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      PART II . WeihtUderoteonrcolnmnflthiflirecktotiierepub UcttioQof a few gems of American poetry , which , we believe , have not hitherto appeared ia any English publication . For these poenuud songs we we indebted principally to Tomg America , the organ of toe American Agrarian Reformers ; and that ably and honestlj-condneted Journal , the Jl ew Tori Tribmi . A DREAM OF SUMMER . bi job * e . WHixni * . Bland u the monnug breath of Jane The Soatb . WMtbReieipby ; And , through its haie , the Winter noon

      Seems warm a * Summer *! day . The mow-plumed Angel of the North Hm dropped hii icy spear ; Again the mouy earth looki forth , Again the streams gosh dear . The fox bis hilUidecdl forsakes—The mukrat leaves his nook , The Mat-bird in the meadow brakes Is singing with the brook . "Be « r np . O Mother Nature ! " cry Bird , hreeie and streamlet free , 11 Our Winter voice * propheiy Of Summer dajs to thee !"

      8 o , in those winters of the soul , By bitter blasts and drear O ' enwept from Memory ' s frozen pole . Will sonny days appear . Seriving Hope and faith , they ehow The soul its living powers , And how beneath the Winter ' s snow lie gems of Sammer flowers ! The Sight Is Mother of the Bay , The Winter of the Spring , And ever upon old Decay The greenest mutes ding . Behind the dond the starlight larks . Through showers the sunbeams fall ; For God , who loveth all His werks Has left His Hope with all ! We know not the same of the author of the fol tewise lines : —

      OUR ABORIGINES . Here Nature long maintained her light , And owned each tawny child That roVd with footsteps free and light The solitary wild ; And here they built their structures proud , And deem'd their titles grand , For knew the ocean ' s swelling flood Wath'd any other land . A bark that told of stranger might , They hastened to adore . And thought a visitant of light

      Had sought a ruder shore ; They showed their wealth of glittering Spoil , And gems that brightly shone , Ifor dream'd the eye that scann'd their toil . Was marking oat its own . They then had rulers , laws and land—And tefere art tfey to-dag » 8 ee bright domes that guttering stand . Where each rude Tillage lay . A stately ship with noble crest , Sails slowly , proudly on ; And from the river ' s shaded breast , The light canoe is gone .

      What tombs were there f the vallsys teach Where many a grave-yard hides , And mountains show the bones that bleach . And whiten on their sides . Fair Flora leads her guiltless train In Spring , abave the braves , And farmers heedless scatter grain Upon their nameless graves . Where are the chiefs who txrged their men , With patristic breath . To hurry fearlessly again To victory or to death I The din of arms no more they hail i The battle song is still : I hear no clangour in the vale , No echo on the MIL

      Awhile they struggled for their right , But found resistance vain , And yielded to superior might , With calm and cold disdain . To distant wilds ef which they heard . They took their jemuey slow ; Still trusting in the faithless word Of a triumphant foe . They atked the toe those wild * to lear » . Where friends for years had liin ; That they in Autumn ' s sober eve Might visit them again .

      And when the leaves begun to fade , At midnight hush they crept , Te see the tombs their fathers made , And where their children slept When last they came , the fertile scene A bitter trata reveal'd , The hOls were doth'd in verdure green , The forest was afield ; They gazM a momeBtin dismay Upon the treeless plain . Then hurried silently axay , And ne ' er return'd again .

      The paleface sought their western home , ( It seems but yesterday ! } And lo 1 the forests that they roam'd , Are pass'd like mist away . The sun that never saw the ground , In mildness or in wrath , Now gaze * , brightl y , boldly down , Upon the Indian ' s path . And still their less ' ning bands retire , And yield in silence more ; Till they have lit their eoancilfire On the Pacific ' s shore . Ho song of joy , no tale of mirth , From one sad lip has roll'd ; Since last upon their native hearth They saw the ashes cold .

      The heroes of the bow and chase Grew fewer every day , The spirit of a tameless race Is passing swift away . Where ' er the white man ' s footsteps go . Or stranger syren ' s sing , They vanish like the mountain snow Before the breath of Spring .

      INDIAN NAMES . BY LTOI 1 HCXILEI 8 IG 0 OTMT . " How ean the Bed If an be forgotten , while so oany of onr States and Territories , Bays , Lakes , and Start , are indelibly stamped bynames of their giving f " Ye say they have all patted away , That noble race and brave ; That their light canoes have vanlsh'd From off the crested wave . That ' mid the forests where they roam'd , There rings no hunter ' s shont ; ¦ But their name is on your waters , Te may not wash it out . 'Tie where Ontario ' s billow ,

      lake ocean ' s surge is curl'd , Where strong Niagara ' s thunders wake ' The echoes of the world . Where red MIssowi bringeth Bich tribute from the west , 1 And Bappahannocksweetl y sleeps On green Virginia ' s breast . "le say their cene-like cabini , That cluteredo ' er the . vale , Have disappeared , as withered leaves " ¦ ' Before the autumn ' s gale ; But their memory liveth on your hill * , Their baptism on your shore ,, ¦ Tour everlasting rivers speak Their dialect of yore . Old Massachusetts wears it ' p Within her lordly crown ; And broad Ohio bean it Amid his voting renown . Connecticut hath wreath'd it Where her quiet foliage waves , And bold Kentucky breathes it hoarse Through all her ancient caves . Wachosett hides its lingering voice Within his rocky heart , ' And Allegheny graves its . tone Throughout his lofty chart . Monadnock . QQ hit forehead hoar , Both teal the sacred trust ; Tour mountains build their monument , I Though je destroy their dun . I To-morrow ( July 4 th ) ia the anniversarr of the j torions Declaration of American Independence . ThefoIlowiDgisasoDgof' 76 : — . SONG OF THE VEHMONTEES . Ho—all to the borders ! Termonters , come down , With jour breeches of deer-skin and jackets of brown ; - Tilth your red woollen cops and your mocassins , ^ come To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum * ,- - Come down with your rifles!—let gray wolf and fox , Howl on iu tlie shade of their primitive rocks ; Xet the bear feed securely from pigpen and stall . Here ' s two-kggtd game for jour powder and ball , On onr south come the Dutchmen enveloped in grease . And arming for battle while canting of peace ; On our east crafty Ifeeech has gathered his band To hang up our leaders and eat out our land . Ho—all to the rescue ! for Satan shall werk No gain for the legions of Hampshire and York ! They claim our possessions—the pitiful knaves , .. - Thetribute we payshall be prisons and graves ! ,... , . . Let Clinton and Ten Broek with bribes in their hands Still seek to divide us and parcel onr lands , ' " We ' ve coats for onr traitors , whoever they are—The warp is of / cotter * , the filling of tar !

