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      September 27, 1845, The Northern:! Star....

      September 27 , 1845 , THE NORTHERN : ! STAR . 3 — _^__^——»——_—^_—»>—_____ - i . . ___——_——— . __ —— __

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      " A feast of nectar * d sweets _"fiThere no erode surfeit reigns . " _tabt n . Wc commence the second part of our "Feast " with the

      BEAUTIES OF BYRON _, so . xn . " CB 1 LDE _BAUOlD . " Wc have now to introduce the reader to the second Canto of * ' Childe Harold , " which opens with the following magnificent stanzas , as sublime as poet ever penned : — Come , blue-eyed maid ofheaven' —but thou , alas ! Didst never yet one mortal song inspire—Goddess of Wisdom : here thy temple was , And is , despite of war and wasting fire , And years , that bade thy worship to expire : _jjnt worse than steel , and flame , and ages slow , Is the dread sceptre and dominion dire Ofmen who never felt the sacred glow That thoughts of thee and thine on _polish'd breasts bestow .

      Ancient os days ! August Athena ! where , "Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone—g limmering through the dream of things that wore : Pirst in the race that led to Glory ' s goal They won , and _pass'd away—is this tlie whole 1 A school-boy ' s tale , the wonder of an hour Ihe warrior ' s weapon and the sophist's stole Are sought in vain , and o ' er each mouldering tower , Dim with the mist of years , gray flits the shade of power . Son ofthe morning , rise 1 approach you here ! Come—but molest not yon defenceless urn : look on this spot—a nation ' s sepulchre I Abode of gods , whose shrines no longer burn . Even gods _ssast yield—religions take their turn : _'Iwas Jove's— 'tis Mahomet ' s—and other creeds "Will rise wilh other years , till man shall learn Vainly his incense soars , his victim bleeds ; Poor child of Doubt and Death , whose hope is built on reeds :

      Bound to the earth , he lifts his eye to _heaven—Is't not enough , unhappy thing ! to know Thou art ! Is this a boon so kindly given , That being , thou would ' st be again , and go , Thou know st not , reck ' st not to what region , so On earth no more , hut mingled with thc sides ? Stall wili thou dream on future joy and woe ? Regard and weigh yon dust before it flies : That little turn saitU mora than , thousand homilies Or hurst the _vanish'd hero ' s lofty mound ; Par on the solitary shore he sleeps : He _fclL and falling nations _monrn'd around ; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps ,

      If or warlike worshipper his vigil keeps "Where fiemi- _^ _jods appear _ed as records tell . Remove yon skull from out the scattetAl heaps - 3 s that a temple where a God may dwell ? * 5 _V * jy ev ' a the worm at last disdains her shattered cell Look on its broken arch , its ruin'd wall , Its chambers desolate and portals foul : Yes , this was once Ambition's airy hall , The dome of Thought , the palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack-lustre , eyeless hole , The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit , And Passion ' s host , that never _brook'd control : Can _aH saint , sage , or sophist ever writ , . People this lonely tower , this tenement refit !

      - Well did'st thou speak , Athena's wisest son ! All that we know is , nothing can be known : "Why should we shrink from -what we cannot shun \ Each hath his pang , but feeble sufferers groan "With brain-born dreams of evil all their own . Pursue what Chance or Fate proclaimefh best ; Peace waits _na on the shores of Acheron : There no forced banquet claims the sated guest , But Silence spreads the conch of ever welcome rest . Yet if , as holiest men have deem'd there be A land of souls beyond that sable shore , To shame the doctrine of the _Saddueee And sophists , madly vain of dubious lore ; Blow sweet it were in concert to adore "With those who made our mortal labours light ! To hear each voice we fear'd to hear no more J Behold each mighty shade _rereal'd to sight , The Bactrian , Samian sage , and aU who taught the right !

      In flic original MS ., instead of the stanza just given , was the following : — Frown not upon me , churlish Priest ! _Jhat I Xook not for life , where life may never be lam no sneercr at thy phantasy ; _Thoupiiicstme—alas ! I envy thee , _Thouloold discoverer in an unknown sea , Of happy isles and happier tenants there ; I ask thee not to prove a Saddueee ; StiU dream of Paradise , thou know * t not where , Butlov _' et too well to bid thine erring brother share , We had purposed offering some remarks respecting onr object in printing these selections from _Btkox : -want of space , however , forbids us douM * so at this time . We defer , therefore , onr intended remarks until we come to the conclusion of our extracts from " Childe Harold . " We now proceed to the continuation of our extracts from .

      THE PURGATORY OF SUICIDES . A Prison Rhyme , in Ten Books . Br Thomas _Coopse , the Cliartbsl , * In the third book , from which we extracted the address to the Sun , given in last Saturday ' s Star , the reader is introduced to those two notorious characters ,

      Damned to everlasting fame , _Jtdas and Castlereaoh . Awful is the picture of the first of these traitors : — Tongue cannot syllable the blighting curse Stamped on that dern and desolate countenance : _^ _ormastery—despair , wrath , shame , remorse , Contended , in each petrifying glance , — And . still their contest burning sustenance Drew evermore from the consuming blaze "Within : — _"Uyheing ' s ceaseless heritance Is agony V . —seemed -written in that

      gaze—In letters not a universe of joy could raze : It was a look unique in wretchedness : Such as , _mAana of penance , could be worn By none bnt him who—in his heart ' s excess Of 31—his gnstfor guilt , engrained , _iaborn—Bttrayed to shameful death , and vilest scorn Of _ontchering priests , the Being who only sought Tobless mankind and die ! The look of lorn Kemedilcss woe with which that face was fraught _fieeded no speech to tell—it marked _Iscariot ,

      _tfext—Iscariotraught A space circled with snakes in deathly array _Upreared—pohting with forked tongues , where smote Bis breast , as on the rocky floor he lay Ia speechless agony—the suicide of Cray . _Searly the ¦ whole of _thi 3 hook is occupied with the criminations and recriminations of the two traitor ous suicides . Thus Judas commences , and Castlbjbeaoh replies in the two following stanzas : — Tile _pandsr to the pomp-blown , lust-swoln Guelph ; Arise , I say , —avaunt !—betake thee hence I I trill be fellow to _HeU's inmost

      self—Bather than thee , with , all thy guile prepense , — Thon double-dealer in each mean pretence Tor forging fetters to tfiy fatherland IHer champion—first !—and then—true subsequence Of falsehood ! tool , her slavery that planned , And for his gnilty wages stretched his guilty hand ! Traitor , —that sold his country for a priee Traitor!—a price!—the prostrate shape outburstJBid I betray my Master , with device Of a false kiss , unto the foes a thirst Por his most precious blood , —my neart endorsed _. The while , with settlement of black receipt—The thirty silver pieces ?

