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      A KINS . BT P £ _ fiCT B . 8 HKLLBV , Behold a gor gp ^ nj palscs that amid Ton pspsloaa Qty years its thousand towers jjd seems leell a city . GHoomy troops Of aenvjiiis . in stern and silent ranks , EnWaipass it around . The dweller there Cs \ anDt be free and happy ! B earest thou nt * ^ he corses of the fatherless , the groans Of those who have bo friend ? He pame on Tiie Eing > the wearer of a gilded chain That bindsiis sael to al » jecnies »; the f « ol

      "ffnom courtiers nickname monarch , whilst a slate Even tc the basest appetites—shatmaa Heeda do : Sr sariti of pennry ; he « nilej At the deep curses "which the destitute Moto r in secret—and a sullen joy Perradts fcis bloodless heart "when thousands groan 2 } ni for tbo 3 e morsel * "which Ma ¦ wantonness "SV ' sstts J 2 ui jotous revtiry , to save All thil tfc ^ j love fiom fiHiinE-: "when be bears The ts ' -e of horror , to some Teady made face 01 nypocrit ca ? absent he tarns , Ssnotbering the glow of shamt , that spite ol him , Flushes his bloattd cheek .

      aow t © the meal Of silence , grandeur and excess , he ciags His pslled , unwilling appetite . If gold , g . eanjin ? around , and no-acetous viands called prcai trrery clime , -could feree the loathing sense To overcome satisfy ; if wealth , The spring it draws from , poisons not ; or Tics , Unfeeling , sinbborn vice , -converted not It * food to deadliest vecesa ; then that king Is fcapPJ ¦ ^ d tksn **» peasant who fulfils B 33 unforced fci&k , when he returns at even , &n& by the blis ng faggot meets again Ed "welcome for Triune all his toll 1 b sped , I&ites not a sweeter sisaL

      Bshold Mm eo * : S * re cfeed on the gccgeocs conch ; cis fevwea ^ bisn Brels d'zrly awtriJe . Bat , ahI too soon The dumber of intenrpeianee mbsides , Aid conscience , tbst undying serpent , calls B&r yceohsouj : brood to tbeir nocturnal task , listen : he speatsS O 7 mark that frersed ey«—0 . mari thai deadly visage . " ? fo cessation 1 0 ' most this last for ever ? Awful death , J wish , yet fear to clasp tbee J—Not one mcBent Of dreamless Eletp I O ! dear and Ws * sed-peace 2 55 ty dost thae-sbrona thy -rertal parity In penury and dungeons ? wherefore Jnrfesst ¦ Wi th dancer , -deatii znd solitnde ; yei-abEE'rt The palace I hare built tbee ? S icred peace ! 01 Tisit Z 3 "bet once ! but pitying shed One drop of belru upon my withered soulT *

      Ysin man : that palace is the virtuous heart ; And peace ceSletb not her virtuous robes In scch a shod as thine . Haik £ jet he mutters . His s lmabere are l ? nt Taried agonies , Thax pray l&e scorpioiia « n the fctTtags of life . There needeth not the h * H that tigots"frame 1 o punish those wbo urr : tartn in itself Contains at once the evil and tbeeare ^ And all-siiEdcg Nature can chastise Those who transgress her law ; « he © nly knews Bow iostly to proportion to the fault The pEniaJEacnt it merits .

      Is It f trange That this psor wretch should pride him in his woe ? Tsie pleara-e ia tis algcctnbss , and tag K » eooipjon tfcat consurEes feim ? is it Btrailje Ti » t , plserf oas conspicuous ihrone of thorns , grasping 82 iron sceptre , and > mmcred TTithin & splendid prison , whose stem bounds Sbm himinan all that's good or itax -on earth , His sod aaawts not its humanity ? That msii ' s taild nature rissB not in "war AgaicstaiiEZ s employ ? Jfo— 'tis not strange .

      Ee , like tbs Tnlgar . Uunta , feel 3 , acts , and lr ? ea Just as his fsthcr did ; the at cornered powers Of j ; rcCddsnt and custom interpose Betveen aii : g and "virtue . Stranger yet , To those who fcow not nature nor deduce The future-fit « in the preseEt , it may seem , That not ese eIstc , who anSers from tte crimes 4 > f this cnss ^ iral being ; not one wretch , "Kliose children famish , and whose neptial bed Is earthS TmyisjiEg bosom , Tears an -arm To dash his from his throne !

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      the inflneccs of a tropical sun to bring it to perfection . The idiosyncrasy of some persons will enable them to hear with the most callous indifference of | scenes of starvation , squalor , and disease in miserable I bov&ls , cellars , and attics ; yet trill Bwell with indlg-1 iation—lite a boll at scarlet—at the recital of an ^ rtsh I in distant places as little ksown to them as Timbuctoo and BegharmL OthetB again , who cannot see under I their very noses appalling sights of misery and horror j at which the blood runs cold , when " distance lends encharitment to the view" can discover with telescopic eyes , across thousands of miles of ocean , heart-rending j agonies which carry their sympathies away captive ,

      I and instead of becoming aobeily and faithfully daguerre-; otyptd , they assume from the im * gmation as many . variegated forms as pieces of stained glass in a kaleidej . scope . j The period appearing to be as * em&te &s lk © Q * eek \ kalends when Africa may east off the moral gloom which I hangs over her as dark as Erebcs , and rise like & pi kb ^ x i from her-ashes—and people ' s taste having bacons * bfase 1 from ttre Ttlation of miseries bndnred by * ' Afric ' s sable f sons "— it micht be as well to chance the bill of fare | from -such exotica , and dwSi up a little hovne produce ; I which course would at * £ 1 events have the merit of i novelty to recommend it to a " wiBe and ¦ discernijig

      , pnWJc" At the next " monster" meeting at Exeter 1 Hall , it would be a gkftious sight to see standing i n j-tbe platform , surroBBded with kindrtd spirits whose ! -ar « ins of benevolence are largely developed , and i " ijands open a * day to meltirg chanty , " a lover of his Te' ! ovr-creainre « , ¦ whase former oratory caused hearts to ' br y . ttnDed to lowssd sympathy , and parses te shower their cocttnts for the wrongs and redri-sses of our 1 brethren ^* upon Tftom the sun hath looked "—( would . to h&aves that bright orb looked upon white slaves in England ' s mines a little oftener!?—now descanting ' upon the mis « y txisticc in alleys , courts , and rents , ¦

      with which tba lusiropoUs abcua ^ Sa , nwny of whese Inmates , etnajge aa it may uppe&T , have BOUls and bodies only tept together by tbe phPautbropy of wrenches butcne remove in misery from themselves ; the separation of a man from his idolised partner aad " endeared ( .-nVpring , to exist amid the horrors of a " Union , " cpon miserable diet—and that nearly aa . scanty as the Frenchman allowed his horse when bringing it to lrr « upon a straw a day;—tbe skeleton setup * stress and-clop-maker , who , after bonrs of toil in their crannied tttics , scarcely eara one wretched uieil a day;—the starving artisan aad mechanic , who to provide the Tjpcessaries of life for thtnr wives and -children—Hjisersble remnants of hnrnar . ^ v—have

      consigned their wretched furniture ano toois to that-maelstroom which swallows up -the goods and chattels of the poor and needy;—the-smaciattd frames in seedy apparel , unable to obtain employment , yet too proud to btceme mendicants . The lilre distress raging 'n proviitcial towns and agricultural districts , and the whitft-alaveiy existing in mines and factories , —miseries enough to bring on the lachrymose weakness of Job Trottsr , —would cause hundreds to join in the " cambric fijytation , " and make the arcbed roof ,

      organbarrels and all , echo with die plaudits justly -bestowed upon the orator who proved himself to ha euch a real philanthropist , and wouM ^ iew with rapture fair bands dipping into reticules a * eagerly as if they were extracting a first love-letter to read to Bowe bosom-friend ; jfectlcmen > nlling out pocket-books as cnick as a turfite his tablets to enter a sure btt ; nnd placid ; passionless Obadiahs , who , moved by the Spirit , find their -dexter hands gliding into the pockets of tbeii unwhisperables as ustaraUy as Ebentz-ar Scrooge ' s did into his .

