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      _January 30 , 1847 . THE NORTHERN STAR , 3 _>

      To The Queen. Bt Em Esi Jokes. Soar Palf...

      TO THE QUEEN . BT EM ESI JOKES . Soar palfries are _praTtc " . _^ , your people are pining , The * Palace and Bastile in rivalry tower : Hemrrnber I the greatest gold crown ever shining Tbe breath of a people can blight in an hour . Your sycophants ranged round the foot of the throne May call yon the Queen of the deep sounding sea , The high-bounding billows would break at the tone . Yoa are not—yoa are not the _Q- _' e « n ofthe free . Butwere vou an exilelike Edward or James ,

      , , Which of your courtiers would think of youthen ? Where would you find all jour Bishops aud Thanes « Queen of fat horses , and pale starving men . ' What care we , if Marshal . » i * d Prelate , and Peer , Gird yoa around , like a cold , living wall ! If yoa tell u « onr cry never readies yonr ears , Writ gire yon some ttuader , « haU ring through them all . '

      Up For Free Land. "Ob! God's Earth Is Fa...

      UP FOR FREE LAND . "Ob ! God ' s earth is fair ! and a glimpse jou . may catch , As y _» u peer o ' er the wa'l of some neighbouring Park , Ot Lawn , Grove , and Paddock;—but lift not a latch , Or be torn by the Djgs at your footsteps that hark ! Sweet valley and glade—beaiteous lake , stream , and rirer , _Bestod ev ' ry turn in our evergreen isle;—fe have fttard they are lovely , but glance at them never , Sat e y _« ked—like scorned beasts—to unrecompensed toil !" "Crawl on , ye vile slaves ! not * sod is yonr own , Of the toil where your fathers coursed fire * ai the

      ur ; No t a bird dare yoa shoot , where tbeir footsteps hare f . own , Not a fish dare yoa draw from the streams that were theirsl With yo ur sweat your Land-robbsrs their ' scutcheons adorn , And would coin your beats _' -blood , as your hearts they have riven ! If you ask for FkEE usd-they refuse it with scorn ;—if v . ju bow _t-j their will , you deserve it , by Heaven !

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      THE WESTMINSTER ASD FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . Jaxcart . 1847 , London G . Luxford , _Whitefriars Street . The only political article contained" In this number of the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review , ia oa " thr * Spanish Marriages , " which has at feast oae good feature , itsjbrevity , —the briefer the better _considerine the interminable " leaders , " diplomatic letters ana * ( now ) speeches on both sides of the channel which have poured upon us and yet continue to pour . " In one weak , w _*» sby , everlasting flood . "

      toother good feature of this article may be named , the spirit in which it is written , that spirit being decided _acti-PaJmeKtonian . ' The articleexposes the _ftllvof our government ¦ meddling witb thk marriage affair at ill , and the wickedness of any warlike demonstration which might grow out of this absurd _meddling . If we have any fault to find with the reviewer , it is that he has dealt too leniently with Louis Philippe . In exposing the meddling of Lord Palmerston the writer inthe Westminster has done well , had be added a castigation of tbat king of knaves , Louis Philippe , he wonld have done still bettter . We Biust express our regret that the confiscation of Cracow has _-een _passed over by the writers in the _Weminner , which is also , be it remembered , tbe

      Foreim Quarterly Review ; such a subject should have found a principal place in such a publication . We _earnestly _sags-eat to the able writers in this rork to make not merely Cracow , but the whole question of Poland ' s nationality , a leading feature of their next number . This Polish question is a verv diff rent affair to tbat ofthe Montpensier marriage . With the latter , the English people have no business , with the former they have every business . The Spanish marriages is a question of court-intrigue , and diplomatic thimble-rigging , which it is the interest ot the people of this country to wash their hands of ; but the existence oi Poland is a question of tbe utmost imoortance . not onlv to the Poles , but to the people

      of every other land . A nation cannot be blotted out of existence without a deadly injury being inflicted upon other nations . Thetimehasnow come when the whole question of Poland ' s _existence must be revived , a ad most be settled at any cost . Yes , we say it deliberately , witb a foil consciousness of ihe evils ol war , that even war would he justifiable ; and we must add our belief that ere long that "last argument , " wiil be seen to be unavoidable , not only for the sake of Poland , bnt for the welfare of this country , and tie general interests ofb . u , tt * a _* ii * . y . Universal peace fanatics , may preach the speedy coming of their _Biiieniura , but nothing is surer than this , that the longer the struggle beUeen the nations sad the tyrants is put off , tbe bloodier will that struggle be when it does come and the more afflicting tothepe * p . eof all lands . We are not advocates of

      war ; rather than a single shot should have _^ been Sred in anger , we would have justified the British _go-Terameivt in vielding every inch of the Oregon terriforv , and _asregards the Montpensier marriage , if Louis Philippe had a hundred sons he might marry them to whom he pleased before we would back Lord Palmerston ' s negative by any warlike support ; but » glance at the map of Europe satisfies us thatthe time has come when the government of this country should contest the march of absolutism ;' . if ministers wi il not do their duty the people must do theirs , HEd this will be . Nof immediately perhaps ; but ere long . The land which produced Cromwell will not forever remain tbe" accomplice ofthe vile tyrants , Russia , Austria , and Prussia ; it would be treason to England to believe her capable of a part so vile , So fraught with dishonour and self-destruction .

      The principal artic e in the present number of the _ti ' utmiuster i- on the * ' Revelations ofthe Telescope ;" a more lucid , eloqoent , and in every respect truly ad-Q irable article it has never been our good fortune to aad . We give the following extracts : — ASTBON 0 HT . Of all the physical sciences , that which investigates lis laws of surrounding planets — which extends the » ie _» t £ of man to other spheres of existence , those " multif ' utd massi s of increaned and still increasing light , _"Astronomy—unquestionably is tbe most spiritualicing :

      .-men-plated as one grand whole as it is the most _beautiful _monument of tbe human mind , the most noble retard of its intelligence , * * * _^ 1 : re veals to as the growth as well as the decay of suns _lai _planttiaj systems ; it _cavvina lis into infin ty and "Tires _ua umi faint conception of the stupendous _magnitude of an universe , where suns like our own may be reckoned by millions , and where the planets which roll round them are beyond all our powers of vision ; it shows _** . * that the whole system to which our planet belongs it _•>**! a sub _iriina _' e unit in a firmament of stars—that _fcaanieat bnt one among m « iy ; which , as vast in size tai a ? glorious as our own , are scattered indefinitely

      _throug h _itntottrtVty _, forming , doubtless , one stupendous s' *" em , bound together by fine relationships ; these * - ' _* _namcats , however , placed so deep in space that to inferior _telescopes they seem like faint streaks or spots of silky liquid upon the blue of the sky ; and the aggregate of these not yet the whole , for , beyond the regions that •" ire been penetrated by the telescope , there yet may "" " ¦ etch an undiscovered infiiity . And aa we survey a _^ ie ma rvellous truths , we are lost in the feeling of _easr-ensiiy and of the comparative insignificance of this globe aad its millions of inhabitants . Bat this is soon _f-U ' jKfcd by a seme of gratification , gratitude and winder , thu to us has been permitted such a know-• _elge of thi * . unbounded sjstejn _. ofthe universe . * *

