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      THE CHAKTLSTSADDRESS TO IRELA . XD BT W * . S . VILLIERS SAXKET , X . A . Ais " Avray with this pouting aad sadness . " Away "with this doubt and suspicion , Sweet Erin , and har what -we say ; TVe -wish to improve your condition , And trust 'tis the readiest way . Believe not the folks who would tell you That Chartists but aim to destroy ; Oh I no—ti 3 the fellows who sell you Alone could such pleasure enjoy . The rich and the noble ' are seeking For justice to Ireland , tis true ; Bat their justice , for all their fine speaking , R * H 1 yield but small justice to you . Twill lesve you to eat your potato

      With salt , in your wretched mad cot , ¦ yrhile they , with their fine sauce Tomato , \ CiH scaVca give a sigh for your lot . Oh ' . thini not that we would dissever Xhe Unis that unit * to the Priest ; r * o tnaw that his wish has been ever To liihien your sorrows , at least . Then let us join hands for the Charter , Tis CLiisian—twill raise up the POOR , And Kt rid of the fallows that barter Year rights , ihtir ewn gain to secure . For the BALLOT , alone , never heed it , Ez ^ tp' they will give y&u the vote ; Jot & button , you know , you don ' t need it , r ^ ess you have first got s > coat . lien hurrah far the Charter , if granted , Two hundred ' twill give you and o ' er , To reie for REPEAX . when tis granted ; Or , if you wish—anything more .

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      TAIT'S MAGAZINE FOR JAM ARY , 1841 . Tail goes on in his old way , fully sustaining the character he lias so long maintained . His political article this month is a capital shew up of the Palinerston policy . "We extract the following passages : — " War , say the people of this country—in the name of the common sense , we ask for what are we to go to \ r ar ? Syria ! Turkey ! the integrity of the Ottoman empire ! What are these thinp to us * Can aay arz&Bgement of the affairs of the barbarian , Mehtmet Ali , and these of the still greater barbarian , the Sultan , be fraught with mischief to us and the world equal to what would follow tf wai were to break out between us &nd Trance ? Certainly not , is the answer of every

      rational man . How then , is it poaible that on such a pretext war can arise ? Satisfied , as each man is , of the absurdity of such a reason for disturbing . the peace of Europe , all pursue their ordinary avocations : comforting themselves with the notion that our neighbours are an excitable people , much given to fierce gesticulation on trifling occasiuiis ; but on the whole far too sensible to forget their real interests in maintaining pease , and stir up a war with England on account of Kfflia idle unintelligible disputes about Syria , Egypt , ind Turkey . The Minister for Foreign Affairs is , therefore , allowed to do as he pieases ; and that he pleases to create a disturbance in Europe , is but too manifest to all who will . take the pai n * carefully to watch his j conduct throughout the whole of the proceedings relat- j ing to what is called the Eastern question . "

      After a few remarks upon tho state of parties in j France , the writer proceeds thus : — " One of the greatest calamities that could at this SKiment happen to the civilized world , would be a war between France and England ; and any one who delibe- [ lately risks the immediate bringing about of this dire event , ought , if he wish to escape the execration of his . fellow men , be able to show that be was driven by an overwhelming necessity to run so dangerous a haiard . But , in the present ca * e , no such excuse can Xe offered ; ignorance o i the probable consequence cannot be pleaded ; j Lord Pahnerston well knewas did one » t all ac- t 7 uiit ± i 1 fc * ¦»» sm ^

      , every J rLJIXi . I *** ' * rr * rr * I * . j * w w } ^» " ***** » » w * rf w ** w w quainted with France , that if he pursued his proposed : scheme with respect to Syria , it might be utterly im-j possible to prevect aa immediate declaration of war by the French people . Whether peace or war wonld result was as uncertain a contingency , as the number that ; would appear upoa the throwing of a die . For what tien has this risk been encountered ? What interest of I EnEland was at stake ! What wise purpose is sought j to be attained ? Wherefore , we reiterate , are we , at < this moment shedding blood , squandering treasure , and '

      risking tie terrible calamity of a general war ? « hat j ii tte answer hitberto given to this question t It is ; impossible to dissever any that s rational man -can f > r a j moment listen to . The integrity of the Turkish Empire ? In the first place , we ask fearlessly how does this supposed integrity concern us ? aad , in the second place , i this integrity bss bean long since destroyed , and was , j by the very proposal to make Mehemet Ali sovereign of ' Egypt , utterly se * at nought Bnt Mehentet Ali , if par- i mitted , woeia have become undisairbed mister of Syria . Weil , and what then ? He ill-treated the Syrians , j Is this a reason for interfering in the afiitrs of another j people . ' A * k the Irish Catholics if England ill-treats them . Ask tke inhabitants of Lower Canada if Eng- j land has beta & merciful master . Let the thousands of i her pecple slain by the sword , by famine , by frost , and " ; misery inswer . ' The pretence is ridiculoos . Mehemet ' Ali iil-treited the Syrians ; therefore we have spread j

      war sod drfalatioa over their land , and levelled their cities with the eartk . If ours be a merciful considera-j tion of their misery , this is a strange w * y of showing j it ! Bat it was necessary to counteract Russia . We i confess we cannot understand how this waa to be effected by destroying the only power in the East that J was steadily pursuing a system of improvement and ] cvilizstioa . Mehemet Ali powerful , might have been useful ally—checked in his plans , reined abroad , crashed at huine , he is useless as a friend , while be may be a vengeful asd annoying enemy . We pretend to desire the improvement of the East—we say that we with to Bee European civilization spreadmgjever Africa ' snd Asia ; ana , in order to forward iU ' advance , we destroy ihe onJy power wLich has hitherto successfully attempted to bring the natives of those regions even into the path which leads to this desired goal I * * * War once declared ia Esrope , thai spirit will be np and doing , over every psj : cf the Continent . And who will S 3 V that here in Britain and in Ireland all will be

      peaceful ? Is there no discontent among our people ?— j is it perfect quiet ia Ireland ? Let us not hide the truth from ourselves . Tiiroughout England aad Scot- land , more e *]« tciaily in the manufacturing districts , , the ¦ working classes are bitterly hostile to those institu- _ j tions by which they are txciudrd from political rights . In some ports of the country th ^ y have , in a- tune of yrof jand peace , risen in open insurrection , and are only kept down in sullen obedience , because they have learned that violence is useless . This desire to resist ii not confined to a few—the feeling of discontent is widely spread ; and this fueling will not be soothed or j alhyed by inereasing the misery which gave it birth . But war will inevitably do this—millions irill be again ! thrown sway—our burthens , already far too heavy , 1 will become insupportable ; duconitnt will , all over i