      Adopt tb-t course , good people , and leaving the heartfelt gratification oat of the question , you will no longer bear your enemies aEsert that for home distress -yon have so more bowels than a znnzaxnj or Jacob ilsrley ' B fihoBt . nor find thB poekets of Samaritans buttoned up against your attacks , as Sterne ' s was to tbe monk ' s—but you will also gain golden opinions from all classes , and cause philanthropy to be canonise *! : and if , after relieving the miseries of yocr -countrymen at home , yon should ted any supeifluons stock of sympathy and cash on band , most persons would be disposed to wink if you should occasionally mtuut yonr sable pets , inclndingtbe stiff-necked generation" and tbe anthropophagi of 5 few Zealand , and not say mnch should you take a further stride among the ^ rBenlanders ind Esquimaux , if philanthropy can exist in hyperborean regions , and think nothing of a froBt-bitten nose and blue fingers .

      " The Pearl Fisheries of Ceylon , contain some ' carious speculations on the growth of the pearl iu j oysters , and the cause ? of the decline of this fishery j i together with some interesting particulars of the : former state of thiB once flourishiii ^ trade . Thu I seriea of articles " On the Agriculture of Hindostan , " ! is continued , as are also the very instructive " . Notes I of a residence in Tan Dieman's L » ad . " These j" Notes ' are written by one who evidently well-1 understand ? bis SEbject , and who is infinitely better

      fitted than Baron Stanley to legislate for the colony in question . The article on " The affairs and prospects of New Zealand" i 3 deserving of especial attention , particularly on the part of the ** noble " official jast named . There are seveT&l minor articles of much int-ercst , particularly the one descriptive of the ereat valley of the Mississippi ; from all of these we would have gl » d ] y ¦ quoted had space permitted , but as this cannot be , we must ae&in refer our readers to ihe Magazine itself , which we heartily recommend to the patronage of the public .

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      her heartless carelessness of those who minister to her vanity—by the unchristian , scorn of those her exertions have too often' driven to seek relief iu tbe promises of the betrayer . 0 woma-j i to man thou art a solace for all sorrow—a blessing beyond all price—an influence that almost claims our adoration . Be to your suffering sister what alone you can be—her liberator from tbe thraldom of murderous necessity ; a little forethought or a little self-denial , and the victory is achieved . We have mentioned an article entitled "The Dwellings of the Poor , from the Note-Book of an M . D . " This ia one of those exposures so universal at the present time , which cannot fail , we think , sooner or later to produce the long-needed changes , bo essential to the health and happiness of society in general , and ihe poor in particular . From this article , worthy of the highest et > cnm&n < i&tum , we give the following extracts illustrative of

      THB "MTSTERIES" OF LONDON . Worse , worse by far , In all their physical hearinra , ten thousand tiroes worse ia all their moral itiluencce , are the miserable homes of our city poor than the wild huts of the Indians , or the wigwam of the African . These so-called savages are not shut out from the exhilerating ir . Huences of light ; to them the flowing river , the shining sun , tbe open praire , the deep woods , the healthy hills , are open ; the day is spent beneath a puTe uncontaminated sky . and hunting &nd exereiBe bring them abundance and peace .- Their physical energies are wearied , not poisoned . They fctl nothing of that sickening faiutness , that aching exhaustion , that heart tremour , that gnawing at tfee very vital principle itself which a polluted atmosphere engender" , and which

      hurry the sufferer in an agony of fear to se ' z s on some quick , glowing , burning stimulant to rescus him from death . Notsoour City poor . They are hemmed in by brick and stone , surrounded by a ! l the exhausting influ--ences of malaria , and perpetually exposed to scenes of wbich the refined and eleiaat members of the " upper classes" would blush even to admit the existence . We shall not readily forget a stroll we had in company with a friend one Sunday morning fn July lost . We bad ltft tbe country to visit some of the scenes made classic by the writings of D-ckena . It was a glorious morning . People were hurrying dawn tbe river by handreds . All the out-door creation seemed h ; ippy ; the very vavea as they rippled to the shore were like dancing sun-beams ; not a cloud floated under the blue heavens , save those

      wbich the steamers left behind as they elided , loaded with smiling faces , away from the contaminations of town . On reaching London Bridge , we jonrnoyed towards Holborn , and having taken a view of Fieldlane and Saffron-bill , we made our way through some of the purliees adjeining them into sti « sts so narrow tbat you may shake hands from the opposite bed-rooms . House * had no back yards to them ; all jthe debris of the apartments , or nearly so , was thrown from the windowa antothestTeets , to ascend again as a pestilential vapour ; Bcawse a window frame bad a whole piece of glass in it . ; the doorways were lew and dirty ; the aides of the walls were formed simply of lath and plaster , paetsof which had fallen away in many places , and throBgh these delapidatious men and women

      conld be * een huddling together , some in a state of nudity , others drinking and smoking , and all regardless of tits -common decencies of life . We passed under a low continuous arc j way , and came into a kind of court , the houses of which were very lofty , but in a -meat dilapidated condition . ; the roofs of many © f them bad given way , and the rafters were sticking out into tbe summer sky like pieces of a stranded wreck . Shreds of grooved lead were hanging from tbe windowf rames , and not a piece of glass was visible . - On going into ODe of the rooms on tbe ground-floor nothing lifct boarding was discoverable ; in some corners of the apartment were heaps of cia-aip straw covered by reinn&nts . af brown sacking , ana these , with a black tbttielegged pot near the i . replace , constituted the whole of

      the furniture . Five or six men were leaning against the blaokened wails , and smokiag short pipes , while a large , white , haJf-stai vwJ , ^ ig-beaded doe , was sitting before them . The upper rooms were occupied , although the board a were in so perilous a condition , tbat daylight and rain could fall without interruption from r < « f to fl-jor . Few persons w ^ re on the premises , but at night they were crowded . It being Sundjy merning , previous to church-houi , the inhabitants were regaling themselves in some of the neighbouring gin-shops . An old woman , clad in a thread-biTe vest , whish had fa > . ed away to the most delectable of all colours , a yeliowi&h-Freen , was sitting alone on the muddy ground in the

      centre ef the court , with her koees bent , her elbows resting on them , and her hands covering her face . A small blackened pipe was in her lap . Her gown , her only covering , was full of holes . Her face w&b begrimed with smoke and dirt ; her eyes bad a lactlUBtte appearance : she was almost a skeleton—a maniac , Bud only capable of uttering suck broken sentences aB those enumerated . Within two yards of her , a muddy shallow ditch was struggling to effect its course through tbe court into an archway at one curner . The vapour therefrom was sickening , ft * floating in tbe stream were tbe entrails of caU and horses , and other putrifying aniaial matter . The writer well

      says—These are hideous details and the fastidious sense may wish to shroud them in everlasting secresy , but it cannot be . Nature will nut be so dealt with . The effects will speak if the cause be hid . Within a few yards of these scenes of madness , putrifaction and death , five hundred individuals ate , drank , and slept ? Can wu wonder that hear ^ should grow hard and bodies become weak under each circumstances ? Does it net seem as if these were hot- ' eds in wb'ch we were rearing " Fagins , ' * and " Quilps ' to ix ^ xc "? se our ingenuity upon , in carrying out the practice of criminal law ? Are we not fostering around our homes a pestilence , and encouraging the idcubation of f « ver , until it come like a Biraoon around eur heiitts , converting the laugh of boyhood into tbe shriek of litliriom , laying childhood low , and displacing tbe prattle of infancy by the sile ce of death ?

