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      _^ September 0 , 1848 . _THg NORTHERN _» TAR . . l 66 i ¦ ¦ - ¦¦ _. __ . _

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      Thb Murdered Chartist, Ar Jamju Zuteuc N...

      THB MURDERED CHARTIST _, ar _jamju zuteuc _nrjuctn . An epitaph for inscription npon tbe tomb of Henry Hisshard _, a young weaver . who , h _& Tiag attended a Cherflit meeting , on Sunday , Jane tie 4 th , 1818 , in Bethnalgreen , was attacked by the police , and received blows ¦ which , caused big death .

      Game _tai _Buhen to my dirge , 'lis of a martyr I would chant ; One , who the reign ef right did urge—Andbadfetbe rule of wrong , avaant ! Tha sabbath dawn'd : hi * way he took , Ta where his brother men had _press'd _. There to obey Sod's holy hook , And f acred keep tbe _dsy of rest . 1 The better day , tbe better deed : ' He and Us fellow slaves were wronged , _Tictims of tyranny and greed , And for a' better time' they longed . Of lives and rights , protectors paid , What did they ob that holy day f To serve their God t—Gave Justice aid ? Who asked it , the y did maim or slay I Beneath their blows eur brother fell :

      An' honest man' he slaughtered lay ; A martyrM patriot as well _. And grey-haired aged patent * ' stay . The murderers were welcome mads Within the temple of the Lord : Ah ! well may we its priest upbraid , Than _Hell-fiemd more to be abhorred 01 let a monument ba reared , To tell the virtue ofthe dead ; And vice of bis assassins seared , Under whose hands his spirit fled . The Priests and Herons of bis timo _.

      This manly youth have made a martyr , Because he sought the right enbliat , Inscribed npon the People ' s Charter .

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      Shnmortdst Colonial Magazine. September....

      Shnmortdst Colonial Magazine . September . London : Simmonds and Co ., Barge-yard , Bucklersbury . A further and spirited exposure ofthe Vanconver t Island job ; and articles on the « Advantages of Perpetual Peace ; ' the ' Manufacture of Sugar , and Management of Land in the West Indies f' State Of Agriculture ia the _British . Possessions in fhe Straits of Malacca ; ' and 'Sugar Cultivation in Cuba , ' axe amongst the contents of this number of the' Colonial Magazine . ' . From an account of _< A trip to Adam ' s Peak , Ceylon / we give the following extract : —

      AOAHS PEAK . It dawn of day , wa started for the Peak , and ascend _, ing about a quarter af mile _hicher up the steep acclivity witnessed one of the most imposing scenes that eye ever saw . In tha rear of at , and fa below oar position , were seen to an _incalculable distance an ocean of white rerelring elands , lying over the hills in the back ground , their outlines distinctly denned , and vaulting ene above the other W endless ( accession ; now half exposiag to tight the wooden crown of ap * ai , mow quite concealing others in their _flsecy folds as if drowsy nature ami was _laliing on its expawive downy bed . We were here entering tha very heart of a wilderness , where every step we advanced revealed the traces of herds of luge elephants either in tha road , being intersected at interval ! of

      twenty or thirty yards , by tracks , or in the recent deposits lying in our way ; just as if tbey had preceded ns the minute before ; and this , strange as it may seem , np to within a mile of the . very peak . How these unwieldy monsters can move on tho precipitous declivities of ihe _» _emotrflt * i * ii , _is . to me a matter of astonishment ; but yet they do , and that where the light frame of a man would find it difficult to _nuiatsinits gravity . Now the alien V solemn majesty of die tall trees , again fanning a lofty arcade over cor path ; rising still higher and higher as we advance , impresses one with the idea of these _ispomparaola . leenea . Abont two miles further up , the _enarmous height upon which one stands at Nlrlehelle , oa the rery brisk otiaa abyss ' which yawns below , and _between him and an adjoining peak , whose rocky crest

      _laaka bleached by the vicissitude ! of time , would shock mak nerves toinlnlge tha desire tf looking down fer man than firo - minutes . ' A stona _. thrown from this , may be heard rustling among the trees for some time , as it gravitates to the bottom , and a whoep or call is re-echoed a dcttn times by every reek , which teems to scowl on son , and threaten to let loose the genU inhabit ing tha angry caves . Advancing after the short pause here , which _givst yon time to take breath , and with It , if you can , a glass of brawn stout , you get oa stoutly op the tame , and mors difficult interminable helghtt tul abont three miles progress brings yon to Dfcbethme , - where , on a patch of table-land , covered with beautiful green sward , and _eneompsssed with the range of hills _whicbr frequently ara teen from the most

      dil twit parte of the island aadat tea , yea now reach the daapidated bungalow of that name , front whence , for tha first time , it viewed tke widely * worshipped aad far . famed Adam's Peak . ' Imijgiae yon tee before you tothe east , _^ peering la the air , at if suspended batween heaven aad earth , ' a bare dark rock , which fancy pictures to ba tome huge eagle's nest , and within pistol . * hot bat is reality at tha distance of four English talks from yoa yet , up a steeper and mora ruggedpath than ever , barely wide enough for one at a time to put , and expressly stow termed in _Gfnghalesa , Aakatse € owe , or literally , iky league , and jou east form a pretty fair conception of . the sublfanfl picture . Prom thit-yon dip into the woodi again , and lose tight of fhe peak , winding yonr way down narrow arenas * , and natural causeways _.

      formed of fragments of granite lying in the order of Hairs ( Ol yon reach a flit table rock at a place called SettanpasBe , and after thatan immense black marble slab , to tho full-width of a ravine extending at right angles across your path . and . caOed Galpahoore / orgtoaaraft , dear streams of _waterooslng put of ita fissures as if rent is strtral placet by its own ponderous weight , or some great « avulslon of _naturo . # * Hera the actual ascent to tha Peak commences , by a ehafa onth _« Iefcofyon , tonihupa small rock , again yoa advance a few paces by a ahgnt ben 5 to tha right , andajjalnafewpaoesrnora ; yon stop to look around , amss _^ at . the fearful elevation mt . whieh jou . stand ; a wide , vast vacnnm , whichever . wayyon tarn _yearitigot , _presehtt itself . Tour guide won't let yoa stay—he

      _fearristyouanlMt a blast of " wind unexpectedly coming might ,- in a _memeat , sweep y au into eternity . - Ton get on again to _acoaplo of _chafnt more that lead yon over another slightly , elevated rock , and yon land jhtt befere theiron Udder , on either , side ci which bangs , a bunch of large fronehains , the _linki-rarying _in size from six to eight laches in length and _proportloniily . wide . The Udder lies at the north-west face up a perpendicular _atosst _linearly forty feet ef a bare rock , with nothing mors than a wide galf yawning ail' around yon . The tttpt of tho ladder ara . abont four inches broad , barely tuffidsatforthatosstorest on , and abont eighteen laches long , closely rivetted to the rock so as to prevent then * moving . The chains dangle in groups ' of ten or twelve , and the wind at times , in sportive mirth , tosses

      them abont . and makes them cling to that yoa might bear it . lam told , a mile off . Having gained the tnmmit hy these means , yon light on a tort of terrace' enclosed all around by a three fset and a half wall , giving it the appearance cf a small battlement . In tke centre of the area _ttandt a block of black marble , abont eight feet high aad between twelve and nfteen feet long , the diameter of which again if about eight _ftetfrcm side to side . Thit again it surmounted by a small flat tile covering , supported by four , comparatively slender wooden plllare zesting on a masrtve rough wooden franw for its bate , on the block , forming a tort of canopy over the tiered foot ' indented oa it . The impression it nearly five feet an * a half long , and _propeltinaliy broad . OldBuddhoo _wouldseem to hava taken tha stride Hortbward ; the

