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      fireet Liberty , "rrake thee I too ltmgliast thou slumbered—Can ihj dreams he so dear that they tempt to sleep on ? Cast awaj thy gilt chains , and the voices unnumbered Of s glad world shall tell that thy thraldom is done : Ob 2 ehaD not , ere long , that soiled mirror be shivered . " Which is firm with the sighs of pale glorr forthee—And the bright Sabbath dawn , in -which millions delirered SbiaB lift their first hvnm to the God of the Free ? Take theTnnjr&of the morning , fly over the world—There is many a land where the tyrant is lord ;—Yet , bib "h «^ not in - thy proud flag be ¦ unfurled , JLsd the sree of life girt "by thy cherubim-sword ? The Persian , who dared tiith the scourge and the fetter Inrali the free -waves of the Hellespont-sea , Did he &o , sacred Freedom I aught wiser or bettia-Thau those ivho 1 st sconnrcs and fetters on th& '

      3 » o , thj tides "will jet rise in their strength and rbeir scorn , To -wash e * ery vestige of slavery away : And the thrones -will grotv pale in the light of thy morn , As the night-stars are drowned in the gold waves of day 0 ~ e S * f 3 of redemption win sweep o'er thr earth . Thai thy own -victor-ark on the delnge not ride : And the peace 4 iaDowed olive will be the first birth . Of th .- world , when at length the proud waters subside . Tie ? , « ii then , ? hall arise , in its splendour millennial . The sun of free Troth o ' fcr the mountains <> f rime ; And Earih shall again wear the verdure perennial . And the amaranth she wore in her parp . i 'ise-prinu-. Tbes x-t length in the wilderness f rt ^ h springs shaij -rrrniur , Thei atlenjT-h in the insert strange r . j ?! -s shall b ] . »> m , "While each year . as it passes , will rivet yet firmer "E"ver ^ 1 xva < l « f th-- rithE ^ v . hich -the nations rrsnme .

      Bay not , thiTiR ai-t . the age . which the poets- csil golde Has passed from this , bleak world for ever a » a ;—That b < j sunburst of promise will ever enib ^ lilen The eagle lo mount tv the throne of the day ' Already—already—the irons are starting From the hands i ? i the myriads they plnluaed so Ion Already the beams ofyoung Freedom are ilaxiing On-tiis statue they warm till ii TiaiU thtsn in song ! la the w-oi-ia of the tVest the bright ensign of Union 1 « floating o ' rr nations enfigbtened and free ; And soon vrHl all join in the splendid communion From the heart of ibe land to the isle of the sea ; xerbjd it . that any imhaDowt-d ADianct-Shu'uld hold the crushed nations for ever in thrall—That ikrfesc should long bid their imperial defiance To the reason , the faith , and the glory of u& . * 2 f o , isaxikiiid trill yet wnSce ix > a loftier « inr * .

      Than that which enjoins them to sink i » t- - > slaves -. And thtir ryes win b ? opened , though late , to the brauty Of Truth -that ennobles , of Freedom that saves ! Thj iirsi stt-p > , 1 ' ji

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      COyTXUSBT ; or . THE >~ EW GE . \ ER'ATI < i . \ . Bj B . I > * l 5 BiEij , M . P . London : Volhurn , limit iikrjborongb-srrt ^ i . We kzr-e somewhere read thai the roeaninir of the words "" patro-usinc an author , "' is the borroTrinsr of bis last new -work , reading it , and lendJia : it to one ' s entire ein-le of friends . It must Jiave bevn the at-iici : by somebody , on some such principle that caus-eii us to receive our eopv of Vvttmjflri > onie momc » after the dale of publication . Unfominatelv too , vrhen ivt-eived . xre were too bnsilv -. n-cupied witii other and indisj > en > able duties , to allow of us paying immediate attention to Mr . D'Israeli's work . This i > onr a-Doloar to the anthor and onr neatiers for liarinir

      seemiiiiily nedected till now by far tLo juost popular 5 ove 3 inSU . ? reTions to the appearance of C < j , u .- ? A > v , though " Ymwz England" was not unknown I <> fame , sllli the parry "wa- ? anytliin ^ but poj > ular . Mtarcely iolerated \ n Pariiamfiit : sneered at by the press ; and Tmtmsied by the ma » e »; the position of this set-tiuD "was not at all an enviable one . The party is still smaB—bin it « position now is -widely di& rent to what it "was only > is months past . The part taken by Vome of the y «» unsr Enrianders , panieularly by the author of Ccza ) r ? J - ' y , in the discussions on tin * Factory Bill and the Sujiar l > nties Bill , proved that ibis sertion , f tfln ^ i acting general ] v with the Conservstire party ^ "srert bx ltd meanj the trammelled slave * of Peel : asd

      tie indt'pecdent tone and bearing assumed and maintained by > Ir . D'lsraeli and his compatriots , whilt- it aronsai ] ihe hostility of some , won the respect of a greater number of the men of all janit > ; and Y ouni : Engbinu will assuredly enter upon its le ^ i ^ at ive duties in lS 4- > . much pore favourably situated to advance iU TTiT ^ sirvn t han it jnet the opening senate of the pnecedinj : year . Tie conductors of the pre ^ , excepting tLtlaere ministerial hat-is of the Peel Government , have dropped their sneers , and , on the contrary , have a ^ - j nmed a rone ai once conciliatory and approbatory towsur ^ B Toang' England , while iha masses are at any rate so iar JaTOuraHT predi-= j > o * ed by the Manchester and Binslev denionstration * as to oiicr

      ¦ X m ! £ ng ear to Trhat the apostles of the ** > ew Generation" liave to advance . True , they are by no means satisfied -with the declaration that it i * u > •" manners , not laws , " that they must lock for their redtonption from slavery and misery ; > iiil they are -KiBhiz to believe that Young England means well , and is only , perhaps , too young—{ ? - jrt- nj—to rightly fathom the causes of existing social < -vils , and tiie ineaos bj wMch xhey may be remedied . TVith ihi > feeEnc the masses , therefore , now n-jard rarht-r hopemily than hosiilely the movement ? of their declared friends . The future will u-il vrjiether ¦ lhi ^ hopenii K-eiing Is destined to be rewarded or di > appoini-ed .

      li mast not be > upposed that wp ascribt" the altered position of young Jlngiand to tLe pui-lication t » i " QMiiiCiby . lls appearant-e has dou }> t 5 t ^ -s tended to popiiirize the iiarty whose views it " Lus been suj > - posed to represent ; bat other eireanistauves , some oi irhicc we have named , have been the principal cau > t *> of the altered position of that partv . V >\ - have dwelt upoi tliat favourable position , l > eeaus ^ . althou-h C-initMsl-i ba ^ bv this time lost its early freshness , ihe present stan ^ iug of Mr . D'lsraeli and his friends trill undoubtedly , in the eyes of onr readers , invest Tfixk increased interest the work now before U 5 . Ve 2 uust : not deceive our readers . If they anticipate ioikid : In Citiihi'itby any "full , true , and "particular account" of the principles and plans of 1 oung England , they will be disappointed . We were so . But ve reserve any farther genera ] comment to anotha- opporronitv .

      The tale opens -with the hero , voting Coninfrsby , a hoy of fourteen years of age , loitering in the -waitingroom of 3 . house in the vicinity of St . Janies ' s-square , ¦ Raiting the arrival of a certain personage , to whom ¦ jr e-haH presently introduce the reader . We must first give some account of

      GO 3 TISGSBTHe ires the orphan enild of the youngest of the two s < 52 = cf the Marquess of Monmouth . It was a family femou » for its hatreds . The eldest son hated his father ; and , it was said , in spite had married a lady to whom that fiibex was attached , and with whom Lord ilonmonth then n . r « litated a second alliance . This eldest son lived at If apl ^« , and had several children , bur maintained no connexion either -nrith his parents or his native country . Oa li >^ r i ^ thcr iand , iord 2 donmouth Iiattxl his younsrer ion , j . vbv had married againsthis consent a woman fowhom that swa was devoted . A system of domestic persecution , Sustained by the hand of a master , had evtutoallv broken up the ijtalth of its vicfini , who died of a fever in a foreign © ounn ^ . where he had sought some refuge from his crecit-vrs .