      Snake accurst!—Betorted Jndas , —think not here to cheat Thy soul : _mj deed was foretold by the Paraclete ! Judas palliates his crime on the ground that he was the child of destiny : — God did appoint my soul to sin : Unto his high decree I bow : His drudge lam . His purpose answered—I shall win Hy seat in that bright realm where beam the seraphim ! On the other hand _CAsiXEiuuon labours to excuse his infamous career , by alleging that he was incited to his ambitious aims by supernatural influences . He tells the story of the " Radiant Boy" appearing t * him once in the bed-chamber of an ancient castle in the north of Ireland , and again in the House of Commons after he had climbed the heights of power . We mast refer oar readers to the poem for the particulars of this strange story . Here is a description of that bloated sensualist and royal brute , _Guokge IV ., put into the mouth ofhis former sycophant and dirty tool Castlereagh : —

      A living prey to his heart's vice—a slave o filth so abject that the worms , which now their brave Carousal hold amidst his putrid clay , Pindlrim not more uncleanly than in life . * * * His kingly course affords no trait Of nobleness : selfishness was rife As lust within him : his soul a strife Perpetual shewed the trampled human crowd To bruise more _vflely stfll : while the knife Was at their very throatshis scoffs were loud , Id he could see them bleed and die , —unmoved , nn bowed .

      He thirsted bnt for power to wring From out bis _subjects' hearts the last life-drop—If it would minister to lrb revelling - One gnilty honr : — a sot , a fop _. He -was by torn * : a blackleg , then—to groupe Of swindlers fugleman!—becoming , soon , lhe god of earthly gauds , and to the top Ofhis vain bent fooled on , by each baboon , * EeBed with titles , that beheld the holy spoon

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      Bestow its unctuous virtue on his head , — ** And laughed to sec tho gew-gawplaced thereon , — The grown child ' s gew-gaw!—while , in pomp out . spread , Peers , prostitutes , pimps , prelates , round his throne Knelt blasphemously homaging the o ' ergrown Monster of rice , —their grandeur fed , the while , ¦ Wi th tears of starving thousands ! In the following stanzas Judas is addressing Castlereagh , recalling to thc latter his hideous earthl y career : —

      Hah ! how aloof Thou stood ' stfrom mercy , while on earth ! Disproof That millions starved and suffered , thy false tongue Forged , daily : not a tear-drop in behoof Of suffering from thy stony eyes was wrung Por one of all the thousands that thy treachery stung ! Wilt thou deny that there is suffering—now ? "Sow ?—while the worm of conscience thou dost feel ? Th' undying worm ? Why , what is the weak woe Thy coward soul can bear , —though Hell UHseal Her quintessence of torture ? 'Twill be weal , Compared witli aggregate of woe thy heart , Hemorseless , wrung from millions whose appeal To Right was vain!—millions of sires whose part Of woe though first , was least : they left an after-smart Por whom ! For millions of their starveling sons And famished daughters , —who still pine and moil By law : mere skin-and-bone automatons ! Oh ! serpent!—how my spirit ' s tide doth boil Against such viperousness as thine !

      Hah 2 how they shouted while thy mangled clay Was borne unto its burial!—the few men Whom blood of their old fathers , for one day , Stirred into more than slaves . ' Oh . ' it was then-While terror quelled even the iron ken Of thy stern _feUow-lizard , who his claw-Held up , mid breathed an idiot « hush !*— 'twas then Thy waking victims should have filled Death's maw With the whole vermin brood that human vitals gnaw * * # * A hypocrite thou wert in life ; in death A coward * * *

      _• * What wonder , —though the Guelph Oft spat upon thee , —that thou , stiU , the path Didst keep of fawning % Meanest , vilest elf , That ever played the tyrant , —loathe thy abortive self ! Most of this portion of the poem is powerfully written , but it strikes us that there is a too frequent repetition of "hell , " " snakes , " "tortures , " & e . Thc speeches put into the mouth of Judas we think would have been more telling if somewhat curtailed , and move simple in their structure . We quote the conclusion of the book in whicli Castlereagh , in the height of his agonies , imagines he sees again the " Radiant Boy , " no longer in the guise of a messenger of glory , but as a mocking fiend . These stanzas are awfully beautiful , and excite the thrilling interest of the reader . Castlcreagti giving Utterance tO his agony at the sight of the fiend , Judas exclaims : — False minion , hold . ' —i ¦ ¦¦ ¦ i this region is exempt From Earth ' s old dreams : nought seest thou , but hast sold Thyself to _falsehood till thy heart is bold To forge wild frauds ev _' _n here ! _Castlereach replies : — Curst Judas , cease Thy taunts!— ' I come , ' it saith— 'thy heaven t'unfold—« Thy ancient heaT ' n—tlie haggard , thought-woru . face 'Of Pitt : that thou majit dream old dreams of power and place !' Perditioned Jew!—seest not the portraiture The fiend hath raised?—list what he saith!— 'Now view ' The magic eye , once more , which cleft th' obscure ' Opaque of thy dull clay—his fit tool knew' Accepted thy meek offers to eschew 'Bash , youthful promises—and cheered with smiles , 'Fruricnt with place , the recreant to pursue ' His snaky course of patricide ! Recoils ' Thy spirit from such vision of its patriot toils f 'Dost think it would recal the withering sneers 'Of Ponsonby—or Grattan ' s lightning glance' Till thou wouldst quail with sense of ancient fears ? ' Courage ! thou tiling of cut-throat puissance ! What of their sarcasm ' s empty fuhuinance ? Thon wast a victor— 'spite of all their gibes ! 'Thy country's suicide was won!—Perchance ' Thy own for smallest sin _Hibernia ' s tribes 'Will count—the hosts thou sold ' st to Pitt for traitor bribes !' Vile Jew ! why dost thou scoff with hellish glee ! Hark!—' tis the Fiend , again— ' Vfould' st gaze 'On Brandreth ' s gory head ?—I'll bring it thee , 'Fresh reeking from the scaffold , with the glaze ' Of death still in its eyes ! Hah ! thon shalt craze With joy , gloating thy fill upon that throat' The mangled throat of _Thistleivoodl—Pourtrays It thy own wound ?—Stifle the troublous thought' And once , again , upon thy spy-trapped victim gloat !' The Fiend ' s fierce eyes— -how gleefully and fell They glister—like the eyes of Earth ' s vile things Thathnntfor blood ! Again it saith , 'How well ' The eyes of Castles aud their glisterings—• Edwards ' and Oliver ' s—o ' er trafflckings Of blood for gold—thou dost remember '—Start 'Not now;—for , swift , thy Radiant angel's wings Shall toil to bring—that thou may st mock its smart ' With life ' s old relish—Caroline ' s lorn broken heart ! ' Gloat—gloat thy fill upon each torturous pang ! Dost shrink ?—Courage!—they were her dying moans ! The music thickens : —' tis tlie sabres ' clang 'Mingles with shrieks ;—and , now , a peal of greans ' Comes up _h-om Peterloo 1 What , though the stones ' Would rise anil curse—were thy vile image there _t—• Thou shalt have joy in listening to the tones , Renewed in Hell , of Hunger ' s loud despair ' . ——• Hark ! what wild choir breaks forth in anthem debonair * Behold—thy Radiant angel hath called up « Thy bread-taxed victims , in their lank array ; ' And , with the hunger-bitten weavers' troop , « Thy fatherland ' s crushed children leave decay 1 ' All rise—and hymn thy glorious deed at Cray J — Hell-Fiend , avaunt!— And forth the minion fled—Shrieking _viith horrid madness ! Me , dismay And terror woke ; and , from soul-quelling dread Set free , I blessed the morn , upon my prison-bed .