      The infinite extent of this field , where no bounds can be at to our speculations , peculiarly shows the pre-eminence -if astronomy among all other pursuits of human wisdom . _k _tnetaplijsics , in literature , in the arts , Ignorant as we _jet _e , we can assign limits , and supply , ia imagination at ! s _* eit , all th 3 t may be wanting to perfection ; bnt , in the * _-rUs of nature , beyond our power of scrutiny , we see _*^ end to onr inquiries ; we perceive only the littleness w _n-ao _, aa _tj , e nothingness aad vanity of all his boasted "• _'taintnttttt . fhe reviewer traees the history of astronomy from »••* ancient Chaldeans , Chinese , Egyptians , and Infl _* ias , to the present time . Of course , a consider-**' . < e portion 01 the article is devoted to the _sub-»* Ktot '

      LOUD BOBiE _' _s TELESCOPE . It is net tssy to compare Lord Eosie ' s telescopes with "Jast _instraments , inasmuch as their various relative ' e' _-Jit _iti would require tobe ascertained by direct _ex-^ _- _"" ¦ n t ; bat if , as seems fully established , his Lord' _'«'» _tlirtt feet speculum is much _superior in space . _e-- _* ttiaVHig puwer to the larges disc in possession of his _// . _?' . *' t' '* _56 or , we shall be obliged to endow the six - _' , '' - _" "" _'Jr with an efficacy to pass without difficulty - * - * "lace at least five hundred time * further than is

      , ' _|" . •''' _inassii-ted vision : in other words , it will _des-^ . a singlt itar MOO times more remote tban an average j . _'"'**¦ _•* " ¦ * i ** t magnitude ; or , though it were separated ' -m _ourab _. _M _Jes by au interval so tremendous that , were _t . 7 _\ ' *"" a simi ' distance created now , its light , _l- . ]" ' i '! its velocity be next to inconceivable , wonld , * ¦" ** _^''' _-J-J _^ li the intervening 'paces probably for more _« V _-V"' _" " ¦¦ "¦ " *• ' *'' - * ' years , ere , by reaching this earth , it i " ' ! t _*'' of anew existence having been _gumuiouedfrom ' -- _v-ji - _,

      t-m 1 ? , - _*" _U extracted from Dr . Kichol _' s ** Sys-IV Wor ] d _* " The Reviewer adds : — .., 4 ! i ' _* - ¦> . < " any possibility , form any conception of dis-}• "" _' r _tt' _- _'inittus ? In round numbers it may be said , ,. ' ¦ " , * . _' * > * - _* _s ut the rate of ll » 2 , 000 miles in a second , 4 dit "' ' l" ' Tfoim * ils _ji-ume-y from the sun to the earth , _"• _"tvii / W millious 0 f miles , in about eight minutes

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      And yet , by this iutrument we are informed , that there are stars and systems so distant , that the ray of light which imping * on the eye # f their observer , and enable--him to detect it , issued from that orb sixty thousand year * back . Thus , while we gaze upon that star , we view it not as it may exist at present , but as it did exist many thousand years ago . Such an idea takes us back into an eternity of time , in whieh the mind loses itself as in a dream . The following notice of M . Le Verrier ' s recent discovery is interesting : •—

      THB NEW PUNKT . Its present distance , _expretsed in common measure , is about 3 . 200 , 000 . 000 " English _milesj from the sun , and about 3 , 100 , 000 . 000 from the earth . Its distance from Uranus , whose motions its disturbs , is about 140 , 000 , 000 of miles . Its diameter is estimated at 50 , 000 miles , that of Uranus being 33 , 000 , of Jupiter 86 , 000 , of Saturn " 9 , 000 , of the earth 8 , 000 , while the diameters of the other planets are less than that of the earth . Thus , with the exception of Jupiter and Saturn , the new _plaTVct is tite the large « t in oar system . Its cubic balk is to that of the earth as 2159 to 1 . That the planets are _inhabited there is every reason to believe , for that they have nights and days , and regulated seasons , with * other conditions necessary for the existence of animated creatures , is proved beyond doubt . Of this the most striking illustration is afforded by

      THE PLANET MARS . Baer and Maedkr . two Prussian astronomers , have _devoted many years' labour to the examination of Mars , and the result has put us in possession ofa map of the geography of that planet , almost as exact and well d » - _finsdai that which we possess of our own ; in fact , the geographical outlines of land aud water have been made apparent upon it . But a still more extraordinary fact in relation to this planet remains to he considered . Among tbe shaded markings which have been noted by the telescope upon its disc , a remarkable region ot brilliant white light , standing out in boldest relief , has been observed surrounding the visible pol » . This highly illuminated spot is to be seen most plainly when it emerges from the looe night of the winter season ; but when it has passed

      slowly _beiteath the heat of the solar beams , it is found to have gradually contracted its dimensions , and at last , before it has plunged into light on the opposite side , to hare entirely disappeared . But tbe opposite pole , then coming into similar relations , is found to be furnished with a like luminous spot , which , in its turn , dissolves as it becomes heated by the summer sun . l " ow these facts prove to us , _incontestibly , that the very geographical regions of Mars are facsimiles © four own . In its long polar winters the snows accumulated in the desolation of its high northern and southern latitudes , until they become visible to us in consequence ot their reflective properties ; and these are . slowly melted as the sun ' s rays gather power in the advancing season , until they cease be to appreciable to terrestrial eyes .

      llere is a brief description , as seen through Lord Rosse ' s telescope , of

      tbb uoo . v . It appeared like a globe of molten silver , and every object of the extent of 100 yards was quite visible . Edifices _, therefore , ofthe size of York Minster , or even of the ruins of Whitby Abbey , mi _*} ht be easUy perceived if they bad existed . But there Was no appearance of any thing of tbat nature ; neither was there any indication of the existence of water , or of an atmosphere . There was avast number of extinct volcanoes , several miles in breadth ; through one of them there was a line , in con . tinuancc of one about 150 miles in length , which ran in a _straight direction like a railway . The general appearance , bowever . was like one vaBt ruin of nature ; and many of the pieces oi rock , driven out of the volcanoes , appeared to be laid at various distances .

      We must forbear to quote further from this delightful article . We pass on to Grote ' _s " History of Greece . " In this article , the principal subject discussed is the authorship of " The Homeric Poems , " aud strong doubt is expressed of the truth of the popular belief tbat these poems were _exclusively tbe work of Iloraer , or of any one man . " I've heard , " says Byron , " I ' ve heard _Tmy doubted , time will doubt of Rome . " Here we have Homer doubted . Who will say that when Shakespeare ' s dramas have attained the present age of Homer ' s poems , that there wil' not be critics " argufying" that Hamlet , Othello , Lear , _& n 4 . Macbeth , were written by different authors ? At least tbat the comedies were not written by the author of the

      tragedies . Indeed , without anticipating critical discussions of two thousand years hence , we may state that an intimate friend of ours gravely assured us not long since , that he was quite prepared to strip the one Shakespeare ot hia glory , by proving tbat the socalled "Shakespeare Plays , " were the production of a number of authors ; and that Shakespeare had monopolised the fame which belongs of right to many . We laughed at our friend , and advised him to keep his criticisms to himself . Our friend has evidently commenced his critical labours some two thousand years too soon ; but let him take consolation , the time will no doubt come , when Shakespeare will be subjected to the dissection now performed en the remains of Homer .