      the land , break out in open violence ; and an armed j effort will be made to attain those ends , which , if peace eontinue , the people hope to attain by the gradual advance of truth , and the increase of -knowledge among all ranks . This wauid be , even for those who j kope , in -a-ar , » means of staving off the evil day of : reform , a far worse result than peaceful change ; for j with this violeat tumbling down of old institutions , ruin will c :-iae l » r and wide . The debt which hangs round osr nects , a vast and almost overwhelming burthen , wiU be shafctn off , without regard to the direful , reffering which must follow . All improvement must , i for the tune cease . The millions which , even now , J find a scanty subsistence , will then be all too many for j our narrow limits ; the most terrible convulsions will

      occur ; and , if succeeding generations may be destined to see happier times , we at least shall be miserable , la Ireland confusion is yet more likely to happen . At iMs present time the leaders of the Tory party are fearful of accepting power , be&inse tht y dread insurrection and civil war in that ill-governed land- Will the chaace of cvil be lessened by the miseries of wax . ' If the powerful hsjal of England be once withdrawn , or if tke Irish once successfully resist our dominiec , a civil "srar will follow that will vury mncb resemble the war of extermination between the whites and the blacks of HsytL The Catholic and the Protestant have so long been opposed to each other , sneb a fearful spirit of ha * . e and revenge T » " » been aroused , thai an internecine war would be the inevitable conseoiiecce of any

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      away to the Duke ' s—knocked at the door—delivered tty credential—and , in a trice ,, received for answer : ' The Duke of Wellington desires his compliments to you , and will be happy to see you to-m « rrow at eleven o ' clock . * " The morrow seemed a long time in coming . I slept little that night—I sleep much sounder here . I revered the character of the Duke . I believed that he was at the head of ' the order , ' which I had , all my life-time honoured , and for which I had suffered so much . I thought that he was the most powerful man in the country : and I hoped—it was that hope which most excited my reverence : I beg you always to remember that , Sir—I hoped that , through him , I could obtain amelioration for my poor wretched factory children and their miserable parents ; and that when I had told him the true state of the working classes of the North , tie wo » ld stretch out his powerful arm to sare them from a state of wretchedness to which philosophy alone could have reduced them .

      " Fnll of these fondly cherished hopes , I arrived , five minutes before eleven , on the morrow , at Apsley House . I had often pleaded before the people for the emancipation of my poor infant slaves : now I was about to tell the Great Duke himself how they were tormented . " I was shown into a waiting room , which looked into the Park . The splendid china service , emblematical of the Duke ' s military achievements , adorns that room . I amused myself by looking at the pictures ; but my mind was fully engaged in framiug a sort of introductory address .

      " I fancied that there would be much form in the approach to so great a man ; for , although I had previously companied with nobles , he seemed , in mv estimation , to cast a dimness on all their coronets , i was very wishful not to disgrace you or myself , ' and thus mar my object on the threshold of our acquaintance I might have saved myself all that trouble : I found that Wellington was as easy of access as a Fixby neighbour . The clock had Hot finished striking before a door opened behind me , and a very pleasant , but rather faint and shrillish , voice said , ' Good morning

      > lr . Oastler , will you walk this way ? ' I did not know who it was that spoke , I turned and looked . The sound came from behind a door which was epen . I moved onward . I needed no introduction . The Duke stood before me in his dressing coat I knew the welldefined features . What could I do or say ? I was in his presence ere I was aware . No introduction , no speech , no anything was needful . He smiled , and said , ' Walk forward , Sir . ' I did ask him to ' allow me to shnt the doors . ' ' Oh no , Sir ; walk forward , I will cl « se the doors , ' was bis reply .

      'I did just as he bade me ; and then stood in the middle of that three-windowed room where the Duke transacts business , still facing the Park , feeling , for all the world , ' as queer as Dick ' s hat-band , " not knowing either what to say or do . I was in the Duke of Wellington ' s presence , however , about to render service to the aristocracy and the poor , as I thought , and that was enough for me- There was , in the middle of the room , a long table , loaded with books and papers , piled and arranged with scrupulous order and neatness . The sofa , too , excepting at the end , . next an ea * y chair , by the fire-place , was carefully filled with what seemed to be Parliamentary papers . When Wellington had closed both doors ( little did I think of prison doors then , though his Grace was as careful to secure those doors as our well behaved and gentlemanly turnkeys are to fasten these ) , he walked towards me and said , pointing to the vacant Bpace on the sofa , ' seated , Sir . '

      " Again I was obedient . But how can I describe my feelings when I found myself squatted on the sofa , and England ' s Dake standing before me , and in Apsley House , too ? I really felt ashamed , Sir . I felt out of my pla * , and quite unsomfortable ; but could not at first tell the Duke so . He asked me , ' Well , Mr . Oastler , what is it you wish to say to me ? ' And then I told him that I could not sit in his presence , and in Apsley House , whilst he was standing . " ' Ob , ' said be , ' if it will please you better 1 will sit' Xo sooner said than done . He was seated on my left hand , in the arm chair , in a second , and then he said , Well , Mr . Oastler , proceed . " I still felt very so-so-ish—under restraint , and all that sort of thing . I told the Duke so : he smiled and answered , ' Yon must fancy you are talkicg with one of your neighbours at Fixby , and then we shall get on . '

      • ' The name of Fixby , spoken so pleasantly by Wellington , acted like a charm upon me . All uneasiness , reserve , and hesitation was instantly removed . I felt as much at home , tete-a-tete with his Gxrco of Wellington , as if I had been in my own arm-chair , chattering with your under-steward , Chad wick . " I told him ' I sought for neither place nor pension ; that my only wish was to serve my country , by explaining to him what J knew was the real condition of the inhabitants of my own neighbourhood . That , said the Duke , ' is a very good hearing—go on . ' ' Well , my Lord Date , ' I continued , ' there two very great mistakes , whieh 1 wish , if possible , to rectify . " 'What are they ? ' asked his Grace . ' Yoor Lordship andy * u : Lordship ' s order , the aristocracy , think , that the working classes wish for the plunder of your estates , and to deprive you of your honours . "—• Aye , ' said

      Wellington , it looks very like it '—My Lord Duke , it is only their enemies who say bo , the great manufacturing miliitnnairti , who have an Interest in keeping the working classes and the aristocracy at variance , that they may the more easily fleece both ; it is they who tbus traduce the operatives . ' His Grace seemed struck with this remark , and listened with great attention for my proofs and arguments . I told the D'ike of the cruelties endured by the poor Factory Children in the north—of the weight of their oppressions , and of the parties who were deriving profits , and making immense fortunes by the hateful Factory System—and how they were pushing the old country gentlemen out of their estate * , making the people believe that the aristocracy and clergy were their only tyrants , and that these mercenary men , were endeavouring to constitute themselves an aristocracy , and to plunder the Church .