      We have a word or two to say respecting certain remnants of " original pieces" not noticed inthe first part of our " Feast . " The lines " To LIBERTY " we would gladly have given , if conscientiously wc could have done so , had it been only to encourage the writer—who professes to be a "Manchester Millboy , " —to further efforts . The piece contains some good lines , and some poetic thoughts not properly expressed ; bu tit is too faulty as a wJiole to give publicity to . Let the " Mill-boy" try again . That "Music is the food of Love , " we will not attempt to dispute ; but certainly the lines thus entitled are not Ut food for our "Feast . " What we have said of the " Millboy ' s " poetry applies to the piece from Glasgow , entitled "The Twilight . " The other piece , by the same author , is too tame on such a subject as " Freedom's Approach . " A . C , of Glasgow , sends us some lines in praise of " Glasgow ' s bonny Green ; " and although that honoured spot is , we believe , chiefly famous as a "drying ground" forauld wives' claes , still we would willingly have given it a chance of such fame as our columns may confer , had "A . Cs" lines been poetry , which unfortunately they are not . The liues are simple and correct , and repeated hy a child at a family party would pass muster very well ; but they are not of sufficient merit te warrant their insertion in a public journal : "A . G . " must try again . We have received gome lines from John Peacock , of Port-Glasgow , to the memory of that genuine poet , but unhappy and unfortunate man , Robert _Tanxahill . Poetic the lines are not ; and our judgment bids us reject them ; but on the other hand , the writer ' s motives are so excellent , and our feelings are so in unison with his own , that we find our judgment succumbing to our feelings—and so , at the risk of displeasing the critical , we determine to give a few of Mr . Peacock ' s verses , hoping that the next piece he favours us with will be so far au improvement on his present production that we may be able to give it entire .

      TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT _TAKNAHILL . 0 ! Scotland , thou hast blamed and praised Thy native sons of genius far * , And sculptur'd monuments have raised In pomp to men of blood and war . long thou hast twin'd the laurel ' s wreath Around the image _rock-carv'd bust Of many a bard , long locked in _dtath , And mingled with their parent dust ! Bnt , ah , no monument hath rear'd To he whose deep impressive strains , Iu native language long endear'd _, Breathes sweetness o ' er the hills and plains . He who hath long forgotten been ; Whose songs the breasts of all doth fill With noble feelings , deep and keen—The long neglected Tahnahill . When Scottish peasant , prince , and lord , Conjoin'd to praise old Cailas bard ; " To bards , " the toast went round the board ; For Tannahill uo voice was heard ; I care not though a poet ' s worth Is blazoned not by cold carv'd stone ; But would his name have usher'd forth , As one of nature's nobles gone . Why , Scotland , hast thou honours paid To gome on thy poetic list , Yet sunk beneath a nameless shade Thy first and brightest melodist ? When thy sons met at festive throng , Why did each lip rest mute and still , And scorn to name thy son of song—Thy dear departed Tannahill t His life was but a fickle dream Of sighs and smiles , of joy and cart ; Oft rank , by self-nurs'd feelings keen , Beneath tbe grasp of wild despair . Alai ! he hut too _kesnly felt The pangs of misery and woe ; Until at last o ' ercome , he knelt To self-destruction ' s reckless blow .

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      If O classic lore made fair his lot ; He own'd no title , wealth , nor . soil ; But born within a straw thatch'd cot— - The son of penury and toil . Should no vain edifice be rear'd To his lov'd name and memory V Still , still , his melodies endear'd , A lasting monument will be .. We believe we have now disposed of all the " original" pieces received from our friends , and readers . Itis a subject for congratulation that we have had a greater number of amateur poets competing for admission to this quarter ' s "Feast" than to the one preceding . But if the quantity of poetry received has been greater , we cannot say that the

      quality exhibits a corresponding improvement . V > e wish our poets would try their hands at subjects more inspiriting than those thoy usually adopt . Ours is not the party , and this iB not the paper , for lackadasical versifying . We want something patriotic : something to " stir the blood like the sound of a trumpet" in vindication of universal Liberty , and in furtherance of her good cause . In short , we want the Nation ' s poetry without the _Nation's bigotry . What say our friends—have they the spirit within them ? If so , let it have utterance . Let them read Tbomas _Cooper ' s Purgatory of Suicides , and take courage by his example . He is the first who has really given to the world Chartist poetry , worthy of the name we trust , however , that he will not stand alone .

      We have spoken of Thomas Cooper as the only Chartist poet , and we have said this with the full recollection of the " Mob Melodies" of Thomas Doubleday , Esq ., editor ofthe Tyne Mercury ( formerly editor of the Northern liberator ) , for these reasons ; first , that the " Mob Melodies" are , with one or two exceptions , decidedly less poetical than many ofthe same author's prose productions . In this T . Dovbu _* _.-hat is not singular . TnOMAs Paine and Thomas Carlyle arc great examples of true poets , not recognised as such by the world , because tlieir true poetry has net been set forth in the form of verse . Secondly , the author of the "Mob Melodies" shrinks—at least so it appears to us—from avowing himself to be , what formerly he hesitated not to acknowledge himself—a Chartist ; for we sec lie adopts that ridiculous and stupid designation of " Complete Suffragist . " Notwithstanding this , we feel called upon to give a specimen or two of Mr . Doubleday _' s " Melodies ;"

      THE FACTORY CHILD . " Twenty more kill ' em !" Every Man in hit Humour . Tcse— " Langmee . " When first these _youus eyelids to nature were open'd , They closed in delight , as they open'd in joy , The flower in the meadow—thc tree in the _forcBt—AU nature ' s luxuriance had charms for her boy . From grey morn to e ' en , ' mid the valleys I wander'd ; The streamlet I _tollow'd , or trarers'd tlie plain , Alld WOuder'd ( hOW gimple !) _wliatAUlM be their meaning , Who talk'd of " the world , " and its ' sorrows and pain . " The song of the sky-lark to me then was music , As wildly he carol'd aloft in the sky ; Or the throstle ' s , when , _nun-lilce , she chanted her

      vespers , In the deep-wooded glen as the cv ' ning drew nigh . * T was music to me , the s'ill voice of the streamlet , As , purling , it wended its way thro * the dale ; Now , shrinking , in shade , from th « suu ' s noontide a « dour ; Now silvery-bright , In the moon-beam so pale . Oh ! days made of heav _' n , and all-heavenly tinctured With joys such as beings in Paradise know ! Oh ! days made of heav ' n , all too soon to be shrouded - In _niis'rj /' s dim paU and the dark veil of woe ! . Oh ! days made of heav'n , tho' now lost , not forgotten ;

      Still cherish'd , tho' ne ' er to _belook'd on again : Since ye have departed , I now know their meaning , Who talked of "the World , " and its " sorrows and pain . " My sun-shine is , now , the pale lamp , tliat with radiance like death , lights the task of an early despair . My music is , now , the harsh steam-engine ' s hissing , That drives on the woof of my sorrow and care ; My flow ' rets are , now , the coarse tints that are scatter'd Amid the vile threads of tho web that I weave ; My home is the gloom of that Factory Prison , Where childhood _mustpine , lest oppression should grieve .