      "A History of British Ferns , " is a pleasing and instructive articles . An elaborate review of Carlyle _' s collection of " Oliver Cromwell' s Letters and Speeches , " follows . The reviewer backs up the biographer in his glorification of tbe great Commonwealthsmau . " Uo that can suppose , " says the reviewer , "Cromwell a hypocrite , after reading these letters and speeches , could not be persuaded that Charles the First was a lover of his kingly perogatives , or tbat _Falstaff was sincere in his liking for sack . " Acquitting Cromwell

      oi the charge of hypocrisy , we cannot regard him as a friend to true liberty ; he was too fond of power tor that . His persecution ofthe " levellers , " whose doctrinesthe Reviewer christens " premature Chartism , " showed him a thorough despot . His idea of rule seems to bave _beei what is called - * a strong government . " With all his psalm-singing bigotry , and Jew-taught recklessness of blood-shedding , he was , however , by far the nob ' est of despots which revolutions have produced . Being a despot , he was no Washington ; but although a despot , he was far above Napoleon in all that constitutes " greatness . "

      In the way he dealt with enemies abroad , wecould wish we had his spirit back again to influence the councils of onr foreign office . The question of the liberation of central and Eastern Europe would soon be decided had we a has or the people instead ofa dandy aristecratto proclaim the _. world ' s right through the voice of England ' s might . " Travels in Lycia . " and " Bankruptcy and Insolvency , " are the subjects of interesting articles . Any young fellow inclined to "Risk his nob , Like Solomon Lob , All for martial glory . "

      will do well to read the excellent renew in this publication of the " Camp and Barrack-rooom ; or , the British army as it is . " If " standing armies " are to continue , at least for a time , surely such exposures as those contained in the above-named work will result in an amelioration of tbe present degraded condition of the soldiery . There is no class of men in the empire more interested in a radical reform of the government of tbis country than the army—that is , the working portion . Among the reviews of foreign works , we have ** The Countess Hahn Hahn _' s Last Novels ; " Gutzkow ' s " Letters from Paris , " and " Impressions of

      Paris ; " " Von Littrow ' s Miscellaneous Writings , " & c-, & c . Finally , a host of brief critical notices of new publications concludes the number . Some very interesting extracts are given from Gutzkow ' s works , which describe the _hollowr-ess and instability of tbe present _oider of things in France . The monarchy , the chambers , iu short the whole framework of political society in _trance , is represented inthe light ot an " organised hypocrisy , " and it is clear cannot for long continue . Being in * Paris at the time of Lecomte's attempt on the King ' s life , _t ' uUkow ' was astonished to see tbe apathy manifested by the public , llere is a ludicrous exhibition oi

      locis Philippe ' s _PorutABrrr ! People say that the king is much beloved in Paris . I will not rontest the point , 1 will not discuss the opinion of his political opponents , who call him a traitor to the maxims and men who put him on the throne ; and I will even say that it is not to be expected of a man ot bis years , and whose course of life has been such as his , tbat he should wear the poetic , grand , and genial physiognomy which unhappily we so sorely miss in almost all living sovereigns . I repeat , tbat all _Parisans who live iu dread of _emeules , of tbe breaking of their shop-windows , and ef tbe reduction of the rate of interest , behold in the king their staunehest support . He i 3 liked , therefore ; but this I can aver , that the expression of that liking is the coldest and tamest that ever was witnessed .

      It was the first of May , the king ' s / et « day ; tho weather beautiful . A heavy rain had quickened the vegetation in the garden of the Tuileries , and filled the air with the fragrance of the blossoming trees . A soft moonlight evening followed ; the king was to appear in the balcony of the chateau , and more than ten thousand persons had been admitted by special tickets into the smaller garden . The regimental bands played under the balcony . At last appeared the king , who so recently had had another escape from assassination . With him were his two grandsons , the Comte de Paris and the Due de Cbartres , and the _lluchess of Orleans now and then joined the party . In the ministerial papers appeared the following statement : — " Immense acclamations filled the air . Never was the royal family so received ; never were the cries of _K'e-e fe Roi ! so prolonged and vehement . Enthusiasm was carried to the hi ghest pitch . "

      Xot one word of this is true . The vast crowd was silent _f-jra whole hour . The king appeared iu military uniform , with a three-cocked hat , a tall _. _guunt figure , altogether unlike the usual stout , plump , portraits of him , with white whiskers , and the infirm carriage of a vety old man , for whom «* e felt twofold compassion in presence of that cold insensible crowd . Not a man of them raised his hat . whilst ths king was incessantly taking his off and bowing . Three or four persons , _commissioned for the purpose , _i-houteJ _1 'ite ' k Roi ! So one responded to the cry ; the king sat down . Sentinels were _pested , of course nith loaded weapons , on all the adjacaut " roofs and galleries , for it was a daring act ofthe king ' s to ex

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      * ¦ ose himself so openly . His little grandsons , designated , in the official newspaper style , _ravditir de la France , beat time to the music . Ths king encouraged them to do so ; it gave them a gay , saucy , perhaps martial , appearance . It lasted much too long for a spontaneous impulse , this time-beating ; childreu soon tire of such sports , but the Comte de Paris durst not cease , he was obliged to work on unceasingly at his enforced musical programme . The Duchess of Orleans , wbo has learnt , what is called in France s ' effacer , to make herself small , did not remain long on the balcony , hut slipped away as soon as she could . But the "immutable thought " Ipensee inimitable ) h _< Id on . The claqueurs of the police again shouted Kire le Roil Again he stood up , took off his hat , and bowed smilingly . Dead silence as before , no response . Vive la Peine ' , some one shouted , and still _thsre was silence , and when at last the try was given out of _Vreele Comf « de Parisl the farce was dissolved in laughter . And this was the scene » t which the _Jeiunia * _ettt Pebats said , "Immense acclamations filled the air , " & c _.

      So much of Paris as was not present , the provinces , the electors , foreign nations and foreign courts believe these words . When I recounted what I bad seen to a baaker , he answered coolly " People do not shout in France . When there is no hissing , it is just the same as if every one _hadshoated . " This , I own , astounded me . Our warm , _strongbsating Gsrman heart ! Our enthusiasm for all we love and reverence ! The Ma » e Frenchman lets the _elagt-enr shout , and joins tacitly in the applause , inasmuch as he does not hiss . I should like to know whether Louis Philippe views the matter in the _sams light as does his banker . Would not a little more love and affection be welcome to him after another attempt on his life t Or do we Germans take too sentimental a view of such matters f It may be so ; for , while we were thus reflecting , one of our party had his pocket nicked .

