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      ABD-EL-KADER AT TOULOS ; OK , THE CACED BATE . So taore , tHoa lithe and long-winged hank , of deiert-life for tbee ; 5 o more across the tultrj ssndB gualt tuougo swooping free : Bfcmt idle teloni , i § le be&fc , -with sparnint erf thy chain . Shutter agaiast toy cage the wing Ultra ne ' er maytt ipread again . Loaf , sitting by their watchfires , stall the Kafejlw tell the tale Of thy dash from Ben Halifa on the fat tf » tiaja \ ale ; How thou sweptfrt tfee destrt orer , bearing down the -mid El Biff , Vetsa . eattera Beni Sslab . to Treitem Oade Shelif :

      Eow thy white barnsag want etreuaing , like the stennrack o ' er the tea , When thoa rodwt ia the vanw&rd of the Hooriih chivalry ; How thy raszia was a whirlwind , thj onset a simoon )) Haw thy « werd- * w « p was the lightning , dealing death from oat the gloom 1 Kor lets quiek to slay in battle than in peace to spare sad save , QfbraTsaen truest cooaeillor , of wise councillors most brave ;

      How the eye that flashed destruction could beaa gentlesets and loTe , Sow lion iu tbee raateS lamb , how eagle mated dove ! Mailed not or tteel or shot ' gaiast that charaed life secure , fill cunning Prance , la last resource , toised up the golden lore : JLfi 2 the carries bnzsirds round hits stooped , faithkei , to the cast , And the wild hawk of the desert is caught and caged at last .

      Weep , maidens ef Zerifah , above the laden loom I Scar , chieftains of Al Elmah , your cheeks in grief and gloom ! Sons of the Beni Snazaa , throw down the useless lance , Aad stoop your necks and bare your backs to yoke and scourge of France ! ' 1 ^ 65 not ia fight they bore him dawn ; ha neTer cried nmaa ; He never sunk his sword before the Prince of Fraaghistan ; But with traitors all around his , his star upon the wane , He keard the roice of Allah , asd ho would Hot strive in

      a . They gsre fens vtat lie asked item ; from kisg to king he epake , As oue that plighted word and seal not knoweth kow to break ; ' Let me pass fram out my deserts , be ' t mi ne owe choice whera to go , I brook no fettered life to liTe , s captire and a show . Asd they premised , and he trusted them , and proud and calm he case , rpoa his black mare riding , girt with bis sword of fame . Good steed , good sword , he rendered both unto the Frankish tbreng ; Eeknew them falie and fickle—but a PriEee ' B word ia

      strong . How have they kept their promise ! Turned they the vesiel ' s prow . rato Acre , Alexandria , as they haTe sworn e ' en now ! Sot so : from Orsn northwards the white tails gleam and glsnce , And the wild hawk of tke desert is borne away to France ! TJ-aere TouIob ' s white-walled lazaret looks southward o ' er the waTe , Sts he that trusted in the word a son of Louis gave . Oh , noble faith of noble heart ! And was the warning vaia , The text writ by the Bourbon in the blurred black book of Spain f

      Tie ? have need efthee to gaze on , they have need of thee to grace The triumph of the Prince , to gild the pinchbeck of their race . Words are but vtind conditions must be construed by Geizot ; Dash oat tby heart , thou destrt hawk , er « thou art made a Ehow ! Punch .

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      TRE WESTMINSTER AND FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW . January . London : G . Lnxford , Whitefriars-street . ( Concluded from okt fail , ) The principal article of the present nnmber ia entitled * History and Exposition of the Currency Question . ' The article , which iaclndes a chronological history of the currency is too Ungthy for comment in the space to which we must limit this notice . ' Bribery at Elections' reveals the corrupt character oftne present electoral class . The reviewer ttuly says that the present electoral qualification is ' the most absurd standard of fitness the perversity of human reason ercr devised . ' Yet he refines to accord his support to those who wo ; : ld make manhood and not bricks and mertar the qualification for possessing the franchise . Apparently acknowledging the justice of Universal Suffrage in the abstract , he

      regards the establishment of that suffrage as too Vwpian for present struggles . Ills remedy for electoral corruption h not very evident . The moral isflueBceofsoma asseciation calling itself the 'Anti-Briberv Society , ' conjoined with the abolition of the property qualification for members of Parliament , appear to be relied upon by the reviewer for working a Kueh-needed reformation in the electoral class . We cenfesswe hare no faith in any each asserted remedy . The reviewer draws together a nnmber of startling facts from the report of Mr Roebuck's comraittee in 1842 ; these we pass otct , but we mast make room for the followicg well-authenticated statements illustrative of the virtue &f " the tenpounders in the general election of 18 £ 7 . , '

      the eoEEurr xisdle-claes . As a fitting proloraa to the darker scenes of the el ee Voral dram * , bere is a tpeciaen of the catechetical process to which aspiring legislator ! are subjected in pure sad enlightened constituencies . The following dialogue is given in the ' Illustrations of the general election of 1847 , ' on the authority of the le&duig actor , one of the aspirants fur ibe sweet voices of tbe electors of Stafford J—« Candidate . — Why , gentlemen , I expected to meet insoy ef my friends here , and to make myself better known to them . FttsT-EixciOB . —True , sir ; and we wish to know something also of you . ' StCQSD EwcTv * . — -How much do yea Hjcan t © g ' . TB ! Candidate . —H « w much do I mean to give ! « Fiest Elecice ( wifft surprise ) . —Surely , eir , you never expect to get in for Stafford without pajiDg !

      'CakDIBATE . —TTitbout payiEgl Why , geHtlemen , that ii -iowurigbt bribery . Besides , how eenld it be done ! I should certainly be HHBeated . 'Fibst Elect- e . —Oh , we manage thisgs here better than that ! If the fear of being found out is all that deters you from coming to terms , we'll soon let you know how to get over that . 'XJasdidats . —How am I to get OTer itt Fiest Elictoe [ in a ichitptr ) . —There is a particular Kail down the way . From this wall we have only to take out s brick . Through this hole you have only to put £ 0 many sovereigns into every hand presented there , and we'll manage tbe rest /

      It is Bati » ft * wry to hear that ' the feoneurable eandicate aid notplayhispartintbe Pyramus and Thisbe fashion , wfcicb is attested by the feet that he is not M P . for StaSora . It !» stated en the authority of a respecta ble journal , that not only was bribery on a large scale oontemplated , but openly practised . ' On ona of the banners at Stafford appeared the very significant motto of 'Free trade in gold ; ' and f 6 r want of a convenient hole in the wall , s ebed was temporary ereeted fer the purpose of paying thetlectors agtbej voted , bjr one can . didnte ; those who voted for asothtr were paid at the shop of abutchtr . Whatever might be the offeEces oi Sudbury ia this respect , we conceive that they never ex eseaed those of Stafford . In the Cisj of London , bribery is lister " , nod rnih teme ehowof tratb , to h 6 ve fc « n en a wnritHle ecale . Dsyi before tbe election ;