      No Sabbath to me brings its bright , hauow , , uiorning ; The chime of no village-bell caUs me to pray ' r ; No peal rings for me , but the knell that still bids me To curses and blasphemy—wailings and care ; Where the hand ofthe task-master ' s ever in motion , Where the thread of a life is but measur'd and sold ; Whereiron is all thatshould know and feel for ns , And the heart's blood of childhood is barter'd for gold Oh ! hear me , ye flow'rs , that first oped on my boyhood ! Ola ! hear me ye streams , whose first music I heard ! Oh ! hear me , ye wild woods , where earliest I wander'd ; All , all ye delights that tliis bosom first stirr'd . One breath of your fragrance , yc flow ' rets , but send me ; Ye streamlets , once more , be your melody nigh ; Ye wild woods I lov'd , for one moment wave o ' er me , And 'guile from my senses the Den where I die \ T . D . THE POACHER .

      • ' To push tho _pnvihges of property beyond the limits of common sense , is to endanger the fabric by a vain attempt to exalt it . " — . _Refections on the Game Laws , Tuke— _"Moti . Roe is thi , MoaniMG . " They feast , and they snore , whilst wc hunger and toil * They rejoice in the title of " Lords of the Soil . " Nay , as " Lords of the Soil , " not content with their share , They resolve to be " Princes of Powers of the air !" Not content with their reign o ' er the wet and the dry , Their dominion would have all that creep or that fly ; But their " High and Low" are no more than a name , And we swear there shall always be " Jack and the Game ! " '

      See the Pheasant rise stately , all glistening like gold ! See the Co _^ ey , alarm'd , flush'd in fear from their hold ; See the Woodcock , alone , from the well-head take wing ; From the grass-tangled bank see the Leveret spring . Who ' s the Rearer , the Tender , the Feeder of those ? 'lis the Woodman who plants , and the Ploughman who sows , For here "nigh and Low" are no more than a name , And a field there will always he , " Jack and the Game . " A " Poacher ' s" a title—a " Lord" is no more ; And both have heen won by brave felf 0 W 8 of yore t The Mitre's the Bishop's—the Crown is the King ' s ;' But who ever saw " goods and chattels" with wings ? Then scour out your barrel—your pow / _fer keep dry ; There * can be no " Manorial Rights" in the sky : For there " High and Low" are no move than a name _. And not half so well sounding , as "Jack and the ( _Jamo !"

      Do ye preach up "the Peace ? " do ye threaten "thc Law , " If a cover we beat , or a trigger we draw ? Remember the time , in its ripeness , may come , When your ears may be stunn'd by the roll of the drum To fight for your fields , shall it then be our will , Or to bleed for the birds we ' re forbidden to kUl ' . Not while "High and Low" is made more than a name , And the lawyer dares stand betwixt" Jack and the Game . " When ye've tied down the eagle with parchment and wax , And , by law , made the wild swan his pinion relax ! When the crane and the wild duck ye stop on their way , Aria set up a turnpike , the woodcock to stay , — When this ye have done , we shall yield , as we must , The privilege true , and the heritage just ; But till then , " High and Low" shall be only in name , And we swear , there shall always bc "Jack and thc Game . " T . B '

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      _<> _y _/^///// _yM ''(' Vi' _/////< _'i _>^ _M Press of matter compels us to cut short our "Feast , " and omit several select pieces we had prepared for p ublication . Our next " Feast" will be included in , and form part and parcel of , our " Christmas Garland . "

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      The People's Guardian, And Leeds Sanator...

      THE PEOPLE'S GUARDIAN , AND LEEDS SANATORY JOURNAL . Leeds : W . Lonsdale , 37 , Nile-street ; Pontey , Kirkgate . We have received the 1 st and 2 nd numbers of this cheap and excellent publication , and we feel bound to award it our hearty commendation . Its getting up is highly creditable to the editor , and nearly every article evidences the genuine talent of the several contributors . We notice amongst the otlier contents the first two of a series of letters on the Land , written

      by a practical " small-farm" agriculturist , who , though not of the working class , is one of their most devoted friends . The second title of this publication bespeaks its object , that of arousing attention to the present unwholesome and unhealthy state of Leeds , and obtaining a much needed sanatory reform , _excepting Bradford , we know of no town more filthy in its streets and disgusting in its atmosphere . Agitation for a reform is therefore much needed ; ana this little publication is well-timed and may do much good . We trustthat the men of Leeds will give their support to the Guardian , and not only they , but the men of Yorkshire generally .

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      _« # i _* _v _^^ - « _- _- _>^ _- _^ i _^**^^^^^* - ' - _^" _w- * ** A Diseased SioMaCH . —CuHE Extraordinary , by Hom . _oway's Pats I—Mrs . _Aikins , widow ofthe late Captain _Aikins , residing at Connaug _ht-terraoe , Edgware-road . This lady had been in India , where her liver and stomach had become diseased , somuch so that she could scarcely keep the slightest food on her stomach . She was very weak and debilitated , and suffered continually from sick head-aches , besides a nervousness and lowness of spirits . In six weeks , however wonderful it mav annear . she was restored

      to a high state of health by this unrivalled medicine , which is a certain remedy in all liver , bilious , and stomach complaints , however bad the case may be . A Handfui oj ? "Nothing . "—It is rather singular that hundreds of people boast of being shareholders in various railway lines that are at present only projected , and have not been before _Pariiaaeut . " _«« _ahouldlike these parties to inform us how they can be shareholders of what does not yet exist , aiid whether they consider their tenures firm ? l > " _™ Macl _' M and the dagger—their grasp is visionary . —! &

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      THE _LBTTEES-OF A-SEXAGENARIAN TO _. HIS SON . _tETTER III . The mint aspect of things . Mcngowithoutfood _fordaysuow . They did not do so in my time . There are people in _fertile and populous counties , bustling and wealthy communities , in thriving towns and great . and opulent cities , who exist from year to year on food which , in point of quality , would have been deemed inferior , and in average quantity deficient , and wholly inadequate to the support of life , in . the short season of dearth and scarcity , to whicli I have , alluded in a former letter , 'and which was then the occasion of mobs and murmurings , whieh reached the gates of . the palace , nnd alarmed the wealthy of the well-to-do of . all grades . It would almost seem as if the familiarity , with unexampled misery was increasing the power of . endurance , and inducing a contentodness unworthy of the English character , and not hitherto found in connection with extensive physical deprivations .