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      - ' »^^^^^^^^^^^^» M ^^ SMi ^ SSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ^ SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssjSSjS | j »^ ai ^ a ^ a ^ a »« Sl ^ gj * * * ** t ^ ten , Doe , Congre | , Swaxms Hampshire in armi op onr borders again ! Bark the war-dogs of Britain aloud on the lake \ Let ' oome-whatthey can the , are weleometotake What seek they among us ! Tbepride of our wealth I . comfort , cootentaumt , andUbour andheawT And lands which , as freemen , we only ha « t » d Independent ail , WTe fle merciesof God Yet we oweno allegiance ; we bow to no throne-Our ruler is law , and thelaw is «„ , own Si ^* r ^«««« l--TSAAM Itaa ( I aU L ... _* . _'«_•• »••"* .- _

      . Whocanhandle tte . wor ^^^ scTre ^ thepen . W ^ r * M aUtrue ' waoardaughtersarefair . With their blus eyes of smiles and their light flowing hair ; All brisk at their wheels till the dark even-faU , then blithe at the sleigh . ride , the busking and ball ! We ' ve sheep on the hill-sides , we ' ve cews on the plain , And gay-tasseled corn-fields , andrank growing grain , There are deer on the mountains , and wood-pigeons fly From the crack of our muskets , like c'ouds on the iky .

      Like a sunbeam the pickerel glides through his pool ; Aad the spotted trout leaps where the waters are cool , . Or dart * from hit shelter of rock and ef root At the beaver ' s quick plunge or the angler ' s pursuit , And ours are the mountains which awfully rite Till they rest their green heads on the bine of the skies ; And ours are the forests unwasted , unahorn , Save where the wild path of the tempest is torn . And though savage and wild be this climate of ours , And brief be our season of fruits and of Sowers , Far dearer the blast round our mountains which

      raves Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes over slaves . Hurrah for Vermont ! for the land which we till Must have sons t o defend her from valley and hill ; Leave the harvest to rot on the field where it grows , And the reaping of wheat for the reaping of foes . From far Hichiscoui ' s wild valley , to where Foosoomsuck steals down from his wood-circled lab * , From Stocticook river to Lutterlock town—Ho—all to the rescue ! Vennanters , come down !

      Come York or come Hampihire—come traitors and knaves , If ye rule o er our land , ye shall rule o ' er our gnttt ; Our vow is recorded—our banner unfurled—In the name of Vermont we defy all the world I * ? "Rather than fail , I will retire with my hardy Green Mountain boys to desolate caverns of the moun . tains , and wage war with human nature at 1 argt . » —Ethan Allen ' . Letterto Congress , March 9 , 1781 . Pity that the victories , of the Vennonters . pity that the triumph of the American arms over British despotism , produced no happier results than . the partial liberation of the white men , leaving their black brethren still bound in the fetters of slavery . We have several times given specimens of Greenleaf Whittiert anti-slavery lyrics ; the following noble outburst is well worthy of this chief of American poets : — ' YORKTOWN .

      BY 3 . a . WHtXTIEa . Dr Tfaacher , gnrgeen in Scammel ' s regiment , in hit description of the siege of Yorktown , save ;—" Thelabour on the Virginia Plantations it performed altogether by a species of thehuman race cruelly wrested from their native country , and doomed to Perpetual Bondage , while their masters are manfully contending for freedom and the natural rights of man . Such is the Inconsistency of human mature !" Eighteen hundred slaves were found at Yorktown , after its surrender , and restored to their masters . From Yorktown ' s ruins , ranked and still , Two lines stretch far o ' er vale and hill : Who curbs bis steed at head of one ! Hark ! the low murmur : Washington ! Who bends his keen , approving glance Where down the gorgeous line of France Shine knightly star and plume of snow ! Thou , too , art victor , Rochambeau !

      The earth which bears this calm array Sheok with the war-charge yesterday , Plowed deep with hurrying hoof and wheel , Shot-sown and bladed thick with steel ; October ' s clear and noonday sun Paled in the breath-smoke of the gun , And down Night ' s double blackness fell , lake a dropped star , the blazing shell . Now all is hushed : the gleaming lines Stand moveless as the neighbouring pines ; While through them , sullen , grim and slow . The conquered hosts of England go : O'Hara ' s brow belies his dress , Gay Tarleton ' s troops ride bannerless : Sbont , from thy fired and wasted homes , Thy scourge , Virg inia , captive comes !

      Nor those alone ! with one glad voice Let all thy sister States rejoiee ; Let Freedom , in whatever clime She waits with sleepiest eve her time . Shouting from cave aad mountain wood , Make glad her desert solitude—While they who hunt her quail with fear : The New World ' s chain lies broken here ! But who are they who , cowering , wait Within the shattered fortresslgate ! Dark tillers of Virginia ' s soil , Classed with the battle ' s common spoil , With household stuffs , and fowl , ana twine , With Indian weed and planters'wine , ¦ - With stolen beeves , and foraged corn—Are they not men , Virginian born ?

      Oh ! veil your faces , young and brave ! Sleep , Scammel , in tby soldier grave ! Sons of the North-land , ye who set 8 tout hearts against the bayonet , . And pressed with steady footfall near The moated battery ' s blazing tier , Turn your scarred faces from the sight . Let shame do homage to the Bight ! Lo ! threescore years have passed ; and where The Gallic timbrel stirred the air , . With Northern drum-roll , and the dear , Wild horn-blow of the mountaineer , While Britain grounded on that plain The arms she might not lift again , As abject as in that old day The Slave still toils his life away .

      Oh ! fields st ill green and fresh in story , Old days of pride , old names of glory , Old marvels of the tongue and pen , Old thoughts which stirred the hearts of men , Ye spared the Wrong ; and over all Behold th ' avenging shadow fall ! Your world-wide honour stained with shame—Your Freedom ' s self a hollow name ! Where ' s now the flag of that old war ! Where fiows its stripe * Where bums its Stwi Bear witness , Palo Alto ' s day , Dark Vale of Palms , red Monterey , Where Uexic Freedom , young and weak , Fleshes the Northern eagle ' s beak : Symbol of terror and despair , Of chains and slaves , go seek it there !

