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      Gmmmit.Afl,-1546. The Northern Star.

      gmmmit _. _afl ,-1546 . THE NORTHERN STAR .

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      A Yankee's Notion About E5listkg In Thb

      A YANKEE'S NOTION ABOUT E 5 LISTKG IN THB

      • MEXICAN "WAS . - ( _Jhwi the People ' s Journal ) Thrash away ! you'll haveto rattle On them kettle-drums o _' yourn , —» 'Taint a "knowing hind o * cattle That is ketched with mouldy corn . Put it _stht _, you fifer feller ; let folks see ho w spry you be ;—Gneis you'll toot till yon are yeller 'Fore yon git a-hold o' me ! That ere flag's a leetle rotten , Hope it aint yonr Sunday ' s best ;—"Fact ! it takes a light o ' cotton To stuff out s soger ' s chest , Ae lor war , I call It murder , —

      There you have it plain and flat : I don't want to go no farther Than my testyment for that : _Gjd . has said so , plump and fairl y j It ' s as long as it is broad ; And you've got to git op airly If yoa want to take in God . Taint your eppylettes and feathers Make the thing a grain more right ; Taint _a-Moring jour bell-wethers "WiU excuse ye in His sight : If ye take a cword and dror it , And should stick a feller through , Gov ' ment aint to answer for i _^ God _TJ send the bill to you . "WlraVs the USB o' meeting goin ' _iSrery Sabbath , wet or dry , If it ' s right to go a-mowing

      _FfcUow-men like oats and rye ? I don ' t know bnt what it ' s pooty ( pretty ) Trainin' ronad la bobtail coats , — Sat ifs cams Christian dooty To be cuttin' folks ' * throats ! Want to tackle me in , do ye ? I expect you'll have to wait ; When cold lead puts daylight through ye , _TotfU begin to calkylate . Jist go home and ask our Nancy -Whether I'd be snch a goose As to yine ya—guess she ? d fancy Tbe etarnal bung was loose 1 She wants me for home consumption , let ilone the hay ' s to mow—If vou ' re arter folks o' gumption

      You've a darned long way to go ! Come , III tell ye what I'm tbinkin » Is onr fluty in thi * : fix , They'd ha * done * t as quick as winkin ' Io the days of seventy-six : dang the bells in every steeple , CaH all true men to disown The traducers of onr people , Ths enslavers of onr own ; Let onr dear old Bay State _prondly Pnt the trumpet to her month _. Let her ring this message loudly , In tbe ears ofall tha South : — ** TH return ye good for evil , Much as we frail mortals ean , Bnt 1 won't go help the Devil Makin' man the corse of man ; Call me coward , call me traitor ,

      Jist as suits your mean idees—Here I stand a tyrant-hater , And the friend of God and Peace _l "

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      Simmoxds's Colonial Magazine. September....

      _SIMMOXDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE . September . London : _Simmonds and Ward , Bargeyard , _Bncklersbnry . This number opens with a highly laudatory account of the life and services of Baron Metcalf , sometime governor of Canada , and recently deceased . In Charles Hooton ' s" Rambles and Sketches in Texas . " -we have an amusing account of Texan electioneering . " Progress of Discovery in Australia , " annonneesthe return of Dr . leichardt to Sydney , from his overland expedition to Port Essington ; and gives an interesting account ofhis discoveries . According fa > the writer in the Colonial _Magazine , these discoveries are ofthe first importance , — " Dr . Leichardt has discovered an Australian paradise . He has disclosed to the Colony ,

      and to the empire treasures which , though held for more than half a century , neither colony nor mother country was at all conscious of possessing . He has " brought up from the depths of primeval solitude , whole regions of wealth , incalculable and _inexhausti-TiL He has fonnd out a homestead vast enough to lodge a nation , with resources affluent enough to secure to that nation a high and a permanent prosperity- '" In the > " Reminiscences of the Island of Cuba , " the author defends the existence of slavery , and mercilessly assails the Exerter Hall" Abolitionists . " While quite agreeing with the author in his denunciations of the fanaticism of some , and the

      hypocrisy ef others , who make Exeter Hall ring with their clamourings against black slavery , while they at the same time are the oppressors of their white brethren , we cannot go with Mm in extenuating black _Btevery , the thing is indefensible and infamous —" whatever is morally wrong , cannot be politically right . " The slaves themselves by ftekinsurrections in Cuba and America , have proved that they are not contended with their bonded condition ; and the terror which exists among the planters , who fear a repetition of the St . Domingo rising , proves that they are conscious of the insecurity of their ** peculiar iastitntion . " We select two or three extracts for the benefit of the aforesaid

      EXETEK-HAIX nuMBCGS . And some of these men are what yoa call Saints . They subscribe largely at meetings , where they frequently bawl themselves hoarse . Bnt what matters it to the manufacturer of white lend or _devil's dast , whether one or two hundred of his workpeople are consigned to a premature grave ! He has not to bear tbe cost of their interment—if interred at all ; their families ¦ must shift for themselves , for there are _thousands Ont of employment ready to fill tbeir places . This fs a melancholy but a true picture of servitude in Happy England , and it forcibly strikes me tbat tbere is but Tery little difference between Slavery and Servitude .

      If the slave has to labour because , like a horse , he has been purchased for hard cash , the clerk , the mechanic , the labourer—in short , all those , no matter their station in society , who sell their services and bodies for a certain sum payable quarterly , month *; , or weekly—are bonnd to give tbeir time and services to their taskmasters , many of whom are so grarpmg and _naid-nearttd tbat tbey almost begrudge them the seventh day . If the slave be indisposed , the master purveys the doctor and the medicaments : on the other hand , if the faithful clerk or mechanic fall dangerously ill , his pay is stopped , for some one else must fill his place , aad he may go to the hospital , or pay his doctor , if he has the means ; if his malady prove a lengthened one , he find * himself , on recovery , out of a situation , with empty pockets . Such is not tbe cast witb the negro slave , who only returns to labour when the physician has pronounced his recovery as beyond the possibility of a relapse .

      It generally happens tbat those wbo are the least informed npon any given subject are the most stubborn on all its bearings . I recollect the time I was as obstinate as yourself- _Tfcns , we have read ( fur I never would waste my time by listening ) the speeches of a parcel of maw-worms in the now , we believe , ruined Exeter Hall , declaiming , as if they wished to burst blood-vessels in bo holy a cause , _against the horrors endured by their " poor black brethren" in the West Indies . We do not believe that any of these fanatics ever honoured the Tropics by their presence , or else they _woolS not utter such abominable falsehoods , "When do we hear of . Missionaries , or those who uphold Such idle fellows , going down an £ ngli _? h coal-pit in order to pay a visit to those wbo toil in darkness in the intricate galleries which Ihey have formed iu the bowels of the

      earth I Bo we ever bear orations iu favour of lurge subterranean passages , where the maxims ot Christ are Utterly unknown to many * No ; they either find the _fiestent too perilous , or else these coal-pits are too near the scene of action . And then it is so easy to delist the snfiericss of _Uecfc Vrcikren who live so many _thousand miles distant from tbe longitiHe of Exeter "HalL "Doubtful _persons would require too much _tia-e to visit the Plantations in the Tropics ; whereas _ihsy could find their way to tbe coal-pits in the _North , if they chose to sift the truth ofthe reports regarding the _snEerings of their _fcHow-coaatryinen , if cftaritv began at home . If it is fashionable to subscribe immense sums of muney to Missionary and Bible Societies , it is unfashionable ta rJicre the wants of our starving poor at fcomp .