      an * it abont eevtaty . five feet hy thirty in diameter , and next to the buck upon which the indentation ia marked , _tttntt a bell suspended to ti wooden pott , abont ten feat high ; on the block of marble near the bell it a dirty wo _^ _fflth _rm _^ 'Wjra eared with the oil of ages , tbat tbe _otvoteesbara during the worship ; and scattered near aad _atofltitnuybeteen a tew pieces of copper coin . _Lavithing so mach filthy lucre it to propitiate _Saman Devio , without whose tutelary ptotectloa yoa couldn ' t far the world get to the Peak . Oa the _sauth-tast of tbe buck , and within the wall stands a long room , built of masonry , and covered with tiki . This ls probably the bsaanM pagoda' which _Phllalethet stys formerly stood on the tap of tait hill , and was the abode of _Bnddboo ; Ho 'cistern of water raited npon two luge _ttones

      ttaadi in the midst of tha plain oa the Peak , on one cf which , ttonaa 1 st , footstep , ' There it but the _ons block of _garble in ths _esatre , ufoa which U _tba oatortlinoen tst _^ the _jreafett piece of abtnrdity . that ever was p _^ ed upon _hsmtn credulity at the memorial of an _hfttoriealtisct , or as the exposition of an axtravagant flciioi Thing ! have been _ttfflylaitered at Samnunelle _Siiipade , brat the Moon call it ,, _Bawadam-njalle , or fattier _Adaai _' ahQl _, since Baldens and Yilentyn Wrote . Diego do Conto ' tideaof tiie hill separating -into two top * , on one of wbich Is the sacred footstep , may per . kapt be accounted for by another distinct hin rising tenth-east of Anam ' t Peak , and called _£ oonadis . p _» rra ,

      which hat a woody crest efitt own , bnt slightly inferior In height to that of tha tiered hill , and forming the _adjeWo * * nek in the range of _hdghtt that extend from north to south , almost in a line with Adam ' s Peak , oh tiie north of whieh stands , _jott about the time _distaace from it as tha other , another equally _eontplcnoni _summit , _Bennahiraauaellt . True , then It aa excellent spring of water , to cold that it makes yonr teeth ache , rising pot of the crtvlcetof the rock outside the wall , on tha east aide of tbe Peak ; bat thit sorely never . was within the precincts of it . Ia the room jast mentioned , the priests who assemble during the great festivals , reside till thty are over , aad abandon it again till the

      _seKts aacon , ' Fancy _ysurielf psrchei npon the dhay height , a magnificent prospect at every point of the compass , extending in the south-west till the light , bine horison , shaded by a deeper outline , which marks the boundary _aftbaaoast by tha bias waters of the sea , limits the _ektaat « f yoa vision ; and the _ondnlating _mooataia

      Shnmortdst Colonial Magazine. September....

      * ep * ia tht _ntrtb , east , _axttndiog fir bey tnd _thsranga of Ambegsmowe , where the dotted lurfaee , with light green patches , reveals to tight the coffee estates that stand in that dlrectloa ; ia the _north-wetti the _lofty height yoa havo jast traversed ; and ea the ¦ east the tranFcsndant beams of the tan diffusing their gorgeous light over , the _lesicr eminence ! at they rise to gild the firmament , aud yoa can form but aa _lmperfeot idea of the grand panorama of nature tying stretched below and biforeyou , Deicription must ever fall short of the reality . This number cammences the fifteenth volume ; a fact whieh sufficiently proclaims the well-deserved popularity of this very useful periodical . _IVta _*» ntfth . taat , _« tt _«« o _^ -farl ) _tyindthfjamw _rf

      The Reostner. Part Xxviii. London: J. Wa...

      The _Reostner . Part XXVIII . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage ) Paternoster-row . Mr Holyoake has thought : our remarks onthe part of the * _Reasoned last noticed in these columns worthy a' leader '—repl y , under his own hand and seal . Of that reply we may say , as we personally said to Lord Palmerston , at the close of his defence at Tiverton— ' we are satisfied '—satisfied that there needs no rejoinder from ns . Nevertheless as we entertain sentiments of respect for Mr Holyoake which'we certainly do not entertain for the . Foreign Secretary , we will do the editor of the Reasoner the courtesy of noticing one or two points in his ' reply / We quote

      AN EXPLANATION—MESSRS O ' CONNOR . AND FOX . The _Ra * _so *« * bears evidence that Ida not hesitate to object to Hr Por , where I see broad ground of distent . I am not the' wholesale eulogist of the member for Oldham , any more than I am the wholesale censor of Ur O'Connor . So far from being disinclined to praise Mr O'Connor , I with Z could , always praise hint , as he exercises great influence over the working classes —aad it wonld ba batter for my order ceuld I oftener ' approve Hr O'Connor ' s leadership ef them . I wish Mr For had net remained silent when the Sua was attacked for what I regard aa ils courage and liberality , in advertising Paine _' s works . Ho man could have castigated that pitiful intolerance better than Hr Fox ,

      We next quote an extract in which it will be seen that Mr Holyoake has misapprehended our meaning : — The Sm uyt it it ' sorry to tee me coquetting , if not worse , with Halthutitaism . ' Coquetting is here used in the teste of political pandering . I quote a Hew writer on _Malthuslanism — it cannot bo from curiosity for information , for _refutatlcn , or from some partial conviction : it mast _oefrora insincerity , and for a venal end . We are inclined fo admit that the word coquet ting was not well chosen , nevertheless . we demur to the meaning put upon it by Mr Holyoake—cer tainly not onr meaning . When we _. expressed sorrow

      that Mr H . was ' coquetting , if not , worse , with _Malthusianism , ' we meant that we were sorry to see him devoting whole pages of the Reasoner to the dissemination of doctrines which . he knew to be 1 damnable . ' or worse , that he had even . become a convert to those doctrines . ' Curiosity for information' is certainly a sufficient motive for the reading of any book , hut not for public quotation , unless the person who quotes is prepared either to acknowledge his adoption of the sentiments quoted , or avowedly quotes for the purpose of refuting the arguments in the matter extracted . Now , 'Mr Holyoake bss done neither . He has neither

      declared himself Malthusian , nor Anti-Malthusian . But then there maybe ' partial conviction . ' Thst is , he is suspended ( like the tomb of Mahomet ) between two principles . We see our way now ; Mr Holyoake is not so insincere as to be a coquet with regard to Malthusianism , nor is he warm enough to be a lover of that charming tm . He will and he wont . Courage , man , yoa are too coy . The object of your _half-love is either the beauty painted by admirers , or the incarnation . of abomination drawn b y enemies . If assured ofthe former , forward without faint heart ; but if reflection convinces thee of the latter , backw a rd and renounce partial convictions .