      "I assured him that the only way the aristocracy and clergy could regain the affections of the people , and save theaiselves from ruin , was , that they should use their powerful influence , to rescue the working classes from the thraldom and delusion in which the money and steam powers held them , in a word , to exemplify Christianity in their conduct towards them . 1 urged him to support . Mr . Sadler's Ten Hours' Factory Bill . He promised to give the subject his most serious attention . " When we bad closed that part of the subject , I said , ' There is another error , my Lord , which is producing much mischief , and which the enemies of the people , who , unhappily for England , are now supposed to be their friends ( this was in the summer r i 1332 ) , are perpetually ringing in their ears , nam Jy , ' tkat the Duke of Wellington is a tyrant—the enemy of the working classes , and that he wishes to govern them and feed them by swords , bullets , and bayonets . Now ,

      my Lord Duke , 1 have come to head quarters to ask , —is it so ?—in order that , if such be not the case , I jn » y be able to remove that false impression from the minds of the people . " The Duke smiled , but spoke earnestly , when he replied , — Those who £ « y so of me , cannot know me . What can I gain more than I have gained , by the sword ? ' We had a good deal of conversation on lids and other subjects . I explained my views fully to him . He seemed impressed by iny observations , —said I had opened a new field of contemplation to . him—wished me to call upon him when Icame again , to London , and to write freely to him , on any subject which I wished to communicate . He particularly wished that I would call the next day , before I left London . When my hand and the Duke's hand were joined , at parting , I did feel proud . Sir ! A few minutes before twelve the Duke rose , and yerj kindly told me that he was engaged with other persons , and before I left the room , they were announced by his valet .

      " > ext day I caL' cd with my dear friend , my most faithful friend , the Rev . G . S . Bull , at Apsley House , when we had a very nice bit of talk with the Dake ; and before we left , I assured his Grace , —' That I would strive to remove the prejudices which his enemies were implanting in the minds of the working clashes . - " Ycu remember , Sir , when I returned to Berkleysquare , how pleased you were , when I told you all this , and much more . Now , tell me , Mr . Thomhill , was it likely ; hit I should then predict , that ycu were only alluring me towards this net ?"

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      remedy be at hand , we moat leave them to other governors , and bear the consequences of owe acknowledged wickedness , or weakness , or both . "Bui the present condition of the labourers of these kingdoms is not of their own bringing on . They are not idle . Nowhere else in this wide world is a race of men to be found that works bo long , and so hard , and so aUadlly , as they do . Why it would not be too much to say that , leaving all the men entirely oat of the question , the wives and children of our fellow-countrymen raise and make more of all kinds of stuff that is

      eaten , worn , and used , for the wants and enjoyments of life , than an equal number of full-grown men in any other part of ike earth ! The like of what ia done by weak women and rerf babes , in these island * of ours , was never heard of since the world began ! Is it not tight—ia it not high time the wrath of a holy God was poured out upon us , for the awful sin of ever having suffered such a monstrous violation of nature to become a common household thing with us ? Yea , and indeed it is ; and God only knows whether the day ef ' graee be not already gone down , and the night of his fierce anger even now darkening upon us !

      " It were quite enough for the wisest and mightiest of statesmen , had they nothing else to deal with than this living heap of uneasiness and fiery restlessness , which hunger , and thirst , and nakedness , and want have made in the land . This , of itself , one would think , were something to look at and sorrow over—to make evtry-day rulers , and all others who could not help seeing it , cast about in their minds , and . take counsel on « of another as to the best and speediest way , not merely of helping all such as for the time were suffering need , but of so settling things as to put it in their power to fend for themse ' . ves and their own , without asking or wanting help from any body for the time to come . Tizis ia not bo very silly—so rery frivolous a business , but that our wise . men , and great men , and good men might wAl undertake it without danger of losing either their reputation or their labour , were they

      tut for once in earnest , and set about it as if they meant to do , and would do , something . But the ' something' they would have to do is not talking , or speech-making , or any imaginable species of political thimbleriggery . That will not do in England now . What millions of our cuuntrymen want , tusk for , and must and will bave , is bread—bread for themselves and for their children . They are famishing for lack of food . Fair shows will not stiltho guawings of hunger ; juggler ' s tricks will not fill their empty bellies ; books give them no warmth agaiust the cold , aad they are as forlorn and comfortless as ever , after the stoutest argument , or the most orthodox sermon in the world . You may talk down the north wind when it rages at its height , or coax the tossing , tumbling sea to sleep , like a peevish child ; but this storm you cannot hush—these waves you cannot stay , save but by one means , for hunger will have bread .

      " The causes ? Aye , that is the sorest and saddest thing of all ; for who can bear the probe to search the angry wound ?—who will allow that the sin , the blame , and the bate are on his own head ? and yet are we all verily guilty a 3 concerning our brother . Our feeble voice has not been unheard on this pressing—this perilous Bubject , but it has been unheeded ; and unheeded , too , we greatly fear , will ba the warnings , few and far between , that have been given by those whose rank and office ought to cause them to be attended to . They are but as the vain alarm the lone watcher

      gives , who wakes too late to rouse tbe sleepers from their heavy pillow . The fire is Joose—it burns—it spreads , and in its strong arms encircles the careless city and its deaieens . When we fiud such men as Archdeacon Wilberfurce—to name as © ne of the last of the good men whose lips the Lord has touchwi—step forth to prophesy against the land , we could weep to think that such aid should come , but come too late At least we fear so . We hope it may be otherwise . Hear him , then , ye wbo will not hear us . He has spoken almost our Yery words : —

      Is it not true that there is a great and widening separation iu this Uud , between the various classes of Bociety , and even between man and man ? Thus the bunds , whi » h of old beld the high and low of English society together , are melting away . Where , for instance , among our vast manufacturing population , are the old bonds of mutual affection and respect ?—of national care on the' one hand , and generous trust upon the other , by which the peasantry and gontry were united ? And this poison caunut be anywhere present in the circulation of the body politic , without reaching more or less to every part It creeps on to the trading classes—to the shopkeeping classes , and thereon , even to the rural districts . This change is passing upon the very conditions of social life in England ; and , at the same moment , and from tho action of the same causes , the straiter bonds of family life and eubjecti » n are weaTing out—children are becoming more independent , and brethren , therefore , more disunited . "