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      took place it was boldly announced that the 'long shot men' were secured , that the liberals would be returned ' and that one of them had e » timat « d bis outlay at £ 25 , QQi . Rumour says the election did cost ths Indhl . dual the sum named , on the lowestcaleulttian , and when it it stated that his share of the legitimate expenses of the election ought not to have exceeded £ 1 , 680 , how are we to account for the expenditure of the balance ! The Weekw Tistes state * the following f » t , on the authority of a correspondent : — It ie well known that , at the late election for the county of Middlesex , the Tory candidate was vastly liberal in providing conveyances to the polling-places in all parts of the eounty ; bu » it is not generally known that he or bis committee went a step farther ! e . g . an « l « cter , whom I must desi gnate as A . B ., though not more than two miles distant from his residence at any time far weeks before and after tho election , actually receired travelling expense * as if ho had journeyed from Edinburgh to vote I

      At th 3 Leicester eleetloncertaindoubting electors found sovereigns in tbe bottoms of their cups of coffee . From Cheltenham we have loud ramonrs of indictment and all tho pains and penalties atthe 1 &tt . At Wallingford , optn aecuMtiQng of bribery have been made against the friends of the unsuccessful candidate . At a dinner recently gtTen to the sitting m « aber , some of the parsons to whom bribes were offered were present , and stated these difgraeeful facts . Richard Keale , an hoaeit working man , declared that while at labour in the fields , persons came to his sad tried to put money into his pocket , bat he would not have it , and the money fell to the ground . It would never , ' added the poor man , ' have been divulged by me , but tome persons that were present gleaning in the field , saw it , and they divulged it . ' Mr Grantiey Berkeley opeuly stated at a meetiog in Gloucester , that he had seen everytblog at the election for the western division of that ooanty that could prov « briberr and corruption .

      • We have had , * he said , ' compliments to the ladies , sovereigns put into the tea instead ef sugar , and into tb « wash-tub instead of soap , and cabbages beught at bdj pries ( Cries of 'Ten pounds ! Fifteen pounds ! ' ) , aDd we have had ene man coming to the poll and plumping for me , but ssTiap , * There are fifteea lOTareigna I have r « etir « dtstote against you . To gain thethowofhande , it oost tha Lord Iientenant £ 806 , and he lost it by twenty to one . I taw tenants and old servants driven to the poliing . boo&f , ai if they were the shambles of a > lacgkt « r-house ; and xnsny a half-suppressed curse did I heir fraa the lips of man ; an old man as he passed up to tbe place of the murder of his eenscienoe in the vote he was abaut to give—a curse muttered upon the man whs sent him there to vote against me . '

      The gloomy aspect of these crimes is occasionally relieved . by a glimpse of haraour . We are told that at the Preston election , an independent individual , who valued his electoral stake in tbe country at the sum of ten pounds , refuted tago to the poll till ke was paid . But for once the old ptoveru of the bird in hand was caught tripping ; a ekilfnl agent secured the vote , but paid for it with a note drawn upon the' Bank of EUijanoa . ' There are a few illustrations of the respectable Bourgeoitie — the treacle-selling , tape-measuring cheating and lying shopocracy;—the eentry who turn np their noses at the Chartists . Verily these

      huckstered—political and moral , as well as socialare the vilest cUs 3 in existence ; as corrupt as they are notoriously ignorant , insolent and fawning ; very 'fiunkies ' . to the classes above , and very tyrants to the classes below them . Of all plagues , from the rule ef a sovereign profitocraey Good Lord deliver us J ' With all that the reviewer sajs concerning ths indefensibleness of a property-qualification fer members of the Legislature we heartilj concur ; but whj not go a little further—why not'go the whole hog , 'acknowledge the People's Chartep and proclaim its necessity ? There is no other remedy for bribery at elections .

      An article on ' NeUon ' s Despatches' contains—to onr thinking—a very lame attempt at exonerating Nelson from the odiam justly affixed to bis name for his share in the mvrcfcr of Caraccioli . We are surprised at the tone of this article , considering the Sqdical character of the Westminster . Nelson , even according ; o his apologist ' s showing , was a bigotted and brutal supporter of kingcraft in its bloodiest fona . The reviewer thinks that the ' conqueror of the Nile' wbs very badly treated in having only £ 2 , 000 a yearallowed him eat of the taxes ; of course the reviewer says nothing about tbe poor fellows who served at the bum—not a word for these' brave but poor men . ' This is a queer sort of . Radicalism ! The article on ' Popular Colleges'claims , and shall have , a more extended notice than we can afford it at present .

      Turning again to the Foreign ' portion of this number , we must express onr total dissent from the article on'Switzerland and its Condition . ' We have on more than one occasion fully set forth our views ontheSwiss question , which views need not be repeated here . After a laboured defence oftheSsnderbund , the reviewer is after all constrained to wind up with the admission ' that the state of society in tbe old cantons , now overthrown , was one of utter stagnation , wholly incompatible with the best interests and the noblest tendencies of the human taee . The following . from the Italian correspondence of the Westmituter , exhibits the popular opinion in Tuscany as regards

      THE JESUITS . The youth of Italy , feeling convinced that it is their most solemn duty to seek , in every possible way , tbe im * prarement of educatien , and the development of tbe national and social virtues , because without them Italy ean hardly hope to take again her place amongst the nations , and certainly not maintain it with dignity and power ; convinced aleo that the first foundation of such virtues can bs laid only through the watchful tenderness of good motfcers , —propose the following resolutions : — 1 st , That the undersigned youths pledge themselves on their honour , not only not to unite themselves by

      matrimonial ties with any ladies educatsd directl y or indirectly fcy the Kans of the Sacro Caore , bat also neither with thoio whom they know to be connected with persons subject to , or dependent on , or affiliated to the company of the Jesuits , nor with those who are nader the spiritual direction of the fathers of the order . 2 nd . That tbe guardians of the register , containing tbe n&meB of tbe youths who have takes the above mentioned pledge , shall be required , if any one forfeit bis pledge , to publish bis nares and deed , in any of the journals most widely circulated throughout the peninsula , whereby he may be branded , in the face of all Italy , as one having forfeited

      bis hoHOur . From another letter from Italy , we quote the following description of the popular enthusiasm on the occasion of the establishment ef THE TDSCAH GUABD , Ton will be interested with an account of tbe festive celtbration of the establishment of a National Guard in that city , which gives a lively picture of tbe manner in wbich the spirit newly awakened in Italy manifests itiilf . 'In the evening , ' says the writer , ' there was great eicittmsnt manifested at the theatre . Tbe Pergola was entirely iliumina'ed nith was Iight 9 , ami , for fear of fire , it had been ordered that no flags should be admitted , but the ladies , nevertheless , contrived to introduce them hidden nnder tfctir shawls .

      • Tbsre was to be a concert , but the music could not be fceard for the incessant' / has' After tbe first piece , the Overture to William Tell , aery nas raised of ' The BiDners ' The Banners ! ' and immediately the ladies produced their little flags , and the singers dragged in thn great onei through a « indow , and get them up in tbe pit , and , in s moment , the whole area of tbe theatre was covered with them . 1 Hoarse as was the public throat from shouting the whole day . it immediately set up a chorus in which ladles and all joined . Then this piece and the other was eallod for without any regard to the

      programmethe singeri holding handkerchiefs of the same colours as the great flag , tbe Italian red , white end green , and the band , at every vita , hoisting their hats up with their instruments . 'JZhoiva UUga Italiona ; evoiva I ' untone , ' ( long live lhe Italian league ; long live the union ) ; and then ¦' legate i faszoUtti , ' ( tie the handkerchiefs together ) , and iu another miRUte , handkerchiefs aad scarfs and sh awls were fastened together , tor to bor , tier to tUr , down into tbe pit , right and left , across and across , frGtn teach to be&ch , till all were united by these brotherly bonds , ead then began bellowiBg , for I can call it nothing else .

