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      After long delay and repeated postponements , we this week make " adesperate attempt" to clear off amass of manueript bearing the " outward and visible form" of " Poetry ; " hut , for the most part , we regret to say . containing bat little of its "inward and sp iritual" essence . "We cull the choicest . " LABOUR'S HOLIDAY . Aw— " Lacy , % Fat'riU Bird . " The tcrnal season bow draws near , The early buds their green unfold , 8 tern Winter ' s vapours disappear , And Sol emits a brighter gold : But vain for us his lengthened sway , Our labour meets no holiday-Holiday , holiday , Our labour meets no holiday , Oar labour meets no holiday . In tain for ns the fluwrets bloom ,

      In Tain the songsters fill the grove , The meadows breathe theirrich perfume , And Nature ' s bosom glows with love : The sicken M eye but turns away . It bring * tons no holiday—Holiday , &c . Long have we brav'd the seasons ' rage . The Summers' fire , the Winters' cold , At length appears a brighter page . The promis'd blessing long foretold ; Then , brothers , hope—prepare the way To keep the shadow'd holiday-Holiday , &e . Th * Egyptian darkness breaks and flies , EnlUhten'd millions join in thrones , While earth and air , and seas and skies ,

      Re-echo with the Chartist songs , Fair Freedom shows no distant ray , Prepare to meet the holiday—Holiday , ic . Then shall commence the reign of Bight , The chain-gall'd wealth-crentor smile , Cow'd tyrants stand deprived of might , Aud peace and plenty fill the isle . Rise , brethren , rise , no more delay To usher Freedom ' s holiday-Holiday , ic . Then shall the soil its fruits increase , Obedient to the tillers' care , Fair Commerce spread her nails in peace , And all shall in her blessings share . Restor'd Asttea hold the sw ay , And myriads keep the holiday-Holiday , &c . Leicester . T . R . Sjuk

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      THE PARLOUR LIBRARY . Vo ' i . II . " ifetnofa of a Fhytman , by Alexander Dumas . London : himms & M'lntyre , Paternoster-row ; and 26 , Donegal-street , Belfast . . We took up this volume with no very friendly feelings towards Monsieur Dumas , who is undoubtedly the generalissimo of literary coxcombs ; and our first jmpresBioBs of these "Memoirs" were not calculated to dispel our prejudices . Although entitled "Memoirs of a Physician , " the Physician we cannot find , notwithstanding we have carefully read from the be ' ginning to the end of these 31 G pasea : True , th «

      vomrac oetore us is only part 1 of these « Memoirs , " and bearing mramd the frightful length to which b rench romances usually extend , we suppose we must have patience , trusting that some half-dozen , or eight or ten volumes hence , all mysteries will be cleared up , and we shall understand what at present " passeth all understandin K . " This is a true character of , at least , the opeuinfr portion of the volume wherein we have introduced to us a magician who professes to exemplify the transmigration of souls , as taught by Pythagoras ; our conjuror claiming to have been a denizen ot earth on many previous , occasions , one of then occasions being so far back a&ifce tune tf

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      ——¦ ——¦ ———i ^—Archimedes , though the time of this story ' s commencement is laid in the year 1770 . The magician deals largely in mesmerism , and is in league with some old sinner , who r » for ever boiling his pot in quest of " the elixir of life . " He fortela future events , and after performing a series of tricks almost worthy of the far-famed Wizard of the North , he encounters Marie Antoinette , on her entrance into France to marry the Dauphin ( afterwards Louis XVI ., ) and reveals to that ill-fated princess her future drtora . Of course it is not a very difficult thing at this time of day for Monsieur Dumas to make his conjurors predict the fate- of Marie Antoinette ! AmMmoiloa tUnoh » hn timn nf this ntnrv ' nanm .

      Thus much for the Devil and Dr Faustus part of this volume , which , had it contained nothing better , we should soon have tired of ; but it does contain something better . The principal scenes are laid at Versailles and Paris , in the last years of the reign of Louis XV ., and the author makes his story the medium of exhibiting the horrible depravity of the court , and the appalling misery of the people which immediately preceded the great convulsion of ' 89 . The heartless sensualism of Louis , the degrading reian of the royal harlot Dubarry , the holiownessand wickwlness of the aristocracy generally , the sapping and raining efforts of the philosophers , at the head of whom figure Rousseau and Voltaire ; and the murmurs of the despairing people—the mutterings of the coming storm—these pass before us , pictured , we

      must confess , by a master-hand . At the conclusion of the volume we are introduced to an old man , whom we imagine must be Jeiin Jacques Rousseau himself . Whatever dislike wa may have felt towards Monsieur Dumas , and notwithstanding the rather ridiculous necromancy with which the volume opens , wo must say , that we shall wait with impatience for the continuance of this story , which ia promised at an early period . This volume exhibits some neat improvements in its outward appearance . < w compared with its predecessor . Truly the Parlour Library is a marvel of cheapness ; in ' that respect it ( as the Yankee * say ) ' whips all creation . " The next volume of this series' , to be published on the 1 st of May , wi 1 be from the pen of that popular favourite , Mary Ilowitt .

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      EXETER HALL . —The musical world is , at this moment , unusually prolific in presenting to the public eminent m . n and women , wlose genius will not be received and applauded by a London audience for a few short weeks , to give place to other star . » , and thi * n forgotten ; but the enduring triumphs achieved by a M . ndelssohn , a Lind , and , we may add , an Alboni , are likely to Kniu for th-.-se highly-gifted names a fame as enduring as Genius —which is ukin to Divinity—must and evt-r » ill command . Who has not heard of Mendelssohn ? What Wellington teas , as a military leader , this eminent and amiable man is as thefirstmusicalcomposerof theday . And how vast the comparison ! The misiion of the one that of a blood-stained warrior—the other , a glorious worker in the mighty cause of Progress—for who can deny that the direct influence of Music is other than to soften tlie obdurate , cheer the weary , and even to civilize the roughest of mankind t Hear what the immortal William puts into the mouth of Caliban : Ba not afraid ; the isle is full of noises , Souuds , and sweet airs , that give delight , and hurt

      uot . Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about miue ears * * * that , when I waU'd , I cried to dream again . What was true in Shakspere ' s day is not the less so in ours—human nature is ever the same ; and what the great bard describes in the above quotation , Science and Art have in oar own time absolutely verified . The oratorio of " Elijah , '' the work of Dr MenoVUsohn , was performed a few evenings since at Exeter Hall , for the first time in London . The magnificent Hall was never known to be so crowded ; and the enthusia . tic plaudits bestowed upon the truly gifted composer wire sincere , and prolonged for some minutes . The text of the ora . torto , entirely composed of paungeB from Scripture ,

      embraces four principal even t * , vii ., the fearful judgment ef the drought which lasted three years ; the railing to life the widow ' s child ; the as » embli » g of thepropheti of Baal at Mount Carmel , with their appeal to Baa ); and the sacrifice of Elijah , iti acceptance , and the departure of the prophet , and his subsequent translation to heaven . Mr Phillips opened with a declamatory recitative " , an unprecedented novelty . Miss Birch acquitud herself with her usual Miccess ; and all the artUts and the chorus were evidently " nell . up , " although the wovk had been hut once rehearsed . Our regret is that these fine and instructive compositions are sealed books to tinindustrious millions ; but the Sacred Harmonic Society has already achieved much , and deserves the greatest praise and infinite honour for introducing to thepuolie some of the finest musical productions eitant .