      1 Laugh , Prussia , midtt thy iron ranks ! Laugh , Russia , from thy Neva ' s banks ! Brave sport to see the fledgling born Of Freedom by its parent torn ! - Safe now your Speiltrarg's dungeon cell , Safe drear Siberia's froien hell : " With Slavery ' s flap o ' er both unrolled , What of the New World fears the Old ! The author of the following indignant protest is unknown to us : —

      THE SLATE-DIALER . Still dost thou scorn the fettei * d victim ' s criei , - And fetl no pang of grief , no . blush of shame 1 Dost know how generations long shall rise , And cast their scorn and loathing on tby name , And curses heap upon tby felon fame f Go , wretch , and still around thy temples bind Wreaths won at Moloch ' s foul infernal game In life , abhorrad and hated of mankind , And then in death to be to infamy consigned . Blood ' s dark eternal stain is on thy soul ! Say , didst thou bring it from the battle plain , Where drum and trump in stormy concert roll , And cannon peal the death-kneel . of the slain , Who , winning fame , deem not they die in vain f Where warrior plumes and flashing banners ' wave , And death and glory hold divided reign f— ' Where strong contend with strong , ' and brave with brave *

      So , tyrant ! 'til the blood drawn from the shrinking slave ! ' ' ¦••¦ - ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ '" In the still watches of the midnight hour , When all but thee repose in tranquil sleep , Doth not Remorse asBert her scorpion power I Do not fell memories o ' er thy spirit sweep , And fiends around thy ceucb their vigils keep ! 0 ! doth not hope depart , and wild despair Toss tby torn soul upon its rsging deep ! And do not shadowy spirits of the air Stretch their dim hands to Heaven , and vengeance call from there ! ¦¦ ., .- ,. "¦¦ Ah ! hear ' at thou not the helpless and the weak !

      Say , hear ' st not thou th y victims round thee cry t The trembling daughter ' s wild and maniac shriek , . The mother ' s shriek of frantic agony , The infant ' s wail , the father ' s stifled sigh t Say , guilty man , doat hear those Bounds again ,. Sweeping the arches of the midnight sky , The mingling of all cries of human pain , With ringing of the lash and clanking of the chain ! Ha ! snrink ' st thou not ! Ah ! wait till death shall ' fl'ng ¦ . . ; . Around t hy couch sepulchral shadowt drear And lay hishani upon thy heart , and ring Thy spirit ' s knell within thy startled earl . Then thou shatt tremble with a mortal fear , " And then again in spectral phalanx thera ' Tbeforms of all tli y victims shall appear ¦• Joy a irthy doom , esultin thy despair , \ , Laugh at thy dying cries , and mock thy dying prayer !

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      Hxa MijESTi ' s . THEtME , notwithstanding the strength ef the talent of opposition at Govent . Garden , baskB in the sunshine of regaland aristocratic patronage , while no intermission of the popular furore in favour of the Swedish cautatrice has , as yet , exhibited itself ; on the contrary , on the nigh tg of Mdlle . Lind ' s performance places are obtained with the greatest difficulty and at the most exorbitant prices . Mr Lumley is reaping a rich harvest from his spirited exerJ tlons , which leave nothing to be desired by the most en . thualasticfetWtawofthis establishment . ' JeimyLindit engaged for Manchester , and makes her first appearance at the Theatre Rojal for two nights , about the end of AuguBt : she will be assisted by Lablache and others . Liverpool and Birmingham will also b » visited by her , unless Bonn ' s action , with its damages laid at £ 19 , 000 ,

      cause any alteration in her movements . As the matter stands at present , the Drury Lane lessee ' s ' case cannot come on for . hearing until Christmas ' . —At the Rotal Itiuin Ojnhu , Grid , Mario , and Rpnconi , have been delightingcrowdedaudiences by theirmagnificent talents in Verdi ' s opera of « I Due Foscarl . ' —That highly talented actor Bouffe has concluded his engagement at the St Jahbb ' s , and istpbe succeeded by the eminent French tragedian , Mdlle . Rachel , who has been engaged by If r Mitchell for a series of psrformanceg ,: understood not to be included in the season ' s subscription . —Drdit Lamb , it is settled , reverts , again into Bunn ' s hands but , prior to opening for the regular season ,, has been let to Jullien for a short period , for promenade concerts andbal masques . —Mr Webster is still running Bell ' s comedy of' Temper * at the Hithabket , giving revivals , and presenfmg that charming and fascinating actress , Mrt Nisbett , on alternate nights ' , ia most of her favourite characters—Madame Vestris and 'Charles Mathews are

      fulfilling an engagement at the Pbincess ' i , which sadly needed some attraction en the departure of Mr Macready and Mrs Warner , who , if we except Mrs Stirling . , and Compton , left as meagre a company behind them -as any that could well be attached to a theatre wishing to keep its doors open—The patrons of that favourite house , the Adehhi , have been presented with a new comedy from the pen of the veteran dramatist , Peake , made np of strictly English mattriil , called ' The Title Deeds . ' It is admirably suited to tbe talented resources of this establishment , and mast be pronounced a highly suecsisful effort , reflecting credit alike upon its author , and the directress , Madame Celeste . —Tuo Ly . ceoh , prior to the note of preparation being heard for . Madame Vestrie ' s campaign , is occupied by a company ' ,

      exceedingly limited as to , strength , under the management of Mr L . Levy . —After a short vacation , Mr P . Cooper has re-opened the Stsand , for the performance of vaudevilles .-A-Miss Holmes , a promising young actress , made her debut on Monday evening last , and was well received . — -The Qoein ' s , adhering to the . ., low-price system , is doing a moderate business , with ^ its usual attractions of melodrama and burletta . —At Astiei ' s , the newspectade , f , . The Storming of Quito , " every evening attracts crowded houses , Mr \ f . Westacting very effectively as Rolla . Soveralnew feats ' of equitation have been added to the . Scenes of the Circle . The various' suburban entertainments , continue , to enjoy , during , this splendid , weather , a more than average share of public ' patronage . " " ' ' > /• ' " . - . • ' \ * . "' * ¦ ' . "

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      _ f rom Mr Knight ' s History of England during the wirty Yeah '' Ptiue , we take the following-abouunt of the memorable trials arid acquittal of " ^|!; '• ' WILLtAM ; HO « B . - " . ' - ;' . >; ¦ / :. ; .. ¦ ¦ , '"¦• i "On themot-nlng ef the 18 thof December there lea considerable crowd round the avenues of GuiUhall ,. An obicure bookseller , a man of no substance or . respecta . bUlty in weridly eyes , is to be tried for . libel ; , i He vends his wsres in h little shop in the Old Bailey , ; where there are , strangely mingled , twopenny political > pamphlei « , and old harmless folios that the poor publisher keeps for bit especial retding at he tits in his dingy back parlour . The door-keepers and offloers ofthe court scarcely know what it going t 6 happen ; for the . table within tbe bar has not the usual coveringof crimton baize , but ever and anon a dingy boy arrives with an armful of books of all agtsand liies , and the whole table is strewed with dusty and tattered volumes that the ushers are quite sure have

      no law within their mouldy covers . A middle-aged man —a bland and smiling man—with a half tad , half merry twinkle in his eye—a seedy man , to use an expressive word , whose black coat Is wondrous brown and threadbare—takes his place at the table , and begins to turn over the books which were his heralds . Sir Samuel Shepherd , the Attorney General , takes his seat , and looks compassionately , as was hit nature to do , at tht pale man In threadbare black . Mr Justice Abbott arrives in due time ; a special jury is sworn ; tke plead , lrigiare opened ; the Attorney General states the case against William Hone , for printing and publishing an imptousaad profane libel upon the Catechism , the Lord ' s Prayer and the Ten Commandment ^ thereb y bringing into centempt the Christian religion . ' It may be said , '