      His ividow returned to England with her child ; and . Hot having a relation , ant } scareelv an acquaintance in the wyrld . made an appeal to her husband' s father , the "wealthiest noble in England , and a man who was often prodigal , and occasionally generous . After some time and xcv-e trouble , after urgent and repeated , and what would h ^ ve seemed heart-rending solicitations , the attornev oz Jjurd 3 ioiiinozxth called upon the - *^ id v 5 T of his Client ' s sun . andinfonneil her of his lordships * detdinon . ftoTififC she gave up her child , and pennanentlv resided is onr ; < if the remotest counties , he - > vas : mdiorised to iTifcVe i «™ , in four quarterly payments , the yearly allowsaec < . f ihree bniidred pounds that being the income that Lord ifi'irmnuth . who was the shrev . xie > t accountant in the ti ! 3 iiiry . had calculated a lone woman might vt-rj dt-c ? ntj > exist cj > on in a small market invni in the county of ^ Vtitinorelaiid . T >_ T _ 1- \ T ___ lT _ ; . . i 3 __ - ¦ n i . T tiixrJ wojunomhthe reader vriU understandis

      -y ,- . , mtaEt \ kc late notorious and profligate Marquess of Hertford . The unhappy mother of our hero was cot long the recipient of his lordship ' s bounty i ' . ) . itr ^ - Coningsby died the same dav that lier mtht-r-iu-^* ¦ R'A * - made a Marqutss- He deservi .-d his honours . The f-txu roles he had inherited in the House of Ci > minozis had been increased , bv his intense volition and un-SpSnni : zacaiiis , to ttn ; imd the verv dav he was raised to las ibirquisate he commenced sapping fresh corporations , ^ 3 irtj working for the strawberry leaf . His honours ¦* crv : ; roclaimed in the Jjondot . Gazette , and her decease ¦ " ^ s Tmz t-ven BDriced ia the County C ? , ir ^ cide ; bnr rbe altar * cf Xcmesisare beneath eveiy outraged roof , and the dtith of this unhappy lady , apparently without an fcBrthlj friend or an earthly hope , desolate and deserted , and dying in obscure poverty , was not forjrotten . The person for whom Coninpbv was impatiently Toting figures largely through the work , we may tuerefore as irell at once introduce the reader to

      3 £ E- BIGBT . Be who uttered these words was a man of middle size * a £ agr , originally , in all probability , of a spare habit , ^ ntnow sliitle inclined to corpBlencr . Baldness , perhaps , contributed to the spiritual expression of a brow which " * as , iKrs-rrer , essentially intellectual , and gave some ™ aiaeter of openness to s countenance which , though 3101 12-feToured , ttss / trnhappDy stamped by a sinister tiaraeter irhich was " not to be mistaken . His manner " ^^ eaijjlmt rather andacions tbn ^ -sveB-bred . Indeed , » iile a Tisage which might otherwise be described as « aadsoice was spoilt bj a dishonest glance , so a deae anoor that wasbj no means deficient in self-possession * M &eifiqr was tainted by an innate vulgarity , which in « e Idh ^ tkb , tboagi edfom , vet surdj dereio re t . » -,.

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      Mr . Rigby is a still living parsonage , said to lr a onoe notorious Secretary of the Admiralty . The following is bitter aa gaM , but we think the sketch by no means overdrawn \ it is true-to lie life :-r-. . Mr . Rigby was a member for one of Lord Monmoutii ' . boroughs . He was the manager of Lord JfonmuuthV Parliamentary influence , and the auditor of his vast es tates . He was more ; he was Lord Monmouth ' s companion -when in England , his correspondent when abroad —hardly his counsellor , for Lord Monmouth never required adrice ; but Mr . Bigby could instruct hini in matters of detail , which ilr . Uigby made amusing . Eyb . v was not a professional man ; inded bis origin , education , early pursuits , and studies were equally obscure ; but Le had contrived in good time to squeeze himself into

      Parliament , by means which no one could ever comprehend , and then set up to be a perfect man of business . The world took him at his word , for he was bold , acute , and volnble ; with no thought , but a good deal of desultory information : and thongh destitute of all imagination and noble sentiment , was blessed with a vigorous , mendacious fancy , fruitful in small expedients , and never happier than when devising shifts for great men ' s scrapes . They say that all of us have one chance in this life , and so it was with lligby . Alter a struggle of main years , after a series of the usual alu-r ::: it : vt-s <>! " suiaJl successes and rmall failure .-, itflc-r a f ^ -vr rieverish spetr-iies and a good many oleveri . - ]) yiMnj > h ] e-ti . with a < -Kn « id .-rable reputation indeed for I-asquiuades , most of which he never wrote , and artid"s

      m reviews to which it was whispered lie h : ; d coutribuli d , Rigbi , i \ ho had already intrigued himself into a subordinate office , met -with Lord Monmuuth . He w-. i « - jiist the animal That Lord Monm <> uth wanted , ior Lord ilonmoutli always loaked upon human n : iture with the callous eye of a jockev . He surirjed liigb \ , ^ ud he determined t « h \\\ , him . Hi- bought hhu : « itll his clear Lead , his indi-fatigrable i-nd-o ^ irv , hi :- audacious tongue , and his ready and unsr-rnpuj .-iis j » eii ; Trith all his lanil >(> ons ; id ] his private memoirs , and all Ids political intrigues . It was a ; n >;> ij purx"ba _ -e . Rigb . « bet-am r a great personage , unJ Lord Monmo'Uh "? man . * * 3 Ir . Rigby ha < l a classical rj-trea :, n- > t disrant frtmi this establishmpnt , which he esteemed a Tusculum . There , surr-oU 3 ided bv hi » busts and books .

      Inwn > lr hi . lainj > i >« 'ii > anj articles ; massacred a she-liberal \ it . was tljoujrbt thai n » one c >> uld lush a woman likt Itijrby ) , cat uj > a rising genius , whose politics wx-re diuerent from his own . or > . icrifici-d some unliappy wrptcli u-lu Ji 3 ( 3 brought hi ? claiin ^ before ParlLun en t , proving . I > y garbled extracts from official correspondence thai no one could refer to , thai the nialiouteut , instead of being a victim , w ; is , on th- enntrarv , a defaulter . Tadpole ami Taper would back llisbj for a " slashing reply" agnins : the field- Hsr .-, ir «; at the end of a busy % veek . he found it uwasJonally t-nnvraient to entertain a clever friend or two of rquivoed rej > utatir . n . with whom he had bei-.-is > i acquainted in fanner days of equal brotherhood . X »> .-n . was murt- faithful to his t-arlv friends than Mr . l \ it"l > particularl ; if tbev could wTite a squib .