      A DEATH SCENE . Into some such neighbourhood , I was called professionally . In the i > om where my fever-patient lay sixteen individuals found their cook-ehep , their diningroom , dormitory , and hospital , all in one . Smoke , an £ steam from a pot containing potatoes , filled the room . I could not speak for several minutes from con ^ hiug . The beds were Dearly sli on tbe tLoOTmarried and bingle , male and female , healthy and sick huddled together . One bed alone was on a bedstead , and on it was a girl fifteen ytars of age , tuning with fever , a bey of twelve years in a state of stupor , and their mother , whose fixed eyes , dilated nostrils , gargling throat , and cold feet , told , but too plainly , tbat Bhe was fast hurrying to her final resting-place . 1 was looking on this eccncc of lint , disease , and death , with

      silent , yet agonized feelings , when something suddenly seized my foot I sprang back in a state of alarm , when a rough voice cried out to me , " D ^ n't be frightened , Doctor , it is only tbe pigs ; " and , true enough , a great sow lying under the bed , w . th seven or eight little ones , had taken a fancy to my boot-, and bad proceeded to appropriate it to herself accordingly . This is no matter for a smile . Thirteen individuals , and nine pigs , preparing to satiate hunger by a coarse meal in the chamber of death . A poor mother dying , and two ff her litie ones on the eve of death , and no pastor ' s voice bad been there to cheer her in that dark hour , no gentle band to point to a happier home beyond the fckiea ! Rude and clamorous voices , hissing , stench-reeking vapours , thb grunt of pigs , and the heavy slip-shod tread of careless strangers , alone sounded tbe requiem of that passing soul .

      ONE CAUSE OF PROSTITUTIONt " How came you , " said I , " into this awfnl state of distr&se ? What chirms can bo reprobate a life posseBs ?" " None , none , " sbe said , " nothing but misery ; drnnkeriness one day , pain the rtxt , and death in the end . We must all cume to this—to die alone in a corner—in s worse w&y than a dug on a dunghill ; and it all comes from thesj horrid places where poor people have to live . I was born in a cellar in Liverpool , and

      from my childhood have never known what it was to be a decent woman . Men and women , boys and girl ? , were for ever huddled together ; and even when grown up , and with Riy mother , my two sisters , my parent , and myself bad to sleep on a bed of chaff in one corner of the apartment , while three or four sailors slept in another , and men and women were cooped pell-mell together in other parts , like the cattle in Smithfield . I was thought pretty , and brought to town ; had plenty to eat for a time , learned to dress well and be fine ; but one thing led on to another , and sow—here 1 am . "

      There , indeed , she wu , a miserable vittitu . ' Never Can the cr &A- ± de she presented fad 6 from my mind ; the echoes of her struggling voice will ever whisper , and Truth , Religion , and Justice must sanction the assertion , that her v cs , her disease , her desolation , all came " from those horrid places , where poor people have to live . " There are are several other articles which will be fonnd interesting and amusing , particularly that entitled "Addison and Holland House . " The wood cnts to this article are beautiful , as , indeed ,

      are most of the present month's illustrations . We must not omit a very good wood cut of Rubens ' s celebrated picture , "The Judgment of Paris , " lately purchased by the National Gallery . With the criticism annexed , we quite agree ; for three uglierlooking " frovrs" than Eeubena ' s three goddesses contending for the prize of beauty we never set eyes on . But there ' s no accounting for tastes . We have heard that the ladies of the Grand Turk ' s Harem are fed upon oil-cake to bring them up to the standard hulk of our prize oxen ! Some such taste must have possessed this celebrated painter .

      From a '' Postscript" by the Editor , we perceive that Douglas Jerold retires from the Editorship of this Magazine . We are Borry to hear this : and earnestly hope that the promise implied in the 14 Postscript" -will be fulfilled , and tbat we ehall again and often , meet with this able and deservedly popular writer in the pages of the " Illuminated . "

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      A BOWL OF " -PUNCH : * THE ( JUEEN AND THE OTTEB . The glories of the bear-garden may yet return . The jocund , hearty times , when royal Elizabeth save the majesty of her countenance to tbe baiting of Bruin , may not be irrevocably passed away . No ; when Young England reads the account of the otter-hunt at Blaii A ' . hol , at which Queen Victoria presided , the said Young England may complacently pat its white waistcoat , believing that the wisdom of oar ancestors in the matter of bear-baiting will again be manifest . Indeed , we do not see why cock-fighting should not again flourish in all its wonted heartiness . We have even hupes of long-neglected badger-drawing .

      It seems that Lord Aberdeen took bis otter-hounds to Blair Atfaol , where there are ao native otters . In a word , the bounds were appointed to a place in whieh there was nothing to do ; an appointment often made by foreign Ministers , Whig and Tory . However , in in due season , an otter was caught at Kelso , and transmitted in a box , to be properly worried at Blair Athol . We are told tbat the Scrasburg goose , that 1 b tortured to death for tbe sake of its enlarged liver , "knows that it is dying for the honour of France , and expires without a tear . ' We have this comfortable assurance in the Almanach des Gourmand * In like manner , the otter ~ poor wretch I—may have known thogreatness of its destiny as it travelled in its box from K » lso , and thus have complacently resigned itself to its fate . It may have known it was a living dish to be set before tbe Queen , and been pleased with its fortune .

      It pouted with rain ; but nothing conld damp the heroic ardour of the sportsmen . Even the Queen mounted her pony under an umbrella ; and Prince Albert particularly distinguished himself at the

      enset" For tha Prince of all the land Led them on . ' We now come to the details . " The otter was started at a point under the hill of Tulloch , in tbe Garry-water , a few hundred yards above the village of Blair AthoL The Prinee followed on foot close on the bounds , which bunted the otter a short distance up the rivet , affording pretty good sport , until at length , in about twenty minutes after the firat start , he took to tbe land , and was se-zed by one of the hounds . The huntsmen took him off , and flung him

      back again into a deep ppoL He darted to the other bank of the stream , where he earthed . TJne&xthed again by the hautamen , and started afresh , he gate the hounda some trouble for about ten minutes longer , when they billed him , and he was speared in tbe usual way by the huntsmen . The otter , when fairly spent , crawled up the bank near where the Queen was , and the hounds , of course , were upon it Her Majesty turned away her head while they were worrying tbe animal . " This was to be expected ; but time and custom will eradicate this amiable we&knesg ^ &nd . we have no doubt

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      that next season otters may be Woiriod to any extent , without producing the slightest qaalm in even tba bosom of & Maid of Honour . In these jmatton use is everything . The little Spanish girl , who m iy tremble and turn pale at her bull-fight , in a brief time witnesses all the glory of the contest with smiling face and an applan ling fan . ; Groat , however , as is the above achievement—glorious aa it 1 b to contemplate the ardour of a Prince Albert , the enthusiasm of a Foreign Minister , with the tumultuous energy of Lords and ; Highland Chiefs appointed and arrayed for the de&truction of one otter , " sent in a box from Kelso , "—it ; is in itself as nothing compared to its utility as an example . Thus considered , there is really something of national importance in tbe otter bunt of Garry- water .