      " We shall have more to say on some of these sad things at another time ; bnt how , we may meanwhile ask , can all thift , and w ^ rae , be otherwise than it is , since God " s right and whoksome way has been forsaken , and enr own wicked ways fo'lowed in the stead ? God made man to be the life-upholder of bis household , and thereby laid deep within us the strong foundations of lore and law . Huiuw is the seat Of all trun happlncoethe school of all trua virtue , order , loyalty , and national security . Men who have good homes will make good laws , and die rather than suffer the safeguards of their homesteads to be broken in upon . But what of men who have no home ? And can he be said to have a home whose wife , whose children—those who still bear that name , but are far from being what that name

      should signify— are torn from his bosom , and snatched from his knee , toiling 1 ere and there , day and night , for thb husks—the draff of the bodily life , and not even enough of that ? For ages we have bten bearing down the yco » en and husbandmen , and handicraftsmen of our country—grinding thuiu absolutely , and without a figure , into dust ; and now behold the fruits ! The end , we fear , is drawing nigh . Our accursed selfishness—our Jove of gold , as the means of fulfilling tbe sinful and wicked lusts of life , has dune it all . So that it is well with ourselves , we liepd not , &sk not , bow it stands v ( ith our poorer brotheT ! ' No reasonable man , ' says the good Archdeacon , ' can doubt that the idolatry of property is at this time one of our prime national sins . And has not Q ) d so ordered things , that rich and mighty nations , when they do become

      entangled in this idol-worship , shall become also his avengers on themselves ?—that the careless , selfish rich shall bec « me the prey of the untrained , violent nee ^ —that the feebleness of all human institutions , when they rest not upon God ' s Word , shall sooner or more late be proclaimed by all the agonies and horrors which wait on civil strife ? ' Yes , ' vielent , ' because needy ;' nature ' s first law—self-preservation , will set itself right with us at last Put down , kept at bay , and baffled it may be for a time ; but like Sxmsjn , when sboru of his strength as it was thought , and brought out to be a sport for the Philistines , ft will gather all its inward , hidden might for one last heave ; and in the deaththroes of despair , will bring tower and temple toppling down—a ht-ap ot hideous ruin and ghastly desolation . "

      " The Monk , " a brigand story , from the Swedish , ia a stirring legend . " The New Poor Law" gets " a terrible whopping" iu & rattling balJad under that title , tbe only fault of which is its unqualified praise of the Tories . There is also a ' Crumb Basket , " apparently made up of contributions , from which we j ; ive the following awfully true description of " Tbe present state of the People" : — " Prese . n f State of the People : From i / ie note * of a Trartller . —Aa the result of the whole tour , allow me to make one or two obsc-rvationa . I speak , not only in my own name , but in that also of my illustrious and clear-sighted camerade , who has been over a part of the same ground , I think , about five or bix years ago .

      " 1 st . There is much more misery , real , abject suffering , poverty , and rags in the streets now than formerly . I don't know when I have been so ovtrwhelmed with the conviction that this is , indeed , the country of the rich and the poor—the millionaire and the mannikin . I assure yon , that not only ' many a time and oft , ' but almost always , 1 have beeuffllled with a holy horror at being clad in garments , not of the lowest kind , when I saw so m » ny hungry a : ; d naked "wretches , shivering ' , and cowering , and flitting past me in the face of the broad-eyed day , and by the glare of our luxurious nfghtilluuiinators . Once in particular , I never Bhall forget tie tear-dimmed countenance of Baron *••••» , when he came home late , and related to me how ho had emptied his peckets of all his zhiUivgn , to give te the poor , abandoned pauvrts hunteuses , who had crossed his path home : ' I could not bear it , ' he exclaimed , 'it went too far . "

      " Snd . Of all the hells of vice , starvation , and infamy I have ever heard of , GHasgow is decidedly the worst Crowded by the tramping offkcuni of used-np millworkers , Irish immigrants , and Highland bog-hut men , it exhibits a crawling mass , such as I hope will never cross my eyes again , in any country , whether worshipping God or devil . " 3 rd . There appears to be a great increase of silent misery amongst the people . I mean that the face * of the lower orders in general exhibit decided marks of homeless , cheerless , comfortless existtnee ; though their general bearing and clothing do not , as yet , announce the shocking pauyer . " 4 th . ' Wealth' and 'improvement' appear to be progressing ; new houses and new warehouses , new palaces and new pagodas , meet the eye at everyjrtep . So far , bo good ; if it is only not taken from the many and given to the few . 0 law , law t 0 man , man , how weak thou art

      fith . Presbyterian Scotland , appears to be a-head of Puritan England in the good new system of stopping up private roads , pretty paths , long drawn lanes , and public walks , and ia enclosing every foot of common , and otherwise improving the ' garden of the earth . ' ' "Sth . On the other hand , we are decidedly below Scotland , in our attachment to local liberties , and country sports , Hundrtds of places in Scotland , especially along the borders , have very well organised societies and clubs for ruuning , leaping , shooting ' ballplayiug , bag-pipe music , ' putting the ataae , ' and various other old popular games and amusements , as distinguished from the aristocratical amusements of our more favoured land . "

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      Owenism has its due modicum of attention , in the following quiet wipie-down : — " Owbntsm . —However powerful mine ' kind of folly may be for mischief , I do believe that this one particular sort is beneficial in the way of burlesque . Of all the incomprehensible philosophy that mad imagination ever invented , nothing , I believe , ever equalled this ! What think you of man having acted contrary to his nature from the beginning of the world ; and having done se , because ail circumstances ( that is , every thtnc ) , have been contrary to nature also ; which unnatural circumstances have had an

      absolute power over the destinies of men : and yet Robert Owen can change all men and all things ; or , in other words , can make ali things as God meant them to be , but could not make them 1 Now , do you believe that any serious harm can come of this f For my part , I think it a very good satire on modern philosophy and folly . No danger from them , you may depend on it ; ' but I admit that the fact of such notions spreading at aU , at this time , ia an alarming fact . It shows that large quantities of people are convinced of the necessity of a great change , without the remotest notion of what that change ought to be . "