      ADELPHI . —A little piece , tailed " an entirely new opera bufia apropos sketch , " has been produced here under the title of " Jenny Lind . " The farce is of the most meagre description , and the laughter which occaslonally attended the performance was owing solely to the grotesque acting of Mr Wright , who , disguise 1 as the "Swedish Nightingale , " played a succession of antics more grotesque . tban artistic . The " plot" is suggested by the anxiety existing amengst the managers of the London theatres respecting the arrival of Jenny Lind . The directors of the rival opera houses , and ot Drury

      Lane areawaiting the adventof the fairprimadonna at an hotel at Dover ; and the fact of her expected arrival being known to the innkeeper ' s son and niece , she assumes the character of the "Swedish Nightingale , " and by practising on the credulity of the managers , succeeds , at the expense of those gentlemen , in filling her pockets with money . The piece may be described as successful , inasmuch as the audience laughed loudly and frequently . It would be unfair , in noticing this trifle , to pass over another piece , on the same suggestive subject , which has been some nights before the pnblic at the

      LYCEUM—entitled " Jemy Lind at Last , " The prinoipal difference here consists in the heroine being the unintentional means of deceiving a London manager in search of stars , and who mistakes an English lady for the expected singer . The identity of the manager is un . mistakable , and was sufficient to insure the success ot the piece without counting the inimitable acting of Mrs Keeley , who ia even more than herself in her caricature of the Italian school of singing . The dialogue is smart , and abounds in as many pointed allusions to passing events as can very well be crammed into one act . The mistake of the lady in construing the manager ' s offer of a theatrical engagement into a real-life one of a different kind , affords au oppoitunity of which good and sufficient use is made .

      Daoar-tANE —It is stated we are to lose the gorgeous spectacle of TheDutrl . Itappears that Mr Hughes has entered into a series of provincial engagements , which it is impossible to postpone ; and that his establishment leaves Drury-lane about the end of next week . Licedm . —It is reported that when the term of Mr and Mrs Keeley ' a management expires Madame Vestris and Charles Matthews will succeed them . OtTMrlc—This evening , wo have much pleasure in announcing an amateur dramatic performance , fur the benefit of the Printers' Pension Society , will take place at this theatre . Column ' s comedy of the " Poor Gentleman , " and " Luke the Labourer , " are the pieces seleetedferrepresen tation . The theatre will be open to the public as usual .

      Jenny LtHD . —Thelong . diiputed question of the visit of the eminent Swedish vocalist , Jenny Lind , to this country , is at length set at rest ia a moit satisfactorj manner , and in a manner , too , to delight all lovers of music who are anxiously waiting to hear this renowned singer . On Saturday she arrived in London , and was present at ^ the performanceat her Majesty ' s Theatre that same evening . She reached town late in the day , Mr Lumley having preceded her by some hours in the jour , ney . This far-famed vocalist is a lady « f kindly counte nance , fair hair , and fresh complexion ; her eyts are sofi and mild , and the expression of her face is intelligent and ingenuous . The Italians have a phrase , volto lelolto , to Indicate the combination of intellect and truthfulness which is manifested in her features ; and the Germans generally term it freundlich . Neither words have a

      literal meaning in English , as applied to human expressioa ; but ability and candour are their synonyms in our tongue . Jenny Lind is of the middling height , well formed , and of some seven or eight and twenty years of age—as far as appearances can be credited . Her aspect is pleasing ; ber most prominent character seems to be modesty . In her deportment she has the air and bearing of a perfect lady ; that is to say , the is calm , quiet , and perfectly self-possessed in manner and address , with that " most excellent thing in woman "—a voice soft , low , and sweet . It is believed that she willniak * herdchtt in about a week , The likenesses that have been published of her seem to have succeeded in repie . senting the general style and character of the face and figure . The opera in which she will make ber first ap pearance before an English audience at her Majesty ' s Theatre is said to be that of Boberto ilDiavolo .

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      THESE ARE THE CHAMBERS' OF 1846 * . l ^ e av already shown toour readers the ChameXJ ^ i • we nOw refer to the previous opinions ot tttese changeable economists . Whence this we » . derlul change l \ IMPROVEMENT 6 T " wASTE LANDSSPADE HUSBANDRY . ( iStmthe Informaiion , for the People , No . T 2 J [ Continued' / torn OHrtoit . ] THRSP . idc mrm ^ rr . i . nonm nn . n ...

      Inoonnection with tho protection of river bankfe * we may say a few words on . the method of gaining land from rivers and tidal estuaries . This may be dono'if the river appears toatranglo over an unnecsssarily wide space , and brings down quantities of mud sos * to produce impediments to navigation . Thle process usuallv followed with , most advantage , isto run out at intervals shortt rows of stakes , matted with , twigs , calculated too * toh the confluent particles of mud , but to allow the water to pass through . & sediment is thus gradually formed between the row *; in tiruo , it mes above the water , and ultimately forms a green productive surface . When the watnV

      is affected by the tides , a . row of loose atones laid b « - tweenhiKh and low water-mark will similarly catch mud and sand , and while forming new land , will tor narrowing the channel ; give greater impetus to < tb ' e stream , and help to deepen its bed . When done oa a areatscale , the bed « f ' tho river is scooped by meefcanisrn . andthe rubbish brought up may afterwards assist in elevatin" the-newly-formed banks . Id pomt of justice to all parties , any of these processes-of river-rank improvement should be done on bothisides oftheriverat tho same time ; for if effected only on one side , the water may be driven to the opposite shore , to the serious damage of the Jand in * that quarter .

      SPA&E HUSBANDRY . The reclaiming and culture of small piece * of fond by means of th * spatle and other instruments of manual labour , is usually spoken of under the name of spade husbandry ; but is also sometime * called cottage-farming , or field gardening—the operations of the culturist bearing an intimate resemblance to those applied in ordinary kinds of fjardenwiR . The apparatus supposed to be employed by the cartage farmer is simple and unexpensive . It consists of two or three spades of different slaw * a pickaxe , three-pronged digging-fork , hoes , rake , ligbtt harrow which he can draw , scythe , reaping-hooks , hayforks ,

      niil , wheelbarrow , &c , according to means . It is of great importance for the cottage I ' arnipp to he able to sharpen or mend his tools , and for this purpose he should have a grinding-stone and small forge , also ¦ «> me carpenter ' s tools . No horse or paid servant is kept . All the work is done by the manual labour of the farmer and his family . The only live stock is a cow or cows , pigs , and poultry . The homestead consists of a cnttnge with several apartments—a cowhouse , pig-stye , and barn . 1 be siae of tbe farm is supposed to vary from four to six or eight acres , and to be laid out in six or eight distinct fields , properly fenced .