      A word of ad vice to Karl Gufakow and his reviewer . Both these gentlemen write very flippantly concerning " Communism , " about which it is evident they know little or nothing , unless , indeed , what we are unwilling to believe , they wilfully misrepresent the "faith" of the Social Reformers of France . Karl _Gutzkow may be a very " sober , sagacious , practical" man , and "the most remarkable of living German authors ( ?) " but he does not give the best evidence of deserving these eulogiuras , when we f ind him denouncing Communism as a " craving for enjoyment without labour . " It certainly is the height of shallow impudence to attempt to affix to Communism the odium which justly attaches to the present social system . It is under the present system that hordes of idlers reap enjoyments without

      labour ; and this evil—the cause of the misery of the many—has called forth Cimmtinism , which aims not at securing for its _votaries enjoyments without labour , but enforcing labour upon all , and securing enjoyments for all . That labour and rewards should be as near as possible equalised , is the creed of thc Communists . It is not necessary for us , now , _toexpress our views as to the practicability or desireability of Communism , it is enough for us that , seeing a noble-minded body of men calumniated , we offer this passing remark in their defence . Very clever writers and reviewers may , be ignorant of some things ; and the most charitable construction we can put upon the misrepresentations put forth by Gutzkow and the Westminster Reviewer is , to suppose that " they know not what they do . "

      On the whole , we have read this number of the _lrejtminster and Foreign Review with much pleasure , and shall best express our sense of its merits by declaring the truth—that arrived at ths last page , we regret that there is not more ofa work which , in a single number contains some three hundred and twenty pages .

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      TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE . _Jiswrt . Edinburgh : Sutherland and Knox . London Simpkin , Marshall , and Co . This long-established and popular magazine has changed hands . Mr . Tait ' s name no longer appears on the cover as proprietor and publisher , but in all other respects we note no change . The principal articles are" A Visit to Auch Melvich , "Life and Correspondence of John Foster , " "Notes on Walter Savage Landor _, " and some articles on Ireland . The " Notes" on Landor arc by that odd fish of a writer , De Quincey , who surely must have returned to opium eating , in no other way can we account for his outrageous " funnings . _' Of course there is a

      pretty considerable quantity of good sense associated with his nonsense , and from the sensible portion of his Notes we select the only extract for which we can afford room . Savage Landor in his " imaginary dialogues" introduces "Marshal _Bugeaud and an Arab Chieftain , " and the subject of their discourse is that infernal and ever-to-be-execrated atrocity the roasting and suffocating ofthe unhappy Arabs in the caves of Dahra . After properly denouncing that horrible act , De _Qtiincey reminds his readers of an act , to say the least , equally deserving of being held in eternal abhorrence , perpetrated by command of Buonaparte , the account of which we shall here introduce as

      ONE OF THE BIOOM DEEDS OF THE TYRANT NAFOLEOM . Just forty-seven years ago , on the shores of Syria , was celebrated by Napoleon Bonapart , the most damnable carnival of murder that romance bas fabled , or that history has recorded . Rather more than four thousand men—not ( like Tjrolese or Spanish guerrillas ) even in pretence " insurgent rustics , " but regular troops , serving the Pacba and tbe Ottoman Sultan , not old men that might by odd fractions have been thankful for dismissal from a life of care or sorrow , but all young Albanians , in the early morning of manhood , the oldest not twentyfour—were exterminated by successive rolls of musketry , when helpless as infants , having their arms pinioned behind their backs like felons on tbe scaffold , and having surrendered their muskets ( which else would have made

      so desperate a resistance ) on tbe faith tbat they were dealing with soldiers and men of honour , I have elsewhere examined , as a question in casuistry , the frivolous pretences for this infamous carnage , hut that examination 1 have here no wi ' 9 h to repeat ; for it would draw off the attention from one feature of the case , which I desire to bring before the reader , giving to this Jaffa tragedy a depth of atrocity wanting in that of Dahra . Tbe fonr thousand and odd young Albanians had been seduced , trepanned , fraudulently decoyed , from a post of considerable strength , in wbich thty could and would have sold their lives at a bloody rate , by a solemn promise of safety from authorized French officers . "But , " said Napoleon , _injpart of excuse , "these men , my aides-decamp , were poltroons : to save their own lives , they made promises which they ought not to have made . " Suppose it so ; and suppose the case one in which the supreme authority has a right to disavow his agents ; what then ? This entitles that authority to refuse his ratification to

      the terms agreed on ; but tbis , at the same time , obliges bim to replace the hostile parties in the advantages from which his agents had wiled them by these terms . A robber , who even owns himself such , will not pretend that be may refuse the price of tbe jewel as exorbitant _, and yet keep possession of the jewel . And next comes a fraudulent advantage , not obtained by a knavery in the aidsde-eamp , but in the leader himself . The surrender ofthe weapons , and the submission to the fettering of the arms , were not concessions from the Albanians , filched by the representatives af Napoleon , acting ( -is he says ) without orders , but by express falsehoods , emanating from himself . The officer commanding at Dahra could not have reached his enemy without the shocking resource which he employed * . Napoleon could . The officer at Dahra violated no covenant : Napoleon did . The officer at Dahra had not by lies seduced his victims from their natural advantages : Napoleon had . Such was the atrocity of Jaffa in the _yenr 1799 .

      Aware of the blind and brutal prejudice which in other countries , besides France , has invested the name of Napoleon with a popularity which that tyrant never deserved ; we consider it a . duty , when opportunity offers , to expose his real character . The horrible atrocity above described stamps bis name with eternal infamy . This number of Tait ' s _Magazine commences a new volume and affords a favourable opportunity to new subscribers to inform themselves ofits merits .

      Louis Philippe's Speech . (From The Dome...

      LOUIS PHILIPPE'S SPEECH . ( From The Domestic Monitor , published by E . Ifuckenxies , 111 , Fleet-street . ) Infatuated king 1—great is his power , now ! immense his wealth ! greater his cunning ! Yet all his schemes are doomed to vanish like glittering metors ! To fix the destiny of a nation is not in the power ot man ; nor is Louis Philippe the man capable of carrying out such plans . Be is too old and cautions ; and when his heur is come , —when the part which Providence has allowed him to play is at an end , the liberty of the press will once more call into action the generous feeling of those among the French nation whom his gold has not corrupted ; and the cordial understanding which under Louis Philippe had existed for a few moments enly , as a diplomatic fiction , will be renewed for ever , as a sacred alliance of two nations , whose mission is to destroy , at home and abroad , absolute despotism ; and to _sBtablish all over the world the rights and privileges of the many .

      The subject , however upon winch 1 must principally ni the attention of our readers , is the manner in which he expresses himself concerning thc annexation of Cracow , He mentions the oceurreuce in his speech , and calls it * ' an unexpected event . " Unexpected , " indeed , when he—Louis Philippe—was one of the purtUs secretly engaged in sanctioning it . ' * * * * Louis-Philippe jfl ' ects to have boen cut to the quick when the '• unexpected " event was announced tohim , he—the gallant king—protested ! * ' Protested ! " Yes , and lie " protests " again iu his royal speech . The Austrian laughs at his protest , and keeps Cracow ! Nicholas turns Poland into a Russian province ' . Louis-Philippe makes a new alliance with the one , and protests against the other . What a comedy ! What duplicity ! what cowardice . '

      Had Louis-Philippe possessed a spark of generous royal feeling , instead of _cjiubiiij * his _--cribblers to draw up a contemptible protest , he would havo signified tu Austria , that , since it thought proper to seize Cracow , in spite of the treaty of Vienna , a French army would be ordered ta cross the Alps , and take possession of the provinces

      Louis Philippe's Speech . (From The Dome...

      which formed part of tbe kingdom of Italy , and were taken from France by the same treaty , Austria would have no other alternative but to _giva up Cracow , or to engage in a contest which would bave deprived it of most valuable possessions _. But the King of the French has made himself an Austrian and Russia ** tributary . Tim might take him for a Kussian or Austrian police officer in royal disguise . However , _Lonis-Philippe is not immortal . "' Mors aequo pulsatpede , " " Pauperum _tabernas regumquo turres . " Land of Sobieski and _Kosciusco , mourn not . Fragrant garden of Europe , birthplace of Dante and Michael Angelo , do not despair , the day of your liberation is not far . When France , once more free from the encroachments with which cunning corruption ha 9 retarded the development of its liberties , shall have joined in friendship with the freeborn children of England . The day will dawn for the emancipation of all white slaves in Europe , and you will bo rescued also from Austrian and Russian slavery .

