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      - ^ A ~ DDSE 33 OF T 03 IAS 0 AKIELL 0 , ii ed lUunlello . Imagined to hare bwa f ^ ss * rrh .-sa-attbe Rerolt of Naples , fa 1647 . ^ iS ^ f ^ ' Bl GE 0 B 6 E TWEDDELL . . ^ Vf-8 riW ! n » r eoaatrj ' s boob , ro : Ury ° ' "* £ IMT 1 £ «»•«* boI 0 BlIgIlfc «• lint * b *** tyraat crew ^ hi ^ ^ ftif : . Jake- ** ' mj country's som , Book up both one and aU . rfl yoa longer that inkislt r « rbSr I « «« tattle fiel « B £ » n : ei «* of your graves : vir thow « Iio die in freeaWi cause , I- " e » veB iriH find , homo ; Tftlw tf ^ Ib 4 bM 9 P UMitU CaB fie « rt ° P 6 tocome

      -SsTi rt » ll t 0 ^« P 05 t « n ' c ^ eh to theSptniih ydke ! n , 5 jsU eich liuk of slavery ' s chain C iia ndernoK be broke ! Tboach cov trds m » y itsnd trembling . And P rints may cry , # * y . '' G 3 i-Batnrc—bnusa reasonill three < Jo an *« tf— 'A' sjf . " Vta te ' er was fonned fsr boadege , Kor born tobekikTo ; Se Aould be free u his own thoughts—Cfciinlew u ocun ' s wave ! Yc 3 gi the winds that o ' er me weep B efaietobe re « train'd , g 0 ttould mtnHnd spurn slaTery ' . yoke , * " Kor beby tyrjmtfchaln'd .

      rsirfresdom iJtheglftofGod ! AbMnto oortaligiven : Xnea tuiU to ( til , to good « gift , Proansbe rnaelyriTen ? yo no ! feme Neapolitans ! * Welltooner besdlessUs : Beheld year homei by Spaniards spoilM ; Yonr efcildrEEp ins and die I When parena , wires , and little one * , Aloaa for vengeance cry , How can the * word bifie in the iheath ? D . -iw—4 r » w far liberty ! I , thoagh but a poor fisherman , ' Wiiffreely Ie * d you on : I call en yoa for yonr support Till the good work be done .

      Then shoot alond with all your might , Uaal it wnd tae iky—• Fretdosi for Naples and Jut sins ! E « ft— £ « ft , or—liberty . '

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      ITALIAN PATRIOT SONG . Ti ± 5 £ Ll . TEO ST tmi . HK CUIiE * BSTAJTT . jar js the trumpet that calls to the combat ? To with jour banner to stream in the sky ! C SxfiSren ef Italj , forward together ! Br&Tely ia battle to conguer or die , Ibira with the Austrian ! , wi& kings and ecwar&s ! Spurn'd bs their bribe , and their fortunes iefied . Freedoas ( or Italy!—what if wa perisa ! G . -csaj we psrish on Liberty ' s sWe . Kttrons , come forth , with the old men and children , Grisping your weapons et Liberty ' s call . Charge oa the tyrants the foes of jour country—Foes who for nges hare held her in thrall . ! ,: al be the cry that for battls and reflgeance , Rises frosa millions on Italy ' s shore ; Sie shall be free , and her children united , glares to the Aattriaa despat no SEOrs ! She shall be free , or we sleep iu oar graves-Better die bravely , than liva to be slaves .

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      ' { h , *' ?™ ! France , from , the Invasion of Ccesar till ^ trr " " "'' ' thc fwrt fovclution- By D . P atgyr ^ i "' - ^ ndon : Kent sad Richards , ^ ' -ati- iv flVient time > waen France and Frenchmen ' ' "¦ da t - temt ) it place in the thoughts of ail man . % ' ™ r ? e of French history is veryneces-! : Gall "; comber ef people who know anything Urov ' - - l P'eviousto the oatbreak of the first ' Milf *' . ' "ctedingly limited . To aU unacfc . V ... Wl ' a the nrnt / reea nF nnr npi » hbours . fjCOIH

      ? erg ' I ' m v thtir present exalted pesition , this irt cnr . 5 exceediDglyTa ! nabIe . The first moBthly t 05 ' ^ the history of Gaul , from tfrB arrival

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      K i . l ? 8 thor has exercised a wisa disoretion m abridging this portion of his work . The horrora of Mtnless civil wars , barbarous invasions , snd the bretaiitieg of petty tyrants , are . unfortunately , bo common to all histories , that a very slight * ketch , of each matters it sufficient . to ercite the diigust as ^ eU as pity of the reader . We perceire toat the cnmesofthepriestUoed , botb Druidical and Chrig-& , \ f neU V eUed i I pared by Mr Jobson . Quite right . So far as the first part enables us t » judge , we must award to this work the praisa oi being aS ^ Setbir ^ ' W 6 U ^ the nf fti * D « b .. _ _ . i . ¦ . -

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      An Address to the People of France on the Abolition of ? ° rt- BjTWbPaim . London : J . Watson , 5 , Faui ' B-siiey , PateniQsto-roiT , At thapresent , moment , when fool ? , incited by taarei , are shoutin g ; in Paris Vive PEmpereurl and EcoundrelBare conspiring to bring France oBce more %$ ? L % f ?^ ™? narchy , it woald be well if this warra of the rebellious needlem&a' could be translated , and again plastered en the walla of Paris , iruly , does Paine say : — The government of a gingle per « on U Inherentij r tcionj , wdependintiy of the vices of the Individual tfor , b 9 the State neTer so little , tba prince i » almo » t alway * less . What proportion ie there between oae man and all the affairs of a nation ! ^ Let the fools who adEiire a Napoleon-• Who iS game was empire , whose stakes were thronee . ttnose table earth , wheee dice were human boaei '—

      read , mark , learn , and inwardly digest the follow-It Is true that we hare * een some men of genius under the diadem . So smch the greater ii the evil . A talented king if worse tkan a fool . Hii ambition cairiei him to coaqnest and to despotism ; his people are soon reduced to bewail his glory , singing Tt Peum while they die of hunger . . We recommend this tract to oar friends . 5 S- Either this « Address' is not the Address of i ^ aine , usaedby him on the occasion of the flight of Louii XVI . to Yarennes—the AddreES described by t

      Dumon , Carlyle , and other historians—or Mr Watsoa baa prefixed a wrone date to it . In this tract , the Address bears date October 25 th , 1792 . but the Kine ' 8 flight took place on the 20 th of June , 1791 , and Paine's Address , signed by Achilla Dachatelet , vas published within a few days afterwards We suspect that the Addrejs , published by Me Watson , was written at the time it bears date , more than a year subsequent to the King ' s flight ; indeed , it professes to hare been written after the aldition of Royalty ; but then , the quotations from Damoat aed Carlyle are out of place , and , consequently , are calculated to confuse the reader .

