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      REVIEWS . Casa Guibi Wikdows .-A Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browiimg . dneit When in the majestic presence of any of Nature ' s marvellous Trorks , whether lookmg up to the sublime old mount Jn t lifts its silent peak into the face of heaven 01 Ol ^ lpn Uen it is clothed in the terrors of the tempe ' st ? ^ thf beauty of its summer-calm-or standing in Hthe starry midnkhtSin God ' s own presence-chamber , we do not criticise , we ale lost admi ration . Itis with a kindred feelin g we approaehSie work . Of Mrs . BaiTett Browning . We feel t * hat prffi ^ U ^ S ± ^^ T ^ ? look up to her eZL

      ^^* , ^ pe&testfemalc miter ot grand and melodious poetry the world has ever produced . A glorious singer , large in heart and W Kex ttoTenayson , she is the noblest of our living Poets Ind only second to him because less an artist . She has the seer't Yisi 0 n and faculty d ! vme , in its highest and tij £ Z £ S tion : a soul running over with beauty luxuriantl y , as a summer-eve brimming over with smi- set 5 and a heart that warbles into song as naturally as rich notes gush from a sky-lark and fragrance comes from a rose . She has an imagination clothed in all the glory and tearful splendour of thS iSw Hot pathos pierces deep as human tenderness , and she is wondrouslv earned in the exquisite lore of love . " « u _ . uu& _ y

      In the Poem under notice we find her with richer exnpnVnnP * and a firmergrasp . of life . « Casa Guidi WutiZ ^ SSSl purpose , as , in this her latest and wisest work , the Poetess comes forth as the Champion of Freedom and Italy and well does she wrestle with Wrong and T yranny . The noem s of Italy , sunny Italy ! the land of the glorious but fatal dower of beauty . The Wand lovel y Italy , with its . peerless wealth of Genius its palace-home of Art , and its proud array of mavtyrs Italy Uo lull 0 startling memories and throbbing hopes . Finely does she bewail the broken hopes of ' 48 , and mint the

      red sun-rise ot retribution which will yet roll up the sky of the Future . Mrs . Browning resided in Florence durino- the revolu tionary struggle and was with the Italians ins pirit . She fought for them then with all her soul and sympathies She fights their battle now and for ever , with all the iiery force of her roused genius m verse , that beats and burns , with the living pulses of reality . She has dipped her pen in her heart , and her pencil m the hues ot her own life-blood , and the result is a poem that goes heart-home as an arrow . Here is some cutting sarcasm shot at Italian bravado . It is intensely bitter but wholesome . ' "How grown men raged at Austria ' s wickedness And smoked , —while fifty striplings in a row Marched straight to Piedmont for the wrong ' s redress ! Who says we failed in . duty , we who wore

      Black velvet like Italian democrats , "Who slashed our sleeves like patriots , nor forswore The true republic in the form of hats ? "We chased the archbishop from the duomo door—We chalked the walls with blood y caveats Against all tyrants . If we did not fight Exactly , toe fired muskets up the void To shoio that victory was ours of right . "We met , discussed in every place , self-bouyed

      Except , perhaps , 'i the chambers day and night : "We proved that all the poor should be employed , * And yet the rieh not worked for anywise , — ' Payers certified , yet payers abrogated , Full work secured , yet liabilities To overwork excluded , —not one bated Of all our holidays , that still at twice Or thrice a-week , are moderately rated . We proved that Austria teas dislodged , or would Or should be , and that Tuscan' / in arms

      Should , would , dislodge her , in high liardihood ! And yet , to leave our piazzas , shops , and farms , For tbe hare sake of fighting , was not good . "We proved that also , — ' Did we carry charms Against being killed ourselves , that we should rush On killing others ? What , desert herewith Our wives and mothers!—was that duty ? Tush S ' At which we shook the sword within the sheath , Like heroes—only louder ! and the flush Ba 7 i up our cheelcs to meet the victor ' s wreath . jSay , what we proved , we shouted—how we shouted , ( Especially the little boys did ) planting