      ' Some one now espied in one of the boxes the Prices Poniatowski , a ' nd immediately there was a cry that he should sin ? a soog , and , after a little negotiation as to what he should ting , it being decided for a bymn , he complied , and gave us & bymn ia magnificent style ; the theme was of pouring out one ' s blood for liberty , of resisting tyraRts , of bung ready to obey the call to defend Pius , tbe ambassador of God , for the salvation of Italy . After each Terse there was a shout of aneora , and then the who's theatre reared tbe verse agaia . Some of the Exmvis were curious eaougb , for instance , ' Broivan 1 fusili , evoivau le nostre sciaboli , evoiran 50 pezzi di canoHe , evoivan i nostri fratelli msrtiri di Sicilia , evoiva la nostra Limbardia , morte a Jesuiti , abasso i nemui d Italia , &c . ' ( long lire oar mntketB , long live onr sabres , the 50 pieces of artillery , long live our brethren the martyrs of S : cily , long live onrjLcmbardy , death to the Jesuits , down with the enemies of Italy , &c . ) ; at last they began ia the pit to dance with the flags—and thus endtd the so-called concert .

      ' The whole town was illuminated , and the joyful tumult in the streets , even after midnight , Is hardly to be described . The soldiere marched about the streetB Kith drams beating , and embraced every one they met ; the viwis went on without a moment ' s cessation . One drew his sword and cried ' Let us svrear upon this sa ^ re , that we will fight for our Lombardian brothers . ' Some cried '• £ *« e « ff Destxribre , 184 S *—the day on which tbe AustrisBS were driven from Oijnos . Erery oae spoken to was addressed as & brother . No one hesitated to address perfect strangers . One would call out e-coita , ond

      the other raa « t reply and wave hia handkerchief , AH carriages aad diligences were provided vdth flags—t e patstneers coming into the town thouted' JSvoivan i nostri fralilli Fiorenlini , ' and the cry was echoed by Eroiean i norfrt frattttiSomagnesi '—or where \ erthey happened to come from . With all this tumult , however , there was tbe most perfect order ; n » pushing nor struggling , no disputing , no theft or any kind of mis ^ e . mesneur among this mass of men , under no restraint whatever from sither military or police . Thus happily ended the festival , ana now we have to think of work . In every cpen space , not eal ; men ( including monks )

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      but women are learning their eserciie . The convents have offered their halls for similar purposes ; they are alio making subscri ptions for tbe equipment of troops , aad have declared that at the summons of Pope Pinn the 9 th , the monks will all march to his defence . ' Glorj-to the Tuscans—the pioneers of their country s redemption . Glory and victory to the Italians . It they are but true to themselves . Austria ' a threata or blows will be alike vain . A mass of miicellanenus notices concludes this number , which aa we have intimated contains several very valuable contributions . It is unnecessary to repeat thetitles of the articles which have failed to obtain our approval .

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      Simmnds's Colonial Magazine . January . London Simmondaand Co ., Barge Yard , Bucklersbury . Twelve velamea of thia magazine are now completed , the whole forming an invaluable collection of colonial information . The present number commences the thirteenth ^ volume , and contains a number of ably-written articles of even more than average utility and interest . Tho opening article should be read by nil intending to emigrate , placing aa it does the ' Capabilities of Western Canada' in a striking light , and containing many usefulandwe think

      , , , trustworthy hints to intending settlers . The article entitled' The English Rajah of Sarawak' gives many interesting particulars of the life and exploits ofjthat celebrated Briton . Mr Brooke , it appears , is & native of Coombe Grove , near Bath , and was born in 1803 . Id his youth he was engaged in the military service of the East India Company . Circumstances having induced him to quit that service , h « turned his attention to Borneo , then almost unknown tu Europeans . The death of his father having left him in possession of some property he set about realising his hag-considered plans :

      Being now in a position to act entirely independsnt of 8 Bj , he , nowise daunted ; by bie former failure , resolved to purchase a small veetel and tempt the dim . cultiesof the undertaking alone and unaided . The yacht Boyalist was the ship in which Mr Brooke determined on attempting thio . Equipping her com . plelely , and Banning her ¦ with a choice crew , ho set sail on a voyage of experiment which lasted a consider , able period . He visited the Grecian Isles aid many other places , among which was the Troad , the sceiio of Homer ' s battle ., and having put tho qualities of bU yacht to a severe test , ke at length left England again , aad turned the bow » of his little vessrt towards that

      vast ocean , studded with thois wild and unexplored islands wboss beautiful and verdant shores had so favour , ably impressed his imagination while first steering to the further east . A prosperous and speedy voyage in due time brought up the Rojalist at snehor in the mouth of the Sarawak river , near the aontre of his philanthro . pic operatioug , whoie results are destined to extend over so wide a space , and to influence the fate of so many million * of our hitherto neglected fellow creatures . Fortunately for the futura mccesi of his plans it hap pened that a rebellion had just then broken out ia one of the provinces uod « r ths rule of MudaH « ssim , then vice , roy of tbt Sultan of Bruni . This chief , fearing lest his power should totter , applied for assistance to the white man from the far west . Hr Brooke appears , from the first , to have conceived an extraordinary attachment for this unsultirated , and , as it afterwardo proved , unhappy native prince , whose character , from all we hare beard , must upon the whole have been amiable .

      Mr Brooke listened to the Rajah ' s overtures , and agreed to lend his assistance , stipulating , however , thatjuBtiee and mercy should be accorded to tbe rebels , and started up the Sarawak river at the head of all tbe Rajah ' s disposable forces , which were soon augmented by reinforcements from various quarters . . The appearance of-thls Boriwon army on tho march must have been motley and grotesque in the extreme . The hundred Malays , of whom dfty pasaessed muskets , while the reat carried whatever weapons they could procure ; the two hundred Borneons , with their huge quilted jackets , and the same number ; ef Chinamen , forty of whom were armed with long thin iron tubes , which , when brought inta play , were loaded with a large quantity of loose ponder and slugs , and rested on the shoulder of a com < rade . ^ The others had a few muskets , speara , swords , and shields ; and with this mighty host Mr Brooke took he field against a rebslltous army .

      After narrating the principal events of this little war , ' the writer says—speaking of the insurgents . At length , perceiving that Mr Brooke was not a man to be daunted by any difficulties , they surrendered with , out holding oat for terms , which , no doubt , aided in indueiBg Huda Hassim to listen to the arguments of bis English ally in favour of mercy . Ho granted the rebels their forfeited lives , end Sarawak was once more res . tored to peace . By the performance of a service of so much value and importance to the Rajah , Mr Brooke won his highest regard , and obtained great ascendancy ever his mind , inasmuch that , after various negotiations and conferences , Muda Hassim proffered tbe cession of the district to our couatryman . This , after leng and mature deliberation , he accepted , and from that time has been sole and inde * pendent Rajah of Sarawak ,

      The remaining articles are on the ' Colonisation of New Countries ; ' The defects of the Laws , as administered in our Colonies ; ' The West Indian Colonies , ' and 'The Administration of the Colonies .