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      We tiiU , the ehoisest . ' THE LA 0 QHIKG HTSNAB . ' Whilst Nero fiddled Rome was burned , ' has been re-dramatised ia more than one theatre now-a-dajs . Thi laughing mania , a serio-comic tragedy , has had a great run . Monsieur Guisit has € nished an engagement of & very lucr&tire charaoter , as the original representative of the human hyena . When , backed by a hundred thousand soldiers , he was told he wonld be impeached for violating the Constitution , he and his colleagues laughed immoderately in chorus . In

      three days the laugh ( changed to a maniac's ) was heard ringing through tie forest of Vincennes , from a baHd of fugitives ( of which Guizot was the leader ) frith eat a roof to cover their proclaimed heads . Thi 3 revolution caasin ? laughter his become contagious . In the British House of Commons when the petition of five millions of CMrtists was introduced , the horselaugh sounded along the benches , and John O'Connell on mentioning tee word Kepeal , was overwhelmed withaEtormof guffas . 'Tis all very well if this executive and legislative epidemio do not rupture thousands of blood vcuels bj its fatal intensity . — American paper .

      WISEEBS AND WISHES , Oh ! know ye the wish of the true , the true ? Oh J know ye the wish of the true ! 'Tie to see the slaYe ' s hand Waving Iibertj ' i brand , As its toil nurtured muscles could do , And the wide world ' s oppressors in view . God ripen that wUh ef the true ! Then hurra ! for that wish of the tree , the true—Hurra ! for that wish of the true ? Aad aaether hurra ! For the fast-coming day When the many shall preach to the few From the gospel as pare as the dew , Oh ! there ' s hooe ia that wish of the trne !

      Oh ! know 5 e the wiih of the proud , the proud ? Oh ! know ye the wish of the praud ! 'tis to empty their reing , 'Hid tfae crashing of chains—Ay , the veins of their hearts , if allowed , So the seek of oppression he bow'd . Wast & holy with that of the proud ! Then hurra ! for that wiih of theprond , the proud ! Hurra ! for that wish of the proud ! And a sweeping hnna ! For the clash , flash , and neigh , Where jonng Liberty leaps from the clond That curls blue o ' er her enemy ' s iHroud .

      Oh ! the world for that wish of the proud ! Oh ! know ye the with ef the brave , the brave ? Oh ! know ye the wish of the brave t 'Tis to toss oat a lance For the glory of France And to dance upon Tyranny ' s grave Whereeoe ' r its black banner may wave . God smile on that wish of the brave ! Then hurra ! for that wish of the brave , the brave ! Hurra ! for that wish of the brave ! And hurra ! for the hand , And the caEque . cleaving brand , That the lights of & nation can save Or redeem by its world-lfgfeting ware . Heaven blags tis kssn brand of Its brave ! Nation . The Belfait Kak . Lasbuagb . —A chain to unite men and keep mankind disunited . —A large issue of notes which has often a small basis of gold .

      Theatre . —An homospathic hespital , where small dose 3 of society are given to cure society . —The chamber wherein batohelors receive curtain-lectures . Mirror . —A journal in which Time records his travels . Child . —The ever . renewed hope ef the world . — God ' s problem , waiting man ' a eolution . Miser . —An amateur pauper . —A lover who is contented with a look . Igkshakce . —A serpent which many foster because they suppose it to be harmless . — A dark place , where poor people are allowed to grope about till they hurt themselves or somebody ehe .

      Baichelob . |— A mule who shirks his regular load . Shop . —Private interest disguised as public utility . —A prison for himself , built by a man of the materials he deals in . Che ?* . —A hermit among nations . —A living bad embedded in stone . Paper . —A receiver of ptolen goods . Politics . —A national humming-top , which spins the least when it hums the most . Pbeos . —The grave where state doctors bury their murdered patients . Napolbos . —A naughty boy who was put in a corner because he wanted the world to play with . _ Civilisation . —Mankind ' s struggle upwards , in which millions are trampled to death , that thousands may mount on their bodies . IT IS TOO LATE !

      The day is not far distant when Victoria or England will come forward proposing enlarged _ suffrage ? j the Ballot , remission of taxeB , the abolition of aristocratic privileges—but they will be rejected by the peoplein the ominous words— ' TOO LATE !' The day is ; coming when Victoria of England will propose to the IriBh the fifty additional members in the British Parliament—the destruction of the Protestant Church—but the Irish will reject aU those with the ominous words— ' TOO LATE !' The day ia coming when Victoria of England will propose to the Irish—to keep ihem quiet—to prevent them joining their brethren of England—even the ' Repeal of the UnioD , with the golden link of the Crown , ' as O'Connell defined and demanded—but a voice will be heard in Ireland , crying—' TOO LATE ! TOO LATE V—Boston Pilot .

      THE 5 EW WORLD TO THE OLD . Men of Europe ! From the grares Where our Fathers sleep , Comes a voice , like coming waves , Stera sad deep ; From the bill side and the valley , And the mountain glen;—Hearkea ! for it bids ye rally , In the might of men !

      VERT TRUE . The British throne rests upon this aristocracy , and their hired soldiers . The English masses have long , long since withdrawn their sympathy and support : the old English yeomen are degenerated into serfs snd paup . ers ; the mechanics into a speoiea of petnfied machines , hating crowns and authorities of every existing kind , for the improvements in the WSPlQ sre not for them—the world and the world ' s laws are enemies . — Boston Pilot . Entomological Privileges . — Insects generally must lead a truly jovial life . Think what it must be t » lodge in a lily . Imasine a palace of ivory and pearl , with pillars of silver and capitals of gold , all exhaling such a perfume as never arose from human censer . Fancy , again , the fun of tucking yourself up for the Bight in the folds of a rise , rocked to sleep by the gentle § i&hs of the summer air , and nothing to do when you awake but to wash yourself m a dew-drop , and fall to , and eat your bed elothes !

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      TO THE PEOPLE . The Prees-gang Conspiracy —Forcible extinction of the right of Public Meeting—Bloodthirsty ferocity of the Bourgeoisie—Press-gang spies and prostitutes —Infamous efforts of the Press-gang to ensure the conviction of the arrested Chartists . The French Republic—The Suppression of Public Liberty Law—The Elections . Friends , Countrymen , and Brothers ,

      I have , in a previous letter , unveiled the dark aad damnable conspiracy by which the Press-gang , operatin g on thc covrardicei ignorance , and preju ' dices of the shopocracy , enabled the aristocratical Whig government to forcibly prevent the intended procession on the 10 th of April last , and also fnrnished that government ; with plausible pretexts for passing the Gagging Bill , under which the patriot Mitchel has been transported to a felon's shore . I also warned you , in last week ' s Star , that the

      Pressgang were manufacturing another ' panic , ' to afford the government an excuse for still further curtailing the few remaining liberties of the people , and persecuting the people ' s leaders . Before my words were published—although not before they were written—the arrests had commenced , and Monday last witnessed the forcible extinction of the ri ght of public meeting . Both acts of despotism have , of course , excited the uproarious applause of the vile , venal , bribed , and brutal Press-gang .