      TRENCHING . The basis of cottage farming is deep trenching with tbe spade ; but before regular trenching can comm ° nce , _ the land , if in a rough state , must be cleared and drained . We have already shown how these preliminary operations are performed on a large scale , and they may very easily be modified for manual labour . Suppose the patch of land is part of a raw , His open drains round it to draw off the water ; scarify the surface with the spade , and burn the heaps of turf ; scatter the ashes on the land along with any sandy material or lime which can be procured , » nd then delve all from one end to the other . This process will cause a large portion of the mossy fibre to decay . and the exposure to the atmosphere and draining will be found to meliorate the soil , In twelve months , the face of the hind wili be more like eartk and less like peat than it was at the time of delving .

      If the land be choked with stones or roots , all these encumbrances should be removed to the depth to which you design your lynching should go ; ani the sooner you get rid of them the better , Tho whole ground should be free of everything whfah can present the slightest impediment to the spade . Stones if even on ounce in weight should he removed . Where subdraining is required , the stones may ho employed tn lay in the drains . With respect to the Hrst crops taken from the delved field , it will depend on the natural fertility of the ground and other circumstances . If the land be comparatively dry and fertile , as , for instance , the forest land of North America , a good meliorating and opening crop is potatoes ; but in the case of poorer soilmanuring will

      , be required , and the first crop may be Brass . If the land can be conveniently partitioned into separate fields , a different crop may be taken from each , thus commencing a regular rotation . In proportion as the upper layer of earth is meliorated and exhausted , it will be necessary to go the deepi > rdown . On large f ;» rm ? , certain fieldsare occasionally left fallow , that is , doing nothing , unless it be gathering what strength can be procured from the atmosphere . In cottage farming , this wasteful practice must be unknown . Instead of trying to recruit the land by giving it a rest , you must recruit it by turning up the

      layer of mould immediately below that which has been affording nourishment to your crops . Thisstrv tum . which we shall call la \ er No . 2 , extends from 9 to 18 inches below the surface , supposing you to have been employing a nine or ton-inch spade . ' It is , generally speaking , neither soil or subsoil , but partakes of the qualities of both ; and after two or three years' cropping , will be found to have imbibed a share of the manure delved in for the crops . The art , then , consists of raising up this layer No . 2 , and turning down No . 1 in its stead . By doing so , perhaps manuring may be orumited for a year , and , at any rate , a light manuring will suffice .

      In some districts the depth of available soil may not be so much as 18 inches , the layer beneath being rock or chalk , in which case the stirring of the soil canKot be carried deeper , unless at an immense cost oflabnur ; but in the greater number of instances , the soil rests on a till or clayey-hardish substance , usually called subsoil ; and this , which we may call layer No . 3 , must be stirred and gradually brought up in aid of the upper soils . As mentioned under the head Subsoil Ploughing , the proper method of nourishment consists of first stirring or breaking up the hard subsoil . Get down to it , and go over it with a pickaxe . Next year it may be incorporated with layer No . 2 , and in two or three years the whole three layers may be indiscriminately mingled or made to change places . Such is the principleof

      trenching , by which three layers of soil are alternately , or at proper intervals , compelled to do duty ; and thus a farm of six acres , by being , as it were , three storey deep , is practically as extensive as one of eighteen acres but one storey deep . W hen we add , that whi * e the plough leaves lumps of earth unbroken , and comparatively useless to the crop , the spade dashes and pulverises the whole soil , bringing all into effective play on the roots , the value of spade over plough husbandry will be at osce apparent . Another important advantage of deep trenching with the spade , is the turning down and destroying the larvae of insects and seeds of weeds which may be abimt the surface ; and it will be found that the first crops of trenched ground are always remarkably free of these nuisances . '

      The process of trenching to effect these important fidvantajjes is no doubt very toilsome ; this , indeed , is a fact not to bo concealed ; but , without almost constant labour , and labour in which a pleasure is taken , cottage farming will generally come to nouaht ; and he who is disinclined to undergo the trouble , should not commence the undertaking . To render the work as easy as possible , it should be methodic , and bit by bit , and always the more the ground is . tilled , the less difficult will the trenching be .

      GKNKRAL MANAGKMBNT . Whether the land of a cotta « efarmer be par t of a reclaimed bogor waste , or a section of fertile soil , or whether it be his own property , or rented , he must necessarily exert unremitting industry not only in ¦ tigging and trenching his email fields , bat in all the ordinary routine of manuring , cropping , and in attending to the other affairs of his establishment . Te procure manure in sufficient abundance , he must keep one or two cows and a pig . and into a pit adjoining tho cow-houce all the solid refuse , including all that may be collected from the family , must be removed . The urine from the cow-house should be collected in anothor pit . or in a barrel sunk in the

      ground , protected from the air . This will be found a roosi valuable liquid for throwing over the larid , to excite a jounggrowing crop . While on the subject of manures , it cannot be out of place to mention tuat most surprising results have been effected in auriculturc and market-gardening by the use of night-soil In some foreign countries , where this is wellunderl : tood , the mght-so . il is carefully saved , and todestroy its offensive effluvia , is mixed with gypsum or earth torafewshovclsful of earth thr . wnover it at once removes all offensiveness in this respect , besides being otherwise useful . So little thought and trouble an usually taken in Britain to preserve this material tor manure , that for the use of entemrisimr «» , ?» ., ! .

      tunsts quantities are now imported from France in a dried and prepared condition . There are otter means of increasing the quantity of manure . From every piece of ground a quantity of rubbish may be collected , as withered leaves , stalks , clipping of branches , roots , &c . Improvident persons burn much of this refuse , but we strongly advise the cottager or gardener never to burn any . thing , except it be stumps of tree&o * p ' ecesol branches as fuel . Collect all tho interior stuff into a heap , to winch scrape or carry all the mire that can be gathered from the pathways , and the whole will make a compost dung-hill ; a pailful of cow urine thrown occasionall y over the heap will be a valuable addition , and so likewlae will be a shovelful of nightaoil . A httle lime will hasten the rotting of anv c mp r " P « n > eriymanaged , in twelvemonths all will be rotted , and then bean taking from one end tor manure . To the other extremity you may keen c * L 5 Wiatter that is collected . The treatment I of the ordin ary dung . pitg i 8 to be on the same pUn , ( 1 . 0 not nttm Vha manure till it has lain a « u . ioje . u