      The War In Mexico. (Extract Frem Yoi-N^ ...

      THE WAR IN MEXICO . ( Extract frem _Yoi-n _^ America . ) _lACKtiHDEBS _WANTED—SSCOND CAU . Another regiment is colled for from Pennsylvania , and it is said that some companies have volunteered ! The lacklanders of Pennsylvania want light . The regiment from this state ( New York ) is not more than twothirds full , if it is that , and they can ' t get a regiment , for the purpose intended , from the old Teapot State ! Spread the doctrine that no lacklander should fight except for his right to the land !

      LET TBE _LASr-lOUDS ENLIST . A Washington _csrrespondent ofthe Evening Post says that in consequence ofthe difficulty of getting from some of the States their quota ofthe nine regiments of volunteers called for , it is _contemplated to call for another regiment from New York . This is glorious news , because itis but a short time since they were boasting in the papers that 300 , 000 men had volunteered for the war , and the indication is that tbe lacklanders are getting tbeir eyes open . Of course in communities where there are people actually starvinR to death , as in New York , there will always be necessitous men who will enlist af mercenaries ; but if all men had their right in the soil , none would be in this condition ; therefore no landless man who could keep life in him by any other means ought to enlist in any war , except such as would tend to secure the equal right to the soil ; tbe Mexican war is clearly not one of this kind , but the reverse .

      The managers of this war ( many of thera slaveholders and land speculators ) want the landless people of the United States to go and kill more of the landless people of Mexico men women , and children ; and if they don't want them to commit worse crimes than murder , why have they bought 66 , 000 gallons of whiskey for the army ! Much more sensible would it b » for the landless people of both countiies to unite and kill off land speculators ! I do not propose this , mind , by any means ; there is a much better way to get rid of land speculators than to kill tbem , which is to vote away their powers of mischief ; but I say It would be more rationnl and humane for land ess people to unite in killing off those who hare usurped their birthri ght than to kill each other for Seven dollars a month .

      " BE P U DI A TION . " TO THE B 0 IS . My Lads , —If you have read the President ' s Message yeu will see that he makes some calculations respecting the expenses of the war now going on with Mexico , and proposes to Congress to borrow twenty-three millions of dollars for 20 years If he should succeed in this , as 20 years is nure than the average life of voters , many _Ifeou would be taxed " your whole lifetime " to pay the interest of a dehi contracted for an unjust purpose , without having a word to say in the matter ; that is , if you ac-¦

      knowledge the debt when you come to vote . But ' taxation without representation " was one of tbe causes ofthe revolution , and a just one ; and it will be your right and duty to * ' repudiate " such a debt as soon as you vote for representatives . I should like to write you more at length on the subject of public debt aad interest , but have not room . Think of it . Those who make wars should take their own ptopetty , not yourB , to pay the expense _. Just calculate _baw many tax-eaters the interest of 23 , 000 , 000 dollars , at 6 per cent , would fasten upon you , at working men ' s wages , say 300 dollars a year . O . II . _EvaMb .

      The Ten Hours' Bill. Meeting At Manchest...

      THE TEN HOURS' BILL . MEETING AT MANCHESTER , On Thursday evening a crowded meeting was held at the Town Ilall , King . street , for the purpose of promoting the passing of a Ten Hours' Bill . The Right Hon . Lord Ashley ( with his son ) was present . The Rev . C . D . _Wrav , one of the canons of Manchester , presided . The Rev , W . Bleasdale , and Messrs . Greene , Lear , and Marsden , having addressed the meeting , and the usual resolutions having been passed ,

      The Right Hon . Lord AsM . 'ET then addressed the meeting at great length . He said : Gentlemen , we are again , they say , upon the threshold of a conflict , and your enemies would tell j'ou that you are upon the threshold of d _.-fu-et ; but , whatever may be your position , whether you are on the _threshold of success or defeat , I come here to exhort you to undying perseverance— ( ch » ers ) _- —and , whatever may be the result of this struggle , to appeal to you by every sentiment which you owe to your families , by every sentiment you owe to yourselve R and your country , to maintain this cause , _** a _cfluse whi _ch you all know and ever bave known to be a cnuso which is the most just , the most righteous , and the most honourable . ( Applause . ) My business is to urge upon jou the necessity of perseverance , to point out the degree nnd the mode of that perseverance ,

      whereby we _niny be able to obtain the great object we have in view . Now , as to the degreo of perseverance , let me exhort that that perseverance be absolute and without limit . Now , as to tbe mode of perseverance , you cannot do better than go on in ths way ia which you have begun . The mode in which you have begun has obtained fur you the approbation even of your enemies . Go on as you have begun : but in this one point let me give you my earnest counsel ; never be turned aside by any seduction or sophism from pursuing this object by the assistance ofthe stntutes of the realm . Look to Parliament ; conciliate the Legislature ; conciliate as you can , and make as many private arrangements as you _ctn _, towards the attainment of the objects in view with the master millowners ; but having made those private arrangements , go with them to the Legislature , ( Hear ,

      hear , heir . ) Without a law there is no security . ( Hear , hear . ) I cannot believe those who wish you to rest upon private _arrangsment—I cannot believe they are serious in their arguments . { Hear , hear , hear . ) And if they were serious , surely late events must make us cautious , when we read that several weeks ago , a number of _vaster millowners hsd met to consider the desirableness of putting their mills upon short time , and that even in the present state of difficulty they had separated without coming to a conclusion on the subject on which they were assembled . If they will not do that which is necessary for their own good in a period of difficulty like the present , you may be assured they never will be agreed in a period of prosperity upon that which is for your good . ( Hear , hear . ) If they will not do this thing at a period when there is no temptation to go wrong , do

      you think , fallible creatures as they are and as we all are , that in a period of prosperity they will put their limit on their machinery , which limit they tell jou will be Injurious to your own interests ? ( Hear , hear , ) Depend upon it you have no resource but the law . ( Cheers ) The law is your right -, to your right , therefore , make the appeal , and never rest till you have not only got an affirmation of the Ten Hours principle , but till you slmll have received tha sanction and the countenauce of tha statute law of the realm . ( Applause . ) The _speiker went on to show that the late measure of Corn Law repeal had given the Ten Hours advocate undeniable claims on the Free Traders . I recollect , said Lord Ashley , one of jour present _tnambers saying , " If I vote with the Noble Lord upon the present measure , will he follow me into tbe lobby on tbe corn measure V and he stated that his opinions were in favour ofa relaxation of the hours

      of labour . I have followed him into the lobby for the repeal of the Corn Law - , will he now follow—not tne , because I am no longer a member of the House of Commons—but _' will he follow your present leader , Mr , John Fielden , when he calls for the redemption of his pledges f I should have felt a double pang in resigning my seat in l _' urliament , as I did ia February last year—I should have felt a double pang in retiring from that honourable post of your representative ia the House of Commons had I not felt that in so doing , although I retired from the leadership , I was , so far as a _single effort could avail , advancing your cause by removing that which so many had said was a great and leading obstacle to the final relaxation of tbe long hour system . He introduced their Hill last session into Parliament , but the introduction and the management of that Bill must hereafter be confided to other bands—hands which he knew to ba most

      faithful and trustworthy ; and his smceru and heartfelt supplication was , that they would give to that good man all the support in their power , ( His Lordship resumed Iiis seat amidst loud cheers . )

      Oldham.--The Ten Hoims' Fat-Roar Bill.— ...