      The opening of the story is laid in the interreirnum week of 1 * 32 , when Lord Grey resigned , and thf Duke wa& suniiuuned to form a cabinet . Rigby lui > joined Coaingsby , when The door was suddenH thrown oyvo , and two individuals , in a slate uf wry jreat cxciwuienu ruiU « 4 into the apartment . " Rigby . Ri ^ by I" iht-y both exclaimed at the same moment . " B } li— . they ' re out . " " ¦ Who told you T ' "" The best authority ; one of themselves . " " ¦ Who . who V "' Paul Evclyiu I met Uira a > I passed Brookes ' , and he t-j . 'd me that Loni Grey had resigned , and the king had accej-ted iiis resignation . "

      This piece of nevrs Mr . Ricby refuses to give eivdenee to . that gentlemau beinsr extremely jealou > of any one giving him information , seeing that it lowered his n-putation as the oracle of the party for whom he played the not unprofitable part of understrapper . The news is however confirmed , despite all ^ Jr . Rigby ' s calculations to the contrary . This settled on , Coningsby , accompanied by Rigby . departs from the house in St . - 'ame ^' s-square for that of his i _ randfather the Marquis , to whom he is about to be introduceil for the first time . < 7 t- 1-e rviitiiiiiwf . )

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      " About the Iwginning of my thirteenth year ( continues Miss Brown ) , 1 happened to hear a friend read a part of T 3 aines * 8 History of the French "War . —It madft a . . singular impressipnjpn . mj mind ; and works of fiction from that time began to lose their value , compared with the far more w onderful Romance of History . But books of the kind were so scarce in our neighbourhood , that Hume ' s History of England , and two or three other works on the same subject , were all I could reach , till ' a kind friend , who was then the teacher of our village school , obliged me with that voluminous work , the Universal History . There I heard , for the first time , the histories of Greece and Rome , and those of many other ancient nations . My friend had only the ancient part of the work ; but it gave me a fund of information , which has been subsequent !} increased from many sources ; and at present 1 have a tolerable knowledge of history .

      "' In the pursuit of knowledge , my path was always impeded by difficulties t . «> minute and numerous to mention ; but the want of sight was , of course , the principal one , which , by deprhinj ; me of the power of reading , obliged me to depend on the services of others ; and as the condition of my family was such as did not admit of much leisure , my invention was early taxed to gain time for those who could read . I sometimes did the work assigned to them , or rendered them other little service ? ; ibr , like most person * similarly pluceil , necessity and habit have made me more active in this respect rbui people in ordinary circumstances would sup 2 > ose . The lighter kinds of reading were thus easily managed ; but : uy young relatives were often unwilling to waste their breath and time with-the drier , but more instructive wo / ks which I latterly preferred , to tempt them to this , I us ; d , bv way of recompense , to relate to tliem long stories , and even novels , which perhaps they had formerly read but forgotten : and thus , my memory may be said to have earned supplies f-jr itself . .

      " About the end of my fifteenth year , having heard much of the Hia < l . I obtained the loan of Pope ' s translation . That was a great event to me ; but the effect it produced on me requires some words of explanation From my earliest years I had a great and strange love ct " poetry ; and could commit verses to memory with greattr rapidity than most children . But at the close of m ; seventh year , when a few Psalms of the Scotch version , Watt ' s Divine songs , and some old country sougi ( which certainly , twre not divine ) , fonnud tht whole of my poetical knowledge , I inude my earliest attempt in versification—upon that first and most sublime lesson of childhood , the Lord ' s Prayer . As years increased , my love of poetry and taste for it increased also , with increasing knowledge . The provincial

      newspapers , at tunes , supplied me with specimens from the works of the best livinjr authors . Though then unconscious of the cause , I still remember the extraordinary delight which those pieces gave me , and havf bt'tn astonished to find that riper years have only confirmed the judgments of childhood . When such pieces reached me , 1 never rested till they were committed to memory ; and aftcnvards repeated them for my own amusement , when alone , or during those sleepless nights to which I have been all my life subject . But a source of still greater amusement was found in attempts at original composition : which , for tin- first few years , were but ffilile imitations of evervthinji I know—from the Psalms

      to linn ' s Elegy . When the poems of Uurns fell in my way , they took the place of all others in my fancy ; and this brings me up to the time when I made my first acquaintance with the Diuri . It was like the discovery of a new world , and vffected a total change in my ideas on the subject of poetrj . There was at the time a eousiderable manuscript of niy own production in existencewhich of course I regarded with some partiality ; but Homer had awakened me . , in a fit of sovereign contempt , I committed the whole to the tlames . Soon after I had fouud the Iliad , I borrowed a prose translation of Virgil , tin-re bring no poetical one tii be found ill the neighbourhood ; and i ; i a Mmilar manner made ui'tjuailltance vtith uiativ ot the climsie . authors . Rut : ifti-r

      Homer ' s , the work that produced the greatest impression on m \ mind was Byron ' s Child ? HarvliL The one had iiicluied me to burn my first manuscript , and the other made me resolve against verse-making in future : f- > r I was then far enxusrh advanced to know my own deficiency—but without any apparent mea . ns for the requisite Huprwcmi'iit . In this resolution I persevered for several years , and occupied hit mind solely in the pursuit of kn » uledge ; but miinj t- > adverse , circumstances , my progress was necessarily slow . Having , however , iu the summer of the year 1 H 40 , he : ird a friend read the smry < . f La IYruuse , it struck me that then- was a remarkable similarity lw-twi-i-n it and the • ii ; related in an "Id country > uiig called the ' Lost Ship , ' which I had heard in mv childhood . Tht' song m question \ va > uf very Io-. n e >> ui ) Hisiti > in . l » ut there was <> nv line ut th > ' terininntitiii « . f < m-h v .-rse which haunted m \ imagination , anil I fancied might deserve a ix-tttT poem . Thi , line . : ind the storv . if La IVrouse , together with an

      irre--jsnbJe inclination to poetr > , at length induced me to break the rexjluiion 1 hail so long kept ; rind the result w-js the little poem called La IVrouse , which will be found at page "ift" >> f this volume . Sm > n after , when Messrs . Gunn and C : uru * r < 'n cummfuccJ thf jmblifsitioii of tlieir Irish Penny Journal , I-n'&s seized with a strange desire to Contribute something to its jiages . ily iirst cuntribntiou « as favourably received , and I still feel grateful for the Kindness and encouragement bestowed upon me by both the editor and the publishers . The three small pieces » hich I contributed to that work w ere the first of iniue that ever appeared in print , with the exception of one of my earl \ productions which a friend had sent to a provincial paper . The Irish Pemiii Journal was abandoned on the completion of the tirst volume ; but the publishers , with jireat kindness , sent me one of the copies , and this was the first book of any talue that I could call my nwni ! Hut the jrift va * still more esteemed as an eiicouraaeiijent , ami the firs ! of the kind . "

      About this time . Miss lirovni heard of the A . theiuEum and addr « r * ft « -d a number u / her small poems to the Editor . Atter considerable di-ho , and when she had given up all for lost , •¦ the arrival <~ ht- says ; of many numbers of the iournaJ . and a letter from the Editor , astonished me , and irratified a wish which had haunted my very dreams . From that period jnj name and pretensions have been more before tin- public , maiix poems of mine having : ip-; . iurcd in the ] jj ^ l— -. 1 " that j . ublieatiun . in Mr . Hood ' s Magazine , ami in thr Ku ) ' ! itkf . i-ilited b \ the Countess of I ' . ' . , ssingtoi " Wo subjoin a spcrinicn of Miss Brown ' s poetry : —

      LET IS RETCB . V . Let u « return ' . '' said the broken heart Uf the mountain hermit ' s tale , When he -saw the * morning mists depart From the summits grey and pale : For hi- Viicw that the fan-paltn cast the shade Uf its ever-glorious ? reen , Where the love of his blasted youth was laid , And the light of lier steps had been . Ah . ' thus , for ever , the heart looks back To its young hype ' s funeral urn—To the tender green of that early track . To its light let us return !

      The lines of our life may be smooth and strong , And our pleasant path may lie "Where the stream of affection flows along In the light of a summer sky : — But woe for the lights that early wane , And the shades that early fall , And the prayer that speaks of the secret paiu , Though its voice be still and small ! To the sweeter flowers , to the brighter streams , To the household hearths that burn , Still bright in our holy land of dreams—To their love let us return 1

      Tis well we have learn'd the truths of tune—But they came with the winter ' s snow—For we saw them not through the flowery prime Of our summers long ago : Yet the spring is green and the summer bright As they were in the years of yore , But on our souls the love and light Of their gladness come no more I Back—back to the wisdom of the years That had yet no loss to mourn—To their faith , that found no place for tears , To their joy , let us return !