      Mr Holyoake says : ' It does not follow that the proponnder of damnable doctrines * ts ' cold-blooded . This ' confounding the tendency of principles with the intention of the advocates is the besetting sin of the Northern Star . ' The 'besetting sin ' of calling things by their right names is likely to stick to the Northern Star . We had spoken of' the damnable doctrines propounded by the cold-blooded political economist Mill . ' In reply we have been privately informed taatMrMillisinprivate life a very estimable and truly benevolent man . We have been informed of several instances of bis liberality which certainly do bim great honour . But we-did not speak of Mr Mill , as a' cold-blooded' man . Surely Mr

      Holyoake does not require tobe taught the diffe rence which is not always , bnt too often , > found between tbe public and private characters of men . The teacher of good doctrines may be a ' coldblooded' man ; and a good man may , by propounding ' damnable doctrines , ' prove himself a ' cold ' blooded' political economist . The Emperor of Russia has . the reputation of being an . admirable husband and father , and , for anything we know to the contrary , may be in the habit of disbursing large sums in acts of private benevolence ; bnt vnll the editor of the Reasoner require ' us to enter mto proofs of the justice of onr denunciation of Nicholas as a ' coldblooded' tyrant ? So far as we know , Thiers may be

      a very adnourable and ' amiable character ia private life , for we know nothing of his private history ; but , judging him by his public career , we must be pe _^ mitted to hold him up to execration as an unscrupulous and heartless scoundrel . Mr Holyoake prides himself on his anxiety to be just . We believe bim ; but we also worshi p Justice , and ; therefore , we call a spade a ' spade , ' and a scoundrel a 'scoundrel' We have nothing to do . with the private characters of public men . We judge themby the effects of their words and acts upon society , and whether they are bookmakers or- lawmakers , tyrants or the tools of tyrants , we speak of them as our sense of justice dictates , fous .. . _ - ¦ --

      Giving an account , of a recent visit to Bristol , Mr Holyoake says : — _, On one night before my lectures wera delivered , a friend announced them , in the Chartist Hall , when Mr Clark took up the KoviattK Siia , and read the notice _ofrnt to wUchl _replied in the last _^ cisoWia . 'This , ' said Hr Clark , 'is the Hr Holyoake , ' whom we are invited to hear lecture . ¦¦ Instead of going , let ot _labicriM tho _tdmlulon towards Or _M'DouaU ' g , _defenw . ' . Thi » course they took . I am not sorry that IiaonId . be a means of adding to Br _H'Douall't _Defenct Pond , bnt I am sorry tfaatChairtism , under the guidance of Mr Clsrk , hai' risen no higher in Bristol than to hold that man _disqualified to address them who hat the independence to _recommead an improvement in their well-intentioned bnt impotent policy . _.

      We are sorry , that Mr Clark took the course above stated . If " , indeed , a working man ,: having only twopence to spare , communes with himself as to whether he shall expend that twopence ia paying to hear a lecturer—not of his own party— er in helping to add to _af'ind necessary for the defence ofa leader of his own party , whose personal liberty is in peril , we think he acts both justly and , rationally if he decides to give his twopence to the fund for the defence of his imperilled friend . But we are sorry

      that anything we have said of . Mr Holyoake should induce any of our readers to mark him out for proscription in any sense . or form . We cannot agree with him in all things ; we think him sometimes mistaken , and often politically not 'np to , the ' mark . ' But we know him to be aa ardent worshipper of troth , and imbued with a sterling' sense of honour . In proof of this last virtue , we quote the following article from the number of the Reamer published en the 30 th ult : —

      TBB _CHAKIkT _PBISOKIU . Last week I refased two requests to lecture on Horal force Reformation ia the provinces . How that the go . vernment are putting down tbe Char lists with an un . scrupulous hand _, { r think is _onlygood taste to pans ? In en . forcing ' i _ths theory ' _ofpersoaslon , at onecannot doit without madernning'by implication those who hire _adopted naximt of force , and they will be _aitailed withtuslclrht severity by their , enemies , without having the difficulties of their petition augmented by their friends— -who agree with ' their object ( amelioration ) but . differ from their meant of seeking it _.

      For the tame retson I dierountenance at far ai I can , tha holding of Chartist mea tings anywhere , unless for the defence ofthe _junprisaa ed _. _Polltlsal _meetlogt for the _fnrtheranoe of physical force only increase thtir duger , and those in favour of moral force add . to the obloqay under which _& ey labour . After the mlirepr « seatatlons by the Hoibiko _Caaoaicut of the Farringdon HaU meeting , there is good retioa to doubt whether _FmibU ever oUiredthe words which _PcfCH _earloatartd , and for whioh Mr _Fasiell hu been imprisoned . Ths D * it < r Kkws hat told us that theTaas has put into tks month of Lord Ashley one half mare than he hat spoken . And if a lord is aot re . spected by hit political opponents , ths Chartists have little to hope ; Words were ascribed to Hr Ernest Jones whioh even the government reporter proved he never said .

      The _Hakcbkstu Hews , which enjoyed ubiquity and something more : it appeared not only in two placet , bnt in three placet at once . At the _MiacHmta _Ifewt it was a Radical journal . And as soon at that edition wat _ttrnck eff , a Tory leader _wat written , and lt appeared ( all other matter remaining tbe tame ) at the HiKOflisna Sta * dabd , a Conservative piper . Thirdly , a local Chartist leader was created tb supply the _plaoa of the Tor ; one , and lo I it wat _metamorrJuaed into tha'OuEijit _^ KWt , _lYiso I waiia _OW .

      The Reostner. Part Xxviii. London: J. Wa...

      bam ,, thit - _inttntoui _ntWipaper announced that Hr George White , of Bradford , had delivered a lecture in the Ptopit ' s Institute thera the Sunday befere . my arrival , and that he bad dared the ' magistrates to arrest him , aad uttered other bravadoes ; and that a report of his speech had been laid before the magistrates . Having accompanied Hr White to Hr Leech's in Manchester ihe day after the lecture , and conversed npon it , I doubted tbe troth ef this report , aad I sought Hr White to question him , Wo met on tbe _Hancbester and Leeds line at Hebden Bridge the following Sunday , when I found that all that Hr White said Was , * that the right to arm wat , in hit opinion , constitutional , and for giving such advice , he conld dare the magistrates to arrest him . A very different thing from the senseless bravado ascribed to him .

      The government , in oondesoending to accept the evidence of Powell , degrade themselves . This man joins the Chartists in order to betray them , and stimulates the treason ho charges . npon them . Whatever punishment thty deserve he oertsinly deserves too . In what way are the people to be elevated by example , if tbo _governmentbonnive at this treachery and duplioity ? Onwhat principle will yoa condemn the _Chartists for falling upon erroneout meant of obtaining their objeots , if the government will accept any mtans , fair or fool , of securing theirs !

      ' Truth / _tald Ernest Jones , in his letter to Chief Justice Wilde , In one of those fine sentences wbich he occasionally utters , * Tra' . h plays upon an iron harp . ' This harp hat been touched ol late by fingers of fierce Hlsery ; and if it has produced i ' range sound * , most unwelcome to the ears of easy people , let . them not interpret tbe voice of want into the voice of anarchy . Let not juries lend themselves too willingly to those coercive retaliations in which the sole genius of our government lies . Let them remember that political concession , education , and employment will nt all things even , mors honourably aud permanently than any _tpeoies of imprisonment will .