      Oar Saints carry apathy for their countrymen and _^ Europeans in genera * ! to a great extent . We hear of Russian vassels , of Poles sent to Siberia ; hut no one preaches in favour of these white slaves , whose lot is certainly that of tbe accursed : all thtir energy is displavid for the most degraded fpecies of tha _hnmau race , who repay 'he _so-ralkd benefits of freedom with utter contempt and a direct refusal to work . This number is the first of the ninth volume of this very useful and successful magazine .

      The Peovle'3 Journal. Fabt Vm. London J....

      THE _PEOVLE' 3 _JOURNAL . Fabt vm . London J . Bennett , 09 , Fleet-street . "We have already quoted largely from the _numbers composing this Part of the People * * Journal , for instance , that excellent article from the pen of William Ilowitt , " A Word for Thomas Gray , the Author oi the General "Railway System , " aud the sensible _article on "The Jury fur the reward of Worknnn . " Thi ? Part contains a portrait of Father Mathcw , with a uiEnioir bv William Ilowitt . The other illustrations » ve copies of _Havdon _' s picture " The Death ol DeniatuV ' S ' irJ . Reynolds' picture of "The Infant Hcicales , " and Art * " Seheffi _.-r ' s picture of " Faust perceiving " Margaret for the first time , " and beside these , aiK » r « entatini of "The Scott Memora _' , Ediuburgh . " The whole ofthe illustrationsare trulv _feeaatifui , bat they lack - _" ora _^ _hing . namely , a few

      The Peovle'3 Journal. Fabt Vm. London J....

      words descriptive of the subject _^ aird also a few word * concerning the painter . "The Infant Hercules , - ' The Death of DentatUB , " and " Faust perceiving Margaret , "together with the view ofthe "Scott Monument"are all faulty in this respect . Oue or two of these have been subsequently described in numbers which will form portion of the next Part , but we submit that it would ue * mueh more satisfactory to the readers to have the explanation accompanying the engraving . Besides the articles above enumerated , William Ilowitt contributes articles on

      "Military Flogging , " and other subjects . Mary Ilowitt contributes _some _' _gweet poetry . Miss Martineau contributes some of her pleasing and instructive essaysand sketches . Joseph Mazzini gives the first ofa series of articles entitled '' Thoughts upon Democracy in Europe . " We shall watch these articles , and . if necessary , have onr say upon them when brought to a conclusion . The other contents of this part , both prose and poetry , are mostly worthy of warm commendation . We select the following extracts : —

      _TOTLUM HOWITT OS _IfmXABT FLOGGIKG . But itis not the ladder , the lash , and the back cut to shreds , and toth _« very boO _» , which reveal tons tbe extent of the brutality of this punishment . Mr . Erasmus Wilson has opened up to ui a deeper horror , a more terrible revelation of agony . He says , that in examining the bach" On raising tbo muscles or flesh from off the ribs and spine , 1 found a part of the deeper layer of muscles , viz ., that which lay in contact with the bones , in a state of disorganisation , and converted into a soft pulp . * * The canst of the pulpy sofUniny I believe to have teen the excessive contraction of the muscles _fafctno- place _during the agony of punishment . The excessive contraction would produce laceration and subsequent inflammation ofthe muscles , and the inflammation instead of being reparative , would , in consequence of the depressed state of the powers of the nervous system of the snffer « r , be of the disorganising kind , which results in pulpy _SOftenillg .

      Well might Mr . Wilson calls this " a new discovery , such at he had never seen before , though he had opened more than a thonsand bodies ' ; a fact not stated in any book thathe knew of extant , and which could hardly have been expected from snch a came . " It is a new and terrible discovery , that such is the agony inflicted b y this punishment , that it rends and reduces the muscles to a palp 1 And yet this man never uttered a groan ! Such is the power ofthe will , that the poor fellows exposed to the gaze of their comrades , suffer their very muscles to be torn with agony , jet _' _will not yield one groan ! Are suth unheard of _horrorsto continue a day longer ? Are they to be perpetrated inthe midst of theBritish people , and on those who win with their lives tbose territories and those glories ( so culled ) for which lords are created _, and a nation's thanks are given .

      Such is the brutality ; now look at the unequal texture of our humanity . "Wegriereover the lashes inflicted on negroes , and purchase their exemption from it at thu rate of twenty millions of monej . We traver » e the whole earth to christianise and humanise . "We take nnder the protection of our tender mercies thc very brate animals in our streets . If this man had been a dog who dare have used him thus ! The dog has a whole act of parliament tohimself . No man shall torture him ; no man shall even draw bim in a cart . The soldier of this country ha g not even the _consideration of a dog . " Is thj servant a doe I" "Well were it for the "British _saldier if

      he could claim that rank . If a set of men had taken a dog , and in some secluded court stretched it out on a ladder npon a wall , and with a relay of brawny farriers had thus mangled and slaughtered it , what a burst of execration there would have been against them ! What monsters , what inhuman wretches they would have been pronounced ! The society for the Protection of Animals wonld have fastened upon tbem . Is man , then , is that noble creature , the soldier who dies under the lash without & groan , the only animal which has no protection in England t 3 _To ; a thousand generous hearts rise indignant at the fact ! This revolting barbarity cannot and will not longer he tolerated .

      The followine is from Harriet Martineau ' s " Survey from the Mountain . " AXEBICAN SHABEHOtDERS . In the midst of the _vigorous terting up for troops in the United States , for the Mexican war , the most warlike city , New Orleans , puts forth a caution agaiast all tiik of employing free people of colour in a war of invasion , though these people be patriotic and substantial citizens . The objection is that if men of . African complexion are employed as soldiers now , the Americans would have no plea against the employment of a similar force by Great Britain , in case ofa war between the two countries . " It is distinctly _underload , " says the newspaper , " that if ever theErglish landa regiment of blacks in . this country , we can _jrrant no _qu--jrt » r to prisoners .

      It will be a war of extermination , marked with Mood at every step . And we must be careful how we tet tbe precedent , when we march into the territory of another power . '' Ho is the downward course of error and sin marked with a clearness not tobe mistaken . There was first the error of _transporting men from tbeir natural circumstances for the convenience of men more powerful ; then slavery becoming mere aggravated with the advance of time and civilisation : then ofthe necessity of a tyranny at first unthought of : then the natural consequence—fear ; and from fear a contemplated cruelty and savagery under which so- ' ciety dissolves itselt into its elements , and states become the lair of ferocious beasts . The first step in wrong should be dreaded as fatal as much hy society as individuals .