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      The Family StvM , Part 56 . London : G . Bieea , 421 , Strand . We C 8 nfess we have not time to read Eugene Sue ' s new novel commenced in this Part , but we may state that a friend of ours bag expressed himself to ug very warmly on its merits . From tho truly original ' editorials' for which this periodical ia celebrated , we extract the following : — WILL HODiBN CIVILISATION DECLWJE LIKE THE ANCIENT , AHP PASS AWAI ? ¦ We aresometimesamusedinfijo pages of literature witb imaginary descriptions of tberains of London som 3 thousands of years bence . and some adventures * traveller

      from the new world ( then pretty old ) standing upon the ruins of St Paul ' s church , and pointing in fancy to the sites 9 ? the Monument , or London Bridge and West , minftsr Abbey—at the samo time cautiously watching the rubbish of brick and mortar , long rank grass , thisties and nettles , thorns and brushwood , that grow around him , lest some savage animal , brute or human , eying him in secret , should suddenly spring upon him and devour him , B 3 now it might do on the rufcw of Babvlon , once as thriving and populous as London . This anticipation 19 founded upon the acknowledged maxim that tbe laws of Nature are unchangeable , and that what has been before will be again , for there is no new thing under the sun .

      But it is tbe vngue ana disorderly dream of a poet notwithstanding . The laws of nature are unchangeable . But they are methodical , and have always an ol-ject in view . Nature gives us all two sets of teeth , and tbe first set arc thrust out by the second . But we havo no right fo infer from this fact that the second will be thrust out by tho third . Tho Iaiv , stops with the S ' . cond . If a third should come it would be a wonder , for it is an exception to tbe rule . We ean have no idea of the nature and destiny of the second civilisation , except by comparing it with the first , and finding out the causa and the re . ison of tho decline of the first . The old world begins to end at the Cbristiau epoch . Then the new , or modern world begins to dawn . But the old continues for a loBg time

      to decline before it dies . The old civilisation Is Pa ^ an ciriliEation . The new is Christian civilisation . Pajnn civilisation was in its glory at tbe commencement of the Christian ti'j . Rome was then mistress of the world , and had attained the summit of her ambition . War had accomplished a notable triumph . It had established peace on earth . Military power was keeping the nations in order , giving protection to commerce and the arts , and security to property and person in tho manner in which military power might naturaliy be expected to accord such blessings to the human race . Paganism was prevalent every where—victims were bleeding in

      every land id' honour of the , god » The butchers were priests , and the priests were jbutchers ; and the meat that bad bled on the altars of the temple was sold in the market as food for the people . Hen ' s minds ware . all more or less reconciled to tbe system . They knew no better . They had no ides ef another . It would hove been esteemed blasphemy , impiety , or fanaticism , to have proposed another . Yet at that very time a power was arising and struggling up to supremacy , which was destined to ehange altogether the face of society , and make its cities , its temples , its altars , and its victims , pass away fur ever into the memory or oblivion of antiquity .

      ¥ * * Now , n system of religion and politics so thoroughly desolated required for its complete overthrow a combination of all the desolating powers . War , earthquakes , famines and pestilences , wore all necessary to overturn tbe cities , subvert the temples , seaUer . the lingering and hesitating inhabitants , and convince them all by tbe natural means of conviction , that heaven was against the old system , and had resolved to put an end to it . The great earthquake of Anttoah destroyed 250 , 000 persons in the ruins of the oity . The sea rolled into Alexandria , and swept away 50 , 000 at once . ' The shores c-f the Mediterranean , ' says Gibbon , speaking of the great earthquake of 365 , A . D ., ' were left dry by the suddea retreat of the sea , great quantities offish were caugb t by the hand , large vessels ' were stranded on the rand . But tbe tide soon returned with the weight ef an immense aod irresistible deluge ,, which was severely felt on the coasts of Sicily , Dalmatia , Greece , and Egypt . ' * * *

      A i Wave after wave of calamity came with desolating -rage on the devoted empire of old imperial Rome . The Gotbe . the Huns , and the Vandals , increased the ruins which tbe wrath of nature had occasioned , and pestilence and famine made a visible decrease in the population df the Edit , which ba 3 never yet been repaired . 1 During three months , ' saysGibbon , « five , and at length ten thousand persons died each day at Csnstantiuopla ; many cities of the east were left vacant ; and in several districts of Ital y the harvest and the vintage withered oa the ground . ' These give bnt a faint idea of the causes of the down , fall of tbe old world ; and we have no reason whatever to suppose that less power would be necessary to bring down the present civilisation . « o e There aft numerous reasons for believing that this

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      FRATERNITY—THB BEST DEFENCEOP NATIONS . TO THE EDITOR OP TBE NOB . TBEBN STAB . Me Editob , —WhilBt admiring the itudious manner in which you exclude from your paptr that rampant crusading thing y ' clept theology , I am sure the expression of my high delight at tbe really beautiful religious breathings of the poetic ( ems in your Christmas and New Tear V numbers , may bs offered you for that treat , without breakin ? that wise and necessary rule for democracy to be guided by . I do accord the same to you in all sincerity , and , as a ci-devant lecturer on the truths and democratic character ( as I believe ) of Christianity , I unhesitatingly

      say , they breathe the very spirit of true Christianity , Thoie rabid paid priests of its ceunterfeit , I know , brand such divine muSingg—tho outbursts of man ' s batter nature and highest aspirings—as seditious blasphemy , Let them . ' More than one nation ic enrobing in fraternity . More than one nation is grasping tbe sublime weapon of human brotherhood . More than one nation is rising to the full dignity of manhood , Soon will nil nations catch the inspiration—soon rivet tho links of nations to tbe general chain of love , progression , and brotherhoodand priests be kft far behind by the advance of that doetrine , taught by the victim of their brotherhosd of

      eld— ' AH je aro brethren . ' Do I ground these views alone oa what I read of society in society ' s paper—theNoKTBEKN Stab ? No . Even as a bystander , beholding the progressing labours of the artist , often beholds what may escape the too intent eye of the artist himself— so may a paper , not at all democratic , or even Whig-Radical—but from another eminence , totally apart—view the great progressive picture of society . Such has ( where least we might ex . pect ) the Shippino and Mercakthe Gizette , in the leading article of its numberfor January 5 thinat—and it copies the remarks of nnotber observer , standing ona still higher eminence , and at a greater , and , therefore , better distance— £ mean an American paper , published in New York . It declares 'England is on the very brink of a vast revolution , wbicb may sweep nwoy some of its time-honoured institutions . ' I believe it too , from more raodeg of judging than ono . I have always been

      an observer of the rapidly succeeding changes , passing through the very heart of society , and tho progression in intelligence of the army , too , must favour frattrultj when the laaven is thoroughly spread . Xt nnsst heave and work there also . Times have been , from the trial of Caroline , ( an unworthy villain ' s wife ) , down to thepr .-sent , when a little of tbe latent spirit has been manifest—but then , how little had they learned of tbe noble lessons which an advanced literature has furnished ; tboy scarcely knew thatnRtrons were brothers . Thpy have since learned not only this , I'utotpo bow tke institution *) tbnt have violated this 'Scripture reality , ' hnve , in their inevitable course of carrying out , ) early diminished the means of living ; imposed more heavily-to-be-borne burdens on their unprofessienal relatives—the people—till starvation and pauperism arises , and tho silent grave covers tbe misdeeds of those who create the military order to carry eut the system , and kec-p the people , their relatives , quiet trader this system of decimation .