      Baring my first tonr in the North I saw but one pike blade . X knew where lt wat concealed . On my _second visit to the North , three weeks ago , I went and took it from its hiding place , and purchased it . I was enxlous ta possess a tingle specimen of the instrument recently proposed to . supersede the syllogism in political advocacy . It . was my intention to . produce it at ray Rhetoric Class , next sessions . Hare I not bb much right to do a dagger , scene at the City Mechanics'Institute , as Elmnnd Burke in the House of Commons t Carefully planted in ray carpet big , and oapped with cork to prevent it perforating the sides , I carried it with me

      everywhere . I was not far from Ashton when the late disturbance ' took place . . At I spoke in tbe hall in whioh Br M'Douall spoke the night before his address , and on the tame topic , ' I have expected to fee confounded by officials- not remarkable for discrimination . Had it so happened _^! what a fine paragraph for tbe Times would have been manufactured , out of the fact that a Horal Force Lecturer had been telead with a pike is his carpet bag ! How plausible , and yet how false i How true iu fact , and yet how false in inference ! I believe there are many _persons suffering imprisonment at this time on no batter foundation than wonld have existed here .

      6 . J . _HotroiK . The course adopted by Mr Holyoake , as set forth in the above article , does him great credit , and we are sure will be appreciated by those Chartists who most differ from him as tor the question of' means . ' It is our belief that the next time he visits ¦ Bristol he will find the Chartists ef that place better disposed towards him ; willing to listen , and as willing to oppose , in . the spirit of free and fair discussion , should he propound doctrines by them believed to be false , or give expression to sentiments hostile to their ideas of justice or propriety .

      The general contents of this part of the Reasoner are more varied than usual , and , perhaps , more interesting . ' Mr Cooper ' s Orations on the French Revolution deservedly occupy a prominent place . In the articles by Mr Linton in reply to Mr Chilton , on the subject of ' natural rights , ' Mr Linton has decidedly the best of the argument . When Mr Chilton made his Quixotic attack upon ' natural rights'he must have been ' _hard-up' for a subject for his pen . Of his argumenti it mi ght be remarked , as B yron observed ofa similar reasoner though upon another subject , — ' When Bishop Berkeley taid there was no matter , It mattered very little what he tald . "

      The Republican. September. London: 3. Wa...

      The Republican . September . London : 3 . Wat * son , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . This is an excellent number of the . Republican , containing well-written articles on Aristocracy / the'People ' s Charter , ' 'Poland , ' ' Italy , ' & ci , & c . In our foreign page will be found an ' Address of the Polish Emigration' extracted from thiB number . We quote , extracts from a powerful and eloquent article , or oration , by Joseph Mazzini , whieh originally appeared in his paper , the 'Italia del Popblo , ' 'Italy of the People / published inMilan until Charles Albert ' s cowardly , if not treacherous , capitulation . The address was intended to be spoken id-commemoration of the martyrdom of the brothers Bandiera , murdered by the tyrant of Naples , with the connivance olithe British government , in 1844 . TO IBS HIKOaf OT THB HIBITaS _OV _03 IIHSA _, * ' _. , WW . 25 th , 1814 ,

      When I received from you , 0 young men < the oharge to pronounce in this temple a few words sacred to . the memory of tho _bretbeii Bandiera and their martyr Compinions at _Coseais , I thoagbt that perhaps someone ef those who heard mo might exclaim with noble indignation , 'To what end art these laments for the dead _f _^ The martyrs of Liberty , can only be worthily honoured by winning the battle they have begun . _Cosenia , the land where they died | is a ' slave ; . Venice , the city which gave them birth , hemmed in by , foreigners . Let ns emancipate them , and from this moment no sound be on but lips , but tbat of war . ' Bat another thought arose and taid . to me , why are net we victorious i Why is it that , while the north of Italy combats for independence , liberty perishes in the south f . Wby Is it that a war whioh

      ought to have leaped with a lion'e _booad to tbe Alps , drags along for four _montht slowly and uncertainly as ths craw ! of a scorpion girt by a circle of Are ! Why is it that the rapid powerful intuition of the . genial of a People risen again to life hat rank into the weary and incapable fancy of a siok man turning in his bed ? Ab ! if we ail bad risen in the holiness of tbat idea for whioh onr martyrs died ,--If tbe labtrom _« f tbeir faith had gent before onr young mea in tbeir battles , —if with that collected unity of life which was so powerful in them we had made of every thought an action ; of every action a thought , — -If , thtir hut words , _davoleuly harvested to onr minds , bad taught us that llberly and independence areoneand . tho - tame thing ; that God and the People , that Conntry and Humanity are Inseparable terms in

      any . undertaking of people who wish to beoome a Nation —that Italy cannot be unless she ba One , holy through the equality and love of ail her sons ,, and great through her worship ofthe eternal truth , by her consecration to a nigh mission , ' to ' a moral priesthood among the Peoples of Europe , —we should today / have victory , hot war ; Cose ' nza would . not _bawndemoed to venerate In secret thememory of the martyrs ; the dread of teeing- them profaned by . the insults of the foreigner would not with _, hold Venice , from honouring them with a monument ; and we , assembled here , might without uncertainty as to onr fate , _witbontany oloud of _ttdnest upon onr front , gladly Invoke their sacred . names , and say to those forerunning tools , rejoice , because ) yoar brethren hare in . carnated your ideal , and are . worthy of yon ! Kotyet , O . yonng men 1 is their adored conception re . splendent , pure ,, and perfect , upon your banners , The

      sublime programme which they dying bequeathed to the nascent irallan _^ geheratloB , is not yours so mutilated and torn to _fragments by false doctrines that , elsewhere , overthrown , havt taken refnga amengtt us . * I look . tee an agitation of separate populations ; an alternation of _gentrodt raging aad : ofnnworthy quiet , of firot oriet and fermnia 8 . Qfiervito . de , in all parts of our Peninsula ; but where li tht heart ef the Peninsula ! Where is tht nnity of thit unequal , manifold movement ?—where it the dominating _^ Word of thtte hundred voices of ministers of divert counsels , ever _crbsiiag each' other , misleading and- seducing the multitude ! * I hear talk , usurping the natioBil omnipotence , ofa Northern Italy , ' ofa League of States , of a Federal Pact , among princes ; —bat when is Italy , ! Where Is the common country which the _Btndltrat saluted at the initiator for the third time , of _annaotEaropetn olvilliatlonl

      Ton ara twentf-fenr million * of men , endowed with active , splendid _ftenltles ; yon bave traditions of glory whioh the nations of Europe , envy ; before y « * * ad * fl _«» Immense future ; your eyes beheld tho fairest sky . wbich is known to Europe , and around you smiles tho lev _tliest nature that Europe _ctn admire ; and yen ara encircled by the Alps * and by the sea , these outlines drawn by tho finger of God for a giant people . And _saoh yon ought to be , or elBtinat . be at all . Net one tingle man of these _tweatf ; fQur _maiiont . shall remain excluded from . the fratern ' ai ' pact which ' you frame , not one glance which , it _not'frea ' _thaU be tailed to contemplatethta heaven . Bt of

      Borne the ' ttcredark ofyourredemption : tbe temple your natleh : hat it not already been twice the temple of the destinies of Europe . ! In Home two _eatinot worlds , the Pagan and tbe world of the Popes , lie : superposed one on the other like a double jewel in a diadem , ; Create a third werld vaster than the two 1 From Borne , from _» o Holy City , from the City of Love ( Amor—Roma ) , the purest , the wiseit amengttyoa , elected by the vote and strengthened by , tht inspiration of a whole ; _peaple , . _»•« dictate the pact by which yon shall be bound at one , snd represented in the future alliance ot _peonlet . Until then yen have no country , or yoa have it con .

      _taminated . Beyond the Atpt , _btyond the tea , stand other peoples fighting , or making ready , to fight with yen , the saored battles of Independence , of Nationality , of Liberty ; other peoples who tend by different ways to the _sslf-same end —perfectibility , association , tho fonndation of aa autho . rity which shall put an end to moral anarchy , whioh shall re-Knit earth and Heaven , and whioh men may m _^ mmmm—mmm—m—mm—m—mm . mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm—— ——m—mmm—m— _. * _Cosenaa in the kingdom of Naples where the Bandlwat were _aurdsxea .