      We understand that an enormous number of the monthly parts of this publication are every month sent to America—another proof of the extraordinary snddeserved popularity attained bythis true People ' s Journal .

      &" We Are Compelled To Postpone Till Nex...

      _& " We are compelled to postpone till next week the continuance of our review of "The Aristocracy of England . "

      English Ssobs On The Continent

      _ENGLISH _SSOBS ON THE CONTINENT

      Brutal Igxoeance Op British Aristocrats ...

      BRUTAL IGXOEANCE OP BRITISH ARISTOCRATS AKD SHOrOCRATS . ( From Punch . ) We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio-propensities , and intolerable vanity about la France , la Gloire , _l'Empereur , and the like ; and yet I think in my heart that the British Snob , for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way , is witkout a parallel . There is always something uneasy in a French _, man's conceit . He brags with so much fury , shrieking , and gesticulation ; yells out so loudly that the Francais is at tbe head of civilization , the centre of thought , iiC , ' tbat one can ' t but see the poor fellow bas a lurking doubt in his own mind that he is not the wonder he professes _tobfi .

      About the British Snob , on the contrary , there u commonly no noise , no bluster , but tbe calmness of pro * found conviction , "We are better than all the world ; we don ' t question tbe opinion at all ; it ' s an axiom . And when a Frenchman bellows out , "La France , Monsieur , _biFtanceestaVitetedu , monrfe civilise ! J we laugh goodnaturedly at the frantic poor devil . We are tbe first chop of the world ; we know the fact so well in our secret hearts , that a claim set up elsewhere is simply ludicrous My dear brother reader , say as a man of honour , if you are not of this opinion ? Do you think a Frenchman your tqual ! You don ' t—you gallant British Snob—you know vou don't : no more , _parhaps , does the Snob your humble Servant , brother .

      And I am inclined to think it is this conviction , and tbe consequent bearing of the Englishman towards the foreigner whom he condescends to visit , this confidence of superiority which holds np the head of the owner of every English bat-bnx from Sicily to St . Petersburg , that makes us so magnificently hated throughout Europe as we arc - this more than all our little victories , and of which many Frenchmen and Spaniards have never beard—this amazing and indomitable insular pride , whirh animates my lord in his _travelling-carriage as well as John in the rumble .

      If you read tlie old Chronicles of the French wars , you find precisely tbe same character of the Englishman , and Henry V ' _s people with just the conl domineering manner of their own gallant veterans of France and the Peninsula . Bid you ever hear Colonel Cutler and Major Slasher talking over the war after dinner ! or Captan Boarder de » criteng his action with the _Irtdomptable ! "Hungthe fellows , " says Boarder , "their practice was very good , I was beat off three times before I took her . " "Cuss those carabineers of Milhauds , " says Slasher , " what work they made ofour light cavalry ! " implying a sort oi surprise that tbe _Frc-nchmirn _should stand up against Britons stall : a good-natured wonder that the blind , mad . _vain-elorious , brave , poor devils , should

      actually have the courage to resist an Englishman . _Legions of such EiiKlishmen are patronising Europe at thi ? moment , being kind to Uie Tope , or good-natured to the King of Holland , or condescending to inspect the _Pmssian reviews . "When "Sicbolas came here , who reviews a quarter of a million of pairs ot'tnou 3 tachios to his breakfast every morning , we took bim off to Windsor ar . d showed liim two whole regiments of sis ot eight hundred _Biiions _a-piccc , with an air as miy h as to say , — "Their , my boy , look at tliat . Those are Englishmen , those are , and your master whenever you please , " as the nursery _s » ng says . The British 3 nob is long , long past Scepticism , and can afford to laugh quite _good-bumouredlj at _timse _vonct-ited Yankees , or besotted little Frcnchnvsn , who set up as models of mankind . Tliey _forsoo'h !

      I have beeu led iuto those _ranatks by listening to an old fellow at tbe _Uotel du _Jford , at _Boulogua , and who is evidently of the Slasher sort . He came down and seated himself at the breakfast-table , with a sat ly scowl on liis « aimoa-co ' oureU blood shot face , strangling in a tight , cross-barred cravat- his linen and bis _appointmvr . ts so perfect y stiff and spotless and everybody _rtci'gnisedhim as a dear countryman . Only " our port wine and other admirable institutions could have produced a _figure so insolent , so stupid , so gentlemanlike . After a while our atteution was culled to bim b y his roaring out , in a voice of plethoric fury , "Ol "

      Everybody turned round at the 0 ,. conceiving the Colonel to be , as ! _-. is countenance denoted him , in intense pain ; but the waiters knew better , and instead of bting alarmed , brought tbe Colonel the kettle . O , it appear ** , it the Frefich for hot water . The Colonel < tboagh be dec-

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      pi 6 esithenrti ' j ) tbinks _hespenks _thelanguagercmarkabiy well . Whilst he was jinhaling his smoking tea , which went rolling and gurgling down his throat , and hissing over the " hot coppers " . of . that respectable veteran , a friend joined him , with a wizened face and very black wig , evidently a Colonel too . The two warriors , waggling their old heads at _eactt other , presentlyjoined breakfast , and fell into conversation , and we bad the advantage of hearing about the old War , and some pleasant conjectures as to tbe next , which they considered imminent . They psha'd the French fleet- they poohpooh ' u the French Commercial Marine ; they showed how , in a war , there would be a cordon { a cordong , by— ) of steamers along our coast , and byready at a _' minute to land anywhere on the other shore , to give the French as good a thrashing as they gotin tbe hist war , by— . In fact a rumbling cannonade of oaths was fired by the two veterans during the whole of their

      conversation . There was a Frenchman in the room , but as he had not been above ten years in London , of course he did not speak the language , and lost the benefit of the conversation . " Bnt oh , my country ! " says I to myself , "it ' s no wonder that jou are so beloved ! If I were a Frenchman , how I would bate yout " That brutal ignorant peevish bully of an Englishman is _fhowing himself in every eity of Europe . One of the dullest creatures under Heaven , he goes trampling Europe under foot , shouldering his way into galleries and cathedrals , and bustling into palaces witb his buckram

      uniform , At church or theatre , gala or picture-gallery , his face never varies . A thousand delightful sights pass before his bloodshot eyes , and don't affect him . Countless brilliant scenes of life are shown him , but never move bim . ne goes to church , and calls the practises there degrading and _superstitous , as if his alter was the only one that was acceptable . He goes to picture-galleries , and is more ignorant about art than a French shoeblack . Art , Nature , pass , and there is no dot of admiration in his stupid eyes ; nothing _msves him , except when a very great man comes his way , and then Hie rigid proud self-confident inflexible British Snob can be as humble as a flunky , and as supple as a harlequin .

      Protectionists Policy. The Morning Post ...

      PROTECTIONISTS POLICY . The Morning Post publishes , as a leading article , the following : _ntctARATiox or _coicsebvativb FOLicr fob the MTABLlBimENT OP PAIR _tRADl * AKD _EqUITABLB TAXATION . The abolition ofall Excise Duties on domestic productions and manufactures , and the consequent consolidation ofthe Customs and Excise , together with the reduction of the Coast Guard . ; The admission of colonial wheat , pulse , and flour , at a statistical duty of 6 d . per quarter , and 6 d . per barrel . - The reduction of duty on tea to Is . per lb . * ; The reduction of duty on tobacco to ls . per lb . The reduction of duty on colonial sugar to 5 s . per cwt . Ditto on foreign ditto to 10 s . per cwt .