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      —¦—¦———¦—i—^—I———length of time to decompose , but keep taking from one that is ready , while another is collecting . ( To bt continued in our neat . ) ' ~ '

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      ''Every individual possesses , legitimately , the thin * : £ is ! SsKS ! s » W * - * 5 ^ we&vf&Hr ^ tf fundamental principle of iJ ^ rtv thS ' if" ™ * belong to any small Po tio , } . ;? t e h 7 humtac ? w n h have created it by the ractivity . Lpt n « » h « elude that the true theory of propertyI s to , n £ ? ° " the > > creationof the t ^ LJJ ^^ I The Saxon government-has determined that corn flour and pulse , from foreign countries paiSX transit on the Elbe to Saxony , shall be admitted " Ml the end of September , frta from duty . Mr Herbert , of Muekross . in the county of Waterford , has sold his hounds , and devotes the weekly sum which they cost him tr > . tbe relief of the poor The municipal authorities of Berlin lately an .

      nounced to tue King oi Prussia , their desire togive a grand banquet to tlre-mcmbers of the Diet but * the king replied that , as such distress existed , it would be better to employ the money for more usat ' ul objects ; It is said that somemerchants in London , desirous of promoting the cul tivatton of the potato , have agreed to turnish several farmer in Perthshire with seed ; on condition that the latter furnish theground . manure labour , &c ., and that th « crop be equally divideoLbetween the two parties * . Grass lands , in Sootfeutd , have been let for the-prefo ? many ; ears S ? ient 3 than have beenobtaio « d 'Z ^ ttteSSV-JZER

      It is said that negotiations are about to ba- entered into betweenbranoeand l > ru * sia , fora trea *» rorthi protection of literary property onthe « am * " l » M * jw that contracted ) about ; a year ago between . P . rugsin and England . . A mechanic ot Carlsruhe has just invented a , new locomotive , by which steep gradients of twenty-twn feet in one mile may be surmounted ; ai > £ > the adoption of such at * engine would facilitate tho-ennstruo tion of the proposed line from Carkruhe-to . Switzerland . An excavation was lately made in bite Strartella Fortuna , at Pompeii , in presence of the-Prince Osear Frederic ; when various utensils in h / unse and glass were found—and near a human skeleton , a beautiful cameo of onyx representing the bust &f > % woman .

      M . Scipio Volpicella , it is anno * Miced k . has discovered ii » the same city the column . which Robert of Anjou erected to commemorate Ws . interview with Andre of Hungary in 1333 . / owrdihg to Vasari , the sculpture of the monument h most miraculous workmanship for the a « e . It is probable that the basreli (> fs are from the designs or Petoaee , who sojourned at Naples from 1341 toiX ^ -audthoy were executed by Ma ? accio . " Blcs . < me I" exclaimed in old lady , throwing down the newspaper , and wiping he » spectacle * i " here is John Doe and Richard Roc at taw again—they ' ve had a suitreg'lar every year or 8 o , fortaore ' n thirty years , to my certain knowledge !" Love * ne human being purely and warmly , aid you will love all . The heart in this heaven , like the wandering sun , sees nothing from the dewdmp to the ocean , but a mirror whioh it warms and fills . —Jetm Paul .

      At the Preston Sessions , Mr Marshall wound uji his summary to thejuiy with these remarks : — " Ynu cannot have any doubt as to tho prisoner ' s euilt ; hu very countenance wauld hana him . " In the High Court of Justiciary , recently atEdin burgh , a juryman , who had attended the court in a state of intoxication , was fined £ 20 . # The l ' acha of Damascus lately issued a proclam * . tion , enjoining the women of that city to be more strictly veiled when they went abroad , and declaring that he would cut off the noses of all who disobeyed his orders . A Prince Consort , says the Cambridge Advertiser . belongs to noostate , to no cla-s . to no fraternity , — unless , in the waeeishness of our humour , we shall dub him an Odd-Fellow .

      At Luton , Bedfordshire , a tradesman has produced quite a flutter amongst the bachelors , bv sticking in his window the following notice : — ' " Good Ladies , Is ., lasting ditto , Is ., 6 d . per pair . " A number of fhhing-boats from the Aberdeen and Banffshire coasts , have left for the Wet Highlands , to prosecute the lobster an ! cod fishing . A baker of Berne , in Switzerland , is said to bnve succeeded in making very palatable bread from Iuiland inos 3 . From a scientific analysis of this bread , it appears that nut of 120 parts , it contains H { ol fccula or nutritive matter . A chemist of Vienna has produced bread from oil cake—the refuse of the colz * seed , after extracting the oil—which is both agreeable and nutritive , am costB only one halfpenny per pound .

      A correspondent assnres us ( Ltcds Mercury ) that so particular are the managers of tho Cambria steamer in respect to colour , that a black cat , with some mulatto kittens , fpund in the hold previous to tli < vessel ' s sailing , were immediately flung overboard ! Accordins to an American paper , a slavo ai Charleston lately whipped a femalo slave so cruelh that she died ; and tbe court which tried him for the murder , acquitted him on the ground that he had obeyed the orders of his mistress ! The whites of Mercer coun ' y , Ohio , will not permit the coloured people to have grain ground at their mills .

      Two harvest-mice placed in a scale will only weigh down a single halfpenny Prim were lately offered by the French Government for the composition of religious and mom songs , and no fewer than 1 , 700 competitors entered the lists . On the London and South-Western Railway , nil seed , meal , corn , or other provisions forwarded b ) the relief committees , is carried free of charge . In London tho Bread League has commenced operations in right earnest , and its doors are besieged with customers . ( . This ' another heavy blow at the monster Monopoly . ] A statue of the Queen , which has been executed by Gibson , at Rome , is expected to arrive in this country by the Tiger steamer , at the port of Southampton .

      Measures are n ^ w in proeress for blending the Irish medical staff with tbe English This arrangement has for some time past been in agnation . Its mloption hus , however , at length been definitely decided on , and it will be brought into operation at as early a period as possible . Monsieur Soyer , on his way from Dublin to London , visited Liverpool and Manchester , and inspected the soup kitchens of these commercial towns , as well as the different kitchen departments of the several

      unions . Is it not 3 candsilous to consider that a Primp Minister could raise within the year , ns I have seen it done , a hundred and twenty millions sterling to shuot the French ; and we are stopped short for waat of a hundredth part of that to keep the English living ?— Carlyle . Foote , dining at the house of Mr 3 Thrale , found nothing to his liking , and sat in expectation of some better coming up . A neck of mutton , beinj : the last thing , he r . fused it , as he had the other dishes . As the servant was taking it nway , however , unders'nnding that there was nothing more , he called out to him , "Hollo , John ! bring that back again ; I now find it neck or nothing . "

      A correspondent of tho Timei snys there is no truth in the report so currently circulated , that tho Duchess ot Montpensier is enceinte . It ia true that the young duchess has changed recently in appearnnce , but this change is merely the result of obesity , which is the family complaint , and which in her Roval Iligbness ' s case threatens to assume no ordinary developm nt . A man , named Mick Dempsey , died at Drumming Park , county Longford , last vieek , at the advanced age of 115 years .

