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      THE EWGHEST CROm tt « « who in a noble wort / X mtte ^ ay wherel « jn 8 ; lTir ^ . Goo ' simage tovelftear ^ - « - ¦* .--- - ¦ ¦ Thou g h trouble-tried and torture-torn- - 51 e kVliest crovraVa crown of thorn ! i ; & - r iorv . like the bow lu n <« »

      gfiii gpriDgeth from Hie cloud ; And soul ne ' er soared the starry . seTen , But pain ' s fire-chariot rode i _ They've battled . best who ' ve boldliest borne : The kingliest crown ' s a crown of thorn 1 As beauty in Death ' s cerement sleeps , And stars bejewel darkness , God ' s splendour lies in dim heart-deeps ; And strength in suffering ' s starkness : The murkiest hour is mother of morn : The kingliest crown s a crown of thorn ! - - Gerald Masset .

      A LAY FOR LORD GREY . An antiquated proverb , We all have heard declare . Our dinners sent from Heaven , Onr cooks from—all know where . Thus reasoning , —our country May very truly say , One power sends her colonies , Another sends her—Grey I As on fair England ' s conquests , " ( A fact some folks forget , ) go on her suffering children , The sun can never set ; And should the cause he questioned , "When comes the settling day , " Humanity" will surely "Arise , and thunder— Grey ! The " liberal" politician ,

      . Who talks of Russia's wiles , Yet sends the bntcher , Ward , to Wast The feir Ionian isles ; "Who loves Italian liberty , With O'Fertall in his pay , And teaches , too , Australia To curse the name of Grey . Who winks at Dyak massacres , . And Tortington ' s misrule ; Now blasters like a knave , and Sow blunders like a fool ; Who talks about good government , While Elliotts have their sway , And answers calls for jnstice By sending out a Grey ! So wonder , then , in Canada , That loyal men should grieve ; So wonder that the Cape declined The convicts to receive ; ~ So wonder in Australia

      We find the de'il to pay , For we know who gave us colonies—We guess who gave us Grey ! —Poaroin .

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      THE DEMOCRATIC HEY 1 EW OF BRITISH AIsD FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY AND LITERATURE . Edited by ( i . Julias Habset . No . X March . London ; J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s-head Passage , Paternoster-row . HaTOSG described , and exposed the injustice and evil effects of the taxes on paper and advertisements in the Fehraary No . of the Review , the Editor ibis month takes up the most important of the Taxes on Knowledgethe Penny Stamp on Newspapers ; and traces the history of that tax from the time of its first imposition in the reign of Queen Anne , down

      to the passing of the law of 1836 , by which the exaction was reduced from fonrpence to one penny . The next article exposes the wholesale robbery perpetrated by out irresponsible rulers , under cover of what is called " Indirect Taxation . " "The Ten Hours Question" is the title of an article which is sure to excite great interest , and , possibly , some discussion . We venture to predict that ^ while it will not greatly p lease those who are purely and simply Ten Hours Bill men , it will meet with more than the approval of those who are " Ten Honrs Bill men , and something more . " It is an article which all classes may

      read with advantage , alt-hough , most likely , it will call down on its author ' s head the hot indignation of those who live by speculating in the labour , and making profit of the blood and sinews of the wealth-producers . "A Glance at History , " part % is chiefly occupied with an examination of Cicero ' s version of Catiline ' s conspiracy . Theauthor of the "Glance " eloquently and justly-lays bare the vices of Cicero ' s character ; at the gametimedenouncing the corruption and mendacity which have distinguished by far the great majority of

      public orators , political writers , and historians in all countries , at all times . " Fourier ' s Theory" presents an outline of the principles and new social arrangements so laboriously developed by the founder of thePhalansterians . "Anniversary of the French Revolution , " is followed by an article exposing the atrocities committed by " The Bloodthirsty Ordermongers / ' The " Past and the Present" is a capital specimen of American poetry . The Letters from France and Germany , and "Political Posteript , " conclude the contents of this number .

      "We extract the following from the article headed :

      v&aa . plunder . Oihendse , and according to Act of Parliament , termed ¦" nOHBSCT ' TAXATION . " The total amount of the taxes is above fifty-seven millions annually . When to this amount we add local rates , tithes ^ does , and other- payments for the : support of tho church , the law establishments , &c , the total of taxation in all shapes ; , and under allnames , cannot fall short of one hundred millions . ' let from the time , of Lord Xorth to the present , sernle writers , and venal apologists of public abuses , have affected to wonder at , and condemn , what they have been pleased to term " an ignorant impatience of taxation . " Ignorant impatience , in * deed ! The ignorance has been allied to the too great patience usually manifested by the people under the weight of their grievous burdens . - Their

      impatience is the best proof of then- growing intelligence . Were the . taxes levied directly instead of indirectly , the impatience of the tax-ridden people iforfd soon induce a kind of popular action anything hut agreeable to , or safe for , the tax-eaters . 2 fot for one year would the plundered people of fiiis country snbmit to the rule of their plunderers if the fifty-seven millions were exacted by any other means than indirect taxation . From the day when Wat Tyler ( that g lorious hero of the proletarians ) locked out the tax-gatherer ' s brains , to the time when Lord John Rnssell threatened , the middle classes with an addition to the income-tax , the rulers of the land have found it a dangerous experiment to dip their hand 3 openly and undisguisedly into the pockets of the people . Hence the cunning and fraudulent invention . , and perpetuation of the System of indirect taxation . - ' ' . :

      Imagine a working man and his wife making their Saturday night ' s marketing—imagine the woman kjingdowniJiree halfpence for & . quarter of a pound Of ( thQ cheapest ) tea , and the man laying down tfree farthing * for a quarter of a pound of tobaccoimagine , furtheriithat onTe-crossing the threshhold of the tea-dealer ' s and . tobacconist's they encountered . a fellow with red , gills and an aMermanie paunch , with a pen behind Ms ear and a book in his fist ; calling on them ia the name of " our sovereign lady the Queen" to " stand ; and . deliver , ' . '—the woman sixpence halfpenny on . her , three-half penny-Torth of tea , and- the man nmepence-Tialfpenny ( or threabouts ) on his three-farthings' worth of tobacco ! " What for ? ' would be the very natural demand :

      -aid when the tax-gatherer rejoined , For . the maintenance of oor glorious institutions ; " the equally natural response would be , " To the devil ¦ w ith the glorious . institutions , and you , and all who Bre by them I" ¦ : ¦ & . hundred to one that these words Vould be accompanied by the significant perform ance of rolling the tax-collector in the . gutter . An attempt to collect- taxes after any such fashion * onld infallibly raise up a Wat Tyierin every town ; a Jack Cade in every vttfege ; and , very probably , a Washington to iSdjfewEoTeTand work a wondrous in

