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      A TRIBUTE TO THE Bit AYE HUXGAItlANS , BY ONE WHO HAD SOT A SOVEREIGN . BUT GIVES TIRJii A SOXG .

      ( From the Sun . ) There Is a nation bold and brave , "Whose matchless valour now is tried ; TOiich scorns to l > e a despoi ' s slave , Or aught to slavery allied . Long has it groan'd beneath a yoke Of a usurper's deadly hand , 'Till freedom's spirit has awoke The courage of that noble land . "With swords drawn forth in deadly strife , For liberty resistless fi g ht . The bravest hours that gild man ' s life Is crushing tyrants in their might . 'Tis more than noble to engage And fight the battles of the free ; Tor who would live from youth to age , ¦ And end his days in slavery ? Tho' the Tartar-Vultur's flag may float

      Above your valleys and your towers , To eruslfihe song of freedom ' s note , And desecrate your village bowers—And base Loraine , with basest guilt , "Whose dismal prisons glooming stand—The vengeance for that Mood now spilt "Will drive those despots from your land . Freedom has raised her hallow'd shout—5 for locks , nor bolts , nor massive bars Can keep that heaven-born music out , Tho' tyrants wage ten thousand wars . 'Tis spreading far , and cherish'd dear , A virtue hVcach household tale'Tis felt where falls oppression ' s tear , And borne along in every gale .

      " * Tis nurs'd in every cottage home , Tho * persecutions round it rave ; It springs from every living tomb "Where rests a martyr in his grave . Enshrin'd in glory ' s dazzling light , The bold Magyars have made their stand ; T ? or Father-land triumphant fight , Or die , like heroes ,-sword in hand . Prom east to west , from north to south , In every zone , in every clime , DembinsM , Georgey , Bern , Kossuth , Are names which only die with tune ; And English hearts now beat in flame , With fathers and their gallant sons—And this their prayer—that right of claim May crown with victory the Huns . Bradford . S . B . M . WrtDjiuf .

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      LOUIS BLANC'S MONTHLY REVIE W —THE XEW WORLD of Politics , . Arts , Literature , axd Sciexce . London : T . C . Jfewby , 72 , Mortimer-street , Cavendish-square . The illustrious exile Loms Blanc has commenced the publication of a monthly magazine in Paris entitled Le Novveau Monde . By a judicions arrangement this work , "published on the loth of the month in Paris , 5 s translated -and published in an English form on the 1 st of the succeeding month . The English version , edited by M . Teehosxais ( under Louis Blaxc ' s immediate inspection ) , will contain distinctive aad peculiar features of its own .

      We are afraid that so far as the newspapers are concerned , Lows Blanc has hut small ehanco of obtaining a candid hearing . One evening last week , we noticed in one of the most Radical (?) of the daily papers a critical (?) notice of the " New World . " The critic (!) contented himself with some ten or twelve lines of comment , to the following effect : — " This is a strange publication . ' The first article is a savage attack on Order , "Family , and Property . We should i > ro-* ' test against the publication of such a work , " but that we feel convinced it will never ** obtain half-a-dozen subscribers . Every one " will admit Locis Biaxc's talents ; hut ,

      * ' thank God ! his pernicious principles will be " scouted by the discerning people of this " country . " In substance such was the criticism of the enlightened and enlightening journalist ; a criticism founded on shameful ¦ ignorance , or shameless falsehood ; for the critic ( . ' ) either had not read the article he condemned , or , otherwise , he deliberately and ¦ wickedly wrote that which he knew to he false : in either case he lied . That our readers may determine this matter for themselves , we reprint the entire article denounced by the aforesaid critic (!) as " a savage attack on Order , Family and Property : "This journal is dated from London , thai is from the place of my exile . Among my friends , some are in prison , others banished in foreign lands . The eause to which I belong has become , for many mistaken minds , a subject of awe and scandal : the

      jnriy . 1 serve has lost , one by one , nearly all its leaders , most of its journals have been suppressed , and even its name is perhaps upon the point of being disputed . In Sue , at the moment I am writing , it is known by all that , for the second time since the llevolution of February , Paris is in a state of siege—that reaction speaks without an opponent in the councils of the Republic—that the capital of the world to emancipate lives under the strange guardianship of an army—that the home of citizens is no longer a sanctuary—that the soil of Trance , Mtherto sohospitable , crumbles away under ihe steps of every exile—that the reactive system of the present times has been arrayed -with a new law against the liberty of the Press , and ancT regulation against the liberty of the Tribune—that the dubs arc closed , and sts . ' deinoeratic papers suppressed , just as torches whose flame is extinguished under pretence that it burns at the same time that it snves light .

      This is , no doubt , a great disaster , and yet , on my conscience I declare it ; never , no never , have I felt my heart more filled with courage , confidence , and hope 3 Xay , I will go further ! Let us suppose more terrible strokes of an adverse fortune . Let us suppose that that march of the age which is now heard throughout Europe has been suddenly stoppedthat the heroic cohorts of Hungary have been crushed by the Russian ? , all the " free cities immersed in the blood of their defenders , the standiird of Republican France straved over the ruins of the

      Vatican . . . . The idea brought to jsanMiid by ihe nineteenth centery iril ) , nererthe-Jeis , remain erect and triumphant . This famous prophecy of Napoleon : "In fifty years ^ Europe will lie Cossack or ltepublican , " has been too often repeated , too much sanctioned . AVo do not admit this alternative ; no : even should the Oossacks , by ai second decision of fate , water their steeds in the stream of the Seme , Europe shall not be their prey , jfc ' ov , according to a noblft expression of Godfrey Ca vaignac , * the world is tired of looking upon such wretches .