      argued the Attorney General , 'that the defendant ' s object was not to produce this effect . I believe . that he w . sadt it , in one sense , as a political squib ; but his re-,-. )) cmuibili ty Is not . the less . ' ; As the Attorney-General pructtnod to met vai * kg « s from the parody upon the Ca' -schitim , the crowd in court laughed ; the bench was hiuignant ; And the Attorney-General < tafd , the laugh was tft' 5 ! 'ille * t proof of tlio baneful effect of the defendant ' s fin'Mhtttiqu . And so the trial went on in the itnootbest w £ J , and tbe cut * for the pronooutlon was closed . Then the pale mil ! in Muck roxo , nnc ! with a faltering ; voice ¦ et forth the difficulty he hnd in addriueing the f . ' curt , and how hit poverty preventeclhira obtaining counsel . And now be began to warm in the recital of what be thought hii wrongs ; his commitments ; hit ' hurried calls to plead ;

      the expense of copies of the informations against him ; —and as Mr Justice Abbott , with perfect genilenem , but with his cold formality , Interrupted him , the timid man , whom all thought would have mumbled forth a hasty defence , grew bolder and bolder , and'in a short time had possession of his audience as if he were ' some well . graced actor' who was there to receive the tribute of popular admiration . ' Tht-y were not to inquire whether he were a'member of the Established Church or a Disttnter ; it was enough that be professed himself to be a Christian ; aad he would be bold to say , that he made that profession with a reverence for tha doctrines of Christianity which oould' not be exceeded by any perstn in that court . He had his books about him ; and it was from them that he must draw his defence . They

      had been the solace of hit life . He was too much at . tached to hit books to part with them . At to parodies , they were as : old at least at the invention of printing ; and be never heard of a prosecution for a parody , either religious or asy other . There were ' two binds ofparodieB ; one in which a man might convey ludicrous or ridiculous ideas relative to some other subject ; the other where it was meant to ridicule the thing parodisd . The latter was not the case here , and therefore he had not brought religion into contempt . ' This wat the gist of William Hone ' s defence . To show fully how this argument was worked , —with what readiness , what coolneBB , what courage , —would be to transcribe the trials of three days ; on the first of which the defendant spoke six hours , on the second , seven hours , and on the last eight

      hours . It was in vain that the Attorney General urged that to bring forward any previous parody was tlie same thing as if a person charged with obscenity should pro * dace obscene volumes in his defence ... It was in . vain that Mr Justice Abbott repeated hit mIbd that the defendant would net read such things . On he went till in . terruption was held to be in vain . It was worse than vain ; it wat unjust . Truly did Hone reply to Mr Justice Abbott , 'My Lord , your Lordship ' s ibsenration is la the very spirit of what Pope Leo the Tenth said to Martin Luther , — " For God ' s sake don ' t say a word about tbe indulgences and . the monasteries , and I'll give you a living ;"—thus precluding him from mentioning tbe very thing in dispute . I must go on with those " paro . dies , or I cannot go on with my defence . ' Undauntedly he went on , from the current literature of the time , such as grave lawyers read in their few hours of re . creation , to the forgotten volumes of old theology asd polemical controversy , that the said grave lawyers « f

      modern days are accustomed to regard as useless lumber . The editor of ' Blackwood's Magwsin-i' was a paro . dlst , —he parodied a chapter of Ezekiel ; Martin Luther was a parodist—he parodied the first psalm ; Bishop Latimer was a parodist , and so was DrBoye , Dean of Canterbury ; the author of the ' Rolliad' was a parodiet ; and bo was Mr Canning . Passage after passage did Hone read from author after author . He thought it was pretty clear that Martin Lutber did not mean to ridicule the Psaltn 9 ; that Dr Boys did not mean to rldicule the Lord ' s Prayer ; that Mr Canning did not mean to ridicule the Scriptures . Why , then , should it be presumed that be bad such an intention ? As soon as he found that his parodies had been deemed offensive , 'he had suppressed them , and that he had done long before his prosecution . It was in vain that the Attorney . General replied that Martin Luther was a libeller , and Or Boys was a libeller . The judge ' charged the jury in vain . William Hone was acquitted , after a quarter of an hoar ' s deliberation . ¦

      " But Guildhall ' saw another sight . ' With tbe next mornong ' s fog , the fiery Lord Chief Justice rose from his bed , and with lowering brow took bis place in that judgment-seat which he deemed had' been too mercifully filled on the previous day , Tbe mild firmness of the poor publisher , and his gentlemanly ' sense of' the absence of harshness In the conduct of his firat trial , had won for him something like reBpect ; and when on one occasion Mr Justice Abbott asked him , to forbear reading a particular parody , and the defendant said , 'Tour Lordship and I understand each other , and we have gone on so good-bumouredly hitherto , that I will not break in upon our harmony , ' it became clear that the puisne judge was not the man to enforce a verdict of guilty on the second trial . Again Mr Hone entered the

      court with his load of books , on Friday , the 19 th Bee He was this day indicted for publishing an impious and profane libel , called 'The Litany , or General Supplication . ' Again the Attorney-General affirmed that whatever might be the object of tbe defendant , the publication bad the effect of scoffing at tbe public service of the Church . Again the defendant essayed to read ( rom his books , which course he contended was essentially necessary for his defence . Then began a contest which it perhaps unparalleled InanEnglishcourtof justice . Upon Mr Fox ' s Libel Bill , upon ix-offleio informations , upon his right to copies of the indiotment without extravagant charges , the defendant battled his judge , imperfect in his l aw , no doubt , but with a firmness and moderation that rode over every attempt to put him down . Parody

      after parody was again produced , and especially those parodies of the Litany vthich the Cavillers ' employed bo frequently as vehicles of satire upon the Roundheads and Puritans , The Lord Chief Justice at length gathered up his exhausted strength for his charge ; and concluded in a strain that left but little hope for the defendant : 'He would deliver the jury his solemn opinion , as he was required by act of Parliament to do ; and under the authority of that Act , and still more in , obedience to hit conscience ^ and his God , he pro . nounced tbis to be a most Impious and profane libel , Believing and hoping that they , the jury , were Chris , tiani , he bad not any doubt but that they would be of the same opinion . ' The jury , in an hour and a half , returned a verdict of NotGullty .