      ^ ge our" glorious institutions . " ! a word to the wiser . 'When once the people see ^ ngh ^ he-rillaiiy ; of indirect taxatioDi the days of ^ . '' glorious mi ^ tntioris '' - 'will' be'numbered . . « i once the masses understand that they pay a "A - Ontheil 1 tea eqnaliofour times its Value a tax ^ theu- tobacco equal to twelve dimes' its value ;; arti r I " ?? i * ° . ^ im ^ nitousoniiearlyall ' other m ^ fi ^* ^ nra "/ tpo / their eye 3- ' are opened -ttfihfe ^^• ns fact that therich pay no-mwe- ' -on firsts tw ftdcs . » f consumption than" Tfle poor $ ay ' on ri l annonest articles , and that in ^ mariy iaxe 3 the ' « are even still more unjustly favoured : ; ( when , ' lue proletarians begin to reflect on the still

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      Reynolds ' s Political Instmctor . Edited by G . " . M . Betooibs . Part IV . Iiondon : « T . Dicks , 1 , Wellington-street North , Strand . This part contains portraits of Mr . "W . P . Roberts , the " Miners' Attorney-General" — ft . Julian Hamey—Mr . "Williams , e * -M . P ., and Annand Barbes . In addition to the usual articles on the " Aristocracy , " " Slavery , " " English History , " the " Letters of Gracchus , " &c , we notice some ably-written contributions from the pen of Mr . W . J . Vernon , on ** Prison Discipline ; " in which the author reveals his experience of the miseries under the operation of which Ernest Jones and Fussell are stiH suffering , and to which Williams and Sharp fell martyrs . We extract the following from the

      MEMOIR OF BABBES . Annand Barbes was born at Guadaloupe in the year 1809 : his father was a medical practitioner in that island . The person of Barbes is remarkable for its natural beauty and gracefulness : his stature is tall and formed with singular elegance and perfection ; his features are pure and regular , combining an expression of great mildness ^ and _ genr erosity with one of determined energy ; his gait and attitudes are alike noble and prepossessing . The education of Barbes was perfected at the college of Sorreze , and upon his arrival in Paris ; during the year 1833 , for the purpose of pursning the study of the law , he went and presented himself to Etienne Arago , then a perfect stranger to him , with the student at th

      exception of having been formerly a e college of Sorreze . He thus addressed M . Arago , —Sir , I have not the honour of being personally known to you : my name is Barbes ; I have finished my studies at the same college as yourself ; I ajn rich , and am now come to otter you my fortune in service of the republican cause , as likewise my arm and my life I" All the world is acquainted in what a noble manner Barbes has kept his word . In 1835 , Barbes , being himself free , assisted with all the natural ardour of his character to favour tbe escape of his friepds imprisoned by the Court of Peers hi St . Pelagie . Condemned in 1836 for the clandestine manufacture of gunpowder , he was restored to libertv the Mowing year by the

      general amnesty granted upon the Duke of Orleans marriage . In 1839 , on the evening of the 13 th of May , he was arrested , ' wounded and bleeding , and handed over to the tender mercies of the Chamber of Peers , charged with having killed a lieutenant whilst in the execution of his duty , suppressing the insurrection promoted by Barbes . When upon his trial he boldly assumed the whole responsibility of the movement , nobly exerting ^ himself to save his associates . " It is I , " he exclaimed ,. " who p laced arms in . their hands ; a species of moral violence calculated to induce them to follow me and take a share in the fight . I , therefore , am the only guilty one , and upon me alone should your revengeful hatred iustly fall . " When President

      Pasquier , the Judge Jeffries of Louis Philippe , asked Barbes what he could say in his defence , "Nothing /) replied he . "When the Indian , a native of tbe countryin which I was born , falls into his adversary ' s power , he disdains to defend himself , but simply offers his head to the scalpingknife of his enemy : I imitate the Indian ' s example , and offer you my head . "— "You are right , " brutally replied the president , "in comparing yourself to a savage . ' — " The greater savage , " answered Barbes , "is not the one who presents his head to the knife , but he who cuts it off . '' Barbes was condemned to death ; notwithstanding it was proven that by the nature and situation of the wounds on Lieutenant Drouineau ' s body , that from

      the position of the accused it was utterly impossible his hand could , have been * the cause of death to that officer . " If , " replied Barbea , to a remark of the president ' s , " I had wished to fight with Drouineau , I would have done so loyally , and as becomes a man of honourable sentiments , in offering him a fair field and an equal combat . " . The government , fearful of carrying , the sentence into effect , and alarmed by . the energetic demonstrations made by the circles , ' and by the workmen of Paris , commuted the judgment , after two days * deliberation , into " one of transportation , with hard labour , for life . The glorious Revolution of February , kicked Louis Philippe from his throne , and drove , the servile , sycophantic , - miserable old peers from !

      their den of tyranny at the Luxembourg , into a merited insignificance , from which not one of them should ever after Lave been permitted to escape . Barbes was restored to liberty , and upon his arrival in Paris , was named Governor of that very Luxembourg Palace , within the walls of which he had a short time previously been sentenced to death ; but he refused the offered post . The twelfth legion of the Rational Guard afterwards named him its colonel , and he was likewise selected to sit in the Constituent Assembly as a- representative for his own department . On the 15 th of . May , eighty days after obtaining his liberation , Barbes , who had used his utmost efforts to oppose that popular manifestation which had invaded the palace occupied by ' a

      National Assembly , and witnessing the cowardly abdication of their places by tbe royalists when the order for dissolving the Assembly . was pronounced by Huber . Barbes , believing in the extinction of all authorised power , devoting himself to save the Republic from royalist machinations , and other insidious proceedings of its enemies , repaired to the Hotel de Yille tor that generous purpose . There also he was destined as in 1839 , to become a sacrifice to his disinterested patriotism , and the Supreme Court of Bourges , a tribunal which sentenced him to transportation for life , could not forbear commenting Hpon the nobleness and grandeur of Mb character . Barbes is now a prisoner in the dungeons of Doullens , ; waiting , for the deliverance of Sis country from the oppressive yoke of those ambitious men that are daily , hourly , and momentarily trampling upon . the liberties of France . l j Annand Barbes is the possessor of a very

      handsome fortune , -and likewise of a country seat in the department " represented -by . him in the , Constituent Assembly . It is almost . needless to state that in the neighbourhood of his residence he was beloved . 'b y the humble for the nobleness of his sentiments ' and the generosity of hissoul ; whilst by tho rich ; he wns detested , as' an , enemy , and as a traitor ; to . their order . . Sympathy with tbe poor is in France the same as in England , incompatible' with the favour of the wealthy . Thehest years of Barbes ' life have been passed in political dungeons ; the beauty of his person has faded within the - walla of prisons . . When ; tyranny was overthrown and . a Republic pror claimed . in- Trance , brighter . days seemed , in . store for . the . former victim of royal oppression ; but , alas ' ! . the poison of monarchy had not been enr tirely eradicated from his country , and he again became a martyr when struggling ha the cause of freedom . : • ¦ : v ?