      At some distance from Worms a tree is shown ¦ wh ich a peasant was about planting , when , in the sixteenth century , Lutfcer passed by , on his way to be judged by Charles V . " Let me place it in ihe ground , " said the monk to the countryman , " and may my doctrine grow and spread like its branches 2 " A few days afterwards Luther was condemned at Wonns ,-in the name of Europe , indignant at his revolt ; an edict of proscription was jiromulgaied against him , and he fled as a male -factor tnroush the forests of Thuriagia . But thea in leaving Worms , that undaunted culprit had written to Charles V- "My cause is that of the -whole world ; " because , in fact , free inquiry was at that time the cause of all . STCius the new doctrine ¦ wa 3 not long in diffusing itself Mth a force that was invincible . Even in France , wheie it did not penetrate as a religion , it established itstlf in the bosom of rMlosopny , it even succeeded in dominating over

      politics ; and nothing could ultimately prevent this supreme result , neither the scaffold of Aiaboise , nor 4 he Loire covered with dead bodies , uor tat heroes of Topery marking their road with human limbs fastened to the branches of trees , nor the Trarnws of Calvin slaughtered by thousands in the plains of Jarnac and Moncontour , nor the nocturnal massacres of the St . Bartholomew , northedrawoonades , nor all the powers of the irritated Xouis XIV . "Well , that which political Protestantism was in the sixteenth centurv , Socialism is in the ninei ? euth . The one w ' a 3 resistance , then necessary aad legitimate , of individuals , as opposed to the eicess and fury of a principle of authority ; the o : hcr is the opposition , not less necessary and legiikjaio , of the principles ef fraternity , to the excess : u ; d fury of individualism . Of these two movements , tie second is like the first , providential and indomitable .

      Ye ? , this is tho lour of a new developeraent of humanity . For from the north to the south , from the east to the west , an increased anxiety has taken possession of men ' s minds ; for the France of rebruary has uttered words which even the Masts 01 tempests cannot bear away ; for all Hungary has lisen ; for Italy , every part of it has shuddered ; for Europe , sick Europe turns and turns ajrain in Iscr old civilisation , and seeks for repose In the change ! * Urother of the General , an eminent writer , now dead .

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      In fine , what are the terms , of the question now placed before the nineteenth century 1 . Let us imagine a society : A societv where , by a common , gratuitous , compulsory education , all citizens should be called to take their places at the sources of human understanding . Where there should be spent upon sehools that which is now necessary to be expended upon prisons . ,. , . Where in place of usury , which is a gross

      despotism , there should be substituted gratuitous credit , which is the debt of all towards each , Where it should be admitted as a principle that all men have an equal right to the complete developement of their unequal faculties , and where consequently the instruments of labour should no more be a privilege than the rays of the sun . Where , instead of angrily disputing in barbarous anarchy , in ruinous struggles of competition , the field of industry , producers should associate themselves in closely united companies , in order to fertilise it , and fraternally divide its fruits .

      Where men should proceed towards this object , vindicated alike by Mature and by Justice : that is , to produce according to then * faculties and consume according to their wants . Where positions , no longer distributed by the capricious hand of hazard , but according to the laws of human nature , should suit the diversity of aptitudes , not the differences of fortucea . . Where the point of honour and the noble passion for public weal , transferred from the field of battle into the workshop , should add their power to the stimulant of personal interest , and should sanctify emulation by rendering it more energetic ; where luxury should be the splendour of democracy in its Where ' the state should be the guide , freely elected of the people , on their march towards light and happiness . Thisthenis Socialism ! thisthe new world !

      , , , To trace out the route which must gradually conduet thither is the task imposed upon the 19 th century by the logic of history . And against this happy necessity , what have persons presumed to invoice ? Order , family , and property-Order , just heavens ! but what is that order which conciliates itself with misery , prostitution , theft , murder , with the galleys to be filled , with the scaffold , which it dares not pull down ? What order is that "which is unceasingl y tossing society from crisis to crisis , from riots to insurrection , an * d from insurrection to civil war ? I put no trust in a boon which so many people cannot make up their mind to accept ; and should there be an absolute necessity , in order to save society , to suspend the action of

      the law , to shackle the expression of thoughts , to profane family homes , to re-establish proscription tables in the fashion of Sylla , to array in battle order a hundred and twenty thousand men along the streets of a city , to enforce silence with artillery ; what disorder should be compared with that order which requires to be so maintained ? Provisional measures , I hear it argued . What matters , if the cause which yesterday necessitated their adoption unavoidably brings them back to-morrow ? Is order bashful poverty ? Is it grief stifling its sobs ? Is it conspiring hatred ? Is it an adjourned revolt ? Is it a panting pause between two revolutions , a dead calm between two shipwrecks ? Oh ! self-styled

      defenders of order , you do not even know your own language : true order is precisely that which has no need of being defended . Order is not protected , it is founded , and to do this it is necessary to know how to prevent that which you combat , and combat the more vainly because you battle against it desperately . But it is in vain we should expect even this from them ; they would answer that to pretend to suppress misery and conquer evil is only , 1 mad scheme ; that evil exists in the essence of things , that misery is indestructible . For , incredible insanity ! wonderful inconsistency ! those pretended defenders of order are the first to proclaim that ; disorder is necessary and indestructible .

      As to Family , 1 should like to know what that social regime which is held out as its palladium , is doing for its welfare . Ah ! let our adversaries know it well and remember it : it is because Family is by excellence a sacred and inviolable institution , that it requires a medium purer than that in which it is seen m our days , getting more and more depraved , and gradually sinking into destruction . Let us open the records of criminal justice , and let us read . What gloomy dramas ! llere , a wife has . poisoned her husband to sport and enjoy his spoils ; there two brothers , over the half-filled grave which has just been opened , scandalously dispute their paternal heritage . Here the brutality of conjugal despotism is retaliated by the cunning intrigues of adultery ;

      there , a child is discovered naked , bruised , and starved in a dungeon , where his inhuman parents had cast him . Here is a son wholias been instructed by his father in the practice of theft ; there a daughter taught by her own mother lessons of debauchery ! Such is the mournful glare which now and then is east on the darkness in which private life is so carefully shrouded . But what awful scenes remain in the shade ! How many terrible occurrences which will never see the light , correspond with those which chance or an excess of imprudence have laid bare to our gaze ! Let us see , let that social regime so carefully protecting Family , plainly answer : we ask : why is adultery taught on every sta ^ e , learnt from every novel , sung by every poet ?