      "We have paused , perchance , by the quiet grave Of our young who early slept—And since they left us many a wave O ' er our weary bark hath swept ; But , far in the morning light enshrined , They gladden ourliacKvvard gaze , Or wake , like the breath of the summer ' s wind , The soul of our better days . Back—back ' . to the living wave we drew , "With them , from a purer urn—To the path of the promise lost to view , And its peace—let us return :

      A BOWL Or " PUSCH , " FliEtH BREWED . Sons of Gloet I — Recbcitisg at Bibmikgham . — Half-a-erovm obtained under false pretences commonly consigns the impostor to dreary limbo . Men , on the other hand , may be tricked from their families and themtelres , and the sharper be rewarded for the juggle . To be sure , there is property in the half-crown piece : look rt the royal countenance in its sweet Complacency—listen to the metallic music of the ring : it beams and vibrates , j > roj > e-rty ; but where is the property in human bodies moved by human breath ? The cheater in goods and chattels is abominated , punished . Now the recruiting sergeant is an allowed i : ian-stealer , a permitted swindler , with streamers in his cap .

      "Within these few days , Glory has hung out her promissory wreaths at the King ' s Arms , Steelhouse-lane , Birmingham . Clory has hung the walls with invitations to enlist . Yes ; the old harridan has put her trumpet to her lying mouth , and once more played the familiar air of " Ducky , ducky , ducky , come and be killed . " Listen to the strain : — " ¦ W asted , 500 unmarried , handsome , and gay young fellows , from 18 to 25 years of age , for her Majesty ' s 55 th Kegisle . vt or Poor . " In these days of peace , Glory has "become squeamish In her tastes . Or , pertiaps , the bullets are particular , and , like the fair , prefer above all , handsome and gay young fellows .

      " Those who are of a roving mind , and wtsft to « e < ft « vxrrld , a better opportunity cannot offer . The bounty is risen to all such as are willing to enter this gallant corps , whose honourable services in every quarter of the globe have often "been to JagMy tpoken of , and laurels gained , too kuhebocs to MiNTioh : therefore , all who have a good and honest heart , follow the example of those you now

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      see enrolled ia the ranks of the royal corps , with flowing stream ers ia their caps , the true emblems of valour , courage , and fidelity !" And thua is man , the paragon of animals , led to be shot at , by flowing streamers—by valour , courage , and fidelity , at sixpence per yard ! "Any gallant young fellow so disposed , will apply to Serjeant O'Naili [ ominous name ]! King ' s Arms , Steelhouse-lane , who on entering the service of her Majesty will be taken care of , and invited to drink her health in a flowing bumper , and no mistake !"

      Hospitable O'Naill—invitation most delightful ! The bumpkin drinks—feels , or hardly feels , tbe homicidal shilling slipped into his hand , aud he is enlisted—X ailed From such ecstatic moment he is at her Majesty ' s service to cut , stab , burn and destroy , as though all human will and human conscience were suddenly -stricken dead within liim , and he ; was left no o ' ther than a machine of bone and muscle—a marching , counter-marching , cutting , stabbing , pipe-claying Instrument ! Great are the miracles worked by the O'Xaills : We once read a story of a huge oprre , who , playing upon a drum-head wrought by the devil out of witches ' skin , entered a town , and druuiniiag and drumming , led all the men away by their ears to his bone-strewed cavern . And then and there he threw aside his music , and gnashing his teeth and blaspheming the while , he took his ^ ictims and ate , them one by one ., us a hedger would eat spring onions . Vf <; forget tilt- ogre's uasiu-, hut wv thiuk it was something like O'Naill .

      Oh , Birmingham youth—whoever you may be—look with stony eyes upon thv jovial , roystering courtesies of the great seducer Naili . ! Though you may be an Adonis —that is , a Brummagem Adonis—do not believe yourself either "handsome" or ' ¦ "—bat ugly , irredeemably Stupid ! SQ Ugly , that jour plainness would do no credit to a biittle-tWhl : so ubtll . se , that eveii the awakening eant of the drill-sergeant would be lost upon jou . Again , you have not a roving mind—you ii > not wish to see the world . Besides , a mind may not rove at--its own sweet will" according to army regulation :-. —and the world is a p <> or thing to see . with musket in hand and rounds uf ball cartridge at your hack Oh , youth , stay at home , and sue Birmingham .

      And then the " the laurels of the 53 th foot ! " >\ hat , in truth , an' laurels t Dissect , analyse them . Von may— - with a touch of fane )—trace in them tin- veins of withered hearts . Test them by tbe moral chemistry , and what are they ? Blood and tears , tears and blood ! A Homicidal wreath , gilded by the world's great lie ! And so , Birmingham lads , cultivate eoleworts , chick weed ii you will , but avoid laurel > . They are a plant of death , manured by human hearts . And next ,: the " flowing streamers "—the " true emblems of valour , courage , and tidelity . " Emblems , indeed , M' » they ; but vii-w them aright , young men between eighteen and twenty-five , and you will see in them the flesh-tenring , torturing cat ; in reality , the " nine hard cords about twuivty-ouu inches lonj ; , each cord having nine knots ; " although appearing to your dazzled gaze—cheated as it is by the father of war—as « o much itiatterinc' ribnnd .

      In the United Service Magazine ( No . 1 K 3 ) , there is an article devoted to the doings of the lilt—the wcapou with which Madame Ulory rebukes her naughty children : — " Men have declared to me , " says an officer , " that the sensation experienced at each lash , was as though the taloua of a niffR were tearing their Iflesh off their bones . " Hear General Sir Charles Napier on the cat—the real streamers of the recruiting sergeant : — " I have seen many hundreds of nun flogged , and have always observed that when the skin is thoroughly cut up or

      flayed off " , the great pain subsides ; and they bear the remainder without a groan . They will often lie us without life ; and the drummers appear to be Hugging a Jn » y > of dead raw flesh . Tlu- fact's . > f tin- s [ K-ctatovs ( soldiers ) asriUuied a look of disgust : there was a low n-hisueriii ^ sound , scarcely audible , Lssuhig from the apparently stern and silent ranks—a sound arising from lips that spoke not , but that sound was produced by hearts that felt deeply . . . . The low sound sometimes resembled what may be called ftiiffiiui , and may bi' occasioned by an increased How of tears into the nostrils . "

      Tht- heart sickens at tins , and an unutterable fcellllg ' >) ilisgust and indignation mu .-t possess thr reader , We iniffht have paused ere we committed the horror to our page , but that we utterly de'iuimc- that cany humanity which shrinks from thr contemplation of wrong because of its liideou . siifss . There are abominations—hoHcver demoniacal—that mutt he placed bi fore the startled eyes of a too easy world , aud this tlung iuK—'"'* blasphemy against the divine nature of man—is of them . Voung nun of Himiinghiim—nay , uf all Englandfake these things to your hearts , ami outsider well the streamers i « f a Si-rgi'iiut O'Naill . They look line and ^ a \ ; but they will , tear t ) i < tlr » h like " the taloiin of a hawk . " They art- silky and soft , y < > , s . ift ; is thi- paw of a sleeping out . but oh , . young nun " from eighteen to tw , -nty-ti \< - " Ik- sure of it—that eat has elawi ' . C { .