      "It might have been expected that these prosecutions would have here ended ; " But the chance of a conviction from a third jury , upon a third indictment , whs , to be risked . On the 20 th December Lord Ellenborough again took his seat on the bench , and the exhausted defendant came . late into court , pale and agitated . The Attorney-General remarked upon his appearance , end offered to postpone the prooaediogs . The courageous man made his election to go on . This third Indictment was for publishing a parody on the Creed of St Athanaslus , called 'The Sinecurist ' t Creed . ' After the Attorney-General had finished his address , Mr Hone asked for five minutes' delay to arrange the few thoughts he had been committing to paper . The Judge refused the small concession , but said he would postpone the

      proceedings to another day if the defendant would requestthe Court so ' to do . The scene which ensued was thoroughly dramatic , 'No ! I make no such request . My Lord , Iam very glad to see your Lordship here to-day , because I feel iBUBtaiDed an injury from your Lordship yesterday—an injury which I did not expect to sustain . ...... If his Lordship should think proper , on this trial today , to , deliver his opinion , I hope that opinion will be coolly and dispassionately expressed by his Lordship ,,,,,, My Lord , I think it necessary to make a stand here . I cannot say what your Lordship may consider to be necessary interruption , but your Lardship interrupted me a great many times yesterday , and then said you would interrupt me no more , and yet your Lordship did interrupt rae afterwards ten times as much ...... Gentlemen , it is you who are trying me to-day . His Lordship Is no judge of me ; You ' are my judges , and you only are my judges . His Lordship ' sits there to receive your verdict ,

      ...... I will not say what bis Lordship did yesterday ; but I trust his Lordship to-day will givo his opinion coolly and dispassionately , without using either expression or gesture which could be construed as conveying an entreaty to the jury to think as he did . I hope the jury will not be beseeched into a verdict of guilty , ' . Tbe triumph of the weak over the powerful was complete . ' The frame of adamant and soul of fire , ' as the biographer of Lord Sidmouth terms the Chief Justice , quailed before the indomitable courage of a man who wa 6 roused into energies which would seem only to belong to the master-spirits that have swayed the world . Tet this was a man who , in tbe ordinary business of life , was incapable of enterprise and persevering exertion ; who lived in the nooks and corners of his antiquavianism ; who ^ was one that even his political opponents came te regard as a gentle and innocuous hunter after " all such reading as was u eyer read ; " who in a few . jcars gave up ' his polities altogether , and , devoting himself to his old poetry and

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      hls olddlvlnity . pajiedsquarterof a century after this conflict , in peace with all mankind , and died the sub-edltor of a religious journal . It was towards the clow of this remarkable trial that the Judgp , who came e « ger to . condemn , sued for p » y to his Intended victirn . The defendant quoted WarburtonandTlliotsmviis doubters of the _ Athanaeian Creed .,, £ Tenhia Lordeliip ' s father , tbe Blsh , p Of Carl . ie , he believed , took a similar view of the £ ? £ *« £ I tbqJud 8 e lolemnIy » ald , ' Whatever torollr / r ntf 0 r . beliefaDdW « 0 Pinl 0 n » For common delicacy forbear . ' - ' 0 , my lord , I shall rZSSSSTS" r nd tc * P ^ ™ Si charge : £ i ?; s £ a ^ ^ ^

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      ir trf / rfiWiWI ^/ l ^ AWi ^ A ^ ifi ^ vs ^ oy ^ B ^ y ^ t ^^ , ^^^^^^ I' ' ¦ ' PitusioH to Mb Lbioh Hunt . —On FruW' Mr Leigh Hunt received a letter iron ) Lord Jotin ' Ru . -.. sell , communicating the Ja « t , thai it had been in . cided to confer on bim a pension of £ 200 |> er annum . » A Willing Wi * e . —A few days ago a nstafiiiaa was summoned to the polioc court charged witb bsing drunk . Ilia wife , who appeared *' . ' for him , said that when he was sober he was one < of . the quietest men in tiie world : but when he got drunk , poor feU low , he did not know what hu was doing . He wat fined 5 s . and costs , when his wife , loving soul , said , " You must take me fin- it , for he ' a gone out fishing . ' —Liverpool Courier . . . " RoTit Visit to Scotland . — It is said to be her Majesty's intention to proceed to Scotland before the end of theseason .

      RuBsUK Potatoes . —An . arrival of potatoes from Russia has just taken place at the port of Bristol by a vessel arrived from Odessa , bnviiig ten oaska at ' the vegetable on board , the growth oi that country . March of Iktkluct . —A correspondent sends ui the following , whicii he states is a true copy of nn in-Boription on a sign-board in a small vi ! latro not a hundred milea from the city of York : — "Reydia writghtin . an arethmittick taute hearackordiu too the rhhldes of gramer . Alsoe red rutcs re » l li « rin , an puutarters small bear an traycell an allkindes ot yegeytends solde hear bvo yore humbel sarvcut

      Ins Bibkenhkad Docks . —LiTBBPOOL , Monday . — An important announcement has been miidfi heretooay with regiird to the Birkenhead Docks . Tho vvoods and Forests , which formerly promised the wi . ' h enow laid claim to the marglp of the Wallasey Pool , on which the docks are erected The l ° fift r n n I l ?^ ' -4 a 1 ' which Promised a subsidy ot ASO . OOOto md the works , now states that it has noil the requisite power ; and consequently , the com . pany has determined to close the works . The corporation of Liverpool have also pat in a claim to the strand . Scodndrbm .--A correspondent informs us , thaloa Monday " three individuals wore taken into cnatody in Glasgow , accuBed of hating , on that and tho ' pre . ceding day , been caught sprinkling a potato ' field with vitriol , in order lo raise a panic , and the price Of gram . I » this is true what do their abettors do . serve !"— CaleHonian Mercury .

      O'Connkll ' s Hoosehold . — At Derrynatio House chapel , maBB is celebrated every morning by the Rev . J . O'Snllivan , who resides in the Abbey . On the right of the altar is a large chair or pew , where Me O'Connell used to sit . It has a back aevnn feet high , and this pew is now covered with biack cloth , the door fastened , and no one is to enter it »^ ain . ¦ " ¦ iiA ^ as Nusbbd bt a Doo . —A few days since some afcwp < iicd . ? n » fwm near Coventry , and seven Iambi were left aitfe ' st their parents . About tbe sume tijRij a Urge ltvlclv ' , 4 tiwi . Bhflpberd breed , bad a iittet c <( whelpa , which xrea ' - itnmc *! ' *^ f ' " <> wned , and the Jambs were . plaeed vmlcr her ci ^ - . 'fhe bitch immediately adopted her new oharae . ';' ' ^ » ' » ' -MV « klei

      and nurses tbtui with ih « areaic ;» t VmtdfesM ' . Thb iatk TcostiS Il&op . —Lord John VuW-i ' - - " sag announced her Majestj ' o ktenki ' on of' ; nnfer . " -i . »^ , a pension of £ 100 a year upon the children os tilt highly-gifted but unfortunate author . Labdsurn for thb Rotai , Navt . — On S >\ f ' . nl-. fg in cohaequence of the difficulty experiencei ! i » pii > curing men accustomed to th « 8 ea to complete the crews of the Queen , Caledonia , Howe , andStvinc « nt , of 120 guns each , now lying at Spithead , order * were received at the naval rendezvous , Tower-hiil . to enter landsmen for the service , between 19 and 22 years of age , and not less than five feet six iuchea in height .