      Iu one word , what is matrimony in our times , that is under the sway of cajutal ? If , in order to obtain a definition , I open the code , there I find that matrimony is an association nearly similar to a Joint Stock Commercial Company ; the code in its various dispositions , inclines to consider matrimony as an establishment of peculiar kind , of which the husband is the manager . If I consult facts , I find that matrimony is almost always a bargain , a speculation , a means of making or enlarging one ' s fortune , and , according to legal mode of expression , one of the various ivavs of acquiring - properly . Natural attraction , union of two hearts thrilling with love , sovereign laws of sympathy , all come after the matrimonial conventions

      deed that regulates , uc notary in this case is the most important personage ; so much so , that in the order of forms the legal settlement must precede the celebration of matrimony . And , those manners have created a language worthy of themselves . People do not marry a woman whom they love ; they . marry dix , quinze , vingtnttlleslivresderente , an&esq > ectatio ) is . Yes , expectations as they are denominated in the matrimonial grammar—the death of relations ! What think you of the influence exereised by the prevailing system over the , constitution of family ? But to form a better judgment , it is in the bosom of the poor people ' s family that we must search . Woe to the

      poor if he happen to marry ! Unable to nourish his offspring , he is reduced to the necessity of abandoning their bodies and souls to the evil genius of production ; he will require part of his maintenance from their tender age . oppressed , withered by premature labour ; he will bury them alive in one of those factories , in which the philanthropists of the prevailing political economy have been compelled to show us poor little wretches , of six or seven years old , with their dim eyes , sallow cheeks , and bent bodies . Out of 10 , 000 young men ealled up to military service , the ten most manufacturing departments of France offer 8 . 9 S 0 incapacitated by infirmities nnd deformities . This has been declared in tho

      Chamber of Peers , by Charles Dupm , one of the defenders of Order , Family , and Property ; such are the fruits which are brought to the Family by those social abuses which are so unblushingly upheld for its sake , and in its sacred name ! Sow consider , if you have the courage to do it , the frightful progression in the number of Foundling hospitals , draw up the list of those tours * which have been erected to provide for a mother , how horrible \ the means not to destroy ihe fruit of her womb . Who now will dare to say , that the family institution gains by maintaining such a social-regime . ifext -we come to property , tuc nature and principles of which it is important at first to indicate and characterise . Whom shall we consult on this point ? Perhaps the adversaries of Socialism will not refuse to accept Thiers as an authority ? 3 fow , in the National Assembly JI . Thiers has solemnly asserted that the fundamental principle of the right of property was labour . We do not care to contradict this ; but then , let the actual social System defend itself if it can . For , how many thousands of men are at this day proprietors without working ! and below them , how many thousands who labour without being or even expecting ever to be the owners of property ! Whose is this house ? Does it belong to him who has built it ? He can scarcely find a shelter . Whose are those rich silk stuffs 1 are they the property of him who has woven them ? lie is covered with rags . Whose is that plentiful harvest ? is it owned by Mm through whose labour it has spran" forth from the earth ? lie has scarcely $ od . Nevertheless , and it is again 31 . Thiers

      assertion , ' Property is something essential to human nature . Whence it follows that every individual who has no property lacks what is essential to nature . But then , what must we think of the day-i > bourer ? A day-labourer then is not a man 1 Yes , sir , you are right : Property vhich derives its legithaacy from labour , is an essential condition of life . And this is why , in the name of human nature , in the name of life , we reproacn prcsentsociety witlmot being constituted msucli a maiuier as to render property accessible to all . In conclusion , if we wish for order , we must attack disorder in its principle , and not in its effects . Sow , regularity of movement , harmony in the relations of all men among themselves , wisdom in liberty , the employment of science in the pursuit ; w happiness , suet should be order . And who does not feel that its triumph is closely bound up . with that of Socialism , since Socialism consists in replacing the opposition of forces , by their accord , in-* Sort of cylindrical cupboards turning on pivots to transmit parcels , ix ., into the interior of convents or hospitals without either the giver or receiver being able to have a glimpse of each other , they are much used in Foundling hospitals .

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      dustnal anarch y by association , the conflict of interests by the union of wills , that which renders repression necessary , by that which would render it useless . Famil y now is getting debased , in the higher regions of society from the inftaence of cupidity , in the lower from the action of misery . The true defenders of family are the Socialists , they who wish to rescue marriage from the spirit of speculation , and give it back to love , and who combat the reign or prostitution in the despotism of hunger . Property , in fine , will it not salute its true apostles in those who say : why arc these precious stuffs made by men without clothes , wherefore are the happy of the earth fed by men * yithout breadand

      , palaces built by men without roof to shelter them ? Let us not make a privilege of that which is the first of all rights-, the right to live . In truth , when I see placing in opposition on the one hand Socialism , and in the other Order , Family Property , I am astounded at so much insanity and my heart is divided between pity which ignorance inspires and disdain which honesty deserves But against truth nothing can avail when the day of her triumph has dawned . _ The whole question is , then , to know whether tho hme is mature for the advent of Socialism . Now , how could any one entertain a doubt about it ? Let us measure the career it has made in the course of less than a year : what rapid , what immense

      progress , After the mournful and bloody days of June 1848 , the adversaries of Socialism pronounced it to be drowned in blood , and scarcely had a few days elapsed when the Paris elections gave it a victory loss unforeseen than magnificent . Afterwards , in order to nullify the results of that victory , the counter-revolution ( no one is ignorant of the fact ) has wasted itself in violence of all kinds . The purest representatives of Socialism have buen exposed to Europe—alike deluded and terrified by the portraiture—as so many Catilines , greedy for destruction , pillage , and conflagration . Socialist books have been combated with libels black with lies . Socialist journals have been struck with fines , so heavy as to be equivalent to confiscation . Votes of proscription attainted or menaced the official representatives of

      the new idea . The rmttionaries hare entered into a subscription to effect an immense written crusade ; incredible sums have been raised , and with their coalesced riches they have made up a budget for calumny . Deplorable efforts , the inefficacy of which has been so forcibly demonstrated by the elections for the Legislative Assembly , which gave to Socialism nearly the half of the suffrages of France . ' Besides , it must be acknowledged that Socialism has suffered from the faults of its own partisans , by their intestine divisions , their inopportune debates , and their secret or avowed rivalries . But there are for certain truths decisive epochs , where it is no more iu the power of those who proclaim them to compromise them than it is in the power of those who combat them to overcome them .

      In fact , we are in the lists in the name of those thousands of the land-tillers whom the minuto partition of the soil ruins , and usury devours ; In the name of that sickly multitude of labourers who in our cities employ , in creating those marvels , the delight of others' Iive 3 , their slow and fruitful agony ; In the name of that immense crowd of petty tradesmen and poor . manufacturers whom competition crushes to-day , or will crush to-morrow ; In the name of legions of soldiers , an armed

      people , employed to restrain the people without arms ; In the name of all those children who are denied the happiness of acquiring knowledge ; . In the namo of all women condemned to a love , which is only an expedient for not perishing ; In the name of whomsoever , in our imperfect civilisation , suffers from the tyranny of things , and lives in a continual despair , but also in the name of whomsoever thinks he gains by that tyranny , and so deceives himself , since he is compelled to live alone in fear .