      _BETESUE COMPEKSATION . Fixed duty 6 h for eign wheat of 5 s . per quarter . Fixed duty on other foreign grain and pulse , 2 s . 6 d . per quarter . Fixed duty on foreign flour , 2 s . Gd . per barrel . Restoration of the duty on foreign cotton WOO ) to 3 s . per cwt ., as an equivalent for the Excise on soap . The charge for postage to commence at one penny for a quarter ofan ounce , instead of half an ounce , to make np for tbe loss of Excise on paper , which has . always _bsen a tax on education and liti r ature . RKASOX * FOR REMOVAL OF SXCISB BUT 1 K 3 ON HOME PRODUCTIONS , AXD _ADJUSTJJE . _VT OF BEVBXUK ¦

      niiTii'ii-As long na Income and Property Tax is imposed , which , together with the burthen of the Poor _Laws , falls principally on the landed proprietors and agriculturists , foreign _importB , competing with our domestic productions , cannot be admitted without paying a revenue duty . The reduction of duty on tea , tobacco , and sugar , would not eventually yield less revenue , owing to the increased consumption , whilst Ihc comforts of tlie poor would be greatly enhanced , and our commerce extended , _wpcciallj * with China , and the inducement to smuggle put an end to . The loss of revenue on the Excise duties would be compensated f « r bj ihc duty on foreign wheat , pulse , flour , and cotton wool , together with an increase in tlie Piist Ofiice revenue , wliich would be equivalent to the loss of the Excise on paper , to which would be added the enormous saving in the expense of the collection ofthe Excise duties , as well as in the reduction ef the Coast Guard establishment .

      Since 1 S 42 nearly fire millions sterling of duties on foreign imports _haye been reduced for tho chief benefit of the manufacturers , while the _Excise duties have been retained , and the Income and Propertytax imposed . Five millions have been taken off and rive millions laid on without any benefit to the poor man . The proposed revenue duty on wheat would be abont ten per cent . ; on colonial sugar , about fifteen per cent . ; and on foreign , thirty per cent . ; making an average of twenty-two and a half per cent ., whilst the present duties are respectively about forty-five per cent ., and seventy per cent _.

      The Duke Of Richmond And Eis Scotch Tena...

      THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND EIS SCOTCH TENANTRY . The annual agricultural meeting of the Duke of Richmond ' s tenantry at Fochabers was held on Tuesday last , at Gordon Castle . The show yard was formed in one of the parks , aud was very numerously attended by the yeomen of tho surrounding digtriets . The animals exhibited were of a very superior character . In the afternoon about 300 of the tenantry sat down to dinner , to which they had been _invitedby the noble landlord , under a spacious marquee which had been erected on the castle lawn . The Duke occupied the chair , and in the coui-e ofthe proceedings adverted to the recent changes , and the consequent alteration in the relative positions of landlords and tenants in thc following terms : —lie would not , however , under present

      circumstances , _aay _. that the price of corn might not be kept up for a short time . Foreigners were quite unprepared for the great change . This time last year they had no idea tbat protection would be removed , and that circumstances might , in some measure keep up the price . The failure in the potatoe crop , in Ireland , and throughout the country , would also tend to the same result , but he felt tbat it was not possible that with even the greatest energy the farmers of this country would be able to compete with the foreigner who had no taxes to pay . When he recollected that many now present a few years agocarnefonvardand signed leases under the firm impressions that the Corn Bill was to remain entire , but now that through treachery and double-dealing it had been abolished , he felt that he would be incapable of holding up his head among them did he

      not now tell them that should any of his tenants wish to relinquish their fariM , by giving intimation of their intentions to either of his managers , lie would at once relieve them of their obligations ; more than that , he would cause an estimate to be made of tbe unexhausted permanent improvements they had made upon their farms , and repay them the amount . ( Loud cheers . ) lie felt that tbis was only justice . He should , however , regret parting with any of his tenantry , many of whom had cultivated the same soil for a very long period , but he could not feel satisfied were they to remain nnd injure their own prospects or those of their family . ( Cheers . ) lie hoped that bis prohecics of the evil bi the measure would not prove correct , but although he had patiently listened to all the arguments which had been advanced in favour of the abolition of protection , his objections to the measure were not

      removed . [ The Dnke seemed to have been very well received by thc party , although the way in which he proposes to meet the new circumstances in which they are placed is not to our taste . Why should his tenants be required to leave their farms ! If his predictions turn out to be correct , are there no other means of redressing the injury that may thereby be occasioned to tbe tenant . ? The apparently frank and generous offer of " liis Grace" is , in fact , assumed as a sort nf blind to the real so . tfishness

      wbich lies below it . Oi what use would it be to the Duke of Richmond , to insist en his tenants keeping terras wbich wouid lead to tbeir ultim ate ruin and his lo ? s ? l

      Suicide Nr A Druxkarh Is Livknroor..—On Friday Morning, A Baker Named Chariton, Tho Proprie-

      Suicide _nr a _Druxkarh is LivKnroor .. —On Friday morning , a baker named Chariton , tho proprie-

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      tor ot a very extensive business on tlie Louuon-road , strangled himself in a paroxysm of drunkenness _, lie had scarcely been sober for the last five month * * and On Thursday night went to bed quite intoxicated , His wife awoke _abaiit five o ' _clock iu the nioniiiui , and found a handkerchief tight round his neck , with the other end fastened to the bedpost , and the unfortunate wretch quite dead . An inquest was held , and the Jury returned a verdict of " _Teuiporarj Insanity , caused by excessive drinking . " The Ckssobin Spain . —Spanish newspapers * are at the present time two-thirds blatik paper ; for the Censor—• ' Breathes o ' er the page his purity of soul _.