      The Republican. September. London: 3. Wa...

      love and follow _unbluthingly and without remorse . _listgae yourselves with them as they alio unite with yon . invoke them not if yonr own arras can vanquish ; bnt wh them that the h ; ur Is about to strike for a terrible conmot betw . cn right and blind forca , and tbat at that nonr you wni bo with all who advance under the same banner . * a _« " Wrath , pride , ambition , the desire of material pros-Parity , ara _weapons common to both peoples aad their oppressors ; and besides should you by their aid conquer to . tlay , you would fall back again to-morrow . But V _^ : _a--feiTS-^^^ l _^ , _Jli _^^ -. _'^ _iV -- -

      _raiNciMBj belong to tho people _aloae , and their oppressors will not find arms wherewith to oppose themi Reverence enthusiasm ! Adore the dreams of the virgin soul , and tha _vhloni of the first days of youth , because theso _drenmi of _eorllest youth art tho fragrance of paradise , whieh the _toul Tetains In _lssulag from the hands of its Creator . Respect , before all things , your own conscience ; hava on your lips the truth which God has placed lu your heart ; and _nwmonlouoly uniting hall that tends to the { mancipation of our soli , evta with those who dissent from you , bear _evtr oroot your banner , and boldly promulgate your faith ,

      These words , 0 young men I tbe _msrtyra of Cosenza would tell you , wero they still living among jou ; And bere _; where perhaps , Invoked by our ' e , tlieir holy souls are appeased , I call upon you to receive them into your if " * . keeP , B & then _» as treasures , against storms wnich still await us , bnt which , with the names of the martyrs upon our lips , and their names within our _bearts , we shall yet overcome . God be with you and _Mcsb our Italj 1 J » ly 25 th , 1848 . _Jossrn _Muzim .

      The Family Herald. Part Lxiv. London: G....

      The Family Herald . Part LXIV . London : G . B » ggs , 421 , Strand . The lovers of the romantic and mysterious will find a rare treat in the story of' The Black Cabinet , ' in course of publication , iri this periodical . The other contents are of the usual _chataclerr-dmisintd and entertaining . Pressed for room , we can only give the two following extracts : —

      EPIGRAM . From the French of . Rousseau . The werld is but a comio play , Where men their varied parts essay , In dress dramatic , oa tbo boards Strut bishops , ministers , and lords ; While we _jioor psople sit below , Despised , though paying for the show , For which we are . allowed to hits , Whene'er the farce is played amiss ;

      IMPROMPTU , ON SEEING THE 'HELEN OP CANOVA . { Attributed to Byron ) la this beloved marble view , _; Above the works and thoughts of man , What Nature could bnt would not do , And beauty and Canova can _. Beyond imagination ' s power-Beyond the bard ' s defeated art , With immortality her dower , Behold the B & m of the heart !

      The Illustrated Song Book. Nos. I., Ii.,...

      The Illustrated Song Book . Nos . I ., II ., III . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage . Tbis bids fair to make the neatest song-book we remember to have seen . Each number contains a careful selection of songs , duets , and glees ; with an appropriate toast or sentiment attached to each . An illustration , neatly executed , heads the first song in each number . The printer has done his work well .

      Pt7blicati0ns Rkceivkd.—Birch's Philosop...

      Pt 7 BLicATi 0 NS Rkceivkd . —Birch ' s Philosophy and Religion of Shahspeare . Holyoake ' _s Logic of Facts , Peerage Jobbery . Gray ' s Lectures on the Nature and Use of Money- The Ethnological Journal . Emigrant ' s Guide tqjhe . Cape of Good Hope . . .

      N.I Mipjpw The Late Mr Councillor Briggs...

      n . i _mipjpw THE LATE MR COUNCILLOR BRIGGS , OF SHEFFIELD . . We are requested to publish the following correspondence between Mr Councillor Ironside , of Sheffield , and the Poor Law Commit _sioners , respecting the medical treatment of the late Mr Thomas Briggs , while in the insane ward of the Sheffield workhome : — Sheffield , July 8 th , 1848 . . Gamma-, —On the 18 th nit . Mr Thomas B . _lggs . an esteemed frieBd of mine , and a brother member of the Town Connoil , exhibited symptoms ef insanity , wa » taken to the insane ward attue Saeffiuld workhouse in the evening el that day , and died at tbree o ' clock in' the

      morning of the 20 th . I only _sicertalned that he was there oh the 19 th and' wished to see him , bnt it was thought better hot . The inquest was held in the afternoon of the 20 th . I attended . The ' evidence given by the medical men was ef a general nature , as to his treatment , . I wished to put some ' questions as to the partitalar mode in whioh bo had been treated , _butrefrainei bom a withinotto . appear publicly as , _ejuestlaulng tbs mode adopted by tbe medloalmen . Oa the _28-. h ult . I wrote t _« the Board of Guardians , requesting tbem to be good- _eabngh to let me ' have- a copy of' the' medical treatment « _fmy . friend , after bis arrival at the workhouse . Not having received any answer whatever , I thit day Waited on one of the guardian * to inquire , aad he _inforrhed mi ( non-bfflolally ) that ' my application was notaccededto . . - _.-i'i'ii

      May I _therefore beg of you to get _metht information I want , if you have the power ao to do . I _hareorgent reasons for making this request . Tours , faithfully , Ibasc _Iaonsina . The Poor Law Commissioners .

      Poor Law Board , Somerset House , Jetty 18 th , 1818 . Sia , —I am directed by the Poor Ls w Board to ackaow-Iedgo the rece | _pt . of yonr letter of . the _ 8 _thjnst ,,. ln _, whioh yon state thatyou are desirous of obtaining information as to tbe _medicii treatment ef the late lit Thomas Briggs , who dlfd on the 20 th ult ,, In the Insane ward , at tho Sheffield workhouse . The Board will communicate with the Guardians ef the . Sheffield Union oa , the _surjectof your application , lam , sV , Vour _pbtdlent servant _f . Q . _Lrjjjwy _, _Asilstant-Sec . ToMr Isaac _Iromlde . Bheffield , * -

      Poor Law Beard , Somerset Houso , 1 st Angnit , J S 4 S . Sia—I am directed by the Poor Law Board , with refe-. ee & oe to your letter of , the 8 th ultimo , to Inform you that they have ' _communicated with tbe Guardians of ' the Sheffield Union oh tbe ' _sobjeot of it ; ' and haviag learnt from them that Mrs Briggs is quite _tattsned _wltVthfc treatment whioh her deceased husband , Mr Thomas Briggs , receired at the Sheffield Workhouse , the Board are , of opinion that any farther inquiry is unnecessary , ' Iain , Sir , your obedient servant , _EBsmoTON , Secretary . To Mr Isaac Ironside , _Suimeid .