      That the Chartists intended to hold a number of simultaneous meetings on Whit Monday , has been known for some time paBt . Such meetings have been common in all agitations , and have never before excited persecution . It was understood that the meetings , called for Monday last , would assemble for tbe purpose of considering the presentation of 1 the Memorial to the Queen , ' and the answer thereto , if any had been received . The false assertion of Lord John Russell , that the people were

      indifferent to Reform , and had no desire for the Charter , could only be regarded as a challenge to tbe people , which they were bound to reply to , through the medium of public meetings . To make plain the falsehood of the little Lord ' s assertion was therefore , also an object of the intended meetings j but Lord John has prevented all that . He has followed up insult by injury . He first calumniated the people , and then , by the exercise of brute force , prevented their reply .

      It was , I believe , originally intended that some three or four meetings should take place in London , on "Whit Monday . The object of these meetings , I have already stated ; an object strictly 'constitu - tional , ' and proposed to be carried out by meansperfectly legal . ' Finding , however , that the Pressgang were actively encaged in fomenting alarm , the Chartist leaders abandoned their original intention of holding meetings on Clerkqnwell Green , and other places ia the populous and busy parts of the Metropolis , and resolved to restrict the popular manifestation to one assemblage , at the far east of London , on a spot of ground far distant from ' the busy haunts ' of the profitmongers . This was publicly announced by placard , and other means , and the same course

      was taken to make known the peaceful and strictly legitimate purpose of the meeting , but all in vain . It was pre-determined that such meetings should be ' put down , ' and when did the wolf lack arguments to justify bis butchering propensities ? The government well knew that there was no real ground for alarm , and , therefore , employed the Press-gang to get up a false alarm . The worthy janissaries set to work , and , as on the occasion of the 10 th of April , ' wrote and published lies by the yard , for the purpose of justifying government intervention . They succeeded in getting up a little bit of talk , which the government affected to regard as a panic , and , thereupon , took ' vigorous measures' to suppress the right of public meeting .

      Amongst the inventions of the Press-gang was included the lie , that the Chartists intended to walk in procession on Monday last . Several of the Saturday and Sunday papers contained the following : — The organisation of the Chartist members , has most signally failed on the Surrey Bide of the water . In the extensive parish of Limbetb not more than 139 persons have enrolled thercielves . It is , therefor * , rcry questionable whether one tithe of the 200 , 000 men aanounced to walk in procesaioo , and upset the present government will meet on Monday .

      Here the ruffians of the Press speak of what they pretend to regard as an universally known fact , that the Chartists had announced that they intended to walk in procession two hundred thousand strong , to upset the Government . The readers of the Northern Star need not be told that the Chartists neither intended nor announced anything of the sort , nor anything that the most perverted imagination could construe into any such meaning . The procession—the intention to upset the government—in fact , the whole paragraph was an unmitigated lie ; but by such lies the ' base , bloody , and brutal Whigs '—as O'Connell , in a fit of honesty , called them—were enabled to make another assault upon the last few privileges of the Commons .

      The people of England are said to live under a government of 'King ( or Queen ) , Lords and Commons ; ' but it is well known that in London no such authority is acknowledged . Although there has been no revolution in ' the metropolis of tbe world , ' nevertheless , we live under a ' Provisional Government '—provisional until the people' win their ain again . ' The members of this government are neither psets , astronomers , nor historians ; they are

      simply— thief catchers ! Yes , the people of London , whose forefathers resisted the edicts of the despot Charles , submit to the ukases of Commissioners Mayne and Rowan ; and , worse still—a large proportion of the Londoners are only too happy to acknowledge the Kings of Scotland-yard , whose ' notices' and ' proclamations' have altogether superseded the old-fasbioned system of law-making by Act of Parliament .

      On Saturday evening , the 10 th , out came the proclamations of the thief-catcbing autocrats , forbidding the intended meeting at Bonner's Fields , on the 12 th , and announcing that' all necessary measures ' would be taken to prevent such meeting being held . These measures were , as on ' the 10 th of April , ' the concentration of ten thousand troops iu the metropolis —the putting tbe pensioners under arms—the arming of the police with cutlasses—and the calling out of' the specials' en masse . To these preparations must be added the fortifying and provisioning of the public offices to resist a siege ; and ambuscades and artillery to surprise , slaughter , and mow down in masses . '

      The Sunday papers followed up the work commenced by the ' dailies / in demanding that ' the strong arm of constituted authority' should strike a blow that would be ' felt , ' and for ever put an end to Chartist demonstrations . Monday ' s Times . Chronicle , and other journals , contained the most atrocious incitements to the government , police , and military , to hesitate at no deed of violence to crush the werking men . The Chronicle contained the following significant paragraph : — Wat Tiles . —Tiais day is the anniversary of the death O ? Wai Tyler , who was killed on the 12 th of Jane , 1381 .

      Of course , the pious wish of the Chronicle ruffian was that , on the 12 th of June , 1848 , the ' authorities' of London might , by fraud and violence , obtain the privilege of sporting another bloody dagger ! Had there been no opposition to the intended meeting , the overmastering thunder storm which raged during the whole of tho afternoon of Monday last , would have sufficed to have rendered any such gathering next to impossible . As it was , the Executive did wisely and well in protecting the unarmed people from the sabres of the police , and the muskets of the soldiery , by adjourning the meeting .

      The Executive had no thought of an armed meeting , —no thought -of war or bloodshed , —and Messrs M'Douall and M'Crae would have been highly culpable had they hesitated to take the prudent course they did take . The getters up of the meeting purposed to speak not to fight , —to pass resolutions not make revolutions , —what madness , then , it would have been had they allowed indignation to usurp the place of prudence , and precipitated themselves and their followers against the deadly force which they had never counted upon having to contend against .

      Of course , the daily deluders have since Monday been chuckling over the ' new defeat of the Chartists ; ' and once again that wretched thing , the Morning Advertiser , better known in LoEdon as 1 Tap-f'i / j , ' congratulates the country on the ' extinction of Chartism . ' It adds to this flight of imagination a bit of truth which cannot be too often impressed upon the people— ' that the Chartists have no sympathy from the middle-classes . The middle-classes are , to a man , against them .