      That tree ot liberty whose truit is doubted Because the roots are not of nature ' s granting A tree of good and evil ! -none , without it , Grow gods !~ alas , and , with it , men were wanting . " The foolish and fickle people after driving out the Grand-Duk and doing nothing , begin to cry for him to come back , and re turn he does , to crusb them into a deeper slavery with the ai of Austria . "Then , gazing , I beheld the long-drawn street Line out , from end to end , full in the sun , "With Austria's thousands . Sword and bayonet , Horse , foot , artillery—cannons rolling on . The key , O Tuscans , too well tits the . wards !

      Ye asked for mines ; these bring you tragedies—For purple ; these shall wear it as your lords . Ye played like children : die like innocents ! Ye mimicked lightnings with a torch : the crack Of the actual bolt , your pastime , circumvents . Ye called up ghosts , believing they were slack To follow any voice from Gilboa ' s tents , Hebe ' s Samuel !—axd , so , Grand-duke ' s cojie back ! And yet they are no prophets tho' they come . ThatawM mantle they arc drawing close ,

      Shall be searched , one day , by the shafts of Doom , Through double fold now hoodwinking the brows . Resuscitated inonarclis disentomb Grave-reptiles with them , in their new life-throes : Let such beware . Behold the people waits Like God . As He , in His serene of might , So they , in their endurance of long straits . Ye stamp no nation out tho' day ana night Ye tread them with that absolute heels which grates And griuds them flax from all attempted height . You kill worms sooner with a garden spade Than you kill peoples : peoples will not die ; 'Tis hard to shrivel back a day of G od ' s Once fix ' il for judinnent : 'tis as hard to change

      The people ' s , when they rise beneath their loads And heave them from their backs with violent wrench , To crush the oppressor . For that judgment rod ' s The measure of this popular revenge . " Here is some beautiful writing which rises into the sublime— " In the name of Italy Meantime , her patriot dead have benizon ! They only have done well : and what they did Being perfect , it shall triumph . Let them slumber ,

      No king of Egypt in a pyramid Is safer from oblivion , though he number Full seventy cerements for a coverlid . These dead be seeds of life , and shall encumber The sad heart of the land until it loose The clammy clods and let out the spring-growth In beatific green thro' every bruise . The Tyrant should take heed to what he doth , Since eveiy victim-carrion turns to use , And drives a chariot like a god made wroth , Against each piled injustice . Ay , the least

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      Dead for Italia , not in vain hath died . w , / d ' ? ' therefore , no one of these forlorn "vivp * t IVot Hers-who , at her husband ' s side , in scorn ° Out-faced the whistling shot and hissing wavo

      coiS ^ T ? WOn v nly . tcnderae ^ Mrs . Brovmin combines the finest masculine vigour . What can be loftie STJfeS ? * ? f ^™* « rin g tS o ^ rivettrlff * ' T V f Cal 1 f 01 ' mGfm ™ <* " <*** ' Z fm - T ° f T mided t 0 deatL What withe S ^ , ? 1 ! ? rtll ° P ^^ -mongeriDghvpocriteB wealn . es ; and what glorious poetry it is ! "A cry is up in England , whicli doth rim ? 1 he hollow world through , that for ends of trade And virtue , and God ' s better worshipping We henceforth should exalt the name of Peace And leave those rustwars that eat the soul— ' /¦ —j cat

      y | . . _ - --.- "" ^ ' j mmu uig oUi . il' ( Resides their clippings at our golden fleece ) . i , too , have loved peace , and from bole to bole w ut "" memorial , undecid uous trees , Would write , as lovers use , upon a scroll Ihe holy name of Peace , and set it liteh Where none should pluck it clown . On trees , I say _ . Not upon gibbets ! --With the greenery ' } ' Ut dewy branches and the flowery May bweet mediation 'twixt the earth and sky , Providing , for the shepherd ' s holiday ! Not upon gibbets ! -though the vulture leaves &ome quiet to the bones he first picked bare