      : From an eloquently written letter by the Editor , we give the following extracts : : ¦ : m xHK ' aOVBBItMESX ' ANn-THE PEOPtB " ' '¦¦'¦ ¦ ' .. Surely the true character of the Whig government must now be known to the nation ? uid ever a statesman condescendtomqre . paltry , beggarly , despisabiesubterfcgesthan those which are greedily caught up and " adopted ; by Lord ; John Russell ? t w 3 l suppose -that a deputation' -of working-men fisitshini at the Treasury , to repreBent the condition of the industrious-population and point , out the necessity , fpr ^ reform . , , According -to the , present tactics of the gqvemm ^ nt ^ t ^ e followinff would be theTum ' aridtbtiilbf the PrimeSlinistersreply : — * " I cannofc ' listeri'tb ' you ' as a mere quiet ' and pelicekble-deputatidn ;' - Such { a ; low murmuring cannot possibiy , 'prQduce an jaeffect ; upon ; . my ^ offiejal ears . The comparative silence of the" nation is a

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      # roof 'brsatisfactiori'iffith Regard to existing instN tutions . ! IfyoumUyjwish ' metoDelieve ' tliat . thcre is a desire in the national breast- for reform , you must agitate ! iintil ;; the . < : pre 5 ent murmuring isnall hayesyrollen into , a deafenine . olampur . " --M Very goo dj " mylord , " , answersfthe . deputation ,: " wewill go away and ' conimence ^ bur : agitation ait ' once /';—" Tea , buttakecare wh atydu are ' abbut , " instantaneously exclaims Lord'John Russell : " for if you do go and agitate with energy , k shall set . the Attorney General at you . "—' «? , Then how are ; we to get , reform , " mjj lord ? " demands the . deputation , quite aghast at this most unexpected announcement : " you rill not believe that we need reform , because we are too quiet ; and you threaten to punish us if we become noisy . " •¦ But , instead of vouchsafing any rejoinder , : Lord John shrugs his shoulders , rings the . bell , and bows out the depiita-P ^^^^ ift ^ feS ^ irti i ^ nr ^ tft ^ fstinWMili-

      tioD . Such are Whig tactics . ' But in spite of that shuffling system beneath which so much treachery lurks , —in spite of that doublefaced dealing which says , "Agitate to show your sincerity , " and then immolates . the agitators , —in spite of the marvellous tenacity with which an " arrogant Aristocracy , a bloated Church , a dishonest Legislature , and a tyrannical Ministry , cling to bid-established feudalisms and long-standing abuses , —in spite of all this , the people shall and will , and must continue to agitate for tho Charter ! They will agitate , because they have undertaken a struggle of truth and justice against falsehood and despotism , —and they have become not only interested as mere workers and tailors , but their honour is compromised as patriots , in establishing the . triumph of the former upon the ruins of tho latter ! '

      My Chartist friends , ye must now address yourselves with a renewed . energy and a more fervid enthusiasm to the great moral struggle which is at hand .. Europe stands upon the verge of a crisis : its condition will shortly be such , th . tt the English Minister , alarmed by the something more than "low murmurings" from ' across the sea , will not dare refuse' timely cencessions to your demands . For on the notions of the Continent such a storm is aboutto burst as the : world never saw before , —a storm that will sweep , away the relics of feudalism and the elements of serfdom , like chaff upon the

      wing of the hurricane . And , oh ! will it not be a glorious—a blessed—and a thrilling spectacle , to Behold the People triumphant at last , and their accursed tyrants all stripped : of their gaud and grandeur , and writhing in the chains which thenceforth must be their doom ? God grant that when the nations shall rise again , the true Social and Democratic Republic may be proclaimed from the Seine to the Danube—from the Baltic toythe Mediterranean ; —and then—and then only—will there he hope for the Proletarians of the European Continent !

      From one of the letters of Gracchus , devoted to a consideration of Mr . Baron Parke ' s decision as to the intended meaning of the Ten Hours Bill , we give the following extract : —

      THE FACTORY QUKSTIOS . - , Men of all parties should unite on this question . We have seen before , and shall see again , Chartists , Socialists , Dissenters , and . Church of England Clergymen fighting the battle of humanity against Mammon . Richard Oastler , the venerable and vigorous advocate of what Sir Charles Wood once called " an extravagant humanity , " is . still able to lead the people , and by perseverance and the aid of good men he will lead and conquer . There must be no delay in this movement , no waiting until we have a return of dull trade , and the factory masters , closing their factory doors , turn round to thooperatives and say ironically , "Uow you have time short enough , " , -while they , the factory owners , "will

      be prepared on the first return of activity , —or , as Mr . Maudley , of Manchester , calls it , " the ascension of the wheel , "—to use them up with fifteen hours' out of the twenty-four . There must be no mistake about the next movement : it is for ten hours' work ner day fer all bands — the moving power to begin and cease at the hour named in the act of parliament . It will be observed that we have ventured freely to express our opinions on the decisions of the udges , as pronounce d by Mr . Baron Parke . We have done so in no haughty or overbearing spirit ; and if our boldness meet with criticism we express a hope that our reasonings shall bo met with argument . Lord Bacon , . in his admirable Essay on Judicature , says , wisely , " Cursed ( saith the law ) is he that renioveth the land-mark . " The mislayer of a mere stone is to blame ; but it is the unjust udge that is the . capital remover of land-marks ,

      when he defineth amiss land and property . One foul sentence does more hurt than many foul ex amples , for these do but corrupt the stream , the other corrupteth the fountain . So' saith Solomon : " Fous turbatus , et vena corrupta eat Justus cadens in causa , sua coram adversario "—The just man failing inhis cause before his adversary , is like a troubled fountain and a corrupted . vein . We do not for a moment bint that Baron Parke and his colleagues are corrupt ; but we : unquestionably think that when they consulted they forgot that "Ihe safety of the people 13 the highest law ; " and to know that law , except they be in order to that end , are but things captious and ^ oracles not well inspired . The decision of the judges on the factory question , will at this time do more to raise a spirit of turbulence and discontent in the minds of tens of thousands of her Majesty ' s subjects than could possibly have * been brought about by any other

      means . . We have before witnessed , and may again witness , the Attorney-General pleading in person at Lancaster , York , and Liverpool against riotous proceedings in the factory . districts , and talking about the security of property , the danger of communism , and the fears to be entertained from the fiery speeches of Chartist orators and political demagogues ; pious Wesleyans , and timid shopkeepers will convict , of course , and say those proceedings must be put down ; and , perhaps Baron Parke himself may interpret the law and ' sentence offending criminals in all the dignity of office . Poor Attorney-General , do not blame the criminals alone , blame also the tendency of those laws that make men criminals . Cast your mind ' s eye back to the judgment on which , we have so freely commented , and you will remember one of the chief causes of the riots you wish to quell , of the communism of which you

      speak , but do not understand , 01 the mad schemes of physical force revolt you so freely denounce but fail to prevent . ' , \ . There is but one course open ; one path to be followed : another appeal , to parliament for a veritable * '' -Ten HOWS BUI , " about which there can be no mistake .. Such a bill will do more , to put down discontent , than any . other step that could be adopted . ' And if such a bill be not passed , and tbei principle on which such a measure is based , morel generally adopted , those who how . talk and write so ; much about the rights of capital , will , one _ day , i have to listen not to the rights of labour , but to the cry of vengeance , and * as we have seen elsewhere ; tremble with fear , and listen to the fatal words . " too'late ! " Never were , words more profoundly true than those of Canning , with which we , for the present , close our remarks : " For those , who have checked improvement , because it is innovation , -will , one day or other , he compelled to accept innovation when it hasceased to be improvement . " - ¦'• ' ¦ ¦' " - ¦ ¦ -

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      THE LORDS AND COMMONS . WHAT DO THEY DO ? [ Suggested by Samuel Lover ' s popular 'What would ' " . '" - ¦ youdo ? ' ] ¦ •' - ¦ .. ¦' "¦' What do they do , when wants distressing , And ¦ wrongs oppressing , - - Have rent the land ? What do they do , when ills betide us , ilnd feuds divide us , . : On every hand ? Though clouds be low'ring , : Stern want devouring , _ And wrongs . o ' e ' rpowering , " ¦ The country through , Still they waste their time , all conscience ; stifling , : . ; .