      But , as my object is not to write ' treason , 'I only further observe , soldiers a ) te men , and Ihey spring from the depressed classes . ' Poverty made half the army , ' and many poor Irish are good soldiers in our lvgiraents . Tour remarks sn tho ' national defences , ' nre just ta an extent , but I cannot agwe that they are at all ne . cegBnrj . We are bristling withioaiinon already , and our thronged thoroughfares have enough of the lovely vuriegation of red-coats to relieve the dull sombre blues itnd blacks of our population , without having an extra 10 , 000 to overbalance us . The facts are , aristocratic families increase as well as . paupers' and workers' families—but it not being genteel for ' younger sons' to work , something must be done with them , and a few ten-thousands of

      soldierc for them to amuee themselves with , » b officers , is now needed . And bear tbi 3 in mind , ( as our citadel is a beautiful illustration of the fact ) , ' tis the people , and not the Trench , our rulera fear . Headless Charley ' s aon built the citadel b « re , with thn battlements pointed against the towD of Plymouth . No wonder our defunces are weak—' tis the way to make them so . O < ir present government has partly remedied the bluader , by having ereated one ( nearly corap ' eted ) to sink John French , man ' s steamers , seaward . I do repeat , there is a vast fact in Wellington ' s remark , and in that of bis aristocratic backer " . Employment for rising oriMocratlingssuppression of fraternity , by raising again the laid ghosts of national antipathies , to blind the people , alarm their team , and drain their pookets .

      Let Democrats act on the principle tbat' tyrant ' s perplexity is the people ' s opportunity . ' Tho spider of the Tuillerica and our spiders weava wobB alike . Has not old Pagin dona the very same thing our own debauched Chnrley did . —pokited hia battlements against their common enemy ( so they trisat them)—the peoplft ? Let then the doings of the common enemy of man ( kings ) be useful hints to tbe Beveral peoples of the earth , and not regard each other as ' natural enemies , ' but as brothers , and regard oppressors only as en tmies . It is with thos e kings , us nith the kings of a chess board . I need not further point thc ' alluslon . Suppose , as the internal convulsions of the French people against their evil rulers , evidenced by the R * form dinners throughout that land—suppose , emarting with the wrongs of betreyful kingcraft , they

      vent curses on the common enemy , and forget not that our kings and rulers , true to their species , have with millions of money , and thousands of lives , check-mated them at the game of kings , and prevented the progression of France and freedom , and talk of revenge—9 hall our five millions of Chartists—shall members of peace to . ejetiea—shall the awakening merchant class who perceive ' the coming WVOlullon and advancing freedom , submit to bo stttl heavier taxed to plant round our coasts pro-Tooatives of warfare , and call up past reoolkctions of the wrongs we hare inflicted ( that is our government ) ow our neighbours ? Forbid it . The noble minfod British people , allured by a lio , were drawn into the lengthened , murderous , war ; aRd aro now reaping its retributive

      punishm ent , in a debt that is crushing not only the middle class , bat oho making our mercantile—tbo highest of our middle class—look to a revolution as the sole means of ending our miseries ; whilst tho wealth producing people are either walking the streets unwillingly idle , or working shorttirae , ata btarving , unrequited , pittance ; those who are not so fortunate as the latter , orjcan no longer roam hungry like the former , without sinking down eihausted , pass into the bustiles—thoso sapeiannuatiDg provisions . for the most useful and important membere of society , because sole producers . Can tbjs state last ? Well may the Shipping Gazette any we are on the brink of a revolution that will sweep away many of our time honoured ( ?) institutions . ' When it sees the ruin , havoc , bankruptcy , crowdjd bastUes , for oble ,

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      unwilling idlers , commerce cramped— 'America last year so advanced ia manufactures as to consume , ' as a ho . gining , ' one fourth of her entire crop of cattoH , aDd boasting of receiving ( her only want ) twenty * one millions of gold for grain she eiported . '' When she complains of a few English monopolists depreciating tbe real value of her cotton crop , because they have the power of regu . lating ths market with the gold of an old established country—when an honeit American paper avowa the real cauae of the Mexican war is to be possessed of the means of Increasing yearly her geld and silver currency , by obtaining the mlnee of those metals in Mexico , to giro increased vitality to her manufactories and mercantile capabilUleB , bo as to be able to use—not sell at a Liverpool value—all her cotton , and export the eame manufactured —no wonder then merchants talk of that disreputable , ungenteel thing , ' revelation . ' This Gazette has turned round on free trade , and owns the present aspects of trade completely stamp its fallacy ,

      In this state of things , especially taking into consi . deration the present low condition of our industrious , virtuous , willing , but compelled-to-be-idle wealth producers their advancement in political science—ths stake gome of thorn , and more will take in tbe land , and the comparison they draw between themselves , and certain ones connected with institutions the Shipping Gazette declares are on the eve of being swept away—What is to be done ? My opinion I will give , first naming that I was not long since amused with certain calculations a mechanic driven to break stones on the road had made . Yea , of tho class too ignorant to receive the franchise of freemen ; the reverse ia the faet , as their traducers may soon find . Yes , they know too much , and thU knowledge nerves them for 'the revolution , ' for 'the Good TimeB

      Coming . ' This man had calculated what a good old archbishop , with his t went j-one thousand a ye » r for doing nothing , or worse than nothing , living forty years in his snuggery , eating up the commonwealth , and making alibis family by ' preferments , ' and prOceode of 'Gifts of livings , ' richer than continental princes ; and how long he , tun useful member of society mnst workyes , how wany thousands of years it would be r < quired for him to work at oae chilling a day crackiDg stones , to make up the sum this one idler in the ' Hive o' the State' devours up . The calculation was still more staggering , when he calpulated how many feasttVea of p&upere , maintained ( as aome unions it is the . casa In ) at la , 10 ^ , per head it would take . Well may the heart of the philanthropist sieken at such recitals , to hear thlt poar fellow saj f ' These hero fellers tell us all men are brethren ; that the bible is true , and Adam is the father of

      ui ell . ' These archbishopo , bishops , and fat oineeurittp , are verily oiiglnators of a real infidelity . Authors of blasphemy and irreligion , the sooner eueh institutions are' swept away'the better . But how?— -that is the question—not by checking the onward course of tho again acknowledged brotherhood of the nations ; BOt by fo . menting war ; not by the ruse de-guerre of old Well ' n ; . ton , attracting the conflict from within to physical , force movements without . No ; it is well known that but for a similar ' masterly military tactic , ' at the first French revolution breaking out , by our oppressors , we should at this moment have been a happy republic , without debt , and the pride and admiration—not as naw , tbe sportof tbe world . Thousands of lives and millions of treasure saved as , would have increased our resources tenfold . I might enlarge on this interesting subject , but must not fer space .

