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      THE NEWSPAPER . In gown snA slippers loosely dress'd , And breakfast brought—a "welcome guest , — What is it giveB the meil a sett ? The paper . When new-laid egga the table graee , And smoking rolls are in the'r place , Say—what ealivena every iace ? The paper . 7 n tain the vxn . isblssing hot , In Tata rich hyson stores the pot , If tbe Tile newsman has not brought The paper . What 1 st can make the man of lav "Neglect the deed orplea to draw , Ca sa . Fi . / d , indictment flaw ? The paper .

      " What ia * t can soothe his client's -woe , And make him quite forget John Boe , As well as Mr . Richard Roe 7 The paper What ist absorbs the wealthy rit , The half-pay rob , the fool , the wit , The toothless aunt , the forward chit ? The paper What ia * t informs the country round "What ' s stolen or strayed , irb&FsIost or fouBd ^ - Whft ' fl born , and who ' s put under ground j The paper What tells yon all that ' s done and said , — The fall cf meal , the rise of bread , And how the Yankees « go a-head" ? The paper

      What is it giYes the price of stock , Tells of the plans of the sew dock . And eTery ship that rounds " tie rock" ? The paper . What speaks of thieves . and purses taken , And murders done , and maids forsaken , JLnd average price of Wiltshire tacon ? The paper "What is it tells the farmer ' s loss , Of oxen , cows , and sheep , and horse , Aid how the tariff does Y > ly \ erosa ? The paper .

      Abroad , at home , infirm or stoat , In health , otiaTing with the « out , Who possibly x&n do without The paper ?

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      TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM . Te friends of freedom , would you brave Tyrannic rage , and free the slave -Proimnirty , -want asd paia ? Enlighten first the human mind With ideas of the noblest kind ; Then break oppression ' s chain Why do ye stanre ? see nature's sofl In rich abundance round yon smile , The gift of earth and heaven i The valleys sing , the hOls rejoice , "HTjiJe man , ttw slave of ev * ry vice , Prom all their sweet * is driven .

      BeQeTenot those whose lawless might Usurps by fraud , your native right , In pilsces to dwelL Their strength is in your lack of aense ; To keep your labour , gold and pence , Tbeir barrier , i ^ your heU 2 2 fow justice calls ; the truth obey > Tour mental fetters cast away , In reason ' s purest light ; And be ye free to breathe the air From all the ills of sordid care , In moral manhood bright .

      Stoop not in Tain , to slave and toil Por titled fraud that robs the soil , And lives in idleness ; Tour gardens dress—your meadows no 7 , And reap the corn , you sweat to bow , To feed the fatherless . Kor be "fey views aUur'd astray , When on jour radient sober way An erring world to save ; Jf or let ignoble passions rise To draw you from the peerless prize , To ruin and the grave .

      When right » h ^ I reign , and kininess smile O'er sasore ' s rich productive soil , Instead of tyranny 5 Sublimely high your jiags unf url'd Will wave all o ' er this ponde rous world In glorious harmony . And labour ' s boos is peace will live , "While heaven and earth their treasures give Man's social £ dnis " to'Hes » j Ho kings "will rule—no lords be known , When men no prond superiors own , To bfigbt their happiness . J . Booth . pm cottage , near lutton Mill , Wigan .

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      TBE POOB . MAX'S COMPANION , A POLITICAL AED STATISTICAL ALMANACK FOR 1 S 44 . Leeds : J . Hobson , Market-street . London : Cleave , Sboe-lane . Were we , of * the race that write , " at all like ordiiiarj mortals , we should occasionally find ourselves in seme qneer diJemmas . For instance , an Editor is allowed to praise or censure any book , the wortrof another ; and who shall gainsay his peiogative 2 Sat let him tarn Author himself , and Jet him be judged by the law to which others are subject , lie ¦ would be deemed presumptions indeed , were be to praise his own handiwork . Fortunately , the mystezious ** we" is often the ** outward and visible sign " of some "best possible pubic linstrnctor" with more Leads than one . This , ( Allah be praiEed J ) is our case . Tine , we have nDt quite so many eyes as Argus ;

      but we nave more than one good pair constantly on the look oni ; and , this being the xase , onr readers may take 11 for granted that we bare a head for erery pair of * j ^ a , u > say nothing of " grey-goose ijnilis" in proportion . Courteous public ! we hare a book to review : a Threepenny Annual of real " Useful Knowledge " and sterling common sense ; mailers not to be got for threepence every day ; and indeed but rarely fonndin btoks of larger s . za ard costlier price . Our leaders will bare not forgotten the name of the publisher ; and if ^ ny of them think they have heard ' somewhere thai the name of Editor of this paper is very like t&avof the almanack publisher , we beg of them not to forget what Tve have just said about beads ; and t > suppose that ** Ke . 2 , " ~ Xo . 3 , " or any other u Jfo . " ibej please , is thai which , under ihe Editorial ** we , " bow discourseth to them .

      We bad written Urns far when , in casting our eye 3 upon a baek number of our ever racy contemporary , Punch , we observed a review by Punch ' s own self of Pnnch ' s Pocket Book for 1 S 44 . " Avast "with all maiden-like coyness , after ibis i Gentle reader , whether it be * We" Ko . 1 , " We" No . 2 , or " -We " r » o . 3 , ' twill matter not . We have Punch for a precedent % and , quoting M 3 words , we say , ffofcen ' s Poor Man ' s Companion for IS 44 " as jfusst-jraxe is STTEST DiS'iKIJtEST . " To thins of adding to the above recommendation ; to try to improve spon the Delphian words of the grea * . oracle of wit and wisdom , Punch , would be worse tlian moon-struck madEes' "We might as well try

      " To rDd refined gold , to paint the lily ; To throw a perfume en tee violet . " We will , therefore , let our readers judge for them-EelTes , = 0 far as a Fpecimen will enable them to do , of tne work before as . Let us premise the principal of the contents . in adcnicn to the usual information in an Almanack , there will be fonnd , amongsi many other highly mponant toW « » " A return of the number of all persons wmmitied to anv dHeou in England or By

      v v ^ 7 ? c ' ffence ~ m a Union WojknonEC estabr ^ f ?*? £ ^ P « maoia of the Poor Law Amend-7 P o fn i Tnis retarn comprises the years 1 « 35 , ^ > ii V i aEd 2 > * xh : biuEg , at one view , the ^ 2 ^ . ° ?^ "B oon . " in the manufacture of crime ; " scewing that in the last seven years , no Je * - " »« i-un Avusand eight hundred and sixty-nine persons have been committed to prison Jor breaches of jearly , from the lstcf Jarmaiv . IRlfi tn + K « si < rt J

      ilS ^^ ffl ^ kJ- /^ wSmake&l l ° P 0 llu ? 0 lice ' This alone mmwrn in each year from 18 ? 0 tSi \ & v ? & ** P ? fr ^ li ° r ^ wiea ^ Kl % SoS Act which have bypassed from the re 5 ^ offfl ^!? i ° * 5 £ -J «« M » t toe ; and showing also iff" rii IaTO ^ not a matter ofvester lyT ^^ y- ^ pose ; but th&Uney have been in full oS 2 ^ mS ^ J ^ S ^ tS ^ SSSS ^ Mcrtahty mEngiaadiB & docnment of nS 3 SSSc £ !