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      Indeed this is true . There may be a minority amongst the shopocracry who in secret acknowledge the justice of the Chartist cause , and even wish the Chartists success , but in public they make no sign . By their silence they seem to share the hostile feeling of the majority of their class , and that hostility is of the deadliest character . Information from many quarters assures me that the great desire of the bourgeoisie was , that on Monday last a conflict might furnish the police and military with an excuse for an indiscriminate and wholesale butchery . * Shoot the dogs ; grape shot them , ' has been the furious language used by the ahopocracy generally in reference to the Chartists . ' Why are not the leaders transported ? ' ' Hang the rascals ! ' have been the expressions of hellish hatred spurted from the foul tongues of the jury class during the last few weeks . Yet thousands of these ruffians ' are in

      the jaws of bankruptcy . May destruction s sharklike grip close upon tliera ! When they are reduced to the miserable condition of the men whom they are so eager to bludgeon , —see slaughtered , transported , or hanged , —then , perhaps , but never till then , will they learn to feel for their fellow-men , and have some little comprehension of the principles of honesty , truth , and justic . 1 have yet to notice the worst doings of the Press-gang—first , the alacrity with which the reporters are taking to the unclean work of spyism ,-and secondly , the horrible efforts of the editorial gang to ensure the conviction of the arrested patriots .

      Amongst all classes and all parties a ' spy' is reputed infamous , and it is well known that , according to all the usages of war , the mercy commonly shown to captured enemies is never extended to this loathsome section of mankind . Now the reporter who attends meetings avowedly for the purpose of taking notes of the proceedings for a newspaper , but in reality to sell his 'jottings dewn' to the government , for the purpose of getting honest men imprisoned or transported , is—what else can he be ?—a' spy . ' It may be said that , when ' government reporters ' openly avow their attendance at meetings for the purpose of taking notes for their employers , they cannot be fairly regarded as spies . Perhaps not , but

      they occupy scarcely a better position—that of political prostitutes , selling their skill for filthy lucre , to enable a corrupt and irresponsible government to wreak vengeance upon its enemies . I use the term political prostitutes ' advisedly . ' If Mahomet allowed women no souls , we may fairly refuse to believe that the reporting tribe are troubled with that thing called' conscience . ' The' suckmugs , ' as Cobbett called them , report according to order . If they report for the Post or the Herald , they will swell a meeting of thirty Protectionists to three thousand . If they report for tbe Times or Chronicle , they will perform the same act of kindness for the Free Traders and Liberals . Both will depreciate

      thirty thousand Chartists to less than as many hundreds . They put the balderdash of a fussy fool , known to possess a well-lined purse , into something like common-sensible shape , and declare he made' an eloquent and admirable discourse ; ' whilst the real sense and eloquence of a working man , is merely noticed as ' the usual Chartist stuff , ' the usual abuse of the constituted authorities , ' &c , &c . Possessing a certain amount of pot-house wit , picked up principally at ' Cogers Hall , ' the ' Coal Hole , ' and other similar establishments , they are only too happy to exhibit their talents' in turning into ridicule the proceedings of tbe people , and making the wrongs and sufferings of the many , the subjects of ribaldry and burlesque .

      The efforts of the editorial gang to ensure the conviction of Ernest Jones , and the other persons under arrest , are most disgusting . The Herald exclaims , ' There is no fear that men who declared that they intended outrage , and even assassination , shall be acquitted of any evil intention , and sent out upon society again as good . and proper subjects / This is intended to prepare the jurors to decide the 1 guilt' of the accused before-hand . The Sunday limes says— ' With respect to the leaders of this lawless and senseless movement who have already been arrested , no maudlin sympathy will be felt for them either by the great body of the English public , or by that class especially of which English juries

      are composed . ' This is an attempt to predetermine the fate of the accused . That beastly publication , Lloyd ' s Threepenny Trash , after pretending to quote from the speeches of Messrs Jones and Sharp , says— ' Mitchel is on his way to Bermuda ; Jones , Sharp , Fussell , and Williams are caged in Newgate , as the half-way house on the road of their destination . ' And the Thnes of Monday , the very day en which the Central Criminal Court Sessions opened , published , a few hours before the delivery of the Recorder ' s charge to the Grand Jury , a long series of reported extracts from speeches alleged to have been made by Ernest Jones , extending as far back as the 4 th of April . The real object of this foul work of the truculent Times cannot be

      mistaken . I find that the Examiner is at its dirty work again , in doing its utmost to injure poor Mitchel and his family . It denounces the authorities for having , as alleged ( it may have been only for a few days ) refrained from subjecting the patriot to the humiliation of the convict dress . With fiend-like malice the ruffian next assails Lord Cloncurry , and the other subscribers to the fund for Mrs Mitchel , remarking that that lady did her worst

      to instigate a rescue ; ' and adding that An important check to criminal conduct is the consideration that its consequences may involve not only the actor , but his wife and family , in distress or ruin . ' The- mere destruction of the patriot does not suffice to glut the vengeance of this liberal miscreant ; he would fain see the wife in the union workhouse , or drink in the sounds of her last groans , as she and her children died of hunger on the road-side ! Such are the tender mercies of Liberals \

      In another article the Examiner calls upon the ruling powers , to give the whole machinery of jus . tice a thorough overhauling and re-composition , to enable it to meet with effect and credit the demand which is likely to be made on its powers and services . ' The meaning of this is plain enough . The Examiner desires such machinery as will , | under all circumstances , ensure the imprisonment , transportation , or hanging of all the disaffected . Why not at once establish drum-head court-martials , as the only proper ' machinery' for the preservation of order' and * the laws . "

      With ' petitioning' and' memorialising' proved to be mockeries—the right of public meeting extinguished by brute force—the laws employed merely as the convenient machinery to sanction , and work the rule of the sword-and , in short , the much vaunted ' Constitution' shown to be a humbug , what is left to the suffering working men , but to pray day and night for the destruction of the present system , by any means that fate may send , —even though with the fall of the system the country itself should perish ? What is this ' country' to the unemployed , the starving , the politically proscribed , the socially persecuted , the gagged , buliied , belied , bludgeoned , and bayoneted millions ? ' Oh ! beitcr far That tho ocean o ' er us thundered , Than be what we are ! '

      The French Republic claims a few remarks . The infamous measure for the suppression of public assemblages , on which I briefly commented in my last , was adopted by the National Assembly , by a majority of 478 against 82 . Of the five members of the Executive Commission , both Ledru-Rollin and Lamartine absented themselves from the Chamber during the discussion , I suppose to mark their hostility to the measure , and Flocon walked out whtn the division on the clauses ; commenced but it would have been a nobler course if all three had resigned . The eighty-two members of' the Mountain' nobly protested against the atrocious \ w , 'You dishonour the Republic ! ' cried Citizen