      ¦ Greenwich . Hospital . —The names of several dis * tmguished officers are mentioned for the vacant go * vernship of Greenwich Hospital , amongst ethers , those of Sir Edward Codrington , Sir George Cockburn , and Sir S . Byam Martin , all of the senior list . Sir Edward Codrington is considered likely to succeed to the appointment . Extraordinary Hbatof thb Wbathkr . —On Mon « day the barometer at the Royal Humane Society '! receiving-house , in Hyde Park , stood from eleven a . m . to five p . m . in the sun at 101 degrees of Fahrenheit , and in the shade at 83 degrees . Reduction w the Price op Bbead . —On Tuesday there was a reduction of one halfpenny in tho price of the 4 lb . loaf of wheaten bread throughout the vniiom

      metropolitan districts , the high priced bakers . iharging lid ., second quality 9 jd ., and household 9 d . and 8 Jd . the 41 b . loaf . Rye bread iB 7 d . the 41 b ., and India * bread 2 d . the lb . Fall op a Grain Loft . —Some days ago one of tha lofts ot a granary at Craigio gave way , and fell t » the ground floor , with all its accumulated treasures , ia one promiscuous uproar . Wo believe more graiariea throughout the country have fallen within the last six months than during the previous sixty years—certainly no proof of the scarcity so loudly asserted to exist in the land . —Perth Advertiser . ¦ Rkcbuitino iff the Country . —The recruiting parties in Essex have received orders to commence the enlistment of infentry recruits for the term of 10 years , at the Batne age and standard as before , under the new act upon the subject ,, which received the Royal assent last week . The term for the cavalry and artillery is 12 years .

      A Gormandizer . —There was found dead lately oa thebanks of Pulganny , alias the Water of Badeuock , near Druralanford-house , a craigy heron , the stomach ef which , when examined , actually contained the amazing number of 39 fine burn trouts . Sugared Medicines . —A singular mgde of preparing medicines appears to have been recently ntWted in France , by covering the most nauseous descriptions of . them with sugar in a confectioned and highly , finished state—so as to represent sugar-plums and comfits , and to deceive any person as to their exact quality and real substance . This is now extended from small ' kinds of confectionary to articles of a larger description , equalling the size ot sugared almonds , as they are called , and containing a very considerable quantity of the medicinal properties which it may be intended to incorporate , or rather , conceal therein—and in this state imported in this country for use .

      CONSBCHATION OP THB Nbw COLONIAL Bl 8 H 0 P 3 . —Ol » Tuesday the four new Bishops of Melbourne , Ada * lawe ,. Cape Town , and Newcastle , were publicly consecrated in Westminster Abbey , previous to their do . parture for , their respective dioceses , in the presence of a numerous assemblage of persons . Fvnsbal op Dr Lynch . —At one o clock on Wedne B * day the remains of this gentleman were deposited ia their last resting place , in the Cemetery , Lower Nor . wood . The funeral was strictly private . Extraordinary Crop op Apples . —Jas . Crosby , sen ., has growing in his orchard at Holme , near Burton , a small apple tree , and upon one of its

      branches , which is only five feet in length , there are one hundred and fifty-six apples , all of which appear to be in a healthy and growing state . —&nddl Mercury . New Rome to Laie Superior . —The British government have established a semi-monthly mail to the Copper Mines on Lake Superior , on the north side of the lake . The conveyance leaves Toronto on the 13 th and 28 th of each month , and takes passes * gers through in sixty hours to Sault Ste . Marie , by way of Lake Simcoe , to Sturgeon Bay on Lake Huron , and thence to Owen ' s Sound , and then to the Sault . This is 450 miles nearer than by Lake Erie .

      A niT at Mr John O'Connell , Tins Nuw Lbadkr . —Leader , quotha ! . A leaider , look yo , gentlemen , ia one that leads . A national leader is one that leads a nation . But a fat young gentleman ' of five-and thirty , without eloquence to sway the multitude , or passion to stir them , or imagination to eievate them , or humour to please them , is he a leader ?—Nation . r DSATH OF THE ELEPHANT AT THE SURREY GARDENS . —On Tuesday morning the female elephant , bo long a favourite with the visitors of the Surrey Gardens , expired after a comparatively short illness . A Large Egg . —We were shown yesterday a hen ' s egg oi unusual size , laid in the yard of Mr Gray ' s mjll , Pollard-street , Ancoats , on Monday last . Its circumference , round the middle , ia six incheB ; round the ends , 71 inches ; and it weighs three ounces , —Manchester Guardian .

      The Militia . —A bill brought in by the Secretaryat-War and the Judge . Advocate-General suspends the making of lists and the ballots and enrolments of the militia of the United Kingdom until the 1 st of October , 1848 . Singular Frbak of Lightning . —On Saturday morning last a large ash-tree , growing by'the road " , near Garstang , was completely stripped of its leaves on one side by lightning , leaving the other as green and luxuriant a 3 ever .

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      ReYAL Polytechnic Institution;—The highly interesting lectures of Doctor Bachhefiner on tbe application of electricity to telegraphic purposes so recently given in the abovenumed establishment , have led to the introduction of a series of working models of Cook and Wheatstone ' s electrie telegraph , and the electro-magnetic clocks of Mr Baines , the property of the Electrio Telegraph Company , ana as these models are used and exhibited by two assistants | of . the ' company , who attend dailyfor that purpose , the working of this extraordinary and valuable application is thus practically laid before the public —more particularly as the simple yet lucid

      illustrations of Doctor Bachhoffner on this subject ruust oe full in the recollection of the numerous visitors to this institution . This highly interesting subject , we trust , the learned professor will be induced to resume at no very distant period . There-are also three times a week some most interesting and instructive lectures on Chemistry , by Mr Noad , who hasi proved himself well qualified for this science , his ectimng bein * highly agreeable , and the matter welP suited Shis popular institution . Mr Gifted , e ^ ver to the establishment , has a most admirable . pwhart , engraved on cornelian , ef tke elephant rtjat diail on the 11 th- of June , and which is now exhibiting . in the gallery of the Royal Academy _ :

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      The bellman of Barnsler , says the ~' shefaidJri , appear to be a walking newspaper , for he is all most daily employed to make announcements of the state of different corn-markets , for which the millers appear highly offended at him . - A man in New York turned his son , out of doors lately , because he wouldn ' t pay him house-rent , a striking instance , says the Philadel phia Bpirit , of pay rental affection .