      In petty trifling;— ; That ' s what they do . ¦•¦ ¦ ;• What do they do , when hearts high burning ; ' i ; : ¦ Witl 1 bright hopes yearning ,- - i . ; ... . Would overthrow ! > . ¦¦ : ! Some ancient strongholdof wrong and sorrow , 1 w -. '• "' To glad the morrow ; ' With freemen ' s glow ? . ; Though scorn and blame ; Attach their name / ' ¦ ! ; i : Thetblackest 8 hame . . : : ; ¦ ¦ :: , They'll struggle :-through , -: - ; : # : Toc rush and blight each new bud uncloBmg , , All good opposing;—" ¦;• ' That ' s what they do .

      What Will ' th ey do , ' whenmen , disgusted At having trusted ; ' . Their native land . - To guides so blind-rrcan their feeble dotings , And senseless votings , No longer . stand ? .. Their foulreignending , ' : They'll fall ' descending ,-i " ; j h No voice defending ' - ¦ '" '' - . ; The abject crew ^ . i ; , •' ¦ And . in . hjst ' ry ' snieanestand . darkest'places : . They'll hide theirfaces " \^ r . - v ... ; ..-. . ' ¦ ' :. ' .. That ' swhattbVlldo . - " .: . ' . p

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      ^ Tfli ^ fJMT iar : dr lNGIiAND - i Z : ;; : ^ C ?®^ m $ . ? t . ' ^ -. ¦ " t A ^^ iVntemltt ^^ ;;; "' WRETCHED GONDITION OF THiB MAKERS j * ¦ '¦ ' OF CLOlHES 1 FOR THE ARMY , NAVY ' , 31 POLICE / CONVICTS &c . : ... ¦ :. (; -f ^ From , the 8 lop » work " ers . of the eastern pa . rts of London I now co me , to consider the condition of ^ tbe male , and female operatives employed in making the clothes , of the army , navy , * police , railway , ' customs , arid post-office servahtsi' convicts , and such oth' -T ; articles- " of- wearing apparel » b are . made ' either by contract or in large quantities . Small as ; are- the "" f ^ W ^ jMTifV ^ dV ^ NGBAND "

      earnings of these , who ; depend tor their living upon the . manufacture nftb ^ ready-made clothes for the wholesale warehouses ' of the Mihories and the adjoining places , still'the ihcbmiDgs of those who manufacture the clothes of our soldiers and sailors , Government , railway-police , ; and _; ; cust"m-houae officers , are even less calculated to support life , briefly as possible the manner in . which the clothing for the army is regulated . I deal with ' . the army in particular , because it may be takeriasa fair type of all the other classes of Government ori contract work that appear to be considerably underpaid . For this purposei I cannot do better than avail myself of the Government Report from the , Select Committee on Army and Nsvy ' Appointmeriis :- ^

      "In the army esfiroates Of this year ( 1833 , ) " SaU the Select Committee ia their examination of one of the Government officers , "the sum required for clothing , exclusive of the amount required for clothing in the East Indies , ia £ 266 , 010 . ' "In what manner is that divided or assigned to the different colonels of regiments ! begin first with the Life Guards and Horse Guards : state the rates generally assigned to each?—The clothing allowances" ( the answer was ) " ave fixed annual rates , by king ' s warrants of the 22 nd arid 30 th of July , 1830 , for infantry and cavalry . For tne Life Guards they were fixed in 1800 at the present rate ; for the Blues they were fixed in September , ' 1830 , at the present rate ; and for the Foot Guards the exact off-reckoning , is taken . I believe I have already stated that the act of 1783 did not apply to the Foot Guards , and their pay used to'be . ' voted , " gross , " . ' . down ' . to the estimate of 1831 . At that time ; by an office

      arrangement , sanctioned by the Secretary at war , we took the off-reckoning , the part of the pay off-reckoned for clothing , and put it down as the charge for clothing the regiment , taking the exact sum off-reckoned as the allowance for each rank . In the Cavalry : for the Serjeant , £ 5 l < fs . ; corporal , ' £ & 10 s . 3 d . ; private , £ 4 Os . 3 d . ; drummer , or trumpeter , £ 6 10 s . 3 d . ; non-effective man , £ 0 10 s . 3 d .: warrant . and contingent man , £ 40 s . 3 d . In the Infantry : seijeant , £ 7 9 s . 2 d . ; corporal , £ 4 19 s . 6 d . ; private , £ 2 6 s .: drummer or trumpeter , £± 19 s . Cd . Life Guards ; Serjeant , £ 9 . 17 . 83 d . ; corporal , £ 9 IK 8 id .: private , £ 9 17 s . 8 id . ; drummer or trumpeter , £ 9 17 s . 8 £ d . Horse Guards : Serjeant , £ 5 19 s . ! corporal , £ 6 19 s . ; private , £ & 19 s . ; drummer or trumpeter , £ 5 19 s , Foot -Guards : Serjeant , £ 7 9 s . OJd . ; corporal , £ 4 Is . 1113-14 d . ; private , £ 3 178 . 0 19-18 d . ; drummer or trumpeter £ 1 Is . 11 13-14 . ; warrant and contingent man , £ 3 17 s . 0 l 9-84 d .

      " State in what manner the different sums voted by parliament for . the clothing of the respective regiments are assigned to the . colonels . —Tne . colonel is required to make an assignment of the whole clothing illowance to some person , ' either his agent , or it may be a person empowered by that agent , or to the clothier himself , as a security to the clothier . After the estimates are voted by parliament , the Board of General Officers are apprised by the Secretary at War of the number on the establishment of the regiments of Cavalry , Infantry , and Foot Guards , for which the colonel has the right to assign . The Life Guards and Horse Guards are not so notified . The notification authorises - the Clothing Board , to pass the assignment .. The assignment is presented to the Secretary at War afterwards , , and . a warrant is

      granted byhim twice a year , in April and July , for one-half the clothing allowance each time . " Sir R . Donkin , in his examination , made the following observations : — "We have 105 battalions of infantry ; . the clothing of the 6 e costs £ 255 , 000 a-year by the army estimates , of which £ 63 , 000 a-year go to the colonels as their emoluments '; ' that is to say , the public pay tbese 105 colonels £ 63 , 000 a-year more than the clothing costs , fer purposes which are perfectly understood and admitted ; that is , to increase the colonel ' s income ; . it amounts to £ 600 a-year each , that is the £ 63 , 000 gives £ 600 a-year for each of the 105 colonels ; I am taking the greatest amount . " It appears , then , that the arm y clothing in the year above alluded to cost , for 105 battalions of infantry , £ 255 , 000 . . The supply of this was intrusted to 105 colonels , and they paid £ 192 , 000 for the goods , taking to themselves £ 03 , 000 profit out of the transaction . , The evidence of Mr . Pearce , one of the army clothiers , before the same committee , was as