      Corrects each error , and refines thc whole "bv dashing out whole sentences . Thus , the Espcctodor comes out after this fashion : — "All true Spaniards and thus our beloved country . Thc Infanta by her marriage in _^ ry * eloaucnt these _Wanka ! _Wimttiumpet flourishes do they give of freedom I—Punch ,

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      PROGRESS _: . 0 E .-THE-AUITATION FOR THE CHARTER . is _foS / _ift rene , _!? - _citation for the Charter , _oolntiy n elf on the a _« ention of the pre « , of the ffi & _aS-rfT _*™ . " _, T ° ' P lea 8 ure the tol owing art ole lrom the Norfolk News and Norwich p ? f _„ , » _-v l _P 8 rcat meetings recently held . in the _PraSo _? - ' ° r tbe adoptiou of the Nahohai

      THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER . Although we do not profess an unhesitating allegiance to all the details of the 'fire points , " and there are some unhappy _asRociations with the words " Charter " and " Chartist , " which wefshould be glad for the people ' s sake to bury in oblivion , _wecmmotBuffera petition from the working men of Iforwich on this _BUujaCt , to gO to Parliamen t without an expression of our hearty assent to tbe claim of the petitioners to a _* hare in the franchise . The natural right of every man of sound mind to be represented in Parliament , we are not called upon to discuss . The question may perhaps admit of dispute , and it would occupy us too long to sift it . Besides it ig not _necessary to do so , for , if not by nature , certiiinl y _, ac cording to the spirit of the British constitution , every

      such man is entitled to a vote . The recognized principle that taxation and representation shonld be coincident , confers upon all _tax-pnjers , that is every body , nn equal right to a voice at the hustings . If not under every form of Government , certainly under a representative form , and _ckpecially under the English form , where the advantages of representation have been 60 fully tested and so universally admitted , and where the theory of representation stands upon no broad , so _Intelligible , so just abasia , it ' would be difficult , if not impossible , to raise any objection even apparently vulid , to so reasonable _n demand as that of the Norwich petitioners , so far as the mere right is concerned . We have never yet seen the attempt made , sure we are that if made it would prove unsuccessful .

      The opponents of an « qu » l suffrage do not deny fh « right , but tahe refuge in the plea of inexpediency . They talk of the danger of making the ignorant multitude electors . "What ! Inexpedient to be just ? Dangerous to do right ? Safe to postpone reason to fear ? Pru dent to r-ject < _- ! airu 8 admitted to be valid ! Wise to commit Against millions a wrong which cannot on clear grounds be defended ? Certainly , if the unrepresented had not possessed more wisdom and prudence than the favoured clauses , the obstinate denial of a just equality would losg ago have displayed itself even more palp & blj than now , to be iu the highest degree inexpedient and unsafe . It is humiliating to have to argue at all about

      tbe expediency ofjustice . It is a reflection upon tht morality and the good sense of the community that convenience Bhould for < 1 single moment be placed in opposition to truth . Theory and practice are not more indie s « lu . b ! y connected in physical than , in moral _anupoVitictv _* . science . If representation be good for people wort ! . . £ 10 a year , or possessing an income of forty , shilling ) for land , it cannot but be good for those whose habitations are humbler , or who do hot hsppen to be freeholders at all . Thc principle of representation notbeing founded on a property qualification , the injustice , and consequently the inexpediency of a _property test is ae clear as a methematical demonstration .

      There is no difficulty , however , in meeting our _antagonists ou lower ground . They contend that the people mnst be prepared for freedom by previous intelligence ; we affirm , on the eontrary , that nothing fits the people so much for liberty as tbe enjoyment of it . It is civil privilege that makes the good citizen , rather than the citizenship which entitles to civil privilge . To keep a subject in serfdom till he be rsady to be made free , is to limit the tyro to tha river ' s brink until he can lenrn to swim . Are we asked for proof t Look to tbe negroes o ! Jamaica . Until their recent emancipation they were the most degraded of their species . Now , in a few short years , they may safely be compared for intelligence , for morality , fbr order , with any population in the world . Apprenticeship was tried In this case as » safety valve against the too Vapid expansion of thtir state . It was

      soon discarded by common consent as a worse than use . less precaution , and almost at a bound the benighted African passed from the brutal penalties of an animal existence to the dipnity » s well as the ( status ofa man . As his chains fell , his brain expanded . When the lash was withdrawn , his temper became bland , his passions wen soothed , sullenness gave way to _ahwrity , and alacrity heralded intelligence and industrial skill . From freedom , as a _cauie , came mind , the social affection * , rel ' - Bious and moral aptitude , everything , ns the effect *! . Shall we now be foolish enough to invert the natural order , and expect grapes from thorns , or rigs from thistles ? The people , whatever their virtues or defect * _, are what our institutions have made them . Retain the institutions in statu quo , and amelioration is outof tht question .

      But we arc ready to take lower grouud still , anil to assert that the people are _. at this moment , even in the sense of our opponents , prepared for the liberty of self-government . Our legislature , however imperfect , has permitted much . The nobler parts of our Constitution have allowed to grow amidst the masses , an irregular and uncultivated _, _perhaps , but still a vigorous intelligence . Our modified freedom in religion , in trade , in civic rights , have nutured amongst the many in the lowest stratum of society , an amount of mental power , too strong by half for the re . _Btrictions ia which they are bound by the timid few , En long , we venture to predict , the elasticity of the popular mind will snap the fetter * of inequality , if a sense o ? justice do not first untwist them . Prepared ! Who art the foundation of our national greatness ? Who product our wonders of manufacturing skill ? Who make oursteani engines , our railroads , our marvellous fabrics of iron copper , cotton , silk , and wool 1 "Who fill the whole e . irtl

      with tbe products of their industrial labours ? Who traverse the seas , populate our colonics , found empires , and grow suddenly , as if by an Instinctive power of aggregation , into mighty nations 1 Who have exhibited an almost miraculous ability in self-iiwtruction , secular and _reVi gious % Who first detected the sophistry of protection : raised up , unassisted , all over the land , churches , chapels _, schools , colleges , mechanic , literary , and philosophic institutions ? Who have salaried , at an enormous cost , ministers , schoolmasters , teachers , missionaries , foreign and domestic ? Who have sent the gospel to the remotest lands , and put the Bible in every man ' s hands . Who , bui the uner _franchiscd majority of the . English people . And shall we fear the concession to such a people of ft far less degree of social advancement than that conferred upon the unhappy negro ? If the British nation be unprepared for the suffrage , we must in vain expect tosco a fit preparation _, until man can be endued with an angelic nature .

      But it may be said the very lowest orders of the people did not achieve these results . Well , and what then ? These are the _average results , and it 1 b for the whole people that the franchise is claimed . We are not called upon to emancipate only the . vicious or the ignorant , but all . It is for the whole , as a whole , that the demand is made . It ia _unpllilosophleal and unjust to legislate for excoptions . If the mass be sound under present circumstances , it will surely remain sound in a healthier condition and witb fairer prospects . If now our countrymen are , on the whole , asintelligent _. as long suffering , aa moral as tbe privileged class , they wil ! not become less so when raised to the rank of citizens .