      There is a troublesome body of persons , calHni ; themselves the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty toAnimals . These people have in the most meddlesome way interfered with the sports of the lower orders- They have forbidden a harmless main of cocks ; they have set their faces against the pleasurable and innocent excitement of dogfighting ; dack-buntiog they have denounced as cruelty abominable ; indeed , there is no thoiough English sport , enshrined by the wisdom of our ancestors , that they have not condemned as brutal and inhuman . After the news from BiaT Athol , we trust that these people will feel themselves properly rebuked . Sure we are it will be more than impertinence in them to interfere with the sports of our i conutrymea . Hence , thu bear may again be baited to the duliahs and edification of Englishmen ; the cock-pic at Westminster may tcho the triumphant clarion of conquering birds , and Copunhagen Fields be once more yo&U with the joyous criua of dog-fighting Britons . \ VivatRegina !

      NICHOLAS AND THE JEWS . We fear tbat Nicholas in some measure anticipated bis full renown by His too triaty visit to England last summer . True it is , be was received with open arms by English noblemen . Difcts , Whig and Tory , scrambled to do him honour . Salooiia wete built tot him , Which to this hour rmnain , as gorgeous evidences of the enthusiasm of bis hosts—things \ to be pointed out to future generations as made little less than sacred by tbe temporary presence of the Emperor Nicholas . Though steeped from head to heel iu the blood and

      tears of Poland , he was approached as almost something divine by tbe aristocracy of England . The " better classes" smiled , and uucked , and "kissed tbeir five fingers" to him , and were rewarded with gold boxes and diamond rings in acknowledgment of such fealty . Highborn ladies of England—wives and mothers—conveniently oblivious of the women of Poland , of their every domestic tie torn by tbe autocrat aasunder—were in a flatter ef delight at the briefest glance of the Emperor—he was so floe a man—so tail a man—80 Perfect a gentleman !

      And then , the Emperor to act out bis part in the grim farce , paid the homage of bis gold to English Charity—and Charity , like Sterne's recording angel , must have blushed as she took the alms . Well , the Emperor bad even last summer great claims upon the admiration of [ certain Englishmen ; nevertheless , he came amongst us too s > ou ; he should have waited some tim ° longer , wfabn tbe wrongs and sorrows of another one hundred arid fifty thousand of his fellow-creatures would , if possible , have made him more lustrous in tbe eyes of his worshippers .

      One hundred and fifty thousand souls 1 Such is tbe number of helpless Jews driven by the order « f the autocrat to the deserts of tbe interior of Russia . Some Jews , it was found , upon the frontier smuggled ; whereupon the magnanimous Emperor ordered the removal of tbe whole Hebrew body . At jthis moment they are being torn from their homes ; their property destroyed ; their every privilege as human ; creatures laughed to scorn . " They are cotntiellbd , '' says the National , " to se&k an existence in th- silent deserts of the interior of Russia , where they will dispute the possession of those immense wastes with the birds and beasts of prey which are their sole population . There they will find their tomb ! " \

      After this , can it be doubted [ that Nicholas did not come too early among us . Close and fervent , it is true , was the embnc ? which Prince Albert , buatowed upon him ; but how much sweeter the welcome of Nicholas had he been associated with the woes of a hundred and fifty thousand Hebrews ! He ought to have waited for this last triumph , and tb » n iln enthusiasm of certain of the English must have been prodigious 1 Besides , what extrins c value Would then have been added to the gold boxes and brilliant rings ! As it is , they are of course very grateful [ to their possessors—(; ilbeit Punch would as soon have a toad in his pocket and an asp about his finger ) , —but associated with the groans and tears of one hundred and fifty thousand Juwa , they would have been invaluable . Moloch himself could give nothing moru peculiarly costly .

      Public Exhibition—The ( very ) extraordinary collection of figures in the Collection of Alderman Gibbs are now on view . Tickets may be obtained by those persons who can procure them , on application at Wai-It > ek . j A Kindred Feeling—At a meeting of the Pennsylvanian Repudiators , the following resolution was put amongst loud cheers : — " Resolved , That tbe freedom of the State be presented to Mktitel Gibba , Esq ., tbe Lord Mayor of London , in a handsome mcaey-box , as a token of heartfelt admiration of b ' -s conduct as churchwarden , for twenty-one years , of the parish of St . ( Stephen , Walbrook . " Carried unanimously .

      DEATH OF JOHN OVERS . We copy the following from the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday week , hoping tbat by aiding its publicity , we may thereby help the widow and Ithe fatherless , to the sympathy and assistance of the benevolent : — " It will be in the recollection of our readers that we noticed , some weeks back , tae publication ! of a small volume of tales and poems , with a very earnest and afftctiDg pref . 'ice by Mr . Dickens . It was called " The Evenings of a Working Man , being tbe Occupation of his Scanty Leisure : by John Overs . ' The book , and the interest

      expressed by Mr . Dickens , originated in tbe anxiety of a most clever and deserving man in bumble life , uffl cted with a mortal sickness , to make some temporary provision , however blight ; ' for bis sick wife and very youm . family . ' We do net know what saccess it has had , or whether the arrangement with the publisher was such as to give Mr Overs tb . 3 foil benefit of it ; but the poor man died suddenly last Saturday , at 55 , Vauxball-street , Lambeth , leaving , all but destitute , a widow and six children , the oldest nine years and the youngest two months old . ' !

      [ The above was in type last week , but withbe'd through want of room . 1 h s week we notice the following letter in the Sun . •—] Sir , —When Mr . Charted Dickens wrote his able and eloquent preface to John Overs a ' Evenings of aWorking Man , " his philanthropic desire was to enlist the sympathies of the public in behalf of that talented mechanic , to enable hi"n to provide "for a sick wife and very young family . " Since that feeling appeal , poor Overs has gone to his last home , leaving an unblemished character and no small degree of fame as a sjlf-taughfe genius . But , alaa ! he has ateo left , to struggle with the difficulties and hardships of poverty , an amiable wife and six children , the eldest not tea years of age , one an infant , and another labouring , under great bodily affliction , aud the poor widow herself iu delicate health . :

      It is but to make this distressing cade known , a id I feel assured tbe public will not withhold their sympathy . ! When the death of Overs was announced to me I deeply deplored the bsence of Mr . Charles Dickena from England , and I Blili regret that he is not at hand to advocate tbe cause of this distressed family ; but although I cannot urge tbeir claims so eloquently and forcibly as he would have done , yet I can and do as earnestly & \ p al to the benev lent , that they will contribute liberally to enable the widow to make Borne provision for her family . j I have tbe permission of Messrs . Bouverie and Co ., bankers , 11 , Hay market , to state , that they will bindiy receive subscriptions ; and I shall also be happy to do tbe same at 72 , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square .

      I am sure it is unnecessary for me to els more than beg tbe favour of your giving this a place in your columns ; for when a charitable action is to be advocated , the press of England bas ever generously lent its aid . —I have the honour to be , Sir , your most obedient servant , J T . C . Newbt . SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED . ' £ 8 . d . Mrs . Atfeins ....... „ ., „ .. „„ ... 10 0 — Pouncey , Eeq L .... 10 0 Anonymous 4 t 10 0 Misa M'Callan i 0 10 0 A Friend j . 0 5 0 T . C . Newby , 20 0 0

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      ENGLISH WORKMEN HAVE MORE LAWMAKERS TO OBEY THAN THOSE WHO HOLD THEIR SITTINGS IN ST . STEPHEN'S .