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      The Censoa of 1841 , and tables cempiled therefrom , is one of the most important features of the book We give the following extracts from sn article of surpassing importance entitled : —

      THE STATISTICS 07 CRIME . One of ike greatest anomalies that presents itself to the mind of the enquirer , in relation to the Conditionof-England-qaestiori , is the fact that with the vast increase in our means of producing vxailh , and the increase in the aggregate amount of wealth , there should be such an increase In the amount of CBiHE . We have increased our means of producing wealth ; for it Is now computed , by persons conversant with the subject , that we have a non-conBumin ^ 'producing power , mechanical and chemical , equal to U » labonr of lix hundred mfflien pail uf "hands , " in addition to the manual labour of the country ; while , fifty yean ago , the mechanical and chemical producing power was computed as equal to

      only fifteen million pair-of hinds-, we have increased the aggregate amount of wealth ia the country ; for while the pessessions of our legitimate aristocracy have tremendonaly risen in value , -we have also bad brought into existence beneath eur -very noses , another AHis-TOCRACT OF TTEAXTH AND lOKG CHIMNIES , more powerful , and mart xctallby , than the legitimate aristocracy itself 3 so much so , that it was made matter of ioast at public meetings by the " Capitalists" themselves , that "they are able to buy-up the Aristocracy of England : " and we have also had an increase of crime ; for the Criminal Records , for the last forty years shew an increase seyen TIMES t » amount ! Of Vne tutee facta just enumersted there can be no doubt .

      The latter fact is most humiliating to us , as a nation . One of the old characteristics of England was , the good conduct of its p&pulation ; and in no particular was this good conduct more conspicuous , than In obedience to the laves . Englishmen have ever been famed for great skill , indomitable perseverance , and untiring industry : but , above all , and before all , h&vo they been famed for a ready and cheerful obedience to authority . It has ever been matter of boast that the appearance of a constable's batoon was sufficient to uphold the majesty of the law : that before it the most turbulent quailed ; the most strong fell powerless . Nor was this ready and cheerful obedience to law , witbeld from the enactments that secured life and property . In no country on earth tras property more secure , or life or limb more respected than in England . It is notorious that this was the fact . Whatever , then , can have wroughtthe change in the character of our population that the Criminal Statistics indicate ?

      Such a result certainly ou « ht not to have accompanied the increase in our means of producing wealth . Tbat incnase , ordinary men would say , &hould rather have tended to repress Crime : and it undoubtedly -would have had sneb an tffect , bad proper means existed to diiinbuU to ill their lair share of the wealth resulting from such increased mean& There never was an instance on earth of a hard-working and skilful population , who could by the exercise of their bodily powers and their ingenuity , procure the necessaries and some of the comforts of life ; there never was An instance of a people so situate , becoming thieves and robbers . Crime , under sucb circumstances , 1 b comparatively unknown . But , on the other hand , there never was an instance where hardwork and great skill did vd secure for the labourers plenty to eat , and drink , and wear , that CRIHE did not abound . And can this be wondered at ? Could any other result be expected ? Povebtt is the great parent of Cbihb . It is the

      fashion to attribute it to *• ignorance " : but an " ignorant" people , -well-fed and -well-dad , -will not tbie- » e and Steal They may " ahog-on" thron § h life , not living ; dead to all intellectual sensibility ,- unable to appeciate the leastpof the glorious emanations of mind . They may be all this ; but they will tot pilfer and rob . They would have no inducement . The only wants they would know of , their animal ones , would be sufficiently pro-Tided for : why then should they not respect property ? Bat with an ill-fed people ; with a population starving ; with extreme poverty as the lot of THE "W 0 BKKBS , amid stores of unheaped wealth ; with a state of things like ihit , what else can be expected than that " taking " should be resorted to ? Will " intellectual acquirements ' ever convince & people bo circumstanced that it iB their duty to starve ? Will ail the " edncation" in the world -teach men so sitnaled , that it is their duty to lie down and die , that property may be respected ? It would be arrant folly to expect it !

      Poverty amongst the workers most ever indure CRl M E : and the only way to remove the foul stain from oS the Record of our national Morality , is for our rulers to better the physical condition of the people . THB 3 have THE meabs TO Do this . Those means superabound . When they have acquired -the knowledge how to apply them to that rwult , then will they decrease crime . But until they do so apply those abundant means , all their other tfforts will be vain , as they have hitherto been . They may multiply the police and constabnlary forces ; they may build a prison in every town ;

      they may introduce their " silent" and their " separate " systems of discipline ; they may increase the rigour of the " rules : " they may do all this , and increase tbe number of places of worship , and ministers of the gospel ; nay , they may even M educate" tbe people , either in Poseyite or Dissenting schools : they may do whatever they list , or misdirected ingenuity can devise .- bnt until they mend the THTSICal CoKDITIOK of the labourers , the ? Ttcver-will jna a slop even t 9 ( he fnrrcaseo / CRlHE . Let them however once exterminate Poverty ; and Crime will be found to have taken ifca flight also .

      Thai fhU -anik nfj-xi&nnlnatian is much needed , the following DAMiuiiG &EC 0 BD but too abundantly prc ^™ , * It is taken from the Criminal Rbtchns for 1843 . Let it be looked at , even though with shame ; for IT IS a great pact , and ought to be extensively known , that the proper means to rtcedy it may be devised . The tabular statement is extracted from tbe "Criminal Tables / or the year 1842 ; " prec&ded by "Explanations and calculations , by Mr . Redgrave , of the Home Office , who c * mpiled amd prepared tbe said Tables . " "The Criminal Tables compiled from the Registers of Commitmeata for Trial , kept in the Home Department , again show ft considerable increase ; and the numbers in 1842 exceed those of the preceding year by 3549 persons , « r 12 8 per cent Tbe progressive increase of Commitments , which , with a slight exception in 1838 , has continued daring the last seven years , and within that period has reached nearly 50 per cent , U 9-2 j is shown by the following figures : —

      1836 20 . 984 ; increase 1-0 per cent 1837 23 612 ; „ 12-5 „ 1838 „ 23 094 ; decrease 2-2 „ 1839— 24 . 443 ; increase 5-8 ,, 18 4 0 27 , 187 ; „ 11-2 „ 18 4 1 27 , 760 ; „ 2-1 „ 1342 31 , 309 ; „ 12-8 „ " "Within tbe above seven years , in the extensive and populous Counties of York , Lancaster , Chester , Stafford , and Salop , tfce Commitments haTe donbled ; and also in Monmonth . Rutland , and Westmoreland .