      The British and Foreign Institute , of which Mr Buckingham was resident director , has been dissolved . ; The British authorities in Orissa bestow annually a grant of 36 , 000 rupees to support the temple of the destroyer , Juggernaut ! [ The Duke of Wellington has declared in Parliament that " Idolatry is the established religion of India ! " ] The Queen of Spain is said to allow her husband £ 10 a day as pocket money . It is far too much for such aeoose . . ¦ ¦ ,:...

      The King of Sweden has ordered that members of the'S ociety of Friends can give their declaration thus : — "I declare , ; and solemnly assure , " which is t » be accepted as if an oath had been duly made . '" Larnin . "— " Class in spelling come up and recite . " "Yeth'ir . " " Join * , spell effects . " "FX . " "Right . Next spell seedy . " "CD . " "Right again . Class can go out /'—Boston Notion . The Queen of Spain is learning to drive six-inhand . ¦¦ ..-.. ; ¦ ¦ : . Eggs have lately been imported into Liverpool , f »* om Lisbon . 1 Tiiers are 350 , 000 seeds in the capsule of a tobacco plant . . ' ¦ . '¦ - - A vuaael , which has arrived at Swansea from the West ladiea , has brought » . -. ;!! 't } o weighing more than 800 His . Ray , the celebrated botanist , counted 32 , 06 !) «; JS ( i 8 in the head of a poppy .

      The Shipping Gatettt 8 taf . es thai 51 ; is intended to increase the wages of petty ei&m in tbe n « vy . Large shipments of new potatoes -have lately bam made from the Soilly Islands to the ports ia the vest of England . Some seed potatoes have been received at Portsmouth from Chili . A Preston paper mentions that an egg , shaped like a kidney potato , with a small stalk attached to it , Bas been laid by a hen , belonging to a gentleman of that town . . The sugar crops in the Mauritius have been very large ; and the quantity of produce shipped has nearly doubled that exported three or four years since

      The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin has expressed the strongest disapprobation of priests attending political meetings , or publicly expressing an opinion on public matters . A Brussels paper says that two convicts threw themselves out of a railway train , whilst it was in full motion , between Bloemendael and Aeltree , and effected their escape . : . A German poet of some celebrity , Herman MaUre , asserts that he has discovered a method of teaching young children to read , by which he undertakes in six hours , to teacb the most stupid child the art of reading fluently and correctly . ¦¦ A hen and a hen partridge have laid their eggs in the same nest , in a farm yard near Beauly , Invernessshire , and a fierce war is waged between them for the

      right of sitting oh the eggs . A French surgeon asserts , that by exposing men and animals to a galvanic current from Clarke ' s magneto-electric apparatus , he has succeeded in rendering them as insensible to pain as if they had inhaled buIphuric ether . ' " ¦ , : During a hailstorm at Berlin , on the 25 th ult ,, 11 , 000 squares of glass were broken ; and it was necessary to fetch glaziers' from' Magdeburg , as those of Berlin had neither the glass nor the time requisite to execute all the repairs . The Garrows , a tribe , of , mountaineers inhabiting the hills on the borders of the province of Assam , readily eat putrid meat , but refuse to drink milk , which they think unwholesome .

      A lady residing hear Newcastle lost some time ago a valuable piece of lace from the lawn , but it was lately ., found , ' coiled in the bottom of a sparrow ' s nest , which had been built in a large wall pear-tree . .. ' , ' . ' The Shah of Pmi&nas conferred the order of tbe Lion and the Sun on a French physician named Cloquet . as an acknowledgment of his services during the prevalence of the cholera . ' Mr Chillon , Q . C ., of the South Wales Circuit , will succeed the late Mr David Leahy as Judge of the L rnbeth and Greenwich District County Court . The title of the newspaper to be started for the voluntary dissenting interest in Scotland in September next , is to be the Scottish Prat .

      On Wednesday week the lion Adolphus , the smallest of the two in Mr Tyler ' s collection of wild beasts in the Surrey Gardens , died after an illness of only twodays . .,- ' . , ¦ There is a place in Dutchess County , N . Y ., where the children are so fat and greasy , that they have to be rolled in sand to keep them from slipping out of bed ! ¦ ¦ -, ¦¦ , ¦ •¦ -i- . ; „ . : -.. , .,.. ... ¦ . Wives who do not try to keep their husbands will lose them . A man does the'courting' before marriage , and the wife must doit after marriage , or some other woman will . , Fever , it is said , is alarmingly prevalent among tho lower classes in Manchester . A meeting of the members of the Manufacturers ' Association was held on Wednesday week , at which it was agreed to commence working four days a week until the next meeting , which will be in about three weeks . ¦ : .

      Wanted , a few party cries for the approaching general election . Persons possessing any of the above articles , cither new ones or old , if in good condition , and net too much used , will meet with an immediate aalefor them by applying at Westminster , to the door-keepers of the H . of 0 . N . B . Separate entrances for parties with Whig and Tory eries . A quantity of old cries to be disposed of . — Punch . Attempts have lately been made to grow rice in the salt marshes watered by the Rhone , near Aries , and the crop promises a very abundant harvest . Donizetti , the composer , will soon quit the lunatic asylum where he baB been confined , and will henceforth reside in Paris , under the care of bis nephew . Theprite offered by the Carnarvon Eisterod , for the best poetical description of thunder , has been awarded to Mr O . W . Thomas , London .. There were * 2 competitors , i r .., ' ,

      The Grandr Duke . Constantino of Russia is expected to . visit the manufacturing districts / while on his way to Scotland , for the purpose of enjoying the sport of deer-stalking at Blair Athol . ^ - Parasols havo lately been fitted with rings of vulcanised India-rubber , which are so elastic that they expand when , the parasols are opened , and tightly compress the ribs when ; they , are . closed . . ¦ The Pope . has'appointed to the command of the gendarmery . of . Rome , P , rince . Gabrielli , a distinguished officer , who . v . in , the rank o { Captain , followed theEmperorsNapoleon . through , the Russian campaign . , u ,-j yr .= j \ - # ; . -= ¦ - - ¦ . ¦ -. .- ' ..., ; ¦ ¦ ' Letters from Russia state , ; that the trans-Caucasian : provinces , have . been , . ravaged ; by locusts . The quantity was . sot immense t that the people collected them in heaps , covered them with straw , and burnedthemi , i -. > :-... .. ¦ ,., . .-. ; ... '

      Among the additional estimates for miscellaneous services we perceive that the sum of £ 5 , 000 is proposed towards defraying the expenses of an appropriate pedestal for the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington . - ; , " A Practical Man , " writing to the Morning Chronicle , suggests that the best monument for Caxtori would be a " Caxton Hospital" for decayed printers . It might be erected among the buildings of the intended improvements in Westminster ; and mie ; ht afford an asylum for a certain proportion oi decayed literary men as well as printers .