      Here , then , are interests too considerable , and of a character too universal , for satisfaction not to be granted to them , and Socialism , which embraces them all in its aspirations , is absolutely invincible . Lot them strike as much as they like , it will be but labour lost , for we say to the enemies of Socialism that which Theodore deBezasaid of the Reformation to the King of Navarre : " Remember , this is an anvil which will wear out many hammers . " Our readers can now decide as to the justness of the criticism (!) above referred to . For ourselves , we declare that never did we read so eloquent , bo sublime a defence of " Order , Family , and Property" as that which , written by Louis Blanc , we have extracted from the "New World . " The whole article is a masterpiece of writing , defying criticism , though , it seems , incompetent to stifle the malice of Calumny .

      "An Unedited Chapter of the History of the Eevolution of 1848 " narrates , and throws considerable light upon the events of . the famous " 17 th of March . " The most elaborate article is the one entitled " The Presidency and Universal Suffrage . " The views enunciated we heartily accord with , and earnestly we commend the consideration of this article to all political thinkers— " the Men of the Future" especially . Minor articles on " Rome , " the recent " French Elections , " and notices of new works , make up the remainder of No . I .

      Published at a Shilling each number , the "New World" is rather too high-priced for the working classes ; but those who cannot purchase a copy each may club their pence and so obtain it . To all the disciples of Democracy—to all the advocates of Social Progress —to all the admirers of Intellect devoted to the holy work of human regeneration—we most cordially - and earnestly recommend Louis Blanc ' s " New "World . "

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      SUNSniNE AND SHADOW : A TALE OP THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BY THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER Late Secretary to the ^ National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XIX . . IIow blest could consciousness forsake his mind , But vain , oh vain ! Thought burning lingers on ; Thought bears him back to al ! he once designed—To fond enthusiast'hopes for ever gone ; Those glorious dreams for which lie once had pin'd—Ami ifc ; ous visions scattered one by one ! "What' raiPd those proud aspiring energies ? He sees his fate—unknown , unwept , he dies ! # * * * Might she not flit around : and when his soul Was wrapt in some sweet strain of earthly sound Might not her whisper'd voice his thoughts control , Thrilling amid the harmony around . —Beste .

      He's truly valiant , that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe , and make his wrongs nis outsides ; to wear them like his raiment carcle . * sly , And ne ' er prefer his injuries to his heart , To bring it into danger . —SLaksfcare , Slowly did Arthur retrace his steps to tho village —all nature appeared dark and heavy to his sombre imagination—the noonday sun seemed enveloped in clouds and mist—joy and hope to have taken their flight , and himself and misery left alone on the earth . In this frame of mind he pursued his journey homeward , where he arrived at an early hour the ensuing morning , move indebted for his safe arrival to the goodness of his horse than to his own care or

      exertion . Upon making his appearance at Mrs . Elkinson ' s mansion about noon he was arrested by two officers despatched by Sir Jasper , and conveyed to the prison at — , to await the sailing of a vessel to England . In vain did Mr . Elkinson exert himself to procure his release ; in vain did he show the illegality of the seizure in the absence of evidence to support the charge . Sir Jasper , irritated against his supposed rival , heeded naught but the gratification of his vengeance , and our hero was immured in the worst cell of the filthiest hole ever denominated a prison , and his food was of a quality to match with his residence ; but , fortunately for him , the frame of mind he wasan made him heed not the combination of evils . He certainly wondered at

      his sudden arrest , as he had never mentioned the cause of his flight frpm England lo any Luman being save Lady Baldwin ; and being ignorant of the involuntary manner in which she had betrayed it , he thought , when informed by his captors that the charge against him was " arson , " that his flight and subsequent adventures had been traced , and that officers from England had been sent to apprehend him ; that Lady Baldwin could be the informant never entered tiis imagination . The recollection of their last interview would have rendered such a thought profanation to her memory . Day after day passed heavily away , and no change came to his position ; the lethimry of mind which rendered him

      inditferent to his " fate , on his first entrance to the prison , gradually subsided , and ho became restless and uneasy . His captors had said naught about his being sent to England , and . he . hourly expected to be examined relative to the charge ; vainly did he endeavour to extract information from his gaoler , he either knew not or was unwilling to impart it . Weeks rolled on , and Arthur was still a solitary prisoner . Change of any sort would have been a relief to him , but suspense was intolerable . Books St have served to solace his confinement , but S were denied him . Often did he recall his last StervS with Lady Baldwin „{** though it was a mSnobolr Jov , yet its moliecUon was the only

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      her ho ' felt ' assured " i ' ^ t before many days slio ' would depart from this vale - ' ° f tears , but now lie felt confident that she was si 'ill alive ; Iris morbid feelings seemed to say that she C 0 UJd not depart without a sympathetic nerve-ueinr >' - ' touched in his own frame ; had she not assured him * liat ner s P '" t ? - ^ " allowed to visit this earth , should . console him in the hour of trouble ? and sceptic as was tempted to be , he felt confident that she wou- ld n (> t abandon him to die a victim to her husband'i' vengeance , for gradually the thought had impressed him that she had confided their interview to Sir ( Jasper , and his vengeance had dictated his confine meat , perhaps perpetual confinement , and the thoi'gW was dreadful . Death on the scaffold would have been far preferable to him in his then state of mind . Oh ! the agony of

      solitary confinement—the misery lfc ent . i » s « areaoful—slowly the faculties of the mind si . ™ beneath its influence—the body may be imprisoned , even due nourishment may be denied it , but gi ? e lfe tne relief of employment—allow the solace of biWKs ^ or the company of fellow-beings , and the soul lyjll Jive and flourish ; but solitary confinement carried © rat in all its severity , is death to the soul , —day by day is it deprived of nourishment until it either siaks into annihilation , or starts into insanity ;; if these are its effects even upon enlightened minds , upon those who have a world within themselves—a world of thought and intellect independent of external scenes , what must be its eftocts upon those who have no such charm to combat its Influence—upon those who , uneducated and brutalised by the vicious