      " To show how far this great increase has arisen in the MaEufacturing , as compared with the Agricultural Counties , tbe following calculations have been made of the aggregate increase of Commitments , during tbb last three years , in tbe thirteen English Counties , having relatively the largest proportional mannfacturing and mixed , and agricultural population . In the Counties classed as agricultural , the agrienJtnral population , in the Ctdsos of 1831 , ranged from 56 to 45 per eent . ; in the Counties classed as manufacturing and mixed , the proportion of that population ranged from 96 to 71 per cent . Then follows a most valuable mass of Statistics ranged nnder appropriate heads and occupying not less than eight pages of Nonpareil type . We have not room to enumerate even the heads ; the reader mnst refer to the woik itself . The ariicJe thus concludes : —

      It mnst be borne in mind that the foregoing Tables and Calculations relate only to England and Wales . There are separate Tables for Scotland and Ireland . In Scotland , the number of persons committed for trial or trailed , for the year 1842 , was 41 S 9 . Of that number , 284 were transported ; 2609 iiuprEoned , for various periods ; 221 fined ; 11 discharged en rarefies ; 20 received no sentence ; 31 cntlawed ; 8 fuund insane ; 388 not guilty ; and G 16 diicharged wiihout trial . If we add the 4189 efftcders in ScotJaEd * o the 31 . 309 iu England , -we shall ODd tbe total . M 3 MBEB . of Committals M Crime in Grzat Bkitai : * , for the year 1842 , to be 35 4581

      To Bhow at a glance what tbe regular increase of crime has been during tbe last forty jears , iLe tumbtr of Committals for each year , from 2 £ 05 to 1 S 43 is here given . It Bhoald be remarked tha t prior to tha year 1805 , no authentic record of committals was kept . What reason our forefathers had for not " booking " them , we can scarcely at present divine : it might be that tiere were so few , that it was not ( itemed of importance to note thtxo- Be that as it »; ay . the Record since 1805 is sufficiently degiaulng to oor national character . It plainly indicates that wL bavc social diseases at work , eating into tbe moral htart of socletj : and the lesson to be drawn from it la , that we stand much iu need of a physician . Where is teat pbjsicinn to be ° IIere are the facto : fatts in figurts . They tell a woeful tale J INCBEASB OV CB 1 ME . Year , C ^* " ^ j £ T ^ ^ jj SK ^ 1805 4 , 605 flSls ] 13 . 932 | 1831 19 647 6 4 346 I 19 14 . 254 i 20 * 29 7 I 4 ; 4 46 J 1820 13 . 710 3 26 072 8 4 735 1 18115 4 22 451 ' 5 350 ! 2 12 , 241 B « 20 . 731 is / o ! UK | i > « . «;; g-g ; 11 ¦ 5 337 * 12 , 968 7 23 . 612 13 ; 6576 S 1 *^* 37 8 23 . 094 £ ¦ ' 7 164 «¦ 16 . 164 9 24 443 J ! ^ lilt T 17 . 2 ^ 40 27 . 187 11 9 898 8 16 , 564 1 27 , 760 2 = lill * " •» * 31 > 17 33 . SS 2 i 1 S 30 18107

      We commence in 1805 with 4605 ; we end in 1142 with 3 ? S ? ofjnst upon a seven TiBSS isceease ! I » t > t it too walked- " where to » we going" ? An article from the pen of the compiler on "The New Tar ff-K Trade-and the Condirion of the People" concludes the work . The whole com-SIVy-fourpageBof closely but neatly printed mattered tbe price Tinee Peace ! To our readers

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      we can conscientiously recommend The Poor Man ' s Companion , feelinj ? assured that they have but to read it to acknowledge , as they will do one and all , that it is " fikst rate in kyeet department . " .

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      THE SPEECH OF MR . GEORGE GAME DAY , ON "FREE TRADE" AND THE "FREE TRADERS . Tenth edition ; Prioe Sixpence . London : Olliver , 59 , Pall-mall . We have heard much of the " triumphs" of the Anti-Cora Law League at the various county meetings held within the last twelvemonth . These triumphs have been trumpeted forth as a sort of wholesale conversions of the farmers ; but which conversions we know to be all a hum , the meetings beiBg composed generally not of farmers bat of oountry shopkeepers , and all the hangers-on and dnpeB of the League which can be colleoted together for miles round by the thirty shilling agents Bent for that purpose a week or two previous . Of eonrse a few farmers attend the meeting out of curiosity ; and when the counter-jumpers and penny-whistlers have had their yell for "Free Trade , ' * forthwith we have it announced that the oounty of —— - has

      proclaimed fer the movement ! or that— -shire has iasued its " pronunciamento . " Glorious triumphs . ' " Down with your dust , boys ! . Swallow yoar gruel , you Spooney , aad tip us your five hundreds . We ' re the lads to spend it for you" 1 At some places the farmeiB have mustered , and the result has been the thrashing of the mouthers , instead of the conversion" of the listeners—Huntingdon to wit . There Bright John ana Roguey O'Moore got such a dressing aa -will induce them , we should think , to eschew any further attempts at " pronunciamemos" in that portion of " the agricultural districts . " Take our advice dear John and Rogue ;; confine yoar displays to ticket meetings and eighteen penny admission " talk 8 . " Don ' t try the open air . The Da ^ -light is far kx > strong for you whose "deeds being evil , " have had to grope through the "darkness" of in-door " snuggeries "; wherever you are knowu , because , being known , you arejuBtly hated by your wretched setfs and trampled upon slaves .

      On the 17 th June last , a county meeting" was held at Huntingdon , when , after Messrs . Bright and Moore had had their say , Mr . G . G . Day , a goatleman residing in the neighbourhood , replied to their mystifications , and of course the' gentleman' repealers ( John ana Roguey ) did not fail to exhibit their good breeding by the most unseemly and disgraceful interruptions during the speech of their talented opponent . We hardly wonder at their loss of temper ( if they had any to lose ) when wo consider the terrific castigation to Tvhich they were subjected . Their constant interruption is a proof how every stroke of the lash wielded by Mr . Day told upon tbeir wincing carcases . Mr . Day took up the arguments of the Freebooters one after the other , and in the most admirable manner confuted their miserable sophisms , 'tearing them to pieces and hurling them in their teeth . " The result was their complete discomfiture ; their free-trade amendment being rejected by a large majority .

      l > o extract that we could find room for would do justice to this excellent speech . The whole must be read for the full appreciation of its merits . At the close of the " speech" is an exposure of the unblushing falsehoods of Mr . Roguey Random Robert Moore which would make that personage , were he not a Leaguer , ashamed to exhibit himself in the eompany of any man or men having the least regard for truth . A precious specimen he is of the honesty of the whole gang .

      The present edition being the tenth , we should suppose that the original cost of publication has long since been returned . We therefore submit to Mr . Day the propriety of publishing a " People ' s Edition" at the price of a penny . At its present price it is beyond the reach of the mass of those who ought to peruse it . Hoping that this suggestion may be be acted upon , we , in the meantime , heartily recommend the present Edition to Chartist lecturers , working men ' s reading rooms , and all who can afford to purchase it .