      Oldham .--The Ten Hoims' _FAt-roar Bill . — On Saturday evening last , _-, \ ni . _t-iln-j of managers and over _, lookers of cotton mills in the b . iruui ; li of Oldham , was held at the Albion lun , for the purpose of considering thc propriety of petitioning Parliament In support ofthe Ten Hours'Bill . Mr . James Conlon _, mill manager , was elected chairman . Several speeches wero delivered , and the petition was agreed to . _llLACKUL'BN . _—On Friiluy , Lord _Astley vi sited tbis town and addressed a turning in tho Theatre , which was filled to overflowing . The greatest enthusism prevailed . Meetings have been also held at Bolton and other places .

      Diep At Bristol, On The 18th Inst., Afte...

      Diep at Bristol , on the 18 th inst ., after a protracted illness , in his 30 th year , John Bowsey . He was for many years Secretary , to the Bristol Lodge of the General Union of House carpcuters and Joiners . H . _' s remains were followed to the gntvo on Sunday Vast , by a large number of His brother unionists and associates , by whom he was universally beloved and respected , Ue was tt firm , unionist to the last , und a _Ktttiical in politice _.

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      . _^ _ooo .-. Joh . n Congreve _, Esq .. of Mount Congreve , = _^ _t * *} 1 the S _™" 1 whioh waa grown last sea * _uh _.. ° ? s do , n ? ai _** wriae use of his tenants , and the ra & _Il ° K , ' sKilkenn _- Pr ° P <» rty arc employed in _expenfe ! OBtsalong tUe river Suira _*' hi 8 own _YiIeAzl'AlZTA _™ _? _*' - _^ offi ce has been _esta-Letteis _a _£ _ulAd > b _^ i _*? * - _ub-PMt tollolvwood . Letters should be directed ' * Crawford ' _s-burri ; Holy-Irish Police -It ia proposed to augment the dohoe force in the county Kilkenny h , add _IfiVtv men to the present force . Two _additional _srltio _^ are to he created , one between B „ , ! S " 1 Ballyhale , and another at Owning . Mulllnavat _***** _Plbihtt op Cash . —Mr . Atwood , of London _hnn subscribed £ 10 , 000 of the capital required for KU larney and Valentia Railway , and the bill will ba pro * secuted this session .

      Indian Corn . —The portof Cork is full of vessels with Indian com . Air Old Book . —Some years ago , an old booft which was sold to a druggist at Gainsborough as * waste paper , and he subsequently sold it to a _boskaeller in the same town . The title was "The Bokecf St . Albans . " ofthe Lady Juliana Barnes , or Berners , printed at St . Albans , in I 486 , and it was one ot the most perfect copies . Tbis book was afterwards parchased by Mr . Grenville , who has bequeathed it to the British Museum . _Ahti-Barber-ors . —According to thecorrespondent ofa Scotch paper , shaved faces are now a rarity in Paris , for _thoss who do not wear the full beard , wear the moustache . Giro _Corrox—The Austrian government has proi n t *! U 8 e *** Gun cotton . _tiN official rules shall have been laid down for its manufacture and sale .

      ¦• Cold Without . " '—A correspondent ofthe ' C ? _ardener ' _s Chronicle mentions , aa a proof ofthe hardiness of gold fish , that while the whole number of frogB and toods perished during the late severe _irosta , some gold fish , which were kept in the aame pond , remained in good health . Rkpbkbbntation op Lwcoi , _** . —Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has intimated to his friends in Lincoln his intention of again presenting himself as a candidate for the representation of their city at the next general election . _Stiu . too mabt of the Bbood . _*—Of forty-six European reigning sovereigns , married or widowed , thirteen have no children .

      MACHiNBRr . —Picture frames are now made by machinery , at a price much lower than that at which they were formerly sold . RVHOVR OF AN INCREASE OF _BlSHOPS . —It > 3 Said thata measure is intended to be submitted tothe legislature for the creation _offireorsix new bishoprics in tho established church , with seats in the house of lords . The Evangklical Alliance has been holding a session at Leeds . Correction—A gentleman who has received the appointment of stipendiary magistrate in Australia , is not tho ex-magistrate of Ilatton-garden , but Mr . Williom Laing , who , five years ago , we are told ; filled a similar . _situation in Van Diemen's Land .

      A " Great Fact . "—It is rumoured that a loan of twenty millions of dollars , or four millions sterling , has been _negotiated for the United States by a wellknown City firm . ' Destitution in Ireland and Scotland . —• A subscription is about to be immediately commenced throughout her Majesty ' s and his Royal Highness Prince Albert ' s households , in aid of the fund for the relief of the distress in Ireland and Scotland . Dbatit op Admiral _D'Arct Preston . —This distinguished officer , whose latter years have been i ! cvoted in his eapacity of Deputy Lieutenant , & c , in the North and West' Ridings of Yorkshire , tdied on the 21 st instant , at Askar , in that county , aged

      eighty-two . Name the Robbers . — We have heard it said that certain influential persons in the City , of enormous wealth , are buying up every quarter of corn they can get , for the purpose of holding it for higher prices ; and , at the same time , are running about _talking of the famine in Ireland , and the propriety of larg- * subscriptions ! Two names we have heard specially adverted to . One is that ef hereditary _money-jubbers , whose race , whose habits , whose character , lead us to expect nothing else but unbounded avarice , and the shabbiest duplicity ; but the other is that of eminent English merchants —an honourable name throughout the world—and of that name we have heard the rumour with surprise and regret . —Post .

      Legacies to public | Charities . —The late Miss Primer , of New street , Birmingham , has bequeathed legacies , in addition to £ 100 to each of our hospitals , to the under-mentioned charities , free of duty : —the General Dispensary , £ 100 ; the Blue Coat School , £ 100 ; the Deaf and Dumb Asylum , Edgbaston , £ 100 . the Eye Infirmary , £ 50 ; and to the Institution for the Relief of Deafness in Chevry- _^ tvcct , £ 50 A Guardian of thk Poor !—We understand that the poor-law commissioners have addressed a communication to Mr . Daniel Turner , of this town , requiring him to forward to them any explanation he may have to give respecting the charges preferrul against him as a guardian of the poor , of misappropriating property belonging to tho parish of Binning ham . —Birndngham Advertise r . Tobacco . —The cultivation of tobacco is increasing immensely in Cuba , in _con-equence of the great demand tor ilavannah cigars .