      _& 0-. Y-this is greatly to be deplored ; and what does it all prove ? Much . It shows that if there has heen progress in some tilings , there has been retrogression in more important things . If thc present generation has reason to he proud of some advantages , evils are working their effects upon large numbers of the people , which , in times within my memory , would have rendered the existence of society a problem , and been deemed too urgent and appalling to admit of an hour ' s * , delay in their condition . But it is unnecessary to insist upon thc deteriorated social condition of the people . No ono attempts to deny the notorious fact . It must be very obvious and alarming indeed to have arrested the attention of the legislature in the manner it has done of late .. Be assured , it is not because the privileged orders are better disposed

      towards tho humbler classes , than they ever have been , that commissions have been appointed ! to make inquiries touching their sanatory condition . The independent attitude of a portion of the press has doubtloss had a large share in calling attention to . that condition ; but its sheer and naked bidcousness chiefly has forced upon public attention a subject at no time welcome or attractive . The fact , however , that the commissions assert , and thc legislature all hut confess , their utter inability to administer a remedy , is suggestive of many important considerations . It would appear _, by this that Government is simply an executive power , and the admitted existence of evils which legislation cannot remedy , while it disposes of all claim on the part of class legislation to be viewed as anything but impertinence and tyranny , points to the true source of all genuine reformation and just authority—the people themselves .

      This admission of the inability of all legislation to reach a condition of things so unnatural , and altogether so portentous of danger , as has been disclosed by late reports of parties who would willingly gloss it over if then * fears would allow them—this acknowledgment , of more than a tacit character , ofimbecilitj- and impotence , ofthe inadequacy Of legislation to the discharge of Its proper functions , is a curious and significant satire upon a class-elected legislature , and certainly forms the most cogent reason that could he urged for placing the electoral power in tlie hands of the people . It is not at an wonderful—nothing else indeed could be expected—tliat a government , appointed as thc British Government is , should be incapable of removing evils whicli lie

      beyond the pale of its safe and legitimate action ; but that the legislature , the embodiment of a nation ' s sagacity and wisdom—thc intellectual instrument , so to speak , whose peculiar province and object it is to contrive plans and means of securing tho ends of society and the happiness of the people—that this body , or institution , or instrument , or whatever else it may be called , should be admitted to be inadequate to its functions , and yet allowed to _esist , is one of those anomalies which may be defended by prescriptive reference and rule , but admits of no explanation . It is not , however , so inconiprehensible , when we consider that no interests are understood or cared for in the British legislature , but those of the classes to which its members individually belong .

      We _areffthus brought to the political view of this subsubject . And here it is obvious , oven & om their own ackiioivlfldgmeiit , that no government or legislature appointed under a restricted franchise , can do anything towards remedying the appalling social evils , whose existence is so notorious , and whose operation is so fearful , whether contemplated in reference to the everyday suffering endured , the injury to national character and morals , or the explosive -materiel and power in process of accumulation at the base of the social fabric . What boots the affected sympathy of such men as Lord John Russell 1 what is the value of his late-adoptea

      views , and his reluctant and wheedling iteration of the fact that , the working man has not had his fair share of the advantages of increased and ever-increasing wealth ? What would my Lord Russell consider a fare share ; aud how would he propose to secure that share ? Bah ! this man must know that he has not the capacity , even had he the desire—which he equally weU knows he has notto suggest a means of securing a . more equitable distribution of that wealth , whose inconceivable accumulation is only paralleled by the enormous aggregation of social misery and mischief which so remarkably keeps pace with it .

      With a deteriorated social condition , then , enduring the pressure of greater physical suffering than , by universal admission , was known to any former period , are the people at the present time in a political position of greater advantage , or which can warrant a hope of better things , than the one in which they found themselves thirty or forty years ago ? They certainly are not . With a partially unshackled press , an extended franchise , a reformed parliament , what has been , or can be , done for those who toil for their daily bread ? Worse than nothing . It was a grand error on the part of the labouring population to assist tho Whig 6 in their struggles for the Reform BUInot only because they might have had the sagacity to perceive tliat that party had no aim or ambition unconnected with self-aggrandisement and the sweets of office , but because it left a struggle to be renewed with a more inve . terate cunning , and less open and honourable enemy , with resources extended by experience and the benefits of a course of legislation directed to the _intl'Cnehment Of pal'tj ' interests and connexions In the meantime .

      How shamefully have the Whig party disappointed thc expectations of the people : and yet , how foolish was it to expect any good from the infamous and contemptible paek of hucksterers ! How absurd to imagine that the legislation of men appointed by the non-productive would tend in anyway to the benefit of the productive classes , Thc clear , obvious , direct , and now painfully-felt effect of such legislation is , to depress and injure the workersthe labouring or productive classes . The cheap , unrestricted competitive system is unquestionably—and I may have au opportunity of proving this to your satisfaction—the main cause of all the misery endured and deplored , and political power was , and is , only sought by tlie non-producers to procure for their favourite system and philosophy a larger sphere of operation .

      Who , at this time of day , requires to be told that the landlord , the farmer , the merchant , the master tradesman , th « shopkeeper—the capitalists of aU grades and distinctions—look alone to enlarging their incomes by thc only method really available or capable of answering the end , that of reducing tlie value to the labourer of that labour whence all their incomes are truly derived , and upon which they are all contingent , and even dispensing with that labour altogether when they can conveniently do so , leaving those thus driven from the field of labour the choice of starvation or the workhouse ? And how , until the legislation of this class of people is entirely stopped , or boldly encountered and checked , by the labourers acquiring the balance of representative power , can the devastating progress of physical suffering , moral depravity , and all social evils be stayed or turned ?