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      m ?^ i * bta rests * food , and have not a symptom re ^ miningof what tuned to experience when I felt occaslonallyaa if my life was ebbing away . Thus I am " » " ? ipewuaded . In my own mind , and by my own experience , Wufirhitng as it does the testimony of many ; able and important judges , that the very medicine we take in this manner to give us strength , does in reality produce an increase of feintness , lassitude , and general debility , " T jj , e ¦ ' * "Voice" will be found an able auxiliary to the lemperance Movement , and should bo read by all seekers after truth .

      THE REBEL PROVOST , OR THE TWO CITIZENS . Glasgow , Miller , Bell-street . Thia is a tale of Glasgow in the olden time , by J . O . yLa Mont , whose recent work , " The Grave of Cremus , ' we lately reviewed , It ia in the author ' s usual Btyle , having for its moral that which the author never omits , the beauty of virtue and the advancement of the cause of universal liberty . We give the annexed picture of Glasgow as it wan : would that some features of the pioture had been retained amidst the mass of modern improvements ; there would then be less of that misery and filth abounding which so disgraces tha " Queen of the West" at the present time .

      . ; GLASGOW AS 11 WAS . " An hundred and thirty yeara ago , the Western Metropolis possessed not even the semblance of those towiuhip qua lifications that now elevate her to the highest and the fltat raDk amongst the structures of the universe . With solitary exceptions , her streets were narrow , crooked , and dirty- the bouses , then , though chiefly built of free-atone , presented not the traits of beauty and of elegance in their externals , that so much adorn and enrich her present appearance . Tfley were built Of irregular height , and boasted no feature in architecture , save wBat the eccentric , or . if you like it . in dependent whim of the loirds thought proper to evince . The Tplbooth , the Hi * ' Kirk , and the College were the pride of the oitizans in the olden time , as the two latter especially claim the admiration of her sons in our own day . :

      • ' Tie Saut-Mercatand Hie'lGate were then the prino \ pa \ ma » u of beauty as well as trade . In both streets , adjoining the Tolbooth , the shops were all within pi&zzos , which gave the city in that quarter an elegant appearance , by the number and regularity of the lengthy line of pillars . The wares within , especially in the Saut-Mercat , were of costly inaieriel , chitfly intended for tbe , " custom '' of the wealthy citizens . However much a modern may doubt or ridicule tbe belief , it ib a fact , and tba renmii > 8 of elegai . ee still observable attest its truth , that to a stranger visiting Glasgow these shops appeared of singularly imposing grandeur .

      " The Saut-Mercat and Hie' Gate , by right » f eminence as direct thoroughfares , and trade emporiums , claimed priority of attention from strangers who might then yi&it the gude toon . The curve-line formed by the junction of tbe Hie' Gate and Saut-Mercat described the entire length of the city , which might extend some three-fourths of a mile , a little way from tbe Green , or Clyde , en the south , to the upper termination of the Hie Gate , at the " Castle Loan . " On the north-westward , where tho present commerce , trade , and grandeur of Glasgow seat their focus , there was , at that time ,: scarcely a vestige of hamlet or inhabitants . Tow&Tda the north-east , from the Galloway to tho Hie ' Kirk , the city was chieHy populated ; and there did the toiling and the l&gy , the virtuous and the ae ' er-do-weel ,

      tho thrifty and the vicious , accumulate comfort and peace ; poverty and crime . From lack of labourers , few of the puir folks of those days , willing to labour , went to tbe labour market without returning with their due reward . Young men , by industry and frugality , and the perseverence uf a few short years , seldom made respectability an aim without attaining their object . The worth ; had always affluence within their reach , without grasping at a favourable circumstance , or seizing an advantage . There were no signs of poverty apparent , unless where and when indulgence in sloth , or participation in crime were the agents visible that ranked the fallen with the few who were shunned by the well-meaning as wicked and worthless . "

      Though printed at Glasgow , we presume the work can be had of the London publishers .

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      day' to be held throughout the nation , to celebrate the triumph of Protestanism amidst tbe blackened walls and the mangled corpses of the ill-fated inhabitants of Drognedal" -j

      CHARACTER OF CROMWELL IW IRELAND . " Cromwell left behind him a name in Ireland , which is mentioned with feorror down even to the present day . 'The corse of Cromwell light on you ! ' or , may you sufFar airthat a tyrant like Cromwell would jnfl'O ^ -is one of the most blighting imprecations which an Irishman can use . The massacres of Wexfotd and Drogkeda are yet green iu the ; memory of the people ol Ireland ; and not Only is Cromwell hated aa the author of these horrible atrocities , but , as if these were not enough , he is also denounced as ' the author of numberless cruelties and acts of destruction in places that he never so much as visited . In almost ail parts of Ireland traditions are preserved of the atrocity of the Bloody Cromwell , ' aud ruins are pointed out hundreds of miles

      distant from the tract of country to which his operations were comflned , as : the work of this cruel and exterminating destroyer ^ Ifc would seem as if upon his memory Were thrown the infamy of all the crimes which the Royalist ^ Confederates , and Puritans had committed , even before he dreamed of coming to . the country . The atrocities , also , of the v Parliamentarian army , which fee left behind him to complete the subjugation of the country , seem all to hive beau set down to the . account of the ' Bloody Cromwell . ' 'This is partly owing . ' says Dr . Taylor , * to the artifices of those who wished to persuade the Irish , in a subsequent generation , to take Up arms in defence of the House of Stuart ; and still nibre to the conduct of his soldiers and their descendants , who so long swayed tho destinies of Ireland . '" i

      THE SIEGE OFiDERRY— " NO SURRENDER . " " James and hia generals were completely disconcerted by this spirited defence of the citizens . The siege was pressed , and the artillery plied their missiles of destruction against the place with greater perseverance than ever . The citi 8 « ns , f taunting James and his army , sent to tell them they might spare their powder and shot in making a breach , as the gates were thrown open to them , and they might enter if thpy dared . After eleven days of assault , James withdrew from the siege , irritated nnd disappointed s aud in a tone of querulous rage , he reproached tbe Irish soldiers for allowing thera-Retves to be foiled ; exolaiming that ' had they bet-n English they couldjliave brought him the walls stone by stone . ' Marshal ! RoBe : t was left in command of the French and Irish forces ; and Jame 3 left for Dublin , to open in person the Irish Parliament .