      r Sheffield , August Snd , 18 * 8 . _GimxtHEK—I am in due _rccolpt ef your letter of the 1 st instant , as also that of the _18-hult . Mr Briggs was highly beloved by ' the poor of Sheffield , and deservedly io . Knowing _thereat p ' rriudloe that exists amongst the people-against the _paaper mad . boo ' se ,. ' I purposely refrained Irom putting any question at the inquest which might have the least tendency to esolte suspicion tbat the treatment wat improper . , I even stated'that I ba . lieved all bad done what they thought ' to be the best ia tht case . I did not dream for a moment that my application for se simple a thing aVa copy of hit medical treatment , would be ao _uncotirtcenely treated as not to bs noticed , ' and ultimately / refused . Ao lt Is so , my oplnien with respect ; to bit , treatment is now changed , It was not for any private purpose that I made the application—it was with a-view to tho public good . I la . tended to haveaent t . _oofeyef the treatment to DrOorsellis of _Wakefrsid , and one ' or two others , and to request their opinion npon it . ¦'

      What are tha facts 1 A man la pursuing bis ordinary avocations on the Saturday—taken on Sunday afternoon to the workhouse , and diet early on Tuesday morning , If all wat right in hit treatment , why so much ttouble In keeping it buck ? Twill fell yoa . ' I am informed'thit soon after ha was admitted ; an _opiatt of _douMe _strWijtt was given him ( to amsn labouring under Inflammation ef the brain ) , and it sent him to sleep . Ia the morning ht awoke and had some breakfast , and then went to sleep again In a lethargic state . In the coarse of the any he was bled ! pretty profusely for a man ta' hit state , and died in a few hours from sheer _ezhanstidn . Of _courseT _Thltit why the treatment is kept back , in my opinion .,. It wUl not bear the light , I look upoa tho death of Mr Jrlggs as tbe natural remit of his treatment by the workhouse authorities ,. God preserve me and mine from the ' * authorities . ' "" '

      Of course neither yoa hor the _Sheffield Board can now complain of any steps I may take with reference to giving pabllolty to the case , and using suoh comments is may appear _aeoessary . Yours faithfully , To tbe Poor Law Board . Isaac _Isoxsidi .

      Isojsndurj? Fire In Not««Ahftm.~On Sunda...

      _IsOjSNdurj ? Fire in _Not «« aHftM . ~ On Sunday morning , soon after one o ' olook _, a fire broke out in a _staokyard ' _situated in the _Sand-fieldi , one of the suburbs of this borough , and which has resulted in the almost total destruction of two stacks of _excellenthayv one weighing upwards of twenty , tons , 'the _OTtartgtafMr William Sinclair , and the other waging to Me Humphrey Page , which weighed _fflorethan three tohs . No sooner were the flames perceived than the police on duty in various parts of the town ran to the scene of tbe disaster , and the fire , brigade , under thecommand of Inspector Meldram , having conveyed thither two of their best engines , great efforts were made to prevent the . extension ofthe fire , but notwithstanding tbeir exertions a very small portion only of the hay was reseucd from the flames . The police hare learned siffioient to convince them that the fire _wea-Jfcueed by ah

      incendiary , _andUsfy me now imj _« 8 Wtf-the guilty party , with a good prospect of otfe * ng his _eaptow . The damage ( upwards of £ 100 ) is _etrared by m insurance in the _NoU-tn _^ _i UuBhire and _Perbysbire _FknOffiMi _,

      The Incurable Incapables. , : {${021 Joh...

      THE INCURABLE INCAPABLES . , : { $ { 021 John Bull ) _lJni _!« : t ! ?! over _•'•' the white-bait dinner has btr of r . nwi _^' ni _- 8 t T L ave _ten summoned to the _Mmuhta ¦ _iSSr _^ . _^ : _oember for Buok-K _* _pSwmh- * ? _^ B _e _'o Ireland with his _S week . TfV _^ _^ _= PW » . _* d oh an early . day fa _^ _Kffo iftS Parl _ia _° ientary reporter hai written to his w fe at the seasiderto say that she mav eS _^ _amidst hw shrimps and &\ _hfa bj _? kS !& _twfh _^ hn _* _! _MM «« _WilliamBanoBBUaSMhe Sotlf \ tt tteL ° f' « _^ of ' anotherpYaca nope at last that the House i _^ nct to sit for thiB _wMe-Parhaoent without _onoerising- ; tZZ _$£ _^ we _P-repanng for . a holiday , so i 9 ') everjbody and every thing that suffers , from long speeches ana Whatever may be said of tbe proceediugs of P _^ araament . daring its first nine montw » Mi _^ , _« n _„„ _J ..

      plaint atiea ' _st can , beinadeof its inactivity during the last week . John Bull ( not . we , the other John ) gratefdlly acknowledges the ,, addition , of two millions to the . burdeni __ whioH _ . _ou >_ _nnfortuoate namesake already bears on his broad and capacious back . John is a strange fellow , "lie growls pd grumbles . at a trifie . _t _^ ana he will spenii . his whole fortune upon ! a hobby . ' It suits his fancy . to have the _Whiga in , office , and he does not mind in ' . tbese the hardest times , spending twice ten hundred thousand pounds to gratify the whim . That the desire ia a mpre ' wblm . and nothing else ) _anybady may ascertain by atoppine to inquire at the next street . ' Nobody believes in Whig _competency . Everybody feels indignant at Ministerial feebleness . The other day it was the fashion to

      say that the Whigs are no financiers , but in other _respeots a very sensible , useful sort of folk . Now tbey get credit lor nothing at all . They bungle everything .- Try them on any _gtotmd , and they cannot get on . If they touch sugar , ' they stick like flies in treacle * _rif they think of sanitary reform , Lord-Morpeth gets knee deep in the sewers ; until Mr Henley or spmebedy else-takes pjitjr pn , _* the '» uff 8 r er and hauls him up ; if they pr _^ _ppsftio _^ efprm ' corriiipt / _praetiees _injaughty . borpnghj , they e ' _utre ' at . the House of Lords to save them from , the _^ sequences of their own advice ; _andifithey _ask _' ihdcniBity from Parliament for breaking a ' law ,, they profess themselves unable to ' say why tbey broke it , or if called upon to amend this _lawso broken , swear that though they seed the in * demnity , yet the law has been safe from any infraction whatever .

      How-long' matters "are _tO'prfceed inth ' e present lively fashion , it is impossible to predict . It is vastly pleasant and profitable , np ; doubt ,, to the _psrties concerned , for a Whig family to _takYthe affiirs oftbe nation into their hands , but if the nation submits te the constitution of the firm , it . has at least tbe right to have . its b . _osiness welldoHO , and its affairs kept out of confusion . .. There is one great disadvantage in a ' happy family . ' It may be seen in the 'happy family exhibited in a cage at the cprn ' _erpf . _Trafalgar-gqaaw . The animals are so' perfectly'happy . that ' . they are positively fast asleep ; ' fiats lie on the bbsoms . of eats , and singing birds rooat on puppy doga'noses . -Tho _stirringup of the exhibitor ' s pole has- no more effeot on _therblissfnl creatures * reposethan Disraeli ' s brisk