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      UU _. _V _J < v » CI . !) _nujrtl _xiiyunessis residing for the present at the Brunswick Hotel , Hanover-square , and kadi a very retired life , though he issupposed to be concerting measures for _carrying out the declaration contained in his address to the Spanish people . The following minute and unflattering portraits of these t » o worthies , are from the description issued immediately after theirescape , by the Prefect of the Soiret Oner . The Count is described as follows : — " Age 28 years , height 1 metre 65 centimetres ( 5 ft . _4--J in . English ) , black hair and eyebrow ? , narrow and round forehead , brown eyes , large and long nose , a little bcut on one sido , middlesized month , black beard worn en collier , _I'Gundchin ,

      oval face , and dark complexion . Thc upper lip and thc teeth slightly project , and which is more visible when _talkinsj ; speaks French witb facility , but with a strong foreign accent ; tho knees turned in , wliich is mure particularly apparent when walking ; holds himself very erect ; a turn in the left eyeball , showing at times the whole of _t' * c white ; wears his hat inclined to the right side , and over the eyes . " Ramon Cabrera is thus described : — "Born atTortosa ( Catalonia ) , a « e 38 yeavs , _height 1 metre 03 centimetres black hair ami eyebrows , ordinary _lbrohe-id , grayish brown eyes , middle-sized nose , mouth rather large , beard black and rather thin , _roiled chin , oval _fiice , dark complexion . His cvebrows are bushv , and come close to each other ; has a small scar on tlie forehead , over the left eye ; legs slightly bent ; never looks a person iu the face when addressing him . "

      Suicide of a . Soldier . —A . soldier of _tbclith regiment , cut his throat with a razor , in the Belfast ban-neks , on Sunday week . The deep incision was immediately stitched by the regimental surgeon , and hopes were entertained of his recovery , lie died , however , after two days of extreme suffering . He bad solicited bis brother to _purchase his dischargcfrora ihc army , but without _success . This _disappointment caused the rash act . A Roburuv _FuusTuvrf . D _THUOVGH Feah . — -The _excise-olKce connected with tho . _Lochi-in distillery in Gilmorc-jihico was surreptitiously entered on Wednesday evening week last _. hy means of brcakingsouiipanes of glass inuue of the windows . While lookin-: about to see if anything _t-lse iimild be added to

      the plunder «* nich they had collected , before _making tll'iil'exit they would seem to have been attracted by a large paulctge _, securely wrapped up , and n ; nnl rcntly placed witli _gmu care iu a quiet nockoekof the apartmeut . Curious to know what was in it , they immediately unloosed the cords and unfolded the sheeting , when , to their extreme horror and alarm , the pale visage ofa human _Ibl'IIl _IVaSl'C'VCalCll . Without wnitiug another moment , Ihey appear to have darted out of the window , perfectly terrorstricken at the sight , leaving all their boot ' v behind . It turns out that what excited their alarm was the model ol a statue , which au artist had left for safety I with some of the officials connected with the dis-; _tillery , while he was on a short tour on the continent . _—fcotanan .

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      RBMOVAi OP HIE COMTICT SMITH 10 THB _MlLLbakk _Pkisow . —In the course of the afternoon of Saturday , Mr . dope , the governor of Newgate , received from the Home Office a reprieve , and also the order for removal to the Millbank prison for John Smith , who was found guiltv of the wilful murder of Susan Tolliday , at the Guildhall Coffee-house , on Saturday , the 1 st of August . Although it was generally understood that the life ofthe wretched man tv . ' » 8 P aredl > still the reprieve in which it is officially set forth that tbe senteRce of death is commuted to a milder punishment had not baen previously received .

      Accidbni CaI'SKD m THE Whistle op a _Siehm-Ekoisb . —On Sunday evening , about six o ' clock , an accident , attended with serious consequences , happened to a lady and gentleman named Marks , residing at No . 7 , _Rodney-terrace , West , Mile Endroad , near the Maryland Point Bridge . Mr . and Sirs . Marks had been out for a drive , and were returning : over the above bridge , when the _engine driver of one of tho trains blew of his steam , and _" the shrillness of the whistle caused tbe horse in the chaise to start off at a furious rate . The wheel came ¦

      in _"mtenl _cwitac _* * . _wi'tii a lamp-post , and both Mv . and Mrs . Marks were thrown out of it . Thay were picked up in a state of insensibilitv , and were subsequently removed to their residence in a fly . _Suddbk _Dkatii in a Railwat Tuais . — On _Wcdnesday week , Daniel Trinder , Esq ., land-agent to the _tarl of St . Germans , left Cirencester by the mail tram for Port Eliot , where he was expected to hold the annual Court . He was apparently in perfect health when he left the station at Cirencester , but on opening the carriage at Swindon he waa found a corpse . —Bevemport Chronicle .

      _GoSFRSsION op as In-cbimmart . — Elizabeth Barkitt , a native of Titmarsb , Northamptonshire , who had lived in the Rcrvice of Mrs . Gray , and her son Edward , at _Bushmcad , about ten weeks , has made a full Conf ' _CHxion of having set fire to the premises on the 1 st inst ., by which the following property was destroyed , viz : —A barn , containing the produce of fifteen acres of barley , several sacks of old beans , a quantity of dressed barley , a dressing machine , and other implement-, a wood barn full of wood , shelter hovel , astaek of wheat , the produce of SIX acres , a dove house , and thirty tame pigeons . A searching invertigatton' was made by Superintendent Jcbbett immediately after the fire , which being closely followed up , and the prevaricating stories of the servant , together with the difficulty of approach by a

      • trangerto the spot where the fire broke out , _suspicion attached to her , which she perceived , and her mind at last became so _overburned with her guilt , hat she could bear it no longer , and made a confession of the whole circumstances , and said that she felt much happier . The girl stated that she set fire to the barley inthe barn by putting a lighted match _between the boards . She could give no reason why sbe bad done it , and afterwords felt very sorry . She was taken before G . P . _Llvius , Esq-., on Thursday and committed for trial oa her own confession . — Bedford Mercury , Two men were killed at Newwark on Wednesday week , by the sudden falling in of a lartre ouantitv or

      earth , upon which they were at work . Two others were severely injured , A Good Example . —At the audit appointed forthe payment of the rents by the occupiers of the allotment land atRedditch , the Jion . R . II . Olive , the proprietor , very generously ordered that one-half of the amount ot rent should be returned in consequence of the failure in the potatoe crop . — Coventry Herald , Wilful Damage to _Pcbhc Baths . —At Marylebone police office on Saturday , William Bard well , an architect , was fined £ 4 for having wilfujly damaged one ofthe baths at the Public Baths fa Georgo * street , New-voad , by pouring some _strong acid on the enamel , which caused it to pi el off .

      A ease of some interest to the Theatrical _profession was tried at the Southwark Court of Requests , on Friday last , Mr . Osbaldeston , manager ot the Victoria Theatre , summoned Mr . Fredericks late of his company for £ 3 , the value of au actor ' s privilege card of admission for the season , which itwas alleged had been sold to liim . The defence was that such tickets ivcreapart of the perquisites ofthe profession , and thatit was not customary to pay for the privilege . The _commissioner decided in favour ofthe plaintiff ' s claim , and it was stated that the defendant is likely to appeal to another Court . An attempt is making to _establish a club in London , to be called the " _Whittington Club , " for " the _;• iterative portion of the middle classes , "— clerks , _Miopmcn _, and thc like . The institution is te combine tbe advantages of a _litarary institute , a clubhouse _, and a place of amusement .

      _Liscriuc _Iklegbapii from Lonoon to Liverpool . The London and -North Western Railway _Couiuauy bave , during the last three months , been testing a newly invented electric telegraph , at the London end of their line , and the experiment having proved satisfactory , they are making arrangements to lay it down along the whole of their line , from the metropolis to Lancashire . There are twenty-five daily newspapers published in Paris , ten in London . Above 50 , 000 soldiers are in the receipt of pensions From the extraordinary heat of thc season the trees in the boulevards of Paris , the leaves of which had begun -. to wither , are now _pushing forth fresh ones . Some chesnut trees in the Place Royale afford the _siugular spectacle of ripe fruit , yellow leaves , large blossoms , and fresh green leaves , all at tho same time .