      " Marshal Rouen , conducted the siege with vigour and perseverance ; I but Btill without success . The gallant spirit ef itho garrison remained unabated . Though suffering fri > m famine , from disease , and pestilence , their rallying cry was still , No surrender : Long nights of wafching , days and weeks of fasting , and months of fatigue and suffering , and constant danger , had not broken down the spirits of the brave defenders of DerryJ Their clergy inspired them with new courage , preached consolation to them by day and night , and kept up their hope and faith by renewed promises of success j T « ro months had now passed ^ and the famine bad become dreadful within the walls . The most loathsome objects were devoured as food , horselesn , dogs , cats , rats , and mice , and even salted and

      dried hides , were eagerly sought after and purchased . At length help approached : a fleet of thirty sail waB observed within sight , laden with supplies for their relief . The belp bad come from England , where the news or the garrison ' s brave defence Lad now reached . The fleet was under the command of Major-General Kirk , a thorough-paced miscreaut , whose cruel butcheries in the south of Euglamf , when in the service of King James , had made him both feared and generally detested . It is inexplicable how William should have selected such a sc ^ uudrel for tile command in Such 0 delicate and important affur as tne relief of the

      beleagued Protestant city of the north . But be did so ; and Ktrk , whose heart was utterly hardened against the sufferings of bis follow-creatures , made no attempt to relieve tba garrison , but taunted them with messages , and finally sailed away wifehont granting them the slightest relief . The Irish army , encouraged by Ws delay , made haate to oppose him by throwing a boom across tbe river , and planting butteries against his ships . His ironical parting advice to the besiegers , before setting sail down Loch Foylt-, was « to be good husbands of their provisions '—an advice from which tbey had a too melancholy presage of the dreadful suffering that followed .

      " Fancy the thousands of hungry eyes watching the fleet Of Ships filled with provisions , almost securely within their reach ;] and then , heart-sick , famished , aud utterly hopeless , imagine the wild shriek ef agony which rose upon the air , when they saw the ships destined for their succour , swing from their moorings , set sail , and disappear . What a blight has now fallen upon tbe withered ! hearts of the besiegera . Surely they must now surrender , having not a hope of rescue left . But no t The cry ia still ' no surrender 1 ' Gaunt and half-dying men stalk , like spectres , about

      the streets , threatening death to the traitor who should speak of a surrender , Tho plague was now within tha walls , to add its horrors to the famine and sufferings of the siege . Food , ] even the most l 93 th » 0 me , TTaS scarcely now to be bad ; but the garrison , with desperate , and seemingly not with empty threat , declared that they would ' eat the Irish , and then one another , eooner than yield 1 ' General Hamilton , one of the leaders of the besieging Irish , endeavoured to subdue the Derrymen by fejndness and entreaty ; but they reproached him with ! his treachery , aud still reiterated ' noBmTwatir . ,, u—L * ...... _ r . ... * _

      " The garrison were now redaced to the very last stage of famine and despair . The preachers could now no longer cheer them . ' Our spirits sunk , and our hopeswere expiring , ' says Mackenzie ; and the thousands within the walls of D 6 rrjr looked forward only to capitulation or death . The defenders , bat lately so valiant , now wan and haggard , conld scarce crawl along the dismal streets , i Many fell down as they walked , and died where they lay . The air became laden with the noisome pestilence . But joy came at last Cheer up , brave men of Derry , for help is at hand . After all your long and weary watchings , —after famine , and suffering , and wretchedness . —bope is fulfilled , and tbe . defenders see relief approaching at last

      " It wa& a bright summer day , the 30 th of July , that straining eyes , looking out across tbe waste of waters towards the north-east , beheld some ships approaching . The news spread , and crowd ' s turned out to gale . Soon the ships were seen beating up the beautiful waters of Lough Fosle , andj rapidly nearing the city . They proved to be the Dartmouth frigate , with a convoy of three vessels laden ! with provisions . The eyes of the famishing thousands wore at once rivetted upon them , in atl the earnestness of suspense and expectation . But there Still Jay the ' enemy's boom between them and their approaching aid . The Irioh meanwhile manned tbeir batteries en either side of the Lough , and thundered against the j approaching ships / which briskly

      returned the fire . . One of the victuallers now reached the boom , and striking against it with great force , snapt it asunder ; ] but the rebound drove tho vessel ashore . The Irish j shouted with joy , the besieged on the walls groaned in despair . Suddenly the Irish prepared to board he » i when , firing a broadside against them , she righted , and floated off . The little fleet now passed the boom together , and sailed slowly stnd safely up to the quays of tbo city . The delirium of joy which succeeded can only be imagined . The multitude which crowded round tbe ships c « uld only gasp their thanks : they bad scarcely strength left to speak them . And yet strength was found to set the bella of the battered cathedral ringing , while the cannon thundered at occe death ' fand rejoicing from the w ; illa .

      " On the day following , Marshal Rosen raised the siege , which had lasted one hundred and five days . Altogether , about 9 , 000 people bad perished within the walls , during tb > t period , from famine , disease , and the shot of tbe enemy . And thup ended the famous aiege of Derry , one jof the best contested Struggles between half-armed citizens behind tbuir walls , and" a numerous and well-appointed , army . Though tae defence was one of Protestants against Catholics , yet it was a defence of which all Ireland may be justly proud . There is one other ! nuble defence of the same Kind which it yet falls toju * to record—namely , the defence of Limerick , by the Irish Catholics , which also proves , no less than Derry ; . jtliG indomitnble courage , fortitude , and endurance , of which all ranks and classes of Irishmen aro capable . It is now full time that history were deprived of its party taint , and that Irishmen of all creeds cherished in common tba memory-of * such glorious defences as thoaa of Derry and Limerick .

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      DB 3 TRUCriOi \ OF THE INQUISITION AT ! MADRID . The Rev . Mr . Kellogg , Principal of Knox College , Illinois , United States , and who rfcently attended the annual meetings of iha London Missionary Society at Leeds and Bradford , ! sent the following account of the destruction of the inquisition at Madrid , first , to the Wettein Citizen , ptiblis&ed ufc Chicago , Illinois ; and afterwards to a London paper . ! t is the substance ol a lecture delivered by Colonel L rnivonski , in the cabin , of a steam-boat , in which thoy were fellow passengers . Colonel Lemanonski was for more than twenty years an officer under Napoleon . He has fought scores of battles , received fourteen wounds , lived on horse-flesh and the bark of trees , with snow and ice for bis beverage , and once , at least , in bis life , maddened with thirst , has opened a vein ind drank his own blood . After these deeds and sufferings of martial life , he has been for some years a minister of Christ in the United States . But , ad raw . —

      In the year 1809 , being then at Madrid , my attention was directed to tbe Inquisition in the neighbourhood of that city . Napoleon bad previously issued a decree for ttie suppression of tbifl institution , wherever his victorious troops ahouldjextend their arms . I reminded Matshal Soult , then-Governor of Madrid , of tais decree who directed me to proceed to destroy it . I informed him that my regiment , the 9 fch of the Polish Lancers was insufficient for pitch a service , but that if he would give mo two additional regimentH I would Undertako the work . He accordingly gave me the two required regiments , one of which , the ll 7 th , was under the command of Celonel de IUle , who is now , like myself , a minister ef the gospel . He ia pastor of one of the evangelical eburches ' in Marseilles . Witb these troops

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      I proceeded forthwith to the Inquisition , whicii WM sftoated about five miles from the city . The Inquisition was surrounded by a wall of great strength , andde « fended by about 400 soldiers . When we arrived at toe wall I addressed one of the Sentinels , and surBtneiwa the holy fathers to surrender to the Imperial army , and open the gates of the Inquisition . The sentinel , who was Btanding on the wall , appeared to enter into conversation for a few moments w ; th some one within , at the close of which he presented his mu * k ¦ and shot one of my men . This was a signal for attack and I ordered my troops to fire upon those -who appeared on the wall .