      , practice will haveur _^ h the equanimity of our friends . The ' _oneset of animals get ; their , meat anti steep , the Other share the ' pnblie , c 6 ntribiitioB ? ,. ahd think they do enough for the publio in _condesoeisding to accept it . Whilst the publio are satisfied that all-wisdom and virtue dwell in Whig abodes . _Minfeters _arehatdly to blame for indalgiiig tbe _' _noMOn . Probably when the ten millions added by the _government to tbe national debt in the short space of two years ,-shall , iu , the course of the , next two years , amount to twenty , the public will arrive at a different opinion . Meanwhile , hurrah for taxation ! Mr Disraeli oharged the ' government _jthe other day with not taking the initiative in any practical and necessary measure , er when they did take the

      initiative , with submitting their views in so crude a Btate that Parliament wa ? obliged either to remodel them with great pains , and at great less of time , or to reject them altogether . Lord John Russell met the accusation by denyingthe neeesBity . of his introducing any measures at all to the hoase , and by _referring , for his justification , to Sir Robert Walpole , the * father of * William Pitt , and . to somebody else whose name we forget : Why did the Prem . er not go atonoe back to the enviable and irresponsible times of Canute the Great ;? A . policeman might just as well excuse himself for not taking a midnight housebreaker into custody " oa the plea that , it had been the invariable practice of ancient . Charlies to retire to their boxes forthe night , the very _moment

      the parish dock _struok eleven . " No man-knows better than Lord John Russell that iwe live in very dif ferent _tirhes to those which'he : points o , dt _^ for ; his imitation and model . The , Parliament of England is hot , the'same assembly * , the people of England are not the same peop ' e The Minister who carried the _RefotuvBiU , mmt carry his vision forwardfrom that event , not backward . If be has renounced the doctrine of firality , he cannot surely ask ns to . be . bound by rules and' _onstoms actuating Ministers living _wsei . Reform was not , when the people were a , nullity _, and Whig " Ministers more Conservative than Tories of to-day . Society haa not stood etiil ; wants have not diminished ; the necessity of moulding the powers , we have , called into being ,, and of regulating the maohinery which we have set , in motion , grows hourly more imminent . We hare done too much to | et things take their course . We have opened the

      eyes ofthe people far too , wide , if light is . not tb be granted now for direction and self-government , We cannot halt midway in our progress . We have uprooted interests , trifled with the Constitution , legislated , and legislated again ; with unwearying pertinacity . Better bad we sat with our hands _bsfore ns and done nothing ; but having moved , we dare not stop . Great and enlightened rasas-ires for the maintenance ot the country ' s prosperity , for the education and happiness oftbe people , ' must be submitted to the country without _muoh-loBs of time . Constituted as we are , sueh measures must emanate from the . government , or not at all . Talk'not , great * Minister of R _*» taHn , © I what Sir Robert Walpole did , but' do , what you are bound to , do . my lord , in the midst , of the difficulty and confusion into whieh the tinkering propensities , the wilful and mischievous . practice ; of you and yonr associates have finally conducted us . _J ) _o it , or place the helm in firmer hands !

      ' Trades, Delegate ; Mebtikg.-Tpii;:Thur...

      ' Trades , Delegate ; Mebtikg _.-tPiI ; : Thursday night ' a . ' meeting of delegates , appointed by the Metropolitan Trade Societies , Was held . at the Craven ' s Head , - Drury-lane ' , for the purpose ef receiving ihe . report of the committee elected to draw up a constitution for the trades of London . — Mr James * O'Leary in ' the chaJr . _-p The . secretary read the report , of whic ' i the . following are the principal features "—That it is deemed necessary to establish a' Trades' Association , 'in order to work out an amelioration in the . condition of the people by legal and constitutional means ; that parliamentary approbation be . requested ; . for the rules ; that the land ought not to be possessed exclusively by a

      fractional portion of the community ; that the laws which fix the price of gold , and restrict its expansion , should , be repealed , and a representative currency issued . } , that machinery should be taxed for revenue purposes , and foreign manufactures equalised in price to our own in the home market that education and _employment . he provided by the . government for the people . ! It then goes on to recommend that home colonies should be established on the waste lands in the United Kingdom , and that the elective franchise he given to every man 21 years of age , and concludes by suggesting a graduated property tax , in lieu of other imposts . The-latter part of the document merely contained rules for the formation

      of the association ., The : further consideration of the report was . adjourned to a _> future ' meeting . ' ¦"¦ i The CoiHBnx „ _BxPjtosio » -AT ~ LsiTH .--The inquest on the _Unfortunate , men _. killeA . by this calamity , terminated in _-a verdict' -of ' _* 'Accidental Death . ' It has often been _affempteOd _^ _ershown that the neglect to use Davy _iainps' b y the colliers , is sot fairly _attributable to , the , men themselves , but is indirectly at the suggestion of the employers , although to save thera ' _selves from odium they h , ave them on the premises ; but in thiB case no ground for surmising _su eti a course seems to haye originated . It is to be lamented , however , ' , that the useof the lamps is so constantly neglected ' . " . " .

      CoMMin'At for Murder . — -Mrs Mary Lightfoot , wife of _Henvy _Lightfoptj , of Quarry , bank , near Dudley , has just been committed by the district coroner , MrT . M . Philips , on a charge of , ' . administering arsenic to her husband , wliich ' caused bis death . It was proved on the inquest that the prisoner had been seen in familiar intercourse with a man not her husband , during his illness . Arsenic was found in the body of the deceased on- a post mortem examination being made , aud altogether ' the circumstances were of so . suspicious a character , ' that , after an adjournment * the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against , ' the wife , who has been committed to take her trial on the charge at the next Staffordshire assizes . On Lightfoot's death his wife obtained a sum of £ 4 . for his burial from an Odd _Fellews' club , of which her husband was a member . —Banbury Guafdwm , -

      Mr John Lynch , solicitor , formerly clerk to the Tralee Savings' Bank , has beea sentenced to fourteen years' transportation , for . embezzling the sura of £ 20 , 000 , the property of the bank . During a trial at Newcastle a publican gave it as his opinion that an old man was not drunk , because , though he had had drink , ' he was qualified to call for liquor and pay for it . ' An Ecclesiastical Drover . — We hear , on very good authority , ' says the Tablet , ' that Dr Ullatbrone has arrived in London with the bulls from RomeJJ

      #Acte Mar Fancies.

      _# acte mar _fancies .

      1 Wt Cull The Choicest.' A Cobbwt Pawjiu...

      1 Wt cull the choicest . ' A _COBBWT _PAWJiUBHT . Are they fit to be tbe legislators of a whole peonte who themselves know not what law , what reason what right and wrong , what crooked and straight * what licit and illicit means ; who think that all oower consists in outrage , all dignity in tbe parade of insolence ; who neglect every other consideration for the corrupt gratification of their friendships , er the prosecution of their _resentments ; who disperse their own relations and creatures through the provinces , forthe sake of levying tuxes and confiscating _goadBmen * for the greater part ; moat profligate and vile , who buy up for themselves what they pretend ta tor l

      expose sae , who thence collect an exorbitant mass of wealth , whioh they fraudulently divert from the publio service ; who thus spread their pillage through ( he country , and in a moment _emerge front penury and rags ,-to a state of splendour aod wealth ? Who could endure suoh tMeyi ? n servants , such _vicegerents ef their l _.- » _ds ? Who could tbat the masters and the patrons of a banditti could be tbe proper _guardians of liberty ; or who would suppose that he Bhould ever be ' made one hair more free by such ft set of publio functionaries ( though they might amount to five hundred , elected in this manner front the counties and _bsroughs ) wben among them who are the very guardians of liberty , and to whoso ens * tody it is committed , there must be so many , who know not either how to use or to enjoy liberty , who neither understand the principles nor merit tuepo 8 _< _stasion ?—Milton .

