threat , that he would . take his . machinery to Manchester , ' should pass away unfulfilled . ' They havo been fulfilled to the very letter . Mr . Richardson is gone , and-this is a proof of those valuable words , " Union is Strength . " The weavers have found it so . ' May the working , classes of every trade in England begin to value this motto , and their freedom is secure . On behalf of tha weavers , A . Robinson , Hallasbridge , Wilsden . ,

      r FonEje" - Potatoes and Grain . —The supplies of potatoes from abroad continue to form a very , important item in tbe general list of imports from foreign countries . They are principally from France ; Belgium , and Holland ; and in many instances comprise in a' day several entire Cargoes containingmore than a hundred tons weight of the vegetable _. 'the produce of those countries . ' Several vessels have also arrived from Dunkirk arid other French ports laden with grain and flour , TnE Poisoning in Paris . —Aymet , the man in custody for sending poisoning pastry to two women , stated that he had bought the basket and ; box in which the pastry was placed from a hawker on the Boulevard Montmartre . He was accordingly on

      Saturday week taken by the police to the Boulevard , to point out , if possible , the person who had sold them . He indicated a wemari , named Triboulct _butthiswoman refused to answer the questions bf tho police , arid heaped' insults upon them . Hor husband having comenp at the time , likewise began abusing them , and refused to sell them articles similar to those sold by Aymet . The other hawkers gathered round , and also insulted' the police ; and at orie moment a serious corifliot was feared . _, Ono of the hawkers raised a hammer over the hoad of one ofthe police , and wns about to strike , but was { _irevented . A crowd having assembled ; tho police bared they might lose their p risoner , arid they retired ; but / subsequently . Triboulct arid his wife were arrested . — Q aligmni . 7 ' - . 7

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      F-A Ta8aboi«D I-R-'When Prince Gonzng"* ...

      f-A TA 8 ABoi « D _I-r- 'When Prince _Gonzng" * de _Castig- » Hone was in England , he . dined , in _ company _witk Dr . Johnson , at tho house " of _" aebmnion friend , and * thinking ' -it was' a -polite as _well _' _as- ' gay thing t _» drink the doctor ' s health _withXsome proof that hehad ' redid'his works ; called Out lr 6 m the top of th _« _r table to the bottom—that table being filled with company;— "At your good health / Mr . " vagabond , " ' instead of Mr . Rambler . : _- ' - ¦' _- ' * ' _^ ¦¦ > _--.- ' Out or Tom * . Inside . —A- little boy - who ¦ ¦ ¦ -. wagplaying . with . money , swallowed a small p iece . by accident . All the neighbourhood was rntied ¦; - ¦ tha

      aunts and cousins ran- about in consternation , " for nobody could tell how'it was to be got again . Pre sently the schoolmaster came hurrying up . " Don't you know how to get at : tho _^ money ? " said he . " Send . , for ,.. th ' e . tax-gatherer ; he ' s tbe man to manage it , for he can got money from _anywhereout of your very inside ! " _..: : „ _..,.- . A Viib Pon . — "Pray , Mrs . * _Zabriska , why do you whip your children so often ? ' \ " La ! Mr . Worthy , I do it for their enli ghtenment ; I never whip one of . them in my , life that , they didn't acknowledge it mado them Bmartl" ;

      Practical mkn are apt to sneer at poets u ? , being entertaining perhaps , but idle dreamers . They forget that every great truth in life has _originated riot with the men of action ; but with the men of thought . " '"" " ' "' : " : ' ¦;¦'¦ :. _'¦;¦; : : ' ; A MiNisTBSiAii MAHffiuvBE . _^ Sir Robert Walpohv once wanting to carry a questiori iricthe House of ; Lords , and not being - quite sure -of some ofthebishops , prevailed upon bis friend , the Archbishop _, of Canterbury ; to stay at home for two or three- ; days . In the riieantime , ' Sir Robert circulated' a , report that his grace was dangerously ill . - On the day of meeting the house was , as might be _expected , remarkably crowded with lawn sleeves , not one of whom voted against the minister _!; Before ANp After Marriage . —A man named <