      system which surrounds them , live only on externals—delight only in the material world ! wonder not that they beg and pray for employment , and perish if they receive it not . Yet this is the system which our philosophers and legislators are anxious to introduce into our prisons and penitentiaries , —a system which has utterly failed on trial in America , —a system which is false in principle , brutal in practice , opposed to every dictate of nature and every feeling of humanity . Arthur Morton , the child of imagination—the visionary enthusiast—who lookefl at mankind through the glass of his own pure ' heart , even he was gradually sinking beneath the' baneful influence of this pernicious system . Eope was fast evaporating through his dungeon bars—the dreams of his youth became horrid

      fantasies to torment ana rack his soul with their unsubstantially—his overwrought visions for the improvement of his kind became dismal spectres haunting him with hideous mockery . Incipient nwdness was preying on his nerves , and the strength of his bodily frame alone averted . the terrific evil . Oh ! that those who make laws to operate on their fellow-beings could but even in imagination endure for a period the horrid realities they ; inflict upon others ; if they have human feelings—if the milk of humanity is not entirely dried-up in their hearts , they would ponder on the awful miseries they inflict , and cancel for ever from the statute book

      every arbitrary law , every enactment not consonant with justice , and not essential to the safety and liuppiness of the community . Vain and idle dreamtheir existence is based upon the sufferings of their fellow-men—their splendour can only be maintained by his wretchedness . Were simple justice to be aaministcrcd , privilege , with its hydra covps , must cease to exist ; the judge and the magistrate , tho gaoler and the policeman , would soon be among the rarities of the land—a consummation devoutly to be wished , but far , far from realisation ; like yulturus , they feed upon human carrion , and are interested in creating victims for their horrid repast . ( To be continued . )

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      . — iw THE HUNGARIAN CRUSADE . ( FfOm No . 3 , Of the Democratic Review , August , 1849 . ) The following immortal summons to the Hungarians to rise , arm , and fight the war of extermination —vlclory or death—against the savage hordes of Russia and Austria , appeared in the l'esthcr 7 jeitung of June the 29 th . Shame , shame to the British people , that they are " the mere spectators" of this mighty struccle .

      THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TO TI 1 E PEOPLE . The fatherland is in danger ! Countrymen—To arms ! To arms ! If we thought it possible to rescue our country by ordinary means , we should not raise the cry that it is in danger . If we stood at the head of a timid and childish people , that in its terror prefers ruin to self-defence , we should abstain from pealing the tocsin of alarm throughout the land . But cnowing that our countrymen are a manly nation , that counted upon themselves when they resolved to resist the most godless oppression , we reject as unworthy , both of ourselves aud the people , a system of varnishing , hashing-up , and patching , and we proclaim it openly and without reserve , to the whole country—the fatherland is in danger . Because we

      are certain that the nation , is capable of defending itself and its native soil , we set before it the danger in its full size ; and we call upon every citizen , in the name of God and our country , to look the danger boldly in the face , and to take up arms . We will neither flatter nor console , but we speak it out straight and openly , that if the whole nation does not rise with manly resolution , prepared to pour out the last drop of blood in self-defence , then so much good blood has been shed in vain , every exertion hithes to has been fruitless , our country and nation must be ingulfed in ruin , and on the soil in which the bones of our ancestors steep , which lleaven destined as a free inheritance for our posterity , will the remnint of a people subjugated and enslaved be managed by the Russian knout . Yes , we say it ouenly and

      without reserve , that ; if the nation is not prepared to defend itself with united force , it must eat the bread of s ' avery ; rather , it must starve ; it must perish from sheer hunger . He who is not struck down by the weapons of the barbarous enemy will find no food ; for the savage Russians not only reap the fruits of your industry , and mow down the ear 3 now ripe for harvest , but , our hearts bleed to tell it , the wild lioruVs which have broken into our country sweep oil and trample flown the unripe crops , wasting the produce of your fields for camp forage . They advance , killing and devastating , and leave behind them murder , flames , famine , and misery . "Where the savage Russian hordescome there the furrow has been turned and the seed scattered in vain ; these voracious swarms of foreign robbers destroy the fruit of your

      toil . But with steady confidence ia the justice o God , we also : deelare , that the danger for our fatherland can only be fatal when the people gives up in cowardly despondence its own cause . So long as the people rise with heart in defer ce of their countrytheir homes—their families—tlieir harvest—and their own lives—then , armed , no matter with what weapon , scythe , mattock , club , or even stones , the people are strong enough , and the Russian hordes , led by the Austrain Emperor into our fair country , must , under the avenging ami of the Hungarian people , be exterminated to the last man . If we could wish to dissemble or underrate the danger , we should not , by s > doing , avert it from any one ; but when we represent without reserve the state of things in its true light we make thereby the nation master of its own fate .

      If in the people lies vitality and vigour , they will save themselves and their country . If , mastered by a cowardly panic , they remain passive and idle—they are irretrievably lost . God will help none that will not help themselves . We feel it our duty to proclaim to the Hungarian people that the Austrian Emperor has loosed upon us the barbarous Russian hordes . We let them know that a Russian army of 46 , 000 men has broken from Gallicia into the counties of Arva , Zips , Saros , and Zemplln , and is continually fighting its w ? . y deeper into the land . We let them know that Translyvania also has been invaded by Russian troops , from the Bukowina and Moldavia , with which our army has sustained bloody engagements . We let them know that , relying upon Kussian assistance , a rebellion of the Wallachs is

      also broke out in Transylvania , and that the Austrian Emperor has . assembled his utmost force to extirpate the Hungarian nation ^ We also inform our fellowcitizens , that , although , if the Russians conquer Hungary , the inevitable consequence will be the slavery of all the nations of Europe ; yet we have no assistance to expect from foreign countries , whose rulers have set a bar to their sympathy , so that , motionless and inert , they are become mere spectators of our just struggle . There is , therefore , no help for us but God and our own strength ; but if we use not our own strength God also will abandon . us . Heavy days lie before us , but if we face them with courage , then freedom , happiness , prosperity , and glory are our reward . The ways , of Divine Providence arehidden ; through trials and sufferings it

      leads men to happiness . The cause of Hungary is not ours alone . It is the cause of the people's freedom against tyranny . Our victory is the victory of the people ' s freedom ; pur overthrow is the destruction of liberty . God has elected U 3 , through our victory , to redeem the ' ' ple from political vassalage , as Christ has redeemed mankind from spiritual vassalage . 'If we conquer the hordes loosed upon us by tyrants , in consequence of our victory the Italians , (¦ rermans , Czeches , Poles , Wallachians , Slavonians , Servians , and Croats , will also enjoy freedom . If we are conquered , the star of liberty has set for all peoples . Let us regard ourselves , therefore , as the consecrated champions of liberty . This feeling w . ll add resolution to our breasts , and steel our sinews ;

      it will help us to save the land of oui fathers for-our children , and preserve the life-tree of liberty , which , if through our cowardice it fall under the accursed axe which the ' two Empwors have laid to its root , will never flourish more . People of Hungary , would you dieiunder the exterminating sword of the Russian savage ? ¦ If not , defend yourselves . Would you see the Cossacks trample under foot tho dishonoured bodies of your fathers , wives , and children ? If not , defend yourselves ,-Would you see a part of your fellowcitizens dragged into Siberia , or to the foreign wars of the tyrants ^ and another part bowing to the yoke under the Russian hsh ? If not , defend yourselves . Would you see your villages consumed in flames , and your crops devastated "I Would you starve upon the land which y ^ u have cultivated ? If not , defend