      ¦ Not upon dungeons ! though the wretch who grieves And groans within , stirs not the outer air As much as little field-mice stir the sheaves . Not upon cham-bolts ! though the slave ' s despair iias dulled his helpless , miserable brain , And left bun blank beneath the freeman ' s whin lo sing and laugh out idiocies of pain - ' ^ or yet on starving homes ! where many a lip Has sobbed itself to sleep through curses vain 1 I love no peace which is not fellowship , And which includes not mercy . I would have Bather , the raking of the g uns across The

      world , and shrieks against Heaven ' s architrave Rather , the struggle in the slippery fosse Of dying men and horses , and the wave Kh ^ Ji in f-:- ; - Ell 01 l S . said ! --ByChriSfs own cross , And by the iamt heart of my womanhood , such things are better than a Peace which sits Leside the hearth in self-contented mood , And takes no thought how wind and rain by fits Are howling out of doors against the good ( JlK . ?^ ^ hat ! yo « p « we admits Ot outside anguish while it sits at home ? I loaaie to take its name upon my

      tongue-It is no peace . 'Tis treason , stiff with doom ,-1 is gagged despair , and inarticulate wron « - Annihilated Poland , stifled Home , Dazed Naples , Hungary fainting 'neath the thon « - And Austria wearing a smooth olive-leaf On her brute forehead , while her hoofs outpress a f he . e £ 01 x 1 these Italian souls , in brief . 0 Lord of Peace , who art Lord of Righteousness , Constrain the anguished world from sin and grief 1 ierce them with conscience , purge them vntlw-cdress And give us peace which is no counterfeit ¦'

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      Improved Public Omnibus . —On Wednesday much interest was excited in Great Scotland-yard by the appearance of a very light and tastefully constructed vehicle for public conveyance , whicli had been brought to the spot for the inspection of Commissioner Sir R . Mayne and other gentlemen previous to its proceeding on an experimental trip with the inventor , Mr . Franklmsld and friends . The examination showed the great

      conveniences and comfort in its construction , there being a se parate compartment for each passenger about thirty inches in width ( 14 inches wider than in the ordinary omnibus ) , thus affording also an effectual bar against the pick-pocket or other annoyances , but at the same time giving the power of communication between each compartment when desirable . Each is lined with crimson cloth , fitted with looking-glasses and effective ventilating apparatus , as also the means of

      communicating with the conductor by a bell This portion is arranged for 12 passengers , and the approach is by an outside gallery on either side , with a separate door to each compartment . The ascent to the roof is by a flight of steps of easy gradation , with a hand-rail on each side , placed at the back of the carriage . It bears the inscription of Franklinski's Patent Conveyance , " but is a great improvement on that exhibited in the Crystal Palace , particularly in respect to lightness , for although about 6 inches higher and nearly 4 inches wider than the ordinary omnibus , it is 2 cwt . lighter .

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      Houses for California . —Bending sheet iron into flutes or hollows is new way of constructing portable houses for California , if you choose to go there . California ? What 1 the tubular principle , the Fairbairn hollowness , the plate and rivet , going to California ? Even so . It is now almost as easy to go to the diggings with an iron house to your back , as to go to Alabama with a banjo on your knee . The Eagle Foundry at Manchester will tell us all about this corrugated iron , hi 184 ? , iron houses for California began to be made at those works . One such house was twenty feet long by ten wide ; it comprised a sitting-room and a bedroom , one outer and one inner door