      • , There is at present living at Mullyard , within four miles of Kcady , county Armagh , a hale , ruddy , cheerful patriarch in the 103 id year of his age . The House of Assembly at Jamaica has voted £ 2 , 000 towards mitigating the distress in Ireland and Scotland . Ireland sent to Barbadoes Co years ago £ 20 , 000 when the above island was desolated by a hurricane . The West Indian theatres have opened their doors for benefit performances to relieve the destitute in Ireland and in the Scottish hLhland * . There are no means for the cdu ation of our race which can in any degree be compared to a dome / tic life in Us purity . Domestic life in its csfentc is a bond of love , and through this a divine institution to beget love . —Pestalozzi . It is reported that Dr Osehatz has di-coveretl the art ot making very good paper from wood , without Chit nui of nitric ncid or great mechanical force ,

      When any plan ot Nationul Education is propped in England , it always receives an oppo « i ; ion which may be illustrated by the faWe of the Old Msvn anil li ' u Two W'ves ; one pulls all the black hairs out ol his head , the other all the wuite , until , in a very short lime , the poor man id left without any hair at all . Those beinga are only fit for solitude who like nobody , a > e like nobody , and are liked by noboily . — Zimmerman . An inhabitant of the French colony of SeneRivt lately advertised tor sale an excellent Maltese ass . for whioh he was willing to take slaves in payment Asses would thus seem to bear a higher value than men ia Senegal .

      A little girl walking in the cemetery of Pcre-la Chaise , Paris , and reading one after another the praises Bpon the tombs of those who slept beneath , exclaimed , " 1 wonder where all the sinners are buried !"

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      MORAL MUSINGS . " Han is made to mourn . "—Job . " Man ' * made to mourn . " O melancholy truth ! Hath Nature stamped him with ber seal of woe ? Or strews thi- thorns around tho path of youth , TVhich mutt perforce to elo < m . v Sorrow grow ! Must the hot waves of tribulation flow ? Mutt the black fiend of Discord ever reign i Boundlest Creation generously answer * No ! While rolling spheres , in sweet harmonic strain , Echo the ihout from mountain , flood , and plain . Nature ! thou common mother , great Divine !

      Thy e ifts are scattered with a bonnteous hand ; Then why should man , ' raid cares and trouble , pine , Where Plenty reipis throujchout a smiling land , And Nature links within a golden hand H-r choicest treasures for the use of man ! Trt doth he mourn as on a barren stand , And Discontent stands foremost in the van , While hireling priests proclaim it Heaven ' s primeval ban . " Man ' s made to mourn , " but not destined by Fate Ta languish ' neath oppression , toil , and pain ; 'Tis man who doth life ' s thousand ills create , — Tis man who is unto himself a bane , Riveting Custom ' s adamantine chain , Which , like some dire incubus , ever stands , Exulting o '« r the mangled and the slain , Rending asnnder Nature ' s social bands , Till monarch * , nobles , serfs , are slaves to her commands

      " Man ' s made to mourn" beneath a weight of woe , Which beincreaseth still with studied care ; Intemperance hath been his deadly foe : Not satisfied with Nature ' s bill of fare , He taxei Art to gild the pois ' nous sn ire , Where hissing serpents ' mid the banquet glide , Emitting death from their noisome lair , Tainting the current of life ' s purple tide , Blasting the father ' s hope , the doting mother ' s pride . '' . Man ' s made to mourn " beneath excessive toil , Labour exacted for a scanty fare , Shorn of his birthright , alien on the soil . Which Natare gave him as her rightful heir ; But gaunt Oppression placed his standard there , Whence plagues , more fatal than Pandora , hurled , With moral poison , taint the aabient air ; Bu » Hope her cheering banner hath unfurled , And , free untrammeU'd Thought shall renovate the world .

      Then turn , ye sons and daughters of distress , From the old world and jeack alluring toy ; Take the fair path that leads to Happiness , Where social pleasures reign without alloy , Warming each breast with pure ecstaticjoy , Where Virtue wrestles with a giant ' * might , 'Gainst se'fisb demons , who would fain destroy The heavenly lustre of communal li ght , And keep the trammelled world in ignorance and night . Cheam . J . Blackabi .

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      THE MIGHT AND MARCH OF INTELLIGENCE . The love of Right is spreading To Earth ' s remotest bound , And Truth at length is sheddiftg Her 'lustrous lays around ; The mist of by . gone ages Is vanishing away , The Mini ' s progress presages A brighter , fairer day : Intelligence is on her mareh , like ocean ' s surging swell ; Nor dungeons , racks ani scourges , her growing might can quell .

      To beep the mass in i norance Has been all tyrant * ' aim , That they might have a « afer chance To play their crafty game ; But , despite all tbe cunning schemes Of each despotic knave . The dawn of Freedom faintl y gleams To cheer the injured slave : Intelligence is on her march , aad / fore her might must fall Oppression , wrong , and tyranny , and slavery and thrall

      Yes , Freedom ' s dawn is breaking O ' er every land and sea , The millions are awaking From sleep and apathy ; The long dark rei gn of terror Is drawing near its dose . And Suparstitfon ' s etror Is in i t * dying throes : Intelligence is on her march , and 'fore her might ; sway Old mystic rites , and craft aud cant , alike will pass away .

      And unjust systems that have long Disgraced History ' s page . Intelligence ' s flood . tide strong Will sweep them off the stage ; Tears , monarchs , despots , by her might Will froai their thrones be hurl'd ; And Justice , Liberty , and Right , Will reign throughout the world . She ' * on her march , go aid her , ye men of heart and miud . In this her faallow'd mission , to reformate mankind . Derb J « J . Eowabds .

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      • Tub Pbicb of a Laboursr ' b SwBAT . —The ill-paid man n »« siially become an inferior workman . OE his the following homely illustration . mentioned at a rate tanners club , is anv instance : — Whilst inspecting a farm in one of these pauperised districts an able- agriculturist couW' not help noticing the alow ,. dr » wiing motions of one-of the labourers there .

      and said , "My man . you do not sweat at that work . " "Whypo , master , " wasthoreply , " seven shillings a week Isn't sweating wages . " — Hampshire Ttlegrapti * , Dsmdcsacv i » New Tobb . —The 'Democratic ' city government of New York , it is said , let out of ( he city prison on Blackwell's-Island , sixty convicts , on an election day , in order that they might , vote against ; giving coloured people the right of suffrage I Thirteen of these ' worthies "were arrested by Alderman Benson and Justice Merritt , on the . r way tothe poll *—Christian Citizen .