      The natural tendency of this legislation is towards revolution ) by producing wider extremes of affluence and poverty , and a larger aggregation of the varied evils whicli flow from this prolific and polluted course . Ardour in the pursuit of wealth , the desire of gain and rapid accumulation , nre the most prominent of all the characteristics of the English people ; and at no period of our history has such scope been given for their exercise as of late years * , and the result is seen in the deteriorated condition of the people . This circumstance ought to excite reflections in the minds of all . What may be the

      ulterior consequences of persisting in a career , which so certainly leads to mischief , is a question not for statesmen alone . All the productive classes ivould do well to moderate their desires , and endeavour to procure for the working people a larger and more equitable share in the distribution of that wealth which , by being at present so unequally divided , makes this country the wonder and the reproach of nations . For their own sakes—for the sake of the stability of the system , which gives them the lion ' s share , they ought to consider seriously how thi 3 might be done , but they will not ,

      They have become alarmed , however . They cannot shut their eyes to the palpable fact , that , with thc increase of productive power tho deprivations of the people have increased in a commensurate degree . The shrewdest among them perceive the tendency of things , and would fain conciliate and divert popular feeling and attention . They appear anxious to break the force of a catastrophe which their fears conjure up , looming like a storm in the distance , and which they cannot hope to avert . Fear , be assured , is in great part tho origin of that solicitude and sympath y for those classes of the people who were erst designated as the swinish multitude , and by other

      appellations equally graceful and creditable to those who uttered them . Who has the temerity to apply such appellatives to any class of their fellow creatures now ? Ah a crisis is too imminent at the best , and too _i \« w at all times to render the use of such language in any degree safe or prudent . It is not because the people have more political power , or that few men have the courage of Burke in these days , that such appellatives are uncommon ; but neither ignorance nor boldness , intrenched behind rank and privilege , can now afford to be so foul-mouthed . The pressure of other than political evils and deprivations have shown the privileged orders that they stand upon a mine which trifling irritation might help to spring , and thus involve them in utter and awful ruin .

      Having referred to tho nature , and indicated—merely indicated—the source of tho afflictions of the _peoplo , let us consider the remedial plans and movements . It is to remedy a condition of unexampled social disorgMiization tbat so many nostrums have been concocted and gravely propounded of late . Tiewed merely in relation to their variety , one might be warranted in saying that the subject hat received no small degree of attention . It has given-rise to immense—but to a great" extent very absurd speculation . All sorts of people have come with their fractional offers of aid , as expressed in their several

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      plans and-suggestions ; bnt the truth is , if this socialdisease is understood , none of the physicians—and they are _legion- ~ pretcnd to have discovered a cure * . they would merely administer febrifuges and opiates ; they want to compose the patient , aud-trust to time and the natural elasticity of a pretty strong , though severely tried constitution , to throw off its impurities , and regain its vigour without medicine . Few -of them profess to know anything whatever of the origin or nature of thc disease for which they would prescribe ; they do not pretend to have , taken a diagnosis , or to be in the least degree competent to do so ; but they wish to be serviceable . They are bo . nevolent : it ' s a fashion now to be so , aud as well be out of the world as out ot" the fashion , as the apothegm has it , Imagine a host of physicians at the bed-side of a patient , and that patient John Bull—thc physicians are the

      political and social pilLmakers of all characters , and with various crotchets and pretensions . " Give him better quarters , " says one ; "Give him more air , " says another ; " Wash him , for God ' s sake , " cries a third ; " He must have two shirts a week , and a change of clothing , " erics a fourth " Give him a bath , " chimes in a fifth ; " He must come out of that dark damp house—pull it down ! " cries a dapper little gentleman to whose innocent imagination the thought never once' occurred of how or where , except in the filthy habitation he wants pulled down , the patient is to be placed . Now all these suggestions may be good enough in themselves , and valuable as mere sanatory recommendations , if the means existed to render them practicable or effective ; hut what but _cairiare

      can they be to the patient ? He wants food chiefly provided him , with a sufficient and permanent supply—not the uvtermlttenthungcr-and-burst supply of the Corn Law people , and you will have done something towards his relief—provide him with the means of removing , . and he will remove of . his own accord , _* and he very happy to do so , in a more airy and comfortable abode . Do BOt . Cl'edifc tlie reports of lvis Jlltuy habits—furnish him with thc " means , and you will find that he will , in a short time , and as if by magic , become as healthy , and cleanly , aud respectable a person as-you affect to wish him . Do all this , I . would say to eachand all of tha physicians , and . you . have done _somethingjto entitle yourselves to thc patient's gratitude , and to a character above that of tbe empiric .

      You will perceive by this concluding bit of metaphor that my notions and your own arc not much akin regarding fhe . floating regenerative plans of certain tea-supping philanthropists , the agreeable benevolent talk of men of soft tongues , smooth faces , and hands- as smooth . Such humanity is too watery—such philanthropy too cheap . There must be sacrifice and self-denial , at which these perfumed _agitntorsandphilanthr & pists wouldstare _, before a tittle of the wretchedness can be . removed , which they affect to deplore . Despite of al ! their pleasant talk and childish schemes , vice and misery ,, and wretchedness and destitution , will go on—the black , volume of wave willgaiu in . accumulative bulk and turbid foulness every day , until it rolls in desolation over the land , if other men do not make timely and _serious efforts to turn and stop the innumerablo streams and _eurrtnts by which this wave is fed . Ofallthcempiricisms _. howcver _, that of the League , from its boldness and magnitude , is thc most apt to deceive , and is in all respects tlie most dangerous , I -will consider its pretensions in a future , letter _. In tho meantime I am , itc ., Jacob _Thustt .

      Death Of A Chancery Prisoner.—On Monday ...

      Death of a _Chancery Prisoner . —On Monday evening Mr . Payne held an inquest in the Queen ' s Prison , Southwark , on John Leadman , aged 70 , a prisoner therein . Deceased was a native of Barnsley , in Yorkshire , and was committed in August , 18 M , by Vice-Chancellor K . Bruce , for contempt , in not putting in his answer in a suit in Chancery , he and

      other defendants not having the means to do it . On his admission he was weak and low-spirited , ho was immediately removed by the surgeon into thc infirmary , where every nourishment was afforded him , but he gradually sank under mental anxiety , and expired on Saturday . The _deputj ' -governor stated , it was customary every three months for a Master in Chancery to visit the prison , to ascertain if any Chancery prisoner who had not the necessary means , wished for his discharge . If so , funds to sue in forma pauperis were granted by the Lord Chancellor . Deceased had repeatedly been asked to avail himself of such to purge himself of his contemptj but lie rc « fused . —Globe ,

      _Tit _onder-stobm . —Rochester , Sept . 22 . —Yesterday evening , between six and seven o ' clock , this neighbourhood was visited by a fearful storm , which fortunately was but of short duration . The vivid flashes of lightning were followed by thunder claps loud and deep , and accompanied by a heavy shower of hail and rain , during which ayoungman named Catt , a brickmaker , about twenty years of age , lost his life . He left Strood at about the commencement of thc storm , on his way home to Cuxtone , a village on the bank ofthe Med way , about three miles above Rochesterbridge , and before he had proceeded one-third of the distance lost his life . The corpse was found early this morning by a labouring man in the employ of Mr . William Manclark , near whose farm the melancholy catastrophe occurred . The electric fluid appears to

      have struck the unfortunate man on his head , one side of the face being much burnt , his hat and clothes rent open , and his shoes torn into shreds . Melancholy Accidest . —On Thursday last , at one ofthe pits belonging to the Glangarnock Iron Company , on the farm of Ryeholra , in the parish of Dairy , which they are at present sinking down to the ironstone , two men—a __ father and son—of the name of Muir , of the relative ages of forty-five and twenty years , after charging the shot , were ascending the shaft in a water bucket , when James Muir , the father , looked down to sec if the straw would ignite , when the mid partition took hoid of the back part of his head , and tore him out of the bucket . He fell to the bottom , and the shot exploding , he was killed on the spot . The son held on by the tow and was saved . — Scotsman , I