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      REPUBLICAN APHORISMS . BY ARGUS . Republican Government ia the least complicated in sy ' stem , and tho most easily rectified whore an error from unforeseen circumstances may have crept into its policy , aud deranged tho state machinery . If our reader * will tax their memories with the pa 9 t , for some eight or ten weeks , they will fiud in a " case" of punishment for " libel" ( that is daring conscientiously to " tell tho truth , " " nothing bai the truth , " but something less than " the whole truth ;") a patriotic individual unjustly imprisoned , was forced by the authorities to perform a task , that even to a felon , who had set all moral and social lawa at defiance , would have been properly considered an unwarrantable , bestial , and revolting duty ;

      yet , this man , bred in the " upper" ranks—according to estabhbhed phraseology—was accustomed in his private circle to practice and to be treated with decency and well-merited respect ;•—a person of acknowledged talent aud education ! yet , because he had leagued himself with right against mightbecause he asserted that poverty is no crime—because he olaimed equal rights , and equal laws , to the honest poor man , as well as to the wealth-privileged aristocrat—because he claimed by right of birth—of country—and of character and justice , a voice iD the framing of the laws that were ostensibly devoted to the government of all ranks and all classes ; this man labouring under physical debility , was confined in a cold damp cell , without a seat to

      rest upon—without food , and restricted in clothing —obliged to associate with felons—rudely treated by his keepers—denied the indulgence of a look at a newspaper—forced to submit to felon disciplineto wash his cell , and to empty chamber-puts amid the ribald jests of thieves and vagabonds . What a position ! Wnat a punishment ! When this illegal , ( except under a Monarchy , ) unprecedented , and tyrannic punishment was publicly condemned , the worthless inilictors privately and publicly arraigned before the tribunal of public opinion—when that tribunal decided in favour of the injured man , and decided that justice should be done to the sufferer ; and whon the voice of Europe demanded the punishment of the royal blackguards who bad thus Openly

      trampled on all law , human and divine : it is a fact , hibtory will bear testimony to its truth , that th « beastly perpetrators of the villany—could never be discovered ! The foul deed was first traced to the Magistracy , who received their " orders" from an understrapper to tho " Home Secretary : " this fellow obtained his orders from the Cabinet Council ; the Cabinet Council obtained its authority from the Crown j and the Crown derived the Royal prerogative from the silly attachment of dark ages to a knavish leader , Ekillcd in the art of cajoling the strong , and intimidating the weak , and versed in the " noble" science of Vivele Rui!—umph , hump , phum i ! Vive la Uagatelie i' ! ! The Crown , when taxed with the crime , referred to the " Ministry : " the Cabinet Council knew not of its existence , and pointed to the " Home Secretary , " he to his

      understrapper—the understrapper to the Magistracy , and the " Magisterial Board" vice vena . Thus the performance of a moral duty waa punished ; and thus the commission of a flagrant act of injustice , of tyranny , and fiendish malignity was rewarded with royal favours at the National expence . Heavens ! " What a piece of work is mau" 0 ) In thus particularising this royal " act , " we do not point to it as a glaring " case in the mal-administration of public justice ; not because it stands prominent amongst the " thoueaud-and-ono" deoisions of a like kind , but , because , occurring lately , and exciting universal interest , its details must be known to all our readers . We disclaim all intention of individualising , having nothing to do with men—but principles ; it is our aim to grapple with a " system" of legislation ruinous alike to nations , and to individuals . —Chartist Circular .

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      TOTAL ABSTINENCE CHARTISM : THE NEW YEARS ADDRESS OF THE SCOTTISH LEADERS . TO THE WORKING MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN . ( From the Charlitl Circular . ) Fellow-Cou . vtrymkw , —You have read , we presume , the deeply interesting and philanthropic address of Henry Vincent , William Hill , John Cleave , and Henry Hethenngton , to the working men of this country ; and , &a we have uniformly placed a high estimate on your intelligence and Bensibility , we trust that you have not perused it in vain , it depicts in glowing language the evils of intemperance , exhibits this hydra-headed monster a * the enemy of our liberty , our moral dignity , our national strength , our health , happiness , and comfort , aud it appeals to m , as we wish for better days , to abandon for ever that mainstay of tyranny , aud that voluntary agent of our own weakness and political degradation .

      There are few , we will venture to assert , who have disinterestedly , and with judicious discrimination , investigated the cause , nature , and extent of the privations which prevail among the working classes , but have perceived the pernicious effects of the use of inebriating drinks on their physical , moral , and political well-being . It is , however , but a circumscribed amount of the evils which the intoxicating cup produces that comes under our individual observation , and , therefore , we have felt the more indifferent at its ravages on society ; but , could we bring vividly belore us the ruin it has wrought in our

      deluded and unhappy country—couid wo calculate the power that it has given to our oppressors—the imbecility that it has communicated to tbe peoplethe mental energies , the virtue , usefulness , and talent that it has withered or annihilated ;—the thousands and tens of thousands that it has beggared , and the hospitals and gaols that it has peopled With tht * victims of disease and crime , we would contemplate with intense feelings of horror and vexation its blightening iutluen . ee , and never rest until we had banibhed from our own ranks , this deadly enemy of our liberty and happiness .

      To men contending as myriads of you are , for the blessings ot independence , for the sacred rights of political equality , no subject ought to be more interesting , nor be taken up with more unremitting zeal and indefatigable energy , than the reformation of those banei ' ul habits which produce such miserable consequences . Think Fellow-countrymen ! on the vast number of your thoughtless aud dissolute brethren , who might have been swelling the ranks of freedom , but who have been rendered wretched and useless ; nay , worse than useless , by their love of the drunkards' b verage . Think on their heart broken wives , who mighi have been inspiring their husbands with the noble desire of independence : but who , familiarised with vice , have become strangers to such

      virtuous emotions . Think on their ill-fated children : they ttiualo from their birth the noxious atmosphere of vicious example , uneducated and ignorant ; their minds are prepared for physical slavery and degradation ; while , had they been surrounded by circumstances congenial to the dignity of human nature , thoy would have acquired a knowledge of the duties and the rights which they ought to perform and maintain ; aud instead of growing up to be the crouching vassals of the oppressor , they might have glowed with the enthusiasm of the patriot , and gloried in tho liberty of their country . Reflect , then , on these momentous considerations , and say if the reformation of such destructive practices is not a question of high moral and political importance . It

      is grievous , indeed , to Bee man—man , the child of reason , the image of his Creator , thus sacrificing his best interests to tbe gnawings of a vitiated appetite ; thus sinking himself below the level of the brutal creation , and degrading the character of humanity . Humiliating , however , as it is to see his intellectual and moral faculties , which were given him for nobler ends , laid prostrate by intemperance , the drunkard aggravates the evils of his conduct by forging chains not only for himself , bat for all the labouring men and women of the country . It is intoxicating drinks that iu general supply tyranny with its armed mercenaries . Pew sober , welleducated young men enlist . Those who embrace an occupation so ignoble are commonly either under the influence of drink , or the victims of misfortunes

      whioh originated in it . Nevertheless we hare an army of upwards of one hundred and twenty thousand , who are employed for the purpose of Supporting injustice , and enslaving their friends at home , or of murdering at the will pr caprice of fheir superiors , the unoffending inhabitants of foreign lands . Nor is this the only service whioh the consumption of these " maddening liquids , " performs to the Government , it not only raises the army , but it draws from the tippler's social board and the drunkard's revelry upwards of sixteen millions a year to pay , and provide implements of destruction for , the army , the navy , and the State constabulary , so that the people may be deterred from asserting their heaven-bestowed right ? . Neither are its resources exhausted by thu munificence ; it awards enormous pensions