      Chamberland was brought before the Correctional of Police-for thrashing his wife . . "Did you beat _, your wife ? " asked the President . "I did , sir , on the Place . Maubert . " " . There is . nothing to be , proud of . - It is a shameful thing to strike a woman . " " Oh , but President , I ' m en regie , look at that !' ¦ and tho accused handed up a dh'ty : marr riage certificate . . " "Well ! It gives you no right to beat your wife 1 " . "Oh , stop a , bit , President ! . I lived with her some time , and she bad me s « nt to prison for thrashing her . : When I came ouV she said that if I would marry her she would let me beat her as much . as I liked . I did marry her , and I have a right to beat her . ! "' . 'What you say is absurd , " - said the President . " Perhaps you think ap , but ask my wife . . Here , Elizabeth , tell these gentlemen whether I have the right to thrash yon

      or not ? " I promised you that you should beat .: me when I wanted to get married , " answered thewife . " People always promise many things wheir •* they want to get married , but after marriage' / it _y isn't tho samo tniBg " ** For you , perhaps , _Eliza-f / - b ' etb , " said the loving husband , "but I have . _ypuny promise , and am satisfied . " Police agents having . proved , that the accused riot only beat his wife ! . cruelly ,, but smashed the furniture , and threw ; itout of the . window , whereby , a passer-by _waav seriously injured ,. the Tribunal condemned _bimtojo ' month ' s imprisonment . ; " No matter ' . " said he , as i he walked awajr , ' my right to beat her is there 1 " ' andheheld uphis marriage _certificates- " -Paris paper Crime is madness ; madness is disease . —Shelley . Whenever you doubt whether an intended action > .-. be good or bad , abstain from it . —Zoroaster .

      . . RATES AND TAXES . / . .. I envy . you , sweet butterfly , So sportive . on the spray ; ; . Tour life ' s * short and sunny one , You have no Quarter Day . Tou live but in the noontide glow , AU happy is your fate ; Tou die before the rain comes on— . You have no Water Rate . Fromi flower to flower you idly rov * , In industry so lax ; But then they cannot call on you For any Income Tax . A rose or violet your . home , No family—you ' re blessed ; No carriage need you for a ride , You cannot be Assess'd . ¦

      _. You only rise , up from your grub To spend a pleasant day , Then in the evening settle—but You ' ve not a Dump to Pay . A Grand Truth . —The _constitutionaVguarantees of the operative have yet to be settled ; _n is bill of rights lies yetunwritten . —Eraser ' s Magasim . „ Hioh "Wages , —If it were possible for tbe working classes , by combining amori _* , themselves , to raise or keep up the general rate of wages , it need hardly be said tbat this would be a thing not to be punished , but to be welcomed and rejoiced at . —Mm . AnTmsh Similitude . — " Ha , ha , and afther all now , Oonab , a pipe is like a Christian in many ways ; sure it ' s made 0 ' clay , like a Christian , and

      has the spark 0 ' life in it ; and while the breath , is in it the spark is alive ; but when the breath is out of it the spark dies , and then it grows cowld like a Christian ! " «« F aix , some Christians isn't pleasant companions at all ; " chimed in Mrs .. Rooney , ' sen _< _tentiously . " . Well , but they ought ' to be , said Larry , " and isn't a pipe sometimes cracked like a Christian , and isn ' t it sometimes choked liko ' a Christian ? " Tho most improvonist thing in the world is— " ( paugh !) and a parenthetical whiff of tobacco Bmoke curled out of the corner of Larry ' s mouth— " is _ismokiri ' , for the smoke shows you , _ae it were , the life 0 ' man _passin * like a puff—( paugh !)— " ust like tbat , and the tabbakky turns to ashes like his poor perishable body . " _-rZei /< T . Balanck of Beautt . —A man of fashion , who