      follows : — " In what manner are your contracts made with tbe colonels of the : regiments . you clothe . ?•—In point of fact we make , no contract with them , it being well . known , that amongst . the variety of clothiers there prevails a competition amongst them to provide clothing as cheap - as it' is possible to be effectually done ; this competition brings the prices to a point at which all the respectable clothiers from time to time make their charges to ; the colonels . I request to observe , that if the competition was not so very severe , and no competition prevailed , a higher price ' would be assuredly charged than at present , as , in point of fact , the price which the clothiers chargeis not adequate as compared to the profits of other branches of business , but there is no risk or adventure in it ; therefore 1 am the more satisfied that , the profit may not exceed the ordinary interest of nioney , 5 per cent ., " or from 5 to 8 percent , for commercial profit ; it is to be observed , that this is a transaction which returns capital only in about sixteen months ; as shown by statements delivered . " ;

      Of-the evils . of this competitive system , the following extract from the same gentleman ' s evidence may be taken as ari apt illustration . Its influence upon the workpeople will be afterwards exposed : — '" When the contract was opened , Mr . Maberly took it at the same price in December , 1808 ; this statement shows the effect of wild competition , In February following , Esdailes' house , who were . accoutrement makers , and not clothiers , . got knowledge of what was Mr . Maberly ' s price ; and they tendered at , 12 « . 6 Jd . a month afterwards ; 'it was evidently then a struggle for the price , and how the quality the least good ( if we may use such a term ) could pass . Mr . Maberly did not like , to , he outbidden by Esdailes : Esdailes stopped subsequently , and Mr . Maberly bid 12 s . 6 d . three months after , and Mr . Dixon bid again , aiid

      got-the contract for' 11 s . 3 d ; m October , ' and m December of that year another public tender took ; place , and Messrs . A . and D . Cock took it at lls ; . 5 Jd .,. and they-subsequently , broke . Oft went on in this . sbrt of wayof iB . hanginff , hands every two . or every threfe mphft ' s / by ' t » iuding against each cither . Presently , '; though it was'calculated that the great coat was to wear four years . it was found ; that those ; great ; coats ; Were so : inferior in quality , that they , wore only , two years , and representations were accordingly made'tb the C 6 mmandGr > inr-ChAef , i when it was found necessary that great care should be taken to go back to the 6 rigin « al good quality that had been established by the Duke of -York , by whioh . the colonels , of . regiments were governed ; , and . which , when supplied : by the colonels' clothiers , was very stnetly attended to . " . r . . ] ..,,.. I : wish the reader to understand that the following ;

      are ., the ' ordinary cases of the trade ; they , have ; most assuredly , hot boon selected for the purpose . ' The first . person : whom I visited was a male hand , and on . entering his house I certainly found more comforts ; about it than I had been led to expect . He lived in aback room built over a yard . Itwa 8 nicely carpetted ^ and on one Bide , 'to' my astonishment , stood' a grand piano . There were several "pictures hanging against the walls , and a glass full of dahlias on the mantelpiece . I could tell , however , by the- " . weH 3 ' - beneath the two large sofas . tbat they were occasionally used as bedsteads ' , and tlib easy-chair in which I was requested to take a seat was of so extravagant a size that it was evident it was occasionally put to the same purpose . I had been given to understand that tho man was in the habit of . taking lodgers , and this in a measure accounted for the double , duty assigned , to the different , articles of furniture in the room . ' . ' , ' ¦

      n I make' ttai soldierB' trowsers , the Foot Guards principally , " said the man in answer to niy questions ;; "' gets' 6 d . ra ipair , andhave - to : find thread . The thread costs ,-I should say myself ,, at the rate I buy it , about , Jd , i , for ft pair of , trowsers , . Many have to pay ' more , ' because if they can't get a quarter of a pound they have "to give , a ' greater price for a " single © uricei' ' At 'that rate it will take a full'penny worth to make a pair . ¦ This isthe usiial way in which ) the workpeople buy their ^ thready because they cannot afford to get a larger quantity , at a , time . Thetrowser ^ therefore , average about fid . each . Of course ' afire must be kept for ' pres ' sing the tro wsors ; and the " expensei of this has again to be deducted'from the price paid . I can make a pair in fivehoursj but there ; isn't one in . a hundred can do this , and it will tako , a middling ; worker , eight hours to finish one pair . But' then I . put the

      seams out ; and if I did them at home it would take me 8 ix hours to dd all myself . ' ' Without the seams I can do three pair a day . In summer I can , do four , working very hard , and not being taken off for anything .: I cannot getiWork always . Now , r , rn sitting stiU , bave . had nothing to dothis five weeks of any consequence . At the best of titties , when work / is yiery brisk j arid in the * summer tiiiite too , ; I never earn more than 8 s ; a weekv' ^ This is ' -the / money I haWfori my work ; and . from'this : there is to , be . do-; ducted thread for , jti ? s ixteen pair ^ . and . cot ^ o ^ ^ foi . the feUmg . pf ihqSame ,. and thiscomes tq , about . lAd ., andthe cosi . pf fire" may , ' with t ' h 6 "' . ; wood ' at fd ' all together , b ' e'ja'ken at' 8 s ! '' Over ' and' abov . e " all' this ,. I have to ' , pay" ld / pef pair'for- 'the stitbhing ) of'tho flenms , and 9 dJ a ^ weektfor . rtt 'Woman ;; toofetch . 'and / fekemy . iworklto : and-from ' . thewareh ouse .. l ! S , o , ^ hat i , a . lto . g ? Wfi ^ th S ?«» i 8- 4 b . 5 d " , Jto be deducted , fro »? . the 8 s ., and bo leaving on 1 y " 3 s . ' 9 d . " as ' my ' earhirigs per

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      week at the very ^ best bf'times . For Weks and weeks I don t get anything ; . ' . The work isn't to be had . ,, Tho year belore . Jast , I , was standingffull tw , enly weeka- ^ couldn'f get work at all at no ware ' housp . ; i ; La 8 t . year , I had . full ., eight week ' s and nothing to do ; all . the time ; . and this year ! have been unemployed a full . month at least . During the last week I hare only had fifteen pair to make . It is now sealing -time—this is . the period when the different estimates are given in—and we are always slack then . I never keep any account of my earnings . All I know is , when the money comes in it ' s as muchaslcan do "to pay my way . Taking one week with , another , I ' sure . I , do . not average , throughout the year , more than 5 s . a week at the very outside ; and out of this there is a kill half to week at the Vei ^ best W tinie ' s . For weW * anil

      be paid for ' expenses ; There ' s the thread and the firing and the candles '' all to be paid for . ' ( The seams I do not put out when I ' m slack . ) All this would come to a good half-crown , so that my clear earnings , taking one week with another , throughout the year , are 2 s . 6 d . per week . * " If youwore to ask me what I could make , quick as I am , and putting my seams out—if I was full employed—I should say 12 s . a week , including Sundays . ; and I am obliged to work more df Sundays than any other day . I scarce ever have " a Sunday to myself , for Saturday is . giving-out day , and they want them in on Monday morning . Monday ' s takw-in day , ( indeed , every other ^ ay . ia a , giying-OUt dfty . ) and theMay following a iaking-in one . If