      The rising » pirit of tbe people , then , crushed by state rulers and the infernal machinery of a so-called Christian church , would have ndvar . oed with tbat of France—like twin cherub ' , wafting peace , brotherhood , and liberty orer tbe globe , had not Cburch and State oppoi ' wg armies caused bloodshed . This is no surmise . One of tbe chief movers in the march of progression then , ( Thelwall ) , aome few years since opened to me sufficient of the internal management of the ' Corresponding Society' to convince me of thia , and before me now li ' 8 whilst writing , a coin or medal of that society , on which ig tbe dove , with the olive branch of peace and'

      brotherhood in its month , wending ever the surface of the globs . Now to my remedy to prevent another French war , and some scere millions , wrung from a starviDg country for increased national defences—it is this : the very plan of Elihu Burrltt with respect to tbe brlstling-witk America — ' inteenatiokal ADDRESSES '— the people with tke people , regarding broken pledged rulers as mere ciphers in the great metropolis—London with Paris , iltnchostur nith Lyons , Plymouth with Boalognc , die , ; and not a fitter tltco to set the eame afoot , or with so littlo trouble a 8 to bare these' addresses' to travel with the copies of the Great Imperial Chartist Petition through tbe length and the breadth ef the land .

      Ia the address , let the noble British people fer once stand by themselves in their strength and their dignity—Itt ( hem disclaim , at ones and for ever , participation ( since unrepresented ) in the doings of their mis rulers in the late war ; and as with individuate so with nations , the fact holds true' 'Tie great and glorioas fer to own a fault , 'Tis godlike and divine to forgive it / let as ample an apology—dinca we can make no amends for oar rulera'past foolish meddling with another nation ' s rising liberties—be made as the case needs ; only let tbe acknowledged fault be that of the real perpetrators—the Pitt Parliament—and let not tha villaniea of our

      common oppressors ae rcoll as theirs ( tke French ) , be made a pretext for increased taxes , expenses for warfare , increated pa'ronage for younger sons of certain waning 1 institutions , ' and thus smother the deep , the far prc vailing spirit of brotherhood amongst earth ' s nations . Another hint and I have done . Our revenue has decreased , thank God , £ ' 2 , 217400 last year ; pretty timo for warlike preparations . On , let all lovers of the peace of their species and their country , especially our fire millions of Chartists , abstain this year from what Bwelle the revenue , from all intoxicating drinks , and as far as possible from all excisable articles , and peace and progression is insured , Your ? , &c , Plymouth , OneEBvEB .

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      THE LAND . - TO THE EDITOB OF THB NORTHERN STAB . Beat * Sib , Being a shareholder in the Land Coin . paiiy , and having eight shares for my family , I fed anxious for tho prosperity of the same . I , there f ore , venture to trouble you with' the following extract ; I copied it from a Sunday-school Library-book entitled , 1 The Cottager ' s Magazine , or Pli » in Christian Libraij - , ' Hull , Tujs . Wibtoh , Spade EnmmvBr , —In a pamphlet , written by tho Rev . Mr Demainbray , Rector of Broad Somcrfordj Wilts , the following passage occurs to show the result of SpadeIlusbandrj ;— 'But I havo yet to produce a much stronger in » tanca of ( lie poor man's husbandry . In tie Rummer of 1829 , a tenant , William Knapp ( I mention

      name 9 in these statements tbat myfacta may be examined , if they admit of tho smallest doubt , ) informed ruy aon , who has for some time collected ray ronts for me , that he must give up , sit Michaelmas , his farm of eighty acroti , adjoining an eighteen acre pice- - , Itt to several labourers . He 6 tated tbat his crops would hardly pay his laboar , and , that , instead of paying his yearly rent of £ G 0 . he requested £ 30 . might bo deemed sufficient , in conscq ueBcc of the unfavoura ' oleness of tho season . A receipt was given in full fer the sum thua entered , and the farm surrendered at Miehaslraas , 1823 . On this occasion my son wished mo to let tha whole firm to the poor in small portions ; but I objected , lest the offer ef so large a quantity should overstock the tnnrki t aiiu lesson i ? a

      value iu tho estimation of lay poor tc-naikts . But on t # n day appointed for letting it there were so ror . ny eager an < J unfortunate applicants , for it that he was prevailed on to esceed his commission , e . aA let tJ ? e whi-la farm to them , in portions of one fir two acres , v . itb ' . he exception of fourteen or fift ' . en acres Ofsanfly , fprso , anil furze land , of much too bad a quality to ba rsndrrod vrofi ' ablc to them . Selecting the most industrious and dostrvirif ; of the applicants , and making them cast lots for their several portions , all wero pleased and satitfi-d ; and this farva of uiirhty p . crM , flhich , the prect-eairg year , had been thrown up at a rait of £ fi 0 . has this year produced upwards of ^ 80 , clew of all expense ? , from willing , pnnc sal , and grateful tenants . Not n sixpence was deficient at tbe « nnunl audit last Michaelmas . '

      Dibbling Wheat . —Sie , —I beg leave to suggest the advantage } that would arise ta the agricultural labourer * , by farmers adcpiing the dibbling system for wheatin preference to sowing broad cast . In trarelling through Bedfordshire last spring , I could not help observing how luxuriant and regular tbe dibbled wheat nppc « rc I , having seen it tried only on a email scale before . I immediately began to inquire into the expense per acre , p-oduco , « fcc , and having been induced by the answers I received , to maltea trial of Umy 6 » lf ; I have sixteen acres . p loutod lhat way , having got a friend to send me two meo and four boys out of that county , who were oeouBtomod to tho work . I paid them S 3 , per acre ( a man and two beys planted an acre per day on an average ) , in rows from six to seven inches aware , tlieholes absut four inches , with from five to sis seeds in a hole .

      Two bushels per acre is quite Hufiicient , thus c-ffactinj a saving of a bushel of seed , which covers the expense of planting ; and . furniahii- e * c Inboun-r with employment « t good > ages . without any additional expense m the farmer , a « three bushels is the least quantity soreu broadcast , and frequently half a bushel more on the soil I occupy , which is a strong clay . It appsara to m « that any labourer may in a few hours become accustomed to it , being provided with proper dibbMog lines , dfcc ,, us the principal part is dropping the seed by tbe boys . Wheat , which , was planted in the middle of October is now up , and looks as strong and healthy , as it is possible for wheat to look . 1 haro no doubt but the system will bo more generally adopted , if onl y for the purpose of affording employment to a number of men snd . bojs , in prefer , ence to allowing them to exist Upon parish relief . Cobbespohdjkt op 'CooNrBi Timis . ' two

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      TfiE Land . —A market " gardener has taken acres of land , on lease , from Mr Ilanuyside , Jariacj , Loouend , near Leith , at a rent of JE 20 per acre . If this lessee were not well acquainted with the capabilities of the soil v , hea well managed , he would never venture to giro such a priee tor it , and we merely atato the faot for tho encouragemen t of the ;( nemu ot the Land plan , which we'Heartily wish God « P «« . -Borrowing NawsPAtM $ .-It Js . won 7 u :, T * ranch people think , in all countnw . 0 buying a newspaper : A man wha will waste hundrods ^ Ol pounds on ridiculous trifles mllsubnut to ™^» ra or bis daily JQurnaVto -l&ve it tokenfran him when ES ^ r' - ^ irrsr ""