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      FaT . U . ArClDKNT . Cl-KUKKXH KLL . MoildilV 1110111-ing , whilst Mr . tr . l , ittU'iv <« xl , lamp contractor , Upper Kingistreet , Bloomsbury . was driving a horse in a chaise cart along Avlosljury-stixjet , UlerkenwcU , towards the green , the dorse , a vicious animal , suddenly took fripht and dashed forward with fearful rapidity . On descending the hill on the west side of the sessions-house the hoi-se fell and rolled over . The sudden jerk threw the driver out of the cart , and his

      head came with great force against the kerb-stone . CoiwtaMti U U > 2 , ran to his assistance , and found that Mr . I . ittlewood ' s skull wivs knocked in . He was conveyed in a state of insensibility to a surgeon ' s near the nj > ot , whp , seeing his hopeless . state , directed his removal to St . Bartholomew ' s , where lie was conveved in a wib , and after receiving every attention from the house surgeon , expired at half-past eleven . Mi-. LittU-wuod has fei ' t a wife ami family . He was about fortv . '

      fo . NvjrnoS fob I ' o . uiiini ; . —Benjamin Shakeshaft , labourer , has l > ecn convicted before W , L . Cliilde , Msii ., and the Rev . T . Woodward , for Ix-ing found on lands at Cleobury Mortimer , armed with a gun . in pursuit of game , and lias . been sentenced to three months' hard labour , and at the expiration of that period to tind sureties not to offend against the ( janie Laws for the . tenti of one year , or in default to lie further imprisoned for the space of six months . —>'<»// . •« - bnru Chrmiifb . Melancholy Shipwreck . —On : Monday morning intelligence was received of the total wreck of the smack . lane mid Leany , Captain James (^ uayle , belonging to Por t 9-i . Mary , Isle of Man , with the loss of the master and three female passengers . She had

      sailed on Sunday week from Ardglass , Ireland , for Port St . Mary , in ballast , having on board , lwsides the captain and crew , eleven passengers , seven men and four women , most of them going out to service in Douglas . The Jane and Leany had -got within a mile and a half of the Isle of Man , when , on Monady night , shortly before 12 o ' clock , she was overtaken by a severe storm of wind and rain . The fury of the gale split her sails into pieces , and she was driven at the mercy of the waves for nearly 24 hours , when she went ashore at high-water-nmrk at Bisphamwith-lN ' orbreck , near Poulton-le-Fylde , about 10 yards

      from the shore . Some of the passengers leaped into the water , and escaped to the shore ; the others , in the roll of the vessel , were washed overboard , and amongst the number four ill-fated individuals , Capt . Quayle and three of the female passengers , were unfortunately drowned . Another woman had a narrow escape ; the swell was carrying her away when her husband « ei 2 ed hold of her and saved her from a watery grave . All the bodies were subsequently found—two on the beach at Norbreck , and the other two at Rossall . They were interred at Bispham on Wednesday last .

      tatai . Accident . —An inquest was held on Tuesday evening before Mr . Higgs , at the Barley Mow , Dukestreet , Grosvenor-sqnare , on the body of Mr . Henry Seabrook , aged fifty , the landlord of the above house . It appeared that on Monday night week deceased went down into the cellar to do something to the barrels , and -was at the top of the first flight of stain upon his 1 return , when he missed his hold of the banisters and fell over and over to the bottom . He was much hurt . On Saturday inflammation of the brain commenced , nnd he died that day . He was a very heavy man , and that perhaps accounted for the severity of the injuries . ¦ Vecdict ,- " Accidental death . "

      Death from Aoe and Want . —A poor man , apparently between sixty and seventy veal's of age , on the evening of Wednesday in last week , asked charity at Doxford New-houses , in the county of Northumberland , and his request was granted . His feeble and forlorn condition made an impression on his benefactors , and shortly after his departure it occurred to them to go in search of him with a light , fear ing that some mischief- might overtake him m the dark . Their friendly search proved ineffectual . Early on the following morning the shepherd of llockinoor House found him in a field adjoining Sheldrake quarry , quite dead . Nothing could be traced about the dress to lead to-the discovery of his name or connections ; three-halfpence and a small quantity of tobacco and snuff were found in his pockets . His clothes , hat , and stick remain at Rockmoor House .

      Deaths of Children from Suffocation . —On Tuesday Mr . Wakley , M . P ., held an inquest at the Southampton Arms , " High-street , Camden-town , on the body of James Lavoll Lindfield , a remarkably fine child , aged four months , the son of Mr . Alfred Lindfield , of 74 , Arlington-street . ; It appeared from the evidence that the child had been accidentally suffocated in bed . Mr . Wakley also held ah inquest the same day at the Bricklayers' Arms , Little Olarendonstreet , Somers-town , on the body of a child which had been found dead in bed by the side of its mother ,

      under nearly similar circumstances . In both cases verdicts of " Natural death " were recorded . Public Whippisq . —Aaron Walker , who was sentenced at the Folkestone quarter sessions , on the IGth of July last , to six months' imprisonment in Dover gaol , and to 1 » twice publicly whipped , for picking the pocket of William Till , at Folkestone fair , underwent one portion of his corporeal punishment , at the hands of the gaoler , in the . ' market-place here on Saturday forenoon , at half-past eleyen o ' clock . A considerable number of persons had assembled to witness the degrading exhibition , which seemed , however , to induce only a feeling of disgust and indignation at its savage barbarity .

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      Boat Accident—Six Lives Lost . — e learn with extreme regret that six { men , inhabitants of Port-Glasgow , are supposed to have been drowned in the Clyde , between Gourock Bay and that place , on Sabbath evening . About ten o ' clock on Sabbath forenoon , Mr . John Miller , along with five other men , left Port-Glasgow in a small boat , for the purpose of sailing to Gourock Bay , oh a visit to the roaster of the brig Lochinvar . The boat reached its destination before twelve o ' clock , ana * the party remained on board the Lochinvar till about four , when they again took to the boat and rowed off for Port-Glasgow . The master of the Lochinvar watched the boat till it doubled M'Farian's Pointj and since then none of the individuals on board have either been seen or heard of . \

      Dreadful Occurrence : AT a Brick Kilx . —>¦ On Tuesday evening Mr . Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital , on the body of Jeremiah Cray , aged thirty-five veal's , a man of Herculean frame , but at the same time attenuated , ] and his muscular form reduced by want and privation . From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was employed" at a brickfield , and having bought some potatoes , he had proceeded tp the kiln for the purpose of roastiusr them , when , overpowered bv the vapour , be had fallen asleep , and hU clothes had lieeome ignited . When discovered , he was in a complete blaze from head to foot . Ho was taken to the hospital , but all assistance was in vain . The jiiry returned a verdict of ' Accidental Death . " !

      Melancholy Suicide . —r On Tuesday evening an inquiry wo * gone into Wore Mr . Iligcs . at the Union , Jennyn-street , to investigate tlie circumstances attending the death of Edward Arthur May , Esq ., aged : M , of 17 , Duke-street , Ml James ' s , the son of Sir Stephen . May , Bart ., who put a period to bi . s existence . The first witness examined was Charles Bclzoni , the landlord of the house , \ 7 , Duke-street , who stated that deceased ' s aunt bad taken a furnished bed-room at his bouse , and the deceased arrived on Friday last , having just eoiue from Madras . The last time witness saw him alive wa . t when he came home at eleven o ' clock on Sunday night ; be asked for , ami was supplied with , soiiu- " bread , butter , and porter . On the Following morning deceased ' s cousin . Mi * . Brinsley de Courcy Nixon , came about half-past ten o ' clock to call him up , when he found the door of his room fastened on the inside . JIc had not done so before . An entrance was effected bv a door which

      communicated with another room , and on merely looking into the room and seeing some istain . s of blood on the bed , witness immediately ran and fetched Mr . Miller , a surgeon , who , on examination , said he had been dead several hours . The manner of the deceased gentleman was very strange , and witness was of opinion he was not right in his mind .. ' He was found undressed in the bed , with his throatjeut , and he had evidently inflicted the wound with the table-knife , which hai been sent to hbn with bread and butter ( the knife was produced , covered with blood ) . Iiis clothes were much the worse for wear . ' Suinnr . in a Pomok STATrox . —On Tuesday Mr . Htgg-s held . in inquest at tlie Chequers , Tothill-street , Westminster , on the Iwdv of Sarah Kdinsor , aged thirty-seven , a woman ot ; notorious bad character , who committed suicide in the New-way police station on Saturday last . The jury , after hearing the evidence , returned A verdict , * ' That deceased destroyed herself whilst in a state of intoxication . "

      Melasciioi / y Instance ov Destitptiox . —On Saturday evening last , an inkiest was held at Oakley , Oxfordshire , iM'fore J . W . Covvley , Ks < j ,, on view of the l «> ily of William Hawes , a ^ ed forty-four , a labouring man of that place , whofexpired on the . irevious Thuiwlay evening from injuries received by falling from an oak on Wood Farm , Wanninghall , on the 4 th inst . From the evidence of the wife and daughter of the deceased , it appeared that the family , consisting of deceased , Iiis wife , and three children , were in great distress , the parish authorities having refused to find the husband' labour . On the 4 th , deceased , with his wife and ; daughter , not having any food iii the house , or money to purchase food with " , went out for the purpose of getting acorns for sale .