      Guinard , from the extreme left . ' You , the spoiled children of the Republic , cried another patriot , ' are strangling your parent ! ' But in Tain were these patriotic manifestations ; the bill was passed in the course of a single sitting . This bill , says thfi Times ' would , if it had existed before tbe 22 nd of February , have effectually prohibited those demonstrations which led to the revolution . It was , beyond all question , an aimed tumultuous assemblage which proelaimed the Republic in France ; but the Republic has already shown more fear than gratitude to the author of its existence . ' The recent elections have unhappily resulted in

      the return of that arch-intriguer Thiers , and that counterfeit of ' the Emperor , ' Louis-Napoleon . Happily these returns are counterbalanced by the election of Caussidibre , Pibrrb Leroux , Proudhon , and Lagrange . Caussidikre , although uot too well liked by some of the ultra men of the elubs , is a thoroughlyJionest Republican , and a man capable of performing great deeds ia the hour of crisis . Pibriib Lsroux is a social philosopher of European fame . Proudhon , editor of the Reprksentant du PEurtE , another Communist , according to tbe admission of his enemies , ' is a man of singular originality and talent . ' Lagrange is an ultra demo-

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      crat of the Barbes school ; a man of vast courage and energy . I am sorry to have to record the defeat of Thore , the able " Editor of the Viui Repue-Li « , OE , and Raspail , the Editor of L'Ami du Peuple . Both these patriots should have beenand were very nearly-elected . The mass of the votes recorded for Caussidiere , Leroux , Proudhon , and Lagrange , were principally given in the 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 th , 8 tb , 9 th , and 12 th

      arrondtssements , the quarters of artisans and working men . This is a good sign . It shows that tbe men of the barricades are organising and concentrating their strength . Future elections will , probably , be still more favourable to ( he cause of labour . The proper exercise of Universal Suffrage is to be learned only by repeated trials . Annual Parliaments are the best provision to ensure both honesty on the part of the elected , and wisdom on the part of the electors . L'Ami du Peuple .

      June 14 th , 1848 . P . S . The strange scenes of which Paris has been the theatre during the last two or three days are most dispiriting . A thoughtless mob , containing , no doubt , a large number of paid agents shouting' Vive FEmpereur' in honour of that contemptible humbug , Louis Napoleon , and a government impotently energetic against a monstrous reaction , tbe creatien of their own weakness and folly , are spectacles calculated to almost break the hearts of those who regarded the 24 th of February as the dawn of

      democratic freedom , happiness , and glory . Surely the people of France will not again bow their necks to the yoke of monarchy ; surely they will not take for a new tyrant the London ' Special / who took up a bludgeon on the 10 th of April , to aid the English aristocracy and bourgeoisie in their unboly war against the rights and liberties of the oppressed English people . I fear much that civil war and the re-establishment of royal tyranny are in store for France . This comes of' moderation , ' Oh ! for one hour of ' 93 . '

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      THB ' IRISH PEL 0 H . ' The * Irish Eewn' ( late Unikd iRHHMis ) trill make its first appearance on the 24 tu inst . The prospectus is issaed , and announces that tho new paper will advocate and enforce , amongst others , the following principles : — ' Tbat the Irish people have ajaatand indefensible right to this island , and to all the moral and material wealth and rtsources thereof , to potaegi and govern tbe same for their owa use , maintenance , comfort , and honour as a state ; : Thatthe custom called tenant right , whioh prevails par . ticularly ia the north of Ireland , ia a just and salutary custom , both for north aad south , that it ought to be extended and secured in Ulster , and adopted and enforced by common consent in tbe other three province ! of the island .

      That ever ; free man , aed every man who dssiret to become free , ought to have arms , and to praotics tbe use of them . That the ' someign style , title , honour , and dignity ef an Irish Felon to British rule , are higher , more glorious , and more sacred , than those of an ; King or Quoon on earth ; and that the life and liberty of one Irish Felon Are at least as pneious and sacred as thooe of one Ktag or Queen , one viceroy , one jadge , or sheriff , or juryman . That every man In Ireland who shall hereafter pay taxes for the support ef the State , shell have a just right to an equal voice with every sther man in the government of that State , aad the outlay of those taxes . That no ' Combination of Classes' in Ireland Is deelrable , jutt , or possible , save on the tern * o ? the rights of the industrious elassas being acknowledged and secured .

      THE IRISH LEAOBE . Doblih , Jonb 10 . —The flegotiations between the Old and Young Irelandera have resulted iaa tantual determination to dissolve their respective associa tions , and establish in their stead a new and general organisation , to be entitled , ' the Irish League for the Attainment of the Legislative Independence of Ireland . ' According to the Freeman of this morning , tbe directing bodies'of the existing associations , viz , the Committee of the Repeal Association and the Council of the Confederation , are to be the original

      members of the new ; and every contributor of one shilling shall be entitled to become a member . To secure unanimity , and gnard against the possibility of division , no mattter can be introduced at the meetings which shall not have been approved and sanctioned by a majority of the members of the council . One of the fundamental rules of ' the now organisation , that is to be , i ? , that no member shall bs held bound by the expressed opinions of any other member . Such is the basis of' the solemn league and covenant' between the rival houses of Bnrgh Quay and Abbey-street .

      BERMUDA . THB PUCB OP EXILE OF JOHN MITCHEIi . Bermudas' Islands , or Somers' Islands ; a claater of small islands in the Atlantio ocean . They are in number about 400 , but for the moBt part so small and so barren , that they have neither inhabitants nor name . They Bero first discovered by Juan Bermudas , a Spaniard , ill 1522 ; id 1809 , Sir Geo . Somers , an Englishman , was wrecked here , and after his shipwreck , formed the first settlement . The most considerable of these island * are St George , St David , Cosper , Ireland , Somerset , Long Island , Bird Island , and Nonesuch . The first contains a town ( St George ' e Town ); the twe following , some tillages ; the others , only farms dispersed .

      The air is so healthy , that siok people from the continent of Amerioa , frequently go thither for the recovery of their health . The winter is hardly perceptible ; it may be said to be perpetually spring ; the trees never lose their verdure , and the leaves only fall when new ones begin to appear . Birds sing and breed without ; intermission . But the 3 e advantages are counterbalanced by frightful storms , accompanied by formidable thunder , which are announced by a circle round the moon . Some fertile plains are seon , but , in genera ' , the country is mountainous . The soil is of divers colours , brown , white , and ted , of which the first is the best ; although light and stony , it ta , in general , rioh and fertile . The water is , in general , salt ; there is but little fresh , except rain water , preserved in cisterns . The inhabitants gather two harvests of Indian corn in a year , ene in July

      and the other in December ; this forms their principal food . They likewise cultivate tobacco , legumes , and fruits sufficient tor their want ? . Their trees are principally cedar and palmetto . . Besides these they have orange trees , olive , laurel , pear trees , < &c The red wood is peculiar to these ielands ; its coloured fruit feeds worms , which become flies , a little larger thau the cochineal bug , instead of which they are us ; d . There are no venomous reptiles- Building of vessels is the principal trade of the inhabitants . These islands extend from N . E . to S . W ., about forty , five miles . The whole shore is surrounded with rocks , most of which are dry at low water , but covered at flood . They are 230 leagues S . E . Capo Fear , in North Carolina . Tbe north point of these islands lies in Ion . C 4 o . 28 ' W . ; lat . 32 » . 22 ' N . Population a few years since , 10 , 381 ; whits 5 , 462;—slaves , 4 , 919 . —Popular Encyclopedia .