      SiNouiAit Win . —A person lately deceased in Bradford , after providing for the apprenticing of hia three sons , bequeathed JE 500 * to his widow , but on ftmuition that she marry before six months after hig rraL ' She ia very good looking ; , and will have no difficulty in complyinj : with his injunction . PittCK op Wheat i . v Engxand . —On striking the J « S ? J the price of wheat in Hants , Dorsot , and Wilts , is at present 18 s . a quarter higher than at any corresponding period since the new mode of taking the com returns has been adopted .

      Corn Ladis Ships —The total number of ships 0 ^ Wlt " fore' 2 n corn entered inwards in the year 184 « j at the ports of the United Kingdom , was 4697 . 1 he following were the quantities imported in British ships :-Wheat , 083 , 664 qrs . ; barley , 70 . 8 G 5 qrs . ; oats , 321 , 200 qrs . ; beans and pens , ' 240 509 qrs . ; rnaiza and buckwheat . 47 , 118 qrs . ; flour , 815 v 275 cwts . ; oatmeal , 1 , 393 cwts . ; Indian-corn meal , 170 cwts . There were imported in iWreiea ships :-72 lJ , 220 quarter * of wheat ; barley . 287 , 579 qrs . ; oats , 452 . 832 qr * . r beans and peas 204 111 qrs . ; rye , 70 qrs .: maiaj and buckwheat , 73 , 765 ' qrs . ; flour , 1 936 . 783 ; ewts . ; and of Indian corn and meal , 2 . 1 G 5 cwts .

      Cru : mE Sloar . —Tb « importation of susrnr from the Chinese empire , and more particularly fram the new British settlemeivls in that part ot ihe world , xciten a great degree of interest . The vessel Bahoe , . v wived in tho St Ku , tiierine ' s Docks , from lu-port v > - ¦ . v-<> f Canton and the ntiw British settlement Victoria : Jk- ' ^ vV * respeetivelv , h . i 3 broa ^ ht 1 , 600 bags from tho former ' 3 & 1 $ C . iliioe . and 7 . 838 ba » s of sugar from the latter . ¦ ' V < . ¦ ¦ Wty-i ¦' ruiwuii of Clka-xlisess usDKn Difficulties . -- ' * fy&-j ' --We have read of a clear stream—the Clitumnus ' / Iwing a " mirror" a < well as a " butli , " for " beauty ' s youngest daughters , " but never heard ofa river being turned into a shaving glass , until Sunday Jast , when some friends of ours surprised a man busily occupied in shaving hims&lf in one of the meadows on the banks of the Iiwell , by the help of his imase reflected in the stream . He had cleared away half the crop , ami proceeded gravely to clear awny the other , in . spite of their laughter . —Liverpool Times .

      1 ' abliamesuiiy Elbcwrs . —The bill prepared and brought in by Sirde L . Evans and Sir B . Hall "to rectilAtc the tiroes of payment of rates and taxes by parhamentary electors , " consists of one clause , which . ¦ It-dares that rates and taxes payable on or before October Hth in the preceding year must be paid to entitle parlies to be on the list of voters for any city , town , or bnrnudi in Enssbmd . lc-RRWiRB Bamiutkiw — A barrister of the northern circuit had occasion to attend the Heading assiges tho other day , in the capacity of witnesi in a horse case . The learned jiul ^ e ( Vaule ) suggested that barristers generally were not supposed to know much of the merits of horses . The witness thereupon replivd , ' But your lordship must recollect that I am a Yotkthireman . " To this the counsel engaged in the ouuse added , " Yes , my lord , the Yorkshire barristers know a good deal more about horses than they do about law . "

      Tub New Potato Crop , —We are enabled to make tho gratifying and important announcement that three successions of potatoes , brought to maturity in the forcing-house at l'itfour Castle , by Fir J . a . Richardson ' s garaener , have all produced sound crops . There was a slight taint upon the voung tubers at an early stage , but that gradually disappeared . Rhprksestatios or Greenwich . — -We understand that in the event ot a vacancy occurring in the re-• resentatinn of Greenwich , it is the intention ofa portion of tho constituency to put in nomination Darid Williams Wire , Esq ., of Stonehouse , Lewisham . . ¦ ' . -.. i-

      Dkath or as M . P—Thomas Martin , Esq ., M . P , for Gal way , is reported dcid of Cover . A Little too Bad . — A gentleman of Albany recently married a lady reputed to bPriuh , who turned out to be poor , and s me seven hundred dollars in debt , which ho had to liquiJa'o . Shi ; assured him , uawever . for his consolation , thailh « debts wire con . tracted for dry goo Is . which she bought to captivate Him . Only think of a tish paying for the houk with which he was can gin ! British Mujkim — The nrw hall of this national establishment was on Monday last oyin'd to tha public .

      'l OTAL LOSS OF THE BrIO CaNNIN'O BT FlItE . — A . despatch has been received at Lloyd's ( mm the Forei ^ n-nhice , enclosing a copy of a ' despatch from aer Majesty ' s Chargii d'Aft ' -iiros in Chili , announcing tho merchant brig Canning having been defrayed '> y fire , in the Straits of Magellan , on the IG . li ot December last . Ca ^ pcnt 3 r and two men supposed w be drowned . Follow ! Follow!—At Elgin proposals have been issued for the establishment ofa Working M « n ' s Prevision Association—the capital to be £ 1 , 000 , in shares of £ 1 . By purchasing for cash in the best nnrkets , the promoters expect to supply meal wheat , bread , and groceries , at pricos bi-low the current ones . A baking e-tablMimeut is inc ' uded in the i > ro : > i > s » ls .

      LXTB . NSIVK RoiJBKP . V . —A Ib * llaj'S SilU'Ctllt ! COUllt * ing-himse of James Morrison and " Co ., 23 , St Maryit-Hill , Thames-street , wan plundered of a t . n cash box , containing 60 South-Eastern llailwnyshares , 25 Tati" Vale Railway shares , and 10 Paris and Lyon ; £ 372 in notes ai . d bills of exchange , as well as several bill stamps , signed J . Morrison and Co , payable to Jones , Lloyd , and Co , ami nut filled up . Woman Bkoui . « o with a Dkad Child . —On Saturday , a woman , named Rafferty , was found biggins in Castle-street , Dublin , wiih a dead child in her arms . Stauvatidn . — Two deaths from starvation are reported to have occurred in Inverness;—the parties , a mother and daughter , were formerly in better circumstances . They made no complaints , and were found both dead in bed .

      Early Mushrooms . —A . splendid dish of mushrooms , from 2 . J inches in diameter , were on Wednesday gathered on the estate of Obadiah Williams , jun ., Ksq ., of Round bay , by Wm . Woodall , a bra > s founder in the employ of Mr Clayton , at the Wellington Foundry . IIkfuok for . DisciunosD Prisoners . —We understand that it is in lontcraplaiion , in Snincrset , to erect an asylum for prisoners after they hav >! sui veil out the terms of imprisonment awarded tor their ollenco .