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      to the Aristocracy for directing the operations of these "forces , " and for their ingenuity in plundering the people through the instrumentality of iniquitous laws . Hence the reason why our unprincipled legislatorsencourage the progress of intemperance , for the more the people drink , as Lord Bexley said , when Chancellor of the Exchequer , the richer will be the revenue . But there ia another reason besides their attachment to the treasury which makes the aristocracy rejoice over the dominion of drunkenness ; it is tbe same reason that induces them to oppose a repeal of the inhuman bread tax , and that is their unrelaxing determination to keep , by all means , natural or artificial , their agricultural nroduce at the

      highest possible price . Were the Corn Laws abrogated , there would always be the most abundant supply of grain in the market which the corn-growing countries of Europe or America could afford ; consequently , Its price would bV regulated here by its standard abroad . It would be cheap when the supply was greater than the demand . Calculating , therefore , on the value of scarcity , the lords of the soil , —and they are those who make our laws , —profit largely by the prodigality of intemperance , as well as by their restrictions on the importation of corn ; for , were total abstinence one oi' the ascendant virtues Of the nation—did it exercise its heavenly supremacy over the inmates of every dwelling in our land , the whole of that enormous amount of grain , which is utterly destroyed by tho fifcy thousand

      bwweTa and distillers who are licensed by our Christian legislators to demoralize -and murder society , woald be convened into bread for the nutritious sustenance of our existence ; then would ouv markets bo superabundantly filled with our homegrown produce ; then would the criminally-misdirected selfishness of tho proud magnates of our country be disappointed by the transcendant virtues of the people . Food would be cluap , because it would be plentiful , and the starvation tax of our luxurious lordlings might continue to disfigure the statute book , but it would be like a huge serpent which , though still retaiuiug its venom , had happijy lost its sting . Oh ! deluded aud infatuated people that we are f Our home is a sea-girt island : law

      prohibits us from availing ourselves of the rich crops which grow on the fertile fields of the wide continent ; we must live on the produce of our own hills and vales , or if that is not sufficient to save us from famine , we must pay an enormous duty on the quantity we may be allowed to bring from foreign lands . Under such circumstances , were we wise , we would husband well the fruits of every rood . But hear this , ye farmers of Poland , Prussia , France , Germany , Switzerland , and Holland ; attend to what we say , ye agricultural labourers of the transatlantic republic;—although we dare not buy your barley , wheat , and oats ; although your soil is of no service to us , —so far from economising our own , we waste , in our breweries aud distilleries , forty millions two hundred and twenty thousand

      bushels every year , of the grain which we raise ourselves , and devote to its production and its necessary quantity of hops , one million one hundred and fortyeight thousand acres of our arable land . Alas ! ala *! fellow-countrymen , is this not a frightful evidence ot national insanity i that grain , which we impiously destroy—which we convert into a poison that maddens the brain , engendering disease , and crime , and sorrow , and presenting daily to its victims a yawning , an unhonoured grave;—that grain would furnish to the six hundred thousand families of Scotland more than six pounds of bread every day in the year . That land , which we ungratefully abuse by the prostitution of its fruits , would make three millions of our working peoplo happy ; can we reflect on

      these truths , and not feel appalled at the magnitude of our folly ! We have voluntarily transformed the magnificent bounties of our Creator into a deleterious drug : aud dare we , in vindication of our conduct , suppose that it was for this he endowed us with reason to appreciate his goodness , and to apply it to our necessities ;—that it was for this ho promised us seed-time and harvest , and faithfully seuds in due time the cheerful spring , to re-animate the vegetable world ;—the invigorating summer , with its sunshine and shower , to nurture its chaste and tender fruits : and tbe ripening autumn to furnish for us , and for all that lives , his hospitable table ; were we only to contemplate , as we ought , the

      beneficence of the author of our Being , we would be inspired with a fettling so pure and elevated , that it would effectually prevent us henceforward , from perverting , as we have dono , Hia inestimable goodness ; and were we while in that exalted tone of mind , to reflect on the direful consequences which have emanated from the mis-appropriation of that goodness , on the moral wreck and physical wretchedness that it has mado , on the fetters that it has rivetted on our country , we would be so thoroughly impressed with the principles of warm philanthropy and intellectual patriotism that we would , from that moment , unite in heart and in soul to redeem our country and our eountry ' B liberty from the deadly power of the spell-binding demon of intemperance .

      Do any of you ask , fellow-countrymen , how such a glorious reformation is to be effected 1 Would to heaven that we could as easily emancipate omsol-roe from the bondage of political tyranny , as we may accomplish this moral revolution ! We have only to abandon the tue of all intoxicating drinks , and our victory ^ Js gained—gained over ourselves , and ultimately over our oppressors . Let us then begin our conquests at home ; a firm and conscientious adherence to total abstinence on our part , will not

      only deprive the enemies of freedom and justice of the means which thoy have insidiously used to enslave us and proteot themselves ; but it will draw us together in the bond of enlightened union , which will give us new and resplendent virtues , as a nation , to persevere in advancing our glorious cause—more time and more means to promote it , and it will give us an invincible strength and unconquerable vigour to storm the strong and gloomy citadels of corruption , and to rear on . their ruius the maguincent temple of liberty .

      It is one of our political axioms , " that half justice is no justice ; " and therefore it is that , throughout the whole of our momentous movement , we have contended for the full Charter of our rights , and nothing less : therefore it is that we have held up the delusive theory of " moderate justice" as the source of all our national evils—the parent of injustice . May we not characterise " moderate drinking" as a kindred deception ' It is unquestionably the progenitor of drunkenness , and probably consumes , in its noiseless orgies , as large a libation of the intoxicating poison . We . should tak « in morals ,

      as we do in politics , a decided position . " Moderate drinking" ia a dangerous ignis fatuus , which has allured millions into the depths of dissipation , where it has loft them to perish in misery and disgrace : but total abstinence ieads to virtus , peace , aad safety ; it is the only infallible specific against the vices of intemperance . Let us embrace it , then , as the angel of our deliverance . Aud if we array against the use of intoxicating drinks the worth and intelligence of the unfrauchised , drunkenness , if it be not expelled from the country , will , at li-asfc , bo confined to the dens of its irreclaimable outcasts , or to the halh of its rich and irresponsible patrons .

      fellow-countrymen , in the name of injured humanity , we appeal to you—in the name of liberty , we call upon you to dedicate this year to total abstinence , it will then , indeed , be the year of our redemption : our character as working men will be redeemed from the infamy which the enemies of justice endeavour to attach to it ; oar habits will be redeemed from the baneful customs entailed upon us by tho votaries of sensnaMty , and with theae advantages the influence of our concentrated power will at last redeem our country from the thraldom of tyranny . Your ill-requited labour bids you respond to this appeal ; your innumerable wrongs demand it ; misery implores you to writo it on the tablets of your heart , and nature and Christianity invoke your acquiescence , because it is allied to virtue and to heaven .