      , and a window to each room . The walls and roof were formed of sheet iron , only one-eighth of an inch in thickness , in sheets sixty inches by thirty . The upright supports were of hollow rolled iron filled up with wood ; the doors had frames ) bar-mm with panels of sheet-iron , and the window shutters were similarly constructed . Every sheet , and every bit oi angle-iron and T-iron and bolt and rivet , were numbered , so that three or four men could put up the house in three or four days ; and thus was a fifty pound house built in a Manchester factory in a week , and neatl y packed up ship-wise to the far west . Another iron house for California was of loftier pretention—and if it ever come to the hammer of a Caliibrnian

      auctioneer , he will doubtless describe it in his advertisement as " a spacious detached residence , capable of accommodating a family of distinction "—it was twenty-seven feet long by twenty -two wide ; was two stores high , and had eight rooms ; but still its walls and roofs were mere sheet-iron . —Diclentfs "Household Words . " Change of Foutune —A private in the 4 th Light Dragoons has lately become entitled to about half-a-million of money .

      A Story of Fortune . —A young man who left Paisley about three years ago , to push his fortune in Australia , has within these few days returned home . On entering his mother ' s dwelling he found her engaged winding weft on weaver ' s pirns . After mutual greetings on the happy meeting , the son told his mother to cast by her pirn-wheel . * " Na , na , Jamie , " said she , » I'll no cast " by my pirn- wheel till I ken 0 ' something ^ better . " "Weel , " said Jamie , " look at this , " at the same time producing a bank cheque for £ 10 , 000 , the produce of his industry at the Australian gold diggings .

      Essex Calves . —Clielmsford seems resolved to emerge into notoriety . A popular definition asserts that dirt is , a good thing m a wrong place—and it would seem as it' every good thing or good idea which has the misfortune to wander into the twm-canital of Essex must , by getting into that decidedly wrong place , become mere dirt . Baily ' s statue of Chief Justice Tindal was a very good thing before it was mounted on the town pump . International communication was a good idea before it found its way into Chelmsfora . But the old ladies and gentlemen of that town—with the facility for practical blunders which our readers have so frequently been called on to admire —have contrived to cover this respectable principle with ridicule . Wanned by some tardy remembrance of the

      amenitiesgenerous and cordial on both sides of the Channel—which passed between the people of London and the citizens of Paris in 1848 , when France was a free country , and the inhabitants of the two capitals could speak their sentiments with equal unreserve , — Chelinsford , after turning the subject over in its own slow mind for four years or so , has at this late period and unseasonable season finally bethought itself of taking its own modest share in those pleasant interchanges of national courtesy . Searching on the map for a town of something like its own degree of importance it has ultimately fallen upon Caen—probably selecting its correspondent on the principle made famous by Fluellen , of the initial letter common to each .

      Having chosen Caen for their especial correspondent , —the men of Chelmsford , forgetful of all the indifferences of time and events , proceed to indite to it a letter of peace , congratulation , and benediction . Fancy the Napoleonic mayor of Caen smirk . ing over this p imple epistle , and inditing an answer in formal phrase , in which he assures his correspondents of his profound consideration for the burgesses of Chelmsford I These Essex friends of ours have , we repeat , a capacity for doing the right thing at the wrong time—for putting a good thing in a bad place—which amounts to a sort of genius . They are the men to have congratulated Silvio Pellico on the success of his poems , after those poems had procured him a dungeon in Spielberg . — Aihenceum .

      Drinking . —The Springfield ( Illinois ) Register relates the following— " In March last , three men in this city agreed to drink themselves to death . The first died in April , the second in May . The survivor on the happening of the last event , showed symptoms of breaking the compact , and he kept sober two or three days afterwards , but honour revived , and he died in Juno . This is literall y true . " A Moxsteh Ship . —It is in contemplation by one of the most eminent and enterprising of Liverpool merchants , to build an iron screw steam-ship of ten thousand tons burthen for the American trade .

      General Paciieco . — We are sorry to learn that the celebrated South American General Paciieco , who is known as the founder of liberty in the Uruguay , and who recently occupied the distinguished post of ambassador at Paris from that republic , was , on his return to the scene of his patriotism , attacked by a violent vellow fever , at Rio Janeiro .