      Soddek D „ _Ain . —On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr . Carter , the coroner for Surrey , at the Duke of York , Swan-lane , Rotherhithe , on the body of Mr . Charles Devines , aged 55 , a timber measurer . It appeared that , on Friday last , the deceased was employed in measuring the cargo of one of the Baltic vessels , and appeared in excellent health and spirits : suddenly he was observed to stagger and fall * and upon one of his assistants going to his aid , he appeared wholly insensible . A sm _* geon was sent for , who immediately attended , but pronounced the deceased quite dead , probably from the rupture of a blood vessel . Thejury returned a verdict in _accordance with the medical evidence .

      Suicide from Affection for a Horse . —A municipal guard , in barracks at the Barriere d'Enfer , was about a year back taking out his horse for exercise , when the animal , being of a fractious temper , took the bit between his teeth , and ran away . The rider endeavoured to pull him in , but in vain , and at laat they both came down with violence . The man had his leg broken , and the horse was much injured in the back . The former was , after a time , sent to Bonne for the benefit ofhis health , and the horse got so much worse that it was found advisable to shoot him . Thc man returned after some months , and was seized with thc most lively grief when he found that the horse , for which he had a great affection , was dead . His own lifo became , in consequence a burden to him , and a few days ago he . went down to the stall where the animal used to stand , and , putting a pistol to his head , blew out his brains .

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      Liverpool Cobn Mjuiket , Mon » at , Skpi . 22 . — The arrivals from Ireland of wheat , oats , flour , and oatmeal , are to a fair amount during the week . Of foreign produce and manufacture , the imports consist chiefly of about 20 , OOObrls . of flour from Canada , about 8 , 000 brls . from the United States , and one cargo of Indian corn from the Black Sea . In the early part of the week the weather , which for three weeks previously had so favoured us , became broken , and we have since had an untoward time for the completion of harvest . It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of tho grain crops ofthe United Kingdom yet remain to be secured . The business in this market during the week has been extensive , and prices generally nave daily improved . The principal

      transactions have been on speculation ; middling quality of Baltic and Mediterranean wheat , in bond , which , ten days ago was sold at 5 s . 6 d . to os . Od ., has since been disposed of at 6 s . 3 d . to Gs . Cd . per TO lbs . ; United States flour , in bond , has also had a great share of attention , and the late prices paid were 25 s . to 26 s . per brl . The cargo of Indian corn , reported above , has changed hands at 25 s ., and 480 lbs . in bond . Thc Town ' s millers and dealers have taken to a moderate extent of both •• _Jih . ea . i and _fmx , _pacing an advance on Tuesday ' s prices of 3 d . to 4 d . per bushel on old , and about 2 s : per bushel on Irish new wheat . An improvement of 2 s . per sack and brl . has been obtained ou flour . Oats and oatmeal have each been in request ; the former has advanced 2 d . per bushel ,

      and meal about 2 d . per load . The market has been well cleared of peas , at an advance of 4 s . to 6 s . per Of . Barley is Md for higher prices , but the demand has been only limited . Beans and Indian corn have each commanded only 2 s . per qr . more money , Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , _Skpt , 20 . —The weather during the week having been exceedingly wet and unfavourable for securing the late harvest , caused an . animated demand to be experienced for flour , the stocks of which article in first hands being , in consequence , reduced to a narrow compass , factors were enabled to realize a material advance on the previous _cim-ency . For both oats andoatmeal

      > there was likewise a better inquiry , at improved rates . At our market this morning , the weather having assumed a more settled appearance , there was less excitement in the trade . A fair amount of business , however , occurred in whcaV and all descriptions must be noted 3 d . to 4 d . per 701 _bs . dearer . Flour , continuing in steady request , _warnumded . an enhancement on the rates obtamableou this day aa a nieht of 2 s . to 3 s . per sack on good middling qualities and Is . to 2 s . on extra-superfine sorts . Oats were held firmly for an advance of Id . per 451 bs . ; and oat . meal , meeting a good inquiry , was My Is , per load higher . .

      _„ _ . Richmond Cork Market , Sepi . 20 . —We lad a fair supply of grain in our market to-day . Wheat sold from 7 s . to 8 s .: 6 d . ; oats , 3 s . to 4 s . ; barley , to . t © _4 s . Oi , ; beans , 5 s , 3 d . to 5 s . _6 d . per bushel .

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      To the Bkutal and 'U . wbikcipxed—a CAitD .--Any person desirous of gratifying his brutal _propensities earning , at the same time , a handsome maintenance , has now an opportunity of obtaining permanent employment as master of a union workhouse . . ¦ _peculation within tolerably wide limits-will be winked at , and every facility will _bs afforded to elude detection , and , in case of exposure , punishment . A handsome retainer is also offered to any barrister , expert ill bullying and insulting witnesses , . and ready , it <* aue upon , to act in a judicial capacity , and to blend therewith his forensic function , according to the instructions of his employers . For particulars apply at a certain office , Somerset House .-r-PiwicA .

      A Good Day ' s Sport . —Wo understand several of the civic companies have invited Prince Albert to a day ' s sport in the city . TllCV have offered to collccfc in the area of the Stock Exchange all the bulls and bears that are in the habit of prowling about the neighbourhood . As soon as these are despatched , a number of desperate Stags , that have been brought up expressly by thc railways , will be driven fl'OW Capel-court into the interior , and his lloyal Highness will be armed with unlimited power to hunt down as many as he p leases . The lame ducks of the city will be reserved for the last , as au especial treat . The large room at Llovd ' s has been fitted up handsomely for the occasion , so that his Royal _IligllllCSS Will bfl put to no inconvenience or fatigue , iu firing at his leisure from a magnificent throne erected at the largest window . Weippert _' s band will be in attendance . In fact , nothing has been neglected to make this " civic battue" worthy of the noble _guestfot whom it has been provided .- —ibid _.

      Burning Africa . —The . French papers , published iu Africa , hint very strongly that it is Marshal Bugeaud ' s ambition to be crowned Monarch of Algiers . As he will want a title , we suggest he will be called " tho Fire-Kin g of Algeria . "

      A DA 1 NTT DISH TO SET _BUFOTiE A QUEEN . Sing a song of Gotha—a pocket-full of rye , Eight-and . forty timid deer driven in to die ; When tho sport was open'd , all bleediug they wore seen—Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before a Quccu ? The Queen sat in her easy chair , and look'd as sweet as honey : The Prince was shooting at the deer , in weather bright and sunny ; The hands were playing _Polkai ) . drcss'd in green and golden clothes ; The nobles cut the poor deer ' s throats , aud that is al Punch knows !