      Things in Hamburgh . —Provisions aro exceedingly dear , and work very scarce r _, t Hamburgh . Population of Vienna . —According to the recent census taken at Vienna , the population of the capital of Austria , is 410 , 047 souls , Frknch Egos . —In 18 i 5 , France exported eightyeight million two hundred thousand eggs , of which Great Britain received eighty-two millions . About nine millions were consumed by the French people . Another Mozart . —There is a boy pianist at Paris , named St . Scans , and only ten and a half years old , who plays the music of Handel , Sebastian , Bach , Mozart , Beethoven , and the more modern masters , without any book before him .

      The Stkebts op _Livekvool . —There are about one hundred miles of streets in the old borough of Liverpool , Chapping of the Hands . —A drop or two oi honey well rubbed on the _haiuls while wet , after washing with soap , prevents chapping , and removes the _roughness of the skin ; it is particularly pleasent for children's hands and face in cold weather . More Theatrics . — Two new theatres a e intended to be built in London . A Bishop's Sunday School . —The Bishop of Ripon has established a Sunday school in his palace , for the _neiuhbouring _cottagers . A Weather Glass for thb People . —At the corner ot Moor-street , Birmingham , a public b & iomcter has lately been _susptniled . On market days many persons from the country take a peep at what thoy . eall '' Nelson's weather-glass , " and walk away wondering what ' * old Brummagem" will produce next .

      Tub Coal Thade is said to be very brisk in Ihe Forest of Dean . Effects of Fuost in Building . —The late severe frost , did great injury to many buildings in London . SriniTS and Malt . —It appears from returns jns , t laid before Parliament , , 'tuat in 1 _. S 0 O tiiere were _O _. OOO _. _OS-l gallons ot British spirits , 3 , 0 i !> , 5 ' ) 0 of Coluuial , and l , 0 S 0 _, l' 37 gallons of foreign spirits charged with duty fur consumption in the United Kingdom . In 1845 , thc quantities so _charged were 23 , 122 , 58 $ gallons of British . 2 . 100 , 135 ot Colonial , and 1 030 , 754 of foreign spirits iii the former year the population was 15 . 500 , 794 , and in 1841 it was 20 , 715 , 920 . In 1820 the number of bushels of malt _charged with duty in the United Kingdom w _.-is _, 32 , 4 oS . 778 . the total amount of duty paid being £ 4 , 177 , 277 . In the last year the dotal number of _burlielsot ' malt was 41 , 5 ) 7 . ) , 000 , and the amount of duty £ 5 , 605200 .

      , Oaths is Prussia . — Prussia has substituted a brief oath in her courts for thelong formula hitherto in use . The reason for thia is obvious : —Prussia , with a keen recollection of Cracow , wishes to make as little ofan oath as possible . —Attica . Reduction in the Prick of Bread . —On Saturday , for the first time during the past eight or tea weeks , the price of bread underwent a general anil considerable reduction , with , however , some variations in different districts ofthe metropolis . Foundling Hospital . — The Rev . Dr . _Crolylhas been elected to the office of afternoon preacher at the Foundling Hospital . Mademoiselle Rosb OnERi . —Mdlle . Rose Cheri , who was such a favourite at the French Plays in London , is about to be married to M . _Lemoine Montigny , directeur of the Theatre du _Gymnaae , Paris .

      Noblb Conduct of a Belgian Priest . —We read in a Belgium journal : " The cur 6 of one of the poorest parishes of Bruges , having exhausted all his own means , as well as the arms given to hira , in relief of thc distressed , has sold his plate and every article of bis furniture that he could possibly dispense with , and distributed the products as he had done before . Roman Coins . —An inhabitant of la Gangncrie de-Quipdre ( Maine-et-Loire ) , whilst digging a few days ago , in a field belonging to him , turned up a vase containing 457 gold coins worth in moro weight as gold 10 , 2251 ' . They arc all lloman coins ot various reigns . A Professorship op Chinese is about to he established in King ' s College , London .

      Death op an Eccentric . — Ihe eccentric nnd benevolent Miss Catherine Lee , late of _Kensington Ilouse , and of _Knightsbridge , has left to the Hospital for Curing Diseases of thc Chest , lately built near her former residence at Old Brompton , £ 200 ; tn _Charittg-cross Hospital , the chariry schools of St .. _Gilcs-iu-the-Fields ana St . Georges , Blmimshury . the National Benovolent Institution , and thc S _.-ci . ty fov the Prevention of Cruelty to animal )* , _nim-tnu guineas eaeh , She has left _uumer-.-us oilier _beqmM _*

      . ^Ooo.-.Joh.N Congreve, Esq.. Of Mount ...

      and made ample provision for her favourite bird spaniel and parrot . Mr Gully , late M . P . for Pontefact , is spoken of as the second Liberal candidate for Andover . Distribution op above £ 700 amongst Distressed Jews . —On Sunday evening a meeting of the Rabbis and other officials connected with the various metropolitan Synagogues , was held at the Jewish _Freo Schools , situate in Bell-fane , Spitalfields , for the purpose of distributing relief to the poor members of the different Synagogues , great numbers of whom , in consequence of the severity of the weather and the dearness of provisions , have been reduced to great _dislre-s . Above seven hundred pounds sterling were distributed .

      A _Wholbscub _Battb * " . — At the festival of Bairam the Mahomedans sacrificed 75 , 000 lambs . Dr / BLMNG . —A very good blow has been struck at duelling in Mississippi , by a case of enforcement ofa law of the state , which requires that the survivor shall be responsible for the debts of a man he kills in a duel . Ports . —The Chinese' have a notion that the soul of a poet passes into at grasshopper because it _Bings still it starves . _A _SacooLKR worth Fouk Millions op Monet . _'lhere lives in Sile .-ia , a peasant , named Gudalla . lie waa-formerly a smuggler . One day the Customhouse officer wag in pnrsuit of him , and having bred , the ball passed through his right arm , which was obliged to be aniDUtated . _fiudalla . forced to

      resort to another calling , established himself in a village called Rita . He _haionly been there a few days tefore lm fortune turned , and he had the good I , , of _uvermg a valuable ainc mine , called Mary ai Mine ,, and it has now bet- tome one ofthe mo 3 t ! profitable zinc mines of any in Europe . Gudalla , having asked amd obtained permission to work hia discovery , this-peasant , who can- neither read nor write _, \ is now in- possession of a fortune estimated at 30 ; 000 , 000 of _thalers , or about _ibar ' mUIionsof pounds sterling ! Steam . -- " -New York Sun' - " mentions the invention ofa steam , type setter , which ,, by the aid of two men and three boys , can put as much printed matter as ten compositors can do- by tho present system .

      The Conde de _Mowtemolin attended on Monday night afc the Ilouse of Commons to hear Lord John Russell ' s- speech . Imports from , bh ** United Statks . —T ! _i _>* j- Dalmatin from New York , Columbia from Philadelphia , and John P . Harward from-New Orleans , wliiffli were reported at Liverpool on . the 23 rd inst .,. bring 10 , 457 barrels flour , 2 , 124 bags and 8 , 552 _buuhels Ionian corn , 3 , 980 ' barrels Indian com meal , and 2 , 600 packages lard . Representation oif Bath . —The committee for supporting Lord Ashley have resolved to- a « cept Iiis Lordship ' s conditions , that he shall be returned free of all expense ,, and subscriptions have heen commenced for raising a fund for that purpose ,.