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      GUIDE TO THE LECTURE ROOM . Litevavy Institutioni John Street , Fitzroy Square . Friday evenings \ S \ anSu"tSS ^ ^ Sept 12 Ul ^ ' ^ ^ > ' ™ ° » «* LechST 1 Hall ? ^ SU Holbovn-SeP t- 12 th , [ 7 J 1 P- W . Periitt , will c ££ ^^ Si 2 SJs . Btre ^ Blackfes *»* - * *• - ™ -l ^^ g £ S Socicty ' three te h ™ tlie Hu ^ w **™ tS'SS . SS ^ S ? " ' Eethnal « reen .-Sept . 6 th , [ 8 ] , Mr few ^ K ^ A ? ! ™^ ^ 'f ^ *« " » . » , Cliuwh Lane , Whitechapel .-lweiy bunday , Monday , and Wednesday ( 8 ) , a Lecture or Discussion .

      3 lSS S ^^ ' ' * Terrace ^ Sept . 6 , [ Sfl Commercial Hall , Philpot Street , Commercial Road , East-Sept . 12 th , Ui a . m . J , Charles Southwell will lecture . —Theological Discussions every bunday evening [ 7 ] , Tuesday [ 8 ] , Thursday [ 8 ] , and Saturday [ 8 ] . Democratic Mutual Instruction Society , White Horse , Hare Street , iiethnal Green . Lectures and Discussions every Sunday evening . St . Ann ' s Young Men ' s Total Abstinence Society , at the Eclectic Institute Denmark Street , Soho , every Monday evening [ 8 ] . " ' Social Institution Charles Street , Old Garratt , Manchester . —Sept . 12 th f 11 a . m . ] , a Lecture . Progressionist Hall , Cheapside , Leeds . —Sept . 12 th [ Gil a Lecture . Eclectic Institute , 14 , Garthland Street , Glasgow . —Sept . 12 th f 7 il Mr Scott , Confessions of a Roman Catholic' L u '

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      oxen , seized him by the hair , and dragged him a little wav into the wood . There two other men joined him , and the three nrur dered the unfortunate man . The girl distinctly saw the crime perpetrated . Greatly terrified she took to flight , and after proceedmg some distance saw a cottage . She rushed into it , and found a woman . She told the woman what had occurred , and said that she had the money on her . This money the woman took and fastened in a drawer , and in compliance with the prayer ot the girl placed her in a bedroom for safety . After a , while three

      ¦ ^ oJ ^ FT * ? Mr i . Vienna J ° urnals contain «» account of a very horrible aftair : » A peasant of Galician Podolia went ten days ago to the fair of Zharaz to sell a pair of oxen On his return , having been drinking rather too much , he placed his money in a girdle , which lie fastened round the body of his . daughter , who accompanied him . On passing through a wood a man stopped them and imperatively demanded their money or their lives . The peasant declared that he had no money on him ; but the manknowing that he had sold his

      men entered the cottage-they were those who had committed the murder . One of them was the woman ' s husband . Ihey told her that they had killed the man . and that they had been dreadfully disappointed on finding no money on him . The woman , with a loud laugh , produced the belt , and told them that the girl who had confided it to her was in the next room The murderers manifested great joy at the sight of the cash . But after a while they reflected that the girl might denounce them , and they deliberated as to what they should do with her . Ihe poor creature distinctly heard all they said . Thev

      determined to kill her , and that no trace of the crime might * remain , resolved to bum her to death in the oven . They proceeded at once to light the oven , and in a short time the poor girl heard the flames crackling . Driven to desperation , she looked abcut for means of escape . Fortunatel y she ascertained that the wall was only of clay , and she was able to make a hole in it large enough to creep through . She escaped , and after proceeding some distance met two gendarmes . To them she related what had occurred . They proceeded at once to the cottage , and arrested the three murderers and the woman .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1852, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1695/page/13/