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      SONGS FOR THE PEOPLE . WE WILL BE FEEE . Safe oppressor ; , leave jour slumbers ! Liiten to & fiation ' s crjl ' Hub ! united , eountltis numbers Swell tbe p « al of agony ! Lo , from Britain ' s soas and daughter * , Id the depths of misery , Like ' tbe sound of many wateri , ' Games the cry— We will be free . ' Tyr * nU quail . '—the dawn >¦ br * aldug—Dawn of freedom ' s glorious day ! Despots on tteir thrones are quaking—Iroa bands ar » giving waj ! Kingcraft , priestcraft , black oppression Csnnot bear our scrutiny ! We nave learnt this startling kuon' If we will we ecm be free 1 ' By onr otto—onr children * * Cbxxtxs , By the fire within our veins , — By eaci truth-sttssting martyr , — By their tears and gr « aas &sd pains , — By our rights by nature given ,- * - By the Toica of liberty . — We proclaim before hucb , he&ven , That' toe *««{ , we irift be free . ' ' Winds ssd waves the tidings carry ! Spirits in ynor ( tortay car Winged with HghtEiogi , —do not tarrj 1 Bear the news to lands sfar ! Tell thens , —sound the thrilling story Louder than tha thunder ' s gke , — That a people ripe for glory , Are deteratiaed to iefree ! J . A . LxATKEUlxs ,

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      will not be the fate of Christendom . But great changes must inevitably come . 0 * We are , therefore , not of the opinion of those who can loolc forward to the time when a traveller from the Ore . gon empire will visit the ruins of London in the mannsr once eo graphicall y destribed by Daniel O'Connelt In the House of Commona . The olvillaation of North America Is prueiBoly the same as our own . It is Christian olvillsation . -The republicanism makes no difference . There are republios in the Old World as well as the Kow .

      Tbe United States are merely the Switzerlond of the New World . Their civilisation will die with ours : for it IB a CiviliBfltion and not a more country that dUs . llke tbe Old World . So loBg as American civilisation stands will British civilisation stand , for whatever changes time may render necessary in eur constitution , can as easily be effected here as in the United StateB Indeed if tuere be any difference , our facilUiea are greater for our spirit of reform is much more active , and we are not so disposed to fall asVeep uudsr the comfortable impression tbat we have already attained to perfection

      <* « a The time wHl probably ceme , ere long ^ when North America will be one of the most splendid emplreB on tbe face of the earth . Her rivera are magnificent , her mountains sublime , and her plain luxuriant . Her climate is one of the best in the habitable world ; her territories also are Immense , and our own language has already taken inevitable possession of the wholoNorthtrn Continent . A eentury er two hence America will certainly be a splendid empire . But still its civilisation is our own civilisation , and unless some new JMiomet aruea to eurb our progress like that of the Eastern nations , wo cannot fail to progress along with It . And that no such event as that will take place , ia probable from this little known fact , that nations preserve tbeir original character more er less modified , like their climate , to tbe last . Very entertaining and almost inexhauatible are the miscellaneous contenta of this periodical ¦ miv

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      Reduction in Wages ; its cause and effects . By Robert Burrell , Greenock . This pamphlet ( No . 2 of a series ) should be read by every working man .. It tells all about the speculators in the China trade , railways , corn , &o . ' The author shows the effects of their gambling upon the trade and industry of the country ; together with the evil results of competition between the employer ? , and tbe long-hour system , piece-work , ' and the lack of fa ' ithfulne&s to eaoh other , on the part of the employed . Every line of this pamphlet is a truth—truth which should be well studied by the working classes .

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      The Republican . No . 1 , 2 , 3 . London : J . Gilbert , 49 , Paternoster-row . This is a new publication devoted to the defence and assertion of the Sovereignty of the Feoplo . These numbers contains several well-written artioles on political topics . We should add that there is rather too much of tbe moral force twaddle . A little more fire would do tbe Republican no harm .

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      . ~ — v-wV m m * m av « v * a TheMincrf Journal—January . Edited and published by William Daniells , Douglas , Iale of Man . The Miners' Advocate , Ham Intelligencer , and Trades Free Press , makes ita appearance this month in a new and improved form . For further particulars respecting this change , we refer our friends to an extract from the editor's address to hia readers , which we have given in another column ; and also to the Advocate itself , which was always a very useful , and is now , likewise , a very neat publication , and well worthy of popular support .

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      ject will ever affect me , as I havo no intention of > fitting my services to tbe directors as o teacher , nor if I bad children of my own , should they be troublesome to any onebutmjielf . Consequently , I can only be pleading for others , and tbe full measure of justice ia as dun to in . divlduals as to collective bodies . I seek not to confer upon a teacher the smallest amount of prencriptive power that could ba exercised to the detriment of the allottee ^ I humbly pr « eumn that they would not submit to it a But when 1 amtoH that a teaoher is ts have two or thre ff acres ef Nnd at a lower rent than the allottee * , as bein necessary for his maintonaneo—and when I am told that three acres of land , by dint of good cultivation , wiH rea « liao a tiilei-able subsistence . I need not the prophet ' s gift

      to tell me , tbat if the school msks an inferior return , that it will receive inferier attention , for where the ear * case is , there are the eagles . Therefore , to prevent tha aid disadvantage , I would snggeit that no gcbool . hoosa should have more tban a quarter of aa acre of garden land attaebed to it , an 3 allowed rent frae , as any tax upon the teacher must , in reality , be born by the allottees- " and I repeat , that on an average there will not be more than a Biven yearn'demand upon any of the estates ia tbe conrsa of fiftj jearp , as tbe parents are not supposes to give up possession when tlialr children grow up , QOS yet , in a gmcral Benso , to rear grandchildren . I remain , fellow members , your obedioat servant , Plymouth , Jan . 17 th , 1818 . E . Robebt 6 OK «

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      ' THE LAND COMPANY . SO THE EBISOa OP THE MOaTHEEH 6 TAH . Sie . —A resolution having appeared in the Star from the Warwick branch of the Land Company condemning the idea of applying to a corrupt government for aid , I beg leave to submit the following statement for general consideration : —• If tha Company consist of 50 , 000 members , of whom the majority hold four shares , I will aesume that ths cob ! of location will average ( all expenses included ) from £ 250 . to £ 300 , each , which will realise a demand for twelve an 1 a half to fifteen millions sterling . Do « snot so large an amount justify the demand for government aid ? If from private sources Buch a sum can be easily and speedily obtained , why , then , government aid can be safely dispensed with , and we shall have

      reason to rejoice tbat we are living in a country where social prosperity Is at euch a handsome premium , Gsptcially when we rifled that there hasbecn no dearth of specie in the money market lately , no failures in la pe firms , & , c . But , independent of the sum required , will ; iny suppose Mr O'Connor so devcid of capacity as ta imagine that he would accept of a bill containing any sinister clauss calculated in any way to operate lrijiiriou ? ly , or to destroy fhat lie seeks to ereftte ? Dn jou imagino that lhe ROVirmnFnt ihowtvcr cx . eepiiou&Meits marnl aspect ) , if it take upon itself to administer aid , would attempt to impose upon Mr O'Connor , or tho country at largo ? Will not every debato on tho subject be published la time to afford you every facility for judging of the course that might remain to be pursued when

      submitted to the government for consideration ? Again , 11 we are to distrust the g 6 vernmont , and not to petition for aid in behalf of a finite social result , wherein shull we manifest BBperior sanity of intellect , when we shall call upontbo same bad jjovernmentby petition , to enact the Charter , which , if it were law , would in the course ot next year ( through n general election ) , place every available source of action for the furtherance of this very abject , and in behalf of a larger number , within your im . mediate grasp ? If the objection taken by our Warwick FrientiR be valid , it is evident that there must be an end to Further communication between the people and the government . I remain , your obedient servaat , Plymouth , Jan . 17 th , 1848 . E . RoBEBTBON .