      Curious _CircumstavNcs _. —A few days ago Mr . A . Oliver , tin plate worker and brass founder-,. & c , in Coldstream , wa * called _to-Sarham Hall , in order to put a pump in proper working condition . The pump ia a small one , brings the water from the Tweed , and is fitted with very small brass valves . After Mr . Oliver had done the . needful repairs , he was surprised to- find the pump still defective , and whilst working the _leveo in order to remove any internal obstruction , a living eel , eighteen inches ia length , and of proportionate- thickness ,, was discharged , atter whieh the pump worked well .

      Iraoedians . —The Widow and step-daughter of George Frederick Cook , now residing at St . Louis , U . S ., have presented the great tragedian ' s gold watch to Mr . Charles Keau . Middlesex Election . —The election of a member for Middle-ex , in the room of the late Mr . Byng , will take place at Brentford , on tha 3 rd of February . Representation op TAiiwoaru . —It is currently reported in this locality , that Mr . William Peel , on the part of the Protectionists , had determined to oppose his brother , Sir Robert Pee ! , at the next election .

      Reported Death , op Donizetti .. —Tho _* Roman Advertiser , " of the 2 nd of January , in a note loan article on an opera of this eminent composer , states , " we have just learned that Doniz .-ui is no mure , " Right . —l'he Pope has prohibited dog fighting iu Rime . A Mother op Six Soldiers . —Died at _Kilbtirn , on Sunday last , iu her 70 th year , Amelia Barber . She had six sons in the Grenadier Guards , who served together in the Peninsular war . F » ur of these veterans survive their mother . Tlie Duke of Yoik granted her a pension oi' _3-i . a week , which was continued by the Duke of Wellington up to the time of her decease .

      The National Club , which was first formed ater thc passing ot the Maynooth Endowment Bill as a rallying poiHt for the _Proti-stant party , have taken the houses , No . 2 and 3 , Old _Palace-yatd , between the _Ilouse of Commons and the House of Lords , which will open as aclub-house in the course of a few days . Singular _Circusistanck—On Thursday afterno a last a partidge supposed to bo pursued by a _h . iwk , iit _* w into the bedroom window of W . Hawkins , i ' _sq ., of Mariiusuiwn , pitching into a baud * box thai lay open in thu room at the time , and which by the Hitting ofthe timid bird , broughttliecovertoaelose , at once making him a captive _.

      BaAsrtD . _—P'ouTiCAL SHIBPSTUA . LEHS —A few days ago the carcass ot a sheep was _stul-n from the farm ut a widow lady at Toy ' s Hole . The party by wimro the rotibery was effected left the f . lioiviiig poet-cat _uenieiitii of their exploit appended to the skin , which was left behind : — Potatoes ar » scarce , and turnips are thin , _Wd _tetke the _ejarciws , and leave you the skin . The Paxatinate of Hunoarv . —a letter fr ra Vienna , of the 17 th , in the Augsburgh Gazette , says , — " The Emperor has appointed the Archduke Stephen to the post of Palatine of Hungary ad interim , in place of his father , lately deceased . '

      "Catch a Weazkl Asleep . "—The _fiHanci _^ ad ' _on of Toulouse says , that for several days the ge . darmery of Fangeaux have been in active motion , and the people ol the country imagined that it was on account of some apprehended corn riots , but it appears tbat ihe Carlist chief , Cabrera , ii the sole object of their researches , there being strong reasons for .-inspecting that he had slept during the night of the 18 ; h at a chateau near Fangeaux . Munich , Jan . 19 . —A few days past the celebrated artist , Sigismund Frank , a painter on glass , died at the age of seventy-seven . He was born at _Niirnnurg , und made himself famous by his indefatigable researches on thc art of the ancient method of glasspainting , which was almost lost to the present generation . Death op S . Mackknzie , Esq ., R . S . A . —We learn , that this veteran artist breathed his last on Wednesday , at bis residence , in Edinburgh .

      Tub Use of Ether in _Suugical _Opbrations — Medical men employing the agency of ether to effect surgical operations _with'iut paining the patient , should be reminded that the vapour constantly given forth by this body is highly _infi-nnable , and if brought into contact with flame , while beini ; inhaled , will bo productive of very dangerous effects to the pattern . The Dock-yards . —The system at present pursued in 11 . M . _Dockya-ds with regard to thc _enonotny of labour and materials , as well as thegeneral principles of efficient superintendence anil accountancy , is now undergoing a thorough investigation . Imsii Distbkss . —Tub PorB . —A private letter from Pari-, dated the lMh instant , states that it is there rumoured that his Holiness is about to address an encyclical letter , calling on all the faithful in Europe to como to ihe assistance of Ireland . _—DuMin Freeman ' s Journal .

      Death op Rear-Admiral Edward Elliot —We have to announce the demise of the above officer , who expired on Sunday , at Alombe , near Mineliead , Somerset , iu the 7 !) 'h year of his age . The deceased en ered the navy in 1731 , at a comparatively early age , and saw considerable service during the war under Admirals j . Macbbridge , Sir Richard Strachao , G . Palmer , F . Cole , Lord Bridport . and the immortal Nelson . Failuub of tuu New Potato Chop . —The G mbier ' _t Chronicle states , the disease has appeared in potatoes ' which have been recently grown by artificial heat . Suicide of the Hon . il . E . Aiuusotun . —On Wednesday last the Hon , Henry _Hstcuurt _Aldington , sott of Lord Hdmoutli , committed suicide at his father ' s residence , at Albury , near Uuilfv-ril .

      Wilful Damage . —On luesday evening , between the hours of 7 and S o ' clock , a man , having the-appearance of a _welbdmsed mechanic , was observed by some passers-by to walk deliberately tu the shop front of Messrs . Brown , 47 , St . Mtir'in ' _s-lane , Charingcross , and fores his aim through the window , _Uiimwing down various articles of _tx'ien * ive cut uia s , mid otherwise damaging many services of china t >> a consideral extent . He then effected his escape hi a rapid flight , the object being evidently to commit the greatest amount of damage in thc smallest _pes-ible time . LrciiY Fellows . —The grand prize of 100 , 001 ) dollars in the Royal Lottery at _llavattuah , has been drawn by fi'ty negroes , most of tliem slav . s _, who clubbed a dollar each for the purpose of three _vveialu ticket * .

      An Artful Dodub . —A few days ago , tlio officers of excise seized the soap manufactory of Messr _** . Allan , of Newcastle , in consequence of _disi-uvrmg seven soap-frames ingeniously inserted into a w . ill , and faced with mock brickwork , in sueh a manner as to bu ordinarily invisible . They continued mure than ten tons ot" soap-liquor . _Stahtuu- —The biilr of mortality for _Newcastleu- _* _oii-Tviie _, exhibit the extraordinary increase oi l ' _" 239 dtiitlis during the last year , as compared with 1 ,-4 ) .

      KiTinvt Dear . — Tha celebrated mare Alioe . Ha . w- _> thorn was sole ! on Friday week , at York , for 8 b 0 L'liima . s . - . _;* j *\ : _'* i _05 i ] _-:, i ;— It is stated that the . _wqftlthier-t : widow _'itji _livl . iiil ii ! ib"Ul to _brins ; an action for'breach of * I pr'imi ... o of _marriage a » _aiust a duke lately _woejilio _)? " i o " lou- without _lmnu-v , " ... w- ' >?

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 30, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_30011847/page/3/