      It was soon obvious that It was an unequal wnrfarer The walls of the Inquisition wore covered with the soldiers of the ho ' y office ; there was alss a breastwork upon the wall , behiud which they kept coatinually , only as they partially exposed themselves when they discharged their muskets . Our troops were in the open plain , and exposed to a destructive fire . VW had eo cannon , nor could we scale tbo walls , and the £ atea successfully resisted all attempts at forcing th-m . I saw that it was necessary to CbaDge the mode of .. uaclr » and directed some trees to be cut down and trinnued , and brought on the ground to be used as battering rarnB ^ Two of them were taken up by detacbmn ^ s of men , as numerous as could work to ao ' vantage , and brought to bear upon the walla with all the power

      which they eouid exert , regardless of the Ere ' . rtiicn was poured upon them from the walls . PifeaeuUy tha walls began to tunable , and under the well-directed and persevering application of the ram , a breach was K . ade , and the imperial troops rushed into the Inquisition . Here we met with an incident which nothing but Jesuitical effrontery is fqaal to . The Inquisitor ( . funeral , followed by the Father Confessor la their priestly robes , all came out of their rooms a % we vrere making our way into tbe interior of the Inquisition , and rrath long faces , and arms crossed over tbeir breasts ttielr fingers resting on their shoulders , as though the j bad been deaf to all the noise of the attack and defence , and had but just learned what was going on , they addressed themselves in the language of rebuke to tbeir ov ••

      soldiers , saying— . " ¦ Why do you fight our friends , tha Freneh ?" Their intention , apparently , was to ms . ke ns Vbink , that this defence was wholly unauthorised by u . em , hoping , if they could produce in out naiads a b < Atf , thai they were friendly , they should have a bett- r opportunity in the confusion and plunder of the 1 ¦ qnlsition to escape , l'htir artifice was too shallow md did not succeed . 1 caused them to be placed under guard , and all of the soldiers of the Inquisition «„ ¦¦ ba secured as prisoners . We then proceeded to ex-uuina the prison-house of hell . We passed through i oom after room , found altars and cruciflx-is , and wax caudles in abundance , bnt could discover no evidences of iniquity being practised there : nothin ? of those

      peculiar features which we expected to fiad in an Ij . uuiaition . Here was beauty and splendour , and the most perfect order on which my eyes had ever rested . The architecture—the proportions were perfect . Tho ceding and floors of wood were scoured and highly poi wtied . The marble floors were arranged with a strict regfT . l tO order . There was everything to please the ey- and gratify a cultivated taste ; but where were those horrid instruments of torture of which we had been told , and where those dungeons in which human brings were said to be buried alive 1 We searched in vain . The holy fathers assured us that they had been beludthat we had seen all ; and I was prepared to givt up the search , convinced that this Inquisition was- different from others of which I had heard .

      But Colonel De Lile was not so ready as mysrtf to give up the search , and said to me , ' Colonel you are commander to-day , and , aa you say , so it must be ; but , if you will be advised by me , let this marble fl >< r be examined more . Let some water be brought in , and poured upon it , and . we will watch , and see , if tbj : a is any place through which it passes more freely than others . " I replied , "do as you please , Colonel , " * od ordered water to be brought accordingly . The Blabs of marble were large and beautifully polishbd . When the water had been poured 07 er the floor , much to the dissatisfaction of the Inquisitors , a careful examination was made of every seam in the door , to see if tho water passed through . Presently Colonel do Lile exclaimed , that he had found it . By the side of one of thes ©

      marble slabs the water passed through fast , as though there was an opening beneath . " All hands wore now at work for further discovery . The officers with their swords , and the soldiers with their bayonets , se . king to clear ! out the seam and rise up the slab . Others , with the butta of their muskets ; striking the slab with all their might to break it , wbile the priests remonstrated against our desecrating their holy and beautiful bousa While thus engaged , a soldier , who was str : king with the butt of his musket , struck a spring , and the slab flaw up . Then the faces of the Inquisitors grew pale , and , as Belshaezir , when the hand writing appeare I on the wall , ao did these men of Belial shake and quake in every bone , joint , and sinew . We looked beneath the marble slab , now partly up , and we saw a staircase . I

      slapped to the table , and took frem the candlestick one of-the candles , four feet in length , which was burning , that I might explore what was before us . Aa 1 was doing this , I was arrested by one of the Inquisitors , who laid his band gently on my arm , and with a very demure and holy look , said , " My son , you must not take that with your profane and bloody hand ; it ia holy . " " Well , well , " I said , " I want something that ia holy , to see if it will not shed light on iniquity ; I will bear . the responsibility / ' I took tHe candle und . proceeded down the staircase . I now djsfiOViBced why the water revealed to us this passage . 'Under the floor was a light ceiling , except at tbe trap doorj which Cdnld -not-tw reneUrraii ^ oi » . 1 ^ yMC « i » . tha , # vus » G 8 a , oC

      Colde Lile ' s experiment . Aa we teached the ' foot ot the stairs we entered a large square room , which was called the Hall of Judgment . In the centre of it was a large block , and a chain fastened to it . On this they bad been accustomed to place the aC ' -u « ed , chained to his seat . On one side of the room was one elevated seat , eilled the throne of judgment . This the Inqui&or-General occupied , and on either side were seats less elevated for the holy fathers when engaged in the solemn business of the Inquisition , From this room we proceeded to the right , and obtained access to small cells , extending the entire length of the edifice ; and here , what a sight met our eyes J How has therelit ; ion of Jtfsua been abased and slandered by its professed friends .

      These cells were places of solitary confinement , where the wretched objects of Inquisitorial hate were confined year aft « r year , till death released them of their sufferings , and there their bodies were suffered to remain until t ? iey were entirely decayed , and tne rooms had become fit for others to occupy . To prevent this practice being offensive to those who occupied the Inquisition , there-were flues or tubes ftstending to the open Uir , sufficiently capacious to carry off the odour from those decaying bodies In these cells we found , the remains of some who bad paid the debt of nature ; some of them had been dead , apparently , but a Bhort , time ;

      while of others , nothing appeared but their bones , still chained to Vie floor of their dungeon . In others we found the living sufferer of every age aad ef both sexes , from the young man and maiden to those of . threescore and ten years , all as naked as when they were born into > the world . Oar . soldiera immediately applied themselves to releasing these captives of their chains , stripped themselves in part of tbeir own clothing to cover these wretched beings , and were exceedingly anxious to bring them up to the light of day . But aware of the danger , I insisted on their wants being supplied , and beingbrought gradually to the light as they could bear it

      When we had explored these cells , and opened the prison doors of those who yet survived , we proceeded to explore another room on the left .. Here Wd found the instruments of torture , of every kind which the ingenuity of men or devils could invent . At the sight of them , the fury of our soldiers refused any longer to be restrained . They declared , that every inquisitor , monk , and soldier of the establishment deserved to be pa & to the torture . We did not attempt any longer to restrain them . They commenced , at once , the work of torture with the holy fathers . I remained till I saw

      four * different kinds of torture applied , and then retired from the awful scene , which terminated not while one individual remained of the former guilty inmates of this ante-chamber of hell , on whom they could wreak revenge . As soon as the poor sufferers from the cells of the Inquisition could with safety be brought out of th-jir prison to the light of day , ( news haying been spread far and near , that numbers had been rescued from the Inquisition , ) all who had been deprived of friends by the holy office , came to inquire if theirs were among the number .