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      yourselves . We , the government of Hungary and the provinces belonging to her , chosen by the free will of the Hungarian nation , call upon the people , in the name of God and , our country , to defend themsclTes . In the mean time , , in accordance with our duty and the powers delegated to us , we order and command : — 1 . Against the Russians who have invaded our country , and the Austrian Emperor , an universal cr " sade is to be forthwith set on foot . Z . ihe commencement of the crusade is , on next 1 u 1 ^? unesd ay to be proclaimed in all temples by theelergv , and in all municipal assemblies by the mayors , and to beannouneed by tbe ringing of bells , to the whole land . fe ? U ^ ! i . . PT ° cIama t'on every man , sound of health and hmb , « abhged , within forty-eight hours , to provide himself with some kind of arms : he who has no fire-arms or sword is to furnish himself with the mattock * ""

      a scyor . """ 4 . Whersver the Russian array < TjiprGacfc « 3 watchmen by day and night arerto keep a look-oa * on the towers and heights , and 1 to give the alarm w&en the enemy comes in ' , sight , so that the tocsin may fce ipealsd throughout the wnole country , typon the [ toesTO being rung , the people are to assemble iisfeeir communes , and So repair ia > troops to the points fixed beforehand by tfa * proper officers . But wHeretfie enemy has already- passed ,- tMe-people are tfl- rise en m ^ sse ia his rear , snd'to fait upon the Cossasfcs * - wh »> ride in a careless , leose way—and all parties ^ stragglers , and destroy them ; The people must especially stir themselves to altew the foe- . no > rest at night ,, but to assanlt lam unawares-, then . t < y retreat and come back to the charge againj and so en < without pause }• to keep him ever in a state of alarm * by tbe ringing of bells , so that he may find no moment of rest apon the grouud which he hau invaded . ¦

      5 . Before the enemy must all provisions , cat&le ; wine , and brandy be concealed in . cares-in the mountains , or behind morasses , that he may eiie of hunger . Before the enemy . occupies any plaeey every living thing is to remove ; and after his entrance let some bold men set fire to the roofs over the heads of the invaders , that they may be either burned alive , or at least be prevented from sleeping . By observing these rules the Russians saved their own ; country from subjection , when it was invaded by Napoleon . Already has the enemy sacked and destroyed with fire several towns and villages ; and lately the Austrians in their savage fury , attacked the nnnnaed inhabitants of Bo-Sarkany , in the comity of Oeuenbu'g , and burnt down the . town .- If , therefore , our towns cannot escape fire , let them at least burn when the enemy

      may suffer some damage by the conflagration . If we conquer , we shall still have a country where de stroyed towns may be rebuilt aud flourish ; but if we are conquered , all is lost 5 for it is a war of externiiaatioti which is waged against us . 6 . In those places which can be barricaded with effect , like the town of Eriau , for instance , let all fall to work so as to set it in a state of defence , that the excursions of the Cossacks may be barred . 7 . The priests are to grasp the cross , and to lead on the people to the defence of their religion and freedom . 8 . Throughout Ihe land assemblies of the people are to be held In order to consult upon the best

      means of defence adapted to the local circumstances . 9 . The counties of Borsod , Gomor , Abauj . Zemplin , Heves , Neograd , theFulek country , and the district of the Jazygiar , are to set about organising the crusade forthwith , aud-to combine their action with that of the troops in the county of Miskolz , Szabolez , the Ileyduk district , Great Cumania , Heves beyond the Theiss , the lower parts of Bihar and Debreczin , are especially directed to the defence of the Theiss , so as to make it impossible for the enemy to pass that river . But the counties of Pesth , C ' s'ingrad , Little Cumain , Wiessenburgh . Tolna , Gran , and the lower part of Neograd , are to organise the bands of the crusade , so as to assemble at the first summons upon the llakosfeld .

      10 . The execution of these measures is , in such communes as possess a regular municipal council , committed to the mayors , and in other places to the jurisdiction boards and government officials ; so that after the publication of this edict in the Koslony ( official organ of the government ) , or after receipt of the ordinance , these boards are immediately to hold a sitting , to set in train the dispositions ordered 5 and forthwith to advise the ministry of the interior . He who attacks his country is an enemy , but he who neglecta his duty in its defence is a traitor , and will be accounted as such by the government . The country needs only one pull altogether to be for ever saved ; but if these means of defence are neglected , all is lost . The country is in danger ! We have , it is true ,, a brave , valiant army , resolved to die for freedom , whoso numbeis amount to 200 , 000 meneach man a hero , inspired with a sacred cause , and no more to be likened with the servile mercenaries

      in array against them than light is with darkness . But this is not a war between two hostile armies it is a war between freedom and tyranny , between the soldiers of barbarians and an entire free nation . Therefore , the people themselves must rise with the army ; and when our military ibices are supported by these millions , we shall conquer freedom for ourselves and all Europe . Therefore , mighty people , join tha array iu grasping arms . Every citizen , to arms ! to arms- ! So is victory certain ; but only so . And therefore we order and command a general liindsturm for liberty , in tbe name of God and fatherland ! ( Signed ) Ludwio Kossuth . governor ; Baii-THOIOUKir SzEMERE , Ll . ADISt AS , Csanvt , Arthur Geokghy , Sab A ' ukowich , Casi-mir Bat-, thvanvi , Michael Horvaiii , Franz Dusciiek . Buda-Pcstb , June 27 , 1 S 49 .

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      A MAZZINI MEDAL . TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS . Sir , —Mazzini has left Rome . Protected by a British passport , he has hitherto defied tho burglarious hands of the French government—the ready " pickers and stealers" of the inspired Oudinot : inspired " with the voice of God , " upon the sweet faith and weeping testimony of lackey cardinals . For French gunpowder is now your sacrificial odour —your only myrrh and frankincense at the altar of St . Peter ' s . Maziini is now in Switzerland . " A great pity " —think certain oiies whospoak and write the English tongue— " a great pity that the arch-conspirator was not for once and all provided for ; put to sleep with French lead in his breast . " The

      English people think otherwise . The English people have watched with kindling admiration the glorious qrowth of the man Mazzini , enlarged and ennobled by the most sublime of human motives . The heart of the English nation glowed at the manful dignity , at the direct simplicity , straight as a . javelin to its mark , with which the triumvir met the Frenchman . How admirably did Mazzini tear to shreds the politic sophistries—of approved French manufacture—of the stammering Lesseps '; with the cold calmness of scorn pufling back the ambassador's fallacies in the plenipotential visage ! By the downright directness of purpose the Italian made the Frenchman nothing . It was the swoop of the eagle trussing the barn-door cock .

      However , French bomb-shells have prevailed , and again the red hat burns in Roman sunli ght . And then the French have stormed Home gently , kindly . They used philanthropic bayonets , and , in the name of freedom , carefully cut the throat of liberty . All , too , with such self-denying veneration for monuments of art ; proclaiming a determination to repair , by French hands , the devastation of French shot . Guido should be improved , and Raphael in misfortune benefit by improving art , a latiioch de Paris . Nothing more easy for French genius . Were it possible for French artillery to damage the planet Jupiter , French complacency would squeak the name of Arago or Levemer , and serenely promise to make the battered Jupiter a bettor planet—a much more jaunty Jupiter than before . - .

      It was not permitted to the people of England to g ive to the Romans aught but their sympathy and their prayers . The sympathy was deep , the prayers were fervent ; and Mazzini with every new despatch grew in the national heart the statesman-hero of the struggle , the man who stood out from the cause with the severe serenity , the grand simplicity of early Rome . But Marshal Oudinot shelled the city ; French metal prevailed : nor was it permitted to England by a single gun to gainsay it . Nevertheless , as I conceive , Englishmen may yet mount metal in the cause of Koman freedom : most potent metal , the more potent that in the end it sheds no blood , defaces no picture , shivers no statue . I mean the metal that enshrines opinion , I mean in this CBpccial case , a medal struck in honour of the Roman cause , and ns its noblest expositor , and

      defender , bearing the name or effigies of Joseph Mazzini . Despotism , that for a time has crushed men only " alittle lower than the angels "—flattery , that has slavered things only a little higher than the apej ust— . rapine—imperial falsehood—all these have had their medals , immortalising . lies : shameless counterfeits , struck at national mints . Let the English people strike their medal in honour of human liberty , and in sympathy with its suffering . It is the game of a certain party to preach nnd advocate tho apathy of Englishmen towards the social and political condition of the foreigner .

      " Good Englishman , " says the Tory preacher , " Providence has cast the . sea about your land ; let your heavthe as insular as your country . Fill youv belly with beef , warm your knees before a seacoal fire ; ' what have you to do with Hungarian or Roman ? You have your Habeas Corpus and your House of Commons , and—in the name of Lord Aberdeen—why trouble yourself with the foreigner ? Pay your taxes—sing ' God save the Queen '—ant ' , above all—believe there be no livers out of Britain . " But , somehow , tho Englishman ceases to listen to this good ' , . counsel . Ho still likes his beef—finds comfort at his aea-coal fire ; but nevertheless has a

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      restless yearning to know how that Mnzzini bears himself mUome ; and hopes , with all his heart and Bruin 80 al ' thatBem ' wi 11 S ' lv c a mauling hu ? to In conclusion , sir , I would propose that , a committee should be formed to receive subscriptions , that a medal bo struck commemorative of EiHi 3 l sympathy with the cause of the Romans , and ot admiration of the character and genius of Joseph Mazzini . Here to dwell upon details is needless I would merely suggest that the medal bo placed within the possession of the humblest subscriber A few thousand Mazzini medals circulating throughout the continent would , in duo season , do more enduring service to the cause of European liberty than . 19 many thousand cannon-balls now slumbering ( may their sleep be eternal !) in that Mecca of the Horse-guards , Woolwich-arsenal . I remain , Sir , &e .. ¦

      ¦ w .,, - ¦ Doughs Jerrold . Vfeu Lodge , Pufcnej ' 'comnion , July 30 . £ Wc- krg : to express dissent- from ' the last paragraph of Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' s letter . He hold that w few thousand cannon-balls , fired from English salmon , e » the side of the lloman l { qnd < fic would have- beeiiMvorth infinitely more than millions of medals . Nevertheless , we vote for the medal , and thank Kfr .. Jew-old for his timefy hint to the British admireas of fihe admirable MazaSni , —Ed . A' F \

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      lows Blawoj . * ebaPETiiioN . — ""Competition fe m& perpetual anft progressive development of misery . Instead'of associating indivitlual forces solas- to make them-produce their most useful result jcompetition perpetually opposes them & each other jand : wastes them inoessauSly in a reciprocal abaorpi'tioir and annihilation .. 0 » -what is the prosperity of | w successful faetovjr bBfaibSAed' ? On wb ' nt , but the ; imm < of its less fortunate rfcrals ? How dees a shopimam thrive , but by attracting to his establishment ; tne customers of neighbouring shops ? How many ifoi-iunes are but built up of banhwtcies and ruins I

      Midi wit * the tears of how- inwny unfortunates is this cup-filled-,, whom the worlds considers happy ? : And can it be-a true and permanent society in which the prosperity » f some thus-totally involves the sufferin ™ of others ? Can It he- w principle of order ,. of conamjitraa , of wealth , flint fans pits force against force-,, and interest against interest , permitting none to triumph but by the destruction ot their enforced * antagonists ?"—Democrat k limem . An America * has said of his countrymen , that thegenuine Yankee would nofcb ' c-aible to ' repose in Heaven itself if he could travel ftn > tlier westward . IIomum go a-head .

      Nor the OsltOxe . —Mr . Jfo&n Bell , M . P . for Thirsk , has been pronounced to bo of unsound ' mind . We arc sorry to say thai Mr . 13 . is not thV only M . P . similarly situated , Presence ot Mixd . — Wilkss never lost hispresence of mind , but w ; is always full of resources . When he was apprehended by the King ' s messengers , the wan-ant included Ohui-ehill , the poet , whoentered the room just sis WUkes v .-. ys captured . " Thompson , my dear fellow , " cr ied "Willccs , as if overjoyed to see him , " they have just seized me , and the warrant includes Churchill . You are not likely to see Churchill yourself , but if you meet any of his friends beg them ' to warn him to get out o ' f the way . " Churchill took tbe hint , and after a few observations about Mrs . Thompson , ho took his leave , and took care tobeoffprotty quickly directly he was clear of the house .

      Tiff , total number of letters delivered in the United Kingdom in the week ending the 21 st of February , 18 ii > , was 6 , 849 , 100 . It is not all joy which produces laughter : the greatest enjoyments are serious . The pleasures of love , ambition , or avarice , make nobod y Jaugli . Tni'K Civimty . —There is nothing , I own , that inclines me to think so well of the understandings or dispositions of others , as a thorough absence of impertinence . I do not think thcu can be the worst people in the world who Habitually psiy most attention to the feelings of others ; nor those the best who are endeavouring evevy moment to iiuvt them . —JIdilin . SiONiWCAST EriTAPir . —A tombstone in New Jersey , America , bears the following epitaph : — "Died of thin shoes , Januarv , A . D . 1 S 3 D . "

      A Lady ix Nashville being asked to waltz , gave tbe following answer : — "No , thank you , Sir , 1 have hugging enough at home . " An Americas paper has just started upon the principle of giving its impression away for nothing , which a rival journal on the spot tulls us is its full value , Marriage PniaiMixAniKS is Cf . yi . ox . —As soon as a young woman has attained a marriageable age a feast is given , and those of the sanu > caste whose sons arc desirous to become Benedicts Hock to it .

      In a short time after the icnst , a relative or friend of the youth who desires to marry the girl , calls upon the damsel ' s family , and insinuates that a . report of the intended marriage has gone abroad . IC this insinuation be indignantly rejected , or quietly refuted by the lady's family , the tiiscomiUed talker speedily withdraws ; but if , on the contrary , no dissatisfaction is expressed , a little polite badinage is indulged in , and the gentleman takes his leave , stating his intention of announcing the report to the father of the would-be bridegroom . After a day has elapsed the father pays a , visit to the lady ' s parents , inquires the amount of her ninrrinae dowry , and many other points of minor importance ; and ' if the information he receives be satisfactory , anil meets his views , ho fovmnlly states . 1 wish that his sou should form a matrimonial connexion with the girl , and invites her parents to pay him a visit , ii ; miiuga

      day . The visit is returned by the damsel ' s parents , who make the same inquiries concerning the portion which the young man is to receive , his uircuinstnnees , and future prospects in life : and if all meets with their approbation , they invite the father and mother of tho fortunate youth to come to tlioii * dwelling on a certain day . — Dublin University Magazine . A " cextlem . vx , " advertising in the Woterfonl Mail f . 01 a wife , says , " it would lie well if Uiu lady were possessed of a com potency sufficient to secure hoi against the effects of excessive grief , in case of accident occurring to her companion . " Amiable forethought ! Amoxgthe eminent travellers who arc proceeding to California is James Arngo , a blind brother of the celebrated astronomer , lie has a largo fortune in France , but goes out to ascertaiu the physical character of the country .

      AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY . [ FROM A BOSTON' PAPER . ] Of all the notable things 011 earth , The queerest one is pvide of birth Among our " fierce democratic '" A bridge across a hundred years ? , Without a prop to save it from sneers , Not even a couple of l'ollcn jaers : A thing for laughter , fleers , and jeers , Is American aristocracy ! English and Irish , French and Spanish , Gorman , Italian , Butch , and Danish , Crossing their veins until they vanish In one conglomeration ! So subtle a tangle of blood , indeed , ] N o heraldry llaVvey will ever succeed In finding the circulation . Depend upon it , my snobbish friend , Your family thread you can ' t ascend , Without good reason to apprehend You may find it waxed at the Otliei end By some plebeian vocation ! Or , worse than that , your bonstetl Line , May end in a loop of stronger twine ¦ That plagued somo worthy relation . I . G . Alive ! Am . Alive O!—A clergyman at Oxford , who was vovy nervous and absent , going to road prayers at St . Mary's , heard a showman m the High-street , who had an exhibition of wild beasts , repeat often " Walk in ! walk in , ladies and gentlemen ! All alive ! alive 0 . ! " The sound struck the absent man , and ran in his head so much that when lie began to read the service , and came to the words " and doeth that which is lawful and right , he shall save his soul alive ! ( lie cried out with a louder voice ) shall save his soul alive ' all alive I alive O !"—Horace . ' alpolc .

      "Is Toun house a warm one ? " asked a man in search of a tenement , of a landlord . " It ought to be ; ' the painter gave it two coat * recently , " was theresponse . A Poet asking a gentleman how he approved of his production , "An Ode to Sleep , " the latter rcplica , " You have done such justice to tho subject , that it is impossible to read it without feeling its full wciqht . " " Ma , is there any harm in breaking e « ffshells ? " "No , my dear—why ? " "' Cos I ' ve leo tho basket drop ; and look what a mess I ' m in with the yolks . " . The Editor of the Chicago Democrat gives tne following good advice : — " Wives , Jove your husbands , and make thorn take in a ninvspapw . " " Win' is my wife worse than the devil ? " said a , gentleman , whose face showed si < p > s of the atfeetionate attentions of his hotter half . " Because , " be added , " If you resist tho devil lie flies from you , but if you resist my wife sho flies at you . "

      Smuggling in Bustles . —The Manx Liberal relates that a \ ady , bound from the island fov Liverpool , lind a bladder containing spirits attached as a . buafclo to I 101 dress , with the view of smuggling it . On the voyage a pin ,, unfortunately , ' piuicturcu the bladder , and tlio liquor gradually escaped , to the utter confusion of the fair smuggler . —A lady , who gave her name aa Badbc ' cr , was caught the other day by a custom-house officer in one of the Jersey steamers , with three pounds of smusrglcd tea concealed in that part of tho apparent " body feminine called the bustle . Its extreme rotundity attracted first tbe admiration and then the suspicion of tuo wary official .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 11, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1534/page/3/