      Such is the scarcity of fruit onttW _Wolusanu in the Clays in the neighbourhood of Caister , Lincolnshire , that from upwards of one hundred apple trees in oue orchard , the owner has not obtained a single peck of fruit . In January last there were as many ns 16 , 310 lunatics and idiots chargeable to the poor-rate in England , nnd 1 , 205 in Wales . A Free-Trade Association is about to be formed at Brussels . The extensive cotton mills of the Messrs . Lees , of _Ashton-uudcr-Lync , in which there are upwards of 2 , 000 power looms , commenced working short time on the 14 th instant .

      Vie punishment peculiar to the naval service of their country , that of being lashed to the rigging hand and foot , wa * i undergone by one of the sailors of the Sardinian Corvette L' Aurora , on her arrival at Woolwich on Friday last . Tbe poor fellow remained " 'twixt heaven and earth" suspended in the fore shrouds for four or five hours , and appeared from his _writliinp and contortions to he suffering _t-omfiderably . _Adult-hut-ion of Miik . —It came out in evidence in a ease hi ought before the Police Court , London , on Friday , in a disputed debt between two dealers in milk , that the defendant had paid between £ 200 and £ 300 to the plaintiff for milk , whioh he had had of him , to the extent of 26 , 000 barn gallons , but in that there were 20 . 000 quarts of water , besides thc colouring ! lie swore as an honest man that be had seen him put it in ,

      Remarkable Produce of Potatoes . —A gardener of Driffield , named Robert Pickering , who is au extensive grower ot potatoes , remarked amongst a flat of kidney potatoes last year one particular plant , commonly known as a "bastard , " -which he was about to treat as a cumberer of the ground ; however , curiosity induced him to spare it in cider to ascertain tho kind and produce . __ On taking up tuat root , last autumn , lie was surprised to find that it had produced nearly half a peck of first-rate quality , and of a kind which he had never seen before , having been produced by a " potato-apple . " As he had thus gratuitously obtained so fine a kind , ho was resolved to propagate it , and consequently , at the proper time , he planted the whole of the root upon a part of a plot of ground , on which the previous

      season , the whole potato crop had failed , and literally rotted in the ground . Last week , he found that the root had produced no less than eight pecks , and would , no doubt , have produced many move had the sets heen placed at a greater distance , the tops being so largo as to preclude ,, in a great measure , the free access of rain , air , and light . TnE ifoTSLS at New York . —The hotels , at tbis season , are curious pictures of life . At least , ihey would be curious to European observation . Thc Astor-house alone , which is the principal hotel , dines daily from 450 to 500 persons—almost all of thorn strangers in town . The house itself , is like a siu _.-ill town , and its entries and corridors arc thronged like _squares and streets . Almost every human want _i-s supplied under its vast roof . Its basement is

      occupied by apothecaries , tailors , barber .-- , booksellers , jewellers , perfumers , baths , and newspaper-dealers . Its principal floor , has six or seven public parlours on the front , and tivo vast dining-rooms on the rear . The ladies' drawing-room is decorated with frescoes aud velvets , mirrors , and costly drapery , and furnisiicd in a style of sumptuous elegance , disregard of _expense , "Hops , " or house-balls , are given by the proprietors during this gay season , and few oi the guests are exclusive enough not to shave in _theamuseuient . Dancing acquaintances arc as easily made as at a private entertainment . The _niutiic is { _jood , and the ball winds up witb a luxurious supper , nnd ail without any extra charge in the bill . To a people as gregarious as the Americans this kind el thins is exceedingly captivating , and , to come to New

      York and " stop at the _Astor , on their vav from uie springs , is to the many the best , feature uf the & u \ _-. imer s diversion . There are private parlours to be hail at _ihcso hotels , of course , at tlwce _diiU-. u'S exU " . v ner diem , but they aro Utile called far . The regular price is two dollars a day , ail things included ; and whether you arc on the first floor or the seventh , in a room by yourself or with six _others , thc price is the same , the best rooms being only reserved for ladies and those who travel with them . The daily dinner is a very profuse and sumptuous affair , ami as ic is a good scene for display , it has fallen naturally into a custom to dress gaily for the table—ranking altogether a scene , at the very day table of three o ' clock , scarcely inferior to a Lord Mayor ' s dinner . « - Correspondent of the Morning Ghronicle . Sebki . no Situations in LoNnoN . — 'I here aro always some thousands of young persons seeking _situations

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      in thc _. Great Metropolis , without friend or re to guide or assist them . I was so situated once and , therefore can feel for sueh . ; A _»** _, offi _" » . which profess to obtaii euuations , butco « imenccs by draining you of p your last croyvn . These men Profe « to pu _havl n ° pu _£ _L b 00 ka t 0 get y _^ a situation have neither thc power nor intention . Ta adyicc , advance no money to any of theso e but answer advertisements and make ennu > _i respectable parties in your trade or profession though perfeet strangers , will give you good _, I have known lately of swindlers advertising premiums from young men on protence of te .

      them surveying , anu engaging them on railw : India . A friend of mine searched into this sc and found that _numbsrs of young men had swindled outof £ 5 , which , perhaps they had with difficulty . —The People ' s Journal . The Canterbury Union , according to the l Observer , are in a happy state of confusion resp their accounts , The late clork ' s accounts , a complete , certain vouchers , which had been im for , not being forthcoming , * whilst one ofthe : ing officers isa defaulter to a considerable ami One of trie Gloucester Railway Police , hai committed on a charge of felony , for stealing s pairs of boots and shoe 3 , from packages entrus the company , in their capacity as carriers .

      Co . vcbai . ed Treasurk . _—^ ome alterations found necessary to an ancient _dwelling-house : High-street , Andover , the workmen , in rem the bricks from the bottom of a chimney , agreeably surprised by several gold coins of antiquity . It iB conjectured they were concea the removal of a brick and replacing it near ] centuries since . Two of the pieces are abou size ofthe present half-crown , but much thi they were coined in the reigns of James ] Charles *! ., and are in good preservatisn , havii parcntly lain dormant almost from the time o '

      ue . FlIBNOMEKON AT Waikvbrolch , _MoNMov-rnsn On Monday the . bees and wasps congregated east , west , north , and south ,, and engaged in i warfare . They appeared in swarms as far t eye could see , 'and the _ground for a large spa derneath , _wascovered with the doad , mostly wt Vroprimv _m-ft in Pubiic _Vkhicles —Sin 22 d of May last , up to the 8 th inst ., 09 umbrell parasols , 61 coats , 7 parcels , 3 pocket bool cloaks , 8 opera glasses , a prize oar , and 326 ai of different descriptions , have been left in cal hackney coaches .