      was remarkably ill-looking but very vain , kept a valet , whose * countenance was not much moro amiable than his own . One day the servant , while dressing his master , offended him , and he exclaimed , " What an ugly dog ! " The fellow , who observed his master at the same time very attentivo at his glass , said , " "Which of us do you mean , sir ?" _I-mtocbkcb;—Innocence is simply ignorance . Sueh is not desirable ; but ' virtue which has known evil successfully to resist it . We should not look back with . regret upon our childhood ' s innocence . To the christian there is a second youth as pure as the first . - ' It is vain to attempt to keep the young in ignorance of vice . Thi 3 is but to send them forth into . the world a ready prey to teriiptation . Evil

      will come sooner or . later , * and it is besfctoforewara that the man may be forearmed . A true picture ' of despair is a pig reaching through a hole in the fenoe to get a cabbage that lies a few inches beyond his reach . ' A Drummer ' s Penance . —The drum is of great importance in orchestral music . Its measured beat gives clearness and distinctiveness to every species of , rhymicaT movement—imparting lightness and spirit to the dance , firmness to the march , and solemnity tothe funeral procession . In Handel ' s chorus in Joshua , " Glory to God , " where the walls of' Jericho are represented as levelled with the ground at tho sound of the Israelites' trumpets , the sudden burst of the drum is terrific , and , to the excited imagination of the listener , appears to be in the very crash ofthe fallen . ruins mingled with the

      trumpets , and exciting Bhouts of the besiegers . Notwithstanding the extreme simplicity of this iristrument , to play it well is no easy matter . It requires boldness and decision , a thorough knowledge of effect , and a mind capable of entering into tbe grandest conceptions of genius . It is told of the late Mr . Jenkinson that during the performance of the chorus in Joshua : at a great music meeting , he , by " some inadvertence , burst in with his drums a bar . too soon , and marred the sublime effect intended to' be produced ; on which , mortified and enraged at his owri blunder , ho applied -his drumsticks in good earnest to his head , and inflicted summary punishment on -himself , ' to the _astonishment ofthe audience . The Navai Force Or England . —The following is a statement ofthe naval force afloat of this country , 'in ships , guns , and men , at the present moment : — :

      Station _s . Ships . Guns . Hen . Portsmouth 1 « 176 2267 ? Devonport 8 . 163 ' 1612 Falmouth packets . 7 41 264 _Slieornes ' s :......... 5 108 988 Woolwich' ' . 8 « 1 638 Peptford . . 1 1 1 16 Cliathflm :: 2 11 302 Pembroke 2 12 U

      _QiieenstoVrn 8 111 116 * Lisbon ..... 8 SIS 8095 Mediterranean ............ 28 800 8222 Went Indies . 13 200 1794 Pacific ......... 12 228 2343 Coast or Africa ....... 25 165 , 2152 South-east coast of American 1 B 2 169 * . ChpeofGoodlIope ........ ' 6 68 827 Discover j and surveying .. 21 SO . 1-18 Store and troop-ships 4 26 372 _Admu-altjpackets ........ 12 . . 16 241

      ,T6l6l .......... Im 2"8 29,211 ¦ There ...

      _, T 6 _l 6 l .......... IM 2 " 8 29 , 211 There are about 1 , 000 supernumeraries not . included here . - and this number is exclusive of marines ashoro at their respective divisions . John "Wesley used to say , * 'No man can ride to Heaven in a coach arid four . " . " . . '' . ; Moket—tho largest shareholder , m the world . . Baciiblor—a target for fair hands to shoot at . , Iior—the first volume of an interesting work . _> Jbalousy—one of the sours arising from having ; i . sweetheart , or a spnrk thrown , by Suspicion into tlie magazine of Love .

      _Tdk Dublin Commercial Journal admonishes Young , Ireland orators : "fe will listen to them , cer- - tainly , with the attention due to men of imagina--tion ; who understand English ; but , if they _expwW ns to believe that there ia a meaning to their throat * oraiubstanoe ' to their shadows , thoy are wewt ' disappointed .. We are . quite up to the'triok _^ lV kriowright well that there are not _•' . threeJnw' _, Bd mon fully caparisbned to follow AlWio to tl _*» r : -dred

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 19, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_19011850/page/3/