      THE _B- _) TJR _6 E 0 I 8 IE . Edmund _Burko had a rooted contempt for the character and _profession ofa merchant . 'Do not talk to me , ' ' aaid he once in the H ) _use of Commons , f o the liberality _andpatriotism of a meicbant : Lis Go is his gold ; his oonntry his invoice ; his desk hi attar ; his ledger his Bible ; hischuroh his _exouaBge and he has faith in none but his banker . ' When he made a Bpeech , which was well received from * he hustings of Bristol , at the time o . the rupture between thia country and America , poor C who was ene of the candidates , was standing fay his side . - Equally averse with Mr Burke to the American contest , but master of no other language than the short vocabulary of the counting-house , he cried , ' I say ditto to Mr Burke ; I say am to Mr Burke . '

      THB "LITTLE SBED . A little seed , al random threwn Upon the world , one day A moment ap in air wat blown , Then g « atly borne away Unto a _dessrt drear and wide , Close by a mountain side . Tbe seed lay there for many days , Unnoticed and alone , Amid those cold and rarged ways , By briars overgrown ; Yet rain ( rom heaven , and balmy air , And sunbeams qbeer'd it there _. It tooted in the solid ground , Pat forth its stem and leaf , And , throwing tendrilB round and rouno _. It grew beyond belief ; And , waxing stronger every hour , Brought forth a lovely flower ,

      It blos 6 om'd there so sweetly mild That song-birds stay'd tbeir flight , In wonder tbat the desert wild Produced so fair a tight ; The briars envying all the while Its perfume and its smile . But winter oame with siorm and snow ! Tbe floweret droop'd its head ; And the briars _dash'd it toaud fro Until they detra'd it dead ; Lsngblng _, os round them dsy by day , Itt scatter ' d _seedlets lay .

      DIsmsj'd were thev when spring appeared , And , crowned with myriad flowers , Esoh stem , in loveliness uprear'd , Defied their ragged powers , In vain they strove ; for every spring Brought forth its blossoming . The nnwert-now climb tht mountain aids , And on the _sammit smile ; Whilst o ' er the plain in modest pride They bloom for many a mile ; And not oae thora now meets tbe view * , Where late the briars grew . And thus a thought may live and grow , Thongh cast on dessrt soil , And o'er the earth its beaut ; throw By long and patient toil ; Thongh Envy ' s frown will oft etBay To take its light away ,

      _Yetl it wUVmuo and spread Hi flowers , Despite the fiercest atom ; And mid the tempest and the _shewers ¦ Uptear its lovely form ; Like many a truth which smiles serene Amid life ' s darkest scent . Thus , breathing to the world wound Its sweets through many a day , It shall adorn the humblest ground , And bless the loneliest way ; _Whilst they who shunn'd the budding Softer Shall praise it In its blooming hour . Bdnmrt _TcssiMe .

      LIBERir . The hue-and-cry of liberty is never raised undef certain auspices but to cover ihe designs of slavery , _HlSIOHt . History is a , long and gradual ascent , where great actions and characters in time leave borrowed pomp behind , and at an immeasurable distance below them , 6 T _T _JPIMTC ; Stupidity has its advantages as well as wit . If a man strikes his hand against wood or stone , he hin t " self will ba the sufferer . MANKIKD . Mankind , above aU things , hate to be made the dupes of doubtful professions of wisdom aud benevolence . . i . .

      _, . _IflB GREAT AND IBB _UZXIB . _« The political struggles oi a great character art for the future rather than , the present , as the petty squabbles of party ate for the present and never for the future . —Foster s Lives of British Statcmtn .

      , _UiBIE-ANIOIHEZTK . ; From hsr first arrival in France , at the age of nfteea , Marie . Antoinette had been an obieot of dislike both to the Court and to the people . Even the mind of her young _husbtnd was to _pslsoned against her , tbat until ' some time after hat attended ' tbe . throne , be refrained from all marital intercourse with her . She was contU ' anally accused _beth of criminal levity , and of intrigues ! in _< the interest of Austria . Daring the first yeart ol her marriage the lived in great _unhapplnegt and re * strain ! . The lmpatienoe she manifested at the strict etiquette obstrvedin . the Court of France , whioh stopped her at ovary step she made , assisted also to render her distasteful to the formalists . who filled it . This eti . queue wat of an incredible minuteness , and enthralled

      her from her rising in the morning till her getting into bed at night . The following quotation _; from Madame Campan may _glvs some idea of it ;—* The dressing of the Prlnoess wat the . very pink of etiquette ; everything in it wat _sfrlotly regulated . The Lady of Honour and the Lady of the Wardrobe , both , If they were present to . gether , assisted by the first attendant end two ordinary attendant ! , performed the principal _tervlte ; but there were dlstlcctions . between tbem , The Lady ofthe Wardrobe handed the petticoat and the gown , Tha Ltdy of Honour poured out water to wash the hands , and put on the chemise . - When _aPrlncess of tbe Boyal Family wns _preeent atthe dressing , the Lady of Honour yielded to _bac the latter funotlon , but did not yield-tt dtreotly _tothqvPrinoeaiee of thebUod _,-la suoh out the the chemise / totha first

      Lady of Honour returned , * _rVmnw _. _oV-tAflinora , who delivered it to the Princess of the blood .: ' Each of these ladles scrupulously observed thttc usages , as having the nhaiaoter of ; rights . It happened one winter ' s _mtrniig that tha-dauphinets wat waiting ta receive hei chemise , which . 1 held ready unfolded , when the Lady of Honour entered , hastened , to take off her gloves , aad took the chemise from my hands , " At this moment a knock is heard at the door ; it is opened , aad tha Duchess * of Orleans enters .: She removes' her gloves ,, and advances to takt the chemise ; but the Lady of Honour must not deliver it to her . She returns tt to me , and I present lt to tht-Duchess . Again a knock it heard , \ it , Js Madame , the Countess of Provence : the _Booheis of Orleans surrenders to her tht chemise . All

      tbis time the Qtuen is itandlag with . -her arms crontd open her _breau _sMvarlBg with eold . Madam * peroelvts her _uopleatant-position ; and _oonteating herself with throwingasldeherhaadkerohlef , aad retaining _htrglovea , the putt on the ohemiaej _* end at shedoes e _* , knocks down the Qawn ' s head dress . The latter .- tmlled to disguise her vexation , but ; she muttered several times _batwew her _tetth , VetiuWeltfcwlir-cm )' —vo \ . i . PP . W , 98 . Ia the following page , Madame Campan very tea . tlbly remarks , «; ThU etiquette , which , ia the domestic life tf _wr Priacet . es , hadledthem ; to have themselves treated as divinities , _made-thenUn their pubic itfe vie tims of any delusion . In tho palace ° « ye _»*« «] ' Mm 1 _*> Antoinettei found _^ multitude of . established and revered ntsget which appeared to her insufferable . '

      ! _MlllORABUt BATING OF KOSOltlSKO . _^ Wheil th brave Poles arrived at Craoow , where the _revoltttioa _obmmenoed , he made the little band of patriots under his-command the following heart-stirring speech — ¦ We are not strong enough in BBmberto _beviotorious , butweare Btaong enonghto die with honour in defending eur country !' ' JrjD 0 xs . -Wbat _snenfeaan is that npon " the peneh ia hur oown , and hur pelt , and hur black cap ? Why marry ( quoth Morgai hur is an old _veman wat takes her nap upon hur _onshion , and then hur tells _tte _shewry hur tream tream . - _^ UmtdDiMriatka upon oiiWomm . ¦• v . . •'•

      , . ... . . . ; .. Rbhbmbbb tHw , _^ neh < H }» fjsiitii _sotoriy look * ing into the rights of thir _^ is _WK e _^ hk e _^ maka men act with good sense , and with efeot , than whol _« years spent in clamoroM raihng .-vo 6 &« t .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 9, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_09091848/page/3/