      It appeared that they sold the acorns at from Is . to Is . 2 d . per bushel , and that they had obtained from three to six pecks per day ¦ On the day in question , while deceased was up in a tree beating the acorns down , and his wife and daughter were engaged in [ licking them up , he fell jfrom a distance of about twenty-five feet on to the ground . For a time he appeared to be dead , and did not speak For about an hour . The daughter went back to Oaklev . about a mile , and a half , to try and get a cart and horse to convey him home , aud did not succeed , but seeing some men at work on the tfoad , she took two of them with her-to the spot . While the daughter was gone to Oakley , Mr . Chillingworth , the occupier of the Farm , was attracted to the Spot , and he kindly caused

      the boor fellow to be convoyed home , and sent on to Hrill for a surgeon , who met Hawes on tlie way to his cottage . The wife said the parish had not found her husband any work for five years ; that he had recently applied for labour , and was refused , being told that he must look out for himself ; that they at times had notjhad a bit of bread for two days together ; that on the day of the accident they were entirely without foodjor money , which was the cause of their going to > get the acorns to sell . The coroner reminded the ) jury that their inquiries were as to tho cause of death ; that they had not to inquire as to the cause that induced the deceased to go in ( juest of the acorns . ; lie thought it a case in which there could be no doubt . It was clear that

      deeeased caino V > y his death accidentally . A verdict to that effect was roturmid . The scene that presented itself at the habitation of Hawes , on our accompanying the jury to ; view the body , we shall ever remember . It was wretched in the extreme , and U-spoke the utmost privation and poverty . The abode appeal's , with three 6 thers , tohave been formed out of a barn ; tlie drainage around them bad ; no chambers in them , save on the ground floor , where the poor inmates have to live , cook , At ., with a thatched roof . The habitation is only about twelve feet by nine , an earth floorjwith a few stones laid in , and from the Hour to the roof entirely open . On an old bedstead lav deceased , ; and bv the side of it was

      another for bis three children to rest on , the bedsteads fully omipying full one half of the place , and but few articles for domestic use . For five years he had kept from the parish funds , not having received a sixpence . He bad risen from his pilltfw lonj c before the break of 'day , nnd trudged otf to Buckingham , Bicester , Oxford , Thanie , Aylesbury , apd other markets and fairs , in hopes of getting a job . of droving to enable him honourably and honestly to support his wife and children . We have it on oath that at times he went to four fairs without earning anything , and yet when lie , about a month before lUs death , went to the Oakley vestry tagging for labour , it was refused him , and he was told to do as he could .

      Love and Siicipf . in the Metropolis . —One of those melancholy events , fortunately of rare occurrence in this country , took' place at an early hour on Monday morning , at the east end of the metropolis . About a quarter past onej o ' clock , a . m ., police eon - stable M'lveuzie , 371 K , was called to the house of Mr . William Duckett , No . 9 , RavenVrow , Mile-end , where he met Mr . Davis , the stirgeon , of Constablerow , Mile-end , who had also been hastily summoned , entering at the same time . ] They were ushered into a back parlour , fitted up ? as a sleeping apartment ^ where , lying across the bed , they saw the bodies of a young man and a young wjoman , the former that of Charles William Duckett , son to the proprietor of the house , who was absent at the time , and the latter ,

      that of a pretty young woman , named Elizabeth Williams , about 20 years of age , to wh 6 m the unfortunate young man had for some time past paid his addresses . Lying beside each body wer-e two teacups , which had recently contained some soift of liquid , leading to the conclusion that both must ] have drunk off the fatal draught at one and the same moment . On looking about the apartments the ; constable perceived two phials , which he handed to ] Mr . Davis , who , from the odour which thev emitted , at once perceived that they had contained hydrocyanic acid ; and , haying examined the bodies , he pronounced it as his opinion that the deceased parties had been dead several hours , no doubt from the effects of the poison . The constable also found a sealed letter , addressed in a female hand ,

      on mourning note paper , to Miss Chapman , Lucasstreet , Commercial-road , with a request on the envelope , signed with the initials of both the deceased , that it should be forwarded to the address immediately . Duckett and Miss Williams had been long attached , but adverse circumstances having intruded to prevent their union , it would seem as if despair of their ever coming together prompted them to this rash and tragical conclusion . Tlie father is an accountant his son was 21 years of age , and Miss Williams 22 . For upwards of nine years the unfortunate youn < j persons were attached to each other , and were never Known to have quarrelled . On Sundav afternoon they had tea at Mr . Duekett ' s house , and took their departure about half-past five ,

      at the . same time stating ] that they were going to church , at which period they seemed in excellent good spirits . The evening wore on , and eleven o ' clock having arrived , the usual itime they returned , the family became somewhat alarmed . Soon afterwards two brothers of the ill-fated ; girl visited Mr . Duckett , and inquired if his son or their sister had been seen , she not haying' made her appearance , and the lateness of the hour induced them to think that they had met with some accident . Unpleasant feelings of alarm were then entertained by all . Messengers were dispatched all round the vicinity in search of them ; but of no avail . At last , between one and two o ' clock , ' whilst Mr . Duckett was searching about the house , '

      in the hope of finding some ; letter which would mention where thev had gone , he discovered that hisson ' s bed-room was fastened on the inside , the key being in the door . It being surmised that he had rfetuwiea unknown to the family , and had retired to bed , the door was broken open , and- there the bodies of the young couple were stretched on the bed , life having been extinct apparently fojr some time , with their 1 arms round each other's neck . As the bodies lay , it appearl * that they must have sat on the end of the bed when they committed the act , and fell backwards . The girl "was respectably connected , her father being a surgeon in the Cannon- * treet-road . The young man had been a clerk in the Tower Hamlets Court of Requests , Whitechapel , but ; had been for some weeks

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      past out ot employment . The corpse of the young woman , who was attired in a black satin , dress , wittt jewellery on her fingers , and her hair done up ia ringlets , lay on the face , while the left armTested On the chest of her betrothed , bis right arm being under her head ; and he lay on his back . He was dressed . Neither of their countenances were distinct * , Moxtrose . —Isoexious FRAUD .- ^ . Some time ago we observed a pamgraph in the Glasgow Courier , under the above head , regarding a new system of thiering in that city . But for novelty , we think the following case of fraud and imposition , by Ann Burnett , of Breckin , will fully stand a comparison . Some weeks ago this voung ladv gave out a report that she was about to be married to a Captain M'Lean , of

      Aberdeen , whom she represented as a man of considerable property . To enable her to carry out the fraud , letters were written to her , dated we believe from Aberdeen , purporting to be from the said captain , and authorising- her to purchase her " providing" —In other words , dresses oi every description for her own wear , a suit also for the captain , bed and table linen , < fec ., for which he was to pay on coming up here to consummate the happy event , and make herhis loving wife . Amongst the furnishings , Miss Burnett did not . forget the good things of this life , in the . shape o £ eatables and drinkables , but ordered a considerable quantity of whiskey , rum ! ! wine I !! tea , sugar , cheese , and hist , but not least , a noble turkey ! !! all which , on the faith . of the captain ' s letter , she received . Thvsi ; however , being perishable articles , soon disappeared , and no doubt she and her quondam friends had . at least , for one night got glorious , " o ' er

      a' the ills o' life victorious . " To keep up the deceit , howe-fer , another step was still wanting , viz ., the proclamation of banns . This , too , was gone about ia the same business-like manner , and "booked" she was on Saturday week , and proclaiiued in the parish church three times on the following Sabbath . Thia was no doubt looked upon as a finishing stroke , which would lull all suspicion or doubt on the subject . On the Monday , however , some suspicious circumstances occurred which led to inquiries , but the bird having flown , and the whole affair turning out a gross fabrication ( the letters being forgeries ) our active officer , Sivtnvright , went in pursuit , and caught the " bonny bride , " we understand , at Brought } - Ferry , and she ia now safely lodged in gaol . One of her accomplices , suspected of being the writer of the letters , James Adam , weaver , is also in custody . Part of the gooda have been recovered in a . pawnshop in town . — Jhntrose ¦ Stimdartl .