      DisiRitssrxG Occurrence . —A most distressing event connected with the loss ot" the Tweed Wcsc India mail packet , occurred at Southampton about a week since . A poor woman , the wife ot one >> i the crew of that ill-i'atod vessel , tho mother of six children , and several months advanced in pregnancy , dropped down dead on being told abruptly by a neighbour tint tho Tweed was lost , and that all hands had perished . What icrultr . 3 the circumstance the muro affecting is , that the husband arrired salc ' y at Southampton in tho Avon packet on Thursday last , being one of the persons whose lives were so providentially saved . Short Time . —Several of the Belfast spinning mills have been put upon short time . Literary Institution . — A literary institution , called " The Atlieuieuin , " was opened at 1 ' aUley oa Tuesday .

      Tub Duke and the Quacks —Observing the name of his Grace the Duiie of Wellington advertised the ottier day a ? , the patron and swullowcr of the pills of one ot the pestiferous tribes of London medical quacks , we used the liberty of asking the iUustmma Duke whether his iirace gave authority for the publication , and the following characteristic reply \ vn » received in course of post .: — " Strathlieklsaye , April 10 , 1847 —F , M . the Duke of Wellington present * his compliment to Mr M'Nab . lie ha * received hi » Utter . The Duke knows nothing ef the person alluded to , or his pills . No individual of his class has authority to use tho name of the Duke of Wellington in any manner . "— Qlasgw , Constitutiona ' .

      The Boy Dean . —This ill-iated youth lonly thirteen yeara of ugc ) , whose name is so notorious Iroia his alleaed participation in the murder of the ' bracking buy" at tirtenhays , was on Monday brought upat the New Bailey sessions on a charge of obtiinintf , at Ileaton Norris , on the lath of March , by false * and fraudulent pretences , a quantity of money , Hour , and groceries , ibe property ot Hiram Wakeiield . He was found guilty , and sentenced ; to six months' imprisemneut in Lancaster Castle ,. andwa » ordered to be once whipped , lie is also ( w . be kept in solitary confinement lor fourteen days * The Devil ' s Own . —A letter from Sd Ifeteroburgh , dated ihu'ind , announces that the Eiapsrorot' Russia ia suriously ill , and that his joumtfy . to Warsaw is indelinitely postponed . EMANcii'ATioN . —In 1818 , 1 . 010 slaves wera email , cipaiedat Martinique , 1 , 115 at Guadaluupe , 177 , ia French Guiana , and abou t 300 at Bourbon .

      A Man Shot by a Via . —A Sew dayaivgo , abflut seven o clock , the eldest son ( about twenty-three years ol us ; e ) ot Mr Amos , { aimer , near the Cuckoo m Spslding , left a gun heavily loaded standing iu the earner of the barn ; during his ibseuoe ( wlilob . rould so-ircely exceed ten minutes ) several pigs entered ; and whilst t ' aey were being driven out , ona of them knocked d-jtvn the gun , which immediately exphded , and the unfortunate individual alluded ta being not more loan four feot from the muxjle , tha whole of the charge entered a little below the calf of his right leg , which was dteadlully lacerated . .

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      TO ERIN . "Alas , poor country ! Almost afraid to kntxr itself . " Degenerate sons of tbe land of my birtb , You once > iad a chivalrous mind , And wept o ' er the heroe * that ' s sleeping in deatb , Whose deeds in each heart were enshrin'd ; You sang of their rirtues—their sunvringspourtraj'd—Prom tlie picture my bosom recoil'd , And I vow'd to avenge them , by lending my aid To Liberty ' s favourite child . What change has came < . ' er you . led , heedless and blind By vile , sordid , hypocrite knaves * Dispene tbe iark cloud that o ' ershadovrs each mind , No longer be eyenphant klaves Cease servile shouting - why crawl on the earth , Descendants of United men , " Whose blood crin . soned deep the green fields of their

      birthwho dare shout for royalty then ! Tour father ! for Freedom have shed their hearts'blood Iu years but recen'ly gone by . Firm as their own native mountains they stood , Determined to conquer or die ; And they swore by the blue vaulted heaven above , Whilst the green flag waved proud on the gale , That the tyrant land robbers should that day be drove From each tweet-scented meadow and vale ! Barnslry . Michael Seqbave .

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      FAREWELL TO EETN ! Farewell , my dear Erin , thou " gem of the ocean , " Farewell to thy vallies and gi een > stiaded groves , This heart that now beats , shall first cease its motion , Ere the exile forgets the land that he leves . Farewell , ye fair scenes , where in youth I delighted To trip o ' er the verdant and diKsyeM lawn , " Where with friends who b y kindred ' s fond ties were united , I ' re watcu'd the wild gambols of the lighabounding fawn .

      Alas ! lam doom'd from my dear fiiends to sever , And cross the rough ocean in search ofa home , For the hearth that once blazed is now quenched for ever By the hand of a tyrant , who claims it his own . Cease , my heart , cease this strife , nor call on tbe thuo . ders Of Heaven , to avenae the fell tyrant ' s decree . Whose mandate went forth , and the homeless in numbers Were sent to seek shelter 'neath the cold leafless tree . What pen can pourttay the contending emotions ThatfiU'd ttaa sad breasts of these children of toil ,

      As they wandered forth by the shore 3 of the ocean—That cast up its waves on their dearly-lov'd soil I The clouds that o ' ershadowed the high-crested moan . Uin . Surcharg'd with the waters that deluge the ear . th , Were not dark ' s the hearts of these wanderers , whose fountain Of tears were destroyed in their force to get birth . Oh when shall those scenes be unknown in our nation , Oh when shall this rale of curs'd Tyranny cease . And man look on man ss the same by creation , And live in sweet concord together in peace ! Grivan . F . B .

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      sose . TOSS—M A Vm ' i a Man for a' Oat . " The millions toil—the millions starve , As if high Heaven had will'd it ; Our cup of woe does overflow Ai if the fates bad fill'd it . \ Te toil , we moil , from dawn to dark , To . earn a bare subsistence- , Our curse upon tbe idle drone , Who sport * oa our existence I Tbe millions toil—tbe millions starve , ¦ M id earth ' s exuberant treasure ; Aud , strange to say , the rich and gay Havt nought to mind bat pleasure ; They tell ns Nature lorm'd us slaves , Nor e ' er tbe act lamented ; To work and want , with clothing Kant , And fore'd to be contented . The million * toil—the millions starve .

      Yes , Labour ' s sons shall make them quail , For f ach shall aid his neighbour ; ¦ We ' ll break their bands—we'll claim our lands , Then live upon our labour . Edinburgh . ' ' J . Habkkess . Yes . Labour ' s sons shall make them auail .