      [ There are 2 , 5 U 0 convicts continually working there in gangs upon tbe dockyards and fortification , which are most extensive and formidable . Bermuda is garrisoned by two companies of Royal Artillery , oae of Sappers and Miners , Royal Marines , and both battalions of the 42 nd Royal Highlanders . It is also the principal naval rendezvous for her Majesty ' s fleet on that station . The governor is Captain Charles Elliott , R . N . The Thames convict hulk , a huge leviathan of the deep , is moored at Bermuda . ] Mrs Mitchel —We have been informed that this lady has purchased a passage for herself and a portion of her family in a vessel which wilt sail for Bermuda in a few days . It is to be presumed that she ia impelled to this step by the hope of frequently enjoying the society of her unfortunate huBband ; but it is soarcely necessary to say that it the same discipline , or anything like it , be observed in this case as is experienced by other convicts , her object will not be accomplished by the vnyage . —Dublin World .

      Mrs Miighkl . —A portion of the family of Mr Mitchel have arrived in Newry , his native town , where , we understand , it is the intention of Mrs Mitchel to fix her residence during the baniubmentof her husband . — Newry Examiner . ¦ John Mitchel —A younger brother of John Mitchel sailed from Liverpool , on Saturdaj , in the Britannia , for New York . He purposes , it was conjeotured , to proceed to Bermuda , on matters of a family nature , to his brother . The Great Western steam ship plies regularly between New York and Bermuda , the voyage being abont seventy houra . By later aeoountB wo learn that there is after al ] ' nothing settled . So says Mr John O'Connell in the following letter addressed to the Febeman ' s Joubnal

      Sie , —I moot sinoerely regret to have such reason to fear that the desired coalition of the Repealers is not 80 immediately practicable as ia predicted In the Mobnino FBBEHaKof thisday , that I cannot let the week cloao without making public my impreBBion on this subject . I havo rscelved from a most important quarter , a romonetrance , couched in the very strongest terms , against g iving up the Repeal Association founded by Daniel O'Connell . Difficulties of detail also have t » some extent intervened upon points of great importance ; but my great reason for fearing tbat the coalition may not

      very speedily occur is , from the remonstrance In question . The importance of the quarter from whence it comes cannot bo overrated , a * & I asn bound ulBO to Bay , that ' 7 communications to the same effect , from other quarters , also of great importance , bavo reached me oince the first came to hand . I , thorefore , pray the friends of the Repeal Association throughout the country to understand that , as yet , nothing is settled . I am , dear Sir , your obliged Servant , < i Saturday . Johh Q'OeKS * - Dublin , Jhnb 11 . —The sittings of the Repeal Asaociation are postpened for a fortnight . Mr Jona

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      O'Connell made an elaborate exposition of the principles on which he was ready to enter into tbe proposed unioD . Several letters for and ai ; ain-E tha league were read , tbe most ir . fliential of which were from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath and Daanof Ajdagb , whose diocesan , Dt O'Higgius , is at present in Rome " . " The Bishop of Elphm is clso adrerse to tha merging of the old association . Nothing beyond the suspension and tho speech was done , until the opinion of the country can bo collected . The statement of Mr John O'Connell was received with considerable hissing from the body of the hall , where it is said the Young Irelanders congregated IB some force . . _ , , . Z ,, , > „ ,,. - ¦— . ¦ . ¦> , mi-mii i —

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      THE ASBEBTED CHARTISTS—JOHN o ' cOKNELL ' s TEEA 80 S KOBE ABBS 8 T 8 EDHjOED—THE ' ISI 4 H TBIBON'e' AMD IBS ' IBISH FBLOM 1 —STATE dt THE MIDLAND DUTBIClA , APPALLING M 19 BET—STATE OF THE CHOPS—OHlV £ BSAIi PAUPEBISH AMD DEBPIEATIOH OF THE PEASANTB 1 T . { From our own Correspondent ) Pvbmk , Jens 12 tb , And so the Whigs are going to ' treat' tfae peuple of England to a dose of the specific which they have jaat now administered bo industriously in Ireland ! Well , ' this bangs B . inaghcr , ' and thc ; a ay ovor herb , that ' Bunegher beat the devil . ' If this be true , hi « cloven , hoofed mBJ ? s ) y cannot bold a candle to our rulers bayond tho herring-pond , Aftfr all , we ' mere Irish' are no better than orergrown fools . Wo imagined tbat we alone

      would come in for the watchful care of the Whigs , and that though they might 'kill us with kin dm as , ' or glre & few of us the benefits of a ' free passage' to Bermuda or Sydney , to Spike Island or Norfolk Island , to 'Nova Zomblo or the Lord know * where / still we never dreamed they would concede the same privileges to ' true , born Britons , ' thoagh they might be Chartists or Cobfedcratee , or even tinged with a ' taste ' of Republicanism , We imagined tbat tbe Whigs had something of tbe saga * city and prodoace of the fox in them . Reynard , it is remarked , seldom commita depredations on tho henroost or duck-nouae in the vicinity of his den—tbe rook scarcely ever annoys the farmer in the neighbourhood of the rookery ; and , until now , people , over here , im ¦ ginod that we alone w « ro to be tbe prey ef tho foxes and

      carrion crows of tha EoglUh government , We kr . ow tha our rulers consider any treatment ( banging itself uot excepted ) too good for the ' alien' Irish , but wo bad do ' notion that they had the temerity to wage war wUh their own people , and , like tbe famlno-strleken mothers of Rome in old times , and of Skibbereen on yesterday , try a protracted straggle for existence by sacking the lifeblood of their own ohildren . Bat it appear * tbat we are mistaken . As the canny Scotchman saya— ' Naebody can tell what may come to pass boo / and people must no longer be surprised at any audacity , or illegality , or ty * ranny perpetrated by the men ( t ) at the head of the British government . The chlvalroOT Ernest JpneB was u stum * bllhg block in their way ; ho must be removed at all hazards , and Fussell . Williams , and tbe rest must be

      victimised as an example to all other Britons of the ' lower orders' wbo would dare to assert the dignity of human nature or claim those rights and- privileges of Englishmen , which existed since the tyrant Join quailed before the brave barons on the classic field of Runny , mede . Hen of England , will thli bel Is there no appeal—no resource—bo blood in the « nce brave , fearless , and unbending sons of Britain ? Will Ernest Jones be cent after John Mitohel , or mast his less-talented fellow * 1 teloat' be uaoriflcod at the shrine of Wbig-robbtry and rerange ? ' God forbid ! ' said our noble Irish O'Connor ' that I should ba a special constable '— ' God forbid that the honest , bold-spoken men , now in the gripe o £ the government , should be ruined because they loved their country and fluid tbat Englishmen ought to ba free I