      Opexixo of the Letters . — Tbe doubts that prevailed in the vicinity of this melancholy occurrence as to . the actual poison with which the young couple had destroyed themselves , were finally set at rest Dy the post mortem examination which the bodies Underwent in the course of Mondav afternoon by Dr . Lethby . The scent of prussic acid was immediately detected on their being opened , and on the content * of the stomach being carefully analysed on Tuesday at the above institution , upwards of half an ounce of the pure aeid was extracted . From inquiries instituted , it appears that Duckett purchased it at Batley ' s , in Fore-styeet , Cripplegate , having procured it by representing himself to have been sent by a druggist who deals with the firm . The bottles , which were found on the mantel-piece , and which contained it , were labelled ' \ Sheiid ' s Prussic Acid . " According to the request of the deceased , ineribed on the letter found in tlie apartment , and

      directed to Miss Chapman , in Lucas-street , it was delivered in the course of Monday afternoon at her residence , and opened in the presence of Mr . Porter , the VonstabJe ot Stepney . On the envelope being broken open it was found to contain two epistles , both of which were addressed to that young lady , and written in the handwriting of Duckett . One was a piece of poetry in 24 verses , and is . a beantiful piece of penmanship . The title is , "The Last Lay of Two Broken Hearts , written and composed by C . A . D ., " executed in the illustrated style in old English , with a variety of inks . It bears the date of Nov . h , but it has evidently been written as far hack as September , which date was erased , but which ia still partially discernible . The theme shows a wild paroxysm of love on his part , manifesting the most Fervent attachment to the ill-fated girl . He bids adieu to his parents and all other relations , and prays forgiveness . Poverty had blasted his prospects * and " Since Fate had morr ' cl their earthlv bliss , they would

      seek an early grave . " 'The same wild strain i ? displayed throughout the whole piece—• ' His Lizzy begging that his grave might be her grave also . ' ' The language of it shows the unfortunate writer to have been a most intellectual young man , but the extravagant outbursts of his passion which it display * proves , almost beyond a doubt , that his mind was in , some way affected . The second is written in the same superior style , and bears the date of the day , last Sundav , on which he effected his , fatal purposes .

      The tenor of the letter fully confirms the supposition that has been entertained amongst the friends and relatives , that he had prevailed upon the miserable girl to forfeit her existence with his . It states . " that ere she ( Miss Chapman ) had received that epistle they would be in the sweet sleep of death . " Fate had marred his bliss in this world—he was prepared to leave it , and she for whom he had lived , had told him '' If you die without me you will be my murderer ! " and to uso the words of Lady Jane Grey , " Death had no terrors . " Both £ productions had deep black border * round them .

      TffE SnciDE at Mile-End . —The Lvqpest . —On Wednesday at noon , Mr . Baker , coroner for the eastern division of Middlesex , and a jury of the inhabitants of Stepney , assembled at the Fox Tavern , Russell-street , Mile-end , to inquire into the deaths of Charles William Duckett , aged 21 , and Elizabeth . Williams , aged 27 , the two young persons who desti-oyerl themselves by taking prussic acid , under til © very extraordinary circumstances before detailed .. Jn the course of the proceedings the Coroner had

      handed to him a letter , which was contained in an envelope with a black border , found lying on the table in the roorn where the bodies were discovered , addressed "To Miss Margaret Chapman , 21 , Lucasstreet , Commercial-road , " cousin to Miss Williams . The enclosures were read : one consisted of poetry , addressed to Miss Chapman , beautifully written and illuminated in various coloured inks , entitled " The Last Lay of the Broken Hearts . " The verses were 24 in number , but the following extracts will afford a fair sample of the composition : —

      " Change thou the scene ; look here , and thou snalt find X . he spirit ' wounded with sternest sorrow ' s dart—The madden'd brain , the wild , the wandering mind—• The cheek that's blighted , and the broken heart . " We've loved each other , joined in hand and heart , Firm bound together in one holy tie . Forsake we cannot , and we ne ' er will part ; Together live , and then together die . " At the conclusion of the poetry was written the following : — " This is the holy vow freely given from both our hearts . We have lived for each other . We solemnly , and without reluutance , mutually consent to die together ; testifying to the truth thereof , we . have subscribed our names , thus proving our perfect will to share the grave in the arms of one another , ' " Elizabeth Williams and Chables ffa , VuCKETT . " Signed at No . 9 , Raven-row , Mile-en * Gate , " London , Nov . 8 , 1844 . "

      Tlie other letter bore date the 24 th inst . ( the da * of the occurrence ) , and was signed by Duckett only . Jt exhibited great despondency , and informed Misg Chapman when she received that , he and Elizabeth " would be sleeping the sleep of death , for she had told him ' If you die without me you will be my murderer . '" Among the evidence received was that of Mr . William Henry Duckett , the father of the male deceased , who deposed , Charles William Duckett was my son . He resided with me . I was aware of his attachment to Elizabeth Williams , and approved of it . I have observed latel y that at times he has been very depressed , and at otiier times -mueli excited . I never heard my son speak of getting married , but it is-my opinion that he feared his circumstances would

      never enable him to do so , and preyed on his mind , a candidate for a lucrative situation above twelve months since , and being unsuccessful he had ever since been desponding . He was 21 years of age , and had known Elizabeth Williams nine years . The witness here produced a large packet of letters he had found in his son ' s box , addressed to him from Elizabeth Williams ; they reciprocated his atfcctym , and in one of them of recent date she expressed herself very unhappy , and stated that she cared " not how soon the time came to die with him . I last * saw my son alive at half-past five on Sunday evening , when he . went out to go to church . I went to church with his mother , ana returned about half-past eight . I

      he . ard nothing until shortly before twelve , when the brothers of Elizabeth came and asked for their sister . I went with them home , and on my return I observed that the key was not in the door of the front parlour , my son ' s bed-room . I tried the door , and finding it locked , procured another key , with which I succeeded in opening it . On entering I saw my son and Elizabeth lying on the bed , locked in each other ' s arms , and quite dead . ( Witness here became much affected ) . Other evidence was heard and the jury consulted , aud ultimately returned a verdjet that the deceased persons , Charles William Duckett and Elizabeth Williams died from imbibing a certain quantity of prussic acid , but by whom or how administered there was not sufficient evidence before the jury .