      The wealthy disregard us ; We till the soil , we mock the toil , Should Justice but reward us . Sut no ; we wear tbe brand of shame—Wc ' rehaggard , low , and voteless ; Nor , yet content , the knaves are bent To make the sgid cotless . The millions toil—tbe millions starve , But Heaven shall be the avenger ; The time shall come , the tyrant ' s doom BuaJl cheer the hapless stranger ;

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      THE VOICE OF A SLATE . Rear to a Poor-Law Bastile of tbe land , "W Cere stooda thousand starvelings grim and gaunt , Bread spectacles of Htingvr ' s iron band , Craving fur food to stay the stings of Want , — One slave I saw—alone be stood apart , With keen eyes gazing on the famish'd crowd , Pale were bis looks—he bore the haggard mark Of slavery—and o ' er his mind a cloud Of woe seem'd brooding miserably dark , His bosom felt—while thus he breath'd aloud !—"Whence , mighty Cod , doth this huge miseryipring ? This Tast amount of hydra-headed woe ! This fierce starvation—pestilence and crime—a That like a deluge o ' er this nation flow * Behold the millions starve—hear ye the cries Of helpless infants—pierced with bitter stings Of coldaad Hunger * Hear a mother ' s sighs .

      A lather ' s prayers—deep groans and murmnrings . Ascend from earth to heaven , and rend the sides . Ota ! waence . great 6 od , tbis troubled state of things 1 " With deepest sorrows every besom fill , And Leaves in s ecret many a heartfelt sigh ; Each lorinc life , alas ! but b ' nds it still H » rd—bard to live—and still as hard to die ! fiobb'd of the blessings , God , which thou hut given To all alike within thy changeless plan : Bounteous as the balmy air of heaven , We starve—and life , tho' bnt narrow spas , Appears an age—when man is blindly driven To curse hit birth and hate bis fellow mas ' . *• At vermin to some filthy carcase clings , From which thy sprang—aud torture and devour .

      So to the earth clng curies—priests and kings , Go < lsia themselves—implacable in power ; Toilsoeu—to such—submissively hare bow'd , Etcb as tbe savage to his idol bows , In vi . datiou of thy great laws . God—For which they weep an ocean ' * depth of woei , While tyrants tremble ' ntaih a catalogue Of gory crimes stanp'd upon their brows ! - "Some strange anomaly roles this fearful age ; III * sweep the world as billows sweep the sea ; And man , long bound in error's iron cage , Like some wild bird , is panting to be free ! Too long hath , he remained the pai&ive slave Of his oppressors—those who hold the reins -Of mighty empires—too lorg knelt to crave Tbote rights which he by Nature ' s order claims , And , ere . life ' s noon hath dawn'd , a starveling ' s grava Receives him . murder'd , dragg'd to death by chains

      « And not one land stands all alone the . prey To tyranny—all nations of the earth Groan under huge monstrosities—which they Themselves have brougat , and foster'd iato birth ; Disease aad Famine—deadly Hate and Crime-Besiege the world—with the fierce fiendish clang Of War ' s wild tumult , heard in every clime . Whea—when , oh , God ! will Freedom ' s morning dawn , And thou behold , ia Reason ' s palmy time , A nobler creatwe in toy creature man !" Greeaock . Johjc Peacock .

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      The " great talk" at Westminster ; the German prose-poem of the King of Prussia on the blessings of a sa e admixture of constitutional humbng with the good old " right divine ; " the cut-thioat doings of our precious kinsmen , the Yankees , in Mexico , enacting , with the assistance of the cruelly-wronged Mexicans , the grim farca of the Kilkenny cats" the two armies cut to pieces ; " domestic horrors , murders and executions .: the never-ending columns of Irish misery ; the efforts of oar countrymen to

      redeem themselves from thraldom by the triune talisman of " Charter . Land , and Labour Bank ;" these , with innumerable " accidents by flood and field . " forming tbe staple ofa public journal , command so much of our space as to leave us room for not more than a tithe of tbe pieces not positively bad , with which we have been favoured by contributors . Of course we have no room for critical comment , desirous as we are of giving as far as possible , " the thoughts that breathe and words that burn" of others .

      A WEEPIXQ MOTHER TO A SLEEPING CHILD . Fi& " tbe Manufacturing Districts of England . " Sleep on a little longer , child , nor beed the Factory bell , Sounding clear this dark cold morning * like some funeral knell ; 1 have not the keart to roase thee from tby bard but welcome bed , Sleep on a . little longer—test tby weary , aching bead . I will not break tby slumber , for I grieve to see thee go To thy labour of a morning , ere the cock begins to crew . I saw Ian night thy stunted limbs were tottering and weak . Thine eyes have lost their sparkle , and the bloom has left tby cheek ; Nevermore among the daisies with the gayest wilt thou skip . Tby forehead burns like fire , there is fever on tby lip . Sleep on a little longer , though the dreadful bell has rung ,

      And the tyrant of the mill has called with stern and iron tougue , He has feasted on the droppings of that pure white brow of thine ; He would wring th ; young aud throbbing heart to fill bis gUss with wine . Bat a kinder Master ' s waiting , to bear thee far away To a better land than thi * , - where tby kindred angels ^ Plaj ~~ Where rest is everlasting—where sorrows ne ' er began , And little children lire secure from heartless , tyrant maa . ~ Yet I am loth to lose thee , my « wn , my darling child , And the anguish of my bosom speaks in language ver'd and wild"O Got ! spare me no longer than my infant drfcws her breath , let us both be clasped together in tbe friendly arms of Death '" M . W . Tbckble .

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      A Pbunt Chinese Publication . —A recent writer on China says , " For 22 cash or tseen I purchased an elegant book , filled frith choice subjects of the graphic art , as patterns for the use of the young needlewoman . She is assumed to be poor , ana hence the little manual is priced at about one penny of our money . It basa cover ofa fair yellow , studded witn spangles of gold , and contains between two and three hundred figures , culled fium the varied stores of nature and art . In fact , the objects are so well selected and bo numerous that they might serve as illustrations to a small encyclopaedia . One acquainted with Chinese literature and natural history might deliver several lectures with this book before him . The meadow , the grove , the brook , the antiquary ' s museum , and the pages of mythology , with the adornments of the house and garden , are all laid under contribution . The book is said to be for the use of tue person who belongs to the green uindow , which is an epithet for the dwelling of a poor woman ; female " flraW ' ' nOtes the tesidence of a rioh ni ^« - v 1 ? zares ' hu 8 ban « l of * e dowager queen otbpun , has become a naturalized Frenchman , under the title of the Duke de MvUtawro ,

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      1 ¦ April 24 , 1847 . THE NORTHERN STAR . . ^

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 24, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1415/page/3/