      TO THE EDITOR OP THB NORTHERN STAR . SlB , —Having bad repeated proofs of your willingness at all times to admit into tbe columns of your invaluable journal an exposure of tbe abuses which the working classes of tbia unhappy country have to labour under , I trouble you with a communication which I think will tend to the exposure of one of the most damnable eyetems of tyranny tbat ever disgraced ttliB or any other country . . j Owing to the present state of trade , the employers dare not attempt a direct reduction ; of wages ; but in order to enable them to filch from their hands , in tbe shape of fines and abatements , that wbich they axe afraid of attempting openly , they stick up in their offices a code of laws , which , if broken in any part , subjects tbe poor slaves to certain penalties . Should the men resist ] it is not difficult to find magistrates as determined to carry these rules into effeot as if they had received tbe sanction of the Legislature of the country . j

      There is no town in England where these ? | self-3 ppointed law-makers have made a greater noise , nor declaimed more against the injustice of tbe laws made by the "Senate , " the " tyranny of the < Grovernmenfc , " the " rapacity of landlords , " &c , than in Manchester . God forbid tbat I should be the apologist of either the Legislature , the Government , or the landlords ; yet all their Crimea sink into nothingness when compared with the doings of the law-makers , of Manchester and neighbourhood . ' :

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      If & subject breaks tiie Iiffa of t ; e count-y , be h at least the co&uce of defending himself , or of be ' ng defended by counsel . There is a jury sworn t » d&cVl © upon his innocence or guilt , according to the evidence adduced . These are privileges which the poor slaves in the manufacturing district are deprived of . The master -exercises a greater power than the Queen , or either House of Parliament ; for if one of his horsoa should die , or should he lose a sum at the gambling table ; or his other and namelessexpencesbe more than he can pay without the knowledge of friends , all he has to do is to sit down in his office and make a code

      of laws , the fines resulting from which maintains his profligacy , or makes up his losses . And what is worse stui , tha English master in tbia age of avarice outabinea in despotism tUe Grand Turk himself ; Wb will is law from which there is no appeal . Sheutd the Hou 39 of Commons pass a Bill it must have the sane * tion of the Lords ; and should it even pass that assemb y it must have the assent of the monarch , before it becomes law . Not so with the masters in this district Thsf are themselves , each in his own proper person , the law maker , crier of the court , prosecuting counsel jury , judge , and pocketer of the fines I

      As a specimen of the laws made by the Manchester low-makers , I give you tbe following , which is a verbatim copy of a code which has been given to the workmen of the PLcenix wcrks , Jersey Street , Manchester . COPY . Rule 1—No notice will be requisite on leaving at being discharged , until having been employed one mouth , after which time one week ' s notice will bs given and required , except Id case of disorderly conduct , or damage done to tbe properly of the employers , when it shall be lawful to dismiss without auch notice . ¦ 2—Alt numbers must be given in one at a time , and an answer returned , or so time will be allowed .

      3—On entering this employ one ef these book * must be purchased by every workman , and a lui of bis tools written in it ; and on leaving or being d ;*« charged 1 deliver them up , and if there be any short , pay for them . 4—At night , every person must leave his book in bia drawer , and hang the key of his drawer under bia number in the lodge . Not leaving his book in his drawer , or not banging bis key in its proper place , oe having another man ' s tools in his drawer to be fined sixpence . 5—No person is allowed to draw another ' s wages , except in case of sickness , or tbe person ia not able- 19 attend . Each man must attend to his name when called over , when the wages are paid , or be will not receivo them until tbe following Monday morning .

      6—T , tl 8 times for commencing work , are six , nine , and two o ' clock ; and those not in three minutes after that time , will be stopped a quarter « f an hour , asd those not in at twenty minutes past , will be stopped a quarter of a day . 7—All that are absent on a Monday morning , before breakfast , will be fined one shilling ; any other inoraing in tbe week sixpence . 8— The files will be delivered out every Monday from ten to one o ' clock in the forenoon , and the old ones mu ^ t be taken back . 9—Tae waste will be delivered out every Tuesday , from ten to one o ' clook in tbe forenoon , and the old waste must be taken back .

      10—Any person leaving his gaa burning , at saeal times , or at night , will be fined sixpence , on occasional absence , twopence . 11—Leaving window open at night , sixpence . 12—G-JiDg beyond the gates in working hours , with * oat leave , sixpence , 13—Found putting waste down the petty , six . pence . Labourers and apprentices one half the above fines . Tae above needs no comment freai me . I will there * fore leave the renders of the Star , and tbe public to judge for themselves of the pu . r . y of men whose re « ligion is tyranny and prufl gacy , aud whose Crod ia gold . I remain , Sir , Your ' s faithfully , Manchester , Oct . 9 th , 184 * . Wm . Dimx .

      Lobb Ei-tENBoaocoH . —Tuesday night ' s Gazette oontains the following , dated Whitehall , October 14 : —The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal , granting the diguitifls of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Edward Lord Ellenborough i and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten , by tho names , stiles , and titles of Viscount Southam , of Southam , in the county of Gloucester , and Earl of Ellenborough , in the county of Cumberland .

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      - — -- " -- . - ...,,,, ^ , —^ - ...-., J ^* From the London Gazette of Friday , Oct . 11 . BANKRorrs . John Frederick Cork and James Lancelot De Carle , of 142 , New Bond-street , coach buiider—Henry Kowe , of 33 , Charles-street , Hatton-garden , Holborn , mur « chant—Charles James , of 95 , Grand Junction-terrace * E Jgeware-road , Paddington , oilman - Amelia Warren , of 45 , Parliament-street , Westminster , confectioner—Thomas G- 'orge Martin , late of Groat Winchesterstreet , City , but now of Cold Harbour-lane , Camberwell , wine merchant—James Coulson , of Great Clacton , Essex , Innkeeper—Caroline Pdnsam , cf Cheltenham , dress-maker—James Whitehead , now of Ainsworth—Lancashire , but late of Bolton-le-Moors , common brewer .

      DlVfOENDS DECLARED . Jane Wilson , of Bolton , timber merchant , first and final dividend of Is . 4 ^< 1 in the ponad , payable at 19 , South-Cistle-stteet , Liverpool , on October 14 and 21 , or any Monday after November 25 . Gaorge Frederick Fairclough , of Liverpool , money scrivener , dividend of 3 s 16 d iu the pound , payable at 19 , South Caatle-street- Liverpool , on October 14 and 21 , or any "Monday after November 25 . D iniel Antrobus , of Great Budwortb , Cheshire , salfi merchant , dividend of 6 £ d in the pound , payable at 19 , South Gastle-atreet , Liverpool , © n October 14 and 21 , or any Monday after November 25-Edward Pritcbard , of Liverpool , wine merchant . Brat dividend of 4 s in the pound , payable at 19 , South Castle-street , Liverpool , on October 14 and 21 , or any Monday after November 25 .

      Edward Gibson , of Kendal , Westmorland , and Dolwyddelan , Carnarvonshire , builder , first dividend of 5 s 6 d in the pound , payable at 19 , South Ca&tle-Btreet , Liverpool , on October 14 and 21 , or any Monday after November 25 , Carries Bi ? g 8 , of Manchester , merchant , first aa final dividend of Ss 6 d in the pound , payable at 7 , Cbarlotte-etreet , Manchester , any Wednesday . James Hawarden , Robert Myerscough , and John Jackson , of Little Bolton and Manchester , cotton rnanu * facturers , final dividend of 2 s 2 | 1 in the pound , payaMe at 7 , Charlotte-street , Manchester , any Weduesday . John Buckley , Joseph Buckley , aud Henry Buckley , of Manchester , manufacturers , second dividend of 2 a in the pound , payable at 7 , Charlotte-street , Manchester , any Wednesday .