      Coai Pit Explosion . —Akotheb Dbath . —Thomaa Topping , one of the men seriously injured at the recent colliery explosion at Pemberton , died on Friday morning , thus making five who have forfeited their lives by this accident . ' Gldimm . —Afflicting Affair . —On Monday foranoon last , the body of a young woman , of the name of Sarah Partington , daughter of Joshua Partington , a power-loom weaver , resident at Royloy ; near Rotton , was found in a small pit , near Birehenlee MiD , about two yards in depth . It appears that early on the morning she was missed , her father had beat her wifh a rope , but not severely , in consequence of reports which had reached him as to her conduct . " The deceased was eighteen years of [ age , and possessed of some personalattractions . '

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      FRANCES BRuW . X , TIIE BLIND POETESS . We art- cliielly indebted to the Ath-luvum for the i " o ] k > wiu < : most intere > linir sketeh : —

      > nadrT bi-i , nnful Jittlr pieivs <> f { n-rrv . having : iiipe :: drd tv them thf .-uniaturr <> : " - Frances Brown , >;;^ - ii' > rlar , " LaTe aj'jT-ajvtl in our ci'Iueius . from tiim- ' •) tirof . durrn : ; tfcr last t-ichK-t-n m <> nlb > . One of thf Uu' -l « -i . q-aisjit < r 01 " thrse , rntitlt-tf "The First , " oriiriunlh : ! j > - pearrd in the K ? tj-&iit . for )> 44 . edited bv the Count .- * -. ¦ f i > lr"i : igton ; a .: ;« from a «<> t < f added t <> the pus-uj . in thr fair editress « i- learnt , f < -r tlie first tiinv . thai illauth' » rt-- » " 1 th > - itr > f > wliich we , in common v . ith thou > arti * mure , had « . ¦ wTeatU admin-d , were writi ^ u bv a Kind cir ] . '

      Thr am ) oni ! ivB « j : « f a Tulnmr of poems br the > . u : ii-Frances Browu t ^ ccited our curiosi ty about tht" au : i : <> - ress . ( f t felt interested about her historr , and l- 'ii ^ mi to know how , in a remote village in the north of ln-la i 5 , 3 vuuiij woman , deprived of must of the ordinary li ' . ! ji > to kson-le < 2 ge—liavinjf no intercourse with nature-, en-i-ji ! through bo < jk =, and doomed to li-re in solitary darkii-- >» . in the inid ~ t of all the beautirs of the external wnr !> lshould nevertheless have rean-d a temple of beautj iii her owa mind , aud found therein not onlj jov and rejoiciuu herself , but to all others wbonj the press has br"i .: 'h : within reach of her influence . The editor of Mi > s Brown ' s puems wvll observe

      "The storj < . > f Miss Brown ' s mental education i- v . ii worth tellinsr . both for its own interest and fur i ! . « > ianjple . It is at oner cunrnis and instructive to uati ' ri :. srrong nirnrl uevel <>]> rng itstlf undiT conditions of ^ - .. » . and physit-al advantage . =-o jrreat—groping , bv th > . . •• <> f ks pot-tic iustincl , through the darkness v > : wV . nV . i Tvas conscious—appropriating to it .-elf-tve-rTthin : ; wiv i > . ¦ -.-it could draw nouri-hmt-bt , in thr barren elt-im-1 , 1 - l >\ Vihich it « ;;_ - « urr" ! iiidt-d—fa > t « -nil ) j . U ]> - > ij ail thst t ;•';•! h * lj > it -- >; : ward . v > hi ! r . h \ it > ovtn uii-iirvit ' .-d ¦ r . i ¦ 15 : 11- . : i iviis -rrtu ^ riii !? ui > vanl- z * j thr li ^ lji . "

      Tilt }> ortt- ? - > i < * jl hmiii'K- Yrirtli . and nr > i > aw the 1 : ^ 1 :: "il Strao ' -rhir , a * u : ull » LUu £ ^ i : i tbt- v-ouiiiv I )<» iuy : il ; v -- ¦ ri herfiither theii vta > , and -til ] i > . postma- ^ ter ; . ri ^ l ;' .-- ! '' - tvventv vcar * ajr < ' —and i-r Ihr \ . 1 .-1 tiiw only ii _ - ! : . ¦ 1 . months later . At that t « -: idt-r airr the Miiall-p- 'x . vi . ~ i ; v her in its M-vvrest form , roii .-ijpird ht-r to the blindm-s * amid which ihr has had in « itrk ht-r wa \ to all her intellectual treasures , —adding the lo-s of the most mijmrtant of iJjt senses in yuuih to the difficulties <» f a remote and unfurnished position . How b \ devivts uf her own—the jirnmpting ? of a clear natural intellect—b \ wliat process of selftraining she learned to see into the world of thought , when the visible world was closed against her , and mudt the unpromising soil about her vield intellectual fruit , it is

      pleasant to learn in the words of her ovm simplr narration . Her early calamity Miss Brown does not remember : —! - <> . tbe forms of the outer scene have not followed into her world of meditation , U > vex her -with their dim shadows . The hues and shapes of actual things , as they present themselves to the sense which she has lost are , happily for her , an utter blank—even to memory ; and she has thus been saved that ( in her case life-long ) perplexity of the mind , born of tlie vain attempt to renew fading iniprtssiuns and restore the image of a £ ar and doubtful pasisomething of which they have felt who have striven in \ ain to summon back into the £ eld of memory the refractory spirits of a dream . Her miud has thus been left more clear to act in the conditions to which it was limited , and ner fknev undisturbed bv an irritating effort and a vain

      regret . - Indeed , " saidiliss Brown , " 1 recollect very little of my infant years at all . I never received any regular education—but Tery early felt the want of it ; and the first time 1 remember to have experienced this feeling strongly , was about the beginning of my seventh year , when I heard oar pastor { my parents being members of the Presbyterian church ) preach for the first time . On the occasion allnded to , I tvas particularly struck by many words in the sermon , which , though in common use , 1 did not then understand ; and from that time adopted a plan for acquiring information on this subject . When a word unintelligible to me happened to reach mx ear , 1 was careful to ask its meaning

      from any person I thought likely to inform me—a habit wlich was , probably , troublesome enough to the friends and acquaintance of my childhood ; but by this method I mxib ncquired a considerable stock of words ; and , when further a < J » anct-d in life , enlarg-e-d it stiU more by listening attentively to my young brothers and sisters reading over the tasks required at the 'village school . They were generally obliged to commit to memory a certain portion of the Dictionary and English Grammar each day ; and by heari : i : r then ; read it aloud frequently for that purjwise , as my memory was better than theirs ( perhaps rendered so by n » -t-e 5 sity } , 1 leamod the task much sooner than they , and frequentlv heard them repeat it .

      ¦• My first acquaintance with books was necessarily formed amongst those vrhirh are most common in country villages , . ^ usau Gray—The Xegm Servant—The Gentle Shepherd—ilungo Park ' s Travt-ls—and , of course , Uubinsoii Crusoe , « ere amongthe first of my literary friends , € or 1 have often heard them read bv my relatives , and remember to have taken a strange delight in them , when 1 am sure they vt-ere not half understood . Books have been always scarce in our remote Deiehl ^ m-oood , and were ¦ much more so in my childhood ; but the craving for knowledge which then commenced grew -with my growth ; and as I had no books of my own in those days , my only resource was borrowing from the few acquaintances I had , to some oftrhom 1 owe obligations of the Jrind that will never be forgotten . In this way I obtained the reading oi many valuable works , though generally old ones ; but it was a great day for me -when the first of Sir TY alter Scott ' s trorks fell into hit hands . It was ' The Heart of Mid

      . Lothian , " and was lent me by a friend , whose family were ratber better provided with books than most in our neighbourhood . My delight in the work was very great , even then ; and I contrived , by means of borrowing , to get acquainted , in a very short time , with the greater part of the -works of its illustrious author—for works of fiction , about fM « : time , occupied all my thoughts . I had a curious mode of impressing on my memoir ¦ what bad been read—namely , lying airake , in the . silence of night , and repeating it all over to myself- To that habit I probably owe the extreme tenariiy of memory -which I now possess ; but , like all other good things , it had its attendant evil , —for I have often thought it curious that , whilst I never ibrget any Scrap of knowledge collected , however small , jet the ¦ common events of daily life slip from my memory so quickly that I can scarcely find anything again which I have once laid aside . But this misfortune has been useful . n teachiog me habits ^ of order .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 30, 1844, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct684/page/3/