      O , what a meeting was there J About a hundred who had been buried alive for many years , were bow restored to the active world ; and many of them found here a son and there a brother ,, and some , alas ! could recognise no friends . The scene was buch thai bo tongue can describe . When this work of recognition was over , to complete tha business in which I had engaged , I went to Madrid , and obtained a large quantity of gunpowder , which I placed underneath the edifice , and in its vaults ; and as we applied the slow match , there was a joyfnl sight to thousands of admixing eyes . O ! it would have done your hearts good to see it ; the walls and massive towers of that proud edifice were raised towards the heavens , and -the Inquisition of Madrid was no morel !

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      * The fourth kind of torture from which this , then , daring man of many fights and many horrors , ' ' hurried away with sickened heart , was called the Virgin When used , the prisoner was compelled to embrace it , and it was so constructed with machinery inside , that it returned the , embrace with nnrelaxing and murderona bug : for its embracing the prisoner caused it to thrust forward some iron spikes concealed in its breast , which then pierced the breast of the prisoner . Thus bound and pierced by the Tirgin ' s embrace , the victim learned , by lingering torments , the horrible mockery of the religion of love In the deadly cruelty or its false professors .

      Musical Thieves . —On the nJfihWg » hV \ instant five men , armed with pistJfif n £ jg 5 ii ^ entered the house of John Melia , ; a « agj 3 ^ ' » f * !* g o ' clock in the evening ) who "aWes jymgw |»? of Moygoisb , and feloniously ("" wfSjif&Mti of his bagpipes , leaving him , as ShW » 8 < p * WBgf <' melancholy as the drone of a UiWmi fiff jraWW Sub-Inspector Porter , " that he mayg ' plpf . fo ^ ra ^ has offered a reward for the apj ^ aeltl ^ t&skd discordant villains , ¦¦ Mf § jx& jtf& 1

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      A VOICE FROM THE VINTAGE ; or , THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE . By the Author of " The Women oj England . " London : Fisher and Co . This is a "People ' s Edition , " price One Shilling , of a work not the least recommendation of which is its author ' s name—Mrs . Ellis , the great female moralist of the present day . As an authoress , Mrs . Ellis has , we believe , been the instrument of no small amount of good ; but hitherto her works have been shut out from ttie great bulk of the people whoso means are not equal to the purchasing of expensive publications , and we wish that the work before us had . il' it could have , —been produced at half its present price . No further recommendation will be needed than what the following extracts will themselves convey : —

      THE AUTHOR ' S EXPERIENCE . vi " Without entering generally upon the question of w btaltb , a question which has been circumstantially exa-. Vl mined by jndges more able than mjselt ' , and in relation j ' to which many important and interesting facts are now j el laid before the public , tending clearly to prove , that , 8 ' : instead of buffering frc-m * otal abstinence , moat persons & 1 ; by whom it has been fairly tried , have experienced not h ' only no injury to their health , hut considerable benefit ; ' ei I may perhaps be allowed to add a few words on the T subject of my own _ exrierience , which may poBslbly . it i 1 cTiT > . > nrtditinnal ¦ wp ioht , frr . m thn r . irrnillRtlUir . H nf inv i A 3 eo e in

      h iving beeD , for many years of my life , an obstinate disbeliever in the tfficacy vt temperance principles to iffect any lasting or extensive good ; while of all respectable societies , th ; tt for the promotion of total abstinence—that which I now esteem it an honour and a privilege to advocate , would have been most repulsive to aiy feelings to join . Indeed , such was my contempt for tbe system- altogether , that I often pionounced it to be a mocktry of coniinon sense , and at the same time frequently asserted my belief , that nothing could be mure likely than the restraint of a public pledge to create an immediate inclination 10 break it .

      " For two jbars—years I may say of total ignorance on thi * p"int , ( iuricg "which 1 took no pains to make my&bif better icforHied—I trtated the subject with the tilDiost contempt vrbenevtr it was brought under notice . Bj dfcgreis , however , it began to wear a different aspect before the -woild in gei eral , and facts ¦ were too powerful in its favour to be disputed . By degrees it began also to assume with me somewhat more of a personal character . I could not see how I was right while infJulaing in what W 3 e so ftarfuily destructive to others , acrt to some whom I had known and loved . Yet eucb -sras the force of habit ; sccb my willingness vo believe what doctors told me , that wine was necessary to my health , at that time far from good ; and &ucb , also , was my dependence upoi > stimulants , for increasing the strength of which I often felt miserably in want , that three years more elayeed before I bad tbe resolution to free myself practically , entire , and I now trust for ever , from the slavery of this dangerous habit .

      ' * Four ytaisof total abstinence from everything of an intoxicating nature , it has uow been my happy lot to experience ; and if the iu / proTemeot in my health and spirits , and the increase of strength during that time , be any proof in favour of the practice , 1 am one of those who ought especially to thank God for tbe present , and take courage for tbe future . " Like many other women , and especially those whoi are exempt from the necessity of active exertion , I was , while in the babit of taking wise for my health , subject to almost constant suffering from a mysterious kind of sinking , which rendered me at times wholly unfit , Either for mental or bodiiy effort , but which I always found to be renioTed by a glass of wine . My apirifs ,

      too , partook of the malady , for I was equally subject to fits of depression , which also were relieved , in some degree , by the name remedies . During the four years in wWch I have now entiraly abstained bom the use of such remedies , I have been a total stronger te these distressing sensations of sinking and exhaustion ; and I say th-s with thankfulness , because I consider such ailments ir-fisitely more trying than absolute pain . Tbat time of the day at which it is frequently recommended to teke a glass of wine and a biscuit , I now spend es pleasantly as any of the foar-and-tweuty hours , -n ithout either ; and when fatigued by wholesome exercise , which is a totally different thing from the esba'asUoa above alluded to , I "want nothing

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      THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF IRELAND . Parts 2 and 3 . London , Strange , Paternoster Row . This work , the fhsfc part ' of which we noticed some timo back , is continued with unabated spirit . The following extracts—all we can find room for—will best exhibit its merits : —

      CROMWELL AT DROGUEDA . " Arrived before the town , Cromwell immediately summoned the governor to surrender , which was refused . Some delay occurred in the arrival of the artillery from Dublin , but no sooner had it come up , than he commenced thuudoring against the walls , and speedily effected a breach . He now determined to take the placa by storm . Twice did his bravest men mount the breach , and twice ¦ were they repelled with great slaughter . Cromwell rallied them to a third effort , and himself led tbe assault . A tertitle straggle ensued , but the impetuosity of tbo besiegers bore down every opposition , and they were at last successful . Colonel WalP being billed at the head at hiiieaiment .- !« a Boidiera threw down tbeir arms .