      Edward F . zzird , of Saddleworth , Yorkshire , dyer , first dividend of 7 £ d in the pound , payable at 7 , Charlotte-street , Manchester , any Wednesday . Thomas Molinecx , of Manchester , silk manufacturer , final dividend of Is in tbe pound , payable at 7 , Charlotte-street , Manchester , any Wednesday .

      DIVIDENDS TO BE DECLABED IN THE COUNTRY . Benjamin ' Normans and Edwin Buckman , of Cheltenham , iron-mongers , November JS , at twelve , at the Court of Bankruptcy . —Bristol—_ Bobert Crowder , of West Auckland , Durham , iron founder , November 4 , a 6 one , at the Ccurt of Bankruptcy , Nawcastle-upon-Tyne , John Carr Petrie , of Redlington , Durham , miller , November 4 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—John Hardbottle , of Amble , Northumberland , grocer , November 4 , at twelve , at

      the Court of Baukruptcy , Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Henry Pearce , of York , attorney at law , November 8 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Leeds—Thomas Oidfield Hasird and Henry Bingham , of Sheffield , merchants , November 8 , at eleven , at the Court of Bankruptcy , Lseds—James Linthwaite Smith , of Leicester , cabinet maker , November 7 , at half-past one , at tbe Court of KanKiuj t ; y , BiUDiDghan—James Coxbett Lister ,, of Wolverh&mpton , Staffordshire , wlna merchant , November 7 , at half-past one , at the CourtJ of Bankruptcy ,. Birmingham .

      certificates to be granted , unless cause be shown to tbe contrary on the day of meeting . Joshua Brandon , of 2 , Walbrook-bui dings , City , merchant , November 5—Robert Crowder , of West Auckland , Durham , iron founder , November 4—Robert Catlow of Leeds , victualler , November 13—William Ashwin , of Birmingham , steel pen maker , November 7 . certificates to be granted by tbe Court of Review . unless cause be shown to the contrary , on or before November 1 . John Jones of Conway , Carnarvonshire , ship builder —John Yarnon , of Monks Coppenball , Cheshire , vlotualler William Beatoe Smith , of Sudbury , Suffolk-, surgeon—George Macket A-k ef Liverpool , abip broke * —William Gray , of Sbtfflold , wine merchant . PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED .

      John Coatea and James M'Nangbtan , of gmedlejf and Manchester , en'l- ^ printers—George Brearley and Dan Brearley , of Batley , Yorkshire , flashing and pilot manufacturers—William Newsome and Cbarle Holt , of Milkstone , Lancashire , emery roller make ** - William Sheffield and James Edward Kenton , off Manchester , tailors .

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      From the Gazette of Tuetday , Oct . 15 . BANKRUPTS . Wm . Mintet , of Colchester , Essex , builder—The * . Batt Hall , of Coggershall , Esses , grocer—Michael Lsa and Burnett Lee , of Duke-str 9 et , Piccadilly , London , tailors—Frederick Arnold Berenger , of 20 , Homer * street , Crawford-street , Marylebone , London , clothlet —Henry David Williams , of Southampton , plumber- — Gideon Ball , « f Bath , carpenter—Wm . John Jaokmao Coall , ot Exeter , grocer—Thos . TabbemBt , of Binning * bam , cern-factor—James Bibby , of Liverpool , coach ; proprietor . s * ' * ' * ' '*

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      THE ILIX 3 IINATED MAGAZINE—Octobeb . This is an excellent Number of thi 3 excellent Magazine , forming truly " an elegant combination of literature and art . " lie preheat Number opens with waai we imsgine is the first of a series of articles from the p « n of inat very entertaining writ-er , " who cails himself Luke Roden , M . D .. entitled "Ramb . es round London ; " the subject of the present skesch beine "A visit to the Model Prison at Pen'onviile . " We must confess the perusal 01 thia article has considerably modified the vkws previously entertained by us in reference to this noted establishment ; though its system of Icial silence atd seclusion are held by us in as much aversion as ever . Admitting , however , that

      this system may work well towards producing the desired reformation of criminal characters , fitting item to be ceetiai ai-d respectable members of ihe Comnmmty ivfcilber they sre £ ent to , after serving their probationary term in this prison ; admitting that this is very desirable , let us ask whether a Government that does this and no more is not enminaiiy negligent of its duties when it fails to take ice necessary steps to prerrn * ihe existence of criminals ? Your " model prisons" mny be very rjcetssary in the present rotten state of society ; but whtre are jour " model schools , " and " mooel industrial associations , " wbich -would train up in iiiteJL ' gence aud virtue the yonng , and ensure fcr the atinh competence in return for toil!—the only meats by « vh 3 cbtvcr you can hope to dispense wjth '• model prisons , " and which we fearlessly assert

      would be iound ifficaciens to thai end : for who will dare to deny the maxim of Helvetius , that " the "virtues or vices of a state are the tffecis of its lrgisla'ioii' I There is land , labour , capital , and intelligence in superabundance , at the command of the Legiildture and the Extcutive , with which they m ; gtt at once commence the regeneration of this cjuDtry—gradually but completely destroying tbe " causes of ignorance and misery , vice and crime . But these pigmy exi . edjeiicy-nioBKer 3 stop short at " model prisons , " content if , while the present system breeds hundreds of thousands of criminals anDuafiy , they reform some five or six hundred J Verily they shall have their reward . On this subject we are tempted to Bay much more , but want of space forbids . If we can find room , we may in a future number gi ^ e the article in question ; or ax any rate Ihe principal portion thereof .

      The whole tone of tnis Magazine is philanthropic and patriotic in tbe best sense of these words . Scarcely an article , whether serious or humorous , but is made the vehicle of proclaiming some great vrath , givin = publicity to some grievous wrong , or as = erUDg some too-locx trampled down-right . This is exemplified in Camilla Toulmin ' s " Tillage Sketch , " a 3 well as inseveral other articles in the present number , particularly tbe one entitled " The . Dwellings © f tbe Poor / ' in the former of these the writer describes the slavery and sufferings of female servants , a- dass more terribly oppressed than ever were Jamaica slaves or Guinea " niggere , " and about whom finch a fuss has been made by tbe rejigioua hypocrites aBd idiots who throng Exeter

      Hall . We regret that we cannot afford room for an exir&ot .. Laman JBlanchard contributes a passable paper on that vain-glorious and despicable character wnh "whom all must be acquainted who have mixed with society , " The Man of High Notions . " " The Philosophy of Shops" is a well-written paper by Angus B Reach . This writer ' s sketches are alwayB life-like and amusing . ** The Adventures of a Scamp " are continned , and will afford fun enough to the reader : the Swinestead Polling iB capitally described . "The Boys of London : —The Steam-boat Boy , " by Mark Lemon , " is interspersed with some excellent reflections , highly honourable to the writer . "We cannot resist tbe temptation to gite the following