      The people of Dublin sre much exasperated at the Chartist arrests in London and elsewhere , There is a perfect community of feeling now between the straggling classes of Ireland and England—at all events the people of this country are no longer careless spectators of nliat ia passing amongtt tho Engliohenemies of Wbiggery and corruption . Ernest Jones is very pepnlar in this cityhis talents are much admired , and his unflinching anta « gonlstn to the common foe , makes that gentleman an object of much anxious inquiry and solicitude . We fervently wi 9 h that he may not fall a prey to the blood , thirsty villains in whose snares he has become entangled . In my last communication I hinted , nay—expressed my conviotlou , that there was a likelihood of a complete union of Repealers being immediately effected in Ire .

      land . The aational hopes ran high—men s pulses throbbed with delight at tbe glorious prospect ; bat alas I I foar we are doomed to disappointment . John O'Con . nell—the puny , middling , insigutOoant John O'Con * nell—caunot bear a reconciliation . He has grave reasons why he should oppose a junctlsa of Conciliation Hall with the Confederates , He I » adviied by certain ' unmentionable' parties , not to Buffer < the houso that San built' to be upset , even thoagh the salvation of Ireland depended upon iti overthrow . Oh ns ! that brawling braggart would ' rayther die en the fleorof the floase of Commons than that a Coercion Bill should pass for Ire . hnd . ' Tet the Bill did pass , and John did not give up tho ghost . Ho will now prefer to give his last kick in the rostrum of Conciliation Hall , ' rayther' than allow a

      treaty of peace and nnlon to be ratified with 'Young Ireland . ' Na booh lish , tbat union tdU be effected , and that peace will be proclaimed in iptto of him , and tie won ' t' die' nelthei until he will see himself end his ' moral force' torn-foolery , driven from the couaoila of bravs and unpurchaseable Irishmen . Tho reign of' humbug' is over . Spouting is bow out of season . The ' reat * it' gone ou * ' too , for last week it was but £ 9 or so ; and the Irish peasant would now lasgh to soorn the ' Repeal warden' who would ask him for the accustomed shilling . Faddy would prefer laying out his shillings on a good croppy , ' or a trusty ' Mitchel' than exchange them for Thomas Matthew Ray ' s bit of printed pasteboard . Oh ! no ! John ovAfo , your Ban is set . Ton must become a ' felon , ' or you muat , in vulgar parlance , ' Bhut up' altogether .

      There will be argil meeting of the Confedorataa at Music Hall , on next Wednesday evening , It is supposed that it will eclipse even tbe glorious hosting of the 7 th inst ., though indeed that wee a magnificent affair . The Confederates ore not cowed by the fate of Mitchel . They will go ob , and I feel strong hopes tbat we are near a successful termination ef our struggles , Bravery and honesty oannot ba foiled fer ever . The right ia en our side . Truth is wiih us , and 'Magna eat verltas et prevaleblt . ' The Evening Fbikhan of last Saturday In a second edition , had A' rumour that T , F , Heegher , Eaq ,, and Richard O'Gorman , Esq ., were to be arrested on the ' Felony' Act on this day . Up to twalve o ' clock no . thing has taken place in this way , but I would not wonder if those gentlemen were inmateo of the station-house this very night .

      Oa Saturday , the first number of tbe Ieish Teibdne made its first appearance It ig respectably ' got up , ' —good typo , correctly printed , and gives a fair quan . tity of matter for the price . It is embellished by a very eseellent likeness of John llitchol , engraved on wood , ao companled by a brief , and very loosely and clumsily written memoir of tbe glorious exile . It also has the aovelty ( In Irish journals ) , of % / euiUeton , in whiob a oleTer tale by our illustrious countryman , WJlHp . m Carleton , is com . m need . This tale is sailed ¦ the Evil Eye , ' proraiieB to be a story of great interest—as is everything

      from the prolific pen of Carleton , The leading articles of the TaisuNE are in tbe right spirit of thorough-going nationality . One thing I must say , however , that the proprietors of the Tribune would want to bring more spirit and more talent to the task they have undertaken , Mr Cailetoa ' s light does not extend its radiance without the boundaries of the feuiUeton . The original political writing , is , to say the least of it , compiled in tho true ' penny-a-line' fashion ,. This will never do for the other , wise reipectably-cdnducted Tbiddne , Tbe poetry is milk . and . waterlsh enough too . But I trust each sue * oeeding number will bring improvements .

      The Ibisb Feloh will corns out on Saturday , the 24 & Inst , It will have Irameese circulation , and I am certain it will dOBervo It , Mr John Martin , of Loughorne , will be its registered proprietor and chief editor , assisted by the Rot , 'Mr Eenyon , Thomas Derin Roilly , and James F , Lalor , Esq , —a son of the late worthy representative oftheQueen ' e Couatv , Patrlok Lalor , Esq ., of Tennakill . With suoh < a corps tbe Ibisb Felon will be the ' leadingjournal , ' If not of Europe , at least of Anti-Saxony . Those young men ara all possessed of first-rate talents , and if they are aot' felons' at heart , there ' * not a ' Cottoner In Cork . ' The Peloh will be a worthy successor of The United Ibibhman , and if ever a num . ber of it should come into tha hands of the brave Mitchel ia his exile , he will rejoice that his mantle has not fdllon on unwortby shoulders , or his pike got into tbe hands of cravonB , or runaways , or traitors . Success to the Pfiiow .