      wo didn t take them in on Monday morning as directed , there would be no work for us . If I was riot to work on Sundays , I could get 10 s . full work . But from this I should have to pay a penny perj > air for . tbe seams , and this , would cost 2 s . for the twenty-four I must make in , the week to earn 12 s . ; and Is . 8 d . for the twenty pair I must make to get 10 s . ; and the thread and cotton would be another penny per pair—that is , as much as the seams . Then there ' s the coals , and wood , and candles : these would come to I 6 d . or 18 d . at least . This altogether would amount to 5 s . 4 d . to 5 s . 6 d . to be deducted from the 12 si p'br week , and 4 s . 6 d . or 43 . 8 d . from the 10 s . a week . So . that if . I was full of work , and kept at it from six in the morning

      till ten at night , and carried on all Sunday as well , I couldn't possibly earn more than 5 a . 6 d . to 5 s . 8 d . per week , clear—leaving but' Sundays , I might get 68 . 6 d . to 6 a . 8 d . per week . This is the most that can be made in the trade . If you were / to ask many workmen , they would say it is impossible 'to get as much done ; but I ' m one of the quickest hands at the business . ; The ordinary hands ennnot make more than one pair of trowsers in one day , which , deducting expenses , would leave 5 d ., to say nothing of candles , for fourteen hours'labour . But even at this rate they could not earn , with their seven days , 2 s . lid ., for they would lose at least in fetohifag the work and taking it home , which would bring-their earnings to 2 s . 7 & . or 2 s . 6 d . a week , at the very

      outside . But this only at the briskest time ; and we are generally upon an avera ge about two months unemployed . One year we were twenty weeks without work . White trowsers we don ' t have so much for—only 5 d . a pair for them—and they take quite as much thread ; and without you ' ve a good fire you cannot work at them at all m the winter , they ' re so cold in the hand . ' If the prices were to be raised ; the poor would have no work at all , for then the tailors would make them . I never had more than 6 d . for the Foot Guards .. For the Artillery , the gunners , I have had as much as 8 d—some are 7 d . ; but I would sooner make the Foot Guards at 6 d . than the Artillery at higher prices , because there is so much mere work in them . " Af those at

      6 d . there has been a double cord put in within the last few . years , and that has made it a great deal more trouble . You have to take two stitches where you used only to take only one ; but the price never was raised . Never knew the price to be raised since I worked at it , and that ' s seven years ago ., I get , them from a person who gets themfcom the warehouse . These intermediate persons are called piece-masters , and they get a penny profit upon each garment , whether it be trowsers , coats , or great coats , and the prices I nave stated are those the piece-master pays to me . They won't give them , to such little hands as me . They give out a great quantity at a time , and must hay * them all in at a particular day—very often ' the text

      taking-in day . I fancy at one time they used to keep a stock by them ; but of late years there have been so many , alterations that they ' re afraid to do it . The piece-mastera have to give , security— £ 50 I think it is—very often ; and the single hands , before they can betaken on , must be recommended to the piece-master . Notwithstanding this , a great many of the' garments have been pledged . At one time the pawnbrokers used . to . take , them in before they were made up , but how © don't think they will . The ones , with the red stripes I'm certain they wont . I have got my security down at the warehouse , but it tales so much time taking and fetching , and waiting while examined , that I prefer to work for a piece-master rather , than the warehouse-men . If

      they are not properly done , the foreman will out the seam right up , and send them back ; and there'll be no money tul they ' re finished . The foremen ^ generally , have no feeling about the poor—that ' s true . I ' m sure they have'rit . If the workpeople can treat them with what they like , and that ' s liquor , they'll pass the things quicker . The low prices I believe to ariso from the very low' prices the contracts are taken , at . Well , sir , look . here , the soldiers , I hear , give 8 s . a pairfor what wegetCd . for the making of . Thecloth cannot cost them more than half-acrown . If I was to get it I could have it for that ; but they , must get it considerably leas from taking large quantities ,, which their money empowers them

      to do . The trimmings , including . buttons ; and pockets , would cost about Cd ., and the red . stripos 3 d . moro , so that 6 d- making , 9 d . trimming nnd Htripca , and cloth 2 s . Cd ., altogether 3 s . 9 d ., and the other 4 s ; 3 d . is profit . The piece-master , out of this , gets 2 d . apair ; this is their gains for . taking them in and running the risk of the people stealing the materials . . . The remaining 4 s , Id , is the profit-of the warehouseman and the other parties connected with the trade . To get 4 s . a week clear by my business the women must slaved both night and day ; but really the prices are so bad ^ they won't even pay to have a candle to work by , so that to work at night is only to lose , one ' s time aiid money . " ... ... .

      If , as you say , your clear earnings throughout the year , taking one week with another , 'are only 2 s . 6 d . a . week , how do you manage to' support life upon that sum *— " I couldn't do _ it , but the fact is , I let apart of my place to young men at 2 s . a week . '' I was a draper ' s assistant formerly ; lived in the- first situations in London . JBatb , jand , other places ; but , of course , their saianes " are small , and one is obliged to dress well on . it .. ' Well , I got a situation in the country , so that I : might save ; something , which" I could hot do in town . I remained in , my country situation nearly two years , and saved close ! upon £ 50 in that time . . This I allowed to remain in my masters ' . hands ; thinking' it would be safe , so that I might not spend it ; He broke , and ! lost my '

      whole . There was not , money enough to pay the law expenses , or of coursb I should have had my money first as a servant . . Then I came back to London , I tried to get a situation , ' and fouhd , as Iwa 3 getting advanced in years , they preferred young men . Well , I couldn't starve , but I knew nothing that I could get a living at but as a draper ' s assistant , and that Icould ' nt get on account of my age . I can't fell you the distress of mind I was in of course , ' for I was very anxious lest in my old age I should be left to want . Where I was lodging then , a woman made soldiers' trowsers , and as my hands were lissome , and I bad occasion to use the needle frequently in the drapery trade , to ' tack the tickets on cloth and such like , why I thought I might get a crust by

      them . It was only living that I tried for , unless Id tailor . I couldn ' t have done . this ; if itbadn ' tbeeh from being accustomed to the needle . Well , I tried ; and tho man I did £ few for was very pleased with ' , and gave me some more . ' They' wassSJd ., ' a pair convicts' trowse ' ra . I takes a cellar at Is . 6 d . ; buys a little bit of canvass , and some straw ; sleeps on the floor , had a chair , and . table—that was all . Then tho man t . had done the trowsers for took , me to the City , and ' got ' me fipme better work . Then the warehbuse gave me as many as' fifty p « iir of Artillery irowsers to make . Then Ifoundl'TOs livine too . far . frommy work ; so I sells off my things

      forrj 4 s . Cd ., comes , to Holborn ;; there ; werei two rooms to Jet at 3 s . 6 d ., and I thought I coul . d . take a lodger at 2 s , ; a relation of mine promised kindly to lend me the'beds ; wKich ' theydiil , " ahd'rve fea'idfor 'emlittle by little since ; then . ¦ "•• I ' ve four lodgers at prosent , but . ' two of these ; I get nothing from , as they ' re put of situations * and they owo me a goodish sum now , \ . but ' may , be I shal l have it all , or . a good part , -when ' they '^ ets into work again . I ain ' , t had a clean uhirt for this month . . I really can ' t afford to pay for the washing . I ' ve never been able to get any new clothes since I ' ve been at the trade . Fourpenco I gave , for the very coat I ' ve goton ; from a gejntleman's servant , and the other things , has heeen gtfre to meby asking , which is very painful . " . i : ; "'' j . :-, ; ,. ., ( To , h ., Continu 0 d . h , . ' ¦