      A I \ ew Politioal Dictionary . —Advocate , from the Latin words ad , , and wcarc _, to call ; because _ftR advocate is at the call of any one who needs his services . Tho early Roman advocates professed , to plead gratuitously , but some of them were soon detected in taking fees indirectly , by making no charge , but " leaving it to thc generosity" of their employers . Clients were "expected" to give something to ; the advocate , and were no doubt considered to have acted shabbily if they shirked it ; so that at last a regular charge was made , and some ofthe Roman barristers used to receive so much a head from as many as . chose to take shares in these joint-stock advocates . At length the gentlemen of the Roman long-robe became greedy , and it was found necessary

      to limit their fees , the maximum of which was fixed at ten thousand sestertii , which the classical student may at his leisure reduce to _six-and-eightpences . The advocates were paid generally in oases , or brass , and they paid those asses their clients usually in tha same metal . The fees were always payable before the cause was pleaded ; and it was a rule that if the advocate died , or did not , or could not , or would not , attend to his duties , the sum he had received was in no case to bc given back again . "No money returned" was the motto ofthe Roman as well as ofthe English barrister . —Agent , is _a-gent acting for another gent , and is derived trom the Latin word agens , doing , because an agent is often doing his principal . — —Agrarian Laws related to the public lands ; and Spurius Oassius . who was called spurious to

      distinguish him . from the genuine Oassius , - was the hrst poor man ' s friend who proposed an agrarian law ; for which piece of patriotism he was tried , condemned , and put to death in no time . Subsequently , Sempronius Gracchus , who was the Lord Ashley of his day , carried an agrarian law founded on the small allotment system ; and he waa murdered in an election row , as a reward for his good intentions . His brother , Oaius Gracchus , who wished to see the poor settled on their own land , got settled himself , in a shindy , when putting up for the tribuneship . Other Roman radicals passed agrarian laws , but Radicalism was so unfashionable that its adherents got assassinated very rapidly . The professed object ofthe agrarian law was to divide the public land among the poor , so that every Roman should grow his own cabbage , as the people of Cos reared their own lettuces , — Bid .

      _ArrnoFULViE Decoratioks . — A showy lino ot weathercocks has been erected along the new Eouses of Parliament . We detected " speaking likenesses" of particular members in many of them . In one wa perfectly traced the profile of Lord Brougham , and in . another the wig of the present Lord Chancellor . This new style of portraiture is capitally adapted to such a building ; and as it is closely allied to the Gothic , it is perfectl y in character with the other features that are prominent in the decorations ' of the future St . Stephen ' s . —Ibid .

      The _Saxe-Goiua _Botcherv . —A bad excuse , say the expediency-mongers , is better than none at all . " A slavish writer in the slavish Herald , " says a contemporary , " sneakingly apologises for the conduct of our Queen , by saying that she was the guest ofthe chief slaughterman at Gotha , and was tlierefOl'O obliged to be present at the sport lie had provided for her entertainment . " If we were invited to take a chop with Giblett , the butcher , surely wo should not be expected to visit his slaughter-house . '

      THE ANDOVER DON" GIOVANNI , Scene , —Grand Banquetling Hall in the Workhouse . —Don Giovanni and the Ladies ofthe Court ( yardJ are discovered . Grand Chorus—Omnes . Merrily pass tho thick soup round , Quaff thc pump in sparkling measure , Love and _shillagalee abound , Give the night to joy aud pleasure , Blest communion , Here ' s the union , Such a master is a treasure . fDa Capo .

      Solo . —Doit _GiODawu . Come , place thy hand in mine , love , And gently whisper " yes , " Those beauteous eyes divine , love , Were meant hut mine to bless . No more the dull mop twirling _. Or the greasy dishclout furling , With the streams thus early purling , J my suit with rapture press ' . Chorus of Paupers fvnthoul ) . Grind and grizzle and grizzle nnd grind , Bones may ache hut a dinner they find , We envy the rain , for that can mizzle , Whilst we are doomed to grind and grizzle .

      _JRecitaUne . —enwcmm . In vain they pick and choose—I say , _tojdke 'em , They know they cannot choose hut pick the oakum . Such joys with my seraglio I share ' em , And nothing shall from this my harem scare ' em , . Air . Ah 1 what meanB this sudden darkness , Sure somo danger hovers near—Yes , my race I see is ended , Furies ! can the truth appear ! ( Gong sounds . The Power of Investigation rises in a blase of blue fire and red tape , with demon reporters in the distance ) Chorus of Demons . Don Giovanni , get out , get out , Don Giovanni , get out . ( Grand Tableau of Public Exposure and General Indig nation . ) Joe Miller .

      Tiuvbllino in "Less than no Time . "—Her Majesty is apparently resolved , if , during her mania for travelling , she should ever visit the desert , not to bo overtaken by the Simoon . At least we should so conclude , judging from the announcement to the effect that last Saturday the opening of " her Majesty ' s Railway took place at Go 3 port . " This railway extends from the terminus of the South Western line at Gosport , to the Royal _Clarenco Victualling Establishment , and is intended to facilitate the Royal visits to the Isle of Wight . The rail passes through the fortifications , and is about sis

      hundred yards long I and it was kindly suggested by Prince Albert . Its costis a mere trifle , only £ 8000 ! 1 After this we may not despair of seeing a miniature railroad laid down in the large banqueting room of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle , for the convenience of the Queen ' s children , in order to _sava the dreadful fatigue of a walk . We hoar—but can scarcely credit the rumour— -that a tunnel similar t <» that of Mr . Brunei under the Thames , is in contemplation from Portsmouth harbour to Osborne Hous _» , in the Isle of Wight direct ; and it is further said , that nothing but nature herself can "throw cola water" on the scheme . —Ibid .

      A _iiosi Exciting New _Jcvruai _,. — Speedily will be published , No . 1 of a new daily paper , to be ontitled , " The People ' s Illustrated Railway and Steam-boat Accident Chronicle . " This journal will be exclusively devoted to matters connected with accidents on railways or steam-boats in every part of the globe ; and will contain tho fullest and truest accounts of the latest catastrophes up to the noment of going to press ; together with lives and portraits of tiie kffleo and wounded , and reports of the inquests held on the former . It will be published early every morning , profusely illustrated with engravings on wood , representing the latest collisions , explosions , scattering of limbs , boilings alive , or other _catas « trophes on land or water * , and will consist of 32 closely-printed columns , a great press of matter being expected . To friends of travellers thin journal wUlheof the deepest interest , as affording autheatift memorial * of the \ m moments * , of the departea \~ _fo

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 27, 1845, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_27091845/page/3/