      APPEAL TO W 0 MAK . " Eweher ! Siopher }* ' Here we are alongside of Hnnserford . " Now , Sir ;' " Now , Mtm ; " " Take my arm , Miss ; " and B . ucb does that pallid Cieature seed the assistance of the " Soy , " and the fresh air of the river . A few years , a very few years ago , that sickly girl had red lips and bright eyes , and a step as elastic as b fairy . What has worn her to thia 2—Toll ; the miseries of the needle ; for days and week * , nay , months , she has breathed nothing but tbe fetid air of her work room , until her young heart grew sickly with its hopes , and aer bright . blood changed into colourless

      lymph . Women of Ecgland , yon have a mighty wrong to answer for ! It is no fiction to say that more humsn ¦ rictiias are offered on the altar of your idol-vanity than are nqnirJd for the wretched sacrificial rites of savage iaperetiGoa . Tour thoughtlessness robs hundreds cf the solace cf sleep i yoax bargain-driving to load your btauteoua bodies—wonderfully beauteous as God has formed them—with one gew-gaw more , lessons the scanty meal of many of your toiling Bisters . The lust and avarice of man have bioken many a loving heart , and worn cut many a gentle life _ j bnt woman has been and ia now , the J > BBjer destroyer of her owjj fiex , by

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      : SEkmaSBa ^ S COLONIAL M AGaZ IKE . —Oar- ] : This Magazine improves apace . The selection of j " natter c-omposins ibis month ' s 2 ? o . ia of the best ' I csscription , and reflects great credit on its talented : j ssd lEdnsiri&ns editor . The opening paper is the ' \ HEclndiiig chapter of the ** ^ Narrative « f the Uig er ixpedinoa / ' bj Richard Monatr , £ sg . Mnch as we iire been pained by reading the dreadful tales of stkness * iid death , detailed by this gentlemaa in : Is narrative ; B > och £ B we have been shocked bv '

      tfcj recital of the sufferings and decimation of the 1 brave men sacrificed in this Quixotic adventore ; f js it is with n « small regret we part company : with the historian of thi 3 famous folly . A more { dETer , agreeable , entertaining and whole-hearted { Winer it has never been oar fortune to meet wih ; , -SBd aeartriy ire liope ~ 9 re . shall speedily meet him U in the ; p ~ « es of this Miscellany . The following extracts , ^ rief though taey be-, will serve to cliow < ai resders shat this praise of ours so far from being core taas oeserred , is on the contrary nothing equal a to 1 M 5 very pleasing writer ' s desem . ft ZXPE ? 5 JTE J-0 LUE 5 O ? THE £ X ? £ DIXI 0 >' . p ' S . fSTjih ' ms that could BossibJy be considered

      sesesg | ssrjior the perfect equipment , and thought to be beney- firisi , ho-sTcver crotcherty , was sa ^ gestei and granted . g Sipp 31 -fftre entered , with all appliinc = s and means g ^ to boot , * fcr blowing up the roc&s at Boussa aid other p paes , ar ; d rendcrisg the navigation free to Timbnctoo : § j goT * -n- ^— - stores for a lGng period "srtre 6 Tippl 5 e 3 , au < 5 Fj picnjids also on a lite libers ! scale—tbe latter very g Otetssrjio persons of > I = jor I > 2 lcetty * s way of thmk-| JEj , Iot Africa produces little in that line;—dedicators f a Ed ventilMinE apparatus , which b 3 d fewei ptisons S | k * 33 r- £ rn ^ iie < J to ester would cot have been necessary , 11 n > 3 fcTrn ts I : was they did not appear to be of much !« fer £ t ; iby-ihfc . fr . j-t-, tho : e graceleES lads en ihe coast | fi etrf tfcrE siirdiaiors , as they were t « stand between

      fcf E » ssfi Vfce itub tyrant ;"' i—presents in quantity sufflfel cest io br > e brit-rd half the African menarchs , a con-,- = ji Efieisblfi portion of wiacSi were subsequently purchased i " : \ ^ ? ni 2 E s £ fei t-J tLe "Wbitechapel theatrt as " pro-| v : P ^ 'i » ici tu zi-myznj;—a library of tbe choicest i : ifflj isijii Talrafcle fvidstd works , few velumes of wKdi -wrre ever it ^ a ;—Bibles , Testaments , acd Grosl Tdscf ite EvnEEtiists , in Arabic , without knowing - « h £± fcr ibe sefcuolmsiter was abroad : anr 5 3 with a : 2 ^ e coliittion of vaiuxKe scienUSe ana other iEstru-| £ seU ' * tre added to this choice assortment , gowns , \ tifl c ^ htr Tcctssaries cf female attire , worked by pions sdpLSst thicpic ladies for African conenbines . Two v ObVs -r ' lTcs , HfcEnah Buxton and Elizabeth Fry , tbe by

      ^ se ieIj j irdes who profited sneb pa ' msk -u £ g and praiseworthy tffbrti : there probably * ala have j ^ -j , moTe Tea i cfcarity if those tor ^ a ' -GTs cl Djcas had "bestowtd the laionrs * 4 « r Sngtrs upon half-dad and deserving objects in *? = * immetiijite nciihw-uihowis , who would have * "i » £ Tcd down blesiin ^ B opon such " ministering % d *; " bui stnaiB ? sceh attidts to ladies clad in the B * siow € d livers of ibe burnished sun , ' was only ojtjn ? yesris before swica" And to crown the **—if thit tern may be applied when such tragical toszt

      tste tiiiued—the « xpediticn was sent forth on £ *~ -& ! --srar principles . How the African Civjliz' . tfon ™ OKy , atd more fcipecj&iiy those jsembers of it , the l w ? ° * " WiVli £ E 1 PfiEn > -co ^ a hsT * rtcondled it [ ¦ wUflar cotEdtEces to sarxtion an armed expedition , > & u < id " 5 rt " - t ail tie " poEp and circumstances of Sr ? C ? holding out the olivtsbranch of peace and || - * w-tfI 11 , to be fcniplo 5 ed on b E >! ssi « 3 partly phiJangpopie nod rdigiouB , would przzte many . It seems as r ^ sru oM asa bitfeop bussing tbe colours of a regi-Ijprat : tut there is no tcccunticg fcr the rattling of ll 1 * 110 ? 1 * at times .

      9 " ^ frc&titsfor the snppression of the slave-trade | uerea into wrli the harbarens pr ' nees of these HTajreaod jestikntal legions , &t eo much cost to fl y wnstry , vere proved to be utterly valueless f 8 ? ' ^^ s , even before the expedition left the 11 til Sr ^^ iD slav e-s being carried on just as USr „ ? writ £ r denounces the " armed inter-9 v M wi"ek ^ as been lept sp by this country for » t& 3 ears past as being worse than nseless . M k !** Pussfrktiiat a fleet of sufficient magnitude HwLr ^ P 10 ?^ t 0 closely blockade the tastem and SI /* -OD CO&K ? K nf Afrif . ii mil » V-q IJ ^ . rr -, ion tkmia inH 1 mmiui mjc irirn * ir"

      |^ M ^ -- v « uuu mivivoj m *« v M p tsrf-oza rennd Cuba and Porto Bieo , there might ^ Jome loophole Joi hope that the importation of l ^" asd Pompeys to augar-eaneshores" would be : S ^ d ; and nothing short of this wiU effec t it , if an m W ^^^^^ ce ia to be peraevered in . But snch M ^^ f B ttfcI impossibUity , the most humane course i 2 ^^ PP a « to be the withdrawal of our iquad- 9 w ^? tist P ^^ lential statio n , sad a resort to otber ^ Br « foj an ^ t ^ g this eviL ¦ ^ " aeasures" suggested by the writer are 9 V ^ Tj consideraUon , but for the « e we must refer ' W ^ rad er to the Magazine itself . We dose our ex- : m ** vrxih the following sound advice to