      I have been on a ramble through Bome of the midland districts of Ireland during the laBt week . The appearance of the country at this moment would remind one of many scenes to be met with in Eastsrn climes . Grandeur and Desolation—Magnificence and MeanneBB , — Plenty and Poverty—Luxuriance end Sterility—Improvements and Decay : the Piw wallowing in all the good things that a rich soil and a splendid climate can produce ; the Maht—the Milliohs— suffering all t&e horrors of famine , peatllonce , nnii tyrannic sway . Such is Ireland at present . The newspaper piotures of Irish misery ore terrific , Indeed , but , alas ! thay fall far Bhort of the awful reality , I waa not prepared for tho revoltiag misery which I f « und all over the wide circuit which I travelled , and amongst almost every grade and section of the people—from the holder of twenty acres , down to the mere cottier and , day labourer , Were another person to tell me of these things I could not believe him . But

      as wo say in Ireland , ' seeing is behaving , ' and the ' sights and sounds ' with which I became a . qiainted oa last week , shall never be erased from joy memory . Those who remember tbe more mournful passages lfi Goldsmith ' s boautiful description of Tbo Deserted Vil . laee ' will understand me when I assert , that hie re . marks are more or less applicable to almost every Irish bamlet and village at the present hour . The country teems with beauty—*! . * , luxuriant , surpaBBing beauty , _ the flowers bloom as gaily and as vhldly as ever ; the sone-WroB fimho tt&v&TA & * Mi th ^* Jojfal notes as in tho days of old ; the fields smile with the promise of an early and abundant harvest . Providence , in 1848 , has left nothing undone to make this country one of the richest and the happiest regiens of the globe . But , alas ! hero I muBt turn tho pioture , Bhifjtr&e ' sljane , and now . ' bebold the proapeo twhich optoftft the view ! Leok along that sweet sunny hedgei pw Dykthe v ? aj . filde , wboro the hip-rose is opening itffjuaiden blossoms , auti where tho rod-breast is twitterlngheV . toft notes of / love

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      THE ETHNOLOGICAL JOURNAL , a Magazine y Ethnography , Phrenology , and , Archwology Edited by Lehe Bueke , Esq . No . 1 . London : 12 , Red Lion-caart , Fleet-street . We shall best explain tha character ofttispubliatioa by the following quotation from its projtoctus : — '• This work is intended to embrace , first , re-• arches into every d « pariment of science and litera te , calculated to throw light upon the mental and ; : j =: tsl peculiarities , the primitive seats , migrsens . interblendings . and general history of the vari-;« divisions of tke katnan family , from tbe earliest -eriods to tbe present time ; secondly , a careful re-E . -d of all facts and opinions interesting to the

      I'Jusologkt . which may fron tiae to tkae bs torcgut to Ugkt by the labours of traTellers , aatiq . ua > risi . philologist ? , &c ., &o . It will thus afford te the Kholir , to the msn of science , and to the general ob-Errer , a convenient medium of communicating with tie public , and of bringing into s single centre , facts * iicii . ihonjjh intimately related , require , at present b be distributed over several periodicals , and which , r-tsis distribution , lose much of their interest as r ; Mss Yalae . ' The first number , wbicb has much interested us , tetaiES a statement of the fundamental principles cd leading doctrines of the new science of Ethnoi ? 7 : secondly , the firat of a series of articles on the aises of the mental and phy gicil diversities ef

      manid—this paper demonstrating that neither climate , fed , nor any other external or accidental agency proices permanent effects opon the colour of the human sin : thirdly , an inquiry into the authenticity of the Hsbrew chronology , from the Creation to the reign of kvid-tbe Srst of a series of papers on this subject . ' Although we are not prepared to adopt all the ideas f Mr Burke without further evidence as to their Kindness , vre iHHst confess that we have foiled in the IinsotoGiCAL JotTRKiL real ability combined _ witb , hat is still more dificult to meet with , veritable riginaiity . We moat , however , ' pronounce ' miiilece article , that entitled ' The Ruling Idea e the Present Political Era . This Ruling Idea ' 3 said to ba ' the sataral equality of men ; ' which

      « 2 , Mr Bnrke , in the name of science , asserts to be '• & ; . ' He asserts tha * there are in hamsnity two rsllcgprinciples , wiidosand yalouTi and that 'tbe Jus which possess them in tbe most eminent degree , £ T = r hare been , and ever must be , the rulers of the 'cr . 'd . ' We doubt if trisdom and valour are always i . tha ^ j-ndsnt , and dispute the assertion that -5 = e ' prncip ! e 3 ' are monopolised by certain races , or Kher ulaj : ex—for we find Mr Burke speaking of the « s ! kh aristocracy as frequently presenting us vith -i ^ rge forehead a nd delicate physical stracfare of p . intellectual r&cts , ' It ia something new to U 3 ta ' - - ¦ I- that that precious assemblage , the House of kid-, is reno ^ nied for wisdom , and that its members J'e the Ecnopolissrs of valour . ' The Russians ,

      ? : EE ! i : ina , and Austriacs rule the Poles , but will any ppret r . dth 3 t these nations pesses 3 higher intel-• Jct snd are more brave than the Poles ? Again , fake £ ; domestic circle and how Tarious are the qaalities td dispositions of its members . Oae son shall posft'v&hmr—a soldier born , bnt bsno way remark-¦ ' - 5 for isteileet ; another Bhall ba a studious book-* srs , -with no disposition for feats of arm 3 ; and a ¦^ rdshaiJ hi neither brave nor intellectual , provided , J-raaps , with enough cunning and calculation to "ke a plodding shopkeeper , but nothing higher—:: % r . Will Mr Burke assert that these three perfes are of fane different races ? If so , to how many £ < ks nnst tfee tuso parents have belonged ? Mr ^ ikeaiseits , that iniio civflisad crantiy in the

      r ig there more than a very small number of Hrions either fit to legislate for that country or to :: Kse fit legislators for it . ' He advances several simi-¦ = ' " assertions in opposition to the doctrine of political tility . Bat supposing we admit his argument , we ~ : ld ~ like to know how we are to get at , and single -T 'thevery small number' fitted to be electors and Gators . Universal suffrage could hardly return a ? m Honse of Commons than is retnrned by tbe £ 10 '¦ Sns e ; snd when under the boronghmongwini ^' ¦ tffi , a more restricted suffrage existed thaa at j ^ sst history does not record that the parliaments £ -n elected were particularly wise or virtnons . On , •?¦ - contrary , the sufierisg existing at the present ;?• is kree ' y attributable to the ignorance , corrupf * and wickedness of those parliaments . The two aared

      ^ thousacd electors who returned the deputies j- ^ tr the sjstem just destroyed is France did not ; -aibit eltlTtr in themselves or those they elected l ^ fl lii ? St Ee = 3 for the power they monopolised ; on ^ -Kntrirr , they rendered the revolution of FebrnihMaevii ^ e , a piain proof of theii incapacity , or J- --QLe ; t 7 . or both . Yet the two hundred thousand . ;?* surely select euoaoh out of a population of J ^ Hivc K , il ; 5 orS : In Anetria a still more select w . txii { eii : late and passing events attest its .. /; -a : \\ e sty afraid that Mr Burke , determined ' ¦ ' " Cp 3 i- " < 1 in all things , has achieved singularity ;^ 50 t SUCUB 3 in discussing ' The Ruling Idea of the Lt ! : ; £ ., ! : t ' - cal lira . ' But although we cinnot . ^ - ¦ ffith Mr Burke on many points , we advise all * Elb V' seek - of kuowleige , and searchers after : rs- ari the Eihkological Jousnal and judge ^" O £ tIT £ 5 - We sbaU bs glad ta meet Mr Burke

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 17, 1848, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1475/page/3/