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      TOWN HALL , BRIGHTON . Serving out a . Witness in Style . —An athletic countryman , who bears a very bad character , was charged before the bench of Magistrates , with violently , assaulting a young woman named Mary Ann Paul . The complainant , whose face was much disfigured by the violence of the prisoner , stated that on the evening of boxing-day sho waa m the Helmet public-house , when the prisoner aud two other men went in , and the prisoner , without speaking a word , struck her several times in the face , and knocked her down .

      The Magistrate asked whether she could account , in any mauner , for the attack which the prisoner had made on her ! The complainant said that she had given evidence against tho prisoner , in September last , for a gross assault oa a young female , and he then said he would '' serve her out , " and he had done it "in style "—( laughter ) . Prisoner—Please your honours , look at my nose ; it ' s quite spoilt from a whack she gave me with a quart pot . 4 The complainant denied this , and said his nose ( which was badly out ) must have been hurt in a scuffle with some men who took her part .

      Henry Butler stated he was present , and jeizod the prisoner , to prevent his continuing his assault on the complainant , when the defendant knocked her O 0 WI 1 * r Chairman—Did he give you that black eye I Witness—Yes , flir . , . ¦ Prisoner—Will you swear . 1 gave you the eyet—No , not the eye , but the colouring . Ah ! you mean 1 spoilt itB beauty !—( laughter)—but look at my nose ! . The Magistrates said it was a very serious offence to interfere with any person giving evidence in support of those laws without which society could not exist , and the present case was more aggravated , as it was a cowardly attack on a woman . The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 40 a ., and , in default , was comfiUted for a month to Lewes GaoL

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      Mr Acnt ' s last Tooth . —M . Michard and hfti wife , a fine portly dame , of rather beyond a certain age , appeared a day or two since at the bar f tho Correctional Police , accompanied by a hopeful nephew of theirs , against whom they had to make » charge of the most serious . nature , he , the . said nephew , having , in defiance of all the laws of nepoii * affection ' , inflicted on his venerable aunt a bio" ? by which the last of her masticators was removed -Pin the situation it had occupied for so many years . , The following colloquy took place among the drair . dtit persona ot the affair . President—What offence have you to connfcrn of !

      M . Michard—Simplice is my nephew , that I must allow , but the crime of which he has been guilty Hafl broken every tie of blood that was between us . Simplice , yon are no longer my nephew . Simplice—That is fotty . Will you deny that I anj still the son of your brother ! M .. Michard—Physically , it cannot be otherwise ? but morally I discard you . Simplice—Oh , uncle , what a blockhead you nxe I Instead of heaping blessings upon me for what I have done , you have brought me before the Tribunal of Correctional Police , as if I were a Turk . M . Michard—You have conducted yourself towards your aunt like a wage . Simplice—And you—you are a henpecked husband , to say nothing more . Madame Michard here tried to be hysterical , had recourse to her smclling-bottlo , and exclaimed , " Oh » Heavens I" .

      M . Michard ( supporting her)—Oh , Emeline ! my love f —( To Simplico)—Wretch ! you wish 10 -ha her death—you wish to be guilty of aunt-icide . Simplice—In that cage you allow that 1 am still your nephew . M . Michard—Hold your tongue , scapegrace , and let me state what I have to charge you with . Simplice—With all my heart ; but you had bate * not , for ^ ou-will expose yourselves the most by i :. M . Michard—Heartless wretch ! ( Bowing to tbejudgee ) Gentlemen , I have in the provinces a brother , who h ' aB bad the misfortune to give birth to this tarpent here . Six months ago he was sent to me > . a a visit , and to see what I cuuid make of him . I i > av 9 treated him with every kindness as if he were my own son .

      Simplice—That is true ; and that is why I am bo much attached to you . M . Michard—But , would you believe it , gcutlemen , one day last week , when we had a large ampany to dinner , he gave his aunt a slap in , the fit o I Simplice—I know I did , and knocked out her last tooth ; I tell you what , uncle—you are deceivcii by her . But it is in vain for you to persecute me , ioi I shall never cease to love you all the same . Madame Michard ( with a faint voice ) —Mer . iful Heaven ! Simplice—Your wife is a good-for-nothing prudftj uncle , and deceives yon along with M . Leroche , friai old dandy , whose smell of musk makes his appt . ach known when he ' s more than a mile off . M . Michard—Hold your tongue , you calumniating scoundrel ;

      Siinplice— Ah ! that ' s the way you take it , ie it I I was behind a curtain , and heard them talking like real friends , not to say lovers . I , who love you , seeing that , could not restrain my indignation , and so 1 gave aunt a slap in the mouth . If you arc offended , 1 can give sou satisfaction . Here Madame Michard raised a languishing v % it of eyes towards her husband , aud faintly said " -ii i Michard . " M . Michard—Never mind , Emeline . I doni

      believe a word of all these horrors . I know yu i to be Virtue personified . Simplice—Ah , you are the best of husbands . Simplice was sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment . " Hwat the DiviL are you after being after , * roared Pat Lardner , catching his foot-boy thra ^ ing » ?* Gloster " with a whip ; " Hwat's all this p / lialu . you thafe o' the world ? " "Why , yer rivrtnee , " replied the bogtrotter , " I'm ji » t after whacking the cha zp , to make it confess what's become ur the fa ^ , sure . "

      Election Bill . —The following is a copy of a curious election bill , actually delivered in to an Irish-member of parliament , by a publican , auor a late general election : — . . . ' £ a . i To eating 16 freeholders above stairs for Sir John , at 3 * h 6 d a-head 1 12 0 To eating 11 more celar stairs and two Clergymen after supper 1 15 t To six beds in one room and four iu anotber at two Guineas every bed three or four in a bed every night 22 15 To 2 S horses in the yard all night at 13 d

      every one of them and for a man watching them all night ... 1 5 i To Breakfast and Tea next day for every one of them and as many as they brought with them as near as 1 Can Guess ...... 4 Y 2 0 IV Bmi porter and pnnoU torn tho firot Day- and night I am not sure But I think for the three first days and a half of the Electon as little as I Can Guess and be very exact is in all or there about 3 79 l > S To shaving Dressing and Cropping the heads of 12 freeholders for Sir Jonnat 13 d for every one of them 2 5 1 £ 114 i f In place of Jemmy Can-Bryan Geragherty . Prvter 3 . —In Flacourt's History of Madagj c « , is tho following 8 ublim 8 prayer , said to be usod by the people we call savages . 0 Eternal J havenr ^ rcj upon me : because I am passing away . 0 Infinitet because I am weak . O Sovereign of Life ! be < ' » us « I draw nigh to the grave . 0 Omniscient ! because I am in darkness . 0 All Bouateoua ! because I an poor . O All-sufficient ! because I am nothing .