      JMj . 1 XETEH HAli STMPATHTK 31 S . i pT ^ . ^^^ ators of this aflair , having not only suf- ' E- ? tlat ? iost sensitive part—the pocket , bni also m ^ BeU y ?* beai a * tack 8 ' P ™ ^^ « 3 nanct , MCj "fflfiEctd that there is a * crew loose somefe ^ 1 SD d £ omfclhing rotten in the Btate of Denmark , ! m ^ eonipds philaiithropy , like a awaUow , to migrate j ~ m ^^ t 3 haktj biai £ 0 onavoyagfi of discovery to ; ft jh ^ " ^ ci . kr . own regions , giving the " cold i m itf ^^ edutieis and misery staring one in the ] B i " " ™* ° ^ y in what is barlaojiely rtlled j m \ £ f r * n £ aii ~ making it appear " thatpHkn-j ' S ll ftlrt ? ^ 7 ' would be -rery common-place nn- ; 1 ffi *** ' "" agiMUTe , » d * eeminf to rcgulre

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      CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAI ( New Series ) . Fart IX . It is hardly necessary in the present day to say much in commendation of this excellent publication . Its long and successful career , unparalelled in the history of popular literature , bespeaks for it higher . praise than anything we could give utterance to . While the literary fame of the old series is fully maintained in the new , tho latter has the ad ? antage over the former , being much neater

      in appearance , and more compact ia form . We had marked tho article headed * ' Treatment of the Poor iu Scotland , " for extract , but Had it impossible to make room for it this week . The whole tenor of this article , but more particularly the ooncludiug remarks , reflect honour on the conductors and proprietors of the Journal , and Will obtain for thdCQ the thanks of all right-minded and right-hearted men . Wo shall try to giro the article ia question next week ; ia th « meantime , we he . arfcily recommend to our readers tho famed Edinburgh Journal .

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      THE NEW PARLEY LIBRARY-Part VII . This Part concludes the 1 st volume of this work , and we are glad that the success achieved has fully equalled the most sanguine hopes of its projectors . We say this because we can conscientiously recommend this publication as one of the very best of its class , imparting sound instruction , and amusing entertainment without any alloy . Most Of the Woodcut illustrations are tfood , and the original and selected articles exhibit a degree of talent inferior to none of the cheap publications , and superior to many . In the present part we have a continuation of Eugene Sue ' s thrilling romance " The Wandering Jew , " " Parley ' s Visits" to " Ireland , " * . Sootland . " and the " Isle of Wight ; " with numerous other matters in prose and poetry instructive and entertaining . New subscribers will find the present a good opportunity to commence with the first number of the new volume .

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      POLITICAL LETTERS ; or , OBSERVATIONS ON RELIGION AND CIVILIZATION . By Francis Wright D'AHUbMONT . Dundee : Myles , 2 ol , Overrate . London : Watson , Paul ' s Alley . As these letters originally appeared in this paper , it is uunecessary to do more than notice their appearance in their present shape . They are intended , wo perceive , to bind with the Biography of Madame D ' Arusmont , the first Number of which we noticed some time back . Most likely mapy of our readers , and all the admirers of Frances Wright ' s works , will be glad to hear of the appearance of these letters in their present Bhapc : to all suoh we recommend this neat and unpretending edition .

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      THE ARTIZAN-No . XXI . This most useful « Journal of the Operative Arts , " eont&inB this montfe Bomo most important and interesting articles . Among them is one on " The Health of Towns , " being a comment on the "First Report of the Commissioners for inquiring into the Skate of Large Towns and Populoas Districts . " Tkis is a truly yalaable . . article , * Would tbat the

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      wealthy and influential , more especially the membors of the legislative bodies would give to it their attentive perusal , and their serious consideration to the amendments therein suggested . Tho entire article should be quoted to do it justice ; but as that is impossible , wo must refer our readers to the publication itself . The prinoipal of the remaining articles are on " Tha British Museum ; " " Design ;" " Questions and Answers interesting to Naval Officers and Steam-Boat Engineers ; " "Hazlitt ' s Essays on Art ;"; "Steam Communication with the East ; " "The Building Arts ; " •• Tubular Boilers , " &o . &o . We extraot the following , as well on account of its brevity , as that we fully concur in the views therein expressed .

      railway ADMINISTBATION . The last nomber of the Westminster Review has a long article upon this subject , showing forth the evils which attend the present system of railway monopoly , and pointing out the means by wbich these evils may be suppressed . To this a-1 cle the Railway Chronicle a recently established railway paper , makes a weak and sophistical reply , and in the true spirit of partiz mship , seems only ambitious to be plaus'blo without caring much whether at tbe mme time it may not be also

      disingenuous , If the Railway Chronicle has any good reason to give us why certain public bodies in this free country should monopolize the right of way between its different districts , we should like very much to hear it , and shall receive with all due reverence , eo precious a communication ; but , in the absence of some better reason than it has yet given , we must be permitted to think with the Westminster Review , that the monopoly in question is an in ' olerable oppression , and to join in its aspiration for the speedy extirpation of Buota a tyranny .

      We shall be told , probably , in answer to all this , that a monopoly can hardly be said to exist when tbe public highway is open , and that perBona have the option of using other means of conveyance : but we laugh at such sophistries , and demand , if a monopoly is to be disclaimed , tho possession of other means of railway conveyance . What should we think of a turnpike trust that exacted exorbitant tolls , and told us in answer to any complaint , tbat we might if we choose , take our way through brakes and across quagmires , after the fashion of the ¦ ancient Britons ! Yet this is just the language virtually held by these railway monopolists , for in each case we have been defrauded of the

      bentfit to be derived from a superior method of locomotion , and of which tbe public ought to reap the advantage . In foreign countries , where the railways are in tbe hands of the State , the publio bns reaped the advantage of that improvement ; for the railway fares there are more than one-balf less than in England ; and the public of this country is only prevented from reaching still larger benefits by tbe intervention of this detestable monopoly . The evil , however , will assuredly work its own reparation , and the whole railways in tbe feiDgdom will come into the hands of the State , so soon as the public is sufficiently insulted to discern all its injuries , and sufficiently aroused to take its own part .

      But have you so slender a regard for property , we shall be asked , as to confiscate the possessions of railway directories ? By no means . Let them keep tbeir railways , say we , but let us have other railways running 1 long side . We know it is a very improvident thing to make two railways , where one would do ; fer tbe money spent on tbe one or the other , is bo much money wasted ; but it is a still more foolish thing t > sit down in supineness , under tbe iron sway of a lesion of monopolists , and to suffer ourselves to be cheated out of the benefits of a superior method of locomotion .

      Tbe Government , however , sbould have the management of comp ^ Uug linen , and not private companies , for tbe rival companies might coalesce , and the monopoly would then be as strong again as ever . But , whatever be the details of the amelioration , a better system we must have . A crisis is coining which neither the combination of directories , nor the plentiful distribution of advertisements , and other persuasives to venality , will be able to avert , and the railway people , will if they are wise , change their policy while it is yet possible , and bend to a necessity they cannot re . 'i st .

      Among the illustrations this month is " A Plan for the Rebuilding of the City of London , after the fire 1666 . as designed by Sir Christopher Wren . " In describing this plate , the Editor of the Artixan says : — * " ' We do not know that anything can show more clearly the necessity of legislative interference in working out great j municipal improvements than this silent plan ; for had such interference been persisted in at the time of the great fire , Lon-lon would not only have been the finest city in the world , but a va » t expenditure of health and money would have been saved to the country .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 19, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1285/page/3/