      The coroner ' s jury , who sat on the late railway bridge accident , were entitled by law to an allowance of about £ 32 for their time , but they directed their foreman ( Sir E . S . Walker ) to return it to the borough fund . —[ Would it not have been better applied had it been appropriated to the friends of the sufferers ?} . -. ¦ M . Aim 6 Martin , one of the oldest editors of the Journal des Debats , and formerly one of the Secretaries of the Chamber of Deputies , and lately conservator of the library of St Genoviove , died a few days ago , - and was interred in the cemetery of Mont Parnasse , after the funeral service had been performed . at the . church of St Germain de Pies . M . Aime Martin married the widow of Bernardin de St Pierre .

      The King of Sweden has conferred the insignia in diamonds of the order of the Polar Star upon his Excellency Count de Moltke , late Minister Plenipotentiary from-Denmark to the Court / of Sweden , and who now fills the same functions at the court of France . The corn looks beautiful ; and of potatoes there is every premise of a beautiful and uucontaminated crop . —Carlisle Patriot . . The wheat looks very well , and the ear ib just , 'beginning to flower . The potato crep is magnificent , anffreefromdisease , —Jersey 'times .. , Upwards ( of . 8 , 000 . quarters of grain arrived at Perth last week , at two Buccessive tides .

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      - "' ¦¦—¦ I ¦ ¦ - ¦¦ -I " ^^ iMnKWB ^ iMMWM The following lines describe the escape TErom tbe Wuthofa bind of slaves : — . A HTMH frP LIBBBTT . ¦ ITHOmit . HAllH , Night reigned with start , and ihade , and dreami , and silently unfurled . . . . H « r spell of witchery around the weary-hearted world : The leaves were itill , the water * mute , the watchman lept ; the bell . . Of midnight lulled the stars to reit . then hulhed its WUowy swell : The blessed angel Sleep came down , and poured , with loving care An opiate from his crystal urn upon tbe dewy air : In Man ' s hushed bosom Lave and Hate , and Joy and Sorrow lay Like foes on blood-wet battle-fields , who wake to strife with day .

      when , la llk » shadows through the ( loom , a weak yet daring band Stalked wearily , with voices mute and bright , bare blade in hand . . Theirrobesvfererent , their feet were torn , their faces darkest tan , ¦ - Tet flashing eye and fearless brow revealed the godlike Man . From Carolina ' s fever-swamps , from Georgia ' s stavecuned lod , From fetters on the limb and soul , through bandied foes they trod . For Freedom , with her mother voice , had led them on afar— . Their path the trackless wilderness , their guide the Northern Star .

      Like Israel through the opening waves of Egypt ' s blood . red se » They stemmed Hiagara ' s rushing tUe—those noble ones were ms . They ttood , r « dtom » d and diseiiibraUod , ujion Qta < : » t « - wnihed ted , And prou < J 2 y , grandly dulsaai ajrain tho birllitigM gift oiQoi . The Catnraci lifted ^ p afar its « o ] emn-i > atsnding voii-t , An 3 b * da jhaat in to ? glorious dawa of Frteipro ' s dh >' i- < joico ; And thus their ton ? o ? juWJo . s rung forth , * nd tot : * on hi gh ; White all tha morning star * bora oa its echo * s through toeikj . We are free t we are free ! wa are free I As the stars that tread the skies ; And joyously , oh God I to Thee . Our triumph . hjmn shall rise .

      For Thou hast led us on , Through solitude and night , Till Freedom ' s blessed home is won , And vain the Foeman ' s might . The chains are cast aside ; The oppressor ' s reign is o ' er ; ' The dungeon floor shall be purple dyed With our blood and tears no more . With heart and voice we raise Our hymn , oh Oedl to Thee ; Resound thou Earth and Sky our songs , We are freel ware fret ! w « m nn ! That Triumph hymn ! itdieth not : it souudeth not in . vainj : ' It echoes now with thouiand tonguti o ' er many a Southerm plain ; Its words la erery chainlets blast , and free bright rtver roll ; Godgivethita voice to speak through silence to the soul : Its thrilling spell is felt where ' er the slave-marts darkly stand ; . -.....- 'Tis mightier far than Charleston gyves , than Texan whip and brand : It nerves the arm it lights the eye , that spirit-rousing

      breath , It fires the heart with high resolves of Liberty or Death ; Oh ye who riot on the toil of God ' s down-trodden poor , Beware , One judgeth in the Earth , whose hand is swift and sure ; Alread y muffled thunder-tones at dead of night resound ; ' Already wake the Earth quake throes beneath ijourtrem . .. Wing ground ; Though hireling . priest and watchman lift the cry of" all is well , " Bra long red Ruin ' s lava-tide from earth and sky shall swell .

      The Master from the vengeance then aid not the Stan willflee ;' Be warned of God , be warned of Han , and set the bond . man free ! We must postpone till our next a glorious collection of Agrarian songs and other patriotic pieoes . We close this week ' s collection with the following seasonable lines : — ¦

      THE EVENING . WIND . BT W . C . BIYAHT . Spirit that breathes through my lattice , thou That cool ' st the twilight of the sultry day , Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow : Thou bast been out upon the deep ' at play , Ridiag all day their wild blue waves Oil now , Roughening their crerti , and scattering high theii ipray , And swelling the white sail . 1 welcome thee To the scorch'd land , th » u wanderer of the sea I Nor I alone : —a thousand bosons round Inhale tbee in the fulness of delight ; And languid forms rise up , and pulses bound Livelier , at comiug of the wind at night ; And , languishing to hear thy grateful sonnd ,

      Ides the Tast inland itretcb'd beyond the sight , Go forth into the gathering shade ! ' go forth , God ' s blessing breathed apon the fainting earth ! Go , rock the little wood bird in bis nest ; Curl the . still waters , bright with atari ; and rouse . The wide old wood from his majestic rest , Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange deep harmonies that haunt hU breast , Pleasant shall be tby way whers meekly bows The shutting flower and darkling waters pass ; And ' twizt the o ' er-shadowing branches and the grass . The faint old man shall lean his silver head : To feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child aslesp , And dry the moisten'd curls that overspread

      'His temples , while his breathing grows more deep ; And the ; who stand about the sick mam ' s bed ' Shall jay to listen to tby distant sweep , Md softly part his curtains to allow Tby visit , grateful to his burning brow . Go ! but the circle of eternal change , , . That is the life of nature , shall restore , With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range , Thee to thy birth-place of the deep once more ; Sweet odours in the sea air , sweet and strange , : , Shall tell the home . sick mariner of the shore ; - And , listening to tby murmur , he shall deem , He hears the rustling leaf and running stream .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1847, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1425/page/3/