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      PfltsicAiJ .. VEBSC 8 MoBAii . -- 'Whether tho physical , wants slibvild bo remedied through the moral , or the moral through the physical , has been a question ' which has occupied the attention of philosophers and philanthropists for centuries . ' "Without attempting to d ' eoide the question , there enribe no doubt that when thephy 8 lcal condition is impaired it demands ) he first nttentioa . " Forinstance , a person while suffering from an asute attack of jout . would be unable to appreciate '' the subllmes ' t lessons of plillosophy , eventlidugh : enunciated : by the : diTino Plato . ' . JTow ; much -more welcome . to tho . sufferer would , be , a . box of Blnu- s Goiit and Rlieum'dticTlUs so efficacious in eradicntinftlHs distressing malady , ; ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ¦ " . ; ^ ; -:. '; : ¦ ¦ ' ? '' ' ynri ^ | : i ' Oatju ' on io the -Ptmiio . —Messrs . ' Morisoh and f the- ! r Sobietf of Hygeists and ^ Medical-Reforiners hereby caution thepttblio ' that they : hiiYe ; Po / sqrfc . Qf . conrieiion with theointments , p . illa , . and fannaeeouS powderyaold in ^ hemists ' . an ^ . dru ^ s shops . rr rng ^ ar i ? p 3 & » A 5 g « ft # i

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      Convicts , is ¦> ABBTRAiu .-rlt i isHin - contempl ation to form aisoparate cbny ( ct ' e ' stabl ; shment in Western Australia , under the s " uperin £ enderice of Commander flenoersori ; RiN : - i " . v ; ' " '" ¦ l ' ' ' " . " *' / ¦' , ¦ : -HbHEgw ^ -Thbugli ' an horiest'discharg& ofones dut y may ;» 1 for ^ thovtime ; : bn ' end' those ' . ifciopposesj ; * efc itjSUl ^ at last ? -, bejuatined'and ' admired . wn by the" very men who suffer from it . —Plwy * Apisliei

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      k . A : Hint poh Mr . ' iBARBr . —We can tell Mr . Bawjr how to finish : the : Houses of Parliament - " on the cheap / ' That portion which was first built is already said to be in a stAto of partial dilapidation "; so that if Mr . Bar , ry continue his present systeiiipf delay , hewUl be enabled to complete the end by means of the ruins of the beginning . After this , the Barry of . the next generation will of course complete the beginning by means of the ruins of ihe _ end ,. and thus this amusing , game may ( at a trifling expense ) be kept up for many ages . Liberty—To be n . Man is at- all times in all countries ,-a-title to liberty ; and he who doth not assert it deserves act ; ; the name of a Man .-Major Cartwnght ., . , ¦ .

      The Position of the Caledonian Railway Company at thi ? moment , is without parallel , even in the eccentricities of . the disastrous , history of public enterprise and individ ual rashness and credulity It is without dividend , without directors , without credit , and without much hope , unless indeed , ifc can throw off a load of obligations enough to sink a fleet of hoine ' ward-bound Indiamen . —Dail y News , . A , New'Reading For an Oib Pdispose . — The editor of tho Westfield Letter , an American paper , makes a strong appeal to his non - paying - up customers , heading his letter to them with tha motto : —

      " Help us ! Cash us ! or we sink . " The Neat Old Laut in Virginia . —This old lad y who scrubbed through tho floor and fell into the cellar , is but one among many of the very nice females with which our country abounds . We know a good lady in New Jersey , who whitewashed all the wood she burnt ; and another in Connecticut , who used three times a day to scour the nose of her lap dog to keep him from soiling the dish out of which he ate his meals . The same good lady took her own food through a napkin ring to keep ifc from coming in contact with her lips . — N . Y Trcmsylvanian . ¦¦¦• ¦ , ¦ A Sad Character . —The following advertisement appears in the January number of the AVu / York Knickerbocker ; " For sale , a poll parrot , cheap . He says a remarkable variety of words and phrases , cries ' Fire ! fire ! ' and « You rascal I'and ' Polly want a cracker ; ' and would not be parted with , bufe

      having been brought up . with a sea-captain , he is profane , and swears too much for the subscriber , being a pious man , and having children in the family , to whom his example is bad . On this account he will be sold a bargain . ...,. .: Indisposed Poor . —Poor people , when taken ill , rerj seldom want anything but reviving cordials ; and , afterwards , wholesome kitchen physic ; and then the wheels of nature being unclogged , ( new oiled , as it were ) will go round again with ease and pleasantness , by aid of that exercise which their labour gives them , The American Mak-of-War Chapei . — Man-ofwar ' s men in general make but poor auditors at divine service , and adopt every possible means to elude it . Often the boatswain ' s mates vrere obliged to drive the men to service , violently 8 wearmg upon these occasions , as upon every other— " Go to prayers , d——n you ? To prayers , you rascals ; to prayers . " \

      The Dewnport ' Telegraph Says : — " The labourers ' employed on the foundation of a house at Slaughterbridge , near Camelfprd , dug up a battle axe , a spear , and a spur , supposed to have lain there since the days of kins Arthur . Tradition says tbat oni that spot a sanguinary battle was fought between the troops of Arthur and those opposed to him ; and that the nephew of Arthur was killed in the fight . " Bold as a Lion . — " How do I look , Pompey V * said a young dandy to his servant , as he finished dressing . "Elegant , massa ! you look as bold as a lion . " "Bold as a lion , Pompey , how do you mean ? You never saw a lion . " " O , yes , massa ; I seed one down to massa Jenks , in his stable . " " Down to Jenks ' , Pompey ? Why , you great fool , Jenks hasn't got a lien . That ' s a jackass ! " " Can't help it , massa , you look just like him ! " — New York Poit . ^

      A Hist to Emerson . —We wish the author of Representative Men would publish a series of J ? &-pretentative Old Women , beginning with the members of the present government . < Shak ' speare . —Thbse who deny that Shakspeare was a learned man , should prove that Plato was translated into English in the time of Queen Elizabeth , for the celebrated soliloquy , "To he or not to be " is taken almost verbatim from the Philosopher , —Preface to " Langhorne ' s Plutarch . " Ww AND Wisdbrtl are different qualities , and ar 6

      rarely seen together . 1 A Cool Sophism . —The Temperance Members of the Admiralty , pretend that the crews of the New Arctic Expedition ought , above all others , to be deprived of the hitherto usual allowance of grog , as they . are sure to have lots of " cold , without . " , ¦ .. A Young : Frenchwoman , coming over froni Boulogne last week , and who appeared to be in a very interesting situation , was safely deliveredi b y : two female searchers of the . customs , of four sallons ' of '; brandjr , ' which was stowed in sixteen bladders , and . skilfully disposed in her peticoat ^ which was suspended to her shoulders by braces . ,