      on the piomiso of quarter ; and Cromwtm « , „<* « . . ^ now rushed into the town . The garrison , however , was not yet subdued . They had thrown up three intrenchments behind the walls , and defended every inch of ground , fighting bravely and desperately at the corner of every street . At last , the town was completely in tbe hands of the enemy , and all resistance ceased . A . dreadful slaughter immediately ensued . Cromwell , with nn infernal coolness , issued his orders for the massacre of the entire garrison , and they were accordingly indiscriminately put to the sword . A number of tbe inhabitants—soldiers , officers , priests , women , and children—took shelter in tbe great church of the town ,

      where they imagined they would be Bafe from tbe fury of Cromwell ' s soldiers . But tho aacredness of tbe place did not save them from destruction : they were butchered like the rest . Tho brave governor Sir Arthur Aston , Sir Edward Verney , Colonels Warren , Fleming and Byrne , together with all the officers , were put to the sword , though they bad been promised mercy when they laid down their arms . The horrible slaughter continued ( or several days : it is said tbat for nearly a week tbe streets of Drogheda rah with blood . Thirty only of the brave defenders of Drogbeda survived ; and these , even more luckless than the rest , were shipped off as slaves to the plantations in Barbadoes .

      " Leat our statement of tho above transaction may appear exaggerated , we shall give Cromwell ' s own account of it , in a dispatch written on the spot , immediately after tbe town had bee : i taken . After describing the desperate resistance of tbe enemy , admitting that' through the advantages of the place , and the courage God was pleased to give the defenders , our men were forced to retreat quite out of the breach , not without some considerable loss ;'—he adds , that his veterans were induced to make a second attempt , wherein , ' says he , God was pleased to animate them , that they got ground of the enemy , and , by the goodness of God , forced him . to quit his intrenchmonts , and after a very hot dispute , the enemy having both horse and foot , and we foot only within the walls , the

      nemy gave ground , and our men became masters . ' Then he adds , having effected a passage fur his cavalry to the town ' tbe enemy retreated , diverse into the Mill-Mount , a place very strong and of difficult access , being exceeding high , having a good graft , and strongly palisadoed ; the governor , Sir Arthur Aston , and diverse considerable officers being there , our men getting up to them ,, were ordered by me to put them all to the sword ; and indeed , being in the heat of action , I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town , and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men . Diverse of the officers and soldiers being fled over the bridge into the other part of the town , where about one hundred of them possessed St . Peter ' s church steeple , some the West gate , and others a strong round tower next the gate called St . Sunday , —these being summoned to yield to mercy , refused ; whereupon I ordered the steeple of St . Peter ' s church to be fired . The next day the other two towers were summoned , in

      one of which was about six or Beven score , but they refused to yield themselves ; and we , knowing that hunger must compel them , set only good guards to secure them from running away , till their stomachs were come down . From one of the said towers , notwithstanding their condition , they killed and wounded some of our men : when they submitted , their officers were knocked on the head , and every tr . nth man of the soidiera billed , and the reat shipped for the Barbadoes ; the soldiers in the other tower were all spared , as to {• heir lives only , and shipped likewise for the Barbadoes . I believe all the friars were knocked on the head promiscuously but two , the one of which was Father Peter Taaf , brother to the Lord Taaf , whom the soldiers took tbe next Cay and made an end of ; the other was taken in the round tower , under the repute of lieutenant , and When he understood tbat tho officers ia that town had no quarter , he confessed he was a friar , but that did not save him . '

      " Snch was the siege and butchery of Drogheda—the successful isBue of which Cromwell , in his dispatches to the Parliament * ascribes 'to God alone' ! charactetieing it as ' a marvellous great mercy . ' It is indeed horrible to find the name of the Most High so often employed by legalised destroyers , to give a sanction to their works of carnage . The Mahomedan conqueror puts a whole nation to the sword , and straightway be falls on his face and cries , ' * Allah , 11 Allah ! God is great" The Imperial Catholic tramples down the population of the richest and most fertile countries in the world , and then goes in processien to the

      magnificent cathedral , where , amidst the hallelujahs of a thousand choristers , be gives praise to God , as tbe Worker of all bis cruelty I And the avenging Protestant , mad with fury &nd fanaticism , immolates crowds of defenceless beings , and while still reeking with the blood of slaughtered women and children , he turns up his eyea to God , and returns him thanks for the marvellous great mercy' ! " . I wish '—thus runs the conclusion of Cromwell ' s despatch to the Parliament—• I wiBb that all honest hearts may give the glory ol this to God alone , to whom the praise ef this mercy belongs . ' And tbe Parliament responded to the call of CtomWell , for it forthwith appointed < A thanksgiving

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      THE BAIRNSLA FOAKS' ANNUAL , AN POGMOOR OLMENACK FOR 1844 . Leeds : Alice Mann , Duncan-street . London : Strange , Paternoster-row . Thi ? , as its title betokens , is an Almanack in the Barnsley dialect , and will be found amusing to those who admire comicalities of this Bort . As a Bpccimen of the author ' s "style" we give the opening of his preface : — " TUT HEADERS . " Well , ah do declare , hah time dcz but slip on , ta beouar . Wba , it nobbat looks like't tnther day sin ah wrate to yo befoar , it dnzint hacktly ; an here we &r , poppin into anuihei year , tz thowtless an az unconsarn'd az a donkey goin past a guide-poast Well , so it iz ; an , e wun sense , its happan az wee ! it iz so , for if we woi ta try ta think a all at hed past , an wot wor

      ta cum , wha , we sud want heads sz big bz maantains , an memories » z strong az Samson ' s arm . Then , wot objects we sud look I—wha , it ad t&ttc a man three weeks ta wesh biz face : an wun on hiz thinks ad be sa paarful , it ad be enif ta knock a stoan-wall dam a mile of £ Hey , yo may weel laugh ae me sayin so j bnt then , yo naw ^ am nobbat t > jokin like , becqa my real , *^»» uini » idea 12 . at w * Ant to ha conj 5 arn . 'd iwery day a a wer lives , bo&th abaght -w « t wiv dan , an wot wir join ta do ; if wedoant , we sal spend wer bit a time in a backads an forads way , summat like a spinner in a band walk . But , al say no more up a this head , for if a do , mm on yo al begin r rcatin , a see tbat varry plainly ; an ah sudiiant like ta witness owt at soart , cos sum on yo 'z neon so varry hansum when yor smilein . Well , thuti . enufs bin sed up a tbat subject ; an , it next place , ah mean ta tell yo at hav been as near lost &z 0 tutcber e explorin t'gravity at gloab . " For the author ' s adventures while w explorin t ' gravity at gloob " , we must refer our readers to the " Olmeuack" itself , the price of which is Sixpence .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 16, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1243/page/3/