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      THE FRENCH INVASION . TO TBE EDITOB OF THE NaSTHEBN BTAB . Sia , —I must disagree with ths view talceu by you ? journal , with reference to the twaddle about tbe ioeuffi . ciency of our national defences . A viler scheme in nsy opinion was never attempted to gull the people of thia country . Is it postlble , I would ask , tbat tbe Frencb . could prepare to invade this country , without its becoming known to us long before they oould mature their plans for such a tremendonB otyc t ? Everyman who has read anything about military sffaiis must know , tbat it must take at least come weeks , if sot mouths , to concentrate the material of war for such a purpose , wbile ths knaveB and fools who prattle in tho papers sag it might be done in something like half sn boar ! Then ,

      again , have tbe French signified any intention of making a descent , on eur fhores ? I have not met wijh anything of tbo kind except the traces of trath written by Joinvillo , Surely such a question made public , not from any valid reason , bnt through tbe mere epistle of an © VJ man in a state of dotage , is not only an insult on o'dr French friends , but calculated to Imbue them , with 3 rancour towards us , vrkich we ourselves Kavfr . eroated ,, But , grflntlngjfor a moment that they could cohie , what then , has our navy , for which we pay nine milliotis . pec annum , loat its prestige f Is our faith shaken in our fleets , which hata met the world in &im ? and ~ coiiqa < ire £ before now ? Would our fleet remain in toe eliannel like a spoony boy sucking his fingers , white the enemy

      was marching on our capital ? May , I sboula rather think It would be having one eye up tbe chimney and the other on the pot , or In other words , it weuid be locking up tbe French ports on tbe one band , andsweep-Ing the seas of Freach commerce on the bther . What need is there , then , of imposing freih burdens upon tbe people of this nation by kicking up a row about . . nothing ? Depend on it , sir , it is from within our ou-n .- Iatrd they tattr » he foe . I firmly believe that tbe whole ' affair is bufe a baso scheme not only to throw back public opinioft which is now a tiptoe for reform , but to provide aa army of reserve for Ireland . ' V-, '" . I remain , Sir , yours in the faith , GiBRItt .

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      THE NATIONAL DEFENCES . TO IHE EDITOB OS THE WOBTniBN STAR ' . Sib—I write in haste tbat I may yet be . in time for your first publication , and for tbo sam-o reason write briefly ; My attention has jusfc been turned by a friend to a review in a newtpnper of two pamphlets bearing upon this qnestion . Ona recommend * tbe enrolment of the disbanded railway labourers , who are to be drafted , to Ireland , to let loose a portion of tho regulars in . tba * country . We may , I think , leave this project to the patriotism of the ' navvies' themselves , most of whom , I believe , aro Irishmen . Another proposal , is to embody the able-bodied poor , snd also the railitia , upon a

      some-Tfbat modified plan , Something of this latter soil will la Bll likelihood ba submitted to Parliament , when it resumes . Haw , I havo not a shadow of doubt upon my mind that , whether the croakings of Jbe hoary tool of tyranny , who doubtless hears in evwy breeze that steals across tbe Channel . Yongeanse for tbe bravest of tho brave ' , or those of any who bavegivnn tongue on the subject , were uttered with the knowledge and at the dfsire of government , tbat an attempt will be made to take advantage of any panic that may arise , . To do what ? Why , to do jnst as the old for at tbe Tuiirefics'did , nhx-n in the height ef a similar fever . flt In Fra ' nc % M garairig the eeeurity of their capital , the people ^ ' under the influence of foolish or traitorous loaaers ^ inffvre . d him to make Paris 9 ne great Bastile , ¦ '•¦ :-:-.. ¦ ¦

      In the name , therefore , of liberty , bj nil ; that .. w . e . baye already suffered from military tyranny ,. 1 , 0 ^ 11-. ujon / Jhe leaders of tbe British people to prepare ' thtf-inin'S- ofall over whom they may have influence , for ' _ s dcVrmioed , an universal struggle against hey attempt to add either to the regular army or the militia . We foiled the government in this matter before , when wo were It S 3 numerous —we shall , I doubt not , do it again . Yours & ?„ Dumfries , Jan , 18 , 3818 . Sicihos ,

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      TO THE CHARTISTS AND MEMBERS OF TOE NATIONAL LAND COMPANY IN DEVON AND CORNWALL . Feixow SiEcootEEs—Now is the time . The C / nrtist Executive has once more unfurled the unsullied banner of Chartism , and have appointed three able and talented lecturers to dissemieato the principles of democracy through the land . This induces me to ash the goed and true of the West , will they respond , by contributing their mite , towards fanning tbe holy Haze ? Something tells me they will . As I write , tbe district treasurer called to say , tbat Torquay is up and doinj ; , Teignmouth likewise—both have handed him their con . tributions for the Executive . Lot but tbe other localities tlirougfc the counties do like unto Torquay and Tejgnmouth , find the battle in tho West nil ] bo well begun .

      The doing so will enable us to demand the services of the employed lecturers regularly . Many of you know , that what is chiefly wanting in these counties are lectures and dieoussions , to dissipate ignorance and remove prejudice . 0 / ten hare I repented , that our principles need only be known to bo admired and te be loved . If euch be the case , and I am certain tbat many of you hold similar opinions , you will excuse my making this appeal . With a food hopo that it shall not be in vain , I remain , respcetfully yours , Exeter , P . J . O'SnitN , Dis . Sec , 49 , HolloK-ay-streot , 17 th Jan . 1848 . P . S . ' The Di 6 tiict Treasurer is Mr James EJwurdj , hat manufaituior , Teignmouth , Devon : President , W . J . P . Wilkinson , Esq ., ¦ Nortberij uay , Exeter .

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      TO THE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONNAL LAND COMPAKY .

      \ Feilow Mimbeks , —Mr O'Brien , of Ezeter , totally miBUHdersfood tao , I haro no objection to ibe nllotttes , having tbe powM of removing ft teacher , north uldlob-, ject to their having the power of appointing oheir own teacher . What I object to is , an usconditiena * demand for rent of schoolboaBe , when there is no melans of as , certaining the remuneration the teacher may receive for his labour , and , in caBe of dismissal , the disadvantage he may have to encounter , as in ibe making of laws , care should be taken to provide for every , the most remotf contingency . I have uo personal interest in the . matter , for no rules , good or bad , that isaj be mute on the eulx

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 22, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1454/page/3/