      Education op inn Poon w _Laubbth . —Last day , two new schools were opened for the _gratt education ofthe poor in Lambeth , one a soho boys in connection with Saint Mary ' s distriet el the other a species of ragged school in Palace opposite Lambeth church , for the education persons above ten years of age . The Marquess op Shoo , Earl of Lucan , an ether _nohlomen and gentlemen have come to Li forthe purpose of obtaining interviews with John Russell and the heads of the government tive to the potato disease tn Ireland , and the effectual method ef employing the famishing pot

      _Pnoehass oy thb New _PAiicK . —In the Hou Lords , to whioh , more particularly , attention v directed , the works are making rapid progress _, ceiling and upper part ofthe walla are finished carvers and joiners aro occupied in every corn the place in fixing the wainscot fittings , both i House and lobbies . Those in the former are elaborately carved out of the solid , and reflect i credit on the workmen . The decorations wi _gorgeous—dazsting . The ceilimr , formed into d < sunk panels , is covered with gold and col Under each wall-piece , from principal timber ? sculptured canopy and niche , solidly gilt •» finished , between which occur the windows , _f filled with stained glass ( six on each side ) and partments for fresco . —The Builder .

      There have , in the present month , been , or a to be , no fewer than five congresses of scientific or artists hotden in various parts of Germany , » it has not yet been considered a sign of wisdo _langb at such things . At Jena , the meeting of lologists and _archffiologirts _, the literary _congrei Dresden , that of scholastic professors at Maye the assembly of architects at Gotha , and that of naturalists at Kiel , are so many testimonies to spread _insr conviction in favour of these form . ! mental association . —AtAenmum . Rompohd . —IifCENMART Firb . — "We regret to s that another incendiary five took place on Fr laat , on the premises of Mr . Shnttlcworth , of G Warley , containing three stacks of corn . % men are in custody , and there is strong _suspi attached to them , as tbey were seen near the sti a few minutes previous to the fire breaking out Mr . Shuttleworth himself . —Ipswich Express .

      _ISCESDUTUBM AT WADHURST , SuS 8 BX . —Hai Baldock , 16 , was fully committed by _themagisti at Tunbridge "Wells , on Thursday last , on a eh ofsettimr fire to a wood lodge and faggot _utack property ofher master , Mr . Overy , of Little I fate ' s farm , _Wadhuret . —Maidstone Gazette ; Fatal _Accibest ofjp _Battubsea . —On Tue morning " , the following distressing accident oecu on the river Thames , near Battersea . Four per hired a small boat at Westminster for the _pui-poi proceeding to Richmond for a day ' s pleasure _, was also observed that the parties did not _thorouj understand tbe management of a boat . They , t

      ever reached as far as Battersea , when they re athwart a _baTge , named the Sarah , which was 1 } at anchor . One of the parties moved from his s _< and tho little boat instantly capsized , and the i were thrown into the water , Their shrieks at moment were truly dreadful . Two of them i ceeded in grasping hold ofthe cable , and were resc by the bargeman , named J . Packer . The other t named James Gascoine , aged 24 , and George Jan aged 32 , residing in Clerkenwell-green , almost _stantly sunk , and were never seen to rise again . *] drags were used for some time , but in vain . r boat was picked up and conveyed home by a fisl man .

      Cheap Newspapers . —A well-wisher to the L don Pioneer asks us which is tbe cheapest _newi per . Our reply is , the News of the World . Wo lieveittobe not only the cheapest , but the 1 general newspaper in the united kingdom . Itsp is threepence . The Northern Star is an excell paper , as a political newspaper . It advocates rights of _labonr with a zeal and honesty that do c dit to the writers , whoever they are . We are so that it cannot reduce its price to subscribers . 'J Northern Star is sold at fivepence . We believe time is not far distant when nearly a ]] the wee newspapers will be sold at three-pence or _threepen halfpenny . —London Pioneer .

      The " _' Godlkss Colleges . —A paragraph 1 been pretty generally copied from an Irish ne * paper , to thc effect that the Council of Cardinals 1 : denounced the _colleges commonly known as ' * i Godless ; " and that there was no reasonable don that Pope Pius himself would concur in their nn sure of condemnation whenever the subject was c cially brought before him . Tiiis statement , howe _* _- has been contradicted by the AWon ; which affirii " on the highest authority , " that the heads of Catholic Church in Ireland hare received nocomn nication to this effect , or " tending to that dir tion , " and that , judging from the liberal policy the Popk , such a decision is wholly improbable .

      _Remarkable Phrnombkon . —Ihe sea , at a sh distance from the coast here , has presented some markable appearances during the present week . Tuesday last , about four o ' clock in the aftcrno « about low water , the sea , for about thirty yards fm the shore , and along tire coast from the _' eove to tl bay of _Nigtr , appeared of a purple colour , and C (( tinned to darken as the afternoon advanced . C informant , who , with a large number of fishermn observed the appearance , thinking it might au from any reflection of the sky , went out in a bi and examined thc svater . To his astonishment ,, found the boat actually in a sea of purple , aud wafer of a glutinous nature , containing so mn colourimr that it actually dyed red whatever olyj

      it touched . No effluvia could be perceived arisi from the water . As the tide rose , the coloured wm packed closer in shore , and continued to beca darker and darker . Next afternoon the same _nearanccs were observed to occur , but not to such ) extent . Wc wish sonic of our scientific fries would _'ifford us a clue to the cause of this p * nc . menon . Nothing of tbe kind seems ever to hi been obsmed in this quarter bei ' oie , although , n haps , in other places such appearances may hi been witnessed . We may state that , on Mor . d the fishermen between this and the cove observed ! sea , nt about TO or 80 yards from the shore , breatt out in dark spot ? , whicb may be supposed tl ) 111 multiplied nnd magnified till thev presented the

      ncavauce above-mentioned . —Aberdeen Herald . _Dkstitutio . _v . —At the Petty Sessions of this to ) on Tuesday la _:-t , n wretched looking girl of the _mof _BridK « t spelmnn , appeared to answer the cj plaint of Charles Blake , _M-q _., of Merlin Park _., a _mnlicious trespass . Mr . Blake ' s woodraii ) . Campbell , staled tbat a few days ago be caught _uirl stealins : three turnips , one of which she wan the aet of c . _itiug when caught , by him . lie also sti ; thai t ! ic girl -TO * after goinir through "io po > {' wills' , viftvl tvving to p ick tip any small _pot-itoes micht have remained on th- * ridges alter the _picJJ eaten

      — _* * vc was owing , and said she bad not ( bod -that day , ami _oi . ly took the turnips to _il _..., n " The _magistrates , after reading the 11 2 uved girl a fire on _momlUr _, so far as concen he protection ofthe rich man ' s property , , dismu . uecaso . -Cat . eoj _Mtrcnry Thus it » _nlwii " Protect property " is the leaning idea ot the For mere wealth there is everywhere a snperstitt _r-vci-cuee . for the nrerfww of wealth there is neii respect nor protection . When shall wc haye nil ! trates who will read the rich lectures on moral and insist oa the imperative duty of protecting in . preference to anything else ? 1 i _^ l _( _ttmmmWSBt \ mmW

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 26, 1846, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26091846/page/3/