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      The Hon . Captain Plunkett was last week sentenced at the Lancaster Sessions " to be imprisoned for two manths iu the Kirkdale House of Ccrreotion . " His crime was ass ^ ultijig a man named Atkinson , one ofthomom / or « of the Lancaster Gaol , where the Captain was a prisoner for hu- share in th 4 disturbances at Wigan . He pleaded guilty . Rights op odr Forefathers . —During the exta » - tence of the British Constitution , as originally constituted ,-every freeman was entitled to take his seat as a member of the Legislature , In those timeg freeinenand freeholder were synonymous terms . A distinction existed between the freemen , who ' . rera all proprietors of land , however minute the qua ntity

      beld by some , and the freedmen who were of foroiga extraction , ' and manumitted by their masters : but these were expressly excluded from the high privilege enjoyed by tho freemen , of having a shar ; . in the administration of the commonwealth , unless they becaine proprietors of land . But there was anothe * right inseparable from the right to sit in P-irliamenl —namely , that by the fundamental principles of tha Constitution , every freeman had a right to elect hi * own -procurator , or attorney , to represent him in Parliament ; and that Bystem was in full operation , tillit was subverted b y the Act of 1 st Henry V . c . 1 , which disfranchised all but residents ; and this diafranchisement was extended to all but forty shilling freeholders by the 8 » h Henry VI . c . 7 .

      Fataz . Railwa y Aicwrht . —A fatal accident occurred on the Midland Counties Railway , about three o ' clock , on Friday moraine :, in last week . ' A down luggage train left Rugby for Derby , at twenty minutes past nine o ' clock on Thursday night ; but , owing to the severity of tho weather between Leicester . and Derby , the engine pipes were frozen up , and the train , consequently , unable to proceed Tbe mail-train from London started from Rugby-, to Derby , ( the point at which it leaves the Biroiuifham line , ) at one o'clock , p m ., being thentlirea

      hours and forty minutes behind the goods train Tho distance between Rugby and Derby is between forty and fifty miles . Notwithstanding the advance of the luggage train , and the precaution said to have been taken of holding out a signal light , when within a few miles of Derby the mail down train ran in upon the luggage carriages , and the consequence was , that tho engine of the mail train vf at thrown off the trams , and the engine driver and stoker precipitated on to the line , and both killedoo tho spot . j

      Liability op Parishes as to Exposed Children and Dead Bodies . —At an inquisition held before Mr . W ' akley , M . P ., Coroner for the Western Division of Middlesex , on the body of a male cqild about tvrelre months old , which had been found exposed at the gate of tho house , No . 14 , Maida-hill WeBt , Paddiugton , and who died in a few hour after its removal to tbe workhouse of the Kensington ' Union , a question arose as to the power of 4 n « parish officers of the Board of Guardians to issue advertisements offering a reward for the discovery of the inhuman parent ! , whioh has drawn from . 4 h « Poor La vf Commissioners an opinion that " ; A « parish officer * have no power to ineur * ny expeaeec for the prosecution of vagrants , and have no dpty to provide for the burial of a corpse found in Ahi

      parish * the Commissioners consider that there i | n « authority for their incurring expejnee in adYeriiguig for tlwdiscovery of the person . ^ who , exposed ancfi child or snoh corpse .: If , indeed , upon any « ueh advertisement the party were discovered , a prqaeoution might be instituted , but th « Commissioner do not know how any reimbursement of the expan « # could b « obtained from luca party . " The result of the correspondence , from whieh ( he above ia an « x « tract , appears to be , that there are no fiinds whatever applicable to the payment of expeacfls inoutred in the prosecution of persons deserting and expotinf their children , even should the . offenw wnount to murder , as in the above caae , no ? to ^ dvertiBing * description of tfce child . < fec , or offering a reward for the apprehension of the delinquent * .

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      THE FLEET PAPERS , No . 2 . Tbe second of Mr . Oistler's missives has been launched at the head of his oppressor . We need gay nothing of the style or matter ; it is Oastler ^ s : our readers all know it , and , of course , will bay it . We perceive Ms wrapper to be filled with closely printed extracts from various publications , giving favourable notices of the former number . We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of giving the following relation of his mverriew wUa tbe Duke of Wellington : —

      "Qh > . I was a proud man tbat day ! I bad pleased my master , tnd > " ^ btainei , as my reward , from b > U -hinds , an honour which I valued more , and do so at thiB hour , Oiyi if he had given me the one half of iis very large estates—an introduction to tte Ihixe of "Wellington ! I EfiiU never forget that day . 1 hurried

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      THE PEOPLE'S MAGAZINE . No . I . This is a new periodical , edited by the Rev . J . R . Stephens , who takes this mode of making his voice heard from ine prison-house . Mr . Stephens' style aud manner are too well known to our readers , to ueed any comment from u 3 ; and as by far the greater portion of tbe magazine seems to be original , and from his own pen , it is needless to describe its obaracter , a 3 being likely to be not tbe most palatable to ihe proud oppressors of the poor , however disguised or situate . We give ti 6 following passages from the first article , which' is entitled " Thoughts on the Times" : —

      " Were this wretchedness of the working classes of Great Britain and Ireland owing to their own idleness , untirift , foliy and crime—as tome Bay it is—it would make ns great odds , in so far as it i » an evil which affects and threatens every other portion of tocietj . It exists . Here it is in the midst of us , and we must gr&pple with it , and put an end to it , or it will grapple with . us , and break eociety up . If we cannot drive it out from amongst us , all that we have hitherto looked np to , and trusted in , &nci boasted of , will very soon go under , and no longer be . We claim it at our right , to lead , and guide , and have the mastery over these millions ; and we say that it ia their place to walk in

      the way we stake oat for -them—to keep tbe laws we nuke for them , and to yield themselves np to our management and rnla Well , be it bo . They have looked np to us until hope , again and again put off , has made tteir heart sick and faint ; they have followed us and bleated after us , like sheep crying on their shepherd to find pasture for them ; and lo ! a wilderness , barren and without water-springs . We have neither fed them , nor tended them , nor folded them , nor watched over them ; and -ihey follow us nolengerthey bleat after us no more . If God and the laws ever gave u » these millions in charge , we have not fulfilled our trust , or h * ve shewn ourselves unequal to it In either case , unless now in the eleventh hour some

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      THE NORTHERN STAR . 3

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1841, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct533/page/3/