      OUT OF SPIBITS . "Is my wife out of spirits ? '' said John , with a sigh , As her voice of a tempest gave warning ; " Quite out , sir , indeed , " : said her maid in reply , " For she finished the bottle this morning . " Recently , in the north , ~ n . hawk pounced upon a weasel , and was carrying off his prize in triumph when he was observed to spread out his wings , and both came gradually to the earth . The hawk was dead , but the weasel , after turning round once-or twice , began deliberately to make a meal on the carcass of his enemj . " There is at present , " , says the Limerick Chronicle , '" filjing the office of alderman at Sidney , an ex-coRvict . who was transnorted from this citv .

      tnerity-six years ago , for the murder of a tailor . This elevated . personage , was , sentenced to death ' , but was reprieved through Sergeant Hill , his counsel , who : saved his life on a . point of law . " The last refuge of battered rakes , and the chief hope ' of younger brothers / lie in the good : nature of widows ; and , sometimes , of forward ^ maids . To ? 1110 by BiLtoT . —The author of the law , by which votes'in' the Roman Senate were taken by ballot , was one , Gabinius , a tribune of the people . It pave a very considerable blow to ihe influence of the nobility , as in this way of balloting it could not be discovered on which side the people gave their votes ; and took off that restraint they before lay under , by tk fear of offending their supiriors\—Melmoth's ™* y > " ¦ ; . ' ¦ ' I ' ' ...

      True SEU ' . lNTEREST . —They who have been so wise ; in . their generation , as to regard only their own supposed interest at the expense and to the injury of others , shall at last find , that he who has given up all the . advantages of . tho present world , rather than violate his conscience and the relations of life , bias . infinitely better provided for himself , and secured his own interest and happiness . — Buhop Butler . EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE OF POLITENESS ON THE

      PART OP AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR . The omnibus is in progress , when the following dialogue takes place . ¦ .-. - , . •¦ . Passenger . ' Stop $ t number two thousand three hundred qnd thirty-fouri' . Conductor . All right , sir ! , ( Omnibwpvlli vp ' in the middle of a dirty road ) Conductor / llfVQ you- are , sir . Two thousand three hundred and thirty-four ! Passenger ; ; Driye a little closer to the pavement . Conductor . ' Certainly , , sir ., ( fo the driver } but . in avoictioudenoiigh ' to be heard by tvery ime ~ inticle , ) You must pull up werry close to the kerb , Bill as the gentleman cleans his own boots . ¦ : ' : ' The editoh of tho Louisville Journal , retorting'a

      charge of personal u g liness against a contemporary , says : — " We are credibly informed that , after the birth of Harvey , none but handsome babies were born for several years ; . all the ugly material in the universe was used up in his creation ; " . Putting--the Caim-beforb-thb- Hohbb . —That very useful member , Mr . Ewart , has introduced a very useful bill for the . purpose of establishing public libraries throughout England . If the measure should be adopted by the government ( which , as it ia . a good one , will of course not be the case ) it would be a capital idea to propose some system , of national education ; after giving the people books it -would certainly be as well to teach them to read them . ' - - '•' ' ¦ * ¦ ; '' ¦ '¦• ¦ ¦ ¦

      " Be CAREPUi .. how you drink , or you'll wash the colour 'from your cheeks , ' ! " said a gentleman , at a fashionable party , as he handed a glass of water to a lady . — - " There is nodangor of your ever taking water enough-toremoyelhe colour from your face ! was the , good natured . retort . _ . . An enormous pikewa ' slately caiightnear Kirnem ' uir and in its stomach were discovered tatjtered pieces of the Morning Post and Blaekwood ' sJIfiigizitu Hood gives this graphio picture of an irritable mnn . i- « ' Hn < lies like a ¦ hedgehog rolling up the

      wrong way , tormenting himself with his prickles : A GBNTtEMAN bearing of the death of another , ' / I thought , " said he to a person in company , " you told me that'Tom Wilson ' s fever was gone off ?" "Oh , ' yes , " - replied the other ; " but I forgot to mention that he wasgone oflf along with it . ' ^ , MoRAi Powbr'I—As the operations of the mind are in all cases much mpre ' noble . than those of the body , so are the things ' that we compass " by tho faculties of our reason'and ' understanding of much gmfer ' TaM"thTff 7 »^ sirfttogs : that 'we bring to puss ^ y o 6 rt > bbl fdrce . ^ -C 4 cffK > i- ¦?¦ ;'• ' i \ 1 . ; ^ OLtflNSTiioxio ii a ^ - ^ When iteTeason of old establisVmeht 3 . is g 6 ne , U . t ' , ia ; aW ^ but ' . ' thei . burdiBnpf ' th ^ m . ' ; , This' is ' superstitiouslyio e ' mbalmraoaVbaS ^ . notlyorth ' . ' . an ^ thatiarem ' sed to-preserve it . ) Jt JB . ' tpliurn ; precious oil'iri the : tdmb { 'it is tO'Onerimeat anddrinktp the dead ,. not so much an honour to th 0 'deceascd as ' a ^ m ^^^ mimm ^ % 3 ^

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      ^^ smM ; e ^ rti ^ « , o ^ ., ^^ more important fact , that in reality the wealth-producer , pays lJaejiou . man ' s ^ taxeBaswellashis own ' , inaamucaas ' rents and profits are ! dfreetljr'or indirectly fiircished from " the" wealth produced' by the toilers ; " wEen a cheap and honest press : shall have fully enlightened the millions as to these matters , it will be time for those who fatten on the public spoil to set their houses in order , and retire decently while they may yet doao with impunity as regards past crimes . - John Bull is a , patient animal , and notwithstanding all that has been said of his " ignorant impatience , of taxation , " has hitherto done nothing more terrible than grumble . ' . But he may notr-he will nbt- ^ alwaya content himself with so harmless a protest against inisgovernment and robbery . ' Byron has written- ^ - ' ; I ' ve seen some nations ; like o ' erloaded asses ,

      Kick off their burlhens-meaiung the high classes . It is true that hitherto those classes have contrivec to regain their burdensome position , but t here will yet , and ere long , too , be another kicking ott . in that day will the "high classes" of this country who have so long rode roug h-shod over , the people , be able to maintain themselves in the saddle < aob if the people have the sense to comprehend their wron < rs , and the courage to assert their rights . 1 prepare them for both , the friends of progress will do well to lend their efforts to tho promotion of an enlighuned " impatience of taxation / and tne creation of a national demand for a radical reform oi the . government through the enactment 01 IM Charter—and something more !

      We should add that the Letters from France and Germany contain important revelations ot the designs of the Holy Alliance , and their tool , President Buonaparte . These letters form , perhaps , the most valuable feature of the Democratic Review . Every man should read them—at least , every man who desires to be informed of the truth with regard to the peoples and the tyrants of the Continent . Theietters in the present number show that great events are at